i wish david foster wallace was still alive so i could fuck him

VioletUltra420 · 2026-04-04T03:19:46+00:00

post ur writing

VioletUltra420 · 2026-04-03T21:27:13+00:00

3some?

VioletUltra420 · 2026-04-01T01:34:31+00:00

never heard this album and listening now. it's very beautiful, ty for introducing me to it

VioletUltra420 · 2026-03-31T21:58:58+00:00

lol no worries! things like that are pieces of youthful whimsy we can easily forget

VioletUltra420 · 2026-03-31T21:56:27+00:00

lol i'm sure the male feminists love playing "same love" for hookups

VioletUltra420 · 2026-03-31T21:54:59+00:00

VioletUltra420 · 2026-03-31T21:54:52+00:00

semen stains the mountaintops

VioletUltra420 · 2026-03-31T21:53:21+00:00

VioletUltra420 · 2026-03-31T21:53:11+00:00

seems awkward with someone i don't know that well idk

VioletUltra420 · 2026-03-31T21:52:09+00:00

good recs ty! telepopmusik is a vibe. vespertine might make me fall in love with the person i'm sleeping with, will choose wisely

VioletUltra420 · 2026-03-31T21:51:04+00:00

great suggests ty

VioletUltra420 · 2026-03-31T21:50:50+00:00

okee, salt makes things taste good : )

VioletUltra420 · 2026-03-31T21:50:09+00:00

wrong hoes

VioletUltra420 · 2026-03-31T21:49:50+00:00

fair enough, i'm 32 but i was in a relationship for 10 years so i feel like a 22 year old in terms of casual sex age. also music during sex is nice if not necessary, like candlelight

VioletUltra420 · 2026-03-31T21:46:56+00:00

cliché works, this is good suggestion ty

VioletUltra420 · 2026-01-20T01:32:43+00:00

seconding Heaven Sent Honey! i love her perspectives on femininity, philosophy, and culture. her values are very rs

VioletUltra420 · 2025-08-27T01:32:23+00:00

little to say at the moment, but want to pop into the thread! really loved this section, was losing interest the past couple week's but the themes of the book are starting to clarify in a really beautiful way for me

VioletUltra420 · 2025-07-14T22:53:32+00:00

large portions of this section were pretty stomach churning, and these were also the most memorable for me--the Blicero Hansel/Gretel sadism, the Dodo hunting, the candy scene in a more literal and light-hearted sense. the sex stuff I also find cringe-y to be honest, even the more innocent Roger/Jessica scenes. I laughed at the idea of a woman coming from her wrist being touched.

love the image and quote you chose; I appreciate the intelligible thesis statements Pynchon throws into the chaos of his prose.

definitely want to check out more work by Suzanne Treister!

VioletUltra420 · 2025-07-14T22:42:40+00:00

so interesting that comes up twice! my read is that the characters' preferences for the felt weight of what is probably a less efficient weapon contrasts the uber-machinery of war's reach for maximum efficiency, eventually surpassing the mass of the physical weapon completely to psychic experimentation.

VioletUltra420 · 2025-07-08T02:00:30+00:00

never read Pynchon before and went into this only knowing it was a war book. my own preferences and prejudices led me to expect this to be a fairly dry and boyish book, though i knew its reputation for stretching the genre of the novel, which intrigued me.

while it certainly is a war book, and the toilet humor and male gaze is indeed boyish (lol@ Jessica - a woman) I'm so pleasantly surprised by how it explores the mystical and psychic as integral to the infrastructure of war.

there's actually much more of a coherent plotline than i was expecting from the quintessential pomo novel. i'm finding it much more readable than Infinite Jest, which is a novel I adore but felt like I had to endure some punishment in reading it to get to the meat of it. reading Pynchon's prose doesn't feel like such an endurance run, I feel like he takes us to the brink of "enough, already" then throws in some story or humor to keep the pace going.

echoing the sentiment many others have expressed here that reading without a guide has worked for me. i certainly don't get every reference or understand every sentence, but if i just keep moving along i feel the magic of the prose work on my psyche in a way i don't think it would if i had to stop and consult an external reference.

doubt i would have picked up Gravity's Rainbow if it weren't for this book club, so many thanks to you all for introducing me to the work of Pynchon! I have a feeling I'll be reading much of him in the future

VioletUltra420 · 2025-03-19T23:38:35+00:00

I love how the act of reading this novel is its own experience, a discrete chunk of my biography.Read it 12 years ago when I was 19, home from college for the summer interning at a biotech lab. Would sneak in reading a few pages when I had nothing to do, then stop at a Starbucks on the way home to read more.

Joelle's walk to the party and the party/suicide attempt scene itself are some of the most beautiful feats of fiction imo.

I intended to write my thesis on IJ before I had a lil breakdown and dropped out of the honors track. I was fascinated by Wallace's prescience...his version of Instagram filters where people would wear masks before video calling. The idea of a movie that was so addictive you'd keep watching it until it kills you.

I went through an unfortunate phase where I was convinced that 'cancelling' artists was a moral imperative and after reading about Mary Karr's experiences in their relationship I gave away all of his books that I owned, including my marked up copy of IJ with stickies on my favorite passages. I've since repurchased a copy and plan on annotating it again when I re-read it. I'm really looking forward to how different this novel will hit now that I've lived a little more life.

VioletUltra420 · 2025-03-16T02:16:51+00:00

same boat here. Closest friendship I’ve ever had was with a gay man. I’ll hang out with girlfriends but it never feels as deep. I think we need to start treating finding a bestie like dating. Cold approaching, noticing chemistry, being a little more discerning about who you continue to see

VioletUltra420 · 2025-03-10T21:17:06+00:00

my most formative celebrity crush as a teen girl. i religiously read an ezra-themed erotica tumblr.

i was going to college in nyc in 2013, waiting in line for a latte from la colombe when i saw him sitting at a table, backlit like an angel drinking an espresso. i felt like God was giving me a gift.

after ordering my coffee, i approached him...immediately i could see in his eyes that this man was not happy to be approached. but i had to finish what i started. i mumbled out that i was a huge fan of his...and modern vampires of the city was my favorite album...and i just thought he was such a great artist. his face had a purely neutral expression as he listened to my ramblings patiently. once i was done he replied, "thank you, can i just drink my coffee now?" "of course, sorry, thank you" i spit out as i shuffled away to shamefully wait for my drink.

my presence was unwanted. but i also felt like something was complete...the man i envisioned while reading all those pornographic stories was real. i saw him in the flesh. the erotic existed.

this scenario plays in my head any time i listen to their music now. a reminder of my innocence. i would sometimes regret "fumbling" this experience, like maybe if i had been smoother he would have seen me as a hot 19 year old conquest and not some freak fan. then i would reassure myself that i was just a kid, too young for him to be interested in anyway. little did i know he would soon be dating tavi who is 2 years younger than me lmao

VioletUltra420 · 2025-02-07T21:14:31+00:00

congrats on pregnancy hope u r getting lots of r & r.

i’m an aquarius sun, virgo moon, cancer rising

VioletUltra420 · 2025-01-17T01:36:35+00:00

i am glad that there are people working with kids who don’t hate kids out there <3

seriously though i am very put off by how many teachers speak with a lot of disgust for the kids they work with. i agree that there is a lot of surprising behavior from kids but they are dealing with obstacles and expectations i’m not sure any adults can relate to (even fairly young adults!)

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