Purple Dino Bomb

19 ☆ Ao3: purpledinobomb ☆ multifandom

[purpledinobomb]

Fandoms/Interests:

☆Sally Face ☆

☆A Deadly Education☆

☆ Like Minds ☆

☆The Sandman☆

☆Attack on Titan ☆

☆A Discovery of Witches☆

☆Ghostbusters ☆

☆Dinosaurs ☆

♤ Also getting more and more into gothic litrature, because it is fun

◇ My ao3 : purpledinobomb ◇

Favorite colours are orange and purple

[crafteroftheforesthearth]

Rewatching A Discovery of Witches, and you know Diana's main attraction to Matthew is that he's her own personal artifact. Harkness should've advertised the series as being "for every girl who's ever wanted to marry a magical antiquity."

[purpledinobomb]

I read The Picture of Dorian Gray, and thought of A Little Life

The other day I finished The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.

(I will not speak of the fact that I was disappointed by the ending, which was adequate and good, but had been so over sold to me that I expected so much more. It ended like it was meant to be ended and the end was appropriate. Don’t sell the book for its ending, please! Because it is an amazing book.)

All that is to say that I gave a little bit of my time to this work and what was written.

There is a quote:

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. That is all.”

I find the characters in this book annoying and they are meant to be. With their provocative moral, their lack of it. Yet, they make the reader think of their values, beliefs, whether it is to scoff at it, laugh, roll the eyes; whether it is to perhaps approve of it.

Whatever opinion on morals is written, the person reading it will think of it. I find that terrifying sometimes the impact some written symbols can have of how I think and see things, that simple paper can be as impactful as a real event in my life.

And there comes the black sheep, always here, daunting us everywhere, whatever you read, you will preach about him, against or for him. (Even more on the internet but that is something that always happened, look up Oscar Wilde's life)

I am morally good (or not) because I read that book or not. Our society of intellectuals will approve of these books, but fight against these ones. Is this book okay to be read by the teen audience? Is this book the end of our civilization of well-read readers? Is this book worthy of human attention or interesting only for some freaks?

That is why this quote is so interesting, so on point. This is an interrogation remaining century after century. The governments banned books, today they still do. The internet, puts some books at the top of a hierarchy and destroys the reputation of others. So, we have to ask ourselves, why do we despise these? Each of us, despise a book, at least one. Yet, of course, there are differences between a state choosing to ban a book and a single reader hating one, but when masses are agreeing, it is important to sit and to analyze why.

So, I gave myself a little time to rage. Which books do I absolutely hate?

Most of all, why do I despise them? Do I have called books immoral? And worse, was it because I feared my own immorality, my own human flaws when I read it? And then, if yes, with my bragging of how I was better for not liking it, I was being a terrible hypocrite? Not that it will stop me from sleeping, because who never lie to themselves? Still.

One came to my mind. The famously unfamous and always famous in any respectful Pinterest board: A little life by Hanya Yanagihara.

I have taken time to complain to friends about this one.

I will not explain the plot, because I can’t be bothered and you can find many things about it anywhere on the internet. (I’m sure that there is a summary on a wiki page, and done better that I would have)

I loved, and read without stopping the first 250 pages (out of 800 something or a little less pages) I was reading it during a moment in my life when I got busy and stopped reading. Then I came back and was terribly bored. Perhaps I was bored because I hadn’t read for a while? No, I was getting bored of the fact that the dynamic of the book is: nothing will change, except it will get worse. And I normally like that; I adore a good tragedy. I love Frankenstein’s creature story, it just gets worst and worst, and we love it. Yet, it felt terribly different.

I think, if my schedule had never stopped me, I would have finished the book very quickly and cried like many people recorded it on video. I would have read and read each of the words without a thought, except that it was terribly sad. So, I was disenchanted. But I didn’t know what was wrong. That is why I stopped reading page 350 and went on *reddit* to search for people opinions, then I read an article from the Guardian.

There are criticisms about the way the author is depicting trauma, just for the beauty of it, in a way. That there was no real investigation, preparatory work, on how is shaped an adult when he suffered from intense abuse in his childhood (I am being diminishing when I say intense, there are horrible things happening to him, again and again and then again).

In the Guardian article by Sarah Churchwell, it is written:

“For the rest of his life (with the important exception of one disastrously abusive relationship), Jude encounters only selfless love and kindness: the patron saint of lost causes becomes a lost cause surrounded by saints.”

