#Max Lawton

[biblioklept]

Blog about some recent reading

A few weeks ago, I picked up Anthony Kerrigan’s translation of Miguel de Unamuno’s Abel Sanchez and Other Stories based on its cover and the blurb on its back. I wound up reading the shortest of the three tales, “The Madness of Dr. Montarco,” that night. The story’s plot is somewhat simple: A doctor moves to a new town and resumes his bad habit of writing fiction. He slowly goes insane as his…

[bormgans]

KOLYMA STORIES - Varlam Shalamov (1954-1965, transl. 2018) & TELLURIA - Vladimir Sorokin (2013, transl. 2022)

Two very different books this time, both translated from Russian, both published by New York Review Books, and both collections of short stories of sorts. Telluria is a work of speculative fiction, set in a future Russia. Kolyma Stories is not so fictional, as it is Shalamov’s personal account of his 15 years in the gulag – one of the very few that survived in the system for such a long time. I’m…

[blackramhall]

I've been clinically diagnosed with sociopathy, Rob. To me, you're an object. You know, you're a, you're a thing. You're about as important to me as a cardboard box. And the -- the thing about cardboard boxes... is that... You know they're totally boring on the outside, right? But... sometimes, if you cut'em open there'll be something interesting inside. You know, and so, while you're saying all these boring things to me I'm thinking about what it'd be like to cut you open. But I -- I don't wanna, I don't wanna be that person. And so, I have a rule that anytime somebody says somethings to me where I -- I think about, you know, cuttin' 'em. I -- I -- I just smile and I say something nice. So that's why I say to you, Rob Anders of 232 Carnation Street. You are a really great guy.

I Am Not a Serial Killer - Billy O' Brien (2016)

[lilbirdblu]

q!Charlie & q!Mariana, on grief and guilt

four plays by euripides, anne carson | half light, frank bidart | romance or the end, elaine kahn | google search results | black leopard, red wolf, marlon james | this is how you lose the time war, amal el-mohtar and max gladstone | unknown | c.s. lewis | undertale + unknown | hot mess, kanika lawton | unknown | a house in nebraska, ethel cain | the moving target, w.s. merwin | remember me, coco | letters to vera, vladimir nabokov

qsmp web weaves

[haxyr3]

Yay, another book by Vladimir Sorokin was translated into English!

I can't imagine how the translator managed this task. Sorokin plays with language, with cultural clichés and thus diagnoses society. It's a fantasy world, but in a trippy way, and at the same time very real and ruthlessly truthful. Now I understand why Max Lawton took so long to translate Blue Lard!

P.S.: I never liked Larissa Volokhonsky's translations. It's good for Sorokin that she refused to work on his novels.

[theyraylovehate]

Wheel of Fan Fiction Masterlist

Smut 🔥

Fluff 🌸

Angst 💧

*This is like brand new so most of the characters won't have anything just yet*

•Stranger things

-Billy Hargrove

-Steve Harrington

-Eddie Munson

-Robin Buckley (Fem/NB only)

-Argyle

-Johnathan Byers

-Nancy Wheeler

-Jim Hopper

-Joyce Byers

-001/Henry

-Will Byers (No smut)

-Mike Wheeler (No smut)

-Max Mayfield (No smut)

Hateful Cuddling - Female reader 🌸

-Dustin Henderson (No smut)

-Lucas Sinclair (No smut)

-Eleven (Jane) Hopper (No smut)

•Marvel

-Iron Man/Tony Stark

-Captian America/Steve Rogers

-Black Widow/Natasha Romanoff

-Hawkeye/Clint Barton

-Hulk/Bruce Banner

-Thor

-Loki

-Winter Soldier/Bucky Barnes

-Black Panther/T'challa

-Doctor Strange/Steven Strange

-Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff

-Quicksilver/Pietro Maximoff

-Starlord/Peter Quill

-Gamora

-Spiderman/Peter Parker

-Falcon/Sam Wilson

-War Machine/James Rhodes

-Valkyrie (Fem/NB only)

•X-Men

-Professor X/Charles Xavier

-Magneto/Erik Lensherr

-Wolverine/James Howlett

-Quicksilver/Peter Maximoff

-Rogue

-Jean Grey

-Storm/Ororo Munroe

-Cyclops/Scott Summers

-Mystique/Raven

-Beast/Henry "Hank" McCoy

-Nightcrawler/Kurt Wagner

-Havok/Alexander Summers

•DC/Young Justice

-Batman/Bruce Wayne

-Superman/Clark Kent

-The Flash/Barry Allen

-Aquaman/Authur Curry

-Cyborg/Victor Stone

-Joker/Jack Oswald White

-Harley Quinn/Harleen Quinzel

-Wonder Woman/Diana Prince

-DeadShot/Floyd Lawton

-Kid Flash/Wally West

-Nightwing (Robin #1)/ Dick Grayson

-Red Hood (Robin #2)/ Jason Todd

-Robin (#3)/ Tim Drake

-Beast Boy/Garfield Logan

-Superboy/Johnathan "Jon" Kent

-Artemis/Artemis Crock

-Red Arrow/Roy Harper

-Green Arrow/Oliver Queen

-Black Canary/Dinah Lance

-Miss Martian/Megan Morse

-Aqualad/Kaldur'ahm

•Umbrella Academy

-Luther Hargreeves (#1)

