And that a kelson of the creation is love

James. he/they. nonbinary man. queer. bi. 26. white. hopeless romantic. if you're under 16 don't follow me. "Where must we go, we who wander this wasteland, in search of our better selves?"

[theunsubtleknife]

[ilovecats4ever]

[quasi-normalcy]

“Thinking about the maneuvers performed by self-defined“literary” novelists to preserve their purity from genre pollution, I realized that I am in the unusual position of being able to perform the same poses and contortions, only backwards. How am I to protect my unspotted name as a science fiction writer from the scorn of those who might think I have been shamelessly performing acts of realism in public? Thus: How dare you call me a realist? My book “Searoad” has nothing to do with the commercial realism found in all the chain bookstores. I call the book “Social Reality Enhancement.” Realistic novels are for lazy-minded, semi-educated people whose atrophied imagination allows them to appreciate only the most limited and conventional subject-matter. Realistic fiction, or re-fi as its fans call it, is an outworn genre, written by unimaginative hacks who rely on mere mimesis. If they had any self-respect they’d be writing memoir, but they’re too lazy to fact-check. Of course I never read re-fi, but my children keep bringing home these garish realistic novels and talking about them, so I know that it’s an incredibly narrow genre, completely centered on one species, incredibly culture-bound, full of wornout clichés and predictable situations: the quest for the father, mother-bashing, obsessive lust, suburban guilt, and so forth. All it’s good for is being made into mass-market movies. Given its old-fashioned means and limited subject-matter, realism is quite incapable of describing the com-plexity of contemporary experience. Now, would you believe that tripe? There’s some truth in it. But it’s tripe. All judgment of literature by genre is tripe. All judgment of a category of literature as inherently superior or inferior is tripe.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, Genre: A Word only a Frenchman Could Love

[theunsubtleknife]

Air pollution feels like such a goofy migraine trigger for reasons I can't quite express

[theunsubtleknife]

Like. Oh the air is making me feel like shit? The air? The fucking air??? What am I supposed to do about that one?? I CANT EVEN SEE THE POLLUTION!!!

[theunsubtleknife]

Air pollution feels like such a goofy migraine trigger for reasons I can't quite express

[theunsubtleknife]

OH THANK GOD IM BACK ONLINE

[anglaised]

mamdani feels like he comes from the spider man universe does that make sense

[sugar-petals]

pitbull bald cap contest. this is the news we should be getting

bonus: kesha also showed up as #mrbaldwide !! 💥

[woeful-maiden]

the wii disc and the gamecube disc on the wii menu are dating btw

[carmenifold]

and they're both girls

[adventures-in-poor-planning]

Why are people out there complaining about the whaling industry info in Moby Dick like it's not the most rivetting shit in the book. In the latest chapter, Ishmael says, "yeah btw when we're in the whaling boats we lash multiple harpoons to the same line to get a more secure hold on the whale, unless it goes wrong like it usually does, then the loose harpoon is flung around hitting people. Sometimes there are like 8 or 10 of them all flying around hitting people. This kills people frequently, it's still industry standard, and it will be relevant to us later :)"

[rosefinchie]

how it all feels lately

[shadow-von-vamp]

oh boy i sure do love having tons of trinkets

the nefarious dust particle:

[sapropel]

Sometimes your bad coworker will be like "I can't do anything right & I ruin everything I touch :(" and you can't even comfort them because like damn. Yeah. You really can't do anything right and you do ruin everything you touch☝️

[sapropel]

HE'S GETTING FIRED. NEVER GIVE UP ON YOUR DREAMS!!!!!!!!!!

[guiltfactory]

BAD NEWS: it will not be the same forever

GOOD NEWS: it will not be the same forever

[kuttithevangu]

All fantasy authors wish they had a bigger bathtub in their house. You can tell by every bathing scene ever written into a fantasy novel

[deerrrrr]

goint where,the winds Take mee

[planet4546b]

im currently completely losing it about the great stalacpipe organ. are you fucking kidding me they made an organ out of a CAVE???? IT TAKES UP THREE ACRES??? i legit am about to lose it

[planet4546b]

this is a comment left on a recording of moonlight sonata played on an organ that is literally made out of a cave and its making me so emotional its not even funny

[image id: a youtube comment that reads ‘wonderful…and the moon has never shone there…’ end id.]

[marlynnofmany]

All that and no pictures??

According to Wikipedia, it works by hidden rubber mallets on the naturally-musical stalactites that tourguides have been knocking on for over a century. The guy who made the organ may have gotten the idea when his son whacked his head on a stalactite.

Here’s a video. It is hauntingly beautiful.

[spirit-pyrite]

In case anyone is looking, here’s the link to the video op mentions.

https://youtu.be/HsKUUn29tSs