Also, that while “this is a little life that tilts toward a large fairy tale, about cruelty and nobility, evil and goodness.”, the writer underlines: “The only history that matters in this book is personal history.”

We have here, first, characters that are good to Jude, so that his suffering and despair feel even larger. Second, the focus in the book is on personal experience, the author wants us to read about them, and mostly Jude. It is making the violence starker and the reader more empathic.

Also I read this Substack post: A Little Life - Hanya Yanaglhara by Caleb Reed (very good, want to know more about the cover ? want to see a great criticism ? go read it.)

I quote: “Even readers who hated it couldn’t look away. For many, the sheer intensity of pain felt profound”

Same thing on reddit, we all seem to agree that we were mesmerised with it. Did we want to know more? Maybe, there is not that much plot, but we are interested quite easily, it is not badly written. No, we wanted more than just having the info, we wanted to see, to feel how worse it was going to be. To see the characters be cut and cut and cut through by life, again and again. (no bad jokes, I promise) We wanted the endless downfall and we did not get what we were doing before we had to stop (schedule) or we ended the book.

If I were of the people who put witches on spikes, I would say it is witchcraft. I think it is humans, both the author and the readers. I think they found the same thing in A Little Life.

I wanted to watch the morbid self-destruction of a man, and his friends, I wanted to fill my mouth with pop-corn sadness flavour for the thrill of it. Did you also?

To come back to the quote;

“…books that show the world its own flaws”? huh

Huh

Am I?

Yes, I think so

I think we who hate A Little Life, at least me, are madder at the fact that we did enjoy some or all of it than at the objective flaws.

Hence the fact that Frankenstein has absolutely not the same effect. Frankenstein is not read (or not only) to fulfil this curiosity. (They are not the same kind of books, they have different goals, I know, just tragedy, and a character being a victim and it gets worst in both, just that.)

For A Little Life, I was being curious of the suffering.

Is it the only thing to say about it? No.

Yet, when I read this quote said by Lord Henry, I thought of it.

(I am not sure all the sentences are gramatically correct, but well, it's okay)

(and of course you have the right to like a little life, I enjoyed some of it, too much in my opinion, still, you do you)

[kingoftheu]

One tragic aspect of the Odyssey that I've never really seen handled by any adaptation is the link between Odysseus' marriage and the Trojan War itself.

When Helen was of age to be married, all the Lords of Greece came to seek her hand. This was an issue for her stepfather the King of Sparta who could only pick one husband and then would have to deal with the far greater number of angry rejected suitors.

One suitor was Odysseus, then a younger man. He quickly ascertained that he had no chance of marrying Helen. Ithaca was too poor for him to even bring any proper gifts, let alone a dowry. But he did catch the eye of the King's niece, one Penelope.

Now Penelope was still a bit out of Odysseus' league, but not so much as Helen was. So he makes a deal with the King of Sparta. Support my bid to marry Penelope, and I'll give you a solution to this suitors problem. The King agrees, so Odysseus suggests all the suitors swear an oath to defend Helen's marriage from anyone who might strike against it. They all, including Odysseus, so swear, and Helen is married to Menelaus. The King proves as good as his word, and Penelope is wed to Odysseus.

Of course this means that Odysseus has now bound himself to fight for Helen and Menelaus. After an attempt to feign madness he is forced to fulfill his duty.

So his own plan, to marry Penelope and stop a hoard of ravenous suitors, ends with him forced to defend his own marriage from a hoard of ravenous suitors.

[purpledinobomb]

I rewatched all Stranger things to see the episode with GHOSTBUSTERS COSTUMES but I remembered how nice it is and finished it.

Just I don't understand one stuff, I've see people finding this show cringe, I don't what's bad in it ?

ANYWAYS THE COLORS AND THE CHARACTERS ARE AMAZING

[purpledinobomb]

So it was 2 years ago

I still love stranger things

But it is a bit awkward sometimes

And it’s fine

Be cringe I like you

But wtf Will’s coming out and the anticlimactic end fight

Wtf the end

But great show

Yes I am way after the hype

Yes I like it

[atlas-coolbean]

GET. AI. OUT. OF. FANDOM. Stop making headcanons with it, stop making fanfic with it, stop making fanart with it. If I see one more "asking chatgpt *blank* about *character/characters in a fandom* I'm going to lose my goddamn mind. Use your own fucking brain, stop asking AI to do everything. You could even ask other real people what they think. Just. Stop. Using. AI. In. Creative. Spaces.

