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doug eiffel is a radio guy in every sense. eiffel still listens to music on the radio and he complains about what they play, but no matter how many times people tell him he can just listen to his own music instead, he wants to listen to the radio and complain about it, so he won’t stop. eiffel thinks it’s sacrilege when classic rock stations play anything more recent than the 80s.
#wolf 359#w359#doug eiffel#i know this is true i feel it in my heart#he's an analog man#and he loves a good radio show. or a bad radio show. whatever#i feel like people underestimate how nostalgia brained eiffel is tbh#he likes some newer stuff but it's mostly very mainstream#he's a pop culture guy but a pop culture guy of another era and his attachment to the technology associated with that era of pop culture#is unshakable#he likes stuff he can take apart and fix by himself with whatever's lying around. he made his own walkie talkies. etc#type of guy who still has his blockbuster card in his wallet#type of guy who watches movies on tv even though he has them on dvd#and he worked in surveillance there's noo way he trusts streamlined modern technology with 'smart' features or the equivalent#i was watching a video the other day about local radio/tv repair places that went out of business because nothing is built#to be repaired anymore and products are designed so they can only be repaired/replaced by the companies that made them#and i think eiffel would have a lot to say about that. and he would be right.
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Jonathan Sims is Theseus' Ship
Jonathan Sims is Theseus' Ship. He's a question on how many pieces of someone can be carved out before there fundamentally different. A question of how many of those pieces can be replaced by something other, something he never asked for until he's not him anymore. At what point, in the slow, seasons-long degradation of himself does Jon give way to The Archivist? And by season 5, there is a very real threat that, by saving everything, Jon might tear all those new pieces out. That, in breaking wood and banished Eyes, the ship would be so full of holes that, no more question, it will sink.
#jonathan sims#jon sims#tma#the magnus archives#the eye#theseus' ship#i have so many thoughts#and so many feelings about this man#He and his boyfriend consume my every waking thought#doomed by the narrative#chosen by the age of 8 to become everything you fear#the slow trickle of the loss of himself#i've been reading Upton House period fanfic#if you couldn't tell#Upton in this analogy would be if all the replaced parts suddenly started breaking down#slowly#but far too fast
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I made this meme because of What UrbanSpook said to Pastra on Twitter as some 2 content creators going after him for that. and also because there are some people who Almost don't like UrbanSpook and his series.
#meme?#meme#analog horror#pastra#urbanspook#digital horror#your not affiliated with me meme#i dont hate him#but what he did#was just#bad.#like wtf#i understand#not everyone will like his stuff#but the man#pretty much took it#too far#like#keep that shit to yourself#instead of#attacking others#but if you like his stuff#thats fine#by me
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Mailer from the first official UK Beatles fan club to an American fan, including the initial club papers and an update from 1965, when her membership was first issued. + unaffiliated US-made Beatles trading cards. (via)
transcript available here.
#yes i wrote out a whole transcript cos it's shite quality and hard to read lol#but i really enjoyed reading about the logistics of running a fully analog correspondence-based fan club#would love to know if there's some sort of proper archive of the official beatles fan club stuff it's so dear#of course george answered the question about money...his reply is what makes me think they actually wrote these themselves. or he at least#commandeered that particular one to speak his TRUTH#also paul's whole bio..what is wrong with that man#the beatles
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jelix gets so much hate and people act like it's truly problematic. It's so funny to me. you can hate its fans and not have to justify it with acting as if the ship itself is somehow offensive.
sorry y'all can't see the beauty in 70s repressed homosexual adultery and the consequences of it being tragedy. i forgot the kids these days haven't even seen brokeback mountain.
#also its just fiction guys this isnt real life men cheating on their wives lmfao these are some fictional dudes in an analog yt series#theyre like wahhhhhh he killed his kids and jack hates him now !!! yeah. now. are we disregarding the 20 years of friendship#where they built their dream company together? no ones saying that jack would fuck him post accident lmfao yall are just reaching#blah blah jack would NEVER do that to rose!!! first of all you dont actually know anything about him.#second of all people do shit you'd never expect all the time. even if they do love someone and are happy#also that one take where someone says the concept of jelix is inherently racist because jack is latino and felix is white so#that means jack is giving in to a white mans desires is insaneeee do yall hear yalls selves. like seriously listen to yourself. just once.#and its weird for you to tack actual racial issues onto a fictional ship that has NOTHING to do with that.#literally saw someone say that its perpetuating the white man desires and exotic latino stereotype and im sitting here like what.#what does that have to do with twf. yall just reaching. just say you dont like jelix and go. simple.#the walten files fandom is a joke atp. none of you should be watching this series yall arent mature enough yall cant even handle a ship#let alone a story centering around actual serious topics like childhood trauma and addiction and morally grey characters#rant over#twf#the walten files
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david didn’t become a preacher after the world ended because he found god. no one needed teachers anymore, no one was sending their kids off to school to learn math. the only way he could keep power and authority—and specifically power and authority over children—was by turning himself into a holy man.
