Brutus

If I can't move the will of Heaven, I shall raise Hell

[riverside891]

Looking for a writing partner and pen pal — I am working on a sci-fi political thriller novel and I would love someone to read what I have so far and to talk to about the world, the characters etc and to send my art of characters to (honestly just to share it with someone). I can do the same in exchange for your writing project, so we can bounce ideas off each other.

I am NOT looking for rp or co-writing partners. I am also not too interested in fanfic or romance, so if your writing project is that, I may not be a good choice.

I’m over 18 and I would like to talk to someone who’s also over 18. My interests include programming, robotics, anthropology and Renaissance art. My favorite writers are Ian McDonald, Charles Bukowski, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. English is not my native tongue, but I am fluent in it. I live in CET timezone.

For convenience purposes, I suggest Telegram as messaging platform, but I’m open to other means.

Please DM if you’re interested.

[hella1975]

and JUST for a SECOND i could be ONE of the GREATS I AM caesar on a tv screen CHAMPION of my FATE NO ONE can tell me to stop ill have EVERYTHING I WANT anyone and everyone will like me then EVERYONE WILL LOVE ME

[myladyofmercy]

the last dinner party performing at wembley arena shot by elemarchant

[thefrontofmymind]

hey did you guys know that

even when the cold comes crashing through i'm putting all my bets on you i hope they never understand us. i put my heart inside your palms my home in your arms now we know nothing matters-

[riarnu]

even when the cold comes crashing through, i'm putting all my bets on you i hope they never understand us

[groovytimes]

The Last Dinner Party photographed by Phoebe Cox for NME

[the-last-dinner-party]

the last dinner party photographed by cal mcintyre

[esotericworld]

Teatro de Pietravairano

“Had it not been for a brush fire that burned away some overgrowth in 2001 and for the fact that Prof. Nicolino Lombardi, local historian for Pietravairano, is also an enthusiastic pilot of ultralight aircraft, this thing would still be undiscovered. At least now you can walk up the trail and see what the fuss is about. This is not just another medieval church or even just another of the many stone-aged slabs set in place by unknown Italic forbears. (Italy is full of both.)These are the ruins of a theater and temple from the late Roman Republic (II-I century BC; that is, around the year 100 BC.)..”

[vereskhaze]

Тайна третьей планеты/The Mystery of the Third Planet - is a 1981 Soviet animated sci-fi movie produced by the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow. It is based on children’s science fiction stories by Kir Bulychev

[chandelyer-deactivated20241003]

Schiaparelli spring 2024

[theperksofbeingaperk]

[jinxfmrl]

https://archive.org/details/DontBeaS1947

Here’s the whole video. It’s called “Don’t Be A Sucker” and it’s 17 minutes long.

[republicansareahategroup]

don’t just scroll past this actually watch it, it’s only 2 minutes long. If you re-recorded this today word for word with modern actors and places, it wouldn’t even look out of place as a PSA

[deadredactedwalking-deactivated]

300,000 notes and i can’t find a transcript

[sky-squido]

Transcript: (sorry for the language!)

Speaker: “I see negroes holding jobs that belong to me! And you! I’ll ask you, if we allow this thing to go on, what’s gonna become of us real Americans!”

Hungarian man with clear foreign accent: “I’ve heard this kind of talk before, but I never expected to hear it in America.”

Young man: “This man seems to know what he’s talking about.“

Speaker: “What are us real Americans gonna do about it? You’ll find it right here in this little pamphlet—the truth about negroes and foreigners! The truth about the Catholic Church! You’ll find…” [audio grows quieter as camera shifts to the onlookers]

Hungarian man: “You believe in that kind of talk?“

Young man: “I dunno, it makes pretty good sense to me.“

Speaker: “And I tell you, friends, we’ll never be able to call this country our own until it’s a country without… without what?“

Other man: “Yeah? Without what?“

Speaker: “Without negroes, without alien foreigners,”—the young man is nodding, following along—“without Catholics, without Freemasons! You know these…“

Young man: “What’s wrong with the Masons, I’m a Mason.” Looks to European man worriedly, “hey, that fellow’s talking about me!“

Huungarian man: “And that makes a difference, doesn’t it.“

Speaker: “These are your enemies! These are the people who are trying to take over our country! Now you know them, you know what they stand for. And it’s up to you and me to fight them!” A bunch of the onlookers in the vicinity wave him off like he’s crazy and turn away, “fight them and destroy them before they destroy us!”

Speaker: “Thank you.“

One man in the now somewhat awkward crowd: “claps“

Young man: *is visibly uncomfortable*

Hungarian man: “Before he said Mason, you were ready to agree with him.”

Young man: “Well yes but, he was talking about… what about those other people?“ *the pair sit down on a park bench*

Hungarian man: “In this country, we have no ‘other people.’ We are American people, of course.“

Young man: “What about you? You aren’t American, are you?“

Hungarian man: “I was born in Hungary. But now, I am an American citizen. And I have seen what this kind of talk can do. I saw it in Berlin.”

Young man: “What were you doing there?“

Hungarian man: “I was a professor at the university. I heard the same words we have heard today. But I was a fool, then. I thought Nazis were crazy people, stupid fanatics. But unfortunately it was not so. You see, they knew that they were not strong enough to conquer a unified country, so they split Germany into small groups. They used prejudice as a practical weapon to cripple the nation.”

[celluloidbroomcloset]

I saw a few folks talking about how they can’t write meta/analyze media and I have a suggestion—read some film theory. Not criticism—theory. Consider angles, philosophies, contexts, ways of analyzing media that's not about whether the media is Good or Bad, but how it works.

(Please note: I'm not saying you have to do this in order to write meta or analysis, but theory is an excellent starting point for close reading texts and a lot of the writing within film and TV especially is very accessible.)

A few recs:

Film Theory and Criticism, eds. Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen. This collects a massive amount of work, important essays, and important perspectives on various aspects of theory and critique. Really a foundational text that keeps on being updated.

From Caligari to Hitler. I believe literally everyone should read this book (or even just the introduction) to understand how film reflects and affects national character. This is specifically about Germany between the wars, but it is frightening how applicable a lot of it is to our current moment.

The Celluloid Closet. One of the seminal texts in studying queerness in film. There's also an accompanying documentary that is excellent.

Monsters in the Closet. This is specifically about horror film, but is one of the first to explore how queerness in particular is typed and exploited in horror.

Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. Laura Mulvey defined the male gaze for an entire generation of feminist film scholars and critics. Her essay is slightly dated but still essential and applicable.

The Dread of Difference. Collects a group of important feminist essays specifically about horror films. Again, a lot of the work is quite applicable overall.

The Monstrous Feminine. Barbara Creed's work is essential feminist film theory.

The Women Who Knew Too Much. Modleski is a Hitchcock scholar and her work is expansive and entertaining.

From Reverence to Rape. Very much a companion to Mulvey, addressing the way that Hollywood itself distorts female roles. Again, some datedness, but important and easy to read.

Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies. bell hooks. Don't need to say more.

Any other film folks can add more, but these are the ones that I think are the most interesting and accessible as starting points.

[splashing-water]

by Andrey Nekrasov

[forever70s]

observers of the 1970 total solar eclipse; child with a camera equipped with a safety-filter & people wearing homemade cardboard pinhole eclipse viewers

[virtualways]

[voidmothh]

Tesla Crushed by an Olmec Head

by Chavis Mármol, 2024

[escapismsworld]

The Bodleian Library at Oxford University

[without-ado]

wave on earth