I went through his Bibliography of Ancient Sources. It's one of the few things I have found that is literally worse than useless, which is interesting in its own right.

Egerton Sykes. What a guy. I look at him a bit in Atlantis Through Time. Not what you'd call a rigidly methodological scholar, honestly.

(it's the two middle squares of the bottom row, duh)

Wait, not three months, THREE YEARS

I think knowing that the film took three months to film precisely because the director took such extreme pains to make sure his dog wasn't being abused set a few of my concerns to rest. Also, spotting that his tail was wagging in some places when it wouldn't be IRL helped

I mean look, when @accordingtojond.bsky.social sent me this, I could do it without a thought and I don't know what that says about me, don't reply telling me

I loved how hard they evidently worked not to abuse the dog. This pleased me.

I cannot explain why I enjoyed it. But I did.

And it's brilliant, isn't it?

It was intentional. At least it was one of the things he said in that interview I did with him anyhoo, but that was six years ago and he might give you a different answer now.

I remember you being very annoyed that Aster, in the interview, had said that he had meant the ending of Hereditary to be hilarious.

I can't fault you there. Relic is a favourite.

Also, we're getting on a bit, quite frankly. The folk horror boom hit a decade ago and a fair number of people on the scene were actually too young for it then. When I was a kid, TWM was one of my father's favourites. Now it's one of grandad's.

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