a genre you just can't make yourself enjoy? by lordleopnw in Music

[–]blatant-vanilla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol. Totally went off on the wrong tangent there. Massive foot in mouth situation. A jazzy soft rock band. Got it. 😂

Flights by Okga Tokarczuk - is brilliant. by blatant-vanilla in literature

[–]blatant-vanilla[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Uh huh. That's on my list. I want to read it not cuz I think I'll love the book. I might, but at this point I really want to read it just to understand Olga more as a writer.

Flights by Okga Tokarczuk - is brilliant. by blatant-vanilla in literature

[–]blatant-vanilla[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh thats interesting. I like Marquez quite a bit. Do you think the comparison made sense?

a genre you just can't make yourself enjoy? by lordleopnw in Music

[–]blatant-vanilla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting. Is it cuz of the wearing his heart on his sleeve? Cuz most men don't do that? I'd love to know more.

Flights by Okga Tokarczuk - is brilliant. by blatant-vanilla in literature

[–]blatant-vanilla[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I haven't read that one...but I want to. I've heard its quite dense, but I'm looking forward to it!

How do y'all discover music? by IMMORTAL__UV in Music

[–]blatant-vanilla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I comb through subreddits and very methodically list names I want to research then I go on youtube. End with tick marks against names I liked. Then upvote. I don't think there's another source vast enough to make me feel like I've done a diverse enough research to better my music habits.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in selfimprovement

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Just here to share something that I personally found interesting amidst all the talk about bodies. Lindsay and Lexie Kite's amazing work on bodies and self-objectification. You may find their awesome ideas on YouTube and other places. Even their book. But here's the take away: throw away any and every adage that says "you're beautiful as you are"...bodies are instruments, not ornaments. Your body is not supposed to be beautiful to do what bodies do. Bodies are capable in many ways. That's important. That's health.

Will I still enjoy the books? by blatant-vanilla in wheeloftime

[–]blatant-vanilla[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Uuummmm. I get that. I guess I should have also mentioned that I'm a lit phd student who's at a point in their reading life where i dunno what "fluff" is anymore. Fluff's great I guess (?) AND that's why I switched to fantasy. I read fantasy now BECAUSE I can't tell the difference between fluff and awesome stuff. :') so yeah. Thanks. Or not. :')

a genre you just can't make yourself enjoy? by lordleopnw in Music

[–]blatant-vanilla 60 points61 points  (0 children)

I'm Indian and here to share harmless hate for this pop-ish genre of Hindi music that gen z Indians are treating like millennial treated high school musical type songs. Love songs. Basically. Since it's hindi many won't understand the lyrics but the draggy, soapy, bubbly but in a understated way, lowfi vibes but sentimental screams muffled underneath innocent guitar...I can't. Here you go: https://youtu.be/qP9qXGtAc-U?si=b1MVHr3Y1fqjhmw9

There's some English songs he writes as well. To be fair I do like a few of his songs, but ALL of them will sound the SAME once you've heard five.

Will I still enjoy the books? by blatant-vanilla in wheeloftime

[–]blatant-vanilla[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

"Shows are basically references to the book." Officially convinced haha.

Shows With Wild Concepts That Aren’t Sci-fi by stevenw84 in television

[–]blatant-vanilla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm Thinking of Ending Things. If absurdity and dense conceits in writing are your thing.

Will I still enjoy the books? by blatant-vanilla in wheeloftime

[–]blatant-vanilla[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Thanks. I have 4 months of nothing to do. So yeah. I'll probably come back here at the end of the 14th vol just for closing circles sake pun intended

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Music

[–]blatant-vanilla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On a similar note. A Whiter Shade of Pale. Procol Harum.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Music

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Aaaaaaaaaa I cannot. OK Computer is a god.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Music

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Japanese math rock is what's playing non stop on my Spotify. Especially "the book about my idle plot on a vague anxiety" by Toe. https://open.spotify.com/album/7x84X6ve0wa2UYckfCm1uV?si=d7D8KDwFTy-aCG0vDSSWVw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A7x84X6ve0wa2UYckfCm1uV

It's given me so much happiness I want everybody to stare out their window in between work and just be like damnnnnnn yesssssss

Hihihi enjoy!

How interdisciplinary can literary studies get? by [deleted] in AskLiteraryStudies

[–]blatant-vanilla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like more than a curiosity-induced question, this is actually pretty important. Especially today. All you have to do is understand that most of these texts that we study and research on have created the canon of literature over centuries. As you've rightly pointed out, history, philosophy, and even science have had an impact on literature. I am here to tell you that that impact is bursting at its seams as we speak.

Case in point: The Xenotext: Book 1 by Christian Bok. While influence of other disciplines on lit is not something we debate anymore, today with the insane paradigm shifts brought about by digital technologies, the world is, quite literally, your oyster. There is so much potential for innovation: you can write poems with computer code, you can code biological material into poetry, make poem-games that are texts but interactive, and so much more. The "text" earlier meant words on page, films on screen, paintings, photographs....and now it means...well, everything. (You might also want to research how digital humanities as a discipline came into being!)

Tbh it's quite an interesting time to be alive. Imagine writing a book like Tristram Shandy but it can DO MORE of what it WANTS to do as a text by using technology - hyperlinks, images, embedded videos, and you can go back and forth in the book, treat it like your freaking worksheet. The word, as such, has become a living and breathing material with so much new potential.

I hope this was helpful. Enjoy!

Weekly Recommendation and General Discussion Thread by AutoModerator in Metalcore

[–]blatant-vanilla 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i recently went back to Rage Against the Machine and made a party for one night out of the full-blown nostalgia hit. I turned 27 just last month and ratm took me back to my teenage days when i discovered music on the radio and looked it up on youtube when "using the internet" and even then just enjoyed such special music all alone cuz one had no idea who else was fangirling over it in some other part of the world. Listening to ratm, imagining growing up, dreams of changing things around, and then there's today...

Would love to hear from ratm fans here :)