-Diego Hargreeves (#2)

-Allison Hargreeves (#3)

-Klaus Hargreeves (#4)

-Five Hargreeves (#5)

-Ben Hargreeves (#6)

-Viktor Hargreeves (#7)

-Marcus Hargreeves (#1)

-Fei Hargreeves (#3)

-Alphonso Hargreeves (#4)

-Sloan Hargreeves (#5)

-Jayme Hargreeves (#6)

-Lila Aryu

-The Handler

•Harry Potter

-Harry Potter

-Ron Weasley

-Hermione Granger

-Fred Weasley

-George Weasley

-Ginny Weasley

-Draco Malfoy

-Sirius Black (Older)

-Cedric Diggory

-Oliver Wood

-Neville Longbottom

-Luna Lovegood

-Remus Lupin (Older)

-Nymphadora Tonks

-Lucious Malfoy (Older)

-Narcissa Malfoy (Older)

-Severus Snape (Older)

-Bill Weasley

-Charlie Weasley

•Marauders

-James Potter

Friendly Love - Male reader 🌸

-Lily Evans

-Sirius Black

-Remus Lupin

-Severus Snape

-Regulus Black

-Lusious Malfoy

-Narcissa Black

-Peter Pettigrew

•Greek Mythology

-Zeus

-Hades

-Posideon

-Apollo

-Hera

-Persephone

-Ares

-Athena

-Demeter

-Aphrodite

-Artemis

-Dionysus

-Hermes

•Divergent

-Beatrice "Tris" Prior

-Caleb Prior

-Eric

-Peter

-Christina

-Will

-Tobias "Four"

-Zeke

Zip line of Love - Nonbinary Reader (Requested) 🌸

-Uriah

•Star Wars

-Anakin Skywalker

-Luke Skywalker

-Leia Organa

-Han Solo

-Obi-Wan Kenobi

-Kylo Ren

•Supernatural

-Dean Winchester

-Sam Winchester

-Castiel

-Crowley

-Lucifer

-Rowena MacLeod

-Gabriel

-Charlie Bradbury (Fem/NB only)

-Chuck Shurley

-Jody Mills

-Ellen Harvelle

-Kevin Tran

•The Walking Dead

-Rick Grimes

-Daryl Dixon

-Glenn Rhee

-Carl Grimes

-Maggie Greene

-Negan

-Michonne

-Shane Walsh

-Rosita Espinosa

-Carol Peletier

-Paul "Jesus" Monroe

-Abraham Ford

‐Tara Chambler (Fem/NB only)

-Enid

-Ezekiel

-Aaron (Masc/NB only)

•The Walking Dead Game

-Clementine

-Lee

-Kenny

-Luke

-Javier

-Gabriel

-Kate

-Louis

-Omar

-Ruby

-Mitch

-Marlon

-Violet (Fem/NB only)

IT (2017)

-Richie Tozier

-Beverly Marsh

-Eddie Kaspbrak

-Bill Denbrough

-Stanley Uris

-Ben Hanscom

-Henry Bowers

-Mike Hanlon

-Patrick Hockstetter

-Victor Criss

-Belch Huggins

•Desendants

-Mal

-Evie

-Ben

-Jay

-Jane

-Chad

-Doug

-Lonnie

-Carlos

-Uma

-Harry Hook

-Gil

•Maze Runner

-Newt

-Minho

-Gally

-Teresa

-Alby

-Chuck

-Brenda

-Aris

-Thomas

-Frypan

-Jorge

[multivcrsity-archive]

MOBILE MUSE LIST

television

THE 100

bellamy blake + bob morley

clark griffin + eliza taylor

jasper jordan + devon bostick

john murphy + richard harmon

octavia blake + marie avgeropoulos

raven reyes + lindsay morgan

AMERICAN HORROR STORY

madison montgomery + tati gabrielle

misty day + lily rabe

THE HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR

flora fairchild + india eisley

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE

luke crain + oliver jackson cohen

theo crain + kate siegel

film

AGE OF ADALINE

adaline bowman + blake lively

THE COVENANT

caleb danvers + steven strait

pogue parry + taylor kitsch

reid garwin + toby hemingway

tyler simms + chace crawford

DC

billy batson + asher angel

cassandra cain + ella jay basco

chato santana + jay hernandez

floyd lawton + michael b jordan

freddy freeman + adam brody

harley quinn + margot robbie

lucy quinzel + chloe moretz

selina kyle + ana de armas

THE DESCENDANTS

carlos de ville + ross lynch

chad charming + nicholas galitzine

evie grimhilde + sophia carson

jay + booboo stewart

mal bertha + dove cameron

malinda bertha + elizabeth gillies (oc)

