#something rich and strange

[godzilla-reads]

I just got this fabulous edition of “Something Rich and Strange” by Patricia McKillip and Brian Froud, not knowing that it also happened to be signed by both of them!

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

The journey was more important than the place; most important was to return home, with crumpled maps, salt and pepper shakers shaped like clam shells, a sweatshirt with whales on it, and be able to say: I have been there, I have gone on a journey, I have come safely home.

Patricia A. McKillip, Something Rich and Strange

[maxthesillyy]

thinking about. i dont know how to phrase this really but. chloe and frank.

like. when Chloe killed Frank i (, personally,) feel like her guilt from it was less because she killed Frank, and More because she Killed Someone (and their dog).

but!!! thats not to say she didnt feel guilty for killing Frank. because she definitely did. because on some level. despite everything. despite all of his shitty behavior. a part of her still cared for him. that tiny 15-17ish year old part in her still cared for him.

because that 15-17ish year old with intense abandonment issues in her only had. a small handful of people in her life that actually cared for her, and when THOSE few people aren’t even doing the best job at it— it’s no shit that Chloe’s standards for Good Friends are going to be Immensely dropped.

and so. it’s kind of like what happened with Rachel, but WAY less intense. when she found someone who didn’t hate her, and was willing to hang around her—after so so long of people hating her and not wanting to be around her— it makes sense that part of her would kinda latch onto them a little bit.

and so, even after all of the shit she’s learned he did— even when Frank starts to hate her— even when he threatens Max and her’s lives— part of her keeps remembering him as one of the few guys who stuck around when no one else did.

it’s just that. no matter how bad the person— if you’ve known someone for years, and they were one of the only nice people to you in a town where theres like. four people that are nice to you— it’s gonna hurt if you kill them. even if it was self defense. even if it was entirely their own fault— even if you two aren’t on even remotely good terms anymore.

ESPECIALLY for such a sentimental person like Chloe. taking that in consideration it makes me wonder. maybe she didn’t feel bad for killing Frank. maybe she felt bad for killing the person Frank used to be to her. but maybe she realized that That Frank already died long ago.

but yeah. im mentally ill. take everything i said with a grain of salt considering it is 12:07 AM.

[thehecklingmouse]

I think the more interesting thing about the watcher situation is that this desicion got approved at all. Someone in that office sat down and thought that launching a streaming service was a good idea. Did they even talk with a business consultant? Did they think it would go over well? Do they just not know their audience? Did no one in the office tell them it was a bad idea? What happened??

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

watching fandaniel go is wild because he is just [vestibular stims] [vestibular stims] [vestibular stims] [vestibular stims] and yeah man that's a mood

[dreamofmourning]

[stardustedknuckles]

"the DNC is actually mostly empty" yeah because the only people allowed in the auditorium are people with credentials. I don't love the Democrat party or any of it but the whole "you're being lied to, all the photos are strategic" thing said like it's uncovering a conspiracy... No? You just can't go from off the street. There are Hollywood people there. This is not a general public thing. Lordt.

Not arguing with the cringe allegations because I mean. Yeah. But they're not hiding - like it's not a rally?

[yana125]

Hyperfixating on your own writing can be so funny because while you neglect everything else (like being active on tumblr, I'm sorry!) you find yourself in some kind of trance and when you emerge from said trance for a moment of clarity you find yourself 211 pages and 34402 words into the story.

Huh...

[spicyicymeloncat]

Tumblr when Twitter users joined this site: look at these disgusting zoo animals. They have been sheltered and cultivated vicious community. They will not last a day in the wild. Weed them out now before they bring their vile ways onto our app. Banish them with the cringest weapons we have!

Tumblr when Reddit users join: aweeee!! Lookit them!! Just a wittle creacher!! Look at them!! Look they’re learning to reblog!! I will study them because they are just so fascinating!! Nature is wonderful!!

[godzilla-reads]

I read “The Wild Wood” by Charles de Lint and was charmed by the Brian Froud art. I’m thinking of starting Patricia A. McKillip’s “Something Rich and Strange”, letting the art and story wash over me 🌊

[kideternity]

If you aren’t stupid you go to hell is the message I'm getting from this episode of Digimon

[an-organized-confusion]

This may be a little topical but watching a[nother] doc on SBF and the collapse of FTX really twists up the rhetorical angle of "effective altruism" brought up in POF.

Like. That collapse was kind of doomed to happen given how actually idealistic/naive some of the starting assumptions for EA are. One of which is not asking what forces even makes charity a "necessity" to speak of - wealth hoarding.

In order to get filthy stinking rich to "give back even more" you will fall into capitalism's traps. You will become the monster that makes people go to bread lines. You will have to fall into the trap of endless profits - and becoming more and more miserly when it comes to reporting to your investors and to the government.

Because to those investors? They couldn't give less of a shit how much you spend on "philanthropy" as long as you show infinite growth. It's why mass lay-offs can STILL happen during a GOOD quarter or product release. It's why rich philanthropy is pocket change compared to if said rich people didn't wriggle themselves outta paying taxes.

Taxes that fund social security, welfare programs, education, infrastructure, etc. Things that actually help people.

What I'm saying is - I think Janus (and Logan?) was definitely playing into some pro-capitalist rhetoric here. Which, I think should be more taken as a dialectic. Janus is known to discard inconvenient facts to make his arguments... but I do think his greatest value is to simply make one think about stuff more critically/comprehensively. Offering more questions to ask.

Neither Janus nor Patton has ALL the answers in the topic of ethics/morality. One can take/leave what works from their discussion as one sees fit. This is just me rambling/reflecting on it.

[thefabelmans2022]

i'm not saying i could pull jacob elordi i'm just saying that if we were in the same university literature class or were coworkers at a museum gift shop i think the bond we had formed over tote bags and pretentiousness would be enough to get over the obvious attractiveness gap.

[navramanan]

my supervisor fighting MY being boring alligations since that one time i called myself boring now anytime he asks me what i did on the week end and i say nothing he tells me he doesnt think i’m boring i probably have a rich inner world (i dont i’m insane)

[astramachina]

hate living in a world where stories only get put on the screen if it has either widespread appeal or a chance to break box office records. i miss the days when stuff like Repo! The Genetic Opera could be made (which wasn't even that long ago). i long for weird, hyper niche --- and I'm interrupting my own post to say that a blue jay just landed outside my window? made eye-contact and then flew away??? okay?????? pleasure meeting you, my good sir.

as i was saying: i long for weird, hyper-niche and obscure settings and stories. going back to Repo!, teenage me went feral at the idea of a horror musical whose very atmosphere was draped in gore and goop and was just... wet.

when i say i want queer cinema (or TV, or theatre), i mean that in every sense of the word. i want it to be gay and i need it to be strange. it doesn't have to be big-budget blockbusters, i just want to feel the passion behind it. it feels like we're at the cusp of triggering a huge cultural shift. like, we could. the time feels right to start fucking around with stories and characters and themes as a way to push back against this heinous sanitization of fiction (and the politics determined to annihilate us queers). you know what they say about fiction (especially horror) and how it tends to reflect the fears of an era.