#unfortunately it does 😔

[albatris]

alex: let's make logical, thoughtful choices!

quinn, already cocking a shotgun:

[cheeseknives]

Today had a thought about that old man being cute with his little head tilt, why didn't I just get into kpop or something

[haliaiii]

oc posting pt 3 except it’s just Kain

[judasisgayriot]

The next fob show is on my birthday (11th) so I think as a special treat for me pete should continue to escalate from the baby/love shenanigans and idk. Call patrick ‘my darling’ or something and give him a lil kiss. And heavens gate in the medley?? 👀

[entropii]

Selsi taking a massive bite out of Anadeim moments after this

[rollercoasterwords]

i love and understand wfrau james but if i was regulus? i genuinely think my love for him would die the moment i realized i was lied to and my brother forgot about me. even knowing all the factors at play i don’t think i would ever be able to forgive him. it’s ugly and it’s unfair and i wouldn’t be able to move on.

fair enough 🫡

[stephenrea]

I wanna talk about 'The Banshees of Inisherin' cause I really enjoyed it but I'd like provide ye a bit of context for the production of the story that might alter some of the analysis I've seen gettin passed around. A common misconception about MacDonagh is that he's an Irishman- he's not. He's English. His parents are Irish and he's spent many a Summer holiday in Ireland. But he was born and raised an Englishman. Irish stories of the 20th century have a tendency to carry a lot of political tension, far more tension than you'd see in 'The Banshees of Inisherin' because, like all irish stories for the past millennium, they work as fabels. They're all metaphors for recent irish history and the social mores of rural Ireland and understanding that is almost necessary for the enjoyment of the those kinds of works.

MacDonagh, being an Englishman, is less concerned with these politics; but irish influences remain strong in his works all the same. First and foremost, he's a playwright and this is evident in the structure of his screenplays. MacDonagh makes a lot of references to the film adaptation of John B. Keane's play 'The Field' both visually and by use of certain character archetypes in his film. Take 'The Irish Fool' (a trope that deserves its own post tbh) depicting a mentally disabled character whose function in the story is like that of Shakespeare's fool, only these ''''fools'''' are genuine depictions of how mentally disabled adults were (and still are!!!!!) treated/taken care of in rural irish society. Yet in spite of all the parallels between both stories, The Banshees of Inisherin makes one fundamental deviation from all other irish works which is that rather than having the interpersonal conflict between the protagonists be a metaphor for irish history- irish history is instead a metaphor for their conflict. This inversion of traditional Irish storytelling is present in other areas of the story as well, such as the banshee not being a screaming mourner- but a passive aggressive observer. It's MacDonagh's close connection with the Irish that allowed him to subvert tradition in a way that I personally believe to have been done masterfully. Hypothetically; you could tell this story in any location, but it's rural irish identy is what sells it. Between the isolation of island life, the consant threat of emmigration vs homeland violence, the blur between the natural and supernatural, and the total lack of privacy met with a mandatory level of trust; all these factors are what make 20th century Ireland the ideal setting for a a story of this calibre AND I LOVE IT.

[takitori67]

I HAVE DONE IT FELLAS.

[em-dashes]

dany's got that death grips concert drip going on

[cultrise]

penis

MEA I CANT DO THIS SHIT.

[coquelicoq]

okay, i give up. i'm calling it, time of death 11:02pm. i hereby officially unsubscribe from the l0tr newsletter. it's funny because whenever anyone asks me if i'm the type of person who always finishes a book even when i hate it, i'm like, "yes, except this one time i gave up on the fellowship otr after the first 50 pages when i was like 10." here we are decades later and i'm doing it again. and the best part is, i did actually successfully read this book and the other two in the series at some point in those intervening decades. i tried to read this book three times and only succeeded once. 33% hit rate, compared to my rate of 100% for every other book i have ever seriously tried to read. i really want to get it but i just don't. i'm giving myself permission to move on with my life. i'm not ashamed! i will say it since everyone else is too chicken apparently: some people find this seemingly universally beloved book series very boring and i am among their number!

[essektheylyss]

hot take: "Angel of Small Death and the Codeine Scene" goes SO hard and of all of Hozier's songs, it gets absolutely NO credit for slapping as much as it does.

[mazojo]

Bam stopping in the middle of a life or death battle to tell this dude he looks good is oddly on character

[itstimeforstarwars]

Spent 20 minutes cleaning which means that I am now about 10% more normal.

[slimegirlsmallcock]

fuck you for having the gall to do a single high on round start, take 91 damage Now

[daz4i]

i don't wanna work on my lecture about bungou stray dogs. i want to watch bungou stray dogs instead