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[dhampyresa]

I love having hot water, hot damn. This is a marked improvement from a week ago. My computer was also not working back then (unrelated) and now it is... Not not working. I'm writing this from my sickbed my phone.

I don't really know what else to say, so have so random thoughts.

In 2015, the grave of F. W. Murnau (of Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens fame) was desecrated, and his head stolen. Murnau died within a month of the premiere of Dracula (of Bela Lugosi fame). Bela Lugosi was buried in his Dracula costume.

JFK died on November 22 1963. Doctor Who premiered on November 23 1963. I can only conclude The Doctor is saving us from a zombie apocalypse. There is a suspiciously amount of Kennedys with holes in their brains.

I fucking love comics. I especially love knowing about how they work as medium and how that makes me appreciate them on an additional level. I wouldn't have enjoyed The Bone Orchard Mythos: Tenement as much if I wasn't also going "bruh the panelling!!!!!" to myself every so often, for example.

Tenement review, since I'm here: BRUH THE PANELLING!!!!! Also the landscapes????? Amazing, 10/10, no notes. The colouring was often very muddy, in a way I think sometimes did a disservice to the story. In other places (the landscapes, the masked people) the colouring was excellent. It maybe was mostly an issue with the faces? Idk. Very Lovecraftian horror. Not sure I understood everything that was going on, but I don't think I was supposed to. It's my favourite of the three Bone Orchard books out so far (then Ten Thousand Black Feathers, and last The Passageway -- this one felt very "we have Enys Men at home").

Enys Men is a 2022 horror movie I got interested in because, as far as I or anyone else seems to know, it is the first movie to have had promitional posters in Cornish (a language closely related to Breton). There is very little Cornish in the actual movie, but I don't regret seeing it. The best way to describe it is "haunting". I thought about it/its atmosphere for days afterwards.

Just finished reading the webtoon Like Mother Like Daughter up to the s2 finale and I need to SCREAM

The Cinderella Boy webtoon is also very very good and I have reread season 1 multiple times. I feel like I ought to be taking notes on how the enemies-to-lovers was develloped.

I don't know why I seem to only be reading comics right now. I want to be reading books too, but I don't seem to want to read any specific books?

As I understand it, it is impossible to steal the relics of a Catholic saint. If a relic is moved, it is always with the saint's approval (if not God's), and the Church can only comply.

Joan of Arc heard the voices of the following three saints: Archangel Michael, Margaret of Antioch and Catherine of Alexandria. The first two are sauroctones (dragonslaying saints), the latter two virgin saints. The patron saints of France include both Michael and Joan. I don't want to use the word "nepotism", but...

The word "monachoparthenoi" is the term used to talk about saints assigned female as birth who later took on a male identity, often as a monk. Hagiographers have referred to them as using both male and female pronouns.

You can put maple syrup in tea and it's delicious, especially if you make chai.

This youtube short about making miso soup has the GENIUS idea to use a strainer to avoid clumps from the miso paste. This also works for matcha powder if you make matcha latte, btw.

You can put orange blossom flavouring in a glass of milk and it's nice.

Wish I wasn't so tired all the time. Wish I could Do Things. Gonna go cuddle kitty and sleep.

Comments

[radiantfracture]

The Cinderella Boy webtoon is also very very good

Thanks for this! I'm enjoying it. The grandfather so far is awesome.

I hope you can do things soon.

[sovay]

The word "monachoparthenoi" is the term used to talk about saints assigned female as birth who later took on a male identity, often as a monk. Hagiographers have referred to them as using both male and female pronouns.

Why don't I know anything about this.

(I have not managed to write about it, but I loved Enys Men.)

*hugs* for the tired. I am glad you have a kitty to cuddle.

[minoanmiss]

Hot water is the best. It's so awesome there's a poem about it.

[larryhammer]

I've met an AFAB monk in Chinese literature. The writer referred to them as a young woman but used the male-only term that translates as "monk" (instead of the female-only "nun") that she claimed. All of which is complicated by her being a ghost.

[dolorosa_12]

Enys Men is so good, and so unsettling!

[hokuton_punch]

I have learned many things from this post! ♥ I hope the kitty cuddles are good.

[acorn_squash]

Thanks for the recommendations! Those look great.

I don't know why I seem to only be reading comics right now. I want to be reading books too, but I don't seem to want to read any specific books?

I feel ya. The main thing I've been reading these past (*checks date*) months is Leif and Thorn over and over again. At least it's long enough that it doesn't get too repetitive?

[schneefink]

<3

The only webcomic I am currently reading is DDVAU, which is a Hermitcraft/Life series AU. I think it should be understandable without canon knowledge? I don't know much about comics but I love it, I think the art especially is great.