#it's part of the process to development

[gingermintpepper]

Writing Apollo-as-a-young-deity is fun because sometimes it involves completely making shit up based on the loose outline of a story told through old poems, prayers and plays and other times it involves researching the totally legit and well documented ancient art of studying sheep livers to make sure your statesmen don't accidentally piss off Jupiter.

In completely unrelated news, if anyone has any recommendations for books about bird augury, that'd be wonderful.

[icewindandboringhorror]

I know this is just a silly bad quality random screencap of a screencap that I found on facebook lol, BUT it's a succinct enough image to easily describe the concept in a quick/accessible way hopefully :

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(and of course, feel free to elaborate in tags, etc.! (especially elaborating about other senses as well.. can you "hear" in your mind just as well as you can "see"? taste? etc.) It's an interesting topic to me, as someone who's like a 4.5 at MOST lol. I'm curious what option will be the most common :0c )

[bixels]

So I l’ve been getting into your ko crisis story lately (it all sounds rlly awesome btw) and i was curious - you’ve said in the tags in a previous ask that ash is comphet, so is that gonna play a major role in her character arc/journey in any way?

Yeah, the story basically covers her journey of redefining her identity as a queer Asian-American disabled woman in a sports-entertainment industry, which is a media landscape that specifically targets, exploits, and fetishizes people like her.

[lorephobic]

literally nobody asked for it, but here's my list of saltburn essays that i've slowly been drafting over the course of the last week which WILL be required reading for anybody trying to engage with me about this movie. my very personal saltburn 101 syllabus just dropped

A Wolf in Deer's Clothing: Saltburn's Attempt at Innocence

an examination of party costumes and our character's last attempts to masquerade as something they're not: felix—an angel, all-forgiving and all-knowing, something to be worshiped; and oliver—a prey animal, prey to class-divide, prey to saltburn, prey to felix.

thoughts about oliver specifically are loosely organized in my #bambi tag

A Midsummer Night's Mare: Farleigh Start as the Ultimate Victim of Saltburn

a farleigh character study, about the ways he was mistreated and manipulated at saltburn, about fighting to stay alive and the scars left behind by knowing when to give in

alternatively titled "QuickStart", may be adapted into a conclusive essay specifically focusing on oliver and farleigh's relationship

The Eye of the Beholder: On Saltburn's Voyeurism & Violence [working title]

how wealth and class pushes the catton's toward the volatile reality of being able to look, but not touch. on desire and the lack thereof, and portraying yourself as an object to be desired

may end up as two separate essays on wealth and aestheticism but i'm pushing toward a conclusive essay about the intersection of the two, which i feel is at the heart of saltburn

alternatively titled "Poor Man's Pudding: A Melvillian Approach to Saltburn's Class", again, may be adapted into it's own essay

Gender-Fluid: A Study in Sexuality and Saltburn's Desire to be Dry

a deep dive into the bodily fluids of saltburn and how oliver upsets the standard of men who are just so lovely and dry. on the creative choice to lean into the messy wetness of sex and desire and the audience's instinct toward repulsion

a celebration of the grotesque and an examination of why we would label it as such

least developed of the four, heavily inspired by @charnelpit's lovely post about the fluids in saltburn

if anybody is actually interested in any of these, i can work toward something closer to a finished piece instead of just bullet points and quotes in a google doc, but mostly this is so i can share my very brief takes on a multitude of themes in saltburn that have been haunting me

edit for people seeing this in the future: all posts about my essays are being organized into my #saltburn 101 tag if you’re interested in following these through to development!

