#theory excerpt

[agirlnamedbone]

James Richardson | Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays | 2001

[funeral]

The development of Lynch's body of work is informed by a realist's optimism that there is an exit from the linguistic labyrinth and that this exit is richly available to us [...] His use of language—and of cinematic vocabulary—suggests that, once we understand that we ourselves have created cultural forms and that they only have the meaning we give them, we are free to understand the forces in the universe that are truly larger than we are and how they connect us to a greater reality.

Martha Nochimson, The Passion of David Lynch

[sicknessinmotion]

THERE IS SOMETHING MISSING YOU DON'T REMEMBER; HOLE THEORY.

kim beil // unknown // jean baudrillard // unknown // second law of holes, wikipedia // thomasin frances

[handweavers]

writing a story that is both historical fantasy and marxist leninist political realism means constantly coming up to the issue of "how do these characters (and the narrative) who are for the most part atheist marxists try to grasp with the fact that there are aspects of this world that are magical / supernatural" like a character who can shapeshift into a bear, and it would be very easy to do a lot of hand wringing over it but i've realized a lot of it boils down to the same conclusions i've reached in real life for things much less fantastical than shapeshifting which is "there are a lot of things in life that i don't understand and probably it can be explained scientifically at some point maybe not but in a material day to day sense it doesn't really matter because you have more pressing concerns like trying to build a railroad and prevent capitalism from returning"

[wordedarchive]

[yudzukii]

Touch

?'s are bridges

Over rivers of uncertainty

Where pulses encounter

Two hearts leaning towards

Two hearts forming chords

Lost and lonely soloists

play heartstrings monophonic

Desperate instrumentalists

snap the heartstrings in two

The name of this bridge is:

"tell me who are you?"

What's the sound of your heart?

[cynthiadasorceress]

Short scenario that works with the Cody is Onyx Prime reincarnated theory for Rescue Bots

Fic type: Angst

Main character(s): Cody, Chase

Summary: Cody just wants to act like a kid, but it's hard to do that when everybody is treating you like a god

--

"Hey, Chase, wanna watch this movie with me?" Cody waves a DVD case containing an old detective drama.

Chase looks at Cody, an unfamiliar respectfulness in his optics. Well, it used to be unfamiliar. Cody had gotten used to it by now, though he doesn't enjoy it. That's the look all the bots had been giving him since they realized what he is.

He knows he should be more interested in the fact that he's a reincarnation of a Prime. He is interested, but he doesn't understand why everybody's treating him differently. Sure, maybe in a past life he was a Prime, but in this one, he's just Cody. He just wants to be Cody, but it seems like everybody else wants him to be like Onyx Prime.

"As you wish," Chase says respectfully, tipping his helm briefly.

The young boy stops smiling when Chase does that. He grips the DVD case just a tiny bit harder and furrows his brow. A faint hint of orange dances across Cody's dark brown eyes.

Chase notices this, perhaps feeling the slight tension in the air. He crouches to be closer to eye level with Cody.

"Is something wrong, my Prime?" Chase questions gently, but still in that annoyingly polite tone.

Cody looks away from the police bot's face and pulls the DVD case up to his chest before speaking quietly.

"Stop that..." Cody mutters.

"Sir?" Chase tilts his helm slightly, his optics glowing a bit brighter.

"Stop that," Cody said a bit louder.

Chase doesn't have to say a thing for Cody to recognize the mild confusion on his face.

"Stop calling me your Prime," Cody looks down at the toes of his boots. One of his laces is untied. "And stop looking at me like that..."

"How would you like me to look at you?" Chase sounds genuinely caring, but for all the wrong reasons.

"Just look at me the same..."

--

Sorry if this is out of character or something, it's been a little bit since I watched Rescue Bots :')

[imkeepinit]

From the 1993 Discworld series novel Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett.

[wisteriagoesvroom]

drinks for the word in carcar fic?

helloooo anon i got hasty and posted the fic before i answered this, my bad— but!

here is an excerpt with the word drinks in it 🫡

Besides, the day he starts working for Carlos Sainz Jr., Oscar understands immediately that he’s no Matador, no bull slayer.

It’s hard to put someone on a pedestal like that when you know the exact list of their drug and food allergies, the time they go to the quieter bathroom on the floor downstairs after their second morning coffee, and when you’re the one tasked with letting his hookups know that he’s in fact, not available to meet for drinks or lunch for the next three weeks, but he’ll send you an Aesop package and definitely keep you in mind for the next financial quarter once closing is done.

Brutal, but effective.

fic: in theory i should despise you

[1gods]

The Let Them Theory — Mel Robbins (2024)

[howifeltabouthim]

'These attempted truths are tissues of illusion. Theories.'

Iris Murdoch, from A Fairly Honourable Defeat

[malinaa]

Rivers Solomon, Model Home

[funeral]

At his most direct, Lynch explained that, when he is directing, ninety percent of the time he doesn’t know, intellectually, what he is doing. However, there is nothing uncertain in him about the powerful rightness of his artistic choices. His insistence on letting things happen to him while he works is part of his faith that film is a place where reality enters when something other than willfully applied reason does the talking.

Martha Nochimson, The Passion of David Lynch

[sicknessinmotion]

impossible to observe directly; hole theory

anne boyer // unknown // leila chatti // neil hilborn // jenny holzer // judas h. (@judas-redeemed) // jenny holzer + louise bourgeois.

[orchard-bliss]

Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse

[mentally-disabled]

another radio silence theory (still spoilers)

when Aled's mum cut his hair (forcefully), basically right after that scene was a Universe City excerpt. episode 132, and at the top read "Cyborg attack (again)". maybe said cyborg is referring to Aled's mum, and the whole excerpt is a big metaphor for what had happened with his mum and her always treating him like shit. it also said "(again)" so obviously this wouldnt be the first time his mum had done something like that or just treated him like shit in general and trying to control his life.

i fucking hate his mum🙂