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lol happy no kings day from Sheba the Benjaminite
2 Samuel 20:1

I forgot Pinter’s whole deal

Okay look curtain isn't even up yet but I am seated!! I'm excited by mechanism of how Toossi is going to show language switch without switching languages! I'm so psyched I wish I could have seen this! I hope I get to see it!

Reading books on the internet archive is the new cool

Okay learning a lot but I’m ready to read fun stuff again lol

My February reading is way behind schedj

Having an okay time!

Somebody stop me!

“Historians stop treating Bible stories as contemporaneous with the stories they tell” challenge

Western Civilization is a Rube Goldberg machine, not a category that means anything; change my mind

Ancient History 😍
References to Bible myth as ancient history 🫥

Yum

I will swear by this book as a must-read for anyone and I’ll say more about that later

That’s right! Real books are for squares!!!

Oh yeah it’s about to get SO sexy

The Trojan Women is SO GOOD. I want to direct 👿

Andromache is just okay but Hecuba ABSOLUTELY slaps
Is this Euripides guy still churning out new stuff?

Yum yum ! A little snack of a read

Okay to be more clear – Murakami seems to write the sapphic experience amazingly, from the perspective of an “outsider” which feels EXTREMELY like trans lesbianism in my experience. I’m going to have to reread some older stuff and see if there are similar vibes

You know this is as close to writing from the perspective of his manic pixies but it interests me that they are always sapphic
There is something transfemme and lesbianly here and I hope it sticks around

#MurakamiTryWritingYourWomenFromTheirOwnPerspectiveChallenge

lol transformers ruined the name Metatron I’m sorry Metatron I’m sure you were a cool archangel-deity

Every once in a while when you read Biblical Scholarship for funsies you come across a read that’s real dense and also real rich. This is one of those I’m going to have to slow down to truly appreciate! Time to buckle in 😩

What’s frustrating about a work like this is how can you examine it critically as a book? It feels so intensely personal at times, any engagement with this book beyond support for its values and ideals feels fraught. I have things i want to address but is it not my place??? I may belong to the disability community in some way, but I am not involved enough to feel like part of the conversation at certain points

FUCK I love this book and it’s upsetting that it all feels a bit cheapened by knowing Lewis so well and seeing him just trying to illustrate a real theological point he holds.
It’s like having a great conversation with someone only to discover they wanted you to go to their church

Ugh this man will always hold a special place in my heart, and projects like this are why.
I hope I see some growth here in how Lewis writes women, how he relates to them!

Hot damn does this book hit different in 2025
I need to learn more about this man so I can speak to the history of this book with more certainty because you KNOOOOW I’ve got things to say!