Every 6-9 months or so, the urge comes over me to make a really, really complicated dessert. I'm talking multiple layers of mousse, ganache, gelee, various cremes (which are somehow distinct from cream) genoise, compote, dacquoise, etc. etc.....all the French words you hear on Great British Bakeoff and then immediately forget.
Normally, I spend a week sketching out ideas and, as long as I don't actually go shopping at any point, the urge passes. But I'm bored, and I have a lot of mint from my garden to use up. I might as well lean in at this point.
me: u dont get it jinzha was actually ultimately a tragic character he died a horrible violent death reaching for the approval of his father and was cannibalized by the lack of love in his house and vaisra's own treatment of his sons came back to bite him in the ass and all of jinzha's scenes aren't about jinzha they're about the yins and the way he gets so worried about nezha when nezha is delirious by way of the dragon but still slaps nezha when nezha tells him he's being an idiot and kitay and rin just sit there and ignore it and nezha is literally all alone after jinzha's death aND THE SEIZURE THING IS THE ONE SCENE IN THE ENTIRE FUCKING TRILOGY WHERE A MEMBER OF NEZHA'S FAMILY SHOWS CONCERN FOR HIS WELLBEING BECAUSE JINZHA AND NEZHA WERE ULTIMATELY RAISED THE SAME WAY WITH THE SAME PAIN DESPITE THE DIFFERENCE IN STATUS AND
everyone else in the [redacted] gc: sure grandma let's get you to bed
Athena: It must be nice to work for Uncle Hades. He's such a level-headed person.
Hermes: *thinks about how he had to help Hypnos forcibly drag Hades into bed last night and that the whole Underworld team has crafted many elaborate ways to trick him into leaving his office because otherwise he'll stay in there to work forever and never rest or eat or socialize*
Kylix attr. Foundry Painter c. 490-480
terracotta D 30.5 cm
Berlin, Antikensammlung F2294
This image indicates metalworking (bronze) artisans creating things. Tools are along the walls as well as a shrine to Hephaestus and possibly Athena. Work shrines typically do not survive so this depiction of it in the metalworking shop is quite fascinating!
adapted from the opening scene of chapter VIII of Statius' Thebaid
man its like. kind of horrifying (fun) how Apollo begs a favor from Ares to grant Amphiaraus glory on the battlefield because he's incapable of sparing Amphiaraus from death, but in doing so Amphiaraus stops behaving like Amphiaraus, you are given a "gift" at the expense of yourself, and he's aware of what Apollo is doing! "How much longer are we going to drag this out?" he says
before asking for a favor himself, before the earth splits open and he falls into the underworld, because Apollo can't spare him death, but he does spare him the act of dying, and maybe it's a mercy because there's a moratorium on burials! maybe it's just one more horrifying thing that's done to him because he's Wrong in the underworld, and his presence there brings the cosmic itself into this war. Everyone is brought into this awful theater of family curses!!!!! There Is No Place Spared From The Stain And Gore Of This Crime!!!!
Statius' Thebaid Ch. VIII, trans. Jane Wilson Joyce
Statius and Virgil: The Thebaid and the Reinterpretation of the Aeneid, Randall T. Ganiban