The tenure of Kerr “SELF SEALING” WIDE MOUTH MASON was brief and uneventful, and he is now remembered only by students of history and users of the convenient jars which, for obscure political reasons, are still required to bear his name
Has the word “major” in “Now a major motion picture!” ever meant anything concrete? Have people ever spoken of “major motion pictures” outside of this phrase?
The names of Kierkegaard’s works have that unique sound otherwise found only in the English-language titles of anime series, and I get the sense this is not an just artifact of their journey from Danish to English
(Either/Or is about the blazing rivalry of two CLAMP-esque bishounen; Concluding Unscientific Postscript is a paranomal adventure; Works of Love is shoujo; The Sickness Unto Death is some kind of grimdark chuunibyou thing)
Anonymous asked: Good points and finely crafted insults are necessary, but not sufficient criteria for ensuring an anonymous shit disturber on the internet worth considering and subsequently engaging. The real ace in the hole is a conspicuous affinity for mathematical language, with an honorable mention to an amazingly robust cinematic background.
I feel like this has to be a vagueblog, but about whom? Like, this collection of traits sounds like it ought to exist in some notorious internet personality, none of them are especially rare or incompatible, but I’m still at a loss
ETA: although “anonymous” and “notorious” aren’t really compatible, but then, IDK how I would be able to discern all these traits in a truly anonymous message, unless it was very very long
Anonymous asked: What makes Trump so disturbing to me is it seems like he's a living advertisement for the merits of bureaucratic autocracy. The president is trolling twitter, congress is focused on rehashing an election already over a year stale, the court might as well be masturbating under the robes, and the 4th estate's eating all this shit up like Chinese food—as presented, it the only hope for the country's wheels remaining on the axels is unelected portions of the government, raising disturbing questions.
All that’s missing is a new, radically optimistic Ralph Nader novel entitled Only The Deep State Can Save Us!
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Anonymous asked: Have you ever read, tried reading or considered reading R. Scott Bakker's Second Apocalypse series? I would love to get to see what you make of it.
Never heard of it, although I feel like I maybe read a review sometime long ago. I have a vague impression, from somewhere, of Bakker being like … ultra-grimdark? Which is not exactly my thing. Should I look into it?
Anonymous asked: homestucks are juggalo-adjacent
I mean this in the friendliest possible way: I have absolutely no idea why you sent me this string of words
Note: Bisected, flayed, or otherwise disemboweled beings are included in this tally, as long as they still retain some degree of flesh; skulls and skeletons are not.
So here’s something I realized is disorienting (in a good way) about the Southern Reach trilogy: the sinister and consuming force is referred to as the brightness.
Anonymous asked: That Tao paper is pretty awesome, but it just puts a fine point on how thoroughly fucked I am. Somehow my mind broke, and now I can barely read light fiction let alone digest modestly rigorous mathematical treatises. Can't program, can't write, can't even *troll* worth a turd anymore—even this ask's a shit imitation of the skill and style I worked hard honing. Twelve years of college down the fucking drain. All of my dreams are dead, including dragging your dorky-ass stories onto the big screen.
Aw jeez :/
I either don’t know you, or if I do know you I don’t know that it is you since you’re on anon, so I can’t give any sort of informed feedback about you specifically. But I do hope this gets less bad over time, and I think things like this are more likely to do so than we tend to realize in the moment
I myself definitely have a tendency to think any low point is a reflection of a permanent downward shift, even though I’ve been wrong in that judgment time and time again. (Not implying you’re not aware of this bias – it’s more that this bias obeys Hofstadter’s Law: one is often still making it even after attempting to correct for it.)