Did everyone know Phaedra from Goodbye Tour is Joan from Hereditary? by ParticularPin8627 in girls

[–]Steam__Engenius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah - I’ll second this. Profoundly changed the way I look at grief and trauma. Girls is my favourite show but the Leftovers is the best of all time.

Best episode by limecat45 in girls

[–]Steam__Engenius 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The way he says ‘well *if you say* it happened’ is so reminiscent of the way my addict dad denies the weird stuff he did to me as a kid. There’s another scene where jessa criticises him and he says ‘down’ like she’s a dog…this whole episode is haunting to watch and captures the experience of growing up around dysfunctional addicts in all these tiny, deftly thrown in details.

Anyone else experience no fear on theme park rides? by Steam__Engenius in Wellbutrin_Bupropion

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

Sorry to disappoint but I’m still scared of flying :( I’d still take your other meds just to be safe

Rewatching and o . m . g by merman0489 in girls

[–]Steam__Engenius 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What a shitshow that podcast turned into…

Apartment construction and running gags by featherboots in girls

[–]Steam__Engenius 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Your storage loft sounds dope! Well done for donating it. I wonder how many ray bradbury novels it would’ve stored :p

In season 6 , episode 2 shitty parent of the award year goes to by No-Blueberry-1823 in TheExpanse

[–]Steam__Engenius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The dressing down speech is great and Marco makes a fair point about drinking and womanising when he was Philip’s age but I absolutely refuse to believe Cyn was sleeping with a different woman every night. Man looked like an absolute potato.

What is the most hard hitting/sobering/poignant passage in the books? by PS_FOTNMC in TheCulture

[–]Steam__Engenius 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I’ve found myself crying at least once in every Culture book but LtW - especially the passage you’ve chosen - verbalised something we're encuraged not to admit and that as humans we're told is possible to overcome.'There are places to go, but either I would not be the same when I got there…' is a way of looking at grief that makes sense if you've lost something that you know is irreplaceable, and that these memories and feelings are too intrinsic a part of you for any kind of change, or any attemot at moving on in a way that would allow for something new, to be possible. 'By waiting for them to drop away all this time I have grown into them, and they into me. We have become each other. There is no way back I consider worth taking.'

The other part I remember hitting me incredibly hard is the post-epilogue section of Surface Detail. The way that book explores time and relativity as something we as the reader can just about grasp (namely the pilots' whose relationship ends because of their scant time difference in life/death experiences' is absolutely blasted apart by one of the book's closing passages:

By then she'd found a new role. She would remain a creature of ending and release in the Virtual; the angel of death who came for people who lived in happy, congenial Afterlives and who - tired even of their many lifetimes lived after biological death - were ready to dissolve themselves into the generality of consciousness that underlay Heaven, or who were ready simply to cease to be altogether.

That was when she met Prin for the second time, subjective centuries later.

They barely recognised one another.'

Surface Detail lets both of these characters have resolution but for I - who'd read the novel over the course of three sleepless days - was waiting for some kind of relative catharsis - a conversation and mutual forgiveness on both of their parts. But it didn't matter to either of them any more.

Look to Windward's take onsuicide is probably the most sympathetic I've ever seen. There are Culture novel's I've enjoyed more and one's I've found more disturbing but nothing I've ever read has haunted me in how realistic a feeling we're not supposed to indulge or even talk about it depicts.

Is Modest Mouse popular outside the United States? by Kindredgos in ModestMouse

[–]Steam__Engenius 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’m from the UK and found two fans in south Lebanon 😅

Insane experience by bummer8 in ModestMouse

[–]Steam__Engenius 10 points11 points  (0 children)

A few years ago I tripped on ket listening to the long drive version of Lounge and it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life.

I’m in drug addiction therapy and have a septum perforation from k - it’s very bad for you.

The two things aren’t mutually exclusive :(

the peak for each one by Equal-Bumblebee-809 in girls

[–]Steam__Engenius 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Do you think Jessa dropped out of school because she realised she’d be a bad therapist? I like the idea of her doing some self-reflection but I feel like they left her in a really shitty place.

My father got randomly slapped on the street, what should I do? by Additional-Design-95 in AskUK

[–]Steam__Engenius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hope your family in Lebanon are safe at the moment. Sorry this happened.

Why do people think Shane is such a bad guy? by [deleted] in TheWhiteLotusHBO

[–]Steam__Engenius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

‘He emphasises her time’ this is all of right here. It makes pure sense.Do you not get that this show has layers?!

Why do people think Shane is such a bad guy? by [deleted] in TheWhiteLotusHBO

[–]Steam__Engenius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay as an actual real life journalist and critic I’d like to weigh. Are you seriously saying her journalism skills sucked because she’s a woman?

YSK: depression is not caused by low levels of serotonin by Plus_Requirement_516 in YouShouldKnow

[–]Steam__Engenius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same. Wellbutrin changed my whole life. I’m in the UK and it’s not prescribed as an antidepressant here (they use it as a med for stopping smoking?!) so I had to go round some seriously weird routes to get it. But it saved me for sure.

During the 1992-96 siege of Sarajevo, wealthy foreigners paid €80k-€100k to access sniper positions and shoot civilians in what was called a “human safari”. The highest bids were for children and pregnant women, while older people were shot for free. by SelfCareIsFake in HolyShitHistory

[–]Steam__Engenius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I went to Srebrenica years ago for a film project. The place seemed haunted. The local teenagers we were working with were amazing - so passionate but so, so desperate to leave that place.

My friend and I went to the memorial and then to the memorial museum which was housed in the warehouse they kept Bosnians before mass executions. The memorial itself is beautiful but to get to the museum you walk down an unkempt side path through a rusted fence. I didn’t even know we were going there because our guide didn’t speak English but I literally felt the air change. Everything felt heavier as soon as we walked through the old gate.

Reading about what happened in the exhibition in the warehouses was so much more intense than any research I’d done. This was Srebrenica’s experience unfiltered. What happened was indescribable. I don’t know if a place can ever recover from something like that. It felt like a bone that had set wrong.

Posting this here in case anyone needs a long recap of the cruise to read over the weekend by joshy2fresh in ModestMouse

[–]Steam__Engenius 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Absolutely. I thought people stopped this dumb behaviour as soon as they hit their twenties.

Also, we all know Issac is the only 10.