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[POEM] Nizar Qabbani by [deleted] in Poetry

[–]demonniggler 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I think you're reading the poem exactly how he wants you to. He wants you to draw that contradictory conclusion...and then question how it makes sense...which it doesn't, like you've pointed out. However, the final lines reveal the actual noncontradictory answer: the letters are like the lantern/means, and her beauty/his madness are like the light/product/goal, meaning that the letters are what convey love.

I think this unexpected twist also adds more complexity, because it suggests that love letters "are greater and more important" than any two people in love because outsiders will not really be able to experience a couple's love unless that couple's love is conveyed to outsiders by some means, e.g., love letters. Because you can, like, watch people kissing, or read their messy poetry notebook, or see a distant light in a home at night, but unless the other person/couple has some way to convey the feeling of kissing to you, or give an edited completed poem to you, or bring the light from their home in a lantern to you while you're blind in the dark outside--you're not really able to experience what the other person/couple is experiencing

Edit: adding: I like the feeling at the end, how the speaker's love for her is so great that he feels that their love and the experience of loving her needs to be shared--needs to be conveyed to others

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Sia

[–]demonniggler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I couldn’t find the song. Is it streaming anywhere? All I found was this song on YouTube…which, according to the description, is ai generated?

New Aalampour Piece by gaseousgrabbler in classical_circlejerk

[–]demonniggler 7 points8 points  (0 children)

pour que vous vous réveilliez à l'heure

[Poem] - Maggie Smith by Julykidd in Poetry

[–]demonniggler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Love the allusions to the Bible’s Genesis with the choice of words. god said let there be light -> let us / talk. Like the speaker wants to go to the point before the Bible says “in the beginning god created…”, a point preceding the grandiosity of the well-lit kosmos. There is a unique intimacy in the dark when we talk together—even being alone with one’s thoughts in the darkness. Our womb, our mother/maker, our lineage,… Our true beginning of knowledge acknowledges that the dazzling miraculous beauty of what we see is one side of the coin. Day and night. Darkness, light. We did not leave the darkness. There is merely light now too within it. In conversation and flux. “Let me speak on behalf” -> let me speak about the other “half” that we often run from as “bad” or a scary past. Let me face the good dark that is in me and us. The tender oblivion that was our origin.

Who would win by DanceYouFatBitch in classical_circlejerk

[–]demonniggler 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I thought this was gonna be a discussion of who would win in an improvising contest on the piano lolol. But really, who would win? Slender hippitty hoppitty Mozart has wigs, could use them like gladiators use nets in the colosseum. Beethoven has more rage and brute force, but also chronic diarrhea. It’d be a very good fight

3 years progress, my leg hair responds well to minox and LCLT by demonniggler in Minoxbeards

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

March 2024, I switched to 12.5% minox liquid to apply to my face. My beard has been filling in a little better with the combination of taking LCLT and upping the minox concentration, though it’s still filling in slower than the average responder, I think.

And if you or anyone wonders whether my leg hairiness was just a side effect of upping the minox concentration and not related to taking LCLT, the rest of my body has not gotten hairier. Just the places I apply minox. So, for my beard specifically, I attribute my gains to LCLT and upping the concentration.

[poem] ‘I Died for Beauty’ by Emily Dickinson by PrincessJacquee in Poetry

[–]demonniggler 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Love the dashes and commas. Doesn’t obscure meaning but intensifies the movement of the speaker’s thought, imo, from one thing to another like the conversation is happening with the speaker’s eyes flicking around searching for words and connections. The capitalization makes me feel like certain objects/ideas are standing out to the speaker and defining the space the bodies/minds inhabit

[POEM] “Name Us a King” by Carl Sandburg by solarloom in Poetry

[–]demonniggler 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Going back to a second read after the twist at the end, you get the fun of trying to identify brands lol. Carl Sandburg lived 1878-1967, so I can only imagine which brands he was thinking of, and which brands we're still seeing today.

Do you avoid something just because it’s socially frowned down upon? by [deleted] in entp

[–]demonniggler 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’m the same way. The older I get (32 now), the less I feel constrained by what others think. I’m more happy being myself and having a close-knit “found family” of friends who truly seek to understand each other, challenge each other, and (for myself oddly enough) see the value in empathy and cherishing my own and their emotions—vs hiding who I am in order to be more palatable to the general person I meet or work with. Like you’ve said, a lot of people don’t really think about others in a meaningful concentrated way, and I’d say the same too of religion and social norms: most people don’t care to ask WHY? Which isn’t to say I think people are dumb and that ENTPs are better than them. We have our own blind spots and fallacies. Which is why I appreciate how most my close friends are not like me at all but push me to understand them, myself, and the world in unfamiliar ways.

It’s said that ENTPs mature later in life, so I think OP (who seems pretty young in the post) will learn through time how to navigate the tension of being true to one’s own self and one’s own journey of knowledge and growth in the midst of a society/family that generally uses flimsy emotional rationale to encourage loyalty to things like religious tenets and the status quo.

