The Queen In Yellow

driving my chevy to the levee today

what the fuck

I'm always tickled by the way movies about talking animals will invariably have some regular animals in there too, just chilling and eating grass or whatever while their uplifted brethren are running late for work and filling in tax returns and stuff, maybe we can actually make that happen with genetic engineering or nanotech one day.

animals can get anxious and depressed, but they don't have a crippling awareness of their own mortality do they, not yet

Don’t they? Wales and dolphins will cary their dead calves for days. Pets do better if they see their dead owners’ bodies. A mama bear will fight for her young.

yes, I think the question is whether young chimps and whales and elephants who haven't seen death yet can conceptualise it and get hung up on it, knowing that it is going to happen one day.

I mean, human children cannot conceptualize death until they’ve seen it either.

last night i made pancakes and this morning i ate the leftover pancakes and now i don't have any pancakes. what gives

help me mayor mamdani

Be careful, if you say his name in a mirror three times, they say he’ll show up in your house

It’s amazing how they could make an ad from 1998 that looks like a shitpost made a week ago.

guess who

come on. don’t just stand there. didn’t you miss me?

he’s letting me go

where are you going?

my love, did he tell you? we can be happy again. i’m coming home with you

my love

why won’t you look at me?

can you hear me? i’m right here

he said i could go back. he said i could go with you

you can’t hear me, can you?

you don’t even know i’m here. i’m right behind you

wait!!! please wait

i need to think about this

stop!

won’t you stop walking please

my husband would never leave me behind so easily

please. please my love can you hear me

orpheus

look at me i beg you. what’s going on what’s happening

why won’t you turn around

please it’s been ages i thought i’d never see you again won’t you hold me for a moment

i can’t haunt you. i need you to know i’m here i need you to love me back

don’t go please don’t

i can’t follow you out

i’m scared

wait!! please wait for me

orphe—

so somethings always bugged me and this post really brought it to bear. am i missing something critical about the orpheus thing? like he couldnt look but why didnt he just shout over his shoulder. was eurydice mute or he was deafened to her? I cant recall either of those things ever being mentioned. What was preventing them from just talking while they left?