The Kinky Grad

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Painted with a FUCKING PALETTE KNIFE?

Listening to an audiobook of Faust. Specifically the Martin Greenberg translation. Barely 25% into part 1 and it's already goated. I keep expecting Mephistopheles to break out into a jaunty big band jazz number.

Okay I got part 1. Part 2 was a lot harder. Maybe I am stupid.

You’re not stupid. The general literary consensus on Part 2 seems to be that it’s a heap of wacky bullshit interesting only to Goethe scholars. In Part 2 he wanders away from the precepts of effective drama and just writes whatever his fevered little philosophical heart desires—and not even in the fun Joycean way, but in a way that gets very hard to read. My first translation of Faust, the Walter Kaufmann, doesn’t even bother to translate Part 2 in full; Kaufmann just does a general summary of the whole play with interspersed excerpts, then translates the final scene in full because that’s got the most exciting part (Faust actually dying, being redeemed, Mephisto being gay for the angels of the Lord)

I gotta say I was not expecting Faust to get redeemed because Mephisto was distracted looking at cute male angels.

What’s an iPod?

been on tumblr so long my text post is outdated…

This was me yesterday when I saw someone thinking paint 3D was the original MS paint

they thought what…

The dragons face never changes, but I still feel like he looks happier in the 2nd pic 🥺

The orb delights him