I don't believe you when you say you ain't got what I want

[sovay]

Public transit today was terrible. I ended up walking from Park Street to the Boston Public Library because the station closed while my train was in it. derspatchel, attempting to meet me for dinner shortly afterward, waited half an hour at Assembly because the snafu with the Green Line caused the Orange Line to fall over. On my way home, cautiously renegotiating my relationship with the Green Line, I waited twenty minutes at North Station for a train to Lechmere.

Within this framework of failed MBTA, however, I renewed my library card at the BPL with no difficulty whatsoever, made arrangements to return and read their non-circulating copy of Leslie Howard's Trivial Fond Records (1982), walked over to Trident while Rob was stalled on the Orange Line and read three-quarters of a novel called Wittgenstein Jr (2014) by Lars Iyer, and successfully met Rob for dinner at Sweet Cheeks Q. I got home and rushthatspeaks and gaudior showed me the next three episodes of Steven Universe (2013–) including the one with the song that is both a terrific piece of science fiction worldbuilding and a great queer anthem. One of the few Tumblrs I follow just presented me with some nice Greek sphinxes, a Roman soldier's sidearm, and another phallic windchime, this one looking oddly as though it is starring in a children's picture book. Liz Berry's "The Black Delph Bride" is one of the best poems I've read recently, a Black Country murder ballad, with water.

On balance, it has not been a bad day.

Comments

[kate_nepveu]

Oh gosh I watched that episode last week and have had the song on repeat pretty much non-stop since. I love it so much.

[sovay]

Oh gosh I watched that episode last week and have had the song on repeat pretty much non-stop since. I love it so much.

Do you have a recording? I'm just playing it endlessly off YouTube!

[kate_nepveu]

It's on Soundcloud and there are a variety of extensions/apps/etc you can use to download from that:

https://soundcloud.com/aivisura/steven-universe-stronger-than-you-feat-estelle

For Chrome the one I use is https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/scdl-soundcloud-downloade/ojobkikmpgjpebmicbjoofagfedgbmld?utm_source=chrome-app-launcher-info-dialog

Pretty much all of the show's music is on Soundcloud at either the above or here: https://soundcloud.com/steven-universeonsc

[sovay]

It's on Soundcloud and there are a variety of extensions/apps/etc you can use to download from that

Thank you!

(I use Firefox, but I'll figure something out.)

Pretty much all of the show's music is on Soundcloud at either the above or here

This is the best news I've had all night.

[kate_nepveu]

Once I started digging for specific things, the easiest way I found to find things is the playlists of the main account, which pulls out the songs-with-lyrics into "soundtrack" playlists: https://soundcloud.com/steven-universeonsc/sets

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

this one looking oddly as though it is starring in a children's picture book

The Girl Who Circumnavigated the World on ... oh, never mind.

I'll Be There With Bells On?

The Tintinnabulation of the Balls, Balls, Balls, Balls?

Hi Ho, Bronze?

[sovay]

I'll Be There With Bells On?

I wish that were the Christmas crooner tune it sounds like so that I could vid it to a collage of Roman apotropaic dicks.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Ride a cock horse?

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

I CAN'T BELIEVE I MISSED THAT ONE.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

The windchime is charming. I thought not so much of picture books as of animation, there's a real sense of movement about it. I'm assuming that it's just fluke that the most polished area is the tider's calf...

Great poem, too - now *that* wants to be illustrated. Or sung. Or both.

[sovay]

I thought not so much of picture books as of animation, there's a real sense of movement about it.

They just look like such an adventuring pair: a girl and her fascinum.

Great poem, too - now *that* wants to be illustrated. Or sung. Or both.

Yes.

I feel as though you will hear sooner than I will if someone sets it to music, so please let me know?

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

What a great collection of artifacts! I am particularly taken with the dagger, because it was clearly an everyday object, and yet the shape is so different from what you would be issued today in similar circumstances.

The phallus and rider are great. I'm going to have Phil Och's tune for The Bells in my head for a while. Thanks, ethelmay, though I will probably now forever remember the word tintinabulum.

I'm pleased that the day balanced out well. May the trend continue ever thus.

[sovay]

I am particularly taken with the dagger, because it was clearly an everyday object, and yet the shape is so different from what you would be issued today in similar circumstances.

I'm vaguely intrigued that it's on eBay, but if I had $23,000.00 to spare, my life would be very different. For starters, if I were spending that much money on a pugio, it would mean I had already been able to afford art and artifacts from the ancient world that I really want.

The phallus and rider are great.

I want to read about their adventures!

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

So that windchime is a huge phallus, attached to the back half of a horse -- which is, itself, impressively hung. Wow.

[sovay]

So that windchime is a huge phallus, attached to the back half of a horse -- which is, itself, impressively hung. Wow.

It's a fascinum! So it's a huge phallus with the tail and hooves of a horse, the better to get around with. Others have clawed animal feet or their very own penises. I adore these objects and have been grateful to ladymondegreen since September for sending me a modern-day example. The winged kind are generally my favorite, although I have a real soft spot for the divine phallus warding off the Evil Eye by ejaculating into it. You can see the hooves and little tail there, too.

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

I see... So there's a whole *genre* of "This dick is so huge that it has it's *own* dick, which is *also* huge". Learn something new every day...

(I am suddenly struck with the desire to see a fractal fascinum. Dicks all the way down...)

[sovay]

So there's a whole *genre* of "This dick is so huge that it has it's *own* dick, which is *also* huge".

Yep! They are protective amulets. The sacred phallus itself is the fascinus, the charms are fascina. You find these things everywhere in the Roman world. They protect against invidia, the envious evil eye. Also, they are terrifically entertaining-looking.

(English fascinate is etymologically related, in its original sense of putting a spell on someone. See Catullus 5 and 7.)

(I am suddenly struck with the desire to see a fractal fascinum. Dicks all the way down...)

Please share if you find one. I feel like there's a decent chance of finding at least a tertiary example.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

The nearest modern equivalent is probably on Kindle Cover Disasters. (http://kindlecoverdisasters.tumblr.com/post/132400332720/buy-it-here)

[sovay]

The nearest modern equivalent is probably on Kindle Cover Disasters.

Quoting Mabel Pines of Gravity Falls, Episode 2.13 "Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons": "I cast . . . Centaurtaur!"

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

The phallus looks rather like a prototype merry-go-round animal for another age. And universe. Although the Romans totally would have built that if they had thought of it.

[sovay]

Although the Romans totally would have built that if they had thought of it.

. . . so there is basically no way an apotropaic phallus carousel will ever exist in my lifetime, nor do I think it could be built in this culture without becoming regrettably creepy, but man, that would have been a beautiful thing.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

The merry-go-round broke down
As we went round and round...

Nine

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

I am reminded of that famous passage in Angela Thirkell's The Brandons, concerning the roundabout at the fair:

"I say [says Lydia], someone's on my cock."

"It's only my cousin Hilary," said Delia. "He won't mind changing, will you, Hilary…"

Mr Grant, really quite glad of an excuse to dismount, offered his cock to Lydia, who immediately flung a leg over it, explaining that she had put on a frock with pleats on purpose…

"I know that once Lydia is on her cock nothing will get her off."

[sovay]

"I know that once Lydia is on her cock nothing will get her off."

I am in awe.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

"The Black Delph Bride" is amazing--I read it first, then listened to her read it. It was shiversome to read and even better to listen to, and the accompanying images just right.

[sovay]

"The Black Delph Bride" is amazing--I read it first, then listened to her read it.

I'll have to listen! I want her collection Black Country—if it's all like that, it will be extraordinary, and if it's only partly like that, it will still be very good.