3rd horseman is commonly called Famine, but he specifically does NOT blight crops, does not damage food. His weapon is the scales, and "destroys" not by weather or worm, but market manipulation.

A closer name might be "Inflation" or "Capital" or "Bread Fixing" or "Galen Weston."





i find it fascinating commentators/scholars are frequently puzzled about why Famine specifically does not damage the oil and the wine, because they take as given there is a blight happening. There isn't. Nothing is damaged - the goods are just priced out. It's the same thought.

although called “Count” Dracula, no such honorific was used in any of the centuries Dracula was operating in Transylvania. As he himself says, he is “Boyar”, one of the aristocrats of the region. He also frequently signs his letters as “-D.”

THIS MFER’S NAME IS BOYAR D. I can’t find any data on the meaning/origin of “Boiardi” but considering the variant “Boyardi” is also in the census data of the Romagna it’s very possible!

https://twitter.com/kabbiearlish/status/1653832720802258963

crossing town to give a cat medicine

this is the homosexual lifestyle the founding fathers feared update: when will he forgive me

oh gosh here we go a theremin is going absolutely crazy as we pan through CGI “streets” that would have been unconvincing in a cut scene from a video game that came free with your computer in 1997 (the movie is supposed to be 3D!) so this already rules

found an AMAZING jacket today with this sewn inside it… i promise to wear it with all the queer pride you would have wanted, Al cbc.ca/news/entertain…

watching shit-tier DRACULA movies as deep-tissue self-care the monk fell down a mountain ravine and cracked his head and his busted-up bloody head fell into the open mouth of a frozen dracula! that’s how you start a fourth sequel baby

rewatching HEAT (1995) as it was meant to be seen [with a dad asleep in a nearby chair] Robert Deniro stop extracting ruthless revenge you are scaring away the hoes

my sister dug up her old x-men action figures from the basement! does anyone know if this jubilee look is from a specific era/issue?

hey all! having a lazy sunday afternoon in a coffeeshop, purging the gigabyte of ref photos (!) i sent to @obazaldua and thought i'd share some of the stories informing WICCAN & HULKLING: LAST ANNIHILATION! In case you wanna dig through some back issues... #MarvelCosmicSpoilers Billy and Teddy's high school years are obviously in V1 of Young Avengers, and their backstories are each depicted in YOUNG AVENGERS SPECIAL #1. In V2, Loki gives us the detail they were classmates, so these events actually must have occurred at the same school, in parallel.

apropos of nothing, here is the Joker, flanked by his studly surfer goons WIPE OUT and RIPTIDE, talking softly into his radio, which is a hotdog fascinated by Wipe Out, who seems to be reacting exclusively to his off-camera trainer?

thinking a lot abt success of Baby Yoda & Gritty versus the manufactured unpleasantness of things like Baby Nut and the lesson is, I think, that of the lead casket:

you cannot fake chaos; you must risk ugliness; give and hazard all a lot of this links to kawaii theory - that the truly cute must be a little ugly - but i think it goes to some of the stuff I was trying to say in that Babadook is Gay piece a few years ago: it only works if it exceeds the capacity for marketing to contain/control its meaning

As the new year approaches please keep in your thoughts that Taylor Swift wrote lyrics for a song in a movie whose book was otherwise composed entirely by poet TS Eliot, and in that song she repeatedly rhymes the word “wanted” with “wanted”

BE THAT FEARLESS MY CHILDREN does “go” rhyme with “ghosts”? buddy you better believe no one has time to check

my work was about the way English speakers just generally do not have a vocabulary for our baroque art bc we were severed from its discourse at key historical moments (late-blooming anti-catholic English renaissance, Cromwell's yard sales, the Great Fire, WW1 & 2 anti-Germanism)

https://twitter.com/OrcaSpender/status/1203858337558695936

(i talk about this a lot on the podcast patreon.com/meakoopa if that is your thing)

KIDS IN HIGH SCHOOL FRENCH: THE HAT MEANS AN ‘S’ FELL OUT

so u can sometimes guess where it goes by seeing if its like an English equivalent

hôtel ~ “hostel”
hôpital ~ “hospital”
fête ~ “fest”
fenêtre ~ “defenestration” (go out a window!)

I DONT KNOW WHY THEY DONT TELL U THIS ancêtre "ancestor"
hôpital "hospital"
hôtel "hostel"
forêt "forest"
rôtir "to roast"
côte "coast"
pâté "paste"
août "August"
château "castle"
fantôme "ghost" (from Latin phantasma)
île "isle"
conquête "conquest"
tempête" "tempest"

thinking about a question from the podcast - "did Milton innovate the idea of Jesus being depicted as wrong about something?" - and i can think of at least one example in the actual Gospels: when the woman at the well rebukes him and he's "damn ur right lol"

are there others? I suppose the wedding at Cana is a parallel moment to this - his mother talks him into doing the "right" thing that is, for him, not the most dignified thing

Vision and Scarlet Witch throwing a family thanksgiving

...a lot going on here submariner showing up to eat an enormous meal and also sit on a stranger’s couch barefoot and in bikini bottoms

Timon's concerns in "Can U Feel the Love Tonight" - that Simba's pursuit of heteronormativity will leave their radical queer collective diminished - are not addressed and remain, like Scar, part of the queer grit which text's insistent narrative of cyclical fecundity must ignore The "great circle of life" as elaborated in THE LION KING has no place for Timon & Puma's socialist gleaning, nor Scar's queer but sterile decadence, which are pushed aside in favour of duplicating the familiar patriarchal heterosexual structures and fertility cycle.

just a reminder that queerness is incompatible with capitalism a permanent and non-self-replicating minority (queer ppl don't necessarily have queer kids) often born to a) straight families of b) varying hostility that c) frequently disown or disinherit them to d) find their way in a visibly anti-queer system

oh man this week's episode is about NOAH'S ARK so we get ONE CHANCE* (*actually two) to pick our FAVOURITE WORK OF ART DEPICTING IT!

what is everyone's pick i love that noah's ark is ubiquitously The One We Tell To Children bc it is full of cute animals and a big boat and a rainbow and the

apocalyptic mass extinction of life on earth

currently receiving torrents of images of dead victims of the shooting in my DMs followed by the words “subscribe to pewdiepie”

that’s where we’re at in these photos, the dead victims’ limbs are crudely photoshopped so that they are “clicking” a youtube subscribe button.

this is a magnitude of monstrosity i didn’t know was possible.

I just don’t know man.

I’m in the court room for the sentencing hearing for Bruce McArthur. Footage of McArthur’s 2004 Dodge Caravan became the means by which he was linked to Kinsman’s disappearance. It was recovered from a wreckage shop, where it was left by McArthur’s family. Family is not being linked to the homicides.