#he’s terrifying for how real he is#i love cordyceps as an antagonist—it’s legitimately super interesting#but david’s evil is uncomfortably real#also#i cannot stress enough that david was not actually a holy man—he said himself he wasn’t a believer and became a pastor AFTER the outbreak#that’s the whole POINT of him—using an established institution of authority to hold on to power when the institution he WAS using collapsed#the last of us#the last of us 1x08#aj watches#pro tip! no one who ever talks about ‘‘be fruitful and multiply’’ ever has anything good in mind#the reason there are so many irl abusers in the church is because it is an institution where questioning authority is an absolute no-no#when questioning some guy is seen as analogous to questioning god—that guy basically has carte blanche to tell people to do anything
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barty fucks like a fever dream you have at a theme park
riding a luxury rollercoaster but the screws are loose!!
#a#restoring these special deleted tags for shan:#for the record this is not in any way analogous to how i view actual sex in real life this is about my Yaoi Men! fujoshi goggles on!!#i tend to write soft doms (🥰Be Good For Me) or hard doms (👿Behave). my barty is a Yeehaw Wild Card Dom (WHAT IF I PULLED THE TRIGGER 🥴)#i have no idea what that man is doing ever but by god he is having a great time!#probably giving a running commentary. doing bits. most perverse thing you've ever heard of. making small talk. he's an enigma to me#when Evan is in charge the foreplay involves a charged 45 minutes of him putting on a glove btw
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Hi! I can’t remember if I ask this already or not, but could you please make a Wylde Hare/Detective Zagzagel agre mood board?
(Zagzagel as either a caregiver or little.)
(I personally headcanon him as a little because he’s too much of a workaholic and needs a break.)
of course firelight! detective/angel zagzagel is definitely in need of a break. he works so hard for the people he cares about!! i would love to see a fic where gabby takes care of him when he regresses or be supervised by francine. i hope you enjoy the board! ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚
#he is an old man i just know when he's regressed or not he'd be BLOWN away by electronic toys /lovingly#regressor! zagzagel#cw religious imagery#cw analog horror#angel hare agere#angel hare#angel zaggy#angel zagzagel#fandom agere#agere#age regression#agere moodboard#sfw agere moodboard#sfw agere#sfw age regression#sfw agere blog#sfw age regression blog#sfw interaction only#ember creates
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watching goose boose react to white stag education
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ranger Luke lowkey kinda smashable…
like dayum officer come arrest me PLEASE
#dylanotenation#white stag education#I belong in hell#analog horror#goose boose#HE CAN SING TOO HES A MUSICAL MAN
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I'm reading through the book Star Wars on Trial and it's interesting. I completely disagree with almost everything I've read in it so far, but at least it's well-argued and written light-heartedly, it doesn't take itself that seriously.
The book is framed as a court hearing in which the prosecutor and defense attorney - both hilariously pompous and petty - debate their points and hear from witnesses. David Brin speaks for the prosecution, and Matthew Stover (author of the Revenge of the Sith novelization) speaks for the defense...
... and the thing is, I find myself disagreeing with both of them.
Example: Brin doesn't like or get the Jedi's rule of non-attachment, sees it as cutting off any and all relationships or emotions.
"In order to be a skilled and good and worthy warrior, you must cut yourself off from the very attachments that make a decent coworker, lover, spouse, parent and citizen. [...] One can understand demanding that a young adept avoid undue distraction while focusing hard on his training. But to cut off all thought of loved ones, even when they are suffering? Where is the "wisdom" in that?"
But when you look at his whole argument, at least it's clear that his real issue is with the narrative itself, he's disagreeing with (what he thinks is) Lucas' message regarding attachments.
What really surprises me, however, is Stover's response:
"One can hardly hold the Saga accountable for teaching that the "skilled and worthy warrior must cut off all attachments, etc." because this is explicitly defined in the Saga as the primary error of the Prequel-Era Jedi. With apologies to Opposing Counsel, he simply missed the boat here. That's all there is to it. Not only is that "cutting off all attachment" business defined as exactly what drives Anakin Skywalker to become Darth Vader, but it's precisely the error that Yoda is determined to correct by allowing Luke and Leia to be raised by real families."
His argument is "you misunderstood the narrative, the 'no attachment' rule is intentionally framed as bad."
I mean... no? It's not.
