#very interesting notion

[randomisedmongoose]

I've never read House of leaves but I'd for sure read a fic structured like this. Would it lend itself to the endless scrolling format though, or would you want to upload a series of pictures/pdfs like pages?

Hello house of leaves + disco elysium fans. Would u read a fic formatted like this:

Oftentimes the film seems to highlight just how alone Harry appears to be. But, it turns out that the contrary was actually the case (1). In numerous interviews afterwards, Dora claims that Harry spoke to himself, and the voices in his head answered. When questioned further on why she chose to stay with a madman for so long, her mood fell and she refused anymore questions along that matter (2).

(1). The Furies Additions (3)

(2). Interview with Harrison’s wife, ‘54, Jamrock 5W.

(3). What kind of citing is this? It doesn’t make any sense. I’ve looked further through Kim’s notes and while he cites this source again, he never goes into anymore detail on where it came from. Considering how uptight he was in life, it’s surprisingly how sloppy his manuscript- or, rather, pile of notebooks- are. Maybe it’s shitkid’s(4) fault. I didn’t keep in touch with either of them once they left the force.

And now all I have of Harry is second-hand bullshit like this. Furies? At the very least, definitely Mad.

(4). Jean’s most consistent nickname for Harrison- Ed.

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The voices in Harry’s head prove to be an essential part of the Harrison Records, almost as essential as the house itself. They allowed Harry to see (5) and think (6) things that everyone else around him missed. This wealth of extra information would prove invaluable for the trials to come (8).

(5) The Furies Additions- Perception (7)

(6) The Furies Additions- Conceptualization

(7) Yeah, I don’t get these extra ‘clarifiers’. Like, is it just a more fancy way of saying ‘see’? What the HELL is a Fury?

(8) Well, that’s oh-so-great for shitkid. I wouldn’t mind some of that ‘wealth’ right now. Confusion clouds my mind even when I return to the precinct, far away from this trunk of old notes. I find myself snapping at officers more, jerking at shadows more. I’m weakening, learning about what happened to Harry is draining me- somehow, even when he’s not even my partner anymore, the bastard still finds a way to ruin me.

[sameteeth]

in s3ep2, eleanor tells mrs. hudson she doesnt come from privilege, which mrs. hudson immediately denies. but i think its SOOO telling of eleanor's character! she sees herself as a woman in a world full of men, which she is, but she completely ignores the class and racial divides she obviously benefits from. she claims she has no privilege to mrs. hudson, who comes from no money and works as a chambermaid to woodes rodgers, leaving behind her beloved children to make sure eleanor has clean clothes and to empty her chamberpot. eleanor had power on nassau, power she wielded for her own benefit and to the severe detriment of others. obviously she experienced misogyny, but she was never forced into poverty, never forced into sex work, never forced into service of any kind, because her father was wealthy and she was born into a higher class. her experiences of misogyny and oppression are vastly different than mrs. hudson's. but for her to tell a chambermaid she experienced no privilege? it's laughably untrue. eleanor oversaw and directly profitted from the trade of hundreds if not thousands of slaves on nassau, was raised by "chattel property of the guthrie estate" mr. scott, who is never even given a name in his own tongue (on screen, at least), never showed kindness to anyone but those who put money in her pocket because she was born with that money and that trade empire already in the guthrie name. she had to fight to get it, and fight she did, but the fact that those things were so close to her reach just by virtue of the circumstances of her birth? that's privilege, whether or not she sees it that way

[longagoitwastuesday]

I keep thinking that this Gojo is just like Sukuna. I truly don't see much of a difference between them beyond the human/curse point of view

[shouldprobablybereading]

I might’ve been able to like the destination (maybe) if the journey to to get there hadn’t felt like a massive waste of my time

[vogelmeister]

thinking about how my friend told me today that i picked a “safe” special interest in the netherlands.

[rabarbarzcukrem]

"Noé" being the name of the biblical savior of all life.

"Vanitas" meaning vanity, futility, something that is ultimately meaningless and doesn't last. I am unwell.

[kubb-is-a-swedish-lawn-game]

i've encountered a strange phenomenon in which it is easiest to write a character's voice the less you know and care about the inner workings of their mind

[incorrectsibunaquotes]

Do y’all really think Fabian would go to college in America (specifically Ohio) to chase after a girl who, while he cares for and misses her (bc lbr they also trauma bonded on top of having a thing for each other), dumped him over a letter and ghosted him? Like, yeah maybe they found each other again later in life after Anubis, but it would not be because Fabian was chasing after her. Why must we refuse to let him have dreams and a life outside of Nina?