DISNEY

anna + sadie sink

aurora + elle fanning

belle + troian bellesario

chip potts + asa butterfield

elsa + gabriella wilde

eugene fitzherbert + thomas mcdonell

merida + sophie turner / eleanor tomlinson

moana + auli’i cravalho

maui + jason momoa

rapunzel + lily james

tinkerbell + freya allen

vanellope von schweetz + mackenzie foy

FEAR STREET

deena johnson + kiana madeira

ruby lane + india eisley

sarah fier + kiana madeira

IT

avery hockstetter + felix mallard

beverly marsh + jessica chastain

bill denbrough + james mcavoy

eddie kaspbrak + timothée chamalet

greta keene + sabrina carpenter

henry bowers + nicholas hamilton

mike hanlon + isaiah mustafa

patrick hockstetter + owen teague

richie tozier + bill hader

stanley uris + andy bean

JURASSIC WORLD

maisie lockwood + mackenzie foy

MARVEL

peter parker + tom holland / andrew garfield

THE OUTSIDERS

curly shepard + jordan connor

johnny cade + steven r mcqueen

ponyboy curtis + jake t austin

US

adelaide wilson + lupita nyong'o

red + lupita nyong'o

misc.

GREEK MYTHOLOGY

aphrodite + nyané lebajoa

cerberus + aidan turner

dionysus + toby regbo

hades + cheyenne jackson

hermes + faceclaim

persephone + gugu mbtha raw

poseidon + jason momoa

literature

HARRY POTTER

cormac mclaggen + freddie stroma

dominique weasley + faceclaim

hannah abbott + faceclaim

hermione granger + jessica sula

lily luna potter + luca hollestelle

lucy weasley + elle fanning

luna lovegood + evanna lynch

millicent bulstrode + barbie ferreira

neville longbottom + matthew lewis

rose weasley + ashley moore

scorpius malfoy + austin butler

THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES

lestat de lioncourt + cody fern

louis de pointe du lac + felix mallard

original characters

alejandro valdez + danny ramirez ( serial killer based on ahs' the night stalker )

axel zimmermann + aidan turner ( vampire )

elijah catton + jacob elordi ( twin brother of @everyoneismytoy's felix )

gabriel + jamie campbell bower ( archangel )

isabelle blackwood + taylor momsen ( witch )

michael fitzpatrick + max thieriot ( spn hunter )

oliver todd + richard harmon ( serial killer / nightclub manager associated with @painofhumanity's alexander )

[sunshinecackle]

BLOG DIRECTORY

This is the list of blogs attached to this account for those that would like to know! I don't really have any rules or anything for this blog, it's sort of just a place for me to put things. I hadn't used this account since 2019, so I plan on using it more, now.

@written-in-sunshine - Writing Blog @norayofsunshineiseverlost- Art Blog @deep-sea-millipedes - Oceanic/Marine Animal Blog @my-dark-lord - Helluva Boss/Hazbin Hotel Blog

@e-m-p-error - Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss Multimuse RP Blog HEAVY DEAD DOVE WARNING - Andrealphus, Angel Dust, Baetyl (Stella's Male Friend), Barbie, Cash, Chaz, Crimson, Legiondario (OC), Lilith, Mammon, Mimzy, Moxxie, Nifty, Ozzie, Paimon, Valentino, Velvette, Verosika, Vox

@e-vil-m-p-error - (Alternate) E-Verse Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss Multimuse RP Blog - HEAVY DEAD DOVE WARNING - Under Construction - Alphus, Carmine, Cerise, Deus, Dom, Emmox, Lily, Ma Mmonee, Osten, Patir, Skipper, Strafe, Venmo

@dirt-and-worm-both-have-a-claim - Final Destination/Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss Multimuse RP Blog - HEAVY DEAD DOVE WARNING - Under Construction - Billy Hitchcock, Rory Peters, Ashley Freund, Ashlyn Halperin, Frankie Cheeks, Ian McKinley, Kevin Fischer, Lewis Romero, Nick O'Bannon, Olivia Castle, Peter Friedkin, Sam Lawton

@kill-the-world-to-hear-it-speak - Silent Hill Multimuse RP Blog - HEAVY DEAD DOVE WARNING - Under Construction - Eva Mortensen, Karl Johanson, Toby Cirelli, Travis Grady

@ridding-my-heart-of-mortal-fight - Until Dawn/The Quarry Multimuse RP Blog - HEAVY DEAD DOVE WARNING - Bobby Hackett, Chris Hackett, Dylan Lenivy, Jacob Custos, Max Brinley, Silas Vorez, Chris Hartley, Jessica Riley, Matt Taylor, Mike Munroe

[priokskfm]

