some jesses

"I'm looking respectfully" well can you look at me like you're dying of a fever. like you're delirious and it hurts. like you're fighting desperately for your life.

Edvard Munch - By the Deathbed (Fever), 1893

"why suck a strap?" have we all forgotten the beauty of theatre? have we truly fallen so far as to think the mind mustn't be pleasured too?

I’m sorry but Legacy of the Forge lets you have a mural of baby Henry and Martin forging Radzig’s sword? 😭 How could I pick any other decoration?

I had a dream that Joe Biden kept trying to sneak back into the white house to become the president again and he had a variety of silly disguises like in one he was wearing a big moustache and top hat and introduced himself as Job Iden and tried to sell trump snake oil and trump was super interested until his moustache fell off and then JD vance was like "wait a minute.. that's joe biden!!" amd he was like "welp, gotta run, see ya later jack!" and then all the evil white house staff were shaking their heads cus joe biden almost sneaked into the white house and the newest aid was there and she was like "That was a close call, Mr President" and his new aide was actually kamala harris wearing a big cartoon wig and they were all too distracted by joe biden to notice

who up suffering the slings and arrows of they outrageous fortune

among my least favourite conversations i regularly experience in media analysis is when you interpret something as potentially alluding to an "uncomfortable" topic and people immediately start trying to defang it. "this reads like a rape scene" "umm actually it's not rape, it's just a very intimate act of violent assault that violates the victim's sense of safety and bodily autonomy with NO 🙅 sexual connotations or elements". you do realise that's neither any better nor functionally different, right?

"this relationship resembles a traditional abusive marriage between a husband and wife" "well they're not married or heterosexual so you're wrong and an insane bigot for comparing them to such a horrible thing also" HAVE YOU NEVER HEARD OF A FUCKING METAPHOR???

the Ice War on Europa...

Bachelor is Gay (like for real)

He is. Here’s the proof. I will credit people who helped me with sources. 

In the 2005 release of the game, maybe only found in the original Russian, there is dialogue that Daniil can have with the dancer in the Broken Heart. If you’ve heard of this dialogue before it’s because you’ve heard it as the “I’m a misogynist” line. What I remember of it is that the dancer asks him if he likes her (in Classic they’re definitely sex workers so it’s in a suggestive “want to have a good time” way), and he can reply with 

“вообще-то, я женоненавистник” — “Actually, I’m a woman-hater.” 

(@panszy​ and @qawerian​ corroborated my memory on this, thanks!) 

But the term “женоненавистник/zhenonenavistnik” has a noteworthy historical meaning in Russia of the 1910s, which is the closest thing to the canon setting.

This passage from the book Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent

(Thanks to @stavos​ for finding this and @excalibutt​ for finding an essay that first included the term)

“Linked to the idealized manly images projected with the help of such clothing [masculine uniforms] was another subcultural label in circulation in both capitals [St. Petersburg and Moscow], that of the “woman-hater” (zhenonenavistnik).” 

Daniil is referring to himself with a period and setting appropriate term that means a gay man who likes masculine men. 

He is either saying that he’s gay or joking that he’s gay… but since so many people have already concluded that he acts really gay and does seem interested in men and disinterested in women, I rest my case. I would say this puts him in the realm of canon queerness that Yulia and Andrey and Aspity dwell in—in that canon does make commentary about it. 

Bonus: one of my other sources said that red neckties were a secret gay signal in St. Petersburg, which is likely the Capital Daniil comes from (it was the capital until 1918)

The excerpt is from Russian Masculinities in History and Culture, Chapter 9

I may be late but your other source is correct :P The red cravats and handkerchiefs were a way to signal that you’re a gay man in early 20th century Russia, at least in Saint Petersburg and Moscow.

"Male author writes male character who is widely lusted after by the female fans" isn't impressive or noteworthy when it's a character who follows the formulaic Cool-Guy, Boyfriend-Material, Thirst-Trap archetype because like. You can study up on that for 10 minutes and understand the script. You can copy-paste a guy like that.

"Male author writes male character who is widely lusted after by the female fans" is extremely impressive when it's Arataka Reigen. That is absolutely organic and almost certainly unintentional to the highest degree. No playbook on that one. That is undeniable authenticity in the irresistible failman market and I think ONE deserves an award even if he doesn't want it.

To be clear. BONES the studio absolutely knew what they were doing. But this is after they recognized the exact rare-metal value of the weird ugly sweaty failman with no friends and the only common sense in the series. You can't not fuck him.

Heyyyy so I’m back with more art of my Catholic clergy ocs in their vestments!!! Here is older Ferenc as a priest in Easter attire 😊 He’s grown so much from the meticulous little deacon he starts out as in the story 🥺

Will not spoil anything too major but actually what happens in the story gets so insane he contemplates being laicized… but luckily that did not come to be and now he is here!!!

Love him

rare dostoevsky media: the lost 1963 crime and punishment italian drama

"the night where vannucchi killed the old lady of petersburg"

raskolnikov and (possibly) porfiry petrovich

raskolnikov and sonya

rehersals