[sysig]

Ellen McLain’s commentary from my trivia playthrough

[skulkingfoxes]

A conversation between a clown and a fairy

[clubsdeuce]

reading through the comics to find ammunition for discord emojis and i love small marvins. what a silly little man.

also:

buny

[cha-lii]

if it had been hughie the shapeshifter turned into, and annie that they tricked and raped and proposed to - there would have been monologue after monologue this episode about how violated annie felt.

and if hughie had blamed annie for even an instant for not realising it wasn’t him or for being raped or accidentally getting engaged to a person who had the same face, body, voice, mannerisms and memories as him - the amount of unholy backlash hughie’s character would face in the show and from fans would blow him away.

why are people (and the fucking shitty writers) so fucking quick to dismiss hughie’s trauma and accept annie’s wrongdoings just because he’s a man and she’s a woman? being a man doesn’t immediately make you the wrong one, and being a woman doesn’t excuse your mistakes. like, they both suffered huge amounts of trauma - why should either of them have had to apologise for what happened to them? and to the people saying “oh annie forgave him and they made up immediately after” no - she told him to get an std test and somehow that made everything okay again?? seriously?? roles reversed, how would that have felt coming out a man’s mouth to a woman?

fuck kripke so much

[identitty-dickruption]

literally just realised that I'm not as low empathy as previously thought I just have worse alexithymia than previously thought. turns out it is very fucking difficult to realise that you feel + understand how someone else is feeling when you can't even feel + understand your own emotions. smh

[likeadevils]

i was going through your rep timeline and it is so interesting how she started with songs about being attracted and falling in love. obviously inspired by her personal life instead of the apocalyptic events of the summer. but then she made delicate and i am speculating here but i think that is what gave her an idea for the direction of the album. the use of the word reputation itself! and then we get IDSB right after delicate which plays with the idea of perception. and you can see how in 2017 she chases both themes.

nothing particularly profound but i hadn’t come across it before. thank you for all that you do!

thank you for taking the time to read it! this is just outside speculation, i could see taylor needing to start from a positive place-- after all, she wrote her "this summer is the apocalypse." journal entry two days before she wrote gorgeous. i could really see her feeling like a) she needed to start making music again or she was going to fall apart and b) she needed to explore her happiness, instead of all the pain.

as for her coming up with the concept of reputation-- taylor's said multiple places that she came up with the reputation title incredibly early (of the top of my head there's her at&t event in 2017). delicate is a good contender, but i think there's a strong chance it was something she came up before she wrote any songs (i remember her saying something to that affect while doing promo for lover, but i can't find it right now, i've been looking so long, i did start groaning in pain). BUT we do have her playing around with it while writing gorgeous-- one of her original lyrics for the prechorus was "my reputation proceeds both of us, i'm nothing that you'd want", so at the very least, it was swirling in the back of her mind from the start

[crescentfool]

🎆✨

[blackjackkent]

Slowly discovering the freeing power of the words "I know this is bad but I'll fix it in editing."

[mymarifae]

also veritas and i are on a first name basis now partially because his last name is fucking stupid and i hate calling him "ratio" but mostly because after poking at his character a bunch i've decided i like him quite a lot LMFAO

[kennys-parka-jacket]

Man. I must be getting old. What do you mean I can't stay up until 11pm every night and still function normally at work?

[eternal-reverie]

got the posting anxiety bad tonight

[lulabo]

I think it was a good narrative decision for Yellowjackets not to show the process of the team deciding exactly how they planned to execute their first intentional sacrifice but if you think about the logistics of what they worked out it's literally insane: Russian roulette with the cards, and the person with the queen is expected to let her throat be slit, just willingly offer up her neck. AND (and I don't know why this part to me is especially bonkers), they're just going to do it in the ONE ROOM where they live and sleep and eat the rest of the time? They were just like, "we already do everything in this one room anyway" and made no other preparations? Did they decide beforehand whoever pulled the queen would just not make it weird? "Okay but if you pull the card, that's it. You get what you get and you don't get upset." And no one was like, well, we will have to clean up afterwards or just sleep in the blood of the sacrificial lamb? And Shauna gets the responsibility of the killing cut because she's also the butcher, did they have a backup plan if Shauna pulled the dead meat card? Like they're SO hungry and traumatized they're just like, this is the plan and we will do it, and also we will honor our original cannibal sin by including Jackie's bravery talisman, okay go. And then they're so feral that when Nat asserts what little agency and humanity she has left, they immediately go into predator mode, it's perfect madness.