#blurds

[fractiousrvt]

I... honestly don't know what type of birds these are? They're huge and they're not crows and that's about all I can say.

And when I say huge

That's how far away they are. Huge.

Are there any species of hawks found in California that are this gregarious? Are they secretly Harris hawks? A quick search says swainson hawks are also social...

[prospitianescapee]

So how do you actually read ORV

Official translation by Yen Press (incomplete)

Unofficial mostly-MTL translation (complete, relatively-accessible because it's HTML and EPUB): orv.pages.dev

Unofficial human translation (incomplete, Google Docs and PDFs): tumblr.com/orvretranslationproject

[4lung]

Hey, I failed to stand up for you back in the day when the ghouls were out harassing people who liked you. I grew disgusted with my own cowardice and I've been paying you a small monthly coward fee (via the rawrdcore money club) ever since. People in my shoes should do the same thing. People who were the actual ghouls should do more. That's just my opinion!

good opinion (:

[zenosanalytic]

Reply-Reply to blurds: The Coziness of Evil

blurds asks:

in what world is that not what evil is

Fair. I guess, for me, it’s a question of emphasis, like: exploring this particular sort of very commonplace and banal evil, rather than presenting him in the trophic ideal of “evil overlord” ala something like Darkseid.

One of the posts I started on HtN right after reading it is actl on this but I never finished&posted it cuz of *vague gesturing* but his evil is very much that “dad” evil? Like: the seeming-passive way he dominates the ppl around him while masking his disinterest and laziness as “coolness”; his extreme vanity and how it shapes pretty much everything around him; how he’s just decided to be OK with vast injustices so long as they enable his life and goals, to the point he doesn’t even bother to defend them; his obsession with the life of his youth and how that not only blinds him to the modern day(and his destructive role in creating and maintaining it), but also to the damage he’s causing it and the people around him, and also to the fact that his grudges no longer matter cuz the things he’s motivated by no longer exist(like: it’s p obvs to me he’s trying to punish those he considers responsible for the apocalypse, but they’re long dead. He’s drowned numerous galaxies in millennia of imperialistic war and brutality to punish people he’ll never, ever reach for something no one else even remembers).

I guess what I’d say is this is an evil, writ large, that most ppl are intimately familiar with, writ small, within some of the people they’re closest to and love the most, and emphasizing that aspect is more interesting that presenting him as “just” an evil intergalactic overlord. Like: he very much IS an evil intergalactic overlord responsible for the murders of literally thousands of worlds and probably trillions of people resulting thereof, but he’s also your dad, and that big evil is intimately and inescapably connected to the less-visible evil that makes your boomer-dad so infuriating to talk to about politics and society because he’s 1)been pretending the world’s fundamentally still 1976 for the last 40 year, 2)cares more about the convenience of Amazon delivery than the vile abuse and social destruction it creates, and 3)cares more about whether His School or Rival School wins the gatorbowl every year than whether nazis are working to create a blood-purity slave-society under his nose. He obviously “cares for you” in some(probably narcissistic) way; he’s fun; he loves puns; he’s easy to trust and be around and talk to; and he’s overtly polite and respectful to women; but his unthinking misogyny, selfish willingness to put his comfort before others emotions, and arrogant unwillingness to actually hear what he’s listening to or every really change, is why your mom divorced him(or, in this fictional instance, has led him to build his whole empire on the constant exploitation of a woman he claimed to “love”, as a power-source, after he stole her agency from her by “killing” her, exclusively to please his friends). 

[clonerightsagenda]

blurds

in what world is that not what evil is

What I mean is that I’ve seen some takes interpreting him as this intentionally malevolent mastermind who’s deliberately out to get everyone, and I feel like that’s a flatter, less interesting evil than ‘local man promoted too many times, loses all sense of perspective, and ends up being the solar system’s undying evil emperor without even getting that he’s doing it because he somehow thinks he’s still doing an ok job’

[mmmmalo]

blurds replied to your post “I’m not really a music guy so I guess I missed that Death Grips and...”

collaborated in the sense that they used samples of her voice on every song, rather than that they worked together on it

Oh... that’s somewhat less interesting. Bummer

[nightpool]

blurds replied to your post “it's raining outside and I'm frantically trying to save 16,000 likes...”

all is vanity, vanity all

I posted this in discourse already but i’m posting it here anyway

https://komaedak.in/@arachne/101242195208460565

[gurguliare]

thank you, my friends. Anyway I was going to be like oh Pterry didn’t know what he was talking about, goats aren’t intelligent they’re just needy, but then I remembered that that’s a false binary and neediness is the mother of biting the fucking goathouse latch open again