I'm reading the Odyssey for the first time, so here are my designs for Odysseus, Penelope, Telemachus, Circe and Calypso.
I'll post the coloured version soon.
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honestly it bugs me a little how 99% of the comments on the these are the days of our lives music video, one of my personal favorite queen mvs for pure aesthetics and mood, are people calling it "heartbreaking" and hand-wringing about how SICK and PALE and CLOSE TO DEATH freddie mercury looks. like. wooow the dying man looks like he's dying? really? well done, nancy drew! have a gold star! yes aids is an awful fucking disease and yes hiv positive people shouldn't be reduced to washed-out portraits of the words "inspirational" and "strong" by the media and they should have their pain acknowledged but guys. freddie, by all accounts, very much Did Not Want To Dwell On It. he told his friends he had aids and then immediately was like but i don't want to talk about it. i just want to spend the rest of my time making as much music as i can. and his bandmates accepted that and supported him! he wanted to spend the time he had doing what he loved with people he loved and who loved him and he did. he had, by all accounts, a great last year. that one person who took the days of our lives bts color footage and edited Sad Piano Music TM over the entire thing and intercut interviews with the rest of the band also with Sad Piano Music TM and made it so we could barely hear freddie even say anything... it makes my blood boil like he's literally just. like it's literally just footage of him walking and discussing a take with the director and standing waiting for the take to start like. normal video filming stuff. and all anyone can see is a tragedy because he's walking stiffly or whatever
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JFC I kept saying "Gotta fix the pacing with Part 3, because it's supposed to span SIX months!" (The first NINE chapters only cover ONE month)
So then, somehow instead of adding a bit more time-skips.... I managed to write five entire chapters that all happen in ONE week. god, why!?
I said 'ohhhh so-and-so finally kiss! It's been builing for SO long!' checks notes: oh. god. it's only been four weeks. fml.
Writing is weird. So the update here is that I've written up to Chapter 18 now -- and this fic is over 100k words currently. And ALL I've covered is SIX weeks from the beginning
hope you're all strapped in for a really long one. Glad to have my Fooled Around ride-or-die readers out there, this one's for you!
(Well, mostly, this was for me and my partner. Completely self-indulgent, I'm just tickled other people love it too!)
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anyone else really tired of “classic lit” being seen as only one type of book when in reality it’s just a category for older books that are a part of a (western, I admit) literary canon and in fact there are many different types of genres that are included in it
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DECIDED TO BE EVEN MORE SELF INDULGENT WITH MY INOLLY LORE TODAY AND BASICALLY HE IS SAVING ME TO BE HIS 1000TH CRANE BUT LIKE IN MY HEAD THIS MEANS I GET A CUTE WHITE DRESS WITH PAPER CRANE WINGS AND WE GET MARRIED OR SOMETHING. IDK *GETTING HAULED OFF TO THE LOONEY BIN*
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someone should have stopped me from making characters who are filmmakers because now i spend at least an hour or two a day devising the plots, production histories, and critical and commercial reception of increasingly bizarre films in a bizarre cinema landscape whose complexity has grown far out of my control. help
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