#excel trick

[maesonc-artistic-adventures]

Based on Chapt 13 of @cutebutalsostabby ‘s fanfic “Big Oof 2022, aka Whumptober”

“‘You,’ Hyrule declared furiously, ‘are an absolute, complete dumbass.’

Lying prone on the ground with a deeply pissed-off mage looming above his head, it was rather difficult for Warriors to argue the point. He gave a weak thumbs up and croaked back, ‘Yep.’

Hyrule shook his head disbelievingly and announced, ‘You and Legend give me shit for this all the time, but you’re both equally as bad.’

Warriors nodded. ‘Very true,’ he rasped peaceably. ‘Be sure to learn from our bad examples.’”

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Hyrule and Warrior’s dynamic is so excellent and few do it as well as this fic!

[ducotte-real]

dont know why i never posted this (i see him and get irrepressibly angry)

plus my partner's doodle of sinclair lcb

[cosmichorrorlesbians]

what's your dissertation about? you mentioned it in the siltcord and i'm really interested

oh my god hey I'm so happy you're interested! broad strokes because I've only been working on it for a few weeks but: the current theme is 'resistant landscapes' (both man-made and natural) in the later writing of Shirley Jackson!

Essentially, my main thread is that Jackson had two parallel strands to her work, which as far as I can tell began kind of interrelated but then diverged quite significantly? She's probably best known now for The Haunting of Hill House and to a lesser extent We Have Always Lived In The Castle, which are these. weird surreal psychological horror novels, engaging explicitly or implicitly with the supernatural, and centred around introspective, strange and sometimes deeply misanthropic female characters from isolated social units with dysfunctional, possessive relationships to each other.

Aaaaand then on the other hand she was known for being a 'happy housewife' who wrote these whimsical, quasi-autobiographical stories about all her children and how hopeless her husband was. These were popular too. Betty Friedan called her out in landmark 1963 feminist manifesto The Feminine Mystique for essentially spreading patriarchal propaganda.

The interrelation between the two is really jarring, because in one family is a source of horror and tragedy and in the other it's a source of, like... laundry. And Jackson's home life wasn't everything those stories made it out to be-- her marriage was unfaithful, her mother could probably be fairly called emotionally abusive, and as I talked about on the siltcord, she developed severe agoraphobia which often left her housebound.

So, yeah. My plan is to explore the depiction of families as constructed social units in dialogue with the environments they are constructed in in that work. Obviously a lot of that is relation of house to family, in the context of which Hill House is especially rewarding to consider, but I also want to look at relationships with nature and urban environments (especially in the context of settler colonialism and how that has had an enduring legacy in Jackson's particular part of New England), xenophobia (largely in regard to class, though racism and anti-Semitism are presences in her writing), domesticity and the idea of the housewife, and how horror relates to All Of This. The ideal of making a home within a hostile environment and of that environment turning on you, essentially.

I don't yet have particular areas of focus within that broad umbrella, but I might update with bits and pieces about it as I work? I don't really talk about academic stuff on here but I am very much Critical Literary Analysis Guy and I do also post relentlessly about haunted houses as a concept so if people would be interested in it maybe I will

anyway if you've read this far I recommend Horror in Architecture: The Reanimated Edition (2024) by Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing which is a book about how horror movie tropes can be mirrored in built environments! I'm reading it right now and it's conceptually fascinating plus fairlyyy comprehensible by academic standards (if a little dense) if you, like me, are a Fool who knows nothing of architecture. very good also for getting to look at pictures of some of the most Fucked Up Buildings (affectionate) you've ever seen.

[chicago-geniza]

I forgot that in the book the Devil's Minion chapter ends with Armand being like "you wanted to be a vampire so badly, Daniel? Well I will prove my point about our existence being a moral abomination by coercing you into eating a child"

Armand vampires don't have to kill children...Armand you are doing the actual Freudian definition of the repetition compulsion here...this is what I meant about only applying psychoanalytic paradigms to Anne Rice novels. Armand look what you did. You ruined a perfectly good fledgling. Now it has Vampire Neurosis

[thatsbelievable]

[bithand]

I'm always amused by the "x's politics are more dangerous than y's" arguments. It's comparing apples and oranges.

[serpentinesheldonserpentine]

Remember friends, heaven is analog.

[pumpkin-in-a-pear-tree]

That was scary as hell, thank you very much

[existennialmemes]

Modern satire is too hard to parse. What you said was absurd and, I know for sure one of us is being fooled. I just can't tell if it's you or me.

[rotationalsymmetry]

Would vote in this election if I was a US citizen, would love a picture if you wouldn't mind?

You get a red squirrel!

[froget-me-nots]

I don't know if you're doing the ask game but if you are, trick or treat!!!!

sure thing! here's... another cat? i don't know where these keep coming from guys

[solidwater05]

Why am I having ideas for an exclam. I am NOT joining I refuse to have such a big commitment. but... I am thinking about them. I have a design concept in mind. I have an outline for their lore. I'm thinking SO HARD about their lore. why......

[techalertr]

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[snowshinobi]

raise your hand if you're an easygoing control freak oldest sibling

[mailperson]

My overall series evaluation. Individual cases STRONGLY vary across titles. Although I wish with all my heart they could be retconned and forgotten, even DD and SoJ have at least one case each better than the worst cases of some higher up games. Not ordered within tiers themselves.

On that note, if you choose to include Rise from the Ashes as a part of AA1 it joins the Good Overall tier. If you treat that case in isolation then it belongs in peak tier.

[xplrvibes]

not their stylist feeling herself over those fits, girl you suck at your job

The fact that those were custom made for them kind of crack me up.