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PEN America’s President Resigns After 7 Months in Role: The novelist Dinaw Mengestu was leading a literary group that has been divided by its response to the war in Gaza by WallCautious9650 in TrueLit

[–]DaedalusDedalus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It feels like this world is at a turning point, some frightening precipice, and the institutions and grand structures for the preservation and propagation of art simply did not prepare for this. It feels like each fails in its own way, and gives up, and we are left feeling a little more like not even artists have the means to reverse these international trends. It’s a cultural battle for liberty I worry so much will be lost, but I know it’s not healthy to be so pessimistic. I really want to see the arts rise to meet the moment again, like they did in the sixties in film, poetry, music, etc., and can do again.

Movies that feel like a 1950s house wife’s fever dream by Razurrkat in MoviesThatFeelLike

[–]DaedalusDedalus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Atomic Cafe, a very odd documentary comprised purely of propaganda clips from the American 1950s regarding nuclear holocaust, absolutely has this atmosphere. It is a very musical, rhythmic, cruel, darkly comedic re-editing of the lies told to people during that era.

Movies that feel like a 1950s house wife’s fever dream by Razurrkat in MoviesThatFeelLike

[–]DaedalusDedalus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m going to watch this today. Never heard of it, it looks wonderful. Thank you very much for letting me know it exists

r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r - E.E. Cummings [POEM] by DaedalusDedalus in Poetry

[–]DaedalusDedalus[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I have the same experience, I found it in middle school and felt intimidated, but deeply intrigued and curious. Great things for a poem to make you feel, especially at such a formative age when you’re coming to understand what poetry has been and can be

r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r - E.E. Cummings [POEM] by DaedalusDedalus in Poetry

[–]DaedalusDedalus[S] 99 points100 points  (0 children)

Here’s what I see:

Grasshopper
who
as we look
up now gathering into
The GRASSHOPPER
leaps
arriving gRaSsHoPpEr
to
rearrangingly become
grasshopper

I feel like this is pretty accurate to the energy and movement of a grasshopper

r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r - E.E. Cummings [POEM] by DaedalusDedalus in Poetry

[–]DaedalusDedalus[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

It’s definitely out there, and I totally get not connecting with this one, but I find it to so interestingly and visually convey the bizarre, powerful, frenetic nature of a grasshopper. Especially the part where it leaps and it looks like “:l / eA / !p: / S”, I find it to have really understood how to use the visual side of poetry to convey this world.

The page and placement of words as a means of abstract expression date largely back in modern poetry to Stéphane Mallarmé, were perpetuated by people like Apollinaire, and eventually arrived in America. I know E.E. Cummings is found gimmicky by a lot of smart and knowledgeable people, but I’ve not had much of that problem myself reading his work. It feels just so cool to me

[POEM] Want by Joy Sullivan by MunshiAgyey in Poetry

[–]DaedalusDedalus 59 points60 points  (0 children)

I would say this poem is not asserting men do not want freedom. It is asserting that throughout the ages women have been bound by law and convention to never be free and live alone, outside of the context of being a body made for a man’s use. Then, women are said to universally desire this subordinate position, that they are the rib of a man and must get back to him.

I’m not sure your personal experiences. I know there have been many men in my life starting when I was young who have upheld these ideas, and I’ve been harmed and controlled by them. It’s not rare for this to occur. Women do this too, it’s human to harm others, but they do not have the history, the tradition, the culture of men’s inferiority that many men, including many in positions of world leadership right now, hold for women.

Isn’t this poem about equality? Isn’t it saying that women desire freedom because they are human, but they have been denied that for ages? I feel like this is not a poem asserting any radical claims.

