I slept a sleep of rain-washed alleys and golden-lit bars
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![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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 ofhandful_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 withstrange_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 whenspatch 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.
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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It's probably my favorite retelling of the ballad of "Tam Lin"; it's set in England in the sixteenth century and casts the Queen of Fairy and it interprets fairy lore in light of the survival of an ancient pagan cult, quarter-seasons and sacrifices and the king of the land at his death-time. Even within this framework, it's weird and numinous as well as spiky and pragmatic and it's not simplistic about any of its characters, several of whom are convincingly nonhuman despite being technically mortal (and at least one of whom, unexplainedly, isn't at all). I suspect most people don't think of it as folk horror because it's a retelling and because it has a historical rather than modern setting, but I think that's no bar! And it's beautifully done.