Dreams like stars in the night
Looks like a cinnamon roll, is a cinnamon roll: Lanyon
Looks like a cinnamon roll, but could kill you: Jekyll
Looks like they could kill you, is actually a cinnamon roll: Utterson
Looks like they could kill you, could actually kill you: Hyde
It’s PRIDE MONTH and wanting to start with this little remembrance from queer people in the past.
II Peret 17 - 18 [2025]
"Procession of the seven executioners in order to find the Akhet Eye." - The Ancient Egyptian Daybook
The Akhet Eye is a representation of Ra at the horizon - Akhet both references the horizon and the season of Inundation. The seven executioners referenced appear to be the Seven Servants of Sekhmet, sent out into the land to locate the Eye and provide it protection as Ra is reborn unto a new day.
"Procession of the seven executioners in Letopolis. Their fingers are searching for the Akhet Eye in the towns of Iyet and Letopolis." - The Ancient Egyptian Daybook
The start of something new, even if it's something that has or haf happened frequently or often, is fraught with fragility. A single word, a single action, a single moment of "not now" could cause the destruction of it.
The Executioners are there to keep the Eye safe and protected until it can stand on its own two feet, so to speak. Isfet may be all around us and perhaps even surrounding the Eye itself, but the Executioners will keep isfet at bay until the new day, the new season, the new month, the new life can move forward.
And when we go into the thinking and living of the ten divine Sefirot, my own mind must become as sharp as possible, I must strive to understand not only the whole but also every detail of it. But at the same time my living and thinking must be infused by the divine influx, a wisdom that goes far beyond the mere rational, that will let me even see not only the past but also the future. But divine inspiration must be settled upon logical understanding of the scriptures, because I could also be misled by impure spirits. And when one balances out reason (understanding and logic — left column) with divine inspiration (intuition — right column) I bring the energy down to Malchut (our world) through the balance of the central column. And so my life becomes truly blessed and I become a master of my destiny rather than being a mere play ball of it. What false religion and false Kabbalah does is to bring false ideas beyond fact and understanding directly down through the right column for example into Malchut without the balance of logical understanding, and that's why in the tree of the Ari all descends to Malchut only through Yesod.
-Christopher Huber
Severance S2E10 - “Cold Harbor” // Westworld S1E10 - "The Bicameral Mind"
I will say I am so fucking glad we get to finally see some of shiv's rage this season. it's been blubbering under the surface for the entirety of the show and it's finally coming out, slowly, in small increments but it is. but it's still really fucked up how even now, even after everything that's happened, everything that's been done to her, there isn't really a response there from other people, mostly. when she loses her shit at tom on the phone this episode because he FUCKED HER OVER, he doesn't even acknowledge it, it's just 'I don't know what you mean, I don't know maybe Sara made a mistake. I want this to be amicable' literally gaslighting her and making seem as if she's the crazy one for freaking out after he did this to her. same goes for her outburst at the karaoke bar. no one really knows how to respond and she's just left with this ever-simmering rage, that, if she lets it out, proves to everyone around her that she's just the hysterical woman. and if she doesn't it just eats her alive without anyone even taking fucking notice
not to Goncharov Post but I did go poking around about the real original movie and honestly it's p cool!
it's originally made in a mix of both Italian and Neapolitan, which is a separate language from Italian with a variety of dialects spread across Italy (though yes, centrally in Naples)
the movie came out in 2008 (not at ALL 1973) & did decently at film festivals! there's also a (apparently just as good, 58 episode) tv show also based on the same book
quite a few actual "Mafia" (Camorra) members acted in the movie (and TV show) and were later convicted of Hella Crimes. (Wikipedia has a section titled "Cast members arrested".) It's also alleged that the director (Matteo Garrone, not Scorcese, though their films have other similarities) had to pay 20,000 euros basically as "please don't burn us down" protection money
the movie & tv show are based on a nonfiction book published in 2006 (that you can read! for free! here!) about the actual organized crime in Naples, primarily the Casalesi clan of the Camorra, by a guy who went undercover to infiltrate them (in his late 20s!!)
Unlike the Japanese Yakuza (who reviewed Yakuza 3) with the similar book Tokyo Vice (by Jake Adelstein, who's 10 years older, published in 2009), the book author Roberto Saviano very much got death threats from the Casalesi and had to be under police protection with ten bodyguards at least from 2006-2014 (& possibly still is? I don't want to read Italian to find out)
the Italian govt gave the author police protection after not just the death threats but also an appeal started by six Nobel Peace Prize winners, including (again, all of this is true) Mikhail Gorbachev.
anyways here are your Peer-Reviewed Actually True Facts about Goncharov (1973, dir. Martin Scorcese) Gomorrah (2008, prod. Domenico Procacci).
“If it got me to you it was worth it.”
the way Katya’s lipstick stained Sofia’s lips like when Sofia’s wine stained Katya’s dress and how later they are both stained in blood screaming crying throwing up