maybe orpheus always looks back because his very effort to reverse death means that he can't look forward. if he could look forward, he could accept eurydice's death, grieve, and keep moving in life. his refusal to accept her death is looking back. his going down to the underworld, asking hades and persephone for her life, trying to lead her out... it's all 'looking back'. he does nothing for the entire story except look back. orpheus! looks! back! it's his entire thing! the story ends the same way it begins: orpheus looked back.
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Why is it that every time I google something like "Are olives poisonous to cats" the top results are always like "Fun fact: Cats are carnivores! This means that they eat meat. There is no reason to include olives in a cat's diet. You should feed your cat cat food, which is dry or wet food especially designed for cats. You can purchase this at a store." like is there a single person alive on the planet who's googled "Are blueberry muffins safe for cats" because they're planning on switching their cat to a muffin-only diet??? No, I'm asking because the little bastard somehow popped open the packet while I was putting away the groceries and dragged one under the couch before I could react and now I need to know if I should call the after-hours vet. "Cats should not eat spaghetti." NO SHIT, SHERLOCK!!!! "Try to keep human food away from cats." i live in a studio apartment with a completely silent and permanently hungry apex predator who has the intelligence of a toddler and the desperate Machiavellian cunning of a creature who spent his formative months on the streets. He can already open doors and he is this 👌 close to learning how to open the microwave. He is stronger than me and covered in knives. So im gonna do my best but for the moment i just need you to tell me whether this yoghurt is going to kill my son y/n
I've been using the pet poison hotline's poison list cause it has a search function. It also tells you whether something is mildly, moderately, or severely toxic which can be very handy! It doesn't contain like everything but it might be a good place to start, it also includes plants for fellow houseplant lovers <3
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watching twilight and I keep making myself laugh imagining if it was just alucard or any other vampire instead of Edward. POV nausferatu goes to ur school
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Also thinking about that last SecUnit in System Collapse, who stopped to warn them that BE was coming, and decided to stay behind because they didn't know it was governor-module-less. Thinking about that SecUnit quietly sharing the HelpMe.file with other units it thinks are trustworthy. Thinking about that file, essentially MB's life story, just quietly getting passed from SecUnit to SecUnit, some of them choosing to run immediately as soon as they're free, maybe some of them choosing (very understandable) violence against their oppressors but most don't, most choosing to believe or at least to hope that there are good humans out there, that there are places they could be safe, places where they could be seen as people, and choosing to pass the document on to the next unit they meet.
Just thinking about this slow, silent revolution rippling through the ranks of constructs throughout the Corporation Rim, without Murderbot et al even being aware of it, until maybe one day on a mission stop on a random transport ring, it encounters another rogue construct trying to pass as an augmented human in the crowd. The other rogue freezes when they spot each other, and for a second MB tenses and thinks maybe there's going to be trouble, but then this stranger goes, holy shit you're 1.0, because they're so many links removed from Murderbot or 2.0 themselves, but they have the file, and they know who saved them, they know who freed them
#i just reread network effect and system collapse back to back#and in SC i kept thinking ‘secunit is going to become a folk hero if it’s not careful’ (via @what-strange--options)
Murderbot becoming construct Robin Hood? Construct Jesus??!
Okay, I just don't get these "born yesterday" historical characters. This is giving me flashbacks to The Other Bennet Sister (book, not drama), where Mary Bennet also didn't know you could only dance twice with the same man. Kitty is born in this era, she interacted with at least one family of local entry, and yet she knows nothing. If you want someone who knows nothing about the historical era, make them a time traveler or a transmigrator, I shouldn't know more about someone's own era than they do!
And also, what in the world was their parent's life plan for them if they were taught nothing about the manners of the gentry class? There are five daughters! This dad is worse than Mr. Bennet. Well he's much worse because he also managed to get into debt but anyway.
And then Kitty really does expect whomever she marries to both save her family home and also maybe live there? Woman, you are aiming for rich and you really think your 5000/year husband wants to go live in your dumpy cottage? That is just insane to me. Also, pretty sure it would be odd for your underage sisters to just live in a cottage together in the country. I think they need a female guardian of some sort. Her discussing property was framed as some like, feminist thing, but heiresses with property existed. Widows with property existed. Come on.
