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from a four-dimensional perspective, all uncles and male coworkers are extensions of the same greater entity, fingers to the hand of some semi-sapient superstructure

cleaningouttherooms

its wild the degree to which people talk about reading and eating in similar terms - the concept of a "reading diet", of "media consumption", the idea of certain stories as "empty calories" or "fast food" and some as "eating your vegetables", the moralization of both as personal failings, the framing of health with the specter of degeneration if not complied with... the idea that there are things that are sensorily pleasant and that you find yourself craving, and there are things that sustain you, and those are not the same things. the framing of literacy as reading the correct way and taking away the correct meaning from a text. according to nutritional guidelines

#‘slop’ !

if i was as true-hearted of a hetjoshi as i claim to be, i’d be more excited about the brashen-althea-gragório lourve triangle.. #poser

#roteposting #i am very eager & open to hearing any althea understanders who want to help me see the light on this though…#i am constantly metronoming back & forth between whether or not this all is exceptionally clever or exceptionally stupid.

hugh-lauries-bald-spot

whats a stereotype for your country that you absolutely do. mine is that i unironically go "eh" and apologize a lot and i often drink maple syrup straight

#i’m italian-american & i’m loud & i gesticulate… among other things. it’s all very cliché of me

world-beauty

The Perseus Cluster of Galaxies

Credits: Jean-Charles Cuillandre, CFHT, Giovanni Anselmi, Coelum Astronomia, Hawaiian Starlight

freakyolivelady

you've met me at a very eye emoji time in my life 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

the one little drawback of getting super into [book series i don’t need to name] is that it’s making my general fiction genre unawareness very apparent to myself… this is because for the last 3 years i lost all interest in anything but nonfiction &, like, manuals, with the one exception being the 68 stellan skarsgård films & 3 shows i shoveled in over that period

#radio chatter #not exactly a recipe for savviness but i can tell you all about kongen av bastøy

re: this, in the works i explore for fun in my free time i tend to avoid very intentional-type coming of age narratives, particularly those that believe they have something to say while running the whole emotional gamut of feel-good to bittersweet to regretful hand-wringing over ‘lost years’ (ie. innocence) - right now i’m thinking of big sweeping, john williams score american cultural product stuff, although certainly those are only a slice of the overall chart - it’s always intensely bothered me from all angles. but now i kind of feel i can’t quite satisfactorily articulate what it is about robin hobb’s approaches that i enjoy so much without going back & delving into them serious style… curious if anyone has any suggestions about genre hallmarks in this regard?

#radio chatter #specifically curious about movies: of course robin hobb is working with prose; but it’s the overall message that i’m interested in #not so much the delivery mechanism. & ime movies tend to distill down these broad cultural beliefs or myths quite effectively

whitewhales

— Robin Hobb, Ship of Magic

#rote #she makes me so sad…!

recalling the college promotional emails i was getting for a while about their new summer outreach program for supporting middle or high school-age girls interested in STEM that was pithily named ‘launch & ignite’

#radio chatter #spectacularly evil!#also pretty much every school in the VCCS or virginia community college system singularly exists to funnel people into virginia tech