#Absurd Reality

[fckrteeth]

Woods Mattress / Absurd Reality | Woods Mattress, Absurd Reality | Outsider Industries

[wickedzeevyln]

Deep Pockets

Thoughtless What would it be like to get there, to look outside a window, searching, confused, lost, and see that everything I love and know is no longer there? Even as I smudge this screen with thoughts and shuddering emotions dressed as words, I can’t help but feel powerless in recounting the tale of dashing through time’s wilderness. The snapping jaws of life, like the teeth of a bear trap,…

[polkadotjohnson]

Almost Human - Simon Says (2014) (3/3)

[onceinawhilemoon]

sure, sherry. your brother would just let M walk free after he literally checked every single box under Ways to Antagonize Mycroft Holmes by: killing his agents, actively fucking with intelligence and national security operations, being a literal threat to the nation, and committing the cardinal sin of stalking and threatening to hurt an overprotective mama bear’s cub (aka YOU), a crime easily punished by imprisonment, death, or worse (see: otto richter). but sure… 

[citrus--friend]

"The Outsider is gonna ruin your mental health." The Outsider relit my will to live, but I digress

[itstakestimee]

Once.

[family-trauma]

Yup this right here. It was super weird when I realized that my childhood wasn't totally chalked up to a rosy one. There was actually trauma and abuse happening all the time but I used to think it was totally normal. As a child you live in a bubble, one that is created by your family. It's only after you become aware do you actually understand reality wasn't really what it was.

[aurosoulart]

AR christmas tree!!!! 🎄 I made the ball ornaments and multicolored string lights using 3d brushes, and then hand-placed everything (including all the little white dot sparkles ghkdghdk)

[fckrteeth]

Woods Mattress / Absurd Reality Split

[sketchgoat]

They won’t win

[kaurwreck]

I need people to remember friendship exist <- a victim to another "Oda is Dazai father figure" takes.

Guys... listen to me... i know this is crazy but. have you ever heard of friendship?

Literally, friendship exists, and friends are tender and care for each other. There is a Wan episode where Dazai points at Ango and says something like "Get him, boy!" to sic Oda on him, who then holds Ango down for Dazai and barks. They are friends. They are ridiculous, silly, profoundly beloved friends.

As someone who has always had mentors, senpais, and friends several years my senior (with much larger age gaps than that between Dazai and Oda): not everyone older than you is your mom and dad and that's a really self infantilizing and surely self isolating approach to the world.

[ragdollhumpty]

Is Tumblr a place where two Ex-Mormon clowns who worship Mother Goose and whose winter solstice holiday is Cosmic Quadrupletmas (where we celebrate the birth of the quadruplets of Mother Mary-Go-Round and Beelzebub: Santa, the Easter Bunny, Krampus and Jesus) and for that holiday we went to a variety show at the Salt Lake City public library dressed like this, very awkwardly tried to circulate some religious propaganda until we got too overstimulated and went home?

Or is this not a place we can find gay disabled clowns who escape and face the horrors of the world through absurdist world building by up cycling lost pagan practices left hidden in the rhymes and spells of mother goose ? Am I in the wrong place?

[dangerouscommiesubversive]

Liu Mingyan Decides

Fandom: The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System, Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Relationships: Original Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan (not Shen Qingqiu), Liu Mingyan/Ning Yingying

Characters: Original Luo Binghe, Shen Yuan, Liu Mingyan, Ning Yingying, Sha Hualing, Little Palace Mistress (PIDW versions of the ladies as well), Shang Qinghua

Rating: T

Summary:

After a longer-than-usual absence, Luo Binghe returns, and Liu Mingyan immediately realizes that he seems...different. It's not a bad difference--far from it, he seems very happy--but it is surprising, especially in conjunction with the strange man he's brought back to the palace.

Or: a story in which Ning Yingying gets a ballpoint pen, Sha Hualing gets glasses, and Liu Mingyan gets a whole new lease on life. And also a tiger.

Notes: Ok so I wrote a sequel to Really Luo Binghe, because when you get down to it I'm addicted to metafiction. And also I really wanted to give Ning Yingying a ballpoint pen.

[laylawatermelon]

I have thoughts about this ep...

