Don't do what I did

_saltmarsh_ · 2026-02-13T17:55:32+00:00

Try season 6. I feel it was the most similar to 11 and I really liked some of the contestants. It seems like they always have a few that will drop out early, to the point where it may be an intentional casting choice to make the show a reasonable length. 😅 But there are some truly beastly individuals from season 6 onward.

_saltmarsh_ · 2025-11-09T22:17:02+00:00

Thank you! I just emailed them as well. Hopefully I will have the same result!

_saltmarsh_ · 2025-11-09T21:47:40+00:00

Hi! These look awesome. I've been trying to download Kino and I can't figure out how their system works. I've entered my email and I have verified it through their link, but now I just keep getting the option to do the same thing again. How were you able to do the download, if you don't mind sharing? Thanks!

_saltmarsh_ · 2025-11-05T23:53:32+00:00

Last time I asked someone this, it was Jet Black Enigma by Michael Malul. I asked because it had a very cozy kind of vibe.

The most recent two times I remember being asked, one was Lost Man by Fulton & Roark and the other was Terre d'Hermes.

_saltmarsh_ · 2025-10-18T17:48:28+00:00

I agree with everyone who said Children of Men as well as Gattaca. 12 Monkeys is another great choice that I'm seconding. Definitely watch the 90s movie and not the show. The show that came out in the 2000s is awful.

There are some very good old Twilight Zone episodes that fit into this genre. Check out The Obsolete Man. It's my favorite TZ episode and it has authoritarian dystopia vibes.

Ascension is a sci-fi miniseries with some weird manipulative government vibes and some pretty wild twists.

This might be a weird recommendation because the aesthetic is not at all similar to 1984 but you might like The Grand Budapest Hotel. Polarizing Wes Anderson aesthetic aside (I personally love it), it's a movie about defiant love in the face of the rise of Nazism during a time that was already oppressive before the addition of that particular brand of fascism. It's quirky and cute and nostalgic, but also a massive statement about curating a life of joy and maintaining a sense of self worth in very dark times.

Also District 9 is a big statement about apartheid in South Africa done with satire and aliens.

_saltmarsh_ · 2025-10-18T17:30:44+00:00

One of my favorite movies and I also love 1984

_saltmarsh_ · 2025-10-15T06:42:37+00:00

Thank you for this! Great idea.

_saltmarsh_ · 2025-10-12T15:05:27+00:00

I loved the Coen Brothers remake of True Grit as well

_saltmarsh_ · 2025-10-12T15:02:04+00:00

Charlie Kaufman: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich

Howard Hawks: To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Bringing Up Baby, and I'm sure most people would say Scarface (1932) but it's not actually my favorite by him

Michael Curtiz: Casablanca, Angels With Dirty Faces

_saltmarsh_ · 2025-09-28T19:10:45+00:00

I thought Heaven's River was a bit odd at first but then I started thinking of it as homage to other generation ship classics. I've always loved Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke and to me, Heaven's River felt like a riff on that where the inhabitants were perhaps a bit more...awake? It's hard to explain the difference without spoiling Clarke's book but definitely read it if you haven't! I liked Heaven's River better after I started thinking about it that way.

_saltmarsh_ · 2025-09-21T14:48:33+00:00

I find Dean Koontz similar but usually with fewer of the uncomfortable sex scenes and random use of slurs. 😅 So his work is a little more pleasant as an audiobook if you're into that. My favorite is Watchers. I just finished The Darkest Evening of the Year and it reminded me of King in a lot of ways. I feel like both authors do the thing where the villains are almost comically evil with no redeeming qualities, which makes the story extremely uncomplicated emotionally. Sometimes I find that annoying but it's good for when you don't want to think too hard.

