Send Asks? Only If You Want To, No Pressure.

Send asks? Only if you want to, no pressure.

Also, I won't have any posts for either several days or longer—I've been busy since my classes started.

MOOTS ASSEMBLE.

A Random list of your favorite things??

Books

Language in general

Dated words (attonce, hereupon, thence, hither, hitherto, ere, erstwhile, anon, wight, redoubted, etc.)

Poetry

Comic strips

Symbolism and motifs

Irony

Double meaning and loaded sentences

Literary analysis

Windy weather

Earrings and rings

Really salty foods (prosciutto, chorizo, french fries, muenster cheese, manchego, olives, sardines)

Knights, especially when they are upon their horses, flying their colors

Closed endings/cadences in music, 3/4 time signatures, staccato, orchestral swells

Evenings

The concepts of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and the scientific method

Germanic fairy tales

When Death is personified in stories

When the devil is outwitted (one of the best tropes ever!)

Art Deco

Gilded or damascened things, including frames, mirrors, weapons, etc.

Polished surfaces

Ink

Rapiers (or espadas roperas)

Gothic/Medieval/Renaissance art and architecture

Psychology—consciousness, abnormal psychology, a little Freud and Jung

Fate intervening in fictional contexts

Birds

Italics

Monologuing

Theatricality and perversity (I'm usually keen to watch it go on in the context of fictional plots.)

It’s rare that I find a completely instrumental song that reminds me of Rafal (forewarning: this is an entirely subjective interpretation), so I present to you: "All Night" by Parov Stelar. To me, it seems to track his character progression, Rise through Fall.

It starts out quick; Rafal doesn't spare anyone a second glance aside from Rhian, generally.

A certain part, in which the music speeds up, the tension mounting, conveys a sense of urgency, reflecting the speed of his return, his overpowering need to get back.

It's got creeps of emotion that are ruthlessly quashed, like how Rafal cuts his ties with others, as he suppresses and denies his humanity the right to interfere in what he does for his own sake (and sometimes the balance), and the recursiveness just feels obsessive. The song always returns to the regular and methodical, the walking pattern.

Then, it slows around the midpoint and deepens in pitch, as he genuinely starts to struggle in Fall as his powers start to fail him, while he has a limp, and he obliterates any attachment he feels to almost everyone, only to not win.

If you don't have classes, what are you usually doing??

Coursework for the classes, of course.

Also—remembering I have a corporeal form when it’s inconvenient. And not-sleeping. Quite a lot of not-sleeping, as, to an extent, I feel like I read 24/7, but a lot of it is lowbrow procrastination reading, so one way or another it’s some form of media consumption.

How's your love life?? (This isn't meant to be taken seriously) Do with it what you will.

I’ve never had a love life and currently don’t want one. It sounds like too much work.

You've done Rhian's morning routine, so what's your morning routine??

My routine varies based on the time of year, or where I am, but generally, I wake, dress, wash up, otherwise groom, etc., have breakfast (and often, read while I eat), arrange hard copies for that day, if there are any, and go to class, if I have a class that day. It’s not that narratively compelling, so I hope I haven’t disappointed, haha.