(It's not good... But not bad)

911's writing of this storyline seems to be teetering in the wrong direction and it may cause a disconnect with some viewers.

Hi! I literally took a nap and woke up with an essay 🙃.

But let's get to the good stuff.

This season has been phenomenal. The acting and writing has all been consistent with the original past 4 seasons. (Season 5 and 6 were good just had a different tone)

This has been due to the show runner returning.

Now that we've gotten all the facts out of the way here's my opinion.

I'll be honest, the twin/lookalike story that came up is causing me to pull away and not in a good way.

If I objectively look at it as a fan this cones out of left field and may intrigue a set of fans. Those fans are likely in the higher age range. (Nothing wrong with it but just an observation)

(i keep up with updates online so it didn't bother me that much)

But for me as I was watching it and the scene came up and then The Grey's Anatomy came up I don't know why but a flash pinged in my brain of this feels like a Telenovela/Soap Opera.

And it is in fact a storyline commonly used or mentioned of the long lost twin or the doppelganger who's back to destroy, seduce, etc. to shake up the main characters life.

I will say that what 9-1-1 has been doing is a good job between toeing the line between supernatural and realistic.

This is leaning a bit to close to the former and can lose some people.

(i will say that this storyline isn't hitting like it usually does the others, even if I wasn't an buddie fan. Hell as an Eddie fan I'm still confused)

The tone of the show this season has been lighter so of course the storylines do reflect that.

My only gripe is what makes 9-1-1 compelling in the first place is the odd fact that the characters don't die and they're realistic (enough) in their cases and drama.

They're gripping enough that they can use these cliches to grip the audience backed by stellar performances and direction.

I just don't like the soap opera-y feeling I got from the trope. (Personal preference what can I say)

Now the next episode will probably expand on this storyline and will cause the conclusion to be touching and heartfelt.

I'm just a bit sour about the lead up to it because it's like oh this woman who looks exactly like my deceased/missing partner appears in the same vicinity as me (despite living in a very big very populated state) so I must get to know her better. I end up throwing away my morals and then something bizarre happens and then something else happens and I find out she's insert - (illusion/twin/stalker/literally anything out of pocket you can think of).

The audience swoons because of course she is (bad/evil/plotting etc).

It's not gripping me.

Emotionally however I'm intrigued how this will eventually effect Christopher as it he sees her he's screwed for life.

In addition to his dad talking to her in the first place, therefore unintentionally enforcing his women all leave/slight lack of respect for their feelings as they're replaceable (she would literally replace his mom in name and face) or disposable (Marisol as the woman left behind).

Yes Eddie's happy but he's also being more reckless than he usually is.

He's always been aiming to find what they had but his actions have implications.

(imma put on my buddie hat for a second this is all/j)

Like how he leaves his son with his dad and goes on a date with another person constantly. 😤 Rude

(no lie they are good coparents though even if they are platonic. They work better than some romantic straight families on tv)

Back to analysis mode though, this action has dangerous implications on both how relationship with Christopher and how he can harm him and eventually how their relationship can decline because of this.

It's not just the disloyalty to both his current partner and son but the example he'll be setting.

Chris probably may end up listening to Buck more as a result because he wouldn't/hasn't hurt him in the way his father currently does with this situation. For relationship advice and such.

Yes it's good drama (in an emotional/analytical sense) I'm just sulky about the telenovela feel of it don't mind me.

I'm positive their performances will make it lean more towards the procedural drama movie feel the show is known for.

Hell this had to happen some day right? The soap operafication of 9-1-1.

Hope is a beautiful ride at least. 🤷🏾‍♀️

(ps this episode was great all things aside)

[ryan-nerdy-goober]

"The Reality Woe" — A Doctor Who Sillysode

DISCLAIMER: I originally wrote this spur-of-the-moment absurdist piece for the DoctorWhumour subreddit between the broadcasts of “Wish World” and “The Reality War” using information and clues from the previous episode with traces of the rumour mill mixed in as well.

Any resemblance to the actual finale would have been purely coincidental and, as it turned out, never even happened at all; having said that, there are still spoilers for season 2/series 15 in particular and the whole of RTD2 in general, so take everything with a pinch of salt from the edge of the universe and be warned as you dive into this chaotic scramble…

And… 3…

2…

2-and-a-half…

2-and-three-quarters…

Last chance to back TFO…

Okay…

Here…

Come…

The…

Fums…

🎶OooWEEEEEooooooo… WEEEoooooOOOOOOO

— – -

The Doctor: “Omega?!”