#MixOfDay #Podcast #Radioshow #LiveDjset The Funky Foot Sessions 168 - 18 - 08 - 23 Another week has whipped by and still so much music to catch up on ... here is another two hours of fresh, new deep house grooves, with a rather special remix of a classic house track to finish up with ... enjoy ❤️ Crackazat, The Potash Twins - Phantom - Heist Recordings Crackazat - Freddie’s Groove - Heist Recordings Crackazat - Do You Think About Me - Heist Recordings William Florelle, Soul Groove (UK) - Stuck (Soul Groove UK Remix) - Feedasoul Records Lucky Sun, Jaidene Veda - Falling Fool (Dubstrumental) - Lucky Sun Recordings Mr. Fingers, DJ Mel - Mystery of Love (DJ Mel ReGentryfication) - Atjazz Record Company GAHR, Phaze Dee - What Do WE Know (Phaze Dee Remix) - Moulton Music Michael Oberling, MAQman, Poetic Lester - Sanctuary (Main Mix) - Selville Records Jovonn - Drop The Traxx - Nu Groove Records Max Palmer - Long Time (Tony Deledda Remix) - Delve Deeper Recordings Piers Kirwan - Arps With Hats - Last Forever Records Col Lawton - I’m Not Rushing (Original Vocal Mix) - i! Records Magnifik, Ross Couch - Who Are You (Ross Couch Extended Mix) - Bobbin’ Head Music Demarkus Lewis - Vibin’ on the One (Deez Deeper Mix) - Grin Music Mo’Cream - Play It Loud (Original Mix) - Blockhead Recordings Gome, Mike Dunn - Elevator Man (Mike Dunn BlackBall Remix) - Toy Tonics Mothers Favorite Child & Robin S - Tonight (Opolopo Remix) - Reel People Music DJ Christian B - Time For Love Is Here - Delve Deeper Recordings Rudi’Kastic - Falling After You - Let It Play Records Funkky, Nuzu Deep - Sixth Sense (The Realm Remix) - Foliage Records Turbojazz & Sean McCabe, Monica Blaire - Don’t Look Down - Foliage Records Soft House Company, Don Carlos - What You Need (Don Carlos Remix) - IRMA DANCEFLOOR www.priokskfm.online https://ift.tt/XZIPMS4

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Pyramus and Thisbe by van Leyden

Just a word of warning for those that might find today’s episode’s content upsetting or triggering: the topic of suicide does come up, but for fictional people. I did my best to not glamorize it, but if you don’t want to hear that, I recommend listening to another episode.

Welcome to Long Live Bat Art, the podcast for art lovers who don’t see art as much as they want to. My name is Sydney and thank you for taking this slow tour through an art gallery with a casual art lover. Today, I’ll be talking about Pyramus and Thisbe by Lucas van Leyden. I hope you enjoy.

Lucas van Leyden was born in the similarly-spelled Leiden with an ‘I’ city of the Netherlands in 1494. He was an intelligent child, and was apparently often scolded by his mother for reading after nightfall because candles were expensive. I guess that’s the 1500s equivalent of being told to turn off the car light when you try to read as a kid.

He’s known more as an engraver than a painter, though he was a known and early advocate for genre painting, which is depicting ordinary life in painting. Van Leyden’s earliest known print was when he was around 14. It’s unknown where and from whom he learned the technique he became known for. Despite the unsure tutelage, he’s considered in the art world as one of the best printmakers of all time. 

It’s thought that he was the one who pioneered using copper and not iron plates. The copper, being a softer metal, let the artist combine etching and engraving in the same print. While those may sound like the same technique, they aren’t. Etching uses acid to make the lines, line engraving is the hand-carving aspect. 

But van Leyden did paint during his career, including a self-portrait in 1508. He was most likely first trained by his father, who was a painter in his own right- Huygh Jacobszoon. He was later apprenticed under Cornelis Engelbrechtsz and then Albrecht Dürer, both of which were friends of his. He produced what is largely regarded to be his masterpieces of engravings under Dürer, who he learned more about engraving and Romanist style from. Romanist is just a term that art historians use to describe artists from places like the Netherlands who traveled to Rome and brought knowledge and inspiration back home.

One masterpiece produced under Dürer is a work of art that van Leyden titled, funnily enough, The Milkmaid. A second piece was named Ecce Homo and the Return of the Prodigal Son, which Rembrandt especially loved. 

Van Leden did a series called “The Power of Women” from 1513 to 1517, which made him 19 years old when he started the series. While this seems forward-thinking, it was a pretty common subject and source of inspiration during the Renaissance in both art and written works. Despite the name, “The Power of Women” is more about women being sexual tempters to men than actually strong women standing on their own merit. 

Max Friedländer, a German art historian who specialized in works done during the Northern renaissance by artists native to the Netherlands, tried to make some semblance of a developmental study in 1924 but had a lot of trouble because of the attribution mistakes that swelled and shrunk van Leyden’s body of work over the years. Elise Lawton Smith had some success during the early 1990s describing his development by breaking his body of work into four distinct- yet incredibly roomy- categories. These categories are half length figures, landscapes, artwork influenced by Antwerp, and so-called ‘late works’ featuring full figures against the woods. 

During the later part of his suspected career, Marcantonio Raimondi inspired van Leyden with his nude figures, which van Leyden incorporated into some of his commissioned altarpieces. This made van Leyden one of the first Dutch artists who borrowed the Italian style of depicting nude people. 

Van Leyden died in 1533 at the age of 39. 

About 200 of van Leden’s signed engravings survive, with about 17 paintings. Another 27 paintings were described by Karel van Mander or were copied by Jan de Bisschop. 

I actually had never heard of van Leyden before I started researching Dutch Masters. But this piece of art was fascinating to me. First of all because I had never heard of Pyramus or Thisbe, and second of all because I had never seen an engraving before. 

