The seas will never run dry, my dear

[sovay]

It is astonishing to me how much energy I don't have these days. I had to visit a clinic for bloodwork yesterday and I was just useless for the rest of the day. I finished watching Turn: Washington's Spies (2014–17), which I have enjoyed and generally recommend even though the first season doesn't find its footing until the finale and the fourth season should really have been a fourth and fifth (it was surprisingly valuable for my formative experience of narrative TV to have been Babylon 5, is what I'm saying). I graduated from envying most of the cast their waistcoats to envying some people their actual coats. Quite unfairly, I then slept badly, had one of the worst nightmares I can remember in months, and woke with a jaw-wrenching headache. Today has mostly been work. Have some links.

1. I would love to see the rest of the series of orixás this combination of photography and drawing belongs to: Tauan Carmo and Tiago Sant'ana, "Oxum—A Rainha das águas doces."

2. I wouldn't mind knowing where this bog trail is located, either, but I love how the water lies over the boardwalk.

3. This is such a mythic poem with such matter-of-fact roots, which I enjoy: L. K., "Old Flame."

4. Because it is suddenly September and I have to make honeycakes soon, I feel everyone should appreciate this flowchart of the Jewish holidays. "Is there a horn?" "Tekiah!"

5. I love these photographs of ocean so much. They make me hungry. I went to the photographer's website and found the sailing expedition to Antarctica they came from. I would like that much of snow and sea and seals in my life. I would like to be able to travel again.

Comments

[sovay]

I doubt I'll ever quite feel moved to watch Turn for them, but it is an enticing thought.

It contains some stellar performances as well as waistcoats. I watched it for Burn Gorman and was rewarded, but the show also did well by some actors I came in liking and gave me a couple of new names to keep track of.

My #1 grudge against Nu Poldark is Lack of Nice Jackets and waistcoats. Some people have no proper sense of priorities and are also scared of hats, the cowards.

That does prejudice me against it. Hats are great.

[thisbluespirit]

I watched it for Burn Gorman and was rewarded, but the show also did well by some actors I came in liking and gave me a couple of new names to keep track of.

That is generally the danger of watching good things!

That does prejudice me against it. Hats are great.

Modern period dramas are so strangely terrified of hats and even proper hair-dos. (Oh, noes, our test audience had not the compassion to feel for a character wearing a bonnet, let alone a tall confection with a feather in it!!)

XD

(You note, of course, that I am using the icon of someone who is def. into shiny waistcoats.)

[sovay]

Modern period dramas are so strangely terrified of hats and even proper hair-dos. (Oh, noes, our test audience had not the compassion to feel for a character wearing a bonnet, let alone a tall confection with a feather in it!!)

I thought half the point of period dramas was the clothing and the hairstyles! When else in their life is a person going to have the chance to cultivate the kind of stiff-brushed side-parting that went out for a reason?

(You note, of course, that I am using the icon of someone who is def. into shiny waistcoats.)

(And looks splendid in them, too.)

[thisbluespirit]

I thought half the point of period dramas was the clothing and the hairstyles!

Yes, but they have to be the right ones. Or sometimes just whatever was in the dress-up box that day, if it's done by Starz.

And looks splendid in them, too.

XD