And because Stanley is my favorite character, I drew him in this au! Well… Kiddo Stan. This Au needs more attention. I know the eyes is on Mabel, but I can’t choose if I’d give him brown or blue eyes… Sooo yeah.
“It’s only a gravestone if it marks the location of a body. A monument honouring someone whose body isn’t present is a cenotaph.”
“I’m… not sure that’s how it works if the body gets up and walks away on its own.“
“There’s precedent for gravestones being reclassified as cenotaphs if the body is later removed and reinterred elsewhere. There’s no rule that says the body itself can’t do the removing.“
“Okay, but the body very much is coming back. That’s kind of what we’re here to accomplish.”
“So it’s a temporary cenotaph.”
“And naturally our greatest concern here is avoiding semantic ambiguity.“
the weird thing is, when I view my job as some sort of background extra it becomes much more palatable. people go to a library and see me shelving a stack of books in my cardigan and glasses (now with glasses chain!) and they go “yeah, that’s exactly right. that’s how it’s supposed to be in a library.” and for some reason, that’s comforting? the work is whatever, and the customers are customers, but sometimes it feels like I’m being paid just to make sure this places looks right, and I find that very fun.
It’d be really great to see what she was gonna do as a woman in her 40s and 50s and the kinds of roles she would take on over time because she was always grappling with what it means to be a woman in different stages of life. But that’s the great thing about being an actor. You’re always alive. Those movies still exist.
