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"no attachments" in SW literally just means "don't be selfish and possessive". that's it. that's all there is. doesn't mean jedi can't have friends and loved ones. they can. just. don't be possessive and selfish about it. don't murder thousands of people in an effort to save one.

#god i should go to bed i read sw and my brain immediately thought 'ah yes. this is a post about sexwork' #no. #star wars

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just curious as they're always things i've never questioned just doing but people in my life are often surprised that i don't mind doing them alone

🔁 pls reblog for sample size

#minus movie ive done all of these and id be fine with movie alone #i prefer with other people but i can do them on my lonesome

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I've read a couple of things recently that have pointed out that all RSC productions of Doctor Faustus since like the 1960s have framed the Helen of Troy scene as a depiction of whatever counts as sexually transgressive for the time/place, so Helen has been represented as a beautiful cis woman but, like, with full frontal nudity; a reanimated corpse; an empty wig and dress which get used as props for a wank session; a man in a dress; and a creepily young-looking girl (played by an adult actress) who is then implied to actually just be a real, normal person who gets murdered in a fit of insanity (?)

Anyway I kinda think this is off the mark not so much because ~good taste or whatever (although pretty much any assumptions regarding what actually counts as transgressive or taboo will probably go to some pretty gross places--if Faustus wants to shag a man in a dress, more power to him) but because I'm not sure how well the scene works if it doesn't also seduce the audience (you can pull a reveal on them later if it suits, but I tend to think the arc of the play as a whole works better if we get closer to Faustus over the course of it, rather than further away, and if his ultimate fate feels somehow unjust on a gut level even if we understand the theological reasoning). And while it's common to read Faustus' embrace of Helen as the thing that seals his damnation, I don't think it is, I think looking for one point where it becomes too late for Faustus is misguided and that it only works if it's either always too late or never too late for him. All the tension of the play hinges on that paradox.

That said, depending on how your lead actors play the central relationship and how quickly you escalate the sexual tension, you can always pull the "it was Mephistopheles all along" variant, which is always a crowd-pleaser.

(It's me, I'm the crowd)

#doctor faustus #apparently the 2018 sam wanamaker one had meph basically step in for helen after the first kiss #<- AUGH WHAT I WOULDNT GIVE TO HAVE SEEN THAT #also #which made me imagine a variant where that happens but faustus just goes for it harder #<- we are shaking hands

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Thinking about that time Faustus told a literal demon from hell that it was ugly and needed to shapeshift before rooming with him.

#doctor faustus #REAL AND INCREDIBLY TRUE #luckily it worked out because Meph is just as much of a dick #they're assholes together #faustus being overly proud and meph being overly. bitchy

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god if there was a book of forbidden spells I wouldn’t even hesitate

#doctor faustus #also. me. #please please please #i would sell my soul to sell my soul at this point

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Broad-nosed weevil, Exophthalmus sp.?, Entiminae

Photographed in Colombia by Judy Gallagher

#sent to me #insects #YOOOO LOOKIT HIS FEETS!!!!

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i have maybe the worst type of cuteness aggression about fiction characters that im attracted to

#writing #sorry guys (gender neutral) #im especially sorry to meph who ive been putting through hell lately but to be fair. he can take it

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It’s a Massachusetts thing. Or would that be a M*A*S*Hachusetts thing?

#sent to me #mash #IM NOT LOUD IM FROM BOSTON AND I HAVE ADHD IM SORRY #im also rarely actually angry but boy. the red sox sure have been testing me lately #edit from later the same day: GOOD JOB SOX THANK YOU

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READ A BOOK ToDAY

#sent to me #art #REAL

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ABACUSYNTH by ELIAS JARZOMBEK [2022]

Abacusynth is a synthesizer inspired by an abacus, the ancient counting tool used all around the world. Just like an abacus is used to learn the fundamentals of math, the Abacusynth can be used to explore the building blocks of audio synthesis.

#sounds #waow!!

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#the children yearn for the apprenticeship #<- real real real #knight tag

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can someone hire me as a lighthouse keeper. my grip on reality is soooo stable and i will behave so normally under conditions of extreme isolation. and i promise i wont try to fuck the light

#q

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writing historical fiction will make you google things like “when we’re towels invented?” “how much did a towel cost in American in 1885?” “historical average number of towels owned per household”

#writing #REAL

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Wordle is running out of words. Only 2,000 five letter words remain. When that supply is exhausted the Creation shall begin. One day the word will be ZHURM, and all shall get it, and all shall understand it to mean "an ache from suddenly remembering a long-ago friend, who meant something to you once, but whose face you can no longer conjure". The next day the word shall be JOROL, and all will get it, and all will know it means "the melancholy confusion of passing by somewhere where you once could have died". The next day it will be GREFT, and all will understand it to be a small brown bird with white streaks found only in South America, and suddenly, it will appear, in the underbrush of the Amazon, in the streets of São Paulo, and all will know that it once was not there, but now, will always be

#q #unreality

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tag yourself

#currently feeling bflat minor

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#words words words #hey. ow.