let's dance to joy division

when the character is obsessive and desperate and guilty and scared and ashamed and traumatized and repressed

blessed with the divine vision that bb shane was a fucking STICKLER for equal application of rules when he was an itty bitty. he'll accept the rules just fine, but they will now be HOUSEHOLD rules.

day 4: visions @zutaraweek

“[adapted Homeric characters], like Nolan’s Odysseus, somehow pre-digested for us, explained and explicit, too spelled out to keep us guessing. It’s not so much that the Homeric characters are somehow more psychologically elaborate or well-rounded. In fact, it may be the opposite: they are psychologically opaque. They are not necessarily about psychology at all, and certainly not only about psychology, and so you have to keep thinking about them in different ways. With Homer, you, as the audience, have to go pick your veggies, maybe go to the mountains for some herbs, then chop them up while inhaling their smells, then cook them having stoked your fire, and then enjoy your meal. Every part of the process is a joy, but you can’t just sit there. It makes you actively think. With modern adaptations, it’s more of a heat-and-eat kind of thing. I am not sure what makes the differences. Can we no longer handle epic complexity? Is it something about the forms we are used to?”

the hot chocolate enjoyer when you ask where all the milk is going so fast:

i’ve seen this user post this photo as a sort of reaction image a couple times now and it makes me laugh every time. because this is the incredibly elusive marbled cat and they really do just have a tendency to look so pitiful, guilty, and empty in the head. so here’s some more photos of them looking like there’s just one marble bouncing around their skull: