Carpal Cramps

Planning to dump all my pixel stuff here. Scratch that. Going to journal everyday.

[kadri-on-kami]

[forthegothicheroine]

I should probably watch The Power of the Dog again at some point with an eye towards sympathy for Phil- I reacted so strongly to his bullying Peter in the first third of the movie that I didn't trust that he was ever doing more than manipulating the kid in the rest of the film, and I probably missed out on a lot of nuance due to that.

[snailmailthings]

who is haunting the narrative quite like bronco henry???

[oneeighth]

Instrumental Jazz Pieces You've Probably Heard but Might Not Remember the Name

Off the back of that classical music post, here's some jazz you might have heard:

Caravan - Duke Ellington. If you haven't seen the astounding 2014 film Whiplash, this is your sign. Caravan features heavily as a jazz challenge.

Giant Steps - John Coltrane. Another fast-paced, musician-eating jazz standard, but this time it's after the saxophonist.

Take Five - Dave Brubeck Quartet. Iconic, fun and accessible track featured in many films and tv shows

Moanin - Charles Mingus. A raucous blaring horn into the familiar beeee dalee deet over muted swing era trumpets. Like a film noir party.

April in Paris - Count Basie. Joyful Big Band jazz from a man who loved to have fun with it.

Minor Swing - Django Reinhardt. The quintessential Gypsy Jazz track. Arguably The sound of Paris in the 30s and 40s. Bonus: Rhythm Future Quartet one of my favourite acts doing this style.

Bitches Brew - Miles Davis. Dissonant and experimental. I can't put it any better than the Penguin Guide to Jazz: "one of the most remarkable creative statements of the last half-century, in any artistic form. It is also profoundly flawed, a gigantic torso of burstingly noisy music that absolutely refuses to resolve itself under any recognized guise." A 26-minute beast of a song.

Wildcard: Tank! - Seatbelts. I imagine most here are familiar with this track, the opening to Cowboy Bebop. If you love this song please do scroll up and give the rest a listen!

[lethiflora]

Amma shaming and shearing her mother's mistresses. Amma, the barter piece, accessory of authority between her mother and older half sister, but she's also agentic in that, shuttling herself between them. Queen of her cult of friends, by virtue of being the most woman - the most easily used, the one who grins the widest for the boys, the best at policing herself to that measure of being - 'said something stupid and I should kill myself.' 'Amma's in charge because she has the biggest tits.' Taught that sort of entrapment by her mother, Camille her example in negative space. A female sort of pedagogy. And Amma likes to watch the pigs, no need to hurt them because they hurt by existence. Amma, named after her mother and clinging onto that, Amma whom Camille compares poorly to Marian, who will always be second place, her second sister, the second wife, the do over. The second Mrs de Winter, with razor blade teeth. Amma, the one with whom she charges around, with whom she goes with, with whom she 'consummates' all that she didn't with her perfect, pure, martyred Marian - the first daughter to die unto Mamma, the one who drank the poison until she died, the perfect, perfect one, in Adora and Camille's eyes. And Camille does with and thinks of Amma what she didn't of Marian, her proxy for her, even though Marian's the reason she's like this, the reason she loves dead girls.

[towerofbooks]

Sharp Objects Essay Links

-White Material: Ivory tiles, white womanhood, and white supremacy in Jean-Marc Vallée’s Sharp Objects (chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/pdf/10.3366/film.2023.0219)

-Sharp Objects' Adora Crellin: a Psychoanalytical Approach (chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://repository.effatuniversity.edu.sa/bitstream/handle/20.500.14131/1464/Sharp_Objects_Adora_Crellin__a_Psychoanalytical_Approach.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y)

-Inscribing Pain: Female Perversion and the Maternal Imago in Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects

-The Devouring Mother in Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects

-The Dollhouse and Mobility of the Southern Gothic Legacy in Sharp Objects

-Hereditary and Sharp Objects

-Feminism in Gillian Flynn’s Novels: Violence, Malice and Amorality as the Basis of a Post-Feminist Agenda

-Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects and the Repression of Women’s Anger

-The Major Characters in Gillian Flynn's Novel “Sharp Objects” (A Psychoanalysis Freud)

file:///C:/Users/misab/Downloads/retno,+Journal+manager,+Banatul+Qodariyah,+Ainur+Rohmah,+Sugiyani+N+78-85.pdf

-The Ghost Dollhouse of DixieDead Places, Hauntology and the Uncannyin Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects

-Hidden Desires and Dark Secrets: Unraveling Amma’s Character in “Sharp Objects” UsingF reudian Psychoanalysis

[philipkindreddickhead]

100 Fiction Books to Read Before You Die

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Sparks

The Girl by Meridel Le Sueur

The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Veronica by Mary Gaitskill

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Kindred by Octavia Butler

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Passing by Nella Larson

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

Play it as it Lays by Joan Didion

The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende

Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

The Power by Naomi Alderman

The Street by Ann Petry

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskill

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

Small Island by Andrea Levy

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

The Price of Salt/Carol by Patricia Highsmith

Room by Emma Donoghue

The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch

Garden of Earthly Delights by Joyce Carol Oates

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Wise Blood by Flannery O Conner

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsey

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

House of Incest by Anaïs Nin

The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Corregidora by Gayl Jones