Because I had never head of Pyramus or Thisbe, I needed to do a bit of research. They’re a mythological couple that Ovid wrote in his Metamorphoses and then later by Geoffrey Chaucer in his Legend of Good Women. Pyramus is the man, Thisbe is the woman. They were neighbors in Babylon who were forbidden to marry by their families, but they spoke to each other via a crack in the wall that separated their houses. They made plans to meet at a mulberry tree and elope. Thisbe arrived first, but as she waited for her love a lioness came to drink from the spring, her face bloody from her last meal. Thisbe ran, dropping her veil in the process. The lioness took the veil in her bloodied jaws and ripped it like a plaything before she grew bored and left. 

Pyramus came upon the bloody and torn veil, and knew it was Thisbe’s. He thought the love of his life was dead because she was waiting for him. He impaled himself on his sword. Why he was carrying a sword to meet his love, I’m not sure. But maybe in case of lionesses. 

Thisbe found him with her veil in his hand. The dying Pyramus opened his eyes and saw her, alive and well. She realized what had happened and took the sword from his body and killed herself with it. They died together. Their families found them and buried them in the same tomb. It’s said that the mulberries from that tree are dark because of their blood. So remind me not to eat the mulberries from that tree. 

On to the star of this episode- the engraving.

Pyramus is lying on the ground on the right of the image. He’s still clutching where he stabbed himself with his right hand. His left hand is carelessly sprawled closer to the viewer on his rumpled coat. The folds on his coat are more geometric, but still realistic in a way- they’re shaded. The coat has a high collar which is stiffer than the rest of the garment. The collar has only a few folds near the back of his neck. Pyramus has his head thrown back, and his long wavy hair is spilled out on the ground. 

His throat is exquisitely detailed- you can see his Adam’s apple. His shirt is detailed, as well. There are vertical pleats over his chest above a design that looks like braided rope. Under the rope design, the folds are horizontal. Below that, his pants start. Where a belt would be on a modern pair of pants are tight vertical pleats. I think the fabric is gathered there. Under the belt, the pants are smoother where they stretch across his thighs. Below that is the rest of his pants or maybe high decorative socks. They have different designs- pleats, yes. But these are wider and curved around his calf. Four rows of wide pleats with a couple more of that rope design. There’s a bow just below his knee. You can only see one leg clearly, and even that one is bent at the knee with his foot pointed like a ballerina as his toes graze the ground. The other leg is obscured by his calf and bent at the knee, but on that one it's his heel that is sliding across the ground. He’s still wearing the sheath his sword used to be in- it’s trapped underneath him. The leather belt holding the sheath is thin and wrapped diagonally across his hips. There are more rope-like designs on the arm of his coat. Again, only one arm is fully shown, his left. It’s laid on top of his cloak and the fabric extends to cover most of his hand- only part of his fingers are visible. He’s wearing shoes that have another bow on the top.

Now onto Thisbe. She’s crying- she has a handkerchief to her closed eyes and her other hand is around Pyramus’s sword. She’s holding the blade delicately. The sword itself is long- even though she’s holding it to her chest, the pommel almost touches Pyramus’s thigh. The sword’s hilt is plain- dark, but with a lighter band cutting it in half the short way. The hilt is curved towards the blade. Above the hilt is another crossbar, this one circular. Each half turns from the edge and into the blade. Thisbe is wearing a dress. It’s more taut around her thighs, though the center has folds before it stretches across her other thigh. It’s a long dress- the end of it is pooled on the ground. Again, geometric yet realistic folds. She has a sash tied around her waist that’s holding some other piece of fabric. The tassel of the sash closer to the viewer ends at her mid-thigh. The dress is a deep v-neck, but there has to be some undergarment- I highly doubt Babylonian women were allowed to wear such revealing clothing.

On the dress’s front you can see a band where the fastenings of the dress are hidden that ends before the skirt of the dress starts. The skirt above the sash is taut across her body in the front, and it has folds in the rear. Thisbe is wearing a tight covering on her head that must have been under the veil. There’s a separate small piece of metal or a button attached to the fabric at her forehead. It looks like a flower, with a center and petals. On the side of her head is another piece of metal or button, this one much larger. That piece is circular with another flower design on it. The garment curves under her chin- there are more folds in the fabric, these much slimmer and tighter, more like wound bandages than fabric. The back of the garment is billowing behind her, as if she’s in a strong wind. There are more geometric folds at the ends, like Pyramus’s coat. The arm she’s using to hold the handkerchief to her face has fabric on it, as well. It’s pleated above her elbow, but you can only see the rounded bottoms of the pleats. There are tighter folds between those and her wrist, which has the fabric gathered around it. Her face is oval shaped, and she’s turned her face away from Pyramus. That’s it for the figures.

To the right of Thisbe and further back in the space of the engraving there’s a fountain. It has smooth sides that have a wide band near the lip, then it has the lip itself. The top of the well of the fountain is wide. The water is cascading down from spouts above carvings in the post of the fountain. The carvings are of figures, but only one is seen from a frontal view. Male or female, I’m not sure because it’s so small. But the figure is depicted as slightly being turned to the left of the scene, more towards Thisbe than Pyramus. Above the spouts is a ball that’s below a small statue of Cupid and his bow and arrow. He’s drawing the bowstring back, and his bow is curved at the top and bottom and is tucked in the middle, enough for his hand to hold. The arrow is pointing at the top of Thisbe’s head.

