#exactitudes

[eufoniasdelarteemm]

[russellmoreton]

Terrestrial Movements : #2 Solar Spore. by Russell Moreton Via Flickr: russellmoreton.blogspot.com/

[thatscarletflycatcher]

The thing is, I do love a cranky, sarcastic, clever, old man writer. I delight in Alasdair MacIntyre, and I have the time of my life reading Etienne Gilson too, even the times I disagree with them.

And then there's one Gilbert Keith Chesterton whom I find insufferable to read most of the time, unless it is fiction (The Man Who Was Thursday my beloved).

[peri-hellion]

So I've been watching Poirot reruns (returning to the primordial comfort media in the wake of the implosion of the US) and S1 Poirot and Hastings always struck me as vaguely Jooster-y, in a post WWII we swap narrative positions way (obviously this is because they're both variations of ACD's Holmes and Watson, but go with me here). I'd love to write a post-WWII Jeeves and Wooster in which Jeeves sets up shop as a private detective (on the back of his network/reputation as a war intelligence officer and probably because he had some sort of blowout with his governmental superiors) and Bertie is just kind of his aristocratic hanger-on who is steamrolling over the "can we be friends even though you're no longer my employee" question by just showing up everywhere. There's something about the way Suchet portrays Poirot's fussiness and kindness that melds with how I always imagined a postwar Jeeves who still has rigorous standards while also struggling with the inequity of his history of service (foreign and domestic).

[francepittoresque]

EXPRESSION | Être réglé comme du papier à musique ➽ https://tinyurl.com/Expression-Papier-Musique Être ponctuel et exact dans tout ce que l’on fait. Le véritable sens à donner à cette expression est donc qu’il faut mettre de l’ordre dans ses actes comme dans ses paroles

[inaconstantstateofchange]

given everything, i think we as a fandom need to really internalize that – even for those of us who prefer characterization derived from canon as much as possible – there is, at this point, increasingly no such thing as one true characterization. this is true even outside of discussions of personal read of a character. in this case, i am referring solely to the effect of the changes and edits larian has made, and continues to make, that affect characterization.

given the frankly somewhat unprecedented effect of these continuing changes and tweaks of characterization, it also raises the question of what counts as “canon”. and, at least in my personal determination, the answer is nothing so simple as it is in the case of many other mediums and source materials.

canon for each individual is going to mean something different — not just in the sense of their own canon playthrough, but also the version of the “canon” characters they experienced based on when they played the game.

as an example of this: my formative experience of halsin – my favorite character – was almost entirely prior to patch 5, a patch that made some fairly significant changes to his characterization. i do not personally feel myself required to change the character i love just because the game did after its full release. therefore, in most cases, when i am talking about and considering the character, it is in his pre-patch 5 iteration.

i’m sure there are others in similar positions, whether with the same character or other characters, and so it feels increasingly necessary to open these discussions.

[bocadosdefilosofia]

«El verdadero problema de este mundo no es que sea irracional, ni siquiera que sea racional. La dificultad más habitual se da en que es casi racional, pero no del todo. La vida no es ilógica, pero no deja de ser una trampa para los lógicos. Parece un poco más matemática y regular de lo que es; su exactitud es obvia, su inexactitud se esconde y su insensatez vigila a la espera. Pongamos un tosco ejemplo sobre lo que quiero decir: imaginemos a un matemático de la Luna que quisiera estudiar el cuerpo humano. Lo primero que apreciaría sobre el mismo es su duplicidad. Un hombre tiene dos hombros, y el de la derecha refleja a la perfección el de la izquierda. El matemático repararía en que el organismo humano cuenta con un brazo a la derecha y otro a la izquierda y asimismo con las piernas. Al avanzar el estudio, hallaría la misma cantidad de dedos a cada lado, y lo mismo con los pies, ojos, orejas y fosas nasales. Incluso daría con dos lóbulos idénticos en el cerebro. Llegaría a la conclusión de que se trata de una ley. Cuando encontrara el corazón a un lado, deduciría que hay otro a la derecha. Y es ahí donde, con la mayor convicción de estar en lo cierto, se habría equivocado.»

G. Keith Chesterton: Ortodoxia. Biblioteca de Clásicos Cristianos Abba, pág. 103. Barcelona, 2020.

TGO

@bocadosdefilosofia

@dias-de-la-ira-1

[armoredprincess]

what do you think about a girl (sic) who has trained for years only to perform kata with a body she considers more a work of art than a weapon, who doesn't deign to degrade her form by using it to spar

well I obviously think that's devilishly hot and I would love to show her the parts of her own art form that she's missing out on.

[balletthebestphotographs]

Kira Hilli

Kira Hilli, “The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude”, choreo, staging and lighting by William Forsythe, music by Franz Schubert (Symphony Nº 9 in С major), costume by Stephen Galloway. As part of the program: “FORSYTHE, Ode to an International Master Choreographer” (“The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude“, “Pas/Parts” and “Blake Works l”) within the framework of the “2023 Holland Festival”, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Source and more info at: Kira Hilli on Instagram

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[celluloidwickerman]

Presence, or Polaroid Ghosts (Part 4)

[andafterallimonlysleeping]

[pasajeroblanco]

[robynsassenmyview]

Fear and dribbling: A tale of UK footie

James Graham's football play 'Dear England' features Joseph Fiennes as Gareth Southwood, and is screened by Cinema Nouveau in South Africa, this week.

AND …. it’s in! Joseph Fiennes is Gareth Southgate in James Graham’s stage play Dear England, currently being screened by Cinema Nouveau. Photograph courtesy IFC Center. WHAT IS IT to be a man in this world of crippling hyper-sensitivity and wokeness? The metaphors central to a sport which has traditionally defined all the values of male hegemony are front and central and joyfully politically…

[rechab]

Déesse mère - ( RC )

sculpture – statue menhir La gardienne des lieux s’est dresséedepuis des milliers d’annéesen bordure du champ de blé :c’est une déesse mèreaux seins pointés, il se peut qu’elle soit une divinitéde la fécondité.Ses bras ont un dessin sommaireen léger relief dans le calcaire.Des mains, on devine juste les doigtset son ventre est encore plat. Elle a traversé les âgesen restant debout,les épaules…

[anaalnathrakhs]

btw can we get rid of the notion that introvert = at home and extrovert = outside bc i just saw someone call RAINBOW DASH an extrovert and NO no no if you describe canon miss "probabably napping in a cloud somewhere" rainbow "probably going through her training routine somewhere" dash as an extrovert you havent done your homework

[futurefind]

//however. the realization i culd see if there are like. Baking ClassesTM anywhere. esp since i wanna work in baking :')))