nobody in this fucking room knows what the chem professor is talking about holy shit.

aes sedai: do you swear to speak no word that is not true?

moiraine, who grew up in a culture that required all participants to constantly obfuscate their true intentions and carefully manipulate others to try and avoid being assassinated by a paranoid member of a rival house before they reached the age of eleven: sure lol why not

friendly reminder

The prevailing belief of many ASTV viewers seems to be that Miguel O'Hara is an actual, literal vampire. Do you think this funny.

Nope! <3 it shows such a lack of willingness to do even Basic Research that would take maybe two seconds to look up that it makes me want to Kill. like. cmon. he has Fangs because he's half-spider...,,.,

They're hollow, and whenever he Bites People, it is specifically with the intent to POISON them with the VENOM from his FANGS-- he also Says That every time he does it, like he's an anime character, lol, and it means a lot to me. we don't know the exact makeup or potency of his venom, but we Do know that it's fast-acting, paralytic, and (apparently, thankfully) non-toxic, at least.

Thinking about A Square being returned wrong. Mirrored. Irreversible

A Sphere fucks up, and puts him down in the wrong direction, wrong side up. It's not like he remembers, but A Square certainly does. When he wakes up- it's too late.

The third dimension never phased him, but what about something so intrinsic as your own body, flipped the wrong way? The world becoming upside-down, having to relearn to navigate the places you called home. And it's such obvious proof of the third dimension, but what if it's all in your head? No one can tell with your features being confined to a corner, you can only try to explain the distress you're going through, but if you try you'll certainly be deemed a madman.

We know his knowledge changed him, but what if it changed him physically? In a way he can never return from? He could've passed it off as the strangest dream, denied it's truth, lived the rest of his life at peace, but how do you disprove something so concrete? Would he think himself insane too, after a while?

Someone let me access a two-dimensional being i have a hypothesis that needs to be tested

being a hater about a popular media so im putting it in the tags

Forever torn between 'norse paganism is inherently reconstructive because we have very few written sources of information about that era and its practices, and some things we will just never know' and 'if i have to hear one more person try to convince me that the vegevisir is a genuinely esoteric viking compass i will start killing'

How do you view love?

violent

harsh words and cold glares. painful in the way that your heart burns but can never seem to seek for something better. it is the way you would walk through glass to see a smile, or claw at your own arms just to satisfy another, give and never take for the guilt that comes with wanting is suffocating. emotionally draining and a forever ache that you can't escape.

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hey kind of weird question but i saw a post of yours from a couple years ago while searching some random tags and you mentioned having some opinions about anais mitchell (presumably her recorings of the child ballads?) and the whole coffee shop au-ification of balladry (particularly tam lin) and that resonated so hard with me so i just thought i'd ask you to elaborate more on that because i genuinely want to hear what you have to say. also i fucking love angela carter

oh man... I mean first of all I just reject the term 'child ballad' out of hand nowadays because like fjc was some random racist eugenicist middle class american academic borderline-hobbyist who never even heard a folk song in the wild and basically just compiled stuff other people had already written down. so even if I pretend to subscribe to the ownership of the collector, which I don't, we never refer to 'sharp ballads' or 'percy ballads' or even 'burns ballads', despite the fact that burns was actively re/writing his. add to that the fact that like a third of child's collection came from a specific, named woman (Anna Gordon/Mrs Brown of Falkland) and you start to get angry at the anonymisation&dehumanisation of 'the folk', especially when you learn that child's ballads made him rich yet socially humiliated mrs brown. she (along with numerous other women + burns as a kind of anomalous man) was working actively from inside a tradition, but we instead default to the authority of the prejudiced outsider because of romantic beliefs about the naivety of 'the folk'. (if anything, child actively harmed the tradition with his completely arbitrary subjectivity + not collecting any fucking tunes...)

the very notion of folk music as just this organic wellspring that just emerges naturally from a people-group is a victorian/edwardian fantasy concocted by nationalists in order to reclaim said material, both for profit and for nationalism reasons. objectively speaking, someone or several someones composed that material & many of them were most likely women. the idea of claiming that folk music 'belongs' to all of 'us' (and 'us' at least in its original intention meaning white english people or white people of english extraction) because several generations of performers put their own spin on it is like saying the beatles' copyright really belongs to all of us because lennon & mccartney co wrote them. I'm not arguing for copyright law here but like the recognition of folksong ownership is completely broken in popular conception and it's v much a case of the idea that something belongs to 'everyone' is erasing the actual individuals/groups whose cultural property it is. (+ the living folk tradition regularly accepts new songs of known authorship, and operates a paradigm of collective ownership that is really ill served by the modern idea of intellectual property that can only make something a specific someone's or no one's at all)

