Doctor Vallerand's Breakfast Fiasco

33 years of existence and music, Doom, Doctor Who, and suffering

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We Get Signal! ‘Zero Wing’ SEGA Mega Drive

[phantomrose96]

Hey hey don’t cry. Character who destroys themself in the end for nothing

[briannyssey]

some people read an awful lot, but don't read very well. deep reading is itself a skill. being able to untangle the threads of theme, subtext, characterization, narrative style, and more are all things that it takes time and intentional engagement to learn.

if you've ever watched a movie with your film buff friend and chatted about it afterwards, that friend might have pulled hours more of conversation out of the same 90 minutes of screentime, and wondered how the fuck they did that - it's not raw intelligence, it's a skill that's been honed. And I learned a lot about film from talking to friends who knew about film, and reading critique by film scholars

literature works exactly the same. so if you want to get more out of your reading, there are things you can do to train that. Find a book or short story you think you've got a pretty good grasp on, preferably from a widely read & respected author like Ursula K Le Guin or Ray Bradbury (if you're new at this don't swing for the Toni Morrison or the Samuel Beckett yet unless you feel very comfortable with the complexity of the text - the point is to develop a complicated new skill on good foundations). Then go to JSTOR, create a free account, and look up criticism on the story you've chosen. Find something that looks readable to you and at least somewhat interesting. Read that article, and look at what that writer got out of the same story you've read that you didn't get. Do you see the critic's points? Did they teach you something about the text? Go reread that story and see if the criticism has changed how you read it. Are you seeing more? Are you thinking about the implications of a line that you hadn't noticed before? Does the story feel richer now?

there are other more involved ways of finding criticism. Learning to use academic databases, going to your local library to do interlibrary loans, finding critical voices you appreciate; these are all useful subskills. Literacy isn't just being able to read words, it's being able to read words in context and think about what they tell you about the text, the author, or the time and culture in which the text was produced. Literacy is the skill of being able to look at the world with open eyes and think clearly about how its parts are connected. It'll change your life

[briannyssey]

this keeps getting shared around and ive seen some different tags responding differently so i just want to make some important clarifications and distillations

you don't have to read more deeply if you don't want to (but i'd recommend it, i genuinely think it makes you a better person)

if you want to learn to read more deeply, the resources are out there. try to find critical literature (that is, academic writing that analyzes the text) on works your familiar with so you can get a sense for how to do that analysis too

learning to deep read literature can help you deep read many areas of your life

writers tend to put a lot of work into their stories. if you learn to read that work you'll (probably) appreciate the stories you love even more. And if not, then you'll have developed your taste. This too is worth doing

[moldybreadguys]

Danny V is 36 years old.

no, I don't understand how either

[moldybreadguys]

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Incidentally, here's a song I wrote at 27 that hits a bit harder this year given everything I have endured. Please share it if it resonates with you.

[moldybreadguys]

Here is the full performance video if you are truly curious!

[moldybreadguys]

Danny V is 36 years old.

no, I don't understand how either

[moldybreadguys]

View this post on Instagram

Incidentally, here's a song I wrote at 27 that hits a bit harder this year given everything I have endured. Please share it if it resonates with you.

[moldybreadguys]

Danny V is 36 years old.

no, I don't understand how either

[pinniposting]

such loud smacks

[scary-ivy]

@lobsterfoetus

[solocontenido]

Social media is Sartre´s hell living in your pocket, in the palm of your hand. No exit, no escape.

[evidently-endless]

being offered ai at every turn

[2colde]

it's thousand yard stare summer

[despazito]

[saltiecattoz]

[moldybreadguys]

RIP Bobby Prince

This news was a horrible shock to wake up to today. Bobby Prince's music was absolutely foundational to me getting into music - like, I originally started making music because I wanted to make my own video games, and growing up on a steady diet of iD FPS games meant that I heard his music a lot.

The first time I ever picked up a MIDI editing program as a nine year old, I immediately went in to remixing Mr. Prince's music from the first two Dooms, and from there I started making properly, creating stuff that went into my own Doom WADs and other teenage projects.

His music is permanently etched into my brain, and it is a sad day for music knowing Bobby Prince has passed.

RIP to a legend.

Also! I once made a compilation that was heavily influenced by and partially inspired by the work Bobby Prince did for the Classic Doom series because I was an impressionable child/eventual teenager.

It's from 2007 and has the best original stuff I made between ages ~10 to ~18 on a MIDI program, some of which I did indeed use for my own Doom WADs (and if you click on their titles you can see screenshots from them too) and whatnot. Peep it here if you wanna hear some crap a small child made once lmao

[moldybreadguys]

You gotta be at least a little delusional to see your work succeed.

http://tiny.cc/dannyvmusic for some new old Danny V hotness. Finalized 2016 project surfacing soon. Just accept it...

[human-pet-they]

Coworker said Grindr looked like this

[partingglances1986]

If you enjoyed this book you should read every other book in the world for extra textual context. All things are intricately related to one another.