The ground is a combination of cragged rock and sparse grass. There’s a patch of tall grass right behind the hilt of Pyramus’s sword. Near Pyramus’s cloak is what may be his hat. I think those are the soft feathers- like a quill or the top of a decorative helmet- that he might have had on it. You can see some small individual stones scattered on the ground, but still clustered together. To the right of the fountain and near the edge of the image are two trees you can see the trunks of. There’s a branch coming out of the left one that’s twining around another, slimmer, branch. You can’t see many leaves.

In the background, below the elevated part where Pyramus and Thisbe are, is a low valley that is lusher. The lioness is there, playing with the veil Thisbe discarded. The lioness has her front paws and her jaws on the fabric, the rest of her body is off of it. Her tail is slightly curved but is along the ground. Behind her are more trees. The sky is shaded with tight horizontal lines that fade around a large cloud on the right. The cloud has smaller horizontal lines in it where the cloud shows the sky.

Now for my thoughts. 

The way van Leyden was able to use simple lines and no color to create such a moving scene is incredible. Even the ground is detailed. The water pouring from the fountain- it’s so clear what it is, even if there wasn't a fountain for it to pour into. It’s made of two gently curved lines showing the start and end of the thin stream, and the minimalist detail is fascinating. The detail of Cupid being the statue at the top of the fountain is as humorous as it is heartbreaking. Love brought them together and drove them apart, and killed them at the end. I’m glad that their families buried them in the same tomb- they’re together now, in body as well as in the afterlife. They’re as they always wanted to be, even if it took such tragedy to get there.

The emotion in this piece is relatable- Thisbe is crying because the love of her life is dead or dying. And the detail of the lioness still being present is an amazing artistic choice. Not only does it give a nod to the viewer who knows the story, but it’s also a reminder of what preceded the scene van Leyden depicted. The lioness can well be seen as an agent of fate, one that tore the lovers apart by her mere presence and not her claws and teeth. It almost would have been less heartbreaking if the lioness had killed Thisbe. Sure, Pyramus would have probably still killed himself to join her, but the fact that it’s the misunderstanding that breaks his heart and he saw Thisbe alive at the end is what makes the ending so poignant. There’s no monster to slay, no outside force to blame. Just two young lovers that want desperately to be together and can’t be, at least not in life.

The fluidity in the piece is incredible. Pyramus isn’t lying flat on his back, he’s contorted. And normally that would be grotesque, but van Leyden depicts it as almost dancer-like. I mentioned that one of his feet is pointed like a ballerina’s, and the rest of his body is just as graceful. Even the way his coat is laid on the ground is interesting- it’s not flat or even bunched, it’s more like it’s been laid out. And I know this isn’t realistic, but it is beautiful. 

Thisbe’s billowing clothes are just as beautiful, and just as not realistic. But realism isn’t the only thing to strive for in art. Sometimes you have to sacrifice realism to capture emotion. The way the fabric around her head is being almost inflated is fascinating. It’s almost like Nature itself is apologizing for the lioness’s interference and trying to lift Thisbe to join her lover’s spirit. 

Thisbe’s also turned her face from Pyramus, like she can’t bear to look at him dead one more second or maybe doesn’t want him to see what she’s about to do. 

Even though this story is purely mythological, there’s a lesson to be learned here. And it’s not just ‘watch out for lionesses at streams’ or ‘make sure that somebody is actually dead before going to such drastic measures.’ But it’s the idea that love can’t be stopped. 

Pyramus and Thisbe were forbidden to get married, but they made a plan to do it anyway. And they paid for their love with their deaths. Their families had to live with that for the rest of their lives, and they finally saw the truth at the end- they’re buried together. Love is what moves everything around us, and I don’t mean just romantic love. Love from parents, love from children, love from friends, love from within ourselves. It all adds up and makes humans do what we do. It makes humans do what we’ve always done, and always will. And that’s reach out. Because that’s all it takes, really. Reaching out. Pyramus and Thisbe reached out and they found each other. Their families reached towards them at the end and brought them closer together. Because even if all else goes wrong, there’s always a chance that reaching out will fix it. 

Even at the end, when love wasn’t enough, the fact that it was there at all mattered. And knowing that is really all you need to keep moving forward in life and find new and exciting things to love. 

Here's my challenge for you. Open your eyes a little wider today as you go about your life and notice one thing you haven't before. It could be a bird's nest in a tree you've passed a million times. It could be a chalk drawing on the sidewalk. It could be a sign you've looked at without seeing before. You might just find yourself with a new interest, like bird watching, drawing, or typography. And if you find a new interest, there's a lot more love in your future. 

