Cassandra

Watercolour portrait of Ada King, Countess of Lovelace also known as Ada Lovelace, ca. 1840, possibly by Alfred Edward Chalon.

Ada Lovelace, is celebrated as the first computer programmer. In the early 19th century, she wrote detailed notes on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, a pioneering mechanical computer.

Among these notes was an algorithm designed to compute Bernoulli numbers, which is recognized as the first published computer program. At a time when computing was an uncharted territory, Lovelace envisioned the potential of machines to perform complex tasks beyond basic arithmetic.

Her foresight and contributions laid the groundwork for modern computer science.

She was also the daughter of the poet Lord Byron.

James T Kirk and Leonard McCoy, Star Trek Beyond (2016).

Please, picture me in the weeds. Before I learned civility.

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thick thighs save lives.

He's also very husband material here

the thing about the dance is that. the entire pointless horror of it really shines through aegon and viserys. grrm took the pathos of the princes in the tower enigma from the war of the roses and reversed it. the tragedy isn’t that the children died - it’s that they were the only ones who lived. and so the kingdom rearranges itself around boy kings with gaping wounds for souls because that’s what feudal systems do - but what can you do with a targaryen king who cannot stand the sight of a dragon ? the magic is gone. the tragedy must degrade into a farce. and right on cue here comes aegon the fourth!

'boundaries' as the dignity of a human being and their personhood, autonomy and inherent right to live being eroded and destroyed. lila thrown out of a window as a child for demanding to go to school. pasquale's father being thrown against a wall for demanding justice after mafiosi stole his shop. the neighbourhood itself as the thing that shaves down your dignity. poverty and capitalism and fascism and misogyny all fused together to create a different beast, and that beast eats away at your boundaries slowly slowly slowly. pasquale's mama in the bathroom after a lifetime of sorrow and horror. the children are outside singing. do you remember? she painted her nails red. 'dissolving boundaries' as the body's response to abuse in its every form, individual and societal. and so the person within the body becomes undone. loosens. nothing firm remains. like oil like water. lila cerullo.

Source: I was there

when ethel cain said “i tried to be good am i no good am i no good am i no good” which started with her self-loathing after being abused by her father and neil perry said “i was good. i was really good” and then he killed himself because he knew that he would never be good enough for his father