Take me high and I'll sing

Levi's said yes, actually. Assless chaps and a biker vest. Happy Pride.

back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore

so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!

this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together

and then in the end you put it together like this!!

and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy

actaeon's hunter reputation is equated to a reputation as ladies' man who considers every maiden in the vicinity as easy prey and boasts that he can distinguish an untrained filly from a mare (yuck) (foreshadowing is a narrative tool etc etc). he is also betrothed to semele whom zeus already has his eye on so (we think) zeus sends artemis to 'deal with him'. what ensues is either actaeon boasting that he is a better hunter than artemis (something agamemnon does too in some myths), or actaeon actively and explicitly hitting on artemis and facing the consequences. we're not even sure if any nudity is included!

which leaves the delicious delicious implications that 1) although the underlying cause (betrothal to zeus' lover) IS unrelated either the tragic structure or the myth itself still warrants a form of hubris that makes actaeon actually a very classical (hah) dick to women! and thus the preying upon maidens theme becomes far less innocuous or accidental, leaving no room for casting actaeon as purely a victim. and 2) it makes artemis not just a hunter but a hunter's trap. she deliberately lures actaeon, a maiden-hunter, by appearing in her maiden form and provoking him into blasphemous behaviour. after which the divine trap closes and he himself becomes the prey. literally. and this reversal of roles (pun intended) is just soso delicious

I would never pay money for a redbox. if you ask politely and are very very persistent (i.e. annoying) they will let you take it away

here's my dad and i taking it away

luckily there are no shortage of freaks like us who will just take them away on our own volition. we did it all "by the book", too: we set up cones and caution tape, disconnected electricity properly, used an angle grinder to grind down the bolts in the concrete so nobody would trip on them, then cleaned everything up afterward and sealed off the electrical panel so the store would know everything is safe and tidy. though they were hesitant when we were first contacting them, they were honestly very relieved and grateful when we finally took it away, especially once they saw that we "knew what we were doing" (we don't) and look like we've "done this before" (we haven't).

the fun part: the reason why this redbox, in particular, was completely full and unraided is because the computer hardware inside had failed some months before the bankruptcy, and a failing company sure as hell wasn't gonna send a tech out to our podunk dipshit city to fix it, so it was impossible to rent movies or take any discs out. plus, for who knows how long, people were returning old redbox discs to this machine and not taking any out, leading to a much higher variety of movies than your average redbox.

there is a thriving community of redbox hackers and modders out there, as well, creating open-source software for repurposing the machines and not letting their very interesting and robust disc-management hardware go to waste. this one belongs to my brother (who was very annoying persistent and did all the legwork of contacting managers and securing permission) who is a programmer by trade and will be hacking it into a family-access movie library, with whatever discs we want. i mean the machine is completely weatherproof and has a built-in AC unit, it would be such a waste to not try to turn it into something cool.

if we get another one, i'm gonna try to mod it into some sort of art or zine vending machine. the disc boxes are just the right size for small print art or stickers. would make a great "little free library" too.