The Rani: “Omega!”

Mrs. Flood: “Omicron…?”

The Rani: “Omega…”

Mrs. Flood: “Oh… MAYga?”

The Doctor: “OH-meh-ga.”

Mrs. Flood: “Oohhh…”

The Doctor & The Rani: “…meh-ga.”

Mrs. Flood: “Meh-ga, yes.”

The Rani: “Yes.”

The Doctor: “Yes, YES! You got it, Mrs. F!”

Mrs. Flood: “Yes… Oh-Macra.”

The Doctor: “No, nonononono… it’s O-

The Rani: “Macra.”

The Doctor: “Not you too, Ushas…”

The Rani: “No, idiot, look! That’s a Macra!”

The Doctor: “Oh, my giddy aunt…”

Mrs. Flood: “Your Aunt Giddie’s a crab?”

The Doctor: “Wh-

The Rani: “We’ll all be crabs one day, A.”

The Doctor: “But why the hell is Omega a Macra?!”

Mrs. Flood: “Well, RTD wanted to give the audience a surprise. Looks like he went with Seafood Surprise!”

The Rani: “The… audience?”

The Doctor: “Okay, can we PLEASE focus so we can get this back on track?! Thank you!”

Mrs. Flood: “Yes… the oat macaroni!”

The Doctor: “No, th-

Mrs. Flood: “The ‘Oly Mackerel.”

The Rani: “Rassilon, give me strength…”

Mrs. Flood: “The Odes of Marinus!”

Ruby: “Oh, just SHUT UP, ANITA!”

The Doctor: “…what-

Mrs. Flood: “Oh, yes… good times…”

The Doctor: “Nooooo… but-

Mrs. Flood: “…at the Sandringham Hotel.”

The Doctor: “But… how?!”

Mrs. Flood: “I used a chameleon circuit.”

The Rani: “Chameleon Arch…”

Donna: “Even I knew that!”

The Doctor: “Donna?!”

Donna: “Hello there, Spaceman!”

The Doctor: “What are you doin’ ‘ere?! It’s not safe!”

Donna: “Oh, don’t give me that! Big lobster terrorisin’ London, and here you are risking your life? Again?!”

The Doctor: “But… what about Rose, an’ Wilf, an’ Shaun, an’ Other Me, an’… Nerys?”

Sylvia: “And who am I, Scotch Mist?”

The Doctor: “You brought your Mum?!”

Sylvia: “Well, I thought it was time to see what all the fuss is about… is that a giant tick?”

The Doctor: “Sylvia, that thing is ripping apart the whole of London! This is not a safe place to be!”

Donna: “I tried to stop her!”

Sylvia: “Oh, fuff! If you can handle a few monsters-

The Doctor: “That is more than just a monster!”

Donna: “Wait… there’s something on its back…?”

The Doctor: “What…?”

The Rani: “What?”

River: “What?!”

The Doctor: “Alright, this is getting very chaotic!”

The Rani: “Well, what do you expect? That is a Time Lord Founder saturated with antimatter who is bleeding through into our universe!”

The Doctor: “Your universe, babes.”

The Rani: “…y-yes, that’s what I said.”

The Doctor: “But no, this is wild even by Omega’s standards.”

Mrs. Flood: “O’Magalagashimsham! Doowop-doowop!”

The Rani: “Ugh… could someone gag her? Please?”

Mrs. Flood: “Ah… I love 1950s music…”

The Doctor: “Oh… oh, no… I just figured out what’s on Omega’s back…”

Donna: “What is it?”

The Doctor: “…”

Donna: “Doctor… what is it?”

Ruby: “Tell us!”

Melanie: “Yeah, tell us!”

Frobisher: “Tell us!”

Dalek Thay: “YOU WILL TELL US!”

Nyssa: “Tell us!”

Yami Yugi: “Tell me!”

Clara: “Just… tell us, Doctor. What is it?”

The Doctor: “Not ‘what.’ ‘Who.’”

