I Was More Referring To The 'boomer Slang' You Were Talking About. Like I Think Most People Would Refer

medieval parchment repairs

in a psalter, south-western germany, late 12th/early 13th c.

source: Hermetschwil, Benediktinerinnenkloster, Cod. membr. 37, fol. 19r, 53r, and 110r

Going through tsumihoroboshi now and holy shit I see how ya came to Rena falling into Q. Question is: did she fall into Q in more recent years or did she fall into the reactionary current earlier with something like gamergate or even earlier with something like Wakefield's vaccine scare?

The term 'Pastel QAnon' refers to, specifically, a conscious attempt on the part of QAnoners to reach out to and recruit new agey and more "crunchy" audiences. It feels genuinely surreal to point this out but even like 10 years ago being a New Age type/embracing nonsense about vaccines etc wasn't uniformly coded as "right-wing." QAnoners actively worked to bring them into the fold. To put it mildly, this aesthetic, of new-agey health stuff, pastel instagram infographics, etc, is all extremely heavily coded as feminine, or at least used to be. Rena, coping with previous traumas, superstitious by explicit ideological choice, and armed with a battery of complexes about her femininity, is ideal grist for this mill. I have very little trouble seeing her falling down a social media rabbithole sometime during the pandemic. This is arguably what we see happen.

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a third of the cast of Higurashi wouldve been a January 6

Rena: radicalized by TikTok Pizzagate conspiracy theories, believes Hillary Clinton is a lizard-person

Tomitake and Takano: members of a fascist paramilitary

The Sonozakis: petite-bourgeoisie radicalized by government land development projects (see melinda cooper's article in Dissent, "family capitalism and the small-business insurrection")

Ooishi: dirty off-duty cop

Umitober 2023 - Days 7-12

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HA-MELEKH SCROLL (Ottoman Empire, c.1800)

‘This scroll opens with an elaborate depiction of the Signs of the Zodiac, a recurrent motif in decorated megillot. According to a midrash, when Haman plotted to destroy the Jewish nation, he consulted the zodiac to determine an auspicious time to carry out his scheme. He decided that the month of Adar, which corresponds with the sign of Pisces (fish), would be the best time because Haman would be able to devour and destroy the Jews just as big fish swallow small ones. God, however, was infuriated by Haman and thwarted his plans, stating “Fish sometimes swallow their prey, but they too can be swallowed” (Esther Rabbah 7:11).

In this image of the zodiacal wheel, which turns clockwise around the sun, the artist emphasized the role that Pisces/Adar played in the Purim story. He depicted the fish as larger in scale than the other signs, and placed them outside the circle, next to the signs that precede it, Capricorn and Aquarius. The decorative border above and below this panel ex- tends as continuous bands throughout the megillah, with similar designs framing the sides of each text column

This type of scroll is known as a ha-melekh scroll because most of the columns begin with the word ha-melekh (the king) as a result of a deliberate ar- rangement of the text. In the book of Esther, this appellation refers to King Ahasuerus. Rabbis suggest- ed, however, that emphasis be placed on the word ha-melekh as an allusion to God, the King of Kings, whose name is not mentioned explicitly in the scroll.’

source

Selected pages from the Rothschild Canticles, c. 1300.

The canticles live in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and are fully digitized. :)

Catnon....

BREAKING: a witch has just cast a spell on a seagull, transforming him into a Seattle Mariners fan to teach him a lesson in humility.