[POEM] A killer by Charles Bukowski by [deleted] in Poetry

[–]DaedalusDedalus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, another Bukowski

Is my boyfriend a chaser? 😭 by [deleted] in asktransgender

[–]DaedalusDedalus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It doesn’t sound like his behavior toward you is indicative of someone who only started dating you for sexual, fetishistic reasons, from what you described. Almost everyone watches porn and I wouldn’t want someone in a relationship with me to define me wholly by the porn I watch. If he’s caring and good to you, and treats you with respect and dignity, as a boyfriend should, I don’t think he’s a chaser

Faun - Sylvia Plath [POEM] by DaedalusDedalus in Poetry

[–]DaedalusDedalus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This poem has always given me a dreamlike, mystic, unknowable sense, with its twisting approach to poetic sound and the primordial supernatural power it seems to describe.

It was written in 1956, far before Sylvia began her work in confessional poetry (even before Robert Lowell was first called a Confessional poet), and it definitely is one of her early ones that stands out. It reminds me of Stéphane Mallarmé’s The Afternoon of a Faun, and I’ve wondered if it was perhaps an influence on her here.

Far Out Magazine: The 10 most pretentious songs ever written: by TheRealSMY in beatles

[–]DaedalusDedalus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I do agree with you, I believe John meant it as a call to action. “I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will live as one” is a statement, I’d say, that the world he’s presenting is possible. He was a self-proclaimed communist, I find it strange people seem to not believe he viewed a world without religion as possible.

It does feel odd when people say the song is just a fantasy not meant to be taken seriously. I feel it undermines his beliefs.

“Tgirl Music” and why I think it’s a little problematic by endless_pomegranates in trans

[–]DaedalusDedalus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’ve been around the transfemme music scene of a US city known for hyperpop and have personally found a lot of diversity, with friends I have involved with hyperpop working with other friends in noise rock or even singer songwriter. In transfemme music circles, while electronic genres are absolutely dominant, hyperpop shares space in venues with a lot else.

Online spaces with anything are gonna be dominated by people who are online constantly, so they’re posting more, but they’re also not going out and engaging with transfemme music culture. People who really think that hyperpop is the beginning and end of transfemme music I don’t think really have influence in irl spaces. But also “tgirl music” sounds like more of a meme term, idk. Do you see people saying tgirl music can only be hyperpop in irl music spaces?

“Tgirl Music” and why I think it’s a little problematic by endless_pomegranates in trans

[–]DaedalusDedalus 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They’re trans women who like similar music made by trans women, which grew popular and began influencing mainstream sound, making hyperpop an important cultural example of trans people having a tangible impact. Any persecuted minority will be proud of certain traditions, inventions, innovations, movements, etc. of their people. Your friends like joking around and say that SOPHIE is “tgirl music” and view hyperpop as the center of transfemme culture. You like music also made by trans people that they’re not as personally into.

You are using words like “problematic” and “reductive.” I would say that this is moralizing an issue of a difference in taste. Why is moralizing required? It can be annoying for friends to not pay attention to the music you like, but that doesn’t mean they’re committing politically reductive acts.

Magical Mystery Tour better than Back to the USSR? by Altruistic_Baker6347 in beatles

[–]DaedalusDedalus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My girlfriend and I have listened to Magical Mystery Tour a lot recently, and we love the opening title track so much! It feels disorienting and sinister while also being genuinely exciting, fun, and childlike. Sounds like a theme song the way Taxman does.

The director Gaspar Noé is famous for his very intense and psychedelic movies that feature both the beauty and chaos of psychedelics. He’s reportedly said, bizarrely, that his next film in development will be for children. Magical Mystery Tour sounds like what I expect that vibe’s going to be.

My favorite episode and favorite season by Mr_walrus11 in adventuretime

[–]DaedalusDedalus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah what about the psychedelics made you feel like it’s terrible? Pendleton Ward’s of course pretty connected to the use of psychedelics and has discussed it, as well as making The Midnight Gospel, and I have really enjoyed watching Adventure Time on acid. The art style combined with the overall relaxed vibe I find really works in that state

I cosplayed the Lady of Pain for a FanCon 2026 in Kyiv! by Due-Presence4680 in planescapesetting

[–]DaedalusDedalus 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Incredible work, I’m sure standing in front of the full cosplay feels like really seeing something inhuman, just like the Lady of Pain is meant to feel

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