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this sucks so bad I need to [remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health] force my son and my dead situationship’s daughter to get married so I can take over Thrushcross Grange
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This is our lone twofer episode, covering both Wilkins' Tooth and The Ogre Downstairs. Revenge, violence, & several attempted murders: hijinks ensue!
(warnings both for some technical difficulties on the audio and for more than usual the amount of discussion of child abuse)
You can find the episode transcript here, and if you're reading along, next week will be Dogsbody!
Another great episode, giving me perspectives I didn't have despite having read these books before! (Multiple times, with Ogre.) The Macbeth angle was really cool.
I'm also less observant when it comes to gender than you are and find it very interesting; maybe I grew up too easily identifying with the boys.
It occurred to me while listening that the snowballing chain of events in Wilkins' Tooth (what I think of as "the cat on the rat and the rat on the rope", but I'm not sure that story exists in English) is rather similar to the game of telephone in Changeover. (Changeover, like the plays, are quite interesting to read and see the embryos of what Diana will become, even though she's not there yet.)
Yeah, the gender angle is definitely something I did NOT think about as much when I was a kid as I do now, but it is so interesting reading all these books in a row and watching how the patterns coalesce -- I've always thought of DWJ as someone who wrote a lot of signature preteen girls with bad personalities [affectionate] but she's really got to work her way into that, and now we're recording episodes for the back half of the seventies we're starting to see her do it, whereas Gwinny in Ogre Downstairs and Kathleen in Dogsbody are very much Little Mothers and haven't started yet to struggle out of that mold.
I've never read Changeover ... I know I should, at some point, for completeness of picture, but talking about it live on air may require a fortitude I do not have sdjf;klj;adjfl
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Thinking about that time Hawkeye spent with the Bradley’s as hostage for months(!) :]
The Intern Is Promoted Into Hebe's Job, modeled in 1842, carved about 1851
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This is our lone twofer episode, covering both Wilkins' Tooth and The Ogre Downstairs. Revenge, violence, & several attempted murders: hijinks ensue!
(warnings both for some technical difficulties on the audio and for more than usual the amount of discussion of child abuse)
You can find the episode transcript here, and if you're reading along, next week will be Dogsbody!
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pls tell me what ur great grandparents did for a living in the tags if u know... mine were dairy farmers, bakery workers and a security guard lol
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just a teenage ornithologist and his extremely murderous and fucked up bald eagle
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get that girl her Odo fries !!
carving a pumpkin and having to stop like, ok guys, hang on, just- let me show you this one tumblr post
answering a couple questions i got on this post since i realized ppl genuinely wanna know:
tl;dr:
- israel lets very, very little aid get into gaza. even the UN can't get in as much as they want to. funding individual families, gazan led initiatives, and mutual aid collectives operating out of gaza ensures gazans can provide for themselves and pay for the extremely expensive aid that is available.
- with all the civil infrastructure destroyed by israel, the situation on the ground has devolved into unrestricted capitalism, driving up the price of aid (that should be free!). this makes it more urgent for people to have funding for daily survival.
the post linked above has examples of how donating to individual families can help a lot. if you want to help more than one family at a time, there are many gazan-led initiatives focusing on rebuilding their infrastructure and distributing aid fairly that are worth donating to instead of large charities that already get the majority of donations.
as i mentioned in the last post: @/careforgaza on twitter is a nonprofit started by gazans, it's been endorsed by multiple palestinian journalists.
the sameer project is a collective organized by diaspora palestinians offering emergency shelter to gazans.
ele elna elak is a project aiming to bring water, food, shelter, etc. to gazans and has been promoted by bisan owda.
all of these organizations are active inside gaza right now and are being run by gazans. if anyone knows of other gazan-led mutual aid projects, nonprofits or charities feel free to link them in the notes! hope this helped!
long answers under the cut!
plugging gaza soup kitchen for those with the means to donate! it's another gazan-led initiative currently providing food, water, classes for children, and medical care across the north and south. you can donate through their website or their gofundme, or follow them on instagram for news about their projects
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i'm on episode 26 of my rewatch and the first fancy rock has made its appearance in the narrative. jinghuan's face!!
i think majoring in geology would fix him
earlier this year I started writing a comic about the siege perilous-grail quest situation after finally finishing the didot perceval, and it started circling around kay and perceval. kay as gatekeeper, taboo anxiety vs chivalry, and perceval not doing things "correctly," arthur's enduring affection for kay. that general area. also the horror of the grail quest itself.
this is comic is part of that narrative arc, so with THAT in mind: this is an abridged scene of a longer arc revolving around kay associating camelot with a cage, perceval's associations with jewelry and knighthood and the color red, and arthur's relationship with kay.