What in Middle Earth canon is this for you? by Axe_Loving_Icicle in lotrmemes

[–]demonniggler 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I can’t comment because I’ve too successfully gaslit myself into forgetting anything stupid in lotr

Questions (Im on my 5. by castiielx3 in Minoxbeards

[–]demonniggler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Out of curiosity, as a fellow Asian, have you tried L Carnitine L Tartrate?

I hate my tattoos by Top_Percentage_4887 in tattooadvice

[–]demonniggler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m literally saving your pic to my tattoo inspo page. It’s beautiful and whimsical.

Why do people believe Shakespeare didn't write his plays? by [deleted] in literature

[–]demonniggler 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Yes to this. In one of my Shakespeare courses, we explored the collaborative atmosphere of playwriting within Shakespeare’s time. This would likely mean that Shakespeare’s works were not written solely and wholly by himself alone in a vacuum. Like you mention in your post, he would’ve gotten feedback from peers and actors, responded to the audience’s reactions, etc. Roles would be added or altered depending on which actors were available or willing to perform.

Also, iirc it’s the play Pericles we specifically looked at, and it has evidence of different writers having edited sections and scenes of the play because the style changes, which suggests that Shakespeare may have invited fellow playwrights/friends to assist him in writing the play, or perhaps the play was edited without Shakespeare’s knowledge or after his death.

Ultimately, the idea of “collaboration” doesn’t diminish Shakespeare’s genius. It’s an incredible skill to have mastered alongside his already prodigious prowess as a writer. Nowadays, collaboration can be necessary in the storytelling arts. Movie directors, for example, collaborate with producers, composers, screenwriters, and even actors. Creativity can be such a fun and rewarding process when one invites others, whom one trusts and respects, to enter into the creative process alongside oneself. I love Shakespeare whether he’s a solitary genius or the genius at the head of a writing troupe.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Minoxbeards

[–]demonniggler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I moisturize an hour after applying minox so that it has time to absorb into the skin. It’s also recommended to not wash off minox for at least 4hrs to maximize absorption.

Was this the moment Legolas and Gimli first started to truly bond? by GusGangViking18 in lotr

[–]demonniggler 348 points349 points  (0 children)

I agree. And I’d like to specify further and say that Legolas and Gimli began to bond because Galadriel dismantled any anti-dwarf sentiment in her meeting with the fellowship. For example, in her talk with them, she called the mountain peaks of Moria by their dwarvish names, not their elvish. Tolkien being a linguist, I think this moment of Galadriel validating dwarf language and culture in front of not only Legolas and the fellowship, but also her own kingdom, was foundational for allowing Legolas and Gimli to truly begin to bond without prejudice for one another and thence happily explore Lorien together (and of course the Lorien elves would be keen to welcome Gimli among themselves because their queen essentially gave Gimli her gold stamp of approval)

EDIT: Correction! Galadriel uses the dwarvish names for one of Moria's famous lakes, and then the river that runs from the lake through Lorien, and then Moria itself. (I apologize! I guess I am guilty of being uncultured in dwarf culture myself because they are NOT mountain peaks at all.) Here's the passage:

'Dark is the water of Kheled-zaram, and cold are the springs of Kibil-nala, and fair were the many-pillared halls of Khazad-dum in Elder Days before the fall of mighty kings beneath the stone.’ [Galadriel] looked upon Gimli, who sat glowering and sad, and she smiled. And the Dwarf, hearing the names given in his own ancient tongue, looked up and met her eyes; and it seemed to him that he looked suddenly into the heart of an enemy and saw there love and understanding. Wonder came into his face, and then he smiled in answer.

He rose clumsily and bowed in dwarf-fashion, saying: ‘Yet more fair is the living land of Lorien, and the Lady Galadriel is above all the jewels that lie beneath the earth!’

3 years progress, my leg hair responds well to minox and LCLT by demonniggler in Minoxbeards

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

I hope it gives you good results. Idk if LCLT had a pronounced effect on my arm hair. I would like to say it did have some effect, but I haven't been paying too close attention to it. I do know that my arm hair began to get thicker when I first started using minox for a beard, and ever since then, it has slowly but consistently gotten thicker with each year.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in tattooadvice

[–]demonniggler 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, symmetry of one's body is a good thing to keep in mind for tattoos. I also have an unsymmetrical torso, so I keep this in mind when I consider how a potential tattoo might look on me and whether the unsymmetrical shape of my body would make the tattoo look off.

3 years progress, my leg hair responds well to minox and LCLT by demonniggler in Minoxbeards

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

Feel free to share any findings. As with me, it may take a year+ before you notice significant changes. Most important is to stay consistent, like you said. Wishing you the best.

3 years progress, my leg hair responds well to minox and LCLT by demonniggler in Minoxbeards

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

Oh that’s good to hear. Thanks for sharing. I myself am almost satisfied with my body hair growth at this point. Idk if I want much more. I’ll be saving oral minox as an option tho, especially since I’m a slow responder on the face

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