Ridiculosity

A cup of me! This blog is largely running on queue.

[wherestoriescomefrom]

i am no longer explaining my tagging system to anyone or anything. here is an incomplete list of my custom tags

here be good vibes

posts that fill my mouth with light

things about stars and seas

mango posting

mango season is over we are now orange posting

thinking about cities again

this is a car hate blog :)

about intellectual property

train posting

doing love and bedrooms

ways we do god

the subcontinent

just me and my mothers machine

delhi love affair

doing gender and sexuality

the mind and the body

character coded

literature tm

posts i want to put under a microscope

enemies to lovers tag

the tropes are hungry

A WILD PROMPT APPEARS

aging userbase etc etc

a summary of my existence

a thing about digital spaces

a thing about history

stuff of knowledge

monster love

foucault cant keep getting away with this

theory play

personal tags:

the people??? want me to answer???

hello void this is ridiculosity

sannacore, vrindacore and anushmitacore

you know who you are

reoccuring motifs:

urban planning

architecture

fantasy fiction

music

linguistics

pedagogy

mythology and folklore

academia

evolutionary biology

climate change

south asian politics

food

family abolition

imperialism

labour

colonialism

fandom tags typically using the full name of the fandom, but sometimes i like shortening it to the short names instead idk. have fun navigating.

[yvesdot]

I have seen a young lady with her table loaded with volumes loaded of fictitious trash, poring day after day and night after night over highly wrought scenes and skillfully portrayed pictures of romance, until her cheeks grew pale, her eyes became wild and reckless, and her mind wandered and was lost — the light of intelligence passed behind a cloud, and her soul was forever benighted. She was insane, incurably insane from reading novels.

-- an anonymous pastor in 1864, on the greatest threat to young women

[lajoiedefrancoise]

Their Finest (2016)

[wherestoriescomefrom]

if your magic system is relying on a difference between dark and light magic there really ought to be a comprehensive reason for the difference between the two

[wherestoriescomefrom]

not to be like harry potter doesn't make any sense but the difference between dark and light magic is literally just vibes

[wherestoriescomefrom]

here's the thing though. when she says magic that violates the fundamental contracts of humanity, she's literally just talking about christianity. the laws that are fundamentally violated by splitting your soul in two are christian ones. but beyond that what makes sectumsempra a dark spell versus levicorpus a fine spell is not much at all, there is no real difference between dark magic and light magic, and pretending there is is stupid. but when the weight of your point rests on these differences they have to be better articulated.

[wherestoriescomefrom]

if your magic system is relying on a difference between dark and light magic there really ought to be a comprehensive reason for the difference between the two

[wherestoriescomefrom]

not to be like harry potter doesn't make any sense but the difference between dark and light magic is literally just vibes

[wherestoriescomefrom]

if your magic system is relying on a difference between dark and light magic there really ought to be a comprehensive reason for the difference between the two

[imsobadatnicknames2]

I feel like advertising is probably the funniest place anyone can choose to predicate their moral arguments against AI on the basis of environmental impact because like. The advertising industry is already probably the most wasteful i dustry in terms of environmental costs vs. actual value it provides, to the point that adding AI to it amounts to a very small drop in the world's biggest bucket. Like.

"Using AI to design flyers looks cheap and tacky" 👍 I completely agree.

"Using AI to design flyers is bad for the environment" I can tell you with 100% absolute certainty that the environmental impact of printing hundreds of paper flyers which will be looked at exactly once and then thrown in the garbage is like. Several orders of magnitude bigger than the environmental impact of generating the picture that will go on said flyers.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Like I find it hard to think of a position that more succinctly communicates "I never think about where anything comes from or how it's produced or how it's disposed of or the environmental costs of any steps in that process unless there's some sort of moral panic telling me to be concerned about it" than thinking that the "AI" part of "ads made with AI" is the part that's bad for the environment.

[maxknightley]

"it would be so good if it was good" will haunt you but "it's extremely good, except for the one or two parts which are so bad it's genuinely kind of insulting" will straight up drive you insane

[maxknightley]

one has you making posts like "okay but if the author UNDERSTOOD the POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS of the story they were telling, and leaned into it, it would actually be a really interesting exploration of..."

the other has you pacing your bedroom at one in the morning going "why. why would you ever in a million years do it like that. genuinely what possible thought process was involved. was the writer possessed by a fucking ghost or something."

