Sleepy Skittles

ostensibly a les mis shitpost blog, they/them

[dogpuppy]

[sailermoon]

do not raise a foul word against tofu in my presence

[runawaymarbles]

I always feel so cheated in stories when characters are walking around with this Big Guilt and then...you find out that the thing wasn't their fault at all. And not in a "they thought they did it but it turns out they were set up" way, or even a "accepting that just because they did A which caused B which caused C it doesn't mean C was their fault", way but where they finally lay out the sequence of events and it's clear that any thinking person would not connect them. Like, fucking commit!!! The character isn't LESS compelling if they actually did the thing! You can't have the haunted brooding meow meow who is...also completely blameless

[runawaymarbles]

Ok listen

[love-ardour-anarchism]

“If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself—as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation—you may hate it, or deify it, but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality, and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality.” Ursula K. Le Guin "American SF and The Other" in Science-Fiction Studies 7, 1975.

[kuttithevangu]

the new fantasy genre, popehunk, encompasses all books in which historical figures responsible for real atrocities are presented as sexy and potentially suffering from a cute lil' anxiety disorder

[txttletale]

efforts towards a "positive vision of masculinity" or whatever are so funny because what these guys are trying to figure out is literally "what's a way of being a good person that's Not For Girls™"

[the-pallid-princess]

adding @unidentifiedfuckingthing 's comment

[nohoperadio]

Menial chores and drudgery get a bad rap, but really there's something to be said for work that merely demands the application of time and straightforward unglamorous effort and has simple unambiguous parameters for completion. If the only way to unlock the state of having achieved something worthwhile was by doing things that express your values, virtues and personality, well that would soon become a heavy burden I think.

[deepinourengines]

unclean = adj. of or pertaining to uncles

[soup-mother]

Sober as fuck at the back of the club going onto Wikipedia and typing "List of birds"

[kawaichihiro]

[alt-illustrations]

Heron by the Waterfall

[ashlgcostumes]

I pull up my slide show. The first slide says “I do not want to financially support the Church of the Latter Day Saints in any way”. There are murmurs of agreement and approval from the room

Next slide. “Brandon Sanderson is a member of the LDS”. The muttering has changed tone

“It’s not a very big amount of money though.” Someone in the audience pipes up. “His cut is only a small fraction of the cost of the book, and then-“ my next slide shows an income breakdown, it is titled ‘a small fraction of $10,000,000 is still a big number’

I’m sweating. The following slides explain tithing rules. The vibe of the room has shifted. I start to doubt I’m getting out of here alive

[fuckblast]

[runawaymarbles]

Swerved around an Amazon delivery van while riding one of those pay-by-the-minute e-scooters and had the sudden feeling that I was in the opening credits of some nostalgia-bait movie from 2052

[max1461]

If you go on the mathematics genealogy project and go to Euler and just keep clicking, you can find a path that takes you all the way back to Avicenna. Although I think they are stretching the definition of "thesis advisor" somewhat the genealogies still seem correct in spirit. One of the guys has his university listed as "Ilkhan Court at Tabriz".

[max1461]

i want to study at Ilkhan Court at Tabriz university

i will spell color as رنگ and measure distance in parasang. i would watch buzkashi on the steppe all day while drinking ayrag with my yurt mates. i'll have khorkhog every day that's worth 5 dirham. i would go to naadam festivals every year. i am also more likely to meet tatars, Ibn al-Fuwati, Shams al-Din Juvayni and Hülegü Khan.

i wish i was perso-mongol :(

[fionaostby]

The New York slimes

[vargulfur]

[epsilon500]

I like the axlotl short story a lot

IT'S SO GOOD. I'm very grateful you also read it and enjoyed it. I do firmly believe that more short stories should include:

A summary of the entire story in the first paragraph/first three lines.

Axolotls

Ego death

The fact that Axolotl by Julio Cortázar includes all three is truly incredible. I like the story so much I got an axolotl tattoo.