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i have to go to a genuinely cool! exciting! gallery opening thing tonight for work and i should be excited but instead i’m already kind of resentful it’s dragging me all the way to brooklyn on a wednesday and won’t be done until after 10, therefore cutting in to my all-important cozy time

#I should be excited #and maybe i will be when i get there #but I don’t want to interact w work people for another 5-6 hours jfc #also I always feel guilty for “leaving max alone during time we usually spend together #even tho he goes to way more work events than I do and understands

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Camelot (Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2018, dir. Alan Paul)

#!!!! #rex quondam rexque futurus

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it's may, it's may, the month of yes, you may HAPPY MAY!

#these costumes were so pretty irl

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happy beltane & may day! 🌿

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The Handmaiden (2016) dir. Park Chan-wook

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La chimera (Alice Rohrwacher, 2023).

#to watch

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all eldest children are obligated to leave their hometowns as early as possible lest they succumb to the various generational curses

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I love the song "Scarborough Fair" because it follows my favorite poetic structure:

Nosy question

Grocery list

Haunting personal information

#yes

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The witch - Lionel Lindsay - 1924 - via National Gallery of Victoria

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thinking more about authorial insecurity in fiction... it truly is frustrating to me when an author is clearly ashamed of their own premises, or is preemptively responding to imagined criticism. this is where you get a lot of unfunny humor about how stupid genre conventions are and how Unrealistic fantastical/speculative elements are. like ultimately the reason that authors undercut and overexplain their own works is because they're insecure about audience reaction and want to get ahead of the haters by proclaiming that they're Not Cringe. this will not work because I, the ultimate hater, will eventually find them and make one million posts about how much I despise irony poisoning

#yes #commit to the bit or gtfo

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oh that’s actually kinda cute

#oh my god #i love this

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"She was able to break her cords and escape into the church, where, in remembrance of her old vocation, she climbed quickly into the galleries above"

Gustave Doré (1832-1883) - The Succubus, 1855

Illustration from Honoré de Balzac's "Les Cent Contes drolatiques/Droll Stories"

#novel tag

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Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

#reminders #against leaving

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Brother Gregor never spoke and often spooked the neophytes with his appearance, but he was a gentle soul and a phenomenal cook and knew more ways to prepare a fish than the abbot knew hymns

#i too would die for brother gregor

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If you ever feel like you’ve made bad decisions just remember that somewhere out there is a theatre director at an all-white high school about to choose the spring musical

#The Wiz #sigh. #we did try to tell her

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[…] you please me, and you master me—you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy you impart; and while I am twining the soft silken skein round my finger, it sends a thrill up my arm to my heart. I am influenced—conquered; and the influence is sweeter than I can express; and the conquest I undergo has a witchery beyond any triumph I can win. 

Charlotte Brontë, from ‘Jane Eyre’

#christ…the Brontës man #need to reread Jane Eyre this year #and finally read Wuthering Heights (I know!!)

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@pscentral​ event 26: minimalism

The Holdovers (2023)

#I do genuinely understand people’s criticisms/why they didn’t vibe w/ it BUT #I enjoyed it and found it a mostly charming throwback