Human in Progress

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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@54viruses and I had a conversation in this post about Mycroft having a social stand-in who talked for him so he could stay in the back room and do Mycroft things rather than deal with people. This has been burning in the back of my brain ever since, and since we're on a 12 hour car ride, I have nothing to do except write. XD

Charles Higgins steeled himself before stepping into his shared office. Though they had space for four desks, Mr. Thurston had only yet hired two clerks. Unfortunately, Mycroft Holmes's sullen silence and haughty disapproval were enough to make the wide room feel uncomfortably close. When Mr. Thurston had introduced them six weeks ago, Higgins had held out his hand in greeting, hoping that his fellow clerk would be an amiable sort. Holmes had frowned down at his hand, grunted, and then brushed past him. Since that day, they had barely spoken two words to each other despite sharing a workroom, Higgins's every attempt at friendly conversation firmly rebuffed with an impatient, impetuous wave of a hand. Higgins couldn't help but come to the conclusion that Holmes had found him wanting in some way and resented his very presence.

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A little background as to why the Markiplier fandom is panicking about The Edge of Sleep.

So YEARS ago. Mark was in a podcast called The Edge of Sleep, which was adapted into a TV series... Which was never released

Until

Mark made a movie adaptation of a video game, Iron Lung. He's put all his energy into this film, directing, producing, editing, even starring in it. the movie is done, and he's working to get it released in theaters.

We, the public don't know why, but we know that some doors have been locked on the release of Iron Lung, however some big wigs somewhere have promised that if his popularity alone can put Edge of Sleep in the TOP TEN a lot of doors will open for Iron Lung. He wasn't allowed to even say where it would premiere, nor was it advertised AT ALL

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So now, Edge of Sleep has shadow dropped on Amazon Prime in the US. Three days BEFORE they even told Mark it would air. In order to get this man's work out in theaters this thing has to get to the top ten by word of mouth alone.

So. Watch Edge of Sleep! It's an apocalyptic horror. There are some mild gore warnings (blood, knife mutilation, brain dissection, self harm). Even if you can play it in the background and let it run just so it gets views thatd be helpful.

Stick it to the Hollywood Bigwigs! Show them YouTubers can have an audience! Open some doors for creative people trying to show their work to a bigger audience!

The paranoia is strong with this one…

There’s an Undertale themed dish I want to make and decided this was the week to make it. Went out on payday, got all the ingredients. Washed the huge pan needed for the dish once, just need to double check the reference image and I can get started.

And then the new Undertale Newsletter drops. That stunt with the usernames definitely had something crawling on my back. I’m checking under my bed for white dogs tonight because SOMEBODY is spying on me.


I’ll still make that dish and post pictures if it turns out okay.

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Ancient Greek Thoughts.

I’ve been reading a lot of Greek literature lately and got hooked on Epic: the musical.

It’s funny. I usually despise the characters in Greek literature and more often than not cannot empathize with the primary emotional drive in the piece, but I keep reading.

Take Electa for example. In her story, she’s mourning the murder of her beloved father; King Agamemnon.

Good riddance to bad rubbish. Agamemnon had it coming and his death was better than he deserved. (Did Agamemnon ignore Cassandra’s warning not to go into the house because she was cursed, or because he was the same idiot who didn’t listen when his generals reminded him the gods hate human sacrifice?)

So, no pity for Electra’s mourning and don’t especially feel her mother, Clytemnestra, had to die… but that didn’t stop me from digging up all three versions of Electra’s story. After reading all three versions, I purchased the complete surviving works of Euripedes because his version was the best.

I absolutely hate Zeus. Can’t stand Achilles. Don’t pity Electra. I’m convinced Odysseus ruined his chances of going home promptly with most of his crew intact because after escaping Cyclops island Odysseus suddenly remembered he was GREEK and had not met his daily quota of arrogance.

Later Odysseus’s crew nearly starves to death not because there’s no food; but because they’re heroes and heroes are too important to eat fish.

But… I keep reading.

It’s hard to pin down why this writing is so GOOD.

My literature professors would want me to spout some kind of nonsense about the stories appealing to my deeper human emotions.

No. I cannot relate to a king murdering his daughter so he can go to war and kill people just to feed his arrogance. No. I am not deeply affected by descriptions of shields. (The bulk of Seven Against Thebes and the entirety of Hercule’s Shield.) I’m not prone to wishing people dead, but if I decided there was no other choice you wouldn’t find me crying in the cemetery because my brother hasn’t come home to do it for me.

Those same literature professors would want me to mention catharsis, and there sure as heck is a lot of that where anger is concerned, the Greek writings usually make me mad!

But if a modern writer disgusts me as much as the Greeks, I stop reading. I get rid of the book. I avoid the author.

And yet, I keep reading.

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