a steel whip

24 mediocre musician

[hussyknee]

The most basic, intractable fact about mental illnesses is that you simply cannot willpower your way out of them. The only exceptions to this rule are the ones I have, which continue to disable me due to lack of determination and other grave personal flaws

[ivans-back]

i love how the achaeans and the trojans are in the middle of this epic battle as part of this existential war of trying to destroy each other

and then they stop fighting and go back to their huts cause it's getting a bit dark

[irenabean]

it's june 2 so i'm completing my annual rewatch of dune 2 which was following yesterdays viewing of dune 1 which i rewatched on june 1

[nocturnaltigerrevelation]

>have problem

>recognize it as part of my divine punishment

>no problem

[toskarin]

my favourite thing about lynch's account of george trying to get him to direct star wars is that he's framing it with the exact same tone as someone telling you a story about the time they almost got organ harvested by a fake hotel, except it's just normal george lucas politely asking him to direct a movie viewed through the lens of a panic attack

[myconetted]

affirmations

i am a complex organism brutally engineered by uncaring forces of nature

i am a product of billions of years and trillions of deaths

i am building a machine greater than myself

i am able to make phone calls and appointments

[pansy2025]

goo goo dolls if they were in dune: and i don’t want the worm to see me

[lilliankillthisman]

"The word pandemonium was coined by John Milton as the name for the Parliament of Hell" is an all-timer etymology. Oh yeah did you hear that Mrs Higgins's dogs got loose at the village fête? It was like a vast golden edifice in which fallen angels debate their strategies for vengeance against god, yeah.

[magicalastronomies]

other drivers would acknowledge a bricker

[magicalastronomies]

[ivans-back]

instead of saying "i'm gonna kill myself" just say you're gonna go listen to killing yourself music

[max1461]

Thinking about different websites...

The worldview of redditors is really Bronze Age or perhaps Iron Age in a truly interesting way. Deeply transactional, concerned with honor and commanding honor, with everything founded on property relations. The comments of any AITA post will evince this. It is "patriarchal" not in the sense of being misogynistic (which it sometimes is and sometimes isn't), but in the sense that it is structurally like the morality of the archetypal Patriarch of the isolated family unit, very Indo-European. The Man who rules his own little kingdom, his family, and who deals with other such Men through a certain kind of economically-inspired honor code. Most redditors are liberal enough that they deal with their spouses as other Men though, and indeed with their children once they reach a certain age. But I think even this has some historical precedent.

It's all about who has the Right to do what, you see, it's about who can and who can't and who must. Very Norse, very Bronze Age, very Indo-European. The redditor sees themself (actually or aspirationally) as on top and as agentic. They speak positively of learning hard lessons and of teaching hard lessons. Their world is a world of contracts, not abstract and mathematical but specific and personal.

This is notably not the ideology of 4chan, which anyone who's been on that site much should know. 4chan's ideology is much less confident in itself. The 4channer sees themself as beneath, not on top, either with acceptance or with resentment. Frantz Fanon might have something to say about it. The 4channer is the subaltern.

And here? I was going to say that tumblrianas are somewhat domesticated, but I don't think this is exactly right. It's more like the world-sense of eunuchs in a harem, desperate for stimulation. Scholastic (though not scholarly) and estranged from the world—from normalcy—for reasons they can't escape. And they know this, and have mostly elected not to try. "Eh", say they, "I will read about life in one of my books," or perhaps just as commonly "I will simulate an outside-life in here with the other eunuchs, and it will be better than what they can make on the outside anyway". Maybe that's true; it probably depends on you and your eunuch crew.

I don't think I'm any of these types of guy. I've spent more of my life as a lurker than a poster. Lurkers are a whole other type of deal.

This is of course all "bullshit" you must understand.

[r34comments]

[grimeclown]

[dreamingnemleria]

[ivans-back]

this little fat baby mouse is nuts

[ivans-back]

something that's been mulling around in my head for a while is that I think there's a certain type of British film that doesn't so much feel like art made by artists, they feel more like the product of some nationalised institution, designed to showcase British talent, promote and export "British culture", and keep up an image of a sort of whimsical idea of the UK in anglophiles heads worldwide. films like Love Actually, Paddington, etc. I guess it's almost unfair to highlight this in comparison to the US, cause the US equivalent to this phenomenon either doesn't need to exist, or is already inherent to the art of film, cause of the dominance of Hollywood in film history.

but anyway I think this is the reason I don't particularly like the harry potter films, despite the clear amount of talent and craft that went into the making of them. they have the appearance of being whimsical, but without any real whimsy, if that makes any sense. and then they ended up feeling too much like an institution in an MCU kinda way

[tsarina-anadyomene]

Woah isn't it a crazy coincidence that there's a reading of my favorite work of fiction that exactly aligns with my politics by very selectively engaging with details of that work

[mark-gently]

How does one move past the feeling that microtonal music sounds "out of tune"?

[ivans-back]

Listen to a bunch of pure fifths and compare it with an equal tempered piano's perfect fifth and instead despair that essentially all music sounds "out of tune"