“Looks like we’re gonna be split up again. I feel like I should be used to this feeling by now, but… I still don’t know what to say.”
“Oh. I know what I should have said. I should have thanked them.”
“Eda, King. Thank you, for everything.”
The fact that all three of them had to say goodbye to each other at the end of their respective seasons, resigned to their fate as they thanked them. But it’s Luz who breaks the tragic pattern of pain, in this case not being able to say thanks as a goodbye… Only to be able to say it as an affirmation of their bond when they are reunited! Likewise…
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“But we’re a family! Us weirdoes have to stick together, remember?”
“You have a family already. Go back to them.”
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“We gotta stick together. We gotta stick together!”
“I’m sorry, not this time.”
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“Weirdoes?”
“Weirdoes.”
At the end of each season, Luz repeated “Us weirdoes have to stick together” only for a grieving Eda and King to refuse it. But the last time Luz says it, they finally get to return and affirm the bond they taught her.
07.01.23 At a concert at Bowery Ballroom for Roddy Bottum (Faith No More, Imperial Teen, Man On Man) ’s 60th birthday, J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr played four acoustic songs. Nice surprise!
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Basic rundown:
They are all 3 sentences long
Perfect grammar, capitalization, and punctuation
Like absolutely flawless English teacher-style writing with only a single exclamation mark, ever
No mentions whatsoever of character names, settings, situations, or anything that could be tied to the story
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Viz gives us a debut, Like a Butterfly (Hibi Chouchou) is the latest from the author of A Sign of Affection and Short Cake Cake… except it’s not, it actually came out before both of those. A gorgeous high school girl is also shy and doesn’t like attention… so promptly falls for the boy who refuses to look at her. This looks sweet. MICHELLE: I’m here for…
Being raised by areligious jews with 0 exposure to christianity outside pop culture is so fun. One time I asked my ex-catholic friend why a picture of jesus had a bristle crown and she looked at me like I was insane. One time I heard someone mention the “lance of longinus” and responded, word for word, “Like from Evangelion?” One time during a history lesson my professor described an important monk and scholar as “Dominican” and I spent the rest of class super confused and hung up on it because I was very sure that the Dominican Republic didn’t meaningfully exist as an entity back then, maybe she meant he was a native Taino or something but that’s a weird way to say that and I’m pretty sure this was pre- European contact? Really fucks people up when they realize I genuinely have no idea.
This but it’s my partner taking an art history class in college and the professor looking at them like they grew a second head when they answered “What came out of Jesus’ wound when he was stabbed on the cross” with “…Blood?”
Additions that prove my point by mystifying me because what on earth would come out of a nail wound besides blood. Are you telling me it was something besides blood. What was jesus full of that wasn’t blood. You guys are scaring me
Apparently it was water?? I guess he was also stabbed on top of being crucified (which feels like overkill imo) and water came out, which was a huge deal in medieval symbolism and also to my medieval poetry professor, who was genuinely shocked and upset that I didn’t know. This man fully docked me points because I, a whole ass Jew, hadn’t somehow heard about the secret waterballoon Jesus lore that I guess everyone is supposed to like… intuit
On the plus side, it does lead to some absolutely wild medieval Jesus art of angels tapping him like a fucking keg