Donna: “Wait… that thing… is you?!”

The Doctor: “I wish it were that complicated, but no…”

Kate: “Then who is it?”

The Doctor: “…why don’t you tell them, Rani?”

The Rani: “What? I’ve absolutely no idea.”

The Doctor: “No, the other Rani.”

Mrs. Flood: “Me? W-Well, I-I don’t know, sweet’eart.”

The Doctor: “No… the other other Rani, the one hidden in plain sight… Belinda.“

Belinda: “…what? My name isn’t Rani.”

The Doctor: “O-Oh… but I thought that-

Belinda: “I don’t even know any Ranis.”

The Rani: “Um… excuse me?”

Belinda: “Look, no offence, I’m sure you’re lovely-

The Doctor: (snickers)

The Rani: “Shut it…”

The Doctor: “Sorry, not sorry.”

Belinda: “But you and I have only just met, so we don’t actually know each other.”

Mrs. Flood: “Oh, of course we do, sweetheart…”

The Doctor: “Then… where’s Rani Chandra?”

Rani: “Right here. Nice to see you again, Doctor.”

The Doctor: “HAHAAAAA! Rani! Long time, no see!”

Rani: “Now, you were asking about the thing on the giant crab’s back.”

Mrs. Flood: “That’s Omnimon, dear!”

The Rani: “Just ignore her…”

Rani: “Well, that… thing used to terrorise my friend Sarah Jane Smith on Bannerman Road. And its name is-

The Trickster: “The Trickster!”

Rani: “Hey! You stole my thunder!”

The Trickster: “And you will no longer keep me from entering your universe, Rani Chandra!”

Rani: “Maybe not, but they will…”

The Trickster: “They…?”

Dalek Thay: “DALEK THAY TO YOU!”

The Trickster: “Feh! No mere Dalek can stop me!”

Dalek Thay: “I AM NOT A ‘MERE’ DALEK! THE TRICKSTER HAS INSULTED THE LAST SURVIVOR OF THE CULT OF SKARO!”

The Doctor: “I am still wrapping my head around that one…”

The Trickster: “Oh, yeah? Bring it on, Disco Balls!”

Dalek Thay: “YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED!”

The Trickster: “You cannot defeat me, for I am a-

Dalek Thay: (pew-pew)

Ruby: “Blummin’ ‘eck…”

The Doctor: “Well, whaddaya know… he was a being of flesh and blood all along, just like we all are.”

Dalek Thay: “I AM NOT A-

The Doctor: “And a being of flesh, blood, and Dalekanium.”

Dalek Thay: “THAT IS BET-TER.”

Donna: “Well, that’s that, then…”

The Doctor: “Who’da thought? Of all things in this universe, a Dalek saves the day…”

Dalek Thay: “I WILL FORWARD MY INVOICE TO KATE STEWART.”

Everyone: (laughs)

Sylvia: “Wait… but what about the big tick? Don’t you still have to stop it?”

The Doctor: “Oh… I forgot about that…”

Melanie: “Oh no, it’s just taken a bite out of St. Paul’s Cathedral.”

Missy: “Och, not my TARDIS! I only just paid it off!”

The Doctor: “Oh, he’s feeding on your TARDIS’ Eye of Harmony! If he does that… he’ll be unstoppable.”

Donna: “Well, what do we do?!”

The Doctor: “…nothing. We can’t fix this.”

The Rani: “Look, in all fairness, I thought I had it under control.”

Everyone else: “Oh, shut up!”

The Doctor: “We need a miracle…”

Voice: “Lucky I’m here, then.”

(Flash-zap-foom)

The Doctor: “But… you’re… my-

Jenny (locks n’ loads a big cannon): “Hello, Dad.”