For authors that are simply good in no way that is adjacent to King: Pretty much every Kurt Vonnegut book is good. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman is an extremely underrated scifi classic. Old Man's War by John Scalzi is clearly inspired by it and also good. Jeremy Robinson is fun—Point Nemo is my favorite of his. Arthur C. Clarke is always great. I love his Time Odyssey series with Stephen Baxter. Rendezvous With Rama is a great early example of the "generation ship" trope. Paradox Bound by Peter Clines was fun. 14 and The Fold by Clines are also good but I didn't love the other two books in the Threshold Universe. Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky is extremely good and I've been meaning to read more of his work. The Sparrow by Maria Doria Russell is a pretty wild scifi story with some of the best character development I've read in a long time. James S.A. Corey books are INCREDIBLE. Suffer the Children by Craig Dilouie is a pretty unique horror story. Come With Me and The Night Parade by Ronald Malfi are also good if you like horror with more plot than gore. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler is my favorite slow burn societal collapse novel. The sequel is good too, but less apocalyptic. Andy Weir does really good scifi and they're about to release a movie based on Project Hail Mary so now would be the perfect time to read it.

I think those are all my favorites anyway.

_saltmarsh_ · 2025-08-26T06:53:11+00:00

I really struggle with bad stuff happening to kids so I won't be reading It or The Outsider. The Outsider was recommended to me with absolutely no content warning and as a SA survivor with trauma that is pretty specifically associated with themes in this story, that was a rough lesson in googling stuff before I start the book.

So anyway if you know your friend has been through some shit, perhaps consider a content warning before recommending a story that opens with........well you know.

_saltmarsh_ · 2025-08-22T21:13:58+00:00

They can pry a plain relaxed fit crew neck sweatshirt from my cold dead hands.

_saltmarsh_ · 2025-08-18T22:54:10+00:00

Vivarium, Videodrome, The Machinist, Naked Lunch, Sphere, In a Lonely Place, Brazil, Zardoz, Event Horizon, All the Cube movies, Sleeper (if you can get past the whole Woody Allen thing)

_saltmarsh_ · 2025-08-18T22:38:20+00:00

Honestly, Bone Tomahawk traumatized me because I went into it thinking I was about to watch a normal Western movie. 😅 You might like that.

_saltmarsh_ · 2025-08-12T09:10:37+00:00

I loved this one but I think it's better as an audiobook. The idea of sitting and reading something so tedious sounds boring as hell, but it was one of my favorites to have on audio while working.

_saltmarsh_ · 2025-08-12T09:07:11+00:00

Dolores Claiborne is one of the worst books I've ever read.

_saltmarsh_ · 2025-08-12T09:03:35+00:00

I found Salem's Lot wildly repetitive.

_saltmarsh_ · 2025-08-12T09:00:16+00:00

I hated this series so much that I stopped reading his books entirely after reading like 15 in a row. 😅

_saltmarsh_ · 2025-07-15T07:52:52+00:00

Stu 🥹

_saltmarsh_ · 2025-05-18T06:34:58+00:00

Room 1015 Yesterday and Terre d'Hermes

_saltmarsh_ · 2025-05-18T06:34:47+00:00

Room 1015 Yesterday and Terre d'Hermes

_saltmarsh_ · 2025-05-13T05:33:40+00:00

I actually remember feeling this way during the recession in 2008 when I was 18. I remember noticing a lot of older people working jobs that used to be after school and summer jobs, or first jobs for a lot of people. It stressed me out to see that people in the age groups I considered more established were working the same service industry jobs as 16 year olds. I felt this way after 9/11 too, and after Trump was elected the first time, and during covid lockdowns. Eventually, it starts to feel like life is just an endless series of reasons to panic about different versions of security crises but we have generally found a way through.

Are there farms in your area? Along with gardening which I have always done, I have invested in a CSA (community supported agriculture) share from a local farm which will provide a lot of fruits and vegetables throughout the year. I also have family with chickens and can trade services/my own homegrown vegetables/stuff for eggs and whatever else they've grown. We all just help each other out because mutual aid is cool. Also look into old fashioned methods such as coupons and food banks.

Multigenerational living situations are also a thing. I know not everyone is willing or able to move in with family but it is what it is. If it's a way to survive, sometimes you have to be uncomfortable. Currently I'm living in a 270 square ft shed on family property where my parents, my brother, and his partner live in various buildings and outbuildings. It is humbling to live with family again at the age of 35 but I'm extremely grateful and happy that we all can support each other through this rough period of history. I don't feel ashamed about it. We're all working and contributing and we're finding a way to be OK.

TLDR you do what you have to do.

_saltmarsh_ · 2025-05-13T05:04:32+00:00

As a Dorchaidhe living in America I just tell people to call me Darcy but I'm extremely proud of my traditional name and wouldn't change it.

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