• "you are the mistress of depraved glittering asshole royalty" –fiftysevenacademicslea | 46 | midwestern u.s. | she, herI don't follow people under 18; I try to tag for common triggers and adultish content. (You can't make me use the citrus scale though.)Zwey Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust,Die eine will sich von der andern trennen:Die eine hält, in derber LiebeslustSich an die Welt, mit klammernden Organen;Die andre hebt gewaltsam sich vom DustZu den Gefilden hoher Ahnen.– J.W. von Goethe, Faust I 1.1112–1117
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HÄXAN (1922) dir. Benjamin Christensen
#watched this last night#it was a trip for sure#i didn't find it scary or anything but it was really interesting
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German literature besties make some noise
#NOISE MADE#hot faust summer#mephistopheles monday#fanart#butts-art#faustopheles#otp: as many souls as there be stars
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@shredsandpatches on Sartiel in Errementari: “This guy would do numbers on tumblr.”
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Baron Scarpia has been in an eternal loop of being stabbed and resurrected and stabbed and resurrected for 225 slutty, slutty years!
Me: "HAPPY TOSCA DAY, BARON SCARPIA HAS BEEN DEAD FOR 225 SLUTTY, SLUTTY YEARS!"
My friend: "... but is he actually dead if we keep resurrecting him every performance, to be murdered anew?"
Me: 🤯
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Think’st thou heaven is such a glorious thing? I tell thee, Faustus, it is not half so fair as thou.
Paul Hilton and Arthur Darvill in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus.
#he said the title of my fic!#doctor faustus#mephistopheles monday#hot faust summer#faustopheles#otp: as many souls as there be stars#i need to watch this again to get the taste of the mediocre one out of my mouth
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Yesterday @skeleton-richard and I watched a deeply mediocre production of Doctor Faustus which nevertheless made the galaxy-brain decision to let Mephistopheles say a single non-scripted fuck
#at one point he just went 'oh for fuck's--'#it was great#doctor faustus#mephistopheles monday#hot faust summer#there were a few other good moments but the whole thing was hampered by the fact that#it was part of a series where the main goal was to be shown to a-level students#it came out in 2010 so. oops#pretty sure today's a-level students just watch the globe one#all the same: let mephistopheles say fuck
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don't want to get into it on that one post but while it's true that there are a lot of complex reasons behind the way that the Library of Congress classifies information the way it does, it's ALSO true that a lot of information professionals have a lot of respect for/interest in AO3, to the extent that you will almost certainly encounter discussion of it in library school (I did). This is not to throw shade at the LOC OR to say its classifications are perfect (there are a number of movements to update its terminology to address the number of *isms in various subject categories) but to also point out that AO3's approach to metadata is genuinely impressive and effective enough to have the respect of professionals, not just cringe fandom people (I am both)
#it genuinely came up in at least two of my classes that i can recall#pretty extensively even#alternative methods of classification are a whole thing in libraries nowadays#(there are also a number of public libraries trying to get away from both dewey and lc)#OBVIOUSLY AO3 IS NOT PERFECT EITHER PLEASE DO NOT COME AT ME
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We’re like if Beavis and Butthead had academic degrees.
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Ptolemaic scheme of the Universe, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, 1928
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louise-marie-julie, c. 1849, by louis-adolphe humbert de molard. photograph: salted paper print from paper negative.
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Went to see a great production of Don Pasquale this evening and this happened at intermission. (They let him get down after a few minutes)
#don pasquale#this production was fun#probably the moral should be 'do not get married out of spite' rather than 'old people shouldn't fuck'#BUT OH WELL#they did kind of imply he was going to hook up with the notary at the end#(who was played by sheri greenwald)
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*sits down to write a smut fic* The plot of this smut fic is that Character A believes himself abandoned by God.
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HAMILTON 10 year Anniversary Performance at the 2025 Tony Awards
#yayhamlet#this legitimately slapped#(i was an adult when hamilton came out and do not associate it with my awkward phase)
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Since it's almost Midsummer...
p.s. I also have a book coming out: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
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fulfilled a lifelong dream today
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at the St. Louis Zoo with @skeleton-richard. We call the big one Bitey!
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