the acolyte's burden
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yamamanamaEmily recognized herself from the freckles.
Emily studied math in school but took a bunch of art classes, one in which the teacher took them places and they just sketched people. She likes to work with wire but not with clay. She showed me some watercolor paintings she did of a fox and of her dog, whose name is Maggie.
She was engaged in a half-heard conversation about a zodiac compatibility. I dunno, I have my rankings and nothing else and they're completely arbitrary. For instance, Ultima outranks Mateus because Ashley's zodiac sign is Mateus. However, Mateus outranks most of the other signs.
I think someone in the group was The Whisperer and maybe there was a Gigas or Death Seraph.
A woman with two gold pendants and big eyes and a bag with Female Gaze on it smiled at the prospect of being drawn. I wasn’t sure if the guy near her was with her so I didn’t really know how to react. The drawing of her was rushed but that’s because the last two people I tried to draw both got off unexpectedly. One of them wore a dress with sunflowers on it and a pin of either a fox or some kind of Asian folkloric fox spirit, most likely a kitsune or a húli jīng, because kumiho are always malevolent and cheonho are relatively unknown, was on her jacket. The other had five-petaled flower earrings made from something silvery.
The theatre is clad in cerulean and gold and the chairs are upholstered in deep green. The lights are the shape of stars, or have beads hanging from them. Above the stage are the words "to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature," which is a quote from Hamlet.
Behind me, a conversation in Italian.
On the lamppost in front of the theatre was a poster about a lecture about the rise of fascism in the 21st century, specifically about the German AfD party.
Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi premiered in 1918, along with Il tabarro, an opera for which I can not find a satisfactory one sentence summary.
Suor Angelica is sent to a convent for seven years, where she does gardening and makes herbal medicines, which is important, by the way. They discuss their desires and Angelica declines to mention hers. Her aunt shows up, it is revealed that she was sent to the convent for having an illegitimate son, her aunt asks her to sign her share of inheritance over to her, when pressured about Angelica's son, she reveals that he died of an illness two years before. She leaves.
Angelica makes poison from some of the plants in the garden and drinks it, realizing too late that suicide gets you sent to Hell. She asks forgiveness and sees a vision of her son standing in a cross of light.
It's hard to tell who's who because they all wore habits. The cast is all women.
Usually, if they perform two out of three operas, it’s Suor Angelica that gets the axe.
Gianni Schicchi has O mio babbino caro, one of the most famous arias of Puccini’s, despite the opera being all about wacky hijinks and not sadness and murder. The elderly Buoso Donati dies and the rest of the family schemes to get it back. They have Gianni Schicchi disguise himself as Buoso, because the family are the only people who know that he died, and reads out a new will to the notary, and Gianni Schicchi leaves all the good stuff, the manor, the mule, and the mills, to himself. Before they can protest, Gianni reminds them what the punishment for fraud is. The family tries to take as much as they can from the house. Lauretta and Rinuccio marry and Gianni Schicchi asks the audience to forgive him.
Schicchi was a real person and Gemma, Dante’s wife, was of the Donati family. He ended up in the Eighth Circle, for the fraudulent.
Instead of making it look like 13th century Florence, the set was black and white and everyone wore 1950s clothing.
burning question: Do you think maybe we should just sacrifice Syria to the authoritarians and then have a population exchange of their democracy activists for our wannabe genocidaires and other assorted far-right nutbags? We can’t send them to Antarctica because dumping garbage is illegal. We can’t have them here because once they die off to the point they won’t have any political power, they’re going to start killing.
Emily studied math in school but took a bunch of art classes, one in which the teacher took them places and they just sketched people. She likes to work with wire but not with clay. She showed me some watercolor paintings she did of a fox and of her dog, whose name is Maggie.
She was engaged in a half-heard conversation about a zodiac compatibility. I dunno, I have my rankings and nothing else and they're completely arbitrary. For instance, Ultima outranks Mateus because Ashley's zodiac sign is Mateus. However, Mateus outranks most of the other signs.
I think someone in the group was The Whisperer and maybe there was a Gigas or Death Seraph.
A woman with two gold pendants and big eyes and a bag with Female Gaze on it smiled at the prospect of being drawn. I wasn’t sure if the guy near her was with her so I didn’t really know how to react. The drawing of her was rushed but that’s because the last two people I tried to draw both got off unexpectedly. One of them wore a dress with sunflowers on it and a pin of either a fox or some kind of Asian folkloric fox spirit, most likely a kitsune or a húli jīng, because kumiho are always malevolent and cheonho are relatively unknown, was on her jacket. The other had five-petaled flower earrings made from something silvery.
The theatre is clad in cerulean and gold and the chairs are upholstered in deep green. The lights are the shape of stars, or have beads hanging from them. Above the stage are the words "to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature," which is a quote from Hamlet.
Behind me, a conversation in Italian.
On the lamppost in front of the theatre was a poster about a lecture about the rise of fascism in the 21st century, specifically about the German AfD party.
Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi premiered in 1918, along with Il tabarro, an opera for which I can not find a satisfactory one sentence summary.
Suor Angelica is sent to a convent for seven years, where she does gardening and makes herbal medicines, which is important, by the way. They discuss their desires and Angelica declines to mention hers. Her aunt shows up, it is revealed that she was sent to the convent for having an illegitimate son, her aunt asks her to sign her share of inheritance over to her, when pressured about Angelica's son, she reveals that he died of an illness two years before. She leaves.
Angelica makes poison from some of the plants in the garden and drinks it, realizing too late that suicide gets you sent to Hell. She asks forgiveness and sees a vision of her son standing in a cross of light.
It's hard to tell who's who because they all wore habits. The cast is all women.
Usually, if they perform two out of three operas, it’s Suor Angelica that gets the axe.
Gianni Schicchi has O mio babbino caro, one of the most famous arias of Puccini’s, despite the opera being all about wacky hijinks and not sadness and murder. The elderly Buoso Donati dies and the rest of the family schemes to get it back. They have Gianni Schicchi disguise himself as Buoso, because the family are the only people who know that he died, and reads out a new will to the notary, and Gianni Schicchi leaves all the good stuff, the manor, the mule, and the mills, to himself. Before they can protest, Gianni reminds them what the punishment for fraud is. The family tries to take as much as they can from the house. Lauretta and Rinuccio marry and Gianni Schicchi asks the audience to forgive him.
Schicchi was a real person and Gemma, Dante’s wife, was of the Donati family. He ended up in the Eighth Circle, for the fraudulent.
Instead of making it look like 13th century Florence, the set was black and white and everyone wore 1950s clothing.
burning question: Do you think maybe we should just sacrifice Syria to the authoritarians and then have a population exchange of their democracy activists for our wannabe genocidaires and other assorted far-right nutbags? We can’t send them to Antarctica because dumping garbage is illegal. We can’t have them here because once they die off to the point they won’t have any political power, they’re going to start killing.