[acediscowlng]

okay, time for some dean musings before i get to 13x21 just because i feel like i haven't been talking about him as much and like you know, i always think of sam's progression through the show as a process of unbecoming, and in contrast to that, i think that dean's arc is one of becoming.

like way back in season 1 when we first meet him, he's this boy playing at being a man wearing his dad's old leather jacket and driving his dad's car, and the jacket doesn't quite fit and the car isn't quite his, but he's getting there and we see him get there as the show progresses. he outwardly becomes more and more of himself and the person he's always meant to be: the fictionalized and idealized version of a man, moral and righteous but not soft, battered and experienced and worldly but unbeaten and unbroken. he has everything anyone could possibly want, the women and the drink and the car but he's not allowed to like or find any pleasure in any of them because pleasure leads to desire and desire leads to sin and he can't do that. he can't be anything other than what he was always meant to be.

and i think that tension is at the core of dean winchester and ties into the dean's relationship with the story, particularly his relationship with violence. because this is a story where violence isn't bad as long as you're catholic about it, violence is okay as long as you have a righteous cause and a crusade to fight and as long as you don't want it. And Dean is the poster child of this. In the things he did in Hell with Alistair and what he did in Purgatory and what he did with the Mark of Cain and as a demon. He likes violence. He likes that it gives him power and agency, he likes that it gives him control in a situation where he is not meant to be anything other than a role to play. So he suppresses it the way he suppress the part of him that also likes the stability and agency and emotional clarity that violence gives him because those things are inherently tied to violence and his life since he was four years old is just violence, just guns and killing things, so life is violence and he might even like it and he might even want it but he's not supposed to do that so he doesn't.

So you get to who he is in late seasons: a person who cannot separate family from violence and violence from power and power from stability, and a man who isn't allowed to change. a man who seems to care more about having people-cas, mary, sam-than actually cultivating a relationship with them because that means he has to be dynamic, he has to change, he has to want to have something with them and he has to let himself have it, and well. he was never allowed to do that, so it never occurs to him that he can be anything other than what he is supposed to be.

And you know, it's easy to lean into the toxicity of that, I certainly do, but I don't know. There is something so deeply human about that. It's an old truism in writing that interesting characters change, but there is also something really interesting in stasis. In the discomfort and pain of being stuck. In a story that is both steady and volatile at once and being right in the middle of that and being the anchoring point in a storm and a world falling apart, and in both a watsonian and a doylist sense, the world, dean's world will quite literally collapse if he moves, so he doesn't. And it's not noble and it's not tragic and it's not sinister or despicable. It just is. And that kind of helplessness and powerlessness is impossible to navigate, and i don't know. i can't help but feel for him.

[weezerpilled]

ways to make yourself more interesting and appealing to others: make up things to get mad about and spend your free time arguing with yourself in your head

[screambirdscreaming]

At the bus stop one time there was a gaggle of preschoolers waiting to catch the bus for a field trip day, and someone walked past with a couple of friendly little dogs, to great general delight.

But after a little bit, the dogs were getting overwhelmed, and the preschoolers were gently coaxed to back off so the person with the dogs could continue on. Specifically, one of the preschool teachers said, "Sometimes, when you're small, being surrounded by big people can be a bit scary and overwhelming. Even if they are friendly."

This was recieved as great wisdom: after all, the preschoolers were also small, and understood how scary and overwhelming big people could be! And the dogs were indeed even smaller than the preschoolers, so it made sense.

What was funny and charming was that, upon absorbing and reflecting on this wisdom, they all felt the need to tell it to one another. In tones of great insight, they turned to one another and said, "Did you know? Sometimes when you are small, being surrounded by big people can be scary and overwhelming! Even if they are friendly!" Back and forth, without any particular concern that they were all saying the same thing. Have reached comprehension of an insight, it must be shared!

I must say that this behavior is less charming in tumblr users than in preschoolers. Not least because tumblr users, having gained a little analytical skill to misuse, insist on Summarizing and Generalizing and Unifying the insights they repeat, quickly turning any interesting new information into formulaic dogmatic mush.

