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Nice job on the apocalyptic-meteor-strike nightmare last night, brain, some of your finest work recently. I especially liked the little girl who said "It's gonna be very bright soon." Not sure why Huell Babineaux was my next door neighbor but obviously it didn't end up mattering for long.
It's really funny to take Spanish with people from different Spanish-speaking countries, because the ones from South American countries are like "Yeah no one uses vosotros, we don't know what it's doing here" and the ones from Europe are like "If you don't give our beloved second-person plural its due respect, the Hounds will find you"
Why would they speak spanish in europe
Spain.......
I love how tumblr is full of people who arenât afraid to hang around on the bottom rung of the moron ladder. You make me feel better about every stupid thing Iâve ever done in my life including the time I glued fake moustaches to my eyebrows.
are we gonna skip past port o' rico
I've said this before but in my neighborhood I see kids and teens on their own without adult supervision pretty regularly, alone or in groups, walking, biking, sometimes across busy enough streets that if I was their parent I'd probably not want, enough to make me wonder about the crisis of kids being locked indoors all the time. My conclusion is that where I live (small town turned inner suburb that's relatively walkable for everyday-errand stuff) is structured better to resist it than most urban/suburban areas, and in those huge sprawling prefab developments in the south and west that get spread around Tumblr like gore pics, the problem really is much worse. It's also bad in the bougie urban neighborhoods that produce 98% of parenting-anxiety discourse, full of both Actual Crime sometimes mere blocks away, and the hyperparanoid police and parenting styles that emerge in response.
We all like to think that God loves us, but thereâs one guy living on Earth right now who is clearly Godâs #1 favorite: ThisâŠ
"Between Ramadan, Yom Kippur, and Lent, heâs fasting pretty much all the time, and he considers Jesus Christ both the Messiah and not the Messiah simultaneously using a principle similar to quantum mechanics."
I feel like a lot of people get "All Art is Political" confused with "All Art is made with Political Intentions" which is not the same.
To bounce off this a bit, what I wish I'd made clearer in my own recent such post is "All art is political" is a motte for not just what OP said, but "The real-world political impact of any given piece (or even genre) can be discretely and objectively measured" and "'holding creators accountable' is a reliable, effective way to boost the positive impacts and lessen the negative ones", which are also baked into the whole ideology and which are even more symbolic-magic than "All art is made with political intent."
Because in practical terms, the fights are rarely like "We need to be more open to the idea in general that works of art intersect with ideas about economics and labor and sex and race and etc." That's the baileyest bailey there ever was. Like, I don't know how anyone, even the people who have spent the last 15 years throwing darts at a picture of Zoe Quinn, could honestly go "no they don't, not ever, you're making that up" with a straight face. People who act like that's the ground that needs defending are being too easy on themselves. The battleground is much more like "This specific work is causing measurable harm for these specific reasons, and if you care about harm, it's your moral responsibility to refuse to engage with it and condemn everyone who does. My moral authority (and factual accuracy) is not to be questioned, of course." And then when people rightly call that out as bullshit, the retreat looks like "But don't you understand that All Art Is Political?"
That's the song and dance that has, over the years, made me dismiss anyone who uses the stock phrase without at least gesturing at its limits.
I know this is just Me Getting Old but I can't stanch the bile that rises when some kid watches an older movie and goes "Wow...I can't believe they were talking about the problems with capitalism all the way back in 1999!" My young friend, they* talked about little else in 1999.
*-"They" here meaning not society at large but people who thought making the most-perfectly-progressive movie or TV show, or spreading the word about it, would Clockwork-Orange everyone who sees it into having Only Good Opinions, which is the proper point of comparison.
Trying "You should kill yourself...NOW!" on someone in real life. Gotta respect the audacity.
Another great piece from Freddie DeBoer this morning. He talks about the paralyzing fear of looking old and uncool from the perspective of, e.g. college professors and journalists in merciless, cutthroat professional environments, but I see it on tumblr too, where we have no PR to maintain and no economic incentives to coddle our customers students. You will never convince me that "lol lmao nothing matters cheat and lie and steal all you want society is a sham" passing as "socialism" is anything more than the repressed self-loathing of Smart Kids who wish they were Cool Kids. I think, relative to a few years ago, that people are realizing that loudly forswearing the concepts of personal responsibility and work ethic just so you don't "sound like a boomer" makes the world a very shitty place very rapidly.
(DeBoer, being a man in his early 40s with a 1-year-old son, comes back to the "aging is natural, time comes for us all, it's our youth-fetishizing society that makes people feel bad about it" well a lot, and I nod along and think this is all reasonable and sad-but-true and people would do well to internalize it, while simultaneously feeling like I would murder someone to be 18 again and staring down middle age like it's a death sentence.)
I know the answer to "should these two very similar characters be condensed down to one" is "if you have to ask, then yes", but...don't wanna.
It's a young man's game.
My name is John Wellington Wells, I'm a dealer in odours and smells.
âBig Pharmaâ okay are we talking about how privatization and monetization has deeply corrupted the field of medicine or are you talking about how you think chemicals in the water are making the frogs gay
>be me, chemical company executive >turns out one of our fine products is doing weird shit >like, really weird shit >itâs making frogs change genders >holy shit the religious right will gang-rape us over this >those guys fucking hate genders >what do? >idea >feed the story to a professional liar who will blame it on an undefined âthemâ >story promptly becomes a byword for stupid made-up shit >justasplanned.jpg >thatâs why they pay me the big bucks
And one thing you should understand is that the underlying guiding moral axiom of this blog is the wholesale destruction of vampires
Well you're doing great. Haven't seen one in months.
Sometimes I forget that 'Victorian' is not just an adjective that means 'snobby and moralistic', but was named after an actual person. Which is like, gold medal in the getting-things-named-after-you category, right. Like if every car was called a Ford.
The Butcher-Kane Index: the extent to which the name of an actor or author is more badass than any character name they could use or invent (named for Christian Kane and Jim Butcher, who both score a 5/5.)
Giving Six of Crows a try and (this is not a criticism per se, just somewhere my mind's been recently) it's amazing how many fantasy tropes rely on mind-body dualism being 100% true, like just as background metaphysics.
My bit like this in my own manuscript is
âThe dangerous ones are the ones you canât detect. My Wards arenât fit for the task; an exorcist would need to search someoneâs memories one by one to root it out.â Melanie thought about asking how âmemoriesâ could be separate from the neurons that held them, but opted not to. The only logical conclusion included the words âimmortal soulâ, and she wasnât ready to deal with that.
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