Whose Names are Unknown by Sanora Babb

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

See Now Then by Jamaica Kincaid

The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

My Antonia by Willa Cather

Democracy by Joan Didion

Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates

The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O Connor

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

I Must Betray You be Ruta Sepetys

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Mare by Mary Gaitskill

City of Beasts by Isabel Allende

Fledgling by Octavia Butler

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin

The First Bad Man by Miranda July

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Moses, Man of the Mountain by Zora Neale Hurston

Disobedience by Naomi Alderman

Quicksand by Nella Larsen

The Narrows by Ann Petry

The Blood of Others by Simone de Beauvoir

Under the Sea by Rachel Carson

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

Under the Net by Iris Murdoch

The Birdcatcher by Gayl Jones

Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa

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[millenniallust4death]

Why didn't anyone tell me that Andy Weir wrote a new chapter for The Martian???

From Andy Weir's Facebook page (11 Feb. 2024):

It was ten years ago today that The Martian hit shelves. I owe everything that happened since then to you, my readers. I can't thank you enough. So, for the hell of it, I wrote some additional content for The Martian.

For your reading pleasure: The Martian: Lost Sols.

https://galactanet.com/lostsols.pdf

[aroaessidhe]

faves of 2025: no romance

(i generally mention in my reviews the exact amount of 'no romance', but these all have near to nothing, only past relationships etc.)

Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng

Kill The Beast

Project Hail Mary

The Javelin Program/The Antarctica Conspiracy

Saltcrop

Ymir

Demon Engine

Audition For The Fox

The Reformatory

Cradle and Grave

Something Extraordinary

The Underwood Tapes

read in 2025

[aroaessidhe]

faves of 2025: sci-fi

Saltcrop

Project Hail Mary

A Letter to the Luminous Deep/A Letter From The Lonesome Shore

Local Heavens

Ymir

Children of Time/Children of Ruin/Children of Memory

The Left Hand of Darkness

Volatile Memory

Power To Yield and Other Stories

read in 2025

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

The Shout (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1978)

[fivepointpalettes]

The Delight Of Gods

#f5b7a0 | #f5984e | #f57b4e | #76819d | #fecaab

[glasswaters]

i love in fabric. i adore in thread. i craft for you, from yarn and steel, my heart the way it clings to the glass of my throat, drying its wings in the rush of my breath.

i am five years old the first time i knit. unable to distinguish the stitches, i fall asleep repeating my last row in my head. for weeks, i do nothing else.

i don't even read.

i am five years old the first time i crochet. i cannot remember it. it is muscle memory by now. pointer finger up, needle in my right. a cat in my lap.

i am-

i am the fastest in my class. in the time the others make one duck, i make five. i don't need to show my basted seams to my teacher. i am good. at this at least.

the fabric doesn't need speaking to. the thread works the same no matter how rude the words come out.

for my friends, for my loves, i sew. i stitch. i knit. i crochet. i am so fast.

in 2022, i catch covid. the tiredness never goes away.

i slow down.

in 2024, my thyroid starts attacking itself. my mother's heritage yawns its mouth wide open, so desperate to protect itself that it swallows itself whole.

i slow down.

it takes me 3 years to finish a blanket. it takes me almost 9 months to finish a sweater. i am so tired. there is fabric for a dress in my cupboard that i promised a friend two years ago. it took me a year to do six button holes.

i underestimate the time it takes me. laughing, excited, pressed into spreadsheets and laid out in chatrooms, i cannot fathom that-

i am-

the wings aren't yet dry. my eyes are heavy. i need a magnifying glass to undo a seam. a clouding of the lense, says the doctor and waves her hand. it's been there for years.

i didn't know. i didn't-

my grandmother has so little vision that she can barely sign her name on the dotted line. her heritage seeps into me the way her daughter's does. the receptionist laughs. medicine is better now, she says.

i stare at all the unfinished things i am weaving for love. they sit, heavy and sharp edged, somewhere between my mouth and my lungs.

how long will it take?

[skygenders]

College should be free and you should be able to study “useless” degrees just for the love of learning

[sambargestuff]

You should be able to study for life, for free. If I want to spend my summer vacation on a uni campus studying literature or molecular biology, I should be able to access that for free. Why are we withholding knowledge? Why are universities and colleges behind a paywall?

[skygenders]

[librarycard]

the ship of theseus wikipedia article in 2003. 20 years later, after 1792 total edits, 0% of its original phrasing remains. (x)

[ospreyonthemoon]

And yet it's still the same article, the article designated to be about theseus' ship. Debate solved i guess

[creepymutelilbugger]

easy as fuck . were they stupid?

[lordofthelarks]

Putting it here because no one else will listen. It is two different concepts slapped together. The true question being is it the same object if you replace a part? The answer is no. We know for a fact that the object has changed and is not the same as the original.

The second question is can it still be called The ship of Theseus. And the answer is yes ofc because words are made up and are used for common understanding.

You can’t step into the same river twice but you can still call it by the same name

[therebelcaptain]

not gonna lie, when bernard pulled out the tablet and told lukas to ask it something, i was legit scared that the words “hey siri” were going to come out of one their mouths

[theterpiel]

I can't believe Kendall Roy's birthday party predicted Dieter Eagan😍