And for the record, if I time travelled back to the Regency era, I'd fail immediately. I am 100% certain that I wouldn't move correctly or my facial expressions would be too big or something. They would know. A Russian couple once picked me out as North American on a train in Europe without me saying a word because I smiled too much in public.
But this is why I don't believe Kitty "born yesterday" Talbot would make it. She's not learning the elegance and propriety of the gentry/nobility class by interrogating Radcliffe for two hours and mirroring people. That takes practice over years!
He is absolutely copying you, and cuddling, and doing the slow close of eyes that is a cat kiss! #this is one very happy cat #i hope the two of you have many years of harmony and happiness
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@kantama asked this in a reply one of my #miro’s advice column posts:
Any advice on what to say if asked why I'm leaving one company to apply at a similar company? I actually got fired from the one but the other doesn't need to know that~
I’ve previously given some advice to a friend who was interviewing after only having short stays at jobs. I think that post is worth checking out for this scenario too.
Because ultimately my advice is pretty similar. People leave jobs for very good reasons every day. As an interviewer, I want to know that you were not the problem OR, if you were, that there are concrete reasons why you wont be a problem for me.
First, this might sound obvious but I have conducted enough interviews to tell you that it’s not: don’t bring up the job you got fired from unless your experience there is directly relevant to a question you were asked or the interviewer asks you about that job. If they ask about the job, talk about what you did there and what you learned, and what your successes were. I always ask people why they left their previous jobs but not everyone does this! Don’t volunteer this information unless you’re asked for it.
Second, you do not have to say that you were fired unless they ask that specifically, but DO NOT LIE. Many employers will do an employment verification with your previous jobs. If you say you quit but then the person verifying your employment says you were fired, you will not get the job you’re going for.
Third, when talking about why that job didn’t work out, as I said above, you have two options: 1. you were not the problem, or 2. you were the problem but it won’t happen at this company.
Some examples of you were not the problem:
- toxic workplace (I have specific suggestions for what details to include on that other post)
- inexperienced or incompetent manager (give specific examples of this so it’s clearly not just personal dislike)
- layoff that was not performance-related (ie the company was struggling financially)
Some examples of you were the problem but it won’t happen at this place:
- you were not good at that job but this is a different kind of job that you’re definitely good at
- or even there was one part of that job that you struggled with but that thing isn’t in this job description
- you weren’t ready for the level of responsibility in that job but you learned a lot there and this job seems like more your speed (I have offered a job to someone who flat out told me that she was not a good manager and she just wanted to do the work and not tell other people what to do)
I hope this helps and I’m happy to answer follow up questions if you have them. Good luck out there!!
Thoughts on "Toledo" from a book reader's perspective - The Vampire Lestat episode 1.02
As a book reader, I was quite taken aback by a particular flashback scene towards the end of the episode involving Lestat's family... (spoilers below the cut)
... When Lestat and Gabrielle traveled to the Auverne to kill their family.
This is a huge departure from the books, where Lestat's relationship with his family is far more complex. Specifically, when they are killed in the Revolution, he dreams of a "what-if" where he turned them all into vampires in time to save them, all the way down to the infants in arms. A part of him wishes he had saved them. Meanwhile, his father, blind with old age, miraculously escapes the mob and Lestat takes him to the New World for safety. It's through looking for a mortal family to take care of his aging father that Lestat first meets (plantation owner, book-verse) Louis de Pointe du Lac.
Obviously, since we've staggered the time the story takes place in, there's no overlap with Lestat's mortal life and family with Louis's mortal life, so the necessity to keep the father alive is no longer there. The detail that he's blind in the final flashback does signal that the showrunners are aware of the canon and are deliberately side-stepping it.
I'm trying to reserve judgement on all changes from the books until the whole season comes into focus. Lestat is still very much an unreliable narrator. I'm not a huge fan of how Gabrielle has been portrayed so far, more seductive femme fatale than the emotionally distant, nature-loving, masculine presenting version of her I rather prefer in the books. But still, we haven't seen the full picture yet, so I'll hold back on criticism on that front.
(Suffice to say, my impression of book Gabrielle is that she didn't murder her husband and non-Lestat children and in-laws because she simply didn't care once she had the power to ignore them. The fantasy she relates to Lestat about fucking the men in town is about living for her own pleasure and not caring about the de Lioncourts any more. Her dream isn't to kill them, that's literally Lestat's dream.)
