I Cant Hocus Focus

the bust of the creature in lisa frankenstein is really interesting to me as someone who has studied historical statues of people who died too young. a lot of the times these statues are of girls and young women and are interpreted to represent the womanhood the girl never got to experience, particularly through the lens of desireability. so it's fascinating that as an orphan and a bachelor in life, the creature had someone who still thought his death was tragic enough (and that he was hot enough) to immortalise him in stone and to have him represented as a literal object of desire

easier for the owner of LED headlights to pass through the eye of a needle than to enter the kingdom of heaven.

The missing scene from Hamlet is Horatio going back to school after everything and needing to lock in on finals

I know some people were unhappy with the change in the Lockwood & Co. TV series to make Joplin a woman instead of sticking to the books, but I actually think it was a brilliant choice because it gives a glimpse into another horrific yet entirely realistic reality of a society where children are thrust into roles not meant for them, roles meant for adults. A reality where a predatory adult woman spending a lot of time alone with a teenage boy wouldn't so much as raise an eyebrow, wouldn't merit more than a teasing "Oh, 'Pamela' now, is it?" from the boy's teenage friend. That Lockwood and Lucy didn't pick up on the fact that Joplin was preying on George (albeit for different reasons) makes even more sense in this context because I have to believe that that kind of behavior from the adults towards the front line soldiers that were the children had become a lot more normalized at that point.