Irony is that one of the cautionary tales in 13's era was the dangers and dehumanisation of putting somebody on a pedestal (the master putting 13 on a pedestal bc of some scraps of genetic code, and long story very very short, this ends in him murdering her) bc oof you guys are gonna do the fandom over fawn thing with the new/old showrunner and then turn on him like rabid dogs over something arbitrary and do a metaphorical murder, and this is so unnecessary and could be avoided by just treating him like a person to start with 🙃

cuddy loves the malpractice so much

Waymond Wang being a decent human being in every universe. Ke Huy Quan in EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE, ALL THE TIME, 2022.(quotes abridged because... you have to see it to understand it).

The number of hours we have together is actually not so large. Please linger near the door uncomfortably instead of just leaving. Please forget your scarf in my life and come back later for it.

On Absurdism

1. Albert Camus— The Stranger / 2. Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth —Sacrifice and Bliss / 3. Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) / 4. Emil Cioran— On Heights of Despair / 5. Clarice Lispector / 6. Albert Camus— The Myth of Sisyphus / 7. Franz Kafka / 8. Ivan Turgenev—Fathers and Sons / 9. C'mon C'mon—Mike Mills/ 10. Mikko Harvey — No regrets

Thrilled to know if we ever got a book from Ianthe’s perspective it would be written as a screenplay where she is the main character in the grand show like she always thought she was

Im watching The Magnus Archives for the first time at the behest of a friend and so far its just like

Episode 1: ok, fun little horror stories. Seems competently written, but I'm not sure how invested I'll get in a story who's format relegates plot and story progression to the background.

Episode 14: Bravo. This story really got to me. Being threatened with a future in which parts of you are removed one by one, and being powerless to stop it, just having to live with the knowledge that soon there will be nothing left? Horrifying. The Magnus Archives is a horror podcast and it does it well

Episode 16: Ok, I'm with Jon on this one. You are telling me that this guy was haunted and killed by the ghost of a vengeance addled spider? Thats ridiculous. What a way to go. It's almost funny.

Episode 34: bone apple teeth. I think I've solved it. The Magnus Archives is an absurdist comedy. The institute, a becon of knowledge and understanding, is being contrasted with these stories that defy the ability to be understood. They are researching the paranormal, which is an oxymoron. The primary humor comes from Jon, a rational skeptic failing to accept the reality of an irrational world. This contrast is further exemplified with occasional bouts of mundanity (Tim complaining about errors in recordings, Sasha pondering the pronunciation of calliope, martin not wearing trousers), which further highlight the Absurd. So many people witness events beyond their comprehension, horrific and wacky alike, and then have to just go back to their normal lives like nothing happened, and it's hilarious each and every time.

ros as memes?

this took me embarrassingly long to answer i'm so sorry JFSFKS

jinwol

yul

iseul

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Clown bible and Puppet History, the only meaningful interpretations of god to me

thinking about riverdale finale:

the thing about the jarchie paradox is that archie’s Gay Feelings challenge the narrative of the all american boy and jughead IS the narrator. he can’t actively participate. narrator jughead and real human boy jughead being merged creates a persona where he’s one step removed from the reality they’re living in, having to control the narrative and live it out without REALLY living it

i bet they’d have the craziest beef

Ich bin fasziniert von deinem FdG Gifset aber ich verstehs nicht tbh 🙈 kannst du es mir erklären? I wanna understaaaand

omg yes for sure! It's a niche combo lol aber es hat mich nicht losgelassen

Also Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead ist mein Lieblingstheaterstück. Keine Ahnung wie bekannt es ist eigentlich, ich habe's mit 17 oder so in dem Englischunterricht gelesen als wir das Absurde studiert haben, also ich fange mal da an. Es geht um zwei Nebenfiguren aus Hamlet, die Hamlet am ende nach England schickt mit Briefen, die ihre eigenen Hinrichtungen fördern. Die müssen sich dann damit auseinandersetzen, dass sie das Ende erreicht haben und wirklich nie eine echte Chance darauf hatten, dass irgendwas anders läuft. ("There must have been a moment, somewhere, where we could have said—no. But somehow we missed it.")

Und diese Zitat ist das Letzte, was Rosencrantz sagt, und daraufhin verschwindet er von der Bühne — und Guildenstern, der so in seinen eigenen Gedanken vertieft ist, merkt es nicht mal.

Also das Zitat hatte ich sofort im Kopf, als ich die letzte Szene von FdG gesehen habe, also dieses "To tell you the truth, I'm relieved." Weil mir Adams hysterisches Gelächter am Ende irgendwie wirklich als Erleichterung vorgekommen ist. Also habe ich dann die GIFs gemacht und ich dachte, so würden sie vielleicht ein bisschen hoffnungsvoll wirken, und dann habe ich mich daran erinnert, dass das doch Ros's letzte line ist, und dann habe ich mir gedacht, huh, und was, wenn Adam doch jetzt wieder verschwindet, weil er Leo ohne das Geld nicht von Boris schützen kann?

Und dann habe ich die Stage Direction hinzugefügt. Nur dass es mir gar keinen Sinn gemacht hatte, nur "GUIL" dazulassen, also ich habe auch dann "LEO" reingetan (was übrigens auch passt, von den beiden würde ich sagen, dass Adam mehr wie Rosencrantz ist und Leo mehr wie Guildenstern).

me: oh im goimg to have a nice little aesthetic profile and a nice calming cozy feel and certainly give off fall vibes!

mind: what if i fixated on a circus. with bright, popping colors. what if i made your favorite one the neon purple rabbit. what then huh

The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Albert Camus, “The Myth of Sisyphus”

OC QUESTION ! Deidre. 2. How easy is it for your character to laugh?

oh OH i think deidre is the kind of person to like roll his eyes and do that little laugh exhale thing you do when you find things mildly amusing/funny but actual genuine laughter? actually pretty difficult to do! (it is just kind of hard to get a big reaction out of them in general so)

but when they laugh? like laugh laugh? dorkiest laugh you'll ever hear. wheezing, snorting, all that stuff!

listening to in the aeroplane over the sea again. i forgot how good but weird these lyrics were like tf you mean "the communist daughter standing on the seaweed water, semen stains the mountaintops," that's not a sentence jeff that's just words???? strange words at that

the insane thing about riverdale people going "um the absurdity was a part of the show" is that no it absolutely was not. i was there when the deep magic was written, i REMEMBER the early seasons of the show and the discussion around it, they were one hundred percent not being intentional absurd. everything in season 1-4 was entirely serious and intended to be taken seriously (remember in season 4 when ras tried to rein himself back in and literally said they were gonna focus more on HS stuff and small scale murder mystery things), and then at some point the show realized it was being laughed at, not with, and just decided to do crazy stuff so that the "riverdale cringe" compilations wouldn't be mocking genuine sincere writing attempts but instead things that they were actively trying to make ridiciulous.

like, no, your show was bad, and people were making fun of that, so the writers tried to pivot and make something that made it seem like that was the plan all along. but it absolutely wasn't, i remember how it was before y'all realized everyone was mocking this shit.