The Fact That We Only Have Herculean Task And Sisyphean Task Feels So Limiting. So Heres A Few More Tasks

the fact that we only have “herculean task” and “sisyphean task” feels so limiting. so here’s a few more tasks for your repertoire

icarian task: when you have a task you know you’re going to fail at anyways, so why not have some fun with it before it all comes crashing down

cassandrean task: when you have to deal with people you KNOW won’t listen to you, despite having accurate information, and having to watch them fumble about when you told them the solution from the start (most often witnessed in customer service)

feel free to chime in i ran out of ideas much faster than i anticipated

The Dark Age thoughts:

Willow, on Giles and Jenny: "Feel the Passion" no Willow don't say that that's the name of an episode you're doing forshadowing

The magic as drugs metaphor is embarrassingly on the nose and afterschool special-y. Thankfully, this is the last time in Buffy the Vampire Slayer this problem ever occurs

Buffy trusting Angel to take the box of blood to the hospital. You can see the gears in his head turning. "Am I seriously going to do this? Just because she asked? And, I guess, to be a good person? ... Goddamnit." Another decent showing for Angel being a vaguely functioning person.

Eyghon-Jenny better not awaken anything in m-- Wait, no. Already awakened. Forget I said anything.

'Ripper' really does basically amount to 'Giles was young once'. And he's going to continue feeling great shame over that fact for the rest of the series.

Look at Willow, taking charge! Sure, she didn't know her plan would work, and she risked Angel's life for it, but everything worked out, so it's fine.

I love that the scariest assassin in What's My Line is just Woman With Gun. Like, the bug guy is spooky, but turning to bugs is actually a pretty innefficient assassination technique compared to Gun Lady's strategy of:

1) Find target and 2) Shoot them with gun

The Harrowhark: The narrator had brain surgery done to make themself an unreliable narrator, and that's the least weird thing that's going on.

I feel like many people have a fundamental misconception of what unreliable narrator means. It's simply a narrative vehicle not a character flaw, a sign that the character is a bad person. There are also many different types of unreliable narrators in fiction. Being an unreliable narrator doesn't necessarily mean that the character is 'wrong', it definitely doesn't mean that they're wrong about everything even if some aspects in their story are inaccurate, and only some unreliable narrators actively and consciously lie. Stories that have unreliable narrators also tend to deal with perception and memory and they often don't even have one objective truth, just different versions. It reflects real life where we know human memory is highly unreliable and vague and people can interpret same events very differently

favorite comedies that ended too soon ≡ Santa Clarita Diet (2017-2019)

“People can be sweet and dangerous. Example, us. Also, koala bears.”

In general, I'm noticing a lot of Faith-in-Buffy on this rewatch that I missed on previous watches. 'Prophecy Girl' has a lot of it (after she dies, but also her smile while she's fighting vamps at the start of the episode), and obviously Buffy in 'When She Was Bad' is full of Faith.

And now, in 'What's My Line pt. 2', it's astonishing how much Buffy is Faith to Kendra. The way she provokes her, tries to bring out the passion in her - it's so Faith, so much a mirror of Buffy and Faith's relationship, with Buffy in the Faith roll. Just, you know, less homoerotic.

... I mean, it's still pretty homoerotic. Just... less so.