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liberator! liberator! by ballantine

full pdf here

typeset + cover done in InDesign

#................................................i am absolutely FLOORED by this project #absolutely gorgeous work #that story was a long time in the writing and it means more than i can say to see it like this <3

creekfiend

Having seen some births now i can say that dog birth is amazing cos they just slip n slide out one after the other like a little conveyor belt. And theyre so little and unformed. And then UNGULATE BIRTHS ... are amazing for the opposite reason which is that 10mins after being born they are filing their taxes. Unless they are goats, in which case they are committing tax fraud instead

creekfiend

Goats are what is called a precocial species, which means that shortly after birth they are able to do many thimgs on their own, such as standing, walking, eating, and embezzlement

cinematicnomad

THE TERROR ▸ 1.10 we are gone

#the terror #leavinga side everything else he did and said #was he wrong tho??

mattys-marbles

Jay Mccarrol and Matt Johnson filming 'Famous Jay' at the 2024 Canadian Screen Awards (jokes aside this is so impressive and fearless.)

#ntbtstm #this was incredible of them actually

just saw someone had bookmarked an old fic of mine set in like 1994 "historical fiction vibes" and I'm gonna have to sit with that for a while.

#objectively not wrong i guess! I GUESS!!#this is how someone who grew up in the 70s felt when teen me talked about that time period. rationally I get this #but nothing will ever prepare you for the feeling of it lol

parkchanwoohoo

theabsurdity

#clockwatchers #margaret margaret yr my dream girl margaret

I had a catalpa, honey locust, and like 8 sycamores sprout in the same pot last month and I just successfully was able to separate them, with all surviving. maybe today will be good

#gonna overwinter the catalpa and then plant it at the farm next spring #along with a few of the sycamores #the locust i'm gonna bonsai!#i'm already trying that with a pin oak in my apt but i'm excited to go for it From Seed

humanveil

Clockwatchers (1997) Directed by Jill Sprecher

#clockwatchers #film

quitonly

CLOCKWATCHERS 1997, dir. Jill Sprecher

#clockwatchers #film #did you know this movie only has ONE fic on ao3 #how are there not at least a few hundred iris/margaret like hello #i have to believe there were some on some random old personal website somewhere...#for my own sanity

probuccalfat

you can go back to the past but nobody’s there

dotty-literati

A Cook's Tour (2001) by Anthony Bourdain

#fuck.

kissplan

matt on the boy meets world cast podcast for some reason waxing poetic about how jay was a child prodigy "like mozart in amadeus" ("he''s a ONCE IN A GENERATIONAL TALENT--" "huh. wow.") and how because he was jealous of jay's skill as a pianist he wanted to match him by improvising stupid slam poetry spoken word improv pieces over jay's music, which was the genesis of ntbts. matt's situation is so fucked up can you imagine being some geeky spazz in high school with more creative energy than you know what to do with and meeting this ethereal older boy that's a piano genius and gets all your references and wants to spend all his time with you. can you imagine him insisting on moving in with you to make a creative project together that subsumes your whole life. can you imagine having to be the one to be forced to disentangle yourself from this guy you have no idea how you pulled in the first place because you feel like being head over heels for him is creatively stagnating you but he won't let you go. can you imagine crawling back to him at the first taste of success after spending a while latching on to a less talented and beautiful proxy version of your ex-bestie. realizing that unfortunately/fortunately this guy is your root for life and he encourages your fixation on him bc it's for sure mutual and ngl you're good for his career. he's also straight. awful

#matt johnson #I had to read the first line of this like 5 times #matt johnson... is a fan... of bmw...#like my god. OF COURSE he is #golly gee I WONDER what about it he related to!!!

I appreciate The Odyssey taking a second at the very end to remind me of our declining literacy rates, that wasn't on my bingo card for obnoxious parallels

#anyway hmmm #it was alright tbh.#i feel like nolan can blow his nose these days and people will fall over themselves about how pretty the snot on the tissue is #it was very... grey. and brown.#parts were excellent #I wish we had room/interest in adaptations of these types of works that aren't so tightly concerned with making relevant parallels to now #that they strangle all that is strange and alien from the story #but on the other hand is this not why people still read homer thousands of years later? so there's that.#i have to believe it's possible to do both #anyway my main two takeaways from this film are:#1) weirdly christian??? if i had to hear about ~zeus's (jesus's) law one more fuckin time...#2) agamemnon's helmet was SICK!!!!!!!!!#why did i write all this in the tags? i have no idea

fozmeadows

““In the beginning - in the early days - they said, “We are making the world better. When we came to this place there was nothing except forest and wild animals and people who ran around naked. We have ended this. We have cut down trees and planted gardens. We have made meadows where we can raise the kind of animals we like. We have taught the naked people how to wear clothing. All this is good! And look at the other things we’ve done! We have dug rivers and brought water into our gardens. We have turned dry canyons into lakes. Now there is more food. Now there can be more people. Now our villages can grow large and rich!” ‘After a while they began to notice that the world did not seem to be a better place. Everything seemed smaller and dirtier. Everything was wearing out - the soil, the hills, the rivers and lakes. The people said, “There is nothing new in this. There have always been places where the land is thin and useless. There have always been rivers where the water is not fit to drink. There is no problem.” ‘Things kept getting worse. Now the people said, “For everything that is gained, something must be lost. Look at what we have gained! Look at our villages full of big houses! Look at our houses full of many gifts! The forests that are gone have come back to us in gold. The rivers we cannot drink from have become jars full of bara.” 'Finally everything became so bad that no one could come up with anything comforting to say. Then the people said, “Change is impossible. It’s already too late. Anyway, we don’t really mind the way things are.”’ I paused. 'Those are the four kinds of lie the people told. “We are making things better.” “There is no problem.” “There are no real gifts.” “It is too late to change.””

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A Woman of the Iron People, by Eleanor Arnason, pg 446-447

This quote, you guys. This quote just hit me right in the fucking heart, I actually lost my breath while reading it. The context for this is a human anthropologist from a futuristic society translating the overall pattern of Earth history into an alien language, in the style of a myth, in the native language, to members of a pre-industrial culture, to explain why human beings are maybe not trustworthy.

But I just. This book was published in 1991. And that last bit, the final paragraph? Feels so fucking relevant to everything that’s going wrong in the world right now that I want to print it out and give it to everyone who thinks social change and social progress are immoral, implausible pipe-dreams.

THIS. THIS, RIGHT HERE, IS WHY I LOVE SFF.

'Finally everything became so bad that no one could come up with anything comforting to say. Then the people said, “Change is impossible. It’s already too late. Anyway, we don’t really mind the way things are.”’ I paused. ‘Those are the four kinds of lie the people told. “We are making things better.” “There is no problem.” “There are no real gifts.” “It is too late to change.”

#this part hit really hard #but also I had to flip to the front of the book and check the publication date #because when a character describes the transmissions they got from earth #I was like... oh. this is literally describing what our society is currently descending into #no ideas just nonsense and memes #but nope wow 1991