I slept a sleep of rain-washed alleys and golden-lit bars

[sovay]

Yesterday was primarily characterized by grocery shopping while having slept forty-five minutes the previous night. Today I have a glass bottle of goat's milk in my refrigerator and my bootlace that isn't already knotted just broke. Both of these circumstances have perfectly ordinary twenty-first-century explanations and yet. Have some recently accumulated links.

1. Courtesy of umadoshi: I was glad to see this follow-up article of differing perspectives—millennial and otherwise—on burnout.

2. I like how this article on "Why We Need to Keep Searching for Lost Silent Films" answers its own question with its subtitle: "Early motion pictures give us an important window into our collective past." I'd heard of Something Good – Negro Kiss (1898). I'd never heard of Diplomatic Henry (1915).

3. Courtesy of handful_ofdust: I love this appreciation of medieval bog body fashion, but I have to say the reconstruction of Bockstensmannen looks a bit done with the whole thing.

(While we're talking about things under water and earth, I was reminded by a recent exchange with strange_complex that I've never understood why I don't see Elizabeth Marie Pope's The Perilous Gard (1974) included in more discussions of folk horror. It was published in the '70's and revolves around the fire sacrifice of a year-king to the old gods of the land. I thought of it the first time I saw The Wicker Man (1973). Maybe the Child ballad confuses people.)

4. moon_custafer has been making text posts from The Testament of Dr. Mabuse.

5. Over the weekend I was having one of those moments of wondering what I have ever done worthwhile with my life when spatch showed me this tweet. About the only time I want the capacity to interact with Twitter is to say thank you for something like that.

I will be at Arisia this weekend, because some of the people who stepped up to put out the fires are people I trust. I'll post my schedule soon.

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[dhampyresa]

moon_custafer has been making text posts from The Testament of Dr. Mabuse.

WHAT but also that's amazing

[sovay]

WHAT but also that's amazing

That set is my favorite, but her text post from Don Quixote is also pretty great.

[moon_custafer]

Lohmann and Hofmeister are my favourite Mabuse characters, of course, but I need to find some texts that work for Tom and Lili, and maybe one for that woman with a monocle looking bored during Dr. Baum’s lecture.

[sovay]

and maybe one for that woman with a monocle looking bored during Dr. Baum’s lecture.

Definitely.

[moon_custafer]

Done: https://66.media.tumblr.com/9f94d8c025cbb4dbf9e9d570ab2a0731/tumblr_pldxnyUUZ71s1qizwo3_1280.jpg

https://66.media.tumblr.com/1bceb7151f2f9004eb36b50223054883/tumblr_pldxnyUUZ71s1qizwo1_1280.jpg

https://66.media.tumblr.com/6e3e29dfa2a8adb5e869f29d9c74bfc3/tumblr_pldxnyUUZ71s1qizwo2_1280.jpg

[sovay]

Done

I like that. I'm also very fond of "apparently not uncomfortable enough for you to stop."

[moon_custafer]

I think that’s my favourite, mainly because it implies that not only were the gangsters otherwise engaged, but that Lohmann was the one singing “Eye of the Tiger” outside their door, which is a technique I can picture him using if daddy-domming criminals into surrender fails to work.