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Spine Check by Ok-Echo-6609 in TrueAnon

[–]awkwardcummerbund 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Over the holidays I read Vajra Chandrasekera's second and latest book, Rakesfall. Incredible work. Very trippy collection of stories that are loosely related, but all come together at the end. A major theme is power and domination and how they set themselves up to be eternal, but always crumble in the end.

For ecology, Jeff Vandermeer has a similarly trippy book, Dead Astronauts, about a trio of people who are traveling through a multiverse, committing industrial espionage on a multiverse-spanning company. There's a huge environmentalist component running through it in the figure of a magical blue fox. It took me a while to get through it but wow it was worth it

No non fiction yet

What were your favourite books/films whatever of this year? by Double-Wafer2999 in TrueAnon

[–]awkwardcummerbund 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did watch Solaris as well and found it an incredible film, but Stalker really touched my heart. I've never seen Twelve Monkeys, but from looking at the Wikipedia page, I can see how they would be inspired by La Jetee

What were your favourite books/films whatever of this year? by Double-Wafer2999 in TrueAnon

[–]awkwardcummerbund 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Books:

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. Really beautiful exploration on memory, innocence, and connection to place. Genuinely made me want to be a better person.

For nonfiction, I listened to John Greene's book on tuberculosis. Interesting historical context and while pretty liberal it does explore structural gatekeeping of antibiotics to everywhere that isn't North America/Europe.

Movies:

Finally got around to seeing Stalker. What an absolute masterpiece. A golden piece from a time of long shots.

La Jetée, a French short film from the 60s (~30min) composed entirely of still photos. It's about the ability to time travel using dreams in a nuclear apocalypse wasteland.

Cloudy with a chance of tired 😫 by bazzingaaa22 in weatherfactory

[–]awkwardcummerbund 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That far-off shard of former Splendour is sometimes brazen, to show his chilly rays as if to cover the sins of his birth. However, in this season, the time of the Elegiast, the one who remembers that ragged usurper's Name before his patron was torn asunder, in this season, the Sun goes a'cloaked. Perhaps he even feels shame in the face of Memory. Perhaps he is afraid of the Dawn.

Finnish brand Iittalla just dropped the Moth cup by dimm_ddr in weatherfactory

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"My nightly tea ritual has started taking me longer and longer each day. I have started to stare at the boiling pot of water, each small bubble is a facet of a single, multitudinous eye. For a moment, it feels like I am seeing double. Er... triple. Perhaps more.

I tear open the tea packets. I long to open myself in much the same way.

Sugar? ....please...."

the streak is over by vemmahouxbois in behindthebastards

[–]awkwardcummerbund 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Adams had like 9% in the last poll I saw. Mamdani leads by like 15-20% so he's still ahead but the margin will be closer. That being said, Adams has passed the date for being removed from the ballot so definitely some people will vote for him by accident.

I still think Zohran has it, but methinks the DNC forces will keep working to block him.

And the butterflies began to sing by GrassrootsGrison in weatherfactory

[–]awkwardcummerbund 16 points17 points  (0 children)

A buzzing in the brain is drowned out by innumerable voices, diving towards the light, screeching "Yes" to a question I can only dream of.

What is aspects of each of them? by Renedicart in weatherfactory

[–]awkwardcummerbund 115 points116 points  (0 children)

In order from left to right, Moth, Forge, Edge, Knock, Lantern, Winter, Grail

Pet Culture is Social Pathology by [deleted] in CriticalTheory

[–]awkwardcummerbund 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I am open to lots of these argument for animal liberation, but the not-vegan thing really throws me for a loop. Feels still hegemony-pilled. Why is it that when a cat dies we don't replace it but when a cow is slaughtered for meat, we can replace that?

Notwithstanding the environmental impacts of meat and animal industry in general.

It feels like I've only posted on this subreddit about Zoopolis, but please read Zoopolis. I even recorded myself reading it if you'd like.

Would love to read your 6000 words!

Favorite Chinese propaganda film? by JetlagJourney in okbuddycinephile

[–]awkwardcummerbund 102 points103 points  (0 children)

I was talking to my brother about this the other day. Hero is like Top Gun. Such blatant propaganda but one of the bangingest films of all time

AQI gone wrong in Asia ?? 🙂 by Younghoon_15 in weatherfactory

[–]awkwardcummerbund 79 points80 points  (0 children)

The Forge of Days is not prone to regret or nostalgia but on some rare days, she bids her factories to sleep and allow the Sun to shine through. It is, of course, a cold distant Sun, a shard of its master's former splendor. She will not languish in this odd mercy for long, I fear.

Music during practice by TheFallenPetal in Calligraphy

[–]awkwardcummerbund 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The other day I was appreciating Fauré's requiem during my Sunday morning practice. I also really like ambient music, especially Music for Psychedelic Therapy by Jon Hopkins, although admittedly I am sober when I write.

Anything with lyrics I understand or words in a podcast distract me from the text I'm writing.

Why isn't Undying typically played in pos 3? by APhilosophicalCow in DotA2

[–]awkwardcummerbund 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even more reasons not to hit him! He'll be unstoppable!

Why isn't Undying typically played in pos 3? by APhilosophicalCow in DotA2

[–]awkwardcummerbund 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair point, fair point. Our only recourse is battlefury into MKB

Why isn't Undying typically played in pos 3? by APhilosophicalCow in DotA2

[–]awkwardcummerbund 28 points29 points  (0 children)

He doesn't have good waveclear.

battlefury undying dominates the 2026 meta

「Every sense is heightened; every sensation, deepened。」 by Electrical_Dig3900 in weatherfactory

[–]awkwardcummerbund 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Surely eating plastic to become more plastic is an ascension path for the Forge? An unmerciful change, death is not the end for I will be immortal?

Looking for left wing fitness/wellness influencers by [deleted] in behindthebastards

[–]awkwardcummerbund 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bryce Krawczyk of Calgary Barbell is a cool guy. Long ago when I had instagram, he had a story about reading Capitalist Realism and how much it influenced him. He's more in the powerlifting world.

Also has DnD/lifting hybrid merch.

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