[purpledinobomb]

Sometimes when I have a bad day I think about Sally Face 2

And then I feel better

Even so we will probably cry a lot when it is out

I can’t wait

I feel like it’s been forever as much as no time at all

I can’t wait to see the illustrations, hear the new music, to see what the fandom will do with all that

Just happy to have a second game

[nononobodyunderstands]

Kim Deal, 1995.

[euzede]

genuinely think that dreamling is one of the best ships around. it's got just the right amount of tragic, just the right amount of 'i don't know what our relationship is, but it's what keeps me afloat and gives me constant moral compass', and the potential for canon deviance is just phenomenal.

Want Hob to be one to save Dream from the fishbowl? Fic authors have got this covered!

Want Dream to retire into the human realm/Hob to join him in Endless royalty? You are SERVED.

It's a ship that has 'slow burn' written all over it with the centennial reunions, cm'on.

[pangur-and-grim]

I feel so insane about ai. I've had face-to-face conversations with people who use it for therapy, who use it to calculate the safety of pill interactions, who use it for all their emails and grant applications and legal documents and academic papers and finance sheets and for every single question they have about the world, and if you tell them about the ecological costs they just laugh and say "I guess I've used a lot of water." and I've been in multiple gatherings of 10+ people where I'm THE ONLY PERSON who doesn't use chatgpt. it's turning me into a ranting raving pariah, because how don't you people see??? why don't you understand??????? this bullshit didn't exist five years ago, you absolutely do not need it, and it is destroying everything

[spirkkock]

my friend just had an art show and they were communicating with the gallerist over email. They could clearly tell that the gallerist was using AI to respond to their emails, but just rolled their eyes and moved on.

and then on the day of the show, my friend asks, "where is the camera I requested?"

gallerist: "you didn't request a camera"

my friend: "I did, and you confirmed that you would have one here."

gallerist: "that isn't true."

and then she proceeded to pull up the email thread, and my friend could see that every single email they had sent had been summarized by AI, and that the gallerist had then had AI write a response to them based on the AI summary, and that the AI had detected that they needed a camera, and confirmed on behalf of the gallerist that they would bring a camera, but because the gallerist had offloaded the work of actually reading and responding, she simply hadn't actually made any note of it herself, therefore didn't bring it, nor did she even know one was needed.

so my friend had done all of this communication about their needs and expectations to be able to make the show possible, and the person whose job it was to read that information and get it done had simply.... not read the information and not done it. because AI.

[vamplire]

i love you gothic literature. i love you doomed romance. i love you ghosts and decay. i love you vampires and blood. i love you manors and crypts. i love you cemeteries and haunts. i love you unsettling themes. i love you cynicism of the human experience. i love you monsters unaware of their horrors until confronted with them.

[bartygoesbark]

[cyphir-spacerobot]

Victor Frankenstein after achieving the impossible and building a fucking person from scraps of the dead: Oh god, ew, ew it's ugly! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew! Ew! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew!

[koiagain]

[deathhconsciousnesss]

They’re the same

[oniricamulet]

Sandman/Morpheus as The Cure album covers, cause im bored and he is dramatic enough

[purpledinobomb]

Oh, that is such a yes.

I love it.

[dreamyhopes]

Absolutely hilarious that Dream could have any system of governance he wants in his realm, and he chooses to have one where he has to do paper work. And as far as the audience is told, he is the only Endless to structure his realm this way.

[purpledinobomb]

So,

I recently finished to watch The Sandman.

At the beginning when I saw Tom Sturridge, I had a euhhhg (Please wait, I'm very much not a hater)

I didn’t know why. I didn’t know the actor. He was objectively handsome and doing a good job.

Still I found the mood, the weirdness of the glass prison, the ache, the stillness of the first episode so so so good.

I began to go past the eugh and really liked the sandman and Dream and the whole cast.

Then I looked up TS wiki page to find other things he played in.

I understood why I had an ick, he is just a good actor. He played Lord Byron in the Mary Shelley movie, he just was depiscable greatly enough so that even if I didn’t recognize him, I had this lingering feeling when I saw his face.

Now I like way more the Sandman so it is what I will remember in the end.

I find that funny and interesting how good actors can be a little bit too good at being horrible characters and end up having their face associated to 'bad' in my head.

That was a bit of rambling :)