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Vladimir Sorokin's novel Telluria is a polyglossic satirical epic pieced together in vital miniatures

Vladimir Sorokin’s novel Telluria is a polyglossic satirical epic pieced together in vital miniatures

  Vladimir Sorokin’s 2013 novel Telluria, in its first English translation thanks to the estimable talents of Max Lawton, is one of the best contemporary novels I’ve read in a long time. Telluria is a polyglossic satirical epic pieced together in vital miniatures. Its fifty sections are simultaneously discrete and porous, richly dense but also loose and funny. It teems with life and language,…

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Posthuman Review: Shaun Lawton & Nicholas Alexander Hayes

"In a few quick years, the first transhuman in vivo Minksian-Kurzweill clone emerges from its neonatal intensive care unit, eyes unblinking. Max quickly grows to establish the first CORE school (Consilience Of Recombinant Extropy) by the seasoned age of four. In the year 2020, eight-year-old Max engenders a transubstantiative doctrine reprising Heraclitus's ideas of flux. He publishes his manifesto >H by sending it back in time to his conception-year, where it now happens to appear on certain nodal points of the internet. Stars and their remnants, in the beginning, appear perfect with our skulls the shape of eggs while we listen to the music of the spheres. We never know we are dreaming, despite the uncanny appearance of our faces barely submerged below the surface of an image trapped on a screen, as if gazing at a host of cameras that were recording the whole scene and playing it back in overlapping sequences until rendered in 3D, a sort of holographic emergence as a film to show the whole fully recorded history of the human race intact in one performance taking hours to play out that tells the story of our pregalactic form expanding like a cell splitting into divisions congruent with the microchip cluster each acquires to their myriad snowflakes and fingerprints; no two are quite alike, this quality of uniqueness the most common attribute in the galaxy because it takes its shape from the constant force it has been from the beginning, a dorsal fin configuration pre-eminent to radial symmetry, subdivided from the pie & expanding in the recesses of our own mind at rates which we don’t share and we don't want to have to admit even to ourselves it could be the case but on the face of it our individuality evaporates along with the rest of the universe, siphoning itself back & forth both in and out of existence, in a blinking state of awakened beings cycled in an infinite figure eight Mobius strip, along the thermodynamic principle where the electromagnetic motors of creation pass along the triggering current arriving in its multiplicity of waves so here we are much further away from the start than we'd ever imagined before making it in a world on the verge of boiling over with accelerating change to the point it's quaking under this pretense we begin thinking about the stars & their remnants to which we end up belonging while the motion picture of our lives flashes inside our mind in an effortless gesture disarming the gravid affront with united civic resistance paving the way forward for the benefit of our progression into the distance only going to show which ends up being the case that it doesn't really matter so much as the belief we hold well and verily fixed foremost in our mind unravels before a hand to be woven in predetermined fashion foremost reveals the negative gravity bound pressure resistance capsule in the shape of a psychonautical skull transcript." - Shaun Lawton

Δ = (Σ(bug + defect + flaw + hitch + malfunction + mishap + problem + glitch + defeat + delay + difficulty + adversity + complication + crisis + deadlock + dilemma + gridlock + predict + meant + dire circumstance + hard ship + impasse + standoff + stand still + pickle + plight + condition + breakdown + trouble + anxiety + concern + danger + debacle + complication + hazard + catastrophe + changes + confrontation + disaster + calamity + emergency + failure + quandary + collapse + decline + breaks down + beating + annihilation + destruction + raw carnage + elimination + eradication + decimation + extinction + obsolescence + end of life + extermination + void + nullity + nonbeing + nothing + zero + ∅ + H in a few quick years + transhuman + Minksian-Kurzweill clone + neonatal intensive care unit + eyes unblinking + Max + CORE school + Consilience Of Recombinant Extropy + four + 2020 + eight-year-old Max + transubstantiative doctrine + Heraclitus's ideas of flux + manifesto + internet + STARS AND THEIR REMNANTS + beginning + skulls + shape of eggs + music of the spheres + dreaming + uncanny appearance + faces submerged + image trapped + screen + host of cameras + recording + overlapping sequences + 3D rendering + holographic emergence + fully recorded history + human race + pregalactic form + cell splitting + microchip cluster + snowflakes + fingerprints + uniqueness + galaxy + constant force + dorsal fin configuration + radial symmetry + mind + individuality + universe + existence + blinking state + awakened beings + infinite figure eight Mobius strip + thermodynamic principle + electromagnetic motors of creation + multiplicity of waves + accelerating change + quaking + stars & their remnants + motion picture of our lives + united civic resistance + progression + belief + fixed foremost + negative gravity bound pressure resistance capsule + psychonautical skull transcript by Shaun Lawton)

Explanation: The equation Δ represents the dynamic nature of life and the universe. It encompasses a wide range of elements, from challenges (bugs, glitches, difficulties, etc.) to unique qualities (uniqueness of snowflakes, fingerprints, etc.) to the constant changes in the cosmos. The equation also incorporates the concept of time travel and the emergence of transhuman technology.

