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went to the jewish museum and they had this english phrasebook for recent immigrants who spoke yiddish or ladino….jews be joining labor unions

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Strike of the Ballerinas

Nicolaas Van Der Waay

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Please remember that almost everyone around you is traumatized. I didn’t understand this when I was younger. I wondered why people acted so strangely and irrationally. Maybe all children wonder this. The author Robert Anton Wilson said (paraphrasing), “We have never seen a completely sane adult human.” No one makes it out of this life alive. It’s not their fault. Mercy, kindness, forgiving — these are what makes one human. They are other names for love. People break in the strangest of ways.

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But surely with such a beautiful husband…

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lets be consoled by mama

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command me to be well

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I'm sure it's mostly because of your banner on the other site but you and Kleya are very linked in my mind. I imagine you to be similar to her in appearance and demeanor

We do both have very structured hairdos, and I identify with her in the “I, an assistant, must sometimes explain things to my boss in very small words lest something catastrophic happen” way, but mostly I can only aspire to that level of poise and competence. My space is a mess and I drop things a lot. But I thank you for the flattering assumption!

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i am full of love and also fatigue

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having sex with me is always incest because I consider us all brothers and sisters in our shared struggle against capital

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It must be that old evil spirit, so deep down in your ground

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Anyway I’m putting down my money now (in a moderate quantity) that Vel is either going to find out that Kleya fucked Cinta or catch them in bed and that that will not end well for anyone.

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ANDOR | 2.01

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going off prev anon, has kaz referenced any of the other crow's work?

I hadn’t really thought about it, but I think probably not? Wylan and Matthias are period specialists of earlier periods, so definitely not them. Maybe Nina or Jesper, though!

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"For He Can Creep," LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS S4E10 trailer

Directed by Emily Dean, written by Tamsyn Muir, based on the short story of the same name by Siobhan Carroll, inspired by the poem Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart. Animated by Polygon Pictures, voice cast: Dan Stevens, JB Blanc, Jim Broadbent, Nika Futterman, Jane Leeves & Dave B. Mitchell. To be released May 15, 2025.

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i'd like to think that somewhere out there is a beautiful parallel dimension where the pope killed jd vance instead of the other way around

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so with kaz citing inej's paper. is it a normal thing to do between literary colleagues? or because they have different specialities, was that maybe a strange thing he did bc he likes her?

also, was he expecting a different response from inej when she found out that he used her as a reference? and that's why he was mean(er) than usual about her clothes or was that comment about her clothing budget kaz's poorly suppressed attraction surfacing

To be frank with you, I don’t actually know if that’s normal or not. There is a limit to what I can grill my professor friends about before they start being like “what is this for?” and I am NOT telling them, so you are dealing with my best guesses here and if I’m wrong, well, maybe it’s just different in Ketterdam in 2024 so there.

Anyway, best guess: not an unheard of thing to do, but maybe a little unusual to cite a junior scholar who hasn’t published a book yet? When Inej is trying to be cynical about it she thinks maybe he did it to demonstrate a cosmopolitan breadth of reading, and my guess is that when Kaz was writing, it did occur to him that it might give that impression — “I am SO well-read I have read this article you’ve probably never heard of” — and as Anika suggests, Inej’s publications aren’t big-name but aren’t uncool, either. (I may be misreading the way academic journals work here but I was thinking by analogy to theater: there are small venues which are respectable and small venues which are just small.) But mainly I think he cited her because he found her work relevant, and he knew about her work because he asked to read it because he respects her intellect. It may be relevant to his writing specifically because they talk to each other so much that her thoughts are directing the course of his thoughts.

With regard to his remark — I think if Kaz had in his head an ideal way that interaction was going to play out, it would have been a further earnest engagement with the line of thought that was represented in the citation, which I was vaguely imagining as something about limits of movement imposed by the perception of obligation. (Like: Inej might write about a character who thinks of themselves as being bound by emotion or honor to stay with someone, which would be in her wheelhouse as something psychologically linked or perhaps metaphorically connected in the text to indenture. In explaining how that sense of confinement manifested, she might have described how a character, say, doesn’t go further than a particular street — and that would bring it into Kaz’s area of interest, which is the conception of the city in the Industrial period. So Kaz might have hoped that Inej would read the article and be like, “Oh it’s so interesting that that street demarcates a sphere of class; that reminds me of [thing Kaz hasn’t thought of but which they can now talk about.]” What he got is Inej giving him shit about the jargon of his sub-field because she’s trying to hide how thrilled she is. And I think his response is just giving her shit in return, but Kaz unfortunately subscribes to a philosophy of conversation which tends to return fire with machine guns even if the initial shot was just somebody pitching a rock.