Local Queer Is Tired

I’m 33 now, and I still discover a new joke every time I reread it.

*starts thunderously knocking on the doors of heaven*

In the UK, the book of the peerage is called Burke’s Peerage. Burke sounds like berk, which means a silly/annoying person. So Terry took ‘twerp’, another word for a silly or annoying person, and replaced the e with u. 

Trans silvas very simply translated into german would be über den Wald

Trans silvas -> Transsilvanien -> Überwald

The Venturi Effect is a scientific term referring to the acceleration of a liquid through a narrow tube (like a jet).

Selachii is a classification of sharks. (I discovered this when my stepson got really into sharks)

The Malleus Maleficarum is a very real, very nasty and absolutely batshit insane book from late 15th-century Germany, basically laying out the procedure for catching, torturing, and executing witches. Its title translates to The Hammer of Witches. The other titles are Pratchett's inventions.

In a book about an overbearing and baffling and misogynist God and the heroes being a ragtag regiment of literal women and monsters, I punched the air on that one. The layers of pun are built up like a millefeuille.

Arakawa realized the burgeoning youth of the early 2000s wasnt interested in another plucky spry optimistic young shonen protag. Instead she gave us a short ugly egotistical asshole smarter-than-you atheist with so much money and power that people could no longer best him in arguments by telling him “dude shut up ur literally like 12″ 

Five pages in we’re told Edward’s famous and rich and powerful. Five more pages and he’s calling some girl stupid for thinking God exists. Five more pages and he’s proven right. Five more and he’s kicked an evil priest’s teeth in. And no one can tell his mom on him.

because a) they are cool i want to be friends with them but they are way above my league and also not real and b) well they are old and smart enough to know for sure that something's up and to have their own thoughts about it

imagine your dad picking up the sword of his dead brother and leaving you both to live together with one of your moms for a while right after the funeral ceremony. and then he comes late for the burial itself, bringing with him a not-so-close-to-the-family-itself friend and the smell of sewers. and then, for one of you, your professor (the friend in question btw) just kinda forces you to an internship program without asking and you just go with it. AND THEN there's a fucking assassination attempt right at the gala originally organized just to celebrate the theater and your dad ofc sends you all home immediately and after that never explains what went wrong. and also your dad is clearly constantly worried about something, everything, no matter how hard he hides it behind his work and smiles and other stuff. oh yeah and then everything concerning the museum, the theater itself, the bunch of weird people your dad now is apparently talking with etc. (hello angel in halovar's basement information)

boy i would be TALKING. and speculating A LOT. and these girls are not the type who would be scared, they more likely are curious . this is like the potential for a late night dialogue, a very good one. with the discussion about how stupid adults are sometimes

symbolically associated with both labor and freedom

strong work ethic

he almost definitely took Draconic sorcerer subclass and everyone who's been in middle school knows dragon girls are just horse girls but weirder.

usefullness is necessary to survive

big eyes that will show you the face of a dead god

Notice how Irene Papas portraying Clytemnestra changes her style and wardrobe based on her character's feelings?

At the beginning of the film Clytemnestra is dressed neatly and wears white tones;

Her clothes are soft, white and flowy but also elaborate and include many details to the bodice. As for her hair is always neatly arranged.

Even to the scenes where she is dressed for bed, her hair is neatly made and kept safe under a veil so that it won't go in disarrange. She is showing how regal and composed she is. A wife of a powerful king and mistress of her household and everything on her appearance needs to be neat, regal but also bright and shiny and the brightness of her clothes reflects also her happy mood that she is about to see her beloved daughter getting married.

This image gets massively different after she finds out the truth and has her mental breakdown

Suddenly her white and neat clothes are covered by a dark-colored overcoat. The blackish-purple garment is concealing all the brightness of her white dress like her fury and sorrow covers her previous eagerness and joy. Her hair that used to be neat and perfect is now loose and free like a woman in mourning as she confronts her husband and she never tidied it ever since.

She no longer cares to appear neat or controlled. Her regal appearance or rather the way she conducted herself as the controlled queen is gone. Now she doesn't conceal anything but goes raw in emotion and presentation. And her hair down shows that too!

In fact Cacoyannis gives us this final MARVELOUS shot of Clytemnestra closing the film as she watches the fleet departing with those eyes filled with sorrow and hatred and the ships are being shown to us through the veil of her hair;

The proud and neat queen is gone. It is the birth of a woman already descended to hate and sorrow and who plans her revenge.

Her mourning hair; free locks for a woman who cries at a loss of a child, covers the ships the same way that her rage covers now the glorious image of war she had initially and gives the beginning of her revenge.

And here the phenomenal Irene Papas that we enjoy to "L'Odyssea (1968)" as Penelope and to "The Odyssey (1997)" as Anticlea now giving her all and in her own voice and language as Clytemnestra and her equally phenomenal co-protagonist Kostas Kazakos as Agamemnon have this heart-wrenching performance 😭😭

The seer PAIN and GUILT in his voice is killing me! "How can I answer such an inhuman question in a humane way?" My heart! 😭 and the way SHE stands her ground against his sadness that comes off as anger! "Your silence is enough" gosh! 😭 the seer pain of a mother and a father here! No Agamemnon laughing manichaly into the night of how how he gets his precious money from the war spoils but a father about to do the most inhumane thing to appease the gods for his hubris and a mother now realizing beyond any shade of doubt and being broken by it!