Traditional w/ Valence: Kind of the minimum acceptable awning to fall on. Better than nothing but not great for higher drops. 4/10
Traditional w/ Wrap Valence: Slightly better, but not enough to make a difference. You'd aim for it over a standard Valence but you still won't like it very much when you land. 4/10
Dome: Honestly insulting. No matter how you fall on it, guaranteed to throw you in a worse direction than you started. Possibly worse than just falling directly from the top of the building to the pavement? City council continues to ignore my suggestion to ban them. 0/10
Gable: Kind of a mixed bag. Good landing but only if you're very experienced falling onto awnings. If you land wrong that's gonna be hurting for days. 6/10 unless you haven't fallen off a roof before, then 2/10
Bullnose: More user friendly imho, forgiving surface area but it can make you careless of those rounded edges. Still, it's your good working awning, the people's awning, always a solid choice for falling off a roof. 7/10
Quarter Round: Deceptively evil. I've seen people bounce right into incoming traffic from these, avoid at all costs. 0/10
Casement (Hip Roof): May as well have no awning. Tell me you hate people falling off roof tops without telling me you hate people falling off roof tops. Awning for selfish people only. 0/10
Waterfall: Weirdly very springy, unexpectedly stylish if you know your roof falling. A great playful bounce without enough kick to throw you into traffic. 7/10
Stationary Canopy: The gold standard for awnings. When you're falling out of a tall building, this is the one you always wanna see. Catches you like a 12 year old fielding a gently tossed baseball. 10/10
Lateral Arm Retractable: Next best to a Stationary, maybe a little less stability, but almost always a nice clean landing. 9/10
Circular: Not ideal but it will do in a pinch. Terrible stopping power, falling on these you pretty much are for sure going to plow completely through it. 3/10
Concave: It's a slide. Just drop in on one of these for hours of child like delight. With enough experience falling off a roof you can land on this owning and sail into a room in the other side of the street. 100/10
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Sci-fi books where a queer woman has the ghost of an annoying dead guy in her head
*Misery is nonbinary (she/they) and who’s in her head is not dead or a guy but I’m counting it, okay
repress reframe recant (gaslight gatekeep girlboss: unreliable narrator edition)
Casterly Rock is no ordinary castle.
Imagine a single building that spans the width of San Francisco, a distance of approximately seven miles (2 leagues). For anyone familiar with the city, imagine a stone fortress stretching from the Cliff House in the west, to the Embarcadero in the east, which gives a rough approximation of Casterly Rock’s colossal base. The largest castle in the Seven Kingdoms, Casterly Rock is almost a city unto itself, complete with its own docks and shipyards distinct from those of Lannisport.
The Lannister’s ancestral fortress must be considered vertically as well as horizontally, for Casterly Rock digs deep into the bowels of the earth, even as it reaches high into the sky. If it existed in the real world, Casterly Rock would be taller than almost every skyscraper mankind has ever built. According to The World of Ice and Fire, the Casterlys built a ringfort at the Rock’s peak to survey their kingdom; their surveys must have proven as short-sighted as Tywin Lannister’s preparations for the coming winter, as the summit of Casterly Rock is literally in the clouds.
Under the cut, I attempt a comprehensive analysis of Casterly Rock, along with some wild speculation. Well-reasoned counterarguments and discussion are most welcome. Please feel free to point out any inaccuracies so that I may edit and correct them.
Leighton Meester as Blair Waldorf Gossip Girl (2007 - 2012)
Robin Hood and Guy of Gisbourne is one of those texts that rattles around in my head a lot because of the sheer violence that Robin Hood enacts on Guy's body in death like hello! hey! Robin, what the fuck is up with that! I love it, it's fascinating.
anyway. so. it's like--
Horseplay: Robin Hood, Guy of Gisborne, and the Neg(oti)ation of the Bestial, Stuart Kane
“They were praying, my people, no single prayer but a rising, moaning mass of them, devotions and hymns and wordless sound from the heart, and I stepped down the beach and lifted my hands toward them, and they reached back though they could not touch me, as if even longing for me would bring them all they were praying for. And the sound resolved into a word, over and over between and among them: Oracle, Oracle, Oracle! Oracle! And when I stepped into the coracle again, when I passed through them in my narrow white ship along the gleaming water, I saw their faces were streaked with tears.”
THE STARS UNDYING by Emery Robin
Even if we object that there is no sex beyond idealisation, that sex is the means by which lovers summon each other into bodily personhood and presence, a wrecking consciousness of the brutality of sex is never far away. In Angelo’s soliloquy, sex grossly obtrudes into religious desire and ruins it, pitching our evils in the razed sanctuary. But perhaps there is always a religious, in the sense of metaphysical, ambition in sex, to which it is tragically unsuited as vehicle, to the effect that sex always promises but cannot get what it wants; and so we want more and more sex. Sex is as a bull in a china shop in Angelo’s speech, pathetically, inevitably ruining what it wants. Yet all of this, perhaps, only makes sex more sexy as an approach to the truth of our tragically disintegral condition.
the demonic: literature and experience, ewan fernie