[some other scene context: perceval has injured his hand and can't participate in the tournaments, so he's craving some kind of fight. kay is disinterested in replying to this challenge, but he's not above reminding perceval of their first meeting. it's just mean enough in a weird-intimate kind of way that perceval's like, ok so we're doing the antagonistic version of court romance rituals. he picks up hunting because kay can't leave the castle.]
on the subtext of jewelry:
Clothes Make the Man: Parzival Dressed and Undressed, M.D. Amey
on the topic of kay, gatekeeping, and taboo anxiety:
Cei and the Arthurian Legend, Linda Gowans
the whole Red Knight/Perceval Shows Up In A Dead Man's Suit Of Armor transgression-situation (which kay references through red jewelry) mentioned is told in both de Troye's and Wolfram's Perceval narratives :)
anyway! to close out all this out: the transgressions. incredible! what is camelot but a bunch of transgressions stacked on top of each other tbh.
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1 short story rec
➤ as one would expect from the venue (lesbian historic motif podcast), this short story is about historical lesbians!
➤ specifically, historical lesbians working in a parisian printshop in 1830 (2 years before Les Mis is set, if that's relevant for you)
➤ ahhhh I love all the different women in this story, their relationships with each other and their work and their beliefs
➤ and the main character a provincial girl who's finding a place for herself and coming to understand the world of revolutionary paris she's found herself in!
➤ I also love how real and grounded the printshop work is that they all do
➤ it was great from start to finish <3
➤ and yes the author is a friend but I'm not biased at all!!
➤ 5k words in length
➤ available as written text and as podcast; I have been told that the podcast version is excellent too.
“What kind of person was Lancelot? I know about half the kind of person he was, because Malory contented himself with sharing the obvious half. He was more interested in the plot than the characters, and, as soon as he had laid down the broad lines of the latter, he left it at that. Malory’s Lancelot is: 1. Intensely sensitive to moral issues. 2. Ambitious of true - not current - distinction. 3. Probably sadistic or he would not have taken such frightful care to be gentle. 4. Superstitious or totemistic or whatever the word is. He connects his martial luck with virginity, like the schoolboy who thinks he will only bowl well in the march tomorrow if he does not abuse himself today. 5. Fastidious, monogamous, serious. 6. Ferociously punitive to his own body. He denies it and slave-drives it. 7. Devoted to ‘honour,’ which he regards as keeping promises and ‘having a Word.’ He tries to be consistent. 8. Curiously tolerant of other people who do not follow his own standards. He was not shocked by the lady who was naked as a needle. 9. Not without a sense of humour. It was a good joke dressing up as Kay. And he often says amusing things. 10. Fond of being alone. 11. Humble about his athleticism: not false modesty. 12. Self-critical. Aware of some big lack in himself. What was it? 13. Subject to pity, cf. no. 3. 14. Emotional. He is the only person Mallory mentions as crying from relief. 15. Highly strung: subject to nervous breakdowns. 16. Yet practical. He ends by dealing with the Guenever situation pretty well. He is a good man to have with you in a tight corner. 17. Homosexual? Can a person be ambi-sexual - bisexual or whatever? His treatment of young boys like Gareth and Cote Male Tale is very tender and his feeling for Arthur profound. Yet I do so want not to have to write a ‘modern’ novel about him. I could only bring myself to mention this trait, if it is a trait, in the most oblique way. 18. Human. He firmly believes that for him it is a choice between God and Guenever, and he takes Guenever. He says: This is wrong and against my will, but I can’t help it. It seems to me that no 12 is the operative number in this list. What was the lack? On first inspection one would be inclined to link it up with no 17, but I don’t understand about bisexuality, so can’t write about it. There was definitely something ‘wrong’ with Lancelot, in the common sense, and this was what turned him into a genius. It is very troublesome. People he was like: 1. Lawrence of Arabia, 2. A nice captain of the cricket, 3. Parnell, 4. Sir W. Raleigh, 5. Hamlet, 6. me, 7. Prince Rufant, 8. Montros, 9. Tony Ireland or Von Simm […] or whatever, 10. Any mad man, 11. Adam.”
— T.H. White’s notes on the character of Lancelot. (via the-library-and-step-on-it)
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Welcome to Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones, a new podcast on the works of our favorite author! Our first season will consist of eight episodes on the DWJ books of the seventies, released weekly:
1. Eight Days of Luke 2. Wilkin's Tooth/The Ogre Downstairs 3. Dogsbody 4. Cart & Cwidder 5. Power of Three 6. Charmed Life 7. Drowned Ammett 8. Spellcoats
Our inaugural episode, on Eight Days of Luke, will be out this Saturday, but you can subscribe now via our RSS feed or by searching anywhere that podcasts are found (unless you can't, in which case please do tell us).