so in THAT context, the girlbossification and uwuification of balladry by an outsider (who believes themselves to be an insider) is just kind of grotesque. firstly you're working from a canon which was selected and heavily modified by a victorian man to suit his delicate sensibilities, and then projecting like modern western feminist sensibilities on them. I've seen like 'feminist reworkings' of songs which lament women's helplessness, or exist for mothers to warn daughters about sexual assault. this is where the angela carter comparison comes in bc shes like the patron saint against the 'feminism is when women slay' school of folklore retelling and also someone who was both working really hard not to claim ownership of the stories she collected or to claim thematic ownership with her interpretations, but also writing her own 'folklore retellings' that actually comprehend and work with the deep themes at play rather than being like hm it's kind of problematic that the prince couldn't remember what cinderella looked like (fwiw most cinderella-esque stories are explicitly about the resourcefulness of the girl, and the prince - w his attached status+possessions - is literally just there to be her reward lol kind of a win for feminism idk..)

it's the belief that everyone in the past, especially if they were illiterate, was stupid. not to Survivals Theory but I recently saw this song from an irish traveller woman who claimed it was in the bible which everyone found funny but it literally heavily resembles a story from the apocryphal infancy gospel of thomas, which incidentally was extant as old irish poetry c.700 CE. like the anais mitchell girlies always have this approach that they're the first ones to recognise how great this repertoire is, or something. and her approach is very like oh I've discovered this lost hidden tradition etc although ironically she herself is part of a historic tradition of north americans ripping off martin carthy LOL 🤭

sorry this is like a huge thing for me and i kind of ran out of steam to get into it all but i appreciate the question n i hope at least some of that means something to you<3

something so sexy abt men who are super passionate abt history but in a normal and cool way. every time i meet/watch vids from a dude who is just like enthusiastically rly into history (esp dudes who love specific stuff like fashion history or like, specific times and places and culture) and who is also not weird about it and cares about accuracy and nuance i get a lil crush abt it.. id like to be one of those dudes but its hard to get into history on your own

i think often about the anime posters they decided to put in dirk's room in homestuck 2 (i havent read it, but i was curious about the pictures of his room i saw.) and... i think i kind of disagree with the choices? the two i recognize are obviously revolutionary girl utena and gravitation and one other that looks familiar but i don't know what it is (also the picture quality is so godawful its hard to tell.) but i just keep wondering- why those specific anime? i just wonder if they put a lot of thought into it or just slapped whatever posters they could think of on his wall . what kind of anime do you think dirk would be interested in- do you agree or disagree with those choices?

trying to explain the connection between Outer Wilds and Disco Elyisum, two mystery-solving video games that have completely f'ed me over, emotionally, in these last two years, and I think it is:

Outer Wilds is a game that does a very BIG thing, with a BIG thing to say, that seems too big to name but i can describe it. i could describe the conclusion i reached, the feelings i had, the path through the mystery, and it wouldn't hit as hard as experiencing it firsthand but i believe you would at least understand what the big thing is and why it if effecting

Disco Elysium is a game that does a very small and very specific thing, with a small but important thing to say, and i could tell you what it is but i couldn't describe it. i couldn't make it sound nearly as weighty as it actually feels. i could tell you the mystery and how we went about solving it, i could tell you what my takeaway was, and at best you'd be like 'ok, cool detective story'. i couldn't do any better

Why did my fat ass just get an ad for a bra company that specializes EXCLUSIVELY in small cup sizes

Bitch I haven't been an A or even B cup since like 2014, bffr 😭😂😂

there is something so silly funny about talking to hs fans for the first time in so long. what do you guys MEAN you arent reading this with a heavy lean in on philosophy and politics what else IS THERE

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Man. I really am so lonely at school I can't wait to go home and see my friends. Not that I don't enjoy being alone but it sucks to feel so alone when so surrounded by so many people

It's not even as if people don't extend opportunities for friendship! And it's not even as if I don't want to take them! It's just as if I fumble and drop them; everything feels like I'm playing telephone in a different language

Being surrounded by people my age just reminds me of how different we seem over and over and over again like not that that's wrong on either of our parts but it really makes me feel so lonely. I wish I could connect easier. can't wait until I reach the socially acceptable age to become a hermit. Maybe that age is never