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Something that gets to me about Farscape is that John Crichton was raised on science fiction, and he falls into a world where his only frame of reference is stories. Time and time again, he falls into stories he's familiar with--and it's a coin flip whether he gets to be the hero. Yes, he's OUR protagonist, but he's not always THE protagonist.

He falls into a soul-wrenching conflict with his mortal enemy that, story wise, seems like it SHOULD move his enemy to forgiveness. It doesn't. He gains some insight, but not the cathartic release a story would give. He falls back into time and, by treating the situation like a time-travel story, he causes deaths he'll never forgive himself for.

Everyone else on the ship is, for the most part, in a similar boat. The narratives they have to work with are frequently thwarted and turned against them, and it works so well. Not always satisfying in the ways that we come to expect, no, but compelling nonetheless.

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survival lessons from farscape: 1) anything you say can and will be used against you; 2) someone wants to cut a hole in you and fuck you through it, buddy; 3) love will always betray and corrupt you, and it’s the only thing worth having in the entire world; 4) the secret at the heart of the universe is a torture chamber, but inside of that it’s a field of flowers, and inside of that it’s a bomb.

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no show understands fluids like farscape. it oozes it goops it slimes it sweats it cries it spits it cums and let me tell you, it licks. do other shows understand the inherent eroticism of A Secretion? do they even Secrete?

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Anything You Want

by Matthew Dickman

My living brother is treating us to dinner. He opens the menu wide like a set of wings across the table. Anything you want he says. His voice glimmering above the shining heavens of the silverware. The other one, my dead brother, is sitting in the dark in the graveyard, his back leaning back against his name. I’m walking by with my favorite drug inside me. He’s picking at a scab on his wrist. He looks up, opens his arms wide above the grass. Anything you want, he says. His body beginning to wash out, his voice slowly crawling back.

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Magnificent gold and enamel plique-à-jour pendant/brooch designed as a “Morning Glory”. It was once part of the collection of Ada Rehan, a popular actress of the late 19th century who starred in several Shakespearean plays.

Work signed Marcus & Co around 1900. Via The Newark Museum of Art collection

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i think rice with things on it & also some sort of sauce is like basically the best food genre tbh

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Mahmoud Darwish, from Journal of an Ordinary Grief (tr. from the Arabic by Ibrahim Muhawi)

[Text ID: A place is not only a geographical area; it's also a state of mind. And trees are not just trees; they are the ribs of childhood.]

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Strange Bird

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There’s something about the weather today…

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SINK OR SWIM (prints here)

also some progress shots under the cut bc I took a couple!

the amaaaazing concept sketch done in like 2 mins

initial color blocking! i had no idea how i was gonna do the tentacles here and took a break

each individual element (ice, shark, kraken) are fully rendered, but I still had to make the water feel like, y'know, water. things really started clicking when i made part of the shark not covered by water and added the ripples, because it really helped sell the illusion that there was depth to the piece and it wasn't all on one layer.

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Poppy Seed Lemon Curd Cake

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one time my friend and i came up with a basic “language” called wheat vegetable root. wheat represented every noun. vegetable represented every verb. root represented every adjective. it was very body language based. if my friend beckoned and said “vegetable”, i understood that my friend was telling me to walk with them. if my friend pointed to something and said “wheat”, i understood that they were showing me something. if they said “root wheat” and smiled, they’re saying this thing is good. if they say “root wheat” and frown, they’re saying this thing is bad. we spent a whole day talking like this and drove the rest of our friends insane.

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“Oh yeah, of course. That’s the whole point.”

David Leviathan on Suzanne Collins // Revenge of the Sith novelization // Taylor Swift, Hoax // Aeschylus, Orestes // Paramore, Last Hope // Aeschylus and Robert Icke, Orestia // @sw_holocron & Tony Gilroy, Twitter

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Sun eating celestial crocodile from African tribal belief. It causes sun eclipse 🐊

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How is anyone supposed to be normal after that. G-d looked back at me for a minute