Indian Epics

Stretching is good for the body and the soul. ( Source ) I definitely get into the habit of just kind of sitting and melting into the chair/couch/bed as I work. I got up and stretched for a bit, going through my old high school diving stretch routine. It felt really good to get moving again, and the familiarity of the steps and motions was really comforting. I might start doing this regularly, if I have the space/envirenment to do so.

Constraints are super useful. I don't know how to attack an engineering problem without any constraints. Ah. Hero's journey/monomyth again. Interesting. I am the hero. But I suppose we all are the heroes of our own story. I definitely wrot all my fiction in first person for a long time. I've definitely caught myself ignoring one thing that is impossible in our world but getting all up in arms about another thing from that same story just because the first was justified by the laws in the story, whereas the second wasn't. I remember being blown away by the idea of a language that seeks to reduce itself instead of growing. Also being terrified by the idea of policing language to control thoughts. "Kafka's Poseidon is a prisoner of his own ego" "The point of fiction is to cast a spell. A momentary illusion" Fricking zombie nouns. I use them so much because I write lab reports too much. This is a small point, but those are skeletons, not...

A forlorn Sita ( Source ) Lakshmi coming out of the milky ocean! I'm kind of digging this art style Oh. Now a very different one. Yeah. That's about how it is with cats. I love the shadow puppet commentary I didn't realize sita had so many names Interesting that the refrain of "I cannot live without you" almost implies that Lakshmi regrets following Rama into exile I'm not like the biggest fan of the wasp-waisted huge-chested wide- hipped thing Interesting discussion of the goodness of ravana I feel called out, abusing the lotus theme. Lol I agree. She coulda just gone with the monkey I feel so bad for the wife. Just rejected like that. :( Bibligraphy: Sita Sings the Blues , By Nina Paley

Draupadi's Infinite Sari ( Source ) Draupadi is rightfully pissed Wait. "As slaves they don't deserve clothes"? Krishna causes Draupadi's sari to go on forever Mash up with Athena and Medusa? Why would they go back and gamble again!?!?! Interesting. Krishna was overcome by emotion and was making impulsive decisiosns Fun aside: the pants the boys are all wearing are called dhoti, and are made of a single rectangular piece of cloth Man boys arguing over whos kill it was. Is it really that important? Did Shiva just not realize it was Arjun? In general there's just so much cultural context I don't understand. like so much of the mahabharata just feels like over-reactions and like if everyone would communicate and not be petty or quick-tempered, (Or sexist or classist) everyone would be so much happier If all the gods are on the side of the pandavas, how did they lose? Alright. Arjun just chills out in heaven instead of doing what he was ...