There is less Soseki than I thought.

Don't mind if I shove obsucure books in your face.  25 - female - chaotic good - midwestern - butter enthusiast

[s0irenic]

A conductor on the Pskov-Moscow train feeds a cat named Felix sausage during a short stop in Staraya, Russa. Felix shows up every day at 22:40 & has for several years. All conductors are aware of Felix & prepare sausage in advance.(Source: Reddit)

[da-at-ass]

ALL CONDUCTORS ARE AWARE OF FELIX

[nunyabizni]

Someone even wrote a poem about it.

The Pspspskov-Moscow Train

The engine’s coming down the track,

Some hear it go choo-choo,

But this one’s bringing me my snack,

It’s what it’s trained to do.

So as it slows, I hear the hiss,

And I know that’s my chance,

The human has for me “pssspss!”,

The sausage in advance.

I wait each day, same time and place,

The sausage such a treat!

And when the human sees my face,

They know I’m there to eat.

The train don’t even need to stop,

The magic still occurring,

And when I get my sausage drop,

Our motors both are purring.

[thisbibliomaniac]

[bsd-bibliophile]

To love someone is to put your life on the line. I don’t take it lightly.

Dazai Osamu, “Female” from Self Portraits

(via bsd-bibliophile)

[sheeshmoonbeam17]

listen listen listen before the internet explodes let’s take half a second to remember the least controversial aka BEST star wars film of the decade

[bladesrunner]

DIEGO LUNA as Cassian Andor in ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY dir. by Gareth Edwards · 2016

[laguzmage]

It’s dangerous to go alone, take this

[uncle-beanbag]

Marry her

[theconcealedweapon]

[eternal-echoes]

objective morality is eternal.

conscience is always there to nudge when there’s something is wrong.

[please-dont-pet-the-okapi]

Not to mention the Declaration of Independence originally included a passage condemning the slave trade:

He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.

In summary, Thomas Jefferson is blaming Great Britain for its role in perpetuating the Transatlantic slave trade. A later passage condemns George III for then manipulating enslaved people into fighting against the Revolution, effectively pitting two exploited parties against each other.

The anti-slavery passages were cut at some point during the debates prior to the signing. Years later, Jefferson blamed South Carolina, Georgia, and several northern states (the latter of which were complicit in the slave trade even if they did not have near as many slaves as the southern states) for the removal of the passage. [x]

The fact that slavery was wrong was not lost on these people.

[thisbibliomaniac]

Basically, they decided that every article had to be agreed upon by every state, and some of the states would not agree on anti slavery articles.

I don’t remember which of these videos goes into detail about that, but here’s two of them;

I definitely recommend watching all five!

[theninthmember]

Ok I’m almost finished with the first AA game and I am kind of obsessed with how they chose to start the episodes. The openings almost always make it explicitly clear that our client is not the murderer. In The First Turnabout the opening even shows the real culprit’s face. And I could understand if there were complaints about that reducing the tension of the case, but I actually really love it.

Because it’s not meant to be a whodunnit, is it? The point of the game isn’t figuring out who the killer is, it’s proving it to the court. So it’s not enough to see the killer, we have to find the right evidence and make the right arguments and convince everyone of something that you the player already know to be true. Phoenix wholeheartedly believes in his clients’ innocence, and those chapter openings make it easy for us to believe too. Now the only challenge is to defend them.

And then comes Turnabout Goodbyes and everything is turned on its head. We see Edgeworth holding the gun—how could Edgeworth not be the killer? The game has made it infinitely harder to trust our client. But we have to defend him, because Phoenix Wright believes wholeheartedly in his clients’ innocence. He will always believe in people who have no one else on their side, even when the evidence is stacked against them. So even though that first round of trial and investigation feels like grasping at straws... we do it anyway. Because Phoenix Wright believes in people. And he makes us want to believe in people too.

[heedra]

all cyberpunk stories are like “If you wanna crack open a cybercroissant this nasty, you’re gonna need a real top notch e-driller. i know a guy- Toledo Killswitch- he’s got the frag ordinance you need to grizzle this bocce ball.”

[fuckaspunk]

[catchymemes]

[riseofthecommonwoodpile]

no one doing any farming on this commune huh

[quoms]

on my commune if anyone asks what kind of work you want to do and you say “project coordination” you are expelled from the commune

[paxamericana]

[cisnowflake]

I've seen threads like this before and it's never not funny. We still need people to pick up trash, work construction and maintain the sewers after the glorious revolution. The commune only needs so many poets.

[r4cs0]

Tarot reading and anime appraising are jobs now lol

[sosekiisbae]

Add “died of starvation” to your resume.  

[corporation-cats]

[shadowblinder]

#TO WAR

[kafkasdiariies]

Winter in Central Park by Rebecca Dale

[godlessondheimite]

[fluffmugger]

#so did they miss the part where gatsby ends up floating dead in a pool and all the miserable deaths in wuthering heights#or did they miss that because there weren’t any chapters titled In Which The Sinners Are Punished For Their Errors#like. even if you require explicit moral instruction from literature it’s pretty hard to miss the comeuppance in those.

[pennie-dreadful]

“What I assume my teachers were trying to teach me”

[doctorbluesmanreturns]

Huck Finn is about a white Southern boy who was raised to believe that freeing slaves is a sin that would send you directly to hell who forges a familial bond with a runaway slave and chooses to free him and thereby in his mind lose his salvation because he refuses to believe that his best friend and surrogate father is less of a man just because he’s black. Yes it features what we now consider racial slurs but this is a book written only 20 years after people were literally fighting to be allowed to keep other human beings as property, we cannot expect people from the 1880s to exactly conform with the social mores of 2020, and more to the point if we ourselves had been raised during that time period there’s very little doubt that we would also hold most if not all of the prevalent views of the time because actual history isn’t like period novels written now where the heroes are perfect 21st century social justice crusaders and the villains are all as racist and sexist as humanly possible. Change happens slowly and ignoring the radical statement that we’re all human beings that Twain wrote at a time when segregation and racial tensions were still hugely prevalent just because he wrote using the language of his time period is short-sighted and foolhardy to the highest degree.

[bsd-bibliophile]

As for love … no, having once written that word I can write nothing more.

Dazai Osamu, The Setting Sun

(via bsd-bibliophile)

[silima]

whatever force of god protected me from seeing the enormous amounts of reylo content that were apparently produced this year i am so grateful 🙏

[silima]

okay nevermind i want what this person got

[typhlonectes]