[overleftdown]

saltburn and lo real maravilloso

bare with me.

lo real maravilloso, in its direct translation, means "the marvelous real." in english language, this is more commonly said as "magical reality." magical reality is (arguably) a genre of fiction.

lo real maravilloso is a genre which defies definition. it is the inexplicable, the absurd, the ironic, the whimsical, the manifestation of dream and abstraction. lo real maravilloso is also the mundane. if this is confusing, that's entirely understandable. let me quote alberto rios; "first things first. nothing so important and nothing at all unimportant." this is the essence of magical realism. the absurd and unbelievable in a constant dance with the mundane, creating nothing so important and nothing at all unimportant.

to quote un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes (a very old man with enormous wings) by gabriel garcía márquez, "his huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. they looked at him so long and so closely that pelayo and elisenda very soon overcame their surprise and in the end found him familiar." in the story about un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes, the absurd and unbelievable (a winged man crashing to the earth) becomes the mundane (the winged man is flightless, and those that found him are quickly annoyed by his pathetic presence). a winged man becomes nothing so important, and the drag of every-day life is nothing at all unimportant.

now, saltburn. i'm fascinated by emerald fennell's choice of using the aristocratic english as her metaphor for the untouchable. in a lot of ways, i'm grateful this is what she chose. while the ultimate inspiration for saltburn was less the materialistic class commentary that it came to be, the aristocracy becomes so many things throughout the movie. what i wanted to talk about is how the aristocracy, the cattons, are lo real maravilloso. the essay i quoted before by alberto rios is spectacular, because it delves into not just the ironic nature of magical realism, but the rhetoric, as well; what it means to think we understand something, how language deludes us into believing we know something, how our own reality is mistaken for reality itself. saltburn and the cattons live in their own reality, which to the outsider, is absurdity. when watching the film, what we find ourselves thinking throughout it is essential to understanding the rhetoric of the movie.

when we see the grandeur and wealth and think how impractical, how unreal, how hilarious. the humor that saltburn taps into is near-identical to the core of magical realistic irony. "to use classical terminology, tone so often derives from the delivery of the narrative as litotes—understatement—in the middle of hyperbole-- overstatement. If it is not humor, then it comes off as flatness of treatment, non-reactivity, deadpan almost, which is the great comedian’s trick..." (rios). think back to the casualty of the cattons' absurdity. the sincerity in which elspeth delivers the most appalling, unreal anecdotes and additions. magical realism places culture, sincerity, normativity uncomfortably close to what we could hardly fathom. a winged man falling from the sky, kept in the chicken coup because it is quickly understood that he is hideous. finding your winged son dead in the middle of an elaborate maze, sprawled out beneath a minotaur statue, and the knowledge that lunch is about to begin.

the longer we experience the world emerald has created, the more we understand the reality in which the cattons live, the more we find it familiar. the absurdity is forgotten, until it's once again realized, until it's once again forgotten. this is the act of interacting realities; ours, and then another, and then back to ours. what's so fun about exploring wealth is this clashing of reality. believing that it's so absurd to be so rich, then succumbing to the normativity of richness, then once again finding yourself laughing at the idea of it. "what do you mean it's almost lunch? how could you say that? your son is dead. and beyond that, he's dead in the middle of a maze. he's dead in the middle of your estate maze, with your estate statues and your 179 bedrooms, one of them being the king's." and when lunch begins, we're dragged back into foreign reality. we feel the grief that pollutes the air, pulls at each of the cattons. we understand that our reality is not reality, nor is their reality. we're submerged in the tone of the film, the tone of the writing. a well-written character is a character who has their own reality; not that they're right or wrong, but that they are.

there is also the clashing of culture. the aristocracy is more familiar to the english. the emotional repression visualized throughout the movie is more familiar to the english. the culture of british boarding school is more familiar to the english. the longer we experience, the longer we stare at the unreasonable, the more familiar it becomes. our reality is not reality. we stand amidst billions of others, who have millions of preconceived notions, derived from millions of alternate cultures, experienced through thousands of languages, interacting with another billion people. what this all boils down to is how little we understand.

how does oliver interact with this foreign reality? how does farleigh? how are felix and venetia interacting with each other, as well as this life that so little experience? how do we understand it? how do we react to it? how do we react to the sex throughout the movie, which exist in its own absurdly real world? at what point in watching saltburn did you forget how stupid it was? at what point did you forget that having a maze in your backyard is ridiculous? having gargoyles? having footmen? having 200-person parties in your own house? at what point did you lose yourself in this foreign reality, and when did you remember that it's all ridiculous? have you remembered? have you realized that the sex was absurd? have you realized that felix catton is absurd? have you realized that oliver is blind to the absurdity as well? hm. hmmm.