Whether one loved or hated Queer (2024), it is a very bold film. I'd love to go more into depth about film vs book decisions, so here we go: I'll put all the references to interviews and analyses at the end of the entry, enjoy my refusal to let go of run-on sentences and tell me what you think! Also, all my references to book chapters are from the edition organised by Oliver Harris. The first impr... » Continue Reading
hey thereee so very very nerdy post this time, but after ages of being stuck as "Forever DM" I'm finally playing with my old group which meansss.... I'm a player again!! so in lieu of that, here's the fuckass lil guy I made Paride lvl 3 oathbreaker paladin, he's a fallen aasimar/dhampir (is that orthodox? idk but my DM and I figured if you're a dhampir you had to start off as something else to beg... » Continue Reading
Vultures circle in the sky, and call their friends; they've found a meal. They've found a carcass, not yet dry— they do not know it can still feel. It feels their talons in its flesh, ribcage cracked, and tender heart. The wounds that slashed its body fresh, life never had a chance to start. It tries to wag its tail, tries to lift a limping paw: perhaps a vulture's kindly wing, might soothe » Continue Reading
just rambling here, short and quite pointless, but I was just thinking about how much of a weird love/hate relationship I've got with existence as a concept like the starting point is my vehement dislike for human bodies as a concept; I find bodily functions and the existence of bodies as physical objects with a mass and a presence in space repulsive, to the point it frequently bothers me in day t... » Continue Reading
here are just some cool links (or people's link pages) that I think are really cool and don't want to lose, have funn edit (12/05): hyperlinks fixed! » Continue Reading
This is a text I wrote for school as part of an exam, reason for which it omits a lot of information that's taken for granted, and why it's so short. The general context you need is that the Canzoniere is a Francesco Petrarca's greatest work, despite being one of the only ones he wrote in Italian instead of Latin, and it talks about his torment (wanting to achieve perfection of the soul, but being... » Continue Reading