#but it will be coming!

[kittttycakes]

Thank you for your detailed thoughts on Hob’s opinion of Shakespeare! I agree that Grace is smart by removing herself from any Shakespeare adaptation situations!

And thanks for the info on Grace’s nemesis, he sounds like a proper toad.

Any chance we could get some more details on Grace’s publications?

Is Grace’s Mum the sort of person who would be open to accepting that the supernatural or otherworldly?

Have you seen the Disney/Short Story candles? They have a Nightmare before Christmas one, and I feel like if there was a Morpheus was a candle, it would look like that. Definitely scents of petrichor and ozone for sure!

How’s your writing going? If you need some procrastination you should check out (if you haven’t already heard of it) Pika La Cynique’s Girls Next Door webcomic on Deviant Art. I’ve been reading it since 2007 when it first started and even though updates are sporadic now, I kinda feel like it’s something you might enjoy! (from memory Morpheus doesn’t appear, but I think there’s a cameo or two from Death).

I have made the cardinal error of giving Grace expertise and a degree in a time period that is several hundred years removed from my own, but with that said, I also really love medieval literature and I would love to talk about what I think some of her potential publications are!

Grace strikes me as someone who primarily publishes articles and has possibly contributed a chapter or two to a critical collection, but who has not, at this point in her life and career, written a book of her own (unless we’re counting her dissertation). It’s on the to do list, and I imagine she has some ideas, but she expends a lot of her focus on teaching and everything that goes with it, and the writing sometimes goes by the wayside.

As to what she writes: her dissertation was focused on the creation of medieval romantic love in literature as a genre or concept and how we came to have the idea of it that we do now, especially in the age of more modern, vaguely medieval fantasy romances on the page and on screen. After that, I think she pivoted just a smidge and wrote a few articles about courtly love and the bending or perversion of it in literature and what function that serves, including the way The Green Knight queers that system. Just a little before meeting Morpheus for the first time, she was really starting to get into monster theory and its possible applications to monsters and creatures of medieval lit, as a sort of fun little side project and a break from the romance side of things.

Grace’s mum is an altogether lovely woman who would come around to the idea of the supernatural, with time. This is the woman who told Grace most of the fairy stories she knows, after all, and Grace gets a lot of her personality from her. A big part of Grace hesitating to tell her mother is how much of a burden it would place on her, not just to not reveal the knowledge that she has now, because who does she have to confide in besides Grace?, but because it would be so difficult to know how much longer her daughter was going to outlive her.

I hadn’t seen that candle before but it looks so cool! For sure how the exterior would look, I love the crystals on top!

I also hadn’t heard of that webcomic, but I’ve looked it up and this is extremely relevant to my interests! I am definitely going to be making my way through this. Who among us didn’t have a Labyrinth phase? And I’ve been a Phantom fan for ages.

Thank you so much for your ask!!

[yeepof]

I understand that tall men are our POV characters, but surely being like a foot taller than everyone around them would have some occasional consequences

[anexperimentallife]

[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

I think one of the kindest things you can do for people with various mental health struggles is just... let people back into your life after they've been absent for a while.

Making friends as an adult is so fucking hard already and isolating yourself from other people is a very common symptom of depression, anxiety, burnout, ocd, trauma, grief, etc. Which means that someone will do the hard work of recovery/healing and resurface back into a world where their previous friends have written them off because they stopped showing up.

So if you know someone where you're like "yeah we could have been better friends but they fell off the map a bit" and that person suddenly reaches out, or starts showing up to events even though you kind of forgot they were still in the group chat... well they may have been Going Through It and you don't actually have to punish them for their absence you can just be glad that they're back.

[skullchicken]

If you have achieved something, please remember to observe a mandatory period of basking in the warm glow of your achievement like a lizard on a stone, lest you teach your brain that effort is futile, actually, because it didn't get to enjoy its happy chemicals, so, naturally, nothing good ever comes of trying. (And no, avoiding punishment is not a reward!)

I recommend, like, 5% of basking time in relation to whatever time you invested into achieving the thing minimum. And if you can't make your own bask, friend-brought is fine (= tell your friends!).

[hauntedhotel]

Me, on the welcome desk in the library: Good morning, how are you today?

Customer: I have welcomed Jesus into my heart and so I am well today and every day.

Me, a little unnerved: Okay then! Is there something I can help you with?

Customer, digging around in his bag and pulling out an iPhone in a box: Unfortunately, Jesus can't help me with this fucking phone, so I came to the library.

[septemberkisses]

the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

[kochei0]

I turn to Ares.

Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK

⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Expertise can't help you here.

[bethfuller]

limited perception.

find me on instagram!

[cafffine]

be pro-aging but wear sun screen. sun protection is not beauty industry propaganda it will save you. wear it. or else.

[nighthawkes]

I must sleep. Sleep is the mind-healer. Sleep is the big-life that brings total ability to fucking do anything. I will face my bed. I will permit the blankie to pass over me and snores to pass through me. And when sleep has gone past I will turn the outer eye to greet the new morning. When the sleep has gone there will be everything. Energy and will to live will remain.

[whereisthesun]

I HATE MORAL OCD. well i shouldnt say hate thats a strong word. and i dont want to sound like i hate people WITH moral ocd because i dont of course. i just hate having it. but i shouldnt think that, i do like having morals, its just stressful to be thinking about them so constantly and scrutinizing every little thing i do or think. but really thats the least i could do so i should at least try, right? just because i suffer from— no, struggle with moral ocd doesn’t mean i should just stop thinking about things all together, thats not what im saying and i should make that clear, but i

[marlynnofmany]

Add another one to the list of hilarious examples of why generative AI doesn't produce correct answers, just statistically likely ones.

(Customers asked for how-to videos, which the company doesn't have. The AI chatbot decided that a million internet users linking to this video after similar requests couldn't be wrong.)

[starrysharks]

ghanaian miku