A Sickness Generated by Too Many Maps

me = he || 34 goddamn years old || huge Simon Winder fan || proud yet bumbling father of Manorpunk

[apricops]

booting up Old World for the first time and instantly recognizing Bulgarian folk song Pilentze Pee as the menu music because that's just the kind of guy I am

[apricops]

today in 'small things that give me life,' my wife asked me what an input buffer was and I got to explain it to her

[etraytin]

Today’s Best Reddit Exchange

[prokopetz]

"Toxic yuri" is a very context-dependent term because half the people using it are clearly picturing some sort of subtle psychological warfare and the other half seem to be describing the girl version of whatever is going on between Batman and the Joker.

[fallout-lou-begas]

if you'll consult the graph

[collapsedsquid]

Listened to someone relitigate the "vibecession", specifically the point that "Americans say that the economy is doing well for them but bad in general", that ordinarily is brought up as a "false consciousness" argument but I think that's what you say when your paycheck is alright but all the small businesses around you are closing. Americans love their treats

[discoursedrome]

I'm not sure what surveys they're looking at, but I'm a little skeptical that "Americans think the economy is doing well for them but bad in general" was ever the prevailing sentiment. Certainly it isn't the main point that people tend to discuss!

That said, to the extent that sentiment exists it seems sort of odd to view it as improper. Like, it isn't exactly the same thing here, but I've actually been coasting along fine despite the economy becoming much harsher in many ways I'm currently insulated from. I'm worried about that not just because the economy is all one piece, but also because I might stop being insulated from those problems at any time.

[apricops]

it's like saying "why are you afraid of tornadoes? sure, your city has been hit by five tornadoes that have destroyed all of your neighbor's homes, but your home has not been destroyed by a tornado and therefore you have suffered no consequences and have no reason to worry about tornadoes."

[apricops]

[apricops]

"candida gubbins" is an absolutely insane name

[xxxdragonfucker69xxx]

@arcnoise stand trial.

[itsbenedict]

Emily "Hundreds of Asians" JMFC "im going to blow you up with my mind" never expected her quote would so easily fit with the metrical feet she maligned.

[st-just]

A character trait/dynamic that I'm endlessly compelled by is someone dealing with (or, like, failing to) being the child of people who were too busy being good people to have the time and attention to be good parents. This can be anywhere from 'was a public defender who gave a shit working 60 hour weeks with basically no vacations' to 'left their family behind to join the revolution/war effort and is now a universally beloved martyr-hero who saved/remade the world with their final breath' on the groundedness spectrum. The important thing is a viscerally felt but confused and ugly mess of longing, resentment, and guilt about feeling the resentment.

[apricops]

I’m watching a video about Yellowstone (the TV show) and I’m only five minutes in and already frothing at the mouth. Maybe Mao was right about landowners.

[apricops]

multinational corporations aren’t mean enough to small family farms. Monsanto should be executing ‘small family farmers’ on live TV.

[apricops]

oh right, I should share the actual video:

[milliebobbyflay]

people like saying community when they mean demographic

[monchursouls]

🌾🌾🌾

Harvesting my wheat

[rat-in-the-grain]

Hehehehehe

[monchursouls]

Can I fucking help you?

[sasuke-offical]

my senior english teacher told me that any scene with a woman in a cornfield in every piece of literature ever is about her journey to womanhood/pleasuring herself in the field and i just.... believed her

[monchursouls]

What

[rat-in-the-grain]

What

[endofalltim]

[itskindofidontknow]

“One piece of advise would just be this: Don’t tell a story because you’re sustaining a franchise, don’t tell a story because they’ve given you hours to make a tv show and you want an audience. That’s the problem with most episodic television which is that, once you get a TV show up you think that the meaning of your life is to keep the show up at all costs. So if the audience wants one more Omar, give them more Omar, if they want more Stringer Bell, give them more Stringer. So the greater question that I think a lot of writers in television don’t ask are why are you telling this story, what does the story means. When you can answer the big questions then, you are ready to write.”

— David Simon on writing The Wire

[deadgenerations]

liberalised religious people love saying "no one actually literally believes [orthodox belief of centuries which the recognised global leaders of the religion hold as true and the majority of local religious figures teach as to be believed literally]" it's literally their favourite thing to say. it's enrichment for them.

[gailynovelry]

The fastest way to accomplish The Project is to cease being afraid of The Project. The Project cannot maim you. The Project cannot kill you. The Project is more afraid of you than you are of it. It is okay if The Project turns out differently from how it was in your head, and it is okay if it has flaws. You are capable of engaging with The Project.

[guiltfactory-moved]

this lamb keeps trying to sacrifice itself even though no one really needs or wants it to do that

[huggingtentacles]

Being knocked out for more than 5 minutes means very serious brain damage but humans not having a turn-off button would do immense damage to our collective storytelling. So many films and books and videogames just wouldn't happen if writers stopped bonking their characters on the head. Insane.