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Victor Frankenstein syndrome aka you spent nights over nights crying and bleeding over this work and now that it's finally done you're just like "nvm. it's trash" and go to bed

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One of my directors was talking about Julius Caesar last night and said something along the lines of “Brutus believes the revolution is something bigger than the two of them, and Cassius thinks that it doesn’t have to be” and that is going to stick with me forever

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Every German Expressionist film I could find

Most links are to the internet archive. Other links go to either youtube or Wikipedia pages that contain the films.

Nerves (1919)​ Different from the others (1919)​ Algol (1920)​ From morn till midnight (1920)​ The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920)​ Genuine (1920)​ The Golem (1920)​ Destiny (1921)​ Shattered (1921)​ Nosferatu (1922)​ Phantom (1922)​ Dr Mabuse der spieler (1922) Raskolnikow (1923)​ The Tresure (1923)​ The street (1923)​ Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination (1923)​ Die Nibelungen (1924) ​ Waxworks (1924)​ The hands of Orlac (1924)​ New Years Eve (1924)​

The student of Prague (1926) ​

Faust (1926) ​

Tartuffe (1926)​

Metropolis (1927 )​

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)​

The man who laughs (1928) ​

Asphalt (1929) ​

M (1931) ​

Vampyr (1932) ​

The Testament of Dr Mabuse (1933) 

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A Madame E Yost Evening Gown

c. 1900

Kerry Taylor Auctions

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Dev Patel in The Green Knight (2021)

Tamino - Sun May Shine (2018)

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little pig made of glass and his brother, little pig made of glass made of paint

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you can start today btw

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aeschylus is dead sophocles is dead euripides is dead and me i feel not so good

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hiii do you have any favorite mythical creatures in arthurian legend? specifically sentient beings who are like humans but also not. and do you happen to know if there's a glossary/dictionary of creatures in arthurian/welsh/irish mythology in particular?

Hello!

My favorite mythical creature would be the Questing Beast/Glatisant. It's not even close. She's just the freakiest!! Most people know her from the Vulgate or Le Morte d'Arthur, but I also like her in La Tavola Ritonda and Perlesvaus. She pops up in several retellings, but I think she's vastly underutilized which is a tragedy. She could be so much scarier! Gotta do everything myself... Another favorite animalistic creature is Twrch Trwyth, the boar from the Mabinogion.

As for more human-like examples, I have many. The Ladies of the Lake, Sir Galehaut and other giants, Sir Gromer Somer Joure, the Green Knight. I don't have a creature-specific glossary, but there's The Arthurian Name Dictionary, which includes not only people but creatures and places.

What I do have is a ton of essays and a few books about my favorite characters (and their archetypes). I'll list them in alphabetical order.

Culhwch & Olwen - Giants, Boar-hunts, Barbering Masculinity by Sarah Sheehan

Culhwch & Olwen - Welsh Giants & Social Identity by Lisa Leblanc

Disenchanting Gromer Somer Joure by Karen Hunter Trimnell

Idea of The Green Knight by Lawrence Besserman

Monster Relics - Giant, Archangel, Mont Saint Michel in Alliterative Morte Arthure by Christopher Lee Pipkin

Nature & the Inner Man in SGATGK by William F. Woods

Outsiders - The Humanity & Inhumanity of Giants by Sylvia Huot

Questing Beast & Ruin of Logres in Post-Vulgate by Antonio L. Furtado

Questing Beast Noise of Adventure by Adam Spellmire

Regional Identity in SGATGK by Rhonda Knight

Shifting Skin - Passing as Human, Passing as Fay in SGATGK by Lariss a Tracy

The Law of the Lake - Malory's Sovereign Lady by Amy S. Kaufman

What Kind of Animal is the Questing Beast?

Sorry I don't have a glossary of Arthurian creatures to share. I'd love one too, honestly! But I gave you a bunch of stuff to read, so that will have to suffice. Take care!

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there is an excellent 2023 Italian film all about this called Kidnapped/Rapito that I would highly recommend - it is so evocative and incredibly interesting in its exploration of the Mortara Case!!

Love seeing something from TikTok and going “girlie that is literally what led to the downfall of the Papal States”

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in the three hours before god's auto-death on the cross, the world was swallowed in darkness (mk 15:33 et par). let this matter. god wanted to feel dying, to go through it slowly and dutifully and erotically. god wanted to let his body be porous and penetrated. but god did not want to be seen. would a gaze be too violent for this broken body of god? would it drag the voyeur right into god's death, too? what does it mean that god died in a spectacle without spectator?

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is this really all there is? 🌿⚔

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In case you were wondering why Spotify Wrapped sucks balls this year, and more importantly doesn't have any genre data:

Can you hear the sound of bells? That's because they're clowns. 🤡 🛎

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wrapped was lowkey lame asf this year. where was my map telling me I listened to the same shit as randos in vermont? where was my personality quiz telling me I'm a vampire? where were my top genres? or at least my top genres that are actually recognizable genres?

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the most fun a girl can have is finding parallels, noticing patterns, making connections, contemplating