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4:16amDecember 17, 2018
shakspaere asked: hey, do you have a link to that post where you suggest that saying hamilton in theatre is good luck? i've been looking for it everywhere since agesI’ve been awol and it’s quite possible this ask is a year old, but here’s the post
http://runecestershire.tumblr.com/post/137932088521/shredsandpatches-the-poetic-mathematician
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4:03amDecember 17, 2018Right. I’m runecestershire on both Dreamwidth and Pillowfort. No idea if I’ll actually end up using either, but there, I’ve at least built the cottages so I can move into them if I feel the need.
7:43pmDecember 4, 2018Hi guys! I don’t think I’m actually back, but the apocalypse drew my attention so I guess I’m here packing up. I don’t really have another social media presence (yet). Wherever Tumblr ends up moving to as a whole, I’ll most likely set up something there and post here to let you folks know my name. Worst comes to worst, if I get deleted for naughty gifs of teacups or what the heck ever, my old Livejournal is Alivion, so I should be able to use that to at least let folks know where I go.
2:24pmFebruary 20, 2018A goth dating app called graveyard and instead of liking someone you dig them
Putting the romance back into necromancy
1:51pmFebruary 20, 2018“
The most important figure from English legacy is incredibly, for me, a teenager by the name of Mary Shelley, and she has remained a figure as important in my life as if she was family. And so many times when I want to give up, when I think about giving up, when people tell me that dreaming of the movies and stories and stories I dream is impossible, I think of her.
Because she picked up the plight of Caliban, and she gave weight to the burden of Prometheus, and she gave voice to the voiceless, and presence to the invisible, and showed me that sometimes to talk about monsters we need to, we need to fabricate monsters of our own.
” — Guillermo Del Toro, during his acceptance speech for Best Director at the 2018 BAFTAS (via medinaquirin)
1:46pmFebruary 20, 2018My main problem as a writer is that I don’t write because “I have a story to tell”. I write because there are worlds I want to visit, ideas I want to explore, people I want to meet, conversations I want to hear, emotions that I want to express, and impossibilities I want to make real.
Which means that I still need a fucking plot.
The absolute worst is when this collides with the “advice” to cut all unnecessary description and tone down any fancy words or tricky sentences, and all you’re left with is the bare skeleton of a plot that was only there as an excuse for the stuff you wanted to write anyway.
9:53amFebruary 17, 2018Panthers and leopards in medieval bestiaries
The main point of medieval bestiaries wasn’t realism, especially because most of the people illustrating them had never seen most of the exotic animals depicted on the pages - but each animal still needed to be instantly identifiable. Because of that, visual codes were developped for each animal.
In most bestiaries, panthers and leopards have many colors (usually seven, frequently considered a perfect number at the time in Europe), sometimes in dots, sometimes in patches or in stripes. Usually, the breath of the animal is also coloured, because it is supposed to attract all animals (except its enemy the dragon, because the panther was seen as a Christ-like figure at the time), as seen on image 2 and 3.
Sources:
- Bestiaires du Moyen Âge (Michel Pastoureau)
- Image 1: Richard de Fournival’s Bestiaire d’amour: France (Paris), 13th-14th century. Bibliothèque Nationale de France
- Image 2: British Library, Harley MS 3244, Folio 37r. Panther
- Image 3: Rochester Bestiary, c. 1225-1250
9:47pmFebruary 16, 2018The awesomely creepy art of Alex Konstad.