On the one hand, I mourn the lack of complex relationship between Lestat and his dead family. We can have complex feelings about our abusers when they are family members. Not all fantastical abuse stories are made triumphant by the mass murder of the abuser, and I thought the book version delved better into the complex feelings one can have in that situation even when learning about the death of one's abusers.
Then again, the final shot of Lestat cradling Gabrielle in the coffin while hearing the screams of his nieces and nephews does rather reintegrate that complexity in a way I appreciate. The overall change still feels to me a little too "neat" but at least Lestat looks wildly conflicted there at the end and we see a good tv show externalization of his book version's growing misgivings about vampiric Gabrielle.
But then, my partner made an interesting point: we don't actually know if the mass-murder of the de Lioncourt's even happened this way in the show. Perhaps TV Lestat is lying to make a good story, to cover up his pain and vulnerability around their deaths. Or, perhaps the rather clever implication by the showrunners is that Book Lestat is covering up their murders, in order to continue to pose himself as the hero of his own story. Both are quite plausible and either could turn out to be true before the season ends so again, so I'm reserving judgement.
But on a final note, I had one last thought that I personally find rather charming as a Watsonian take on the change: what if this is the divergence point between book and tv show canon?
What if the reason Lestat didn't go to the New World at this point was because he had no father to take care of, because his mother in this timeline divergence insisted on killing him out of revenge for years of suffering?
What if, as a result, Lestat never met plantation owner Louis (I personally headcanon that TV Louis is the mixed-race descendant of Book Louis, in a world where Book Louis was never turned, but it's hardly canonical), didn't go into the earth when he would have in the book (during WWII) and all the other subsequent changes derive from this decision point?
Because it's not unreasonable for Gabrielle to want to kill her husband once she has this power, the book version just. (reportedly) moved on instead.
And, for Doylist reasons, I understand why the showrunners made the change. It's a good, brutal act to use to portray Lestat's growing unease with his mother that's more direct then the slightly more subtle version in the book of simply witnessing her as a vampire, the sort of vampire she wants to be, causing him some misgivings and unease. The killing of the family more neatly gives a divergence point of their separate views of how to be a vampire.
I just hope we will get a bit more of explorer, nature lover Gabrielle and a bit less of gleeful, Jocasta Gabrielle.
RIP Marjane Satrapi, author of the amazing graphic novels Persepolis about living during the fundamentalist revolution in Iran in the 70’s and 80’s. She also created the animated movie based on the graphic novels, which is where these gifs come from.
hi, i'm northern irish + live in belfast. the only people claiming a "truce" are the far right, who want to make it seem like more of us support them. we don't. 20 000 people came to the rally against racism the other day (in a city of 350k!), last i'd heard several dozen people have signed up to bring food + other supplies to people who feel unsafe, and £200k+ has been raised to help the people who have been attacked.
no, they were not just targeting sudanese people. anyone not white was a target - i know of indian and syrian families who were attacked, and their shops destroyed - along with people who aren't the "right" type of white (ukrainian, especially).
there were almost certainly some catholics in among the rioters, because catholics/nationalists/republicans are not immune to racism, but the vast, vast majority of them are loyalists - that's why they're going after people in those areas. they're attacking people in their own areas. i think it's important to note that well-known loyalist paramilitaries were seen in the riots and were egging it on on social media. genuinely, one of the people who was posting about it is a convicted UVF bank robber.
these are the same sort of people who rioted last year, and the year before that, and every time there have been riots. they're the same people who have spent months building bonfires taller than houses and who will cover them next month in the irish flag and will put signs calling for the killing of irish catholics alongside the signs denigrating refugees and other immigrants. the targets are different but the hate is the same, because they are deeply, viciously xenophobic. you don't have to be a person of colour. you just have to be Not Them.
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On Belfast: first of all check out Lee Hurley’s coverage on Bsky because I’m basing this on him mostly. Also he has a fundraiser on there for victims of the riots
Secondly, what has happened for the last three summers running in NI has been the result of loyalist terrorist groups funding neo-nazi and other far right organisations and movements in NI. No there is no true (other than the GFA), mostly its republicans supporting non white residents and loyalists throwing petrol bombs into people’s living rooms.