[infinitisms]

of all his techniques, gojo finds hollow purple to be one of the most draining. he still highly associates the move with the notion of desperation and losing control, as well as with the image of toji fushiguro, a spectral embodiment of his mortality which continues to haunt him. 

he’s only ever used it a handful of times. there’s something about such a ridiculously destructive ability why intrinsically alienates him from the world and his peers, a stark contradiction to the conscious effort he makes to try and bring himself ‘back down to earth’ in his everyday life.

satoru’s entire encounter with toji was definitely a turning point in his life and I wouldn’t hesitate to state that the brazen overconfidence of his youth was a manifestation of uncertainty. at that point in time, he’d been raised to abide by a certain set of strict rules dictated by his clan and had been practically shaped into their idea of a clan head and weapon.

attending school definitely challenged this disillusioned worldview by providing a radical contrast that affirmed his inner desire for independence and began to plant within him the seed of opposition against the very hierarchy that he was thus far being groomed into bolstering. 

gojo being gojo, coped with this blatant confusion by refusing to acknowledge it, instead bringing to the forefront the title of his birthright- being the strongest, and by extension, being infallible.

his ‘death’ during the star plasma vessel arc completely shatters this belief. it’s a rude awakening which forces him to reckon with everything he’s held dear and true, and it culminates into a rebirth that is both metaphorical and figurative. 

he subsequently experiences a moment of true clarity where he refines his thus far imperfect technique (and arguably, also reconciles the fragments of himself- which I feel can be somewhat linked to the honoured one statement), which ultimately allows him to unleash hollow purple on toji.

[galahadsknight]

Im gonna be honest, the idea that you constantly chat/have conversations w your deity I think fucked me over in the early stages of developing religion.

I constantly felt like I should be having a little chat with them every time I gave them offerings. Which made me not want to give them offerings because I SUCK at chatting. Especially with deities. To the point where I was googling “what to talk to deities about” and then I learned that it, in fact. Is not a requirement, and is a pretty modern notion.

And now I say my little prayers, give my little offerings and say a little thanks for what they do and that works so much better for me.

[blepzebul]

is this a safe space … a lot of hazbin rewrites don’t scratch an itch in my brain bc they don’t expand upon the “surviving hollywood”-esque undertones of hazbin’s premise that made charlie so charming as a protagonist, in the pilot at least ;;

[bogusfilth]

if you talk about like. classical liberal or early american political thought and you never bring up slavery or empire you are actually violently intellectually dishonest. it should just be unthinkable that you could say something like the following with a straight face.

Individual liberty, whether rugged or not, is certainly at the heart of the American political project, expressed in its founding documents, such as the Declaration of Independence. (Bruce K. Ward, Right Stuff, Literary Review of Canada January-February 2024)

individual liberty was at the heart of the American political project? how do we still let this level of open revisionism slide? it was a slave state. what next? "at the heart of the third reich was a commitment to the prevention of arson"? you should be forced by the merest ten seconds of thinking to encounter the real point, which is that american political thought is characterised by a contradiction between a nominal focus on liberty and an actual violent tyranny, not just a potential tyranny resulting from "too much" democracy.

It was Rousseau himself who acknowledged that in the liberal state he envisaged, based on the rightness of the general will, the recalcitrant would be “forced to be free.” In its extreme Communist form, this apotheosis of the state was to include the attempt, in the words of the Czech Canadian novelist Josef Skvorecky, to “engineer human souls.”

this has never been a problem. "we made the people too free and now they've enslaved themselves" has never happened. it's a conservative rhetorical ploy, it's an inversion in thought of the true premise - the thought that "subject and a sovereign are clean different things," the fear of the rabble that needs to be held down.

this should be the true struggle of modern liberals - how do you reconcile a universalist democratic ideal with the fact that the existence of anglosphere parliamentary democracy is fraught with its relationship to empire, the monarchy and landownership at home! i know this is me being mad about effectively marxist 101 problematization of the ideological framing of western democracy. but is the liberal project so weak that it simply cannot sustain itself without this kind of self-deception? is a liberalism that is actually committed to those values in some sense structurally impossible?

[leviathiane]

Franklin's comparative analysis of Gon and Uvogin reflects in a not-insignificant notion to how Gon and Killua work together versus how Nobunaga and Uvogin worked together–– though with caveats, of course. Killua at this point in the story (and the majority of the story, CAA not included) was and is physically stronger than Gon. He doesn't need Gon's protection. Gon doesn't feel the need to provide it, either. He holds complete trust in Killua's abilities and strength, and so lacks the same sort of support power-up that Uvo got when fighting alongside Nobu.

This both humanizes Uvo, furthering his post-mortem characterization, reinforces Gon's characterization, further establishes the dynamic between Uvo and Nobu, and provides set up for future shifting Gon-Killua dynamics, the Fast-Approaching Killua style abuse mental breakdown included.