#media

[prokopetz]

Some people say that in order to be effective, post-apocalyptic fiction needs to strike a balance between having the cause of the apocalypse reflect contemporary anxieties, and framing that cause in a way that's at least somewhat plausible. These people are cowards. Write that story where the extinction of the human species was caused by overzealous copyright enforcement. You know you want to.

[garbagechocolate]

✨✨Choco x bloodmoon core✨✨ /pos /aff

I love cannibalism

[circusballoon]

So I'm thinking I'm gonna try to participate in @darlnyan 's ISaT-ober prompt list in my sketchbook a little this month?? Probably not a lot but we'll hecking see

Which means silly pen doodles are probably in store for this month so brace yourselves I guess

[thoughtportal]

[zombie-bait]

everyone should go and see The Wild Robot while its still in theaters actually. When people online or irl tell you it’s good they are NOT kidding. Dreamworks is out here getting me to shed tears in public over an animated goose and his robot mom. Support original animation concepts please, not just the big franchises that get advertised left right and center. We gotta show these studios that we want to experience art, not just consume content.

[desire-mona]

MY THANKS FOR LISTENING CD CAME IN!!!!!!!!!! scans of the booklet (it has official lyrics which are near impossible to find online) under cut :3

im literally so fucking happy chris thile i love youuuuu

[ratbastarddotfuck]

some people who are writing podcasts should be writing books instead. some people who are writing books should be writing podcasts. sometimes, they get it just right. this is the circle of life.

[theinconvenientlifestyle]

"The more Israel expands its war across the Middle East, the more the western media intensifies its war on our minds.

Establishment media outlets like the BBC are weaponising the language of their reporting against audiences no less effectively than Israel weaponised primitive pieces of technology against the people of Lebanon.

Words like 'audacious', 'escalation' and 'targets' have become tools to conceal meaning, not to illuminate and for good reason. Because Israel's actions are so obviously criminal, so obviously horrifying, so obviously genocidal. Language becomes a weapon to hide the truth."

OPINION BY JONATHAN COOK, AUTHOR

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[ukrainian-groove-metal]

I love the "came back wrong" trope but from the opposite side.

Imagine you are dead. And then you are RIPPED from the embrace of decay into the world of the living again. Your memories are hazy and you don't recognize any of these people, but they act like they're close to you? Like they love you? So you try to get your memories back, to act like you belong here, but everybody tries to forget you died. And you can't. It is omnipresent. And just trying to grapple with that fact pushes the people who "love" you away, and they're incapable of understanding, and they're so confused, what's wrong N̶̄̀O̶͛͗T̷̉́ ̷͋͝Y̴̎̌Ȍ̴̈U̸̓R NÄM̴̃͑E̵̾̇? And you just need them to understand, you aren't that person! You aren't! You don't know who that person is! You don't know why any of this is happening, but they're unwilling to bend, they keep insisting you are that person, your memories will come back, everything will be normal again, and you want to scream and cry and claw yourself open to show them you're different. Your existence as a being wholly separate from whoever you "used to be" is a sin unto itself. All you can do is scrabble for life and to them, you're killing whoever they loved to do it.

just. lots of fun in that concept, you know?

[determinate-negation]

thank you to the dishonest failing new york times for constantly erasing us and purposefully obscuring jewish participation in these protests just to make people less sympathetic to the movement opposing an ongoing genocide

btw you can see all the edits nyt makes to their article titles on this twitter account

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Dunno how to put it properly into words but lately I find myself thinking more about that particular innocence of fairy tales, for lack of better word. Where a traveller in the middle of a field comes across an old woman with a scythe who is very clearly Death, but he treats her as any other auntie from the village. Or meeting a strange green-skinned man by the lake and sharing your loaf of bread with him when he asks because even though he's clearly not human, your mother's last words before you left home were to be kind to everyone. Where the old man in the forest rewards you for your help with nothing but a dove feather, and when you accept even such a seemingly useless reward with gratitude, on your way home you learn that it's turned to solid gold. Where supernatural beings never harm a person directly and every action against humans is a test of character, and every supernatural punishment is the result of a person bringing on their own demise through their own actions they could have avoided had they changed their ways. Where the hero wins for no other reason than that they were a good person. I don't have the braincells to describe this better right now but I wish modern fairy tales did this more instead of trying to be fantasy action movies.

[let-them-fight]

can we stop doing this trope

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

“It's astonishing... the reports coming out of Israeli detention facilities describe violence that matches and exceeds the brutality of Abu Ghraib, which was enough to trigger a political crisis in the USA in 2004. But this time, silence. Just obscene.”

Sources:

[the-chosen-half-of-one]