bright and burning wholly out

the one I was looking for originally also has a summer variant. (artist is Frederick Charles Herrick: 'it is warmer below' is from 1927, 'it is cooler below' is 1926)

how does it feel to always be correct? No but seriously confirms dom lando is the truth… 🙏This vid is jusf a hot mess. Oscar doesn’t know what to do. He made this seem so complicated and slow in comparison to how easy Lando made it😭

feels incredible but don't worry, i only use my great power for evil.

THAT VIDEO WAS SPECTACULAR honestly oscar was even more incompetent than i would have guessed and i could not love him more.

the way it starts and oscar spends all this time getting lando centered in the square, and then explains to him: you're in the middle and you're facing forward.

and then the world's longest pause. like oscar was just standing there waiting for lando to take over. HE'S BLINDFOLDED, BABE. you have to keep tell him what to do the whole entire time.

i take my analysis very seriously so i spent a long time rewatching both videos and going back and forth between the two of them. i'd say oscar, when blind folded, did do a good job in keeping his feet pointing the right way, but i do think part of that is because lando kept him moving. where oscar had to spend eons thinking through every single move for lando and he starting shuffling his cute little feetsies around.

what's really clear is that oscar isn't comfortable expressing himself verbally, which is super interesting because the typical characterization for oscar would be that he's much more competent at explanation than lando. and i do think oscar is good at explaining things, like all his professor oscar solo videos are great.

but when it came to telling lando what to do, oscar kept using his hands, even though lando literally couldn't see a thing. you could see that oscar wanted a video game controller to make lando move, like somehow saying "walk forward" was quite difficult for him to translate from his mouth to his brain. and then of course the most obvious example being when he told lando to go left and meant his left. OSCAR.

i'd say the two main differences between them were that lando was very comfortable articulating what oscar should do (loves bossing a man around) but also that he was much looser. like oscar spend lifetimes trying to get lando's feet pointing at the exact correct angle, where lando just got oscar moving broadly in the correct direction and stopped him before he hit the lines... or at least mostly before he went over them entirely.

the whole thing was so much looser when lando was giving direction, like he was giving praise, you could tell he was having fun, oscar was laughing. oscar was also looser, like he was lunging around and obediently walking into the sofa to give him and lando a chuckle. when lando was blindfolded, you could tell that oscar was a lil stressed and other than a few "goods" or "good enoughs" he didn't give lando any praise. and then they had a debrief at the end where lando said oscar needed to learn directions and oscar said he needed to orient himself better with lando.

and i think that's soooo interesting, like oscar facing lando like he's watching a screen and keeping quite a distance from him, vs. lando standing right beside oscar and moving with him, having that physical proximity. which i also think may weirdly have helped oscar keep moving in the correct direction, because he was also being shepherded by lando's physical presence.

"Howdy, cowboy," Jenson drawls, and Lando tries to muffle the sound of his laughter.

"You saw that," he says, flipping the lock on his cabin door.