Compacted trash

You know that junk drawer where all the miscellaneous stuff just accumulates?Thats what this is

[chickensauras]

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[chickensauras]

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[ladyfauntleroy]

Verloren. Or: When the truth is too ugly for movies?

I can never really tell people that “Voor een Verloren Soldaat” is one of my favorite movies. I have watched a lot of movies dealing with that subject matter. Verloren is special because it has heart. The movie is different than the book and I’m not sure why. In the book, Rudi van Dantzig (the author) describes being molested. In the movie, the soldier is played by an attractive young man and it is turned into a love story. The movie was made with Dantzig’s participation and so I assume it was endorsed by him. It was his childhood.

Maybe there is a message behind that. The book is a statement of what happened to him. It’s not an attempt to make sense of anything. In the third part of the book, it’s clear that Jeroen (Rudi) is left with a lot of confusion and trauma from his memories. The movie attempts to give meaning to his experience, but it reinterprets everything to do so. It’s a reconstruction of a fractured childhood into a fairytale narrative. He and the soldier love each other, they part, and find each other in the end.

I think van Dantzig must have been hurting if he, himself, wrote those changes…

[23b0075nke]

bird

[avpol]

bird and wolf

[kuttithevangu]

Instead of doomscrolling lately I have been reading my PDFs and it turns out if you do this you learn a whole bunch of stuff. I’m afraid I must recommend it

[mydisabledexistance]

Bold of you to assume that I can read…

[kuttithevangu]

The less you try to read the less you will read

[lvmimis]

tbh i love hear me outs but i also love the opposite of hear me outs where it’s like nearly everyone thinks they’re fuckable except you

[mayakoroz]

Well there goes an afternoon lol, still had a blast making it so hope y'all will get a kick out of the cringe and my first pixel art attempt.

Based off this video.

[mayakoroz]

Well there goes an afternoon lol, still had a blast making it so hope y'all will get a kick out of the cringe and my first pixel art attempt.

Based off this video.

[chickensauras]

*develops a toxic one sided romance with whoever tf keeps borrowing the book I want from internet archive*

[chickensauras]

[blondebrainpowered]

[chickensauras]

*develops a toxic one sided romance with whoever tf keeps borrowing the book I want from internet archive*

[ahkaraii]

Thinking about the early days of Robotnik and Stone... They're both orphans with a dislike of humanity and a fascination with machines of mass destruction, so I wonder if they ever talked about their personal lives and private traumas.

...Probably not. But maybe they came close?

[chickensauras]

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[succubusboyfriend]

practicing self care less out of self love and more for the sheer logical reasoning of it’d be kinda stupid of me to expect myself to be able to function without proper maintenance

[succubusboyfriend]

“oh i don’t deserve rest and relaxation, i haven’t done enough, i haven’t earned it” and my car’s breaks don’t deserve break fluid because they aren’t breaking well enough to earn it. that’s what you sound like!!!!!

[chirasul]

we got a full redbox and now we're playing go fish with the redbox movies

[chirasul]

I would never pay money for a redbox. if you ask politely and are very very persistent (i.e. annoying) they will let you take it away

here's my dad and i taking it away

a redbox makes a wonderful addition to your patio

[fishmech]

for those wondering why they're free to take now, it's because the company that made those "chicken soup for the soul" books bought them a few years ago and then completely collapsed so bad they couldn't afford to dispose of or even take the blu rays and dvds out of their kiosks all over.

so any of them is free game because they're all located on other business' property and they usually don't want to have to pay to get rid of them either. so asking the store manager usually gets you the ok to pull it out and keep it.

[chirasul]

there was a period of time right after their bankruptcy where you could put in any debit or credit card and it would spit out movies without charging you. you could even put in like an expired or deactivated card, or a visa gift card with a $0 balance, didnt matter, they'd just start spitting discs out. a lotta people raided redboxes for movies for a couple months, with some people doing what me and my brother and my dad did here, taking the whole box and signs and marquees as well. because managers sure as hell don't want a big abandoned piece of trash on their sidewalk disappointing customers. BUT they're also often too cheap to pay someone to remove it. so they just sit there.

luckily there are no shortage of freaks like us who will just take them away on our own volition. we did it all "by the book", too: we set up cones and caution tape, disconnected electricity properly, used an angle grinder to grind down the bolts in the concrete so nobody would trip on them, then cleaned everything up afterward and sealed off the electrical panel so the store would know everything is safe and tidy. though they were hesitant when we were first contacting them, they were honestly very relieved and grateful when we finally took it away, especially once they saw that we "knew what we were doing" (we don't) and look like we've "done this before" (we haven't).

the fun part: the reason why this redbox, in particular, was completely full and unraided is because the computer hardware inside had failed some months before the bankruptcy, and a failing company sure as hell wasn't gonna send a tech out to our podunk dipshit city to fix it, so it was impossible to rent movies or take any discs out. plus, for who knows how long, people were returning old redbox discs to this machine and not taking any out, leading to a much higher variety of movies than your average redbox.

there is a thriving community of redbox hackers and modders out there, as well, creating open-source software for repurposing the machines and not letting their very interesting and robust disc-management hardware go to waste. this one belongs to my brother (who was very annoying persistent and did all the legwork of contacting managers and securing permission) who is a programmer by trade and will be hacking it into a family-access movie library, with whatever discs we want. i mean the machine is completely weatherproof and has a built-in AC unit, it would be such a waste to not try to turn it into something cool.

if we get another one, i'm gonna try to mod it into some sort of art or zine vending machine. the disc boxes are just the right size for small print art or stickers. would make a great "little free library" too.

remember: the rules are made up. act like you belong there and you can get away with anything. this applies to your own life

[certified-diplodocus]

icons for you and the mutual:

(unsounded is a very good comic)