[grouphug33]

Eva and Grace’s dynamic is so important to me. They’re in love platonically. Like, that’s not a common dynamic. She put the way he likes his coffee into the ship’s computer. He follows her around like a puppy. In the book, she cracks jokes with him and him only. She cares about his opinion. He was the only one she asked about the coma gene, wondering if it was worth it.

He’s her best friend, and she doesn’t even know it. They’re so close, that in the book, people think they’re sleeping together, and poor Grace is so confused because he thought that was his platonic work wife, wdym people think we’re sleeping together, that’s my person that I crack jokes with and then she glares at me because they’re not funny.

She’s softer with him than anybody else and is only ever vulnerable around him. We see in the movie, he’s the only one who ever gets her to smile, and sometimes even laugh, and then she serenades all of them, but mainly him, and he stares at her with those big, shiny eyes so lovingly, and she points at him when she sings, “everything’s gonna be alright”, and then she gives him those eyes, so loving.

And then she’s trying to stop herself from crying when she’s sending him away because, against her will, he’s become her person, and somewhere along the way, she’s become his, and they will have forever ended this relationship on bad terms, and nothing can fix that.

It’s a platonic tragedy. It’s a platonic love story. This is something we don’t get often, or, like, ever, and it’s deep and it’s tragic and it’s sad.

But even after, Eva’s still taking care of him. Packing clothes she knew would bring him comfort. Programming the ship to know how he likes his coffee. And Grace is still watching out for her, speaking to her directly in his video logs, with that same lopsided smile he used to throw her way.

He uses Rocky’s sign for goodbye, and she uses it back, and how did this book and movie give us such a deep platonic friendship because, guys, this NEVER HAPPENS.

Eva and Grace, the platonic male/female friendship of all time.

[isawken]

going over to my minimalist girlfriend’s house and she apologizes profusely for the mess and there’s just a single perfect, fresh pea on the floor of her living room

[bluelois]

Blue Lois

[isawken]

can i help you

[redmarge]

Red Marge

[isawken]

jesus christ. I Am Under Fucking Attack

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[isawken]

i deserve a medal for this post. not because i was particularly funny but because i survived an onslaught of nearly one hundred gimmick blogs in the wake of this post popping off, and the fact that i didn’t try to track any of them down and snuff them out with my bare hands is a testament to my immeasurable strength and should be rewarded. at one point i had “the official letter h” add on to this post. you wanna know that blog’s gimmick? the really funny and original and worthwhile gimmick the official letter h blog had? yep you guessed it they just gave me the god damned letter H and then fucked off. only jesus knows the suffering i endured over that harsh winter, and he wept for me

[iwashandpicked]

missionary so we can continue our argument from before

[thebadtimeskid]

Doggystyle so you can watch the PowerPoint presentation I made outlining why you were wrong

[sharkbill]

Realized the other day we got kinda Neville Longbottomed by Ferb. Couldn't let this thought go without including the entire, wholesome Flynn-Fletcher sibling unit!

THEY LOVE THEIR SISTER

[evilsanlang]

it's okay if you as a lesbian want to fuck the straight blonde popstar but you can't be pretending she's a lesbian too girl at least make it a lesbian corruption kink or some shit

[evilsanlang]

"taylor swift is a lesbian" check your house for mold

"I can fuck the heterosexuality out of sabrina carpenter" questionable taste, but much more respectable

[twentybrokenipodclassics]

[anony-phangirl]

It happened

[asquared-ohgodnotthehorrors]

[scoutsmoocrew]

What if a lactating person is locked in a room with a dog indefinitely? Should they let the dog starve?

Who are you people?!

[hattersarts]

gossip rag

[ace-cyclic]

[ID: Drawing of Miranda Priestly from The Devil Wears Prada smiling as Andy Sachs leans in to whisper something to her. Both are outdoors and may be stepping into a cab.

The drawing is above a newspaper headline and article. Text reads:

RARE SMILE FROM FASHION QUEEN: The Ice Queen Seen Yesterday Stepping Out with Former Assistant

By Christina Hatchet

Have you ever seen such a sight? We didn't know the ice queen could still smile but here it is in color. Not much is known about Priestly's former assistant Andrea Sachs, 29. She has worked for numerous publications including The New York Times, Rolling [article is cut off].

End ID]

[komsomolka]

ain't no way miss "my rich parents paid for my prestige private school and elite university but i refuse to acknowledge this privilege in any way" slanders mao as genocidal dictator while saying he "spiralled" because he was not doing well academically 💀

[phenakistoskope]

everyone bashes nineteen eighty four for being politically bereft, and completely miss the fact that it's also absolutely dogshit sci-fi.