And, like... you know this @Matthew Stover. I know for a fact that you get what the whole "no attachments" deal is about and what the intended narrative is (not just because you spent an afternoon talking to George Lucas), because I've seen you explain it:
What he says in the above video perfectly aligns with the many comments Lucas made on the subject of attachment.
So what's with the 180° in Star Wars on Trial?
And, btw, that's how the whole book goes, so far.
First, the prosecution will nitpick by ignoring or misinterpreting the intended narrative, and point out something they don't like about the Prequels, eg: the Jedi as retroactively reframed by the Prequels, heartless, detached and callous.
The defense (who should know the narrative) will counter with "you're missing the point, it's supposed to be perceived badly because:
the Prequels are actually this subversive commentary about how the good guys are actually not that good,
Anakin was destined to wipe the Jedi out and the Sith to bring Balance to the Force
the Jedi's rules are dogmatic and Luke triumphs because he rejects them."
Instead of defending the message of the movies and standing up for it, he clearly implicitly agrees with the prosecution's argument and thus reframes the message by stating that the films actually agree with what the prosecution is saying.
Again, the arguments are interesting and well-researched in some cases, and I get that the whole book is playful in tone (the judge is a friggin' droid for crying out loud 😆) but I feel like if you're gonna defend your client, defend the damn client, right?
#best analogy I can come up with is:#supposing that instead of defending a movie Stover was defending a man who shot and killed Hitler#the prosecution is saying ‘killing is bad!’ and the defense is arguing ‘my client knows and he’s sorry’#‘he did it to save lives’#when he SHOULD be saying ‘it may have been illegal but there’s no fucking way that killing Hitler is bad’#dunno if this makes sense#the Prequels are indie movies made by an experimental filmmaker… you can like or dislike them#you can call them unconventional#but calling them ‘bad’ doesn’t apply because they don’t adhere to the general audience’s standards of quality in the first place#they’re not meant to be blockbusters they’re myths reintroduced to an audience of 8-12 year olds#attachment#revenge of the sith#matthew stover#star wars#anakin skywaker#jedi order
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It’s Cultural
The day after the data burst including news of the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell comes through, Rodney walks into Sheppard’s office and notices a little rainbow flag sitting unobtrusively in the cup where John keeps two pens and five perfectly sharpened number two pencils.
“Ah,” Rodney says, nodding to the flag, “congratulations to your government for joining the rest of us in the twenty-first century.”
That gets him a sharp, sarcastic smile, Sheppard leaning back in his chair and twirling a pen—his pen, not one of the crappy BICs from the cup—between long, clever fingers.
“Good of you to, um,” one of Rodney’s hands comes up, circling through the air, “show support.” He snaps his fingers, suddenly remembering the term Jeannie’d used to describe herself during one of those phone calls where Rodney felt like he was only following about half of what was being said, “Allies are, well, important, and all that.”
John blinks two times, twirls the pen once, and says, “Well, I’m gay, actually.”
“Oh!” Rodney says, half of his brain turning to static. He nods his head, hears himself say, “cool,” and watches John’s mouth do something before he rights his chair, looks like he’s about to speak.
“Gentlemen,” and Woolsey’s voice right at his left shoulder makes Rodney startle, whirling around with wide eyes. “Senior staff meeting?”
“Right behind you,” Sheppard says, sliding smoothly out of his chair, and then it’s just another day on Atlantis.
Another day on Atlantis for Rodney, right now, means spending four hours elbow-deep in the wiring of the city’s power systems, which have been acting screwy ever since they flew the city back to Pegasus. He makes good progress, actually, focused and in the zone, and he doesn’t even realize that some siloed-off part of his mind has been working on the morning’s revelation until Sheppard shows up for dinner and chess and Rodney suddenly has about fourteen pressing questions for him.
Over the years, Rodney’s heard John Sheppard share personal information about himself on vanishingly few occasions, even fewer if it’s narrowed down to times when he’s been in full possession of his faculties, but since it had been nine in the morning and they’d all already been vaccinated against most Pegasus truth serums, he has to conclude that this detail about Sheppard’s sexuality was, in fact, freely given. It’s that conclusion that makes Rodney open his mouth (though he waits till they’re alone in his quarters, chess board between them, because he’s got no reason to believe that John isn’t still near-pathologically private).
“So you’re,” Rodney says, setting down the pawn in his hand, “you’re gay gay? Not like, bi, or, or…uh, heteroflexible, or…”
John sighs like he’s expected this, and picks up one of his bishops, the piece looking long and ivory between his tanned fingers. “Gay gay,” he confirms.
