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Oh? 👀🖤✨

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Children of Arizona!

Thunderous was your singing, and boisterous was your sinning. Where else to be on a Monday night, but Phoenix!

Thank you

/ A Nameless Ghoul

📷: @ryancphoto

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Okay I'm a little more coherent after last night, so a few more Phoenix Ritual thoughts below including some set designs!

We got lucky seat-wise, and had a close but entire view of the stage to see all of the different antics happening. That being said, what a freaking show. I literally never knew where to look at any given moment. Ghost puts on one of the most energetic, high-intensity performances I've ever seen. Phantom, however, really did steal the spotlight for me. He really has taken up the mantle of absolute hell-beast. And the best part? Its infecting everyone else on stage in weird but fun ways. For example:

Papa doesn't know how to control his ghouls. He couldn't get phantom to chill. The others had their own mutiny in various little ways. Dew and the girls basically ignored him. Pretty sure the new guy stomped at him. Papa has 0 control over his ghouls, even more so than Copia did; that was a relationship. This, however, is not. (In my lore opinion lmao)

OH AND I ALMOST FORGOT THE NEW GUY WAS POINTING AND STOMPING AT AURORA DURING SATANIZED WHILE SHE DANCED.

My husband and I talked a lot about the set design. In particular, we liked the exploding Satanic stained glass that was replaced by kitschy, 70s style Jesus stained glass for He Is. Jesus then flew away on a rocket. It was hilariously magical lmao after that it was straight to the pits of hell for rats. Excellent visuals

Music-wise, this is one of the tightest acts you could possibly see live. Ran like absolute golden machinery.

The venue was kinda meh; apparently VIP got in SUPER late after standing in the Phoenix sun (105 f) for 2 or 3 hours. In GA, they told us three lines to get in. Then told us two. Then told us one. So that really, really sucked for people trying to get to the floor. No one inside knew what was happening and there was no posted signage to help us figure it out. And the show did start about 15 minutes late, but that wasnt so much a big deal.

Overall, I had an incredible time. It's really hard to wrap my head around the fact that all of that was real. So many of those moments I've seen, at least in similar ways, through a screen; but I saw them IN PERSON last night and that still hasn't sunk in. Holy shit

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kids deserve so much more respect and it turns out that saying that is a great way to locate the horrible people in any community <3

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refseek.com

www.worldcat.org/

link.springer.com

http://bioline.org.br/

repec.org

science.gov

pdfdrive.com

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'floral still life (bleeding hearts),' albumen print from glass negative, charles aubrey, french, 1865.

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Color study

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i adore those little homeric micro-biographies characters get right before they're killed. no one is disposable, the poet says. this is the cost of war.

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classicists will make the ugliest least functional website in the history of html and it will contain the entire library of fragmentary papyri of the works of aeschylus. for free

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In 2017, American film researchers recovered “Something Good – Negro Kiss,” a short film depicting a playful kiss between a Black couple which had not seen the light of day for more than a century. A long-forgotten artifact from the earliest years of American film, the sweet, humanizing vignette, produced by the Selig Polyscope Company, makes a startling contrast to the overwhelmingly racist and blackface-ridden contempory portrayals of African Americans. Four years later in 2021, archivists in Norway, halfway across the world, identified a sister short in their collections—an extended alternate cut which reveals more of Chicago stage performers Gertie Brown and Saint Suttle’s vaudeville-like routine, a theatrical, hot-and-cold romantic dynamic between two lovers which parodies the popular and controversial short “The Kiss” (1896). Both films, which had previously been lost, were known from entries in old motion picture catalogs but had been assumed to be era-typical, anti-Black “race films” until their rediscovery in the 21st century. Together with its more famous sibling, which has since been inducted into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, this alternate version of “Something Good” represents the first-known instance of Black intimacy ever captured on-screen.

SOMETHING GOOD [Alternate Version] (1898) Directed by William Selig

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Swallow Heart Edwardian Brooch

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My Chemical Romance in 2007 and My Chemical Romance in 2025

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Freak *lovingly*

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rereading northanger abbey and finding another of austen’s commonly marketed out of context quotes about reading (“the person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid”). and while this quote out of context doesn’t piss me off as much as the one from pride and prejudice (“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”), i remember seeing discourse around this quote several years ago. and i agree that without context calling someone stupid just because they don’t read novels is incredibly pretentious at best.

but the context to this quote is so goddamn important, both novel context and historical context. prior to this exchange, catherine had been vexed by another man who told her that reading novels was a stupid waste of time, so hearing henry confirm to her that her hobby was not that was so reaffirming. the historical context makes this even more prescient—at the time this was written, the early nineteenth century, novels were not considered high art or literature. novels were often almost exclusively romances or gothic horrors. they were most often read by women (upper class women especially), whereas intellectual men would tend to read poetry, philosophy, the Classics (read: antiquity). (this is also why henry makes the emphasis that this applies to people regardless of gender—the novel was often derided because of its mostly female audience, and right before this catherine assumes henry would prefer to read “better books” because he’s a man!)

northanger abbey, as a novel, is a satire of the popular gothic horrors of the time but also a critique of the ways in which the novel as an art form is derided by men and intellectuals. frankly, we see this today still with derision of airport literature or booktok books—that’s the modern equivalent of this conversation.

the quote isn’t saying, “if you don’t read [fiction], you’re an idiot.” the quote is saying, “if you refuse to engage with an entire art form because you think it’s below your standards or otherwise ‘low art,’ then you’re annoying and not as smart as you think you are.”

in short, read the book before circulating out of context quotes from it.