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A thread (starts further up, but this feels particularly relevant amidst the string of “Why aren’t you at [Convention]?” messages that inevitably arrive the last two weeks of July with a cascade of unmasked photos, followed by three weeks of “I’m so incredibly sick with *something*…”

Experiments with cooling patches: It feels like tiger balm and didn’t stick to my neck initially bc it’s so hot and sweaty. But I’m now definitely feeling *more* comfortable, even if I do feel like I leaned against a blob of Icy Hot. So…meh. They’d prob be great if thrown in the fridge first.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DRAW STEEL!!!

There are a bunch of really interesting conversations in these threads. Like Teos, I love Dark Sun. I think it’s incredibly relevant right now and it is made for some truly beautiful stories about what victory means. I also think there are many, many valid, important concerns about its legacy.

Hadestown has yet again so engulfed my brain that yesterday, I read “Working on a Song,” Anaïs Mitchell’s book about the evolution of writing the lyrics, and it’s a fantastic treatise on writing and poetry and art and drama. Bonus: she sings throughout the audiobook.

Well, all of you who insisted that the Hadestown proshot is miraculous were indeed correct. You all owe me a box of tissues, though. This show always WRECKS me.

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While we are in this Greek Mythology moment, may I remind you that Emma Thompson is adapting Pat Barker’s take on The Iliad, and she’s struggled to get it made bc the focus on what acts of war against women and survival thereafter actually look like (the core of Barker’s narrative) is too intense.

Emma Thompson adapting feminist retelling of Iliad for big screenThe actress told the Hay Festival she is writing a film version of Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls to draw attention to sexual abuse in war zoneswww.thetimes.com