Rodney nods, compares this to the data set. “What about—you were married, to a woman, and the, the ancient priestesses, and Larrin—“
John gives him a thoughtful look, like he’s trying to decide whether to brush this whole thing off or not, and then he sets the bishop down, leans back against Rodney’s couch.
“Look, it’s kind of like…” he pauses, furrowing his brow, and Rodney realizes he’s not getting the brush-off, he’s actually getting the hard-won John Sheppard honesty, which usually doesn’t show up unless someone’s nearly died recently. “You know how you’re a kid and your parents take you to church every Sunday, but when you grow up you just,” John shrugs, “you just go on Christmas and Easter ‘cause it’s what you’re supposed to do?”
Rodney blinks. Sometimes he forgets that John is actually just as weird as he is, underneath the hair and handsomeness and athleticism.
“So you’re saying you…” Rodney wavers, trying to speak within the analogy John’s set up, “you fuck women culturally?”
John shrugs. “Essentially, yeah.”
#mcshep#fic#don't ask don't tell#i might expand this into something more#but mostly i just had the idea of john making that “cultural” analogy#and rodney like wtf this man is so weird but no one notices cause he's hot#and i needed to write it immediately
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watching that video m*tp*t made on “are theories killing video games” (yes, idiot) and he really goes “developers not knowing where the story is going and instead writing it as they go along in response to fan reaction is not a bad thing” BRO. YES IT IS.
#anti game theory#anti matpat#sorry but i hate this man#he just doesn't want to admit his own role in video games (ESPECIALLY indie horror) getting worse#yes fnaf has largely led to the killing of indie horror but what made fnaf popular? putting tiny little hidden clues in the game#for people online to obsess over; fnaf would not have been sustained for this long without the theory community largely spearheaded by gt#THAT'S what games like hello neighbor and batim and poppy playtime et cetera are chasing dumbass#i wont deny that some amount of love gets put into the games but the vast majority of indie horror is just spooky halfassed analog horror#designed to GET PEOPLE TO MAKE THEORIES ABOUT IT#die#i speak#also i don’t like the poppy playtime developers but to be fair on THIS subject im pretty sure they actually have a solid plan for the story#even if future chapters only have a few key points planned NOW that’s still more than like. batim could have said
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Ah yes
I love the Mandela Catalogue.
#pizza tower#the mandela catalogue#mandela county#peppino spaghetti#fake peppino#analog horror#he just shows up man#he just showed up
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Lament
#analog horror#the mandela catalogue#mandela catalogue#tmc#thatcher davis#shmorps art#don’t mind the lazily done bricks#anyway I quite like how this turned out#it’s police man. he has depression#love his character so much. need to draw him more
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“Beat-wise the fastest track the Stones have ever cut or any other rock and roll song. It even beats ‘Rip This Joint’, which is always considered to be the fastest track ever cut. But it does come roaring at this beautiful beat and that's why I've been saying about Charlie Watts.
[The album] starts with Charlie and it actually ends with Charlie, the whole record, so you know, I can go on and on about him, and everybody else yeah, great, really. But to me the real pleasure is playing with Charlie Watts, who is right on the top of his game. And that makes it much easier for me. Then I can really fly, you know what I mean.”
Keith comments on ‘Flip The Switch’ (1997)
#'I know other people exist in this band. I just don't care about anyone but Charlie. and I don't want to talk about anyone but Charlie'#I mean...what can you even say to that?#it's not just beyond parody#it's beyond the scope of normal human reason to comprehend#'it starts with Charlie and it ends with Charlie'#yeah. why am I not surprised that that's the case when you're 50% of the team editing/mastering it Keith?#'then I can really fly'#I'm in love with the way he always uses this analogy for their musical relationship#as though Charlie is so powerful and unique that he gave him wings#it's like when he starts talking about how all of his inspiration for riffs comes from Charlie. or how Charlie believing in him#is the only reason he's become the player he has and has written the most lasting songs in his catalogue#he truly sees himself as nothing without that man#the rolling stones#charlie watts#keith richards#old married band#quote
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anyways one hc I never really bring up but I always play with is that lilith pleasant is an egg to me. get that man some large boots
#my reasoning? projection actually#i just always trans him when i do pleasantview idk its just the vibe#the pleasant family has unnaccepting vibes to me and i hc that's part of the reason dan hates dustin so much#and also dirk is sneaking out with lilith so they can do transmasc shit :) its wholesome really#nobody say 'they can't all be trans' stfu yeah they can. have you ever met teenaged trans kids. they're pack animals even when closeted#my high school friend group went from mostly girls to almost entirely men after graduation#also specifically he's transmasc but not fully a man to me. he/they and generally anti-gender. but thats just my take.#editing tags again to add that name wise they totally double down on the biblical analogy shit and goes with Cain or something.
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