So I guess my take-away from ::gestures:: all this is that after I graduated college I was not in fact a final-stage imago, I had to moult through several instars before, mediated by Covid, I pupated.
Huh, that post is the type the old personality used to make more, I noticed as writing it. And poking around in the background, just like “someone is wrong on the internet”, “people do not fully appreciate all the history that prefigured and informs contemporary issues” is the kind of thing whose felt imperative of addressing seems to correspond to anxiety levels.
So, there’s your explanation for that, “that creator isn’t producing your favorite kind of content anymore” was 100% a “his mental issues have cleared and he’s in a better place” thing.
Maybe you’ve had success starting drama this way before, but I generally regard anonymous messages making extremely inflammatory allegations with zero supporting evidence of any kind as a sign that you are making things up
Is this me? This vibes like one of my haters.
I mean it’s not even wrong, I do think that those are coherent extrapolations of the ethics our society is actually structured by and that that coherent attempts to follow through the logic of reversing that end up undermining everything (the whole of society) based on it, and that this is the issue that the Christian ideal of turning the other cheek or the Stoic one of just sucking it up addresses, and we should appreciate that
Like, the Christian angle isn’t just excuse-making for edginess, I’m not Christian but growing up being taken to weekly Masses to hear stories of the weird child prodigy who taught the temple elders how they were wrong and realized that if you just abandon your family and don’t mind death that no one has power over you was a huge influence
At the same time I’m definitely also heir to the ‘80s-born “aw why’d they go and ban lawn darts just cause some stupid kids couldn’t handle and got themselves killed?” sense and that’s part of it too, the sense that not only do attempts to shield everyone from harm reduce quality of life but that ungating life from these kinda penalty-of-suffering skill checks benefits those who would reduce the average quality of the population who make it in
Like, into at least the mid-90s there was a sense of culture/counterculture, that there were the cool cynical edgy young types who still lived in the crime-filled cities, and did drugs, and were relevant, and then there were the churchgoing suburban normies
And we in the cool counterculture dismissed that as bullshit but the content of their issues isn’t too far off from today…
Like, when they saw Hollywood as a sin-filled and degrading place it was very much run by people who weren’t even hiding MeToo-ass stuff. When they demanded various codes of propriety and deference to motherhood it was very much so women who understood care of others as the highest calling had affirming life experiences. They fretted about children being abused and the moral content of children’s entertainment…
Like, that was very much the message of PCU (1994) – These Proto-SJWs And Take Back The Night-Era “Rape Crisis” Feminists And The Cultural Codes They Desire Are Fundamentally Identical With What The Counterculture Rejected, And Would Degrade The Chill Life We Have Finally Normalized
But the counterculture won, and hegemonized America, but forgot that now that they were in charge they needed to keep that stuff out
Maybe you’ve had success starting drama this way before, but I generally regard anonymous messages making extremely inflammatory allegations with zero supporting evidence of any kind as a sign that you are making things up
Is this me? This vibes like one of my haters.
I mean it’s not even wrong, I do think that those are coherent extrapolations of the ethics our society is actually structured by and that that coherent attempts to follow through the logic of reversing that end up undermining everything (the whole of society) based on it, and that this is the issue that the Christian ideal of turning the other cheek or the Stoic one of just sucking it up addresses, and we should appreciate that
Like, the Christian angle isn’t just excuse-making for edginess, I’m not Christian but growing up being taken to weekly Masses to hear stories of the weird child prodigy who taught the temple elders how they were wrong and realized that if you just abandon your family and don’t mind death that no one has power over you was a huge influence
Or not. I mean, Hamlet was the protagonist, right?
Chuck Palahniuk’s writing style consists of ejaculating on the wall and seeing what sticks.
“Dracula” isn’t a real person, “Commissioner Gordon” isn’t a real person, but Gary Oldman DOES count for both.
“man does it suck to get nuked, people who nuke people are total assholes”
(And this is neither here nor there but all the interior decoration guys have frosted tips and a lilting, mincing patter, which, like, 1994 called and it wants its total fucking stereotypes back.)
When I was growing up you were supposed to laugh at the rubeish naivete of the 1950s “Our Friend the Atom” stuff, but now that I think of it we never got nuked but I’ve known a lot of people who’ve had radiation therapy or MRIs.
The main advantage of such a gap between election and inauguration is it’s too long to maintain a peasant army.
If you’re crazy and you know it, self-aware! If you’re crazy and you know it, self-aware! It’s chic to be insane, just go meta with your brain If you’re crazy and you know it, self-aware!
fun kontextmaschine fact: when I attempt to supernaturally impose my will on the universe (mostly when I’m trying to get a replay match at pinball) I wag my right pointer and middle fingers at the object of my attention
this comes from Vampire Princess Miyu, where the title character had rings that would chime like a bell when she did this
in case you were trying to figure out what gift your ambassador should bring me
“Our Band Name Could Be Your Life” is my tumblr of ridiculous hypothetical band names that occur to me as a result of reading, writing, and watching movies. I do also take submissions.