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GREENVILLE SWAMP RABBITS TOP SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS 7-5

By: Mark Shelley, Greenville Swamp Rabbits NORTH CHARLESTON, SC – A seven-goal night for the Greenville Swamp Rabbits paved the way for the team's 25th win of the season, as they topped the South Carolina Stingrays 7-5 on Friday night at the North Charleston Coliseum. GAME SHEET: Click here

The night opened with sustained offensive pressure by South Carolina. The Stingrays captured the opening goal of the game with Connor Moore's blue line shot at 8:08. After the Swamp Rabbits' offense began producing several quality scoring chances, they were rewarded with the tying goal from Josh McKechney, his sixth of the season, at 17:10. Just 18 seconds later, Joe Gateby gave the Swamp Rabbits the lead with a shot from the blue line for his sixth of the season. The second period saw the Swamp Rabbits add to their lead, as Alex Ierullo scored his 16th of the season on a backside feed from McKechney at 5:30. At 6:23, South Carolina stopped the Greenville charge, as Moore netted a power-play goal for his second of the game. At 8:51, Lawton Courtnall scored his first of the season to tie the game at 3-3 for the Stingrays. Late in the period, at 17:32, Ethan Somoza netted his 12th of the season to re-establish the Greenville lead. In the third, Brett Kemp kept the puck on a two-on-one break and netted his 11th of the season for a 5-3 Greenville lead. South Carolina regained momentum at 10:49 as Ryan Scarfo one-timed a power-play goal. At 15:15, LA Grissom scored his first as a Swamp Rabbit, winding up from the blue line while the Stingrays were being charged with a delayed penalty. Max Martin scored his sixth of the season at 18:44, adding insurance for Greenville with the empty-net goal. Martin Hâs scored a late goal at 19:39, but it was too late to propel the Stingrays' offense to a comeback. With the win, the Swamp Rabbits improve to 25-12-7-0 while the Stingrays fall to 26-12-4-1. The Swamp Rabbits continue their road trip on Saturday night as they travel to the Vystar Veterans Memorial Arena to take on the Jacksonville Icemen at 7:00 p.m. Swamp Rabbits tickets can be purchased at SwampRabbits.com or the Bon Secours Wellness Arena Box Office. About the Greenville Swamp Rabbits … Acquired by Spire Sports + Entertainment (SS+E) in 2020, the Greenville Swamp Rabbits hockey team has provided family-friendly, live entertainment at Bon Secours Wellness Arena since 2010. Formerly the Greenville Road Warriors, the Swamp Rabbits are the highest-level professional minor league franchise in South Carolina. The Swamp Rabbits are the proud ECHL affiliate of the NHL's LA Kings and the AHL's Ontario Reign. Greenville is an ECHL, Premier' AA' Hockey League member. GREENVILLE SWAMP RABBITS HOME Read the full article

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Hi! It's ya girl Rose 🥺🌹, back with a new haircut!!

I thought you told me to not waste my time on the cost cap but here you are with a fic 😭😂

Also, would you please drop down some music recs? your titles from these songs are top tier lyrics, i just know your taste in music is top tier too

Anyways, SPOILERS below the rose line

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"Charles isn’t just being his big spoon, providing the warmth and hold he has come to adore so much, but he’s also still in Max." <- ohh i'm grinning like a cheshire cat

“Exactly how I dreamed about you waking up. Wanted you to still be on my dick when you woke up and watching you realize what was going on was such a beautiful sight.” <- fuck me, dom charles, i'd love to be you maxy, i'm jealous (sorry, this is like the 2nd day of horny)

"he can only moan in appreciation when two of Charles’ fingers enter his mouth." <- i think we've established my love of charles' hands from the serial killers au, i'm gonna shut up now

ohhh you brought up the illegal engine!!! love that!!! teams who cheat together have their drivers always together

they're driving to the sunset with a car that costs more than the budget cap and an illegal engine

"He stops in front of his lover, catching Charles’ attention who stops scrolling on his phone. When he lowers himself onto his knees, he admires the casual confidence on Charles’ face. He adores his boyfriend, loves how they truly can be themselves together. How not a single bit of Ferrari’s disaster classes seem to affect Charles as long as he’s near." <- i can see it, thank you for those manspreading pics from the yacht charlie

“You know the FIA just announced Red Bull as guilty, right?” “Mate,” Max groans, letting his head roll back, “You can’t be serious right now.” <- HAHAHAH

this is just perfect and very much in the times, plus the comedy of it all!! every day, you're just publishing better and better fics!!!

roses for you and to the anon that requested this, and also to rbr for providing a funny plot device for this kinktober day:

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-Rose 🥺🌹

Oooh you got a new haircut?? are you happy with it?

Also i've never said im not a hypocrite LMAOO. Hmm.... Music recs? Here we go. These are mostly new onces, but let me know if you need any older ones too!

Anyways, if you want more, let me know!

"ohh i'm grinning like a cheshire cat" <- the way sometimes i just can't write this stuff with a straight face kshdgsd

"fuck me, dom charles, i'd love to be you maxy, i'm jealous (sorry, this is like the 2nd day of horny)" <- ROSE but yes. dom Charles needs more love.

"ohhh you brought up the illegal engine!!! love that!!! teams who cheat together have their drivers always together"<- goals right? such cheating cuties xx

"they're driving to the sunset with a car that costs more than the budget cap and an illegal engine" <- when will it be my time

Ahh thank you so much sweetheart! reading your comments always makes me happy <33.

(also yes, the cost cap drama only happened to be a plot device for us writers)

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ReduxStock: Photo by Zoë Noble/The New York Times/Redux of Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin (left, with his translator Max Lawton) in Italy’s Sette magazine, June 3, 2022 issue.