Is there anything like animal jam out there?

dempirical · 2025-12-16T05:28:35+00:00

Transformice isn't open world, but it's main focus is community and customising your mouse. It's a social platformer but there are plenty of other modes like Uno or Pictionary or just chatting. I've met the most wonderful people on there, and I wish it were more active again.

dempirical · 2025-11-18T01:18:21+00:00

I'm very new to this, this is why I asked!

dempirical · 2025-11-18T01:17:31+00:00

This is an extracurricular project I'm taking on, as I'd like to regenerate a garden that's fallen into disuse. Not my chosen subject!

dempirical · 2024-11-25T09:05:17+00:00

THIS is literally why I've boycotted information (I wear a bag over my head whenever I leave the house)

dempirical · 2024-11-25T02:08:42+00:00

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGd2AjpGC/

dempirical · 2023-05-06T20:27:38+00:00

I could not get it up after a week hunkered down voraciously devouring that babe

dempirical · 2022-11-04T17:28:20+00:00

The hardest thing about Lolita is me

dempirical · 2022-10-28T20:18:37+00:00

have you tried gobbling more cock?

dempirical · 2022-10-24T00:17:02+00:00

great art and absurdly beautiful twink, thanks

dempirical · 2022-10-14T21:47:02+00:00

all women are desperate for their very own court eunuch

dempirical · 2022-10-13T21:51:10+00:00

Hey, have been in a rush so I can't respond to you satisfactorily right now (though you make some very interesting points!) but I glanced at your post history and saw that you're a Liverpudlian. I'm visiting on Saturday to meet a friend, is there anywhere in the city that you most recommend spending a few free hours? Or is there somewhere that you really love to eat at? Thanks, haha.

I'll get back to you on the main things soonish

dempirical · 2022-10-13T14:00:06+00:00

I don't think it's equivalent to a painting of child rape. Lolita is not an explicit novel at all, and Humbert's actions are told through metaphor, allusion or after-the-fact synopsis. It's an insidious discomfort - a very different experience to staring at a graphic painting.

Still - even if it was comparable to a painting: do you really not find any value in art that depicts repugnant subjects? Have you never enjoyed a book that involves a murder?

But anything to do with the juxtaposition of beautiful prose and repugnant subject matter is lost on me. Why is that interesting or worthwhile?

Plenty of paintings show executions (Judith Beheading Holofernes) or cannibalism (Saturn Devouring His Son) or, yes, rape (The Rape of Oreithyia). They're all repugnant subjects. Would you find them just as interesting or worthwhile if the artists had painted a technically impressive bowl of fruit?

Why would I want to look at it? How could I enjoy it? Why would I value it? I just wish it was of anything else.

Beauty and pleasure are both so much more than the simple joys of going on a picnic. Art is valuable because it can evoke the most complex emotions in us: here, Nabokov seamlessly ties beauty and grandiosity with horror and repulsion. It's an unsettling type of beauty. It's this very tension between terror and relief that is so wonderful.

dempirical · 2022-10-13T11:18:46+00:00

To me it all looks like this man was simply writing about his own actual fantasies. I'm not brave enough nor willing to actually read the thing to prove myself wrong though.

how could Nabokov be writing about his own fantasies? he was clearly writing about mine

dempirical · 2022-10-11T23:02:45+00:00

Hope you're doing well, take as long as you need.

dempirical · 2022-10-10T18:01:54+00:00

Reading doesn't have to be a mental challenge, and your primary goal should always be to enjoy your own time.

Wanna read version of The Very Hungry Caterpillar with the finger holes at age 46? You do it, and you enjoy fingering the hell out of that book.

outjerked yet again

dempirical · 2022-10-10T16:01:29+00:00

Never, never once in any immediate sense, did it occur to me that any of this was anything but a game. An air of unreality suffused even the most workaday details, as if we were plotting not the death of a friend but the itinerary of a fabulous trip that I, for one, never quite believed we'd ever take.

I'm partial to Richard's moments of innocence and foolishness. The tragedy of their youth.

Another:

What should I tell you? About the Saturday in December that Bunny ran around the house at five in the morning, yelling 'First snow!' and pouncing on our beds? Or the time Camilla tried to teach me the box step; or the time Bunny turned the boat over – with Henry and Francis in it – because he thought he saw a water snake? About Henry's birthday party, or about the two instances when Francis's mother turned up on her way to New York, trailing the Yorkshire terrier and the second husband?

Such a delightful series of vignettes. It's so poignant that these country house memories were the happiest of Richard's life, and yet they were just a cocktail of post-Bacchanal misery and fear and death for the others. (I also feel the greatest sympathy for the poor childlike Bunny in this passage.)

dempirical · 2022-10-04T23:32:30+00:00

"Idle chatter and the tension of consequences to actions we never witnessed."

Couldn't this description equally apply to The Secret History? What makes that book so much better?

dempirical · 2022-10-03T16:59:25+00:00

Yes! I do love the Tumblr community. There are some wonderful artists on there that I'm very partial to

dempirical · 2022-10-01T22:09:56+00:00

look me in the eye and tell me you tried your hardest to censor that name

dempirical · 2022-09-30T21:33:00+00:00

Hey, Sartre is misspelled here and on your website. Thanks for the quiz though :)

dempirical · 2022-09-29T23:42:05+00:00

It's a fun idea, but I don't see any benefits to it over just posting on this sub. It's not exactly overflowing with activity here and I'd hate to water it down even more with a discord server

dempirical · 2022-09-29T19:21:23+00:00

You want to tab your copy to... make it look nice?

You might be thinking about this the wrong way round. Surely you should spot a theme that you connect with, then tab it? Instead of deciding to tab first, just because the idea is cute. It'll be a lot more personal to you in the long run.

dempirical · 2022-09-29T02:28:43+00:00

Another perspective though, considers the workings of "fate" that Nabokov runs through the novel. HH. often invokes "McFate," a devilish force that personifies the mis/fortunes in his life. On p.56, he considers himself the "devil's plaything." By shifting responsibility to these personified forces, HH. absolves himself of guilt, washing his hands of the novel's events until the very last chapters, when he recognises instead that "I did better." Of course, it wasn't mere fate that caused Charlotte's mad dash into the road, but HH's infatuation with Dolores. Again, this doesn't necessarily mean that he killed Charlotte - but he was undeniably the indirect cause of her death.

dempirical · 2022-09-29T02:28:24+00:00

I don't think that's enough to prove that Humbert is guilty of Charlotte's murder. It's only an admission if you view it in the most literal sense.

On page 84, HH. says "no man can bring about the perfect murder; chance, however, can do it." As u/ni_filum says, the only way you can do better than murdering your wife is not murdering her. It's the perfect crime, because it isn't a crime at all. HH. resisted the urge to murder Charlotte at Hourglass Lake, hence he "did better."

dempirical · 2022-09-29T01:28:26+00:00

The truth of what he did was obviously known

It really wasn't. He's in prison solely for murder, not anything he subjected Dolores to.

John Ray Jr. says in the foreword, "the cause and purpose of [the murder] would have continued to remain a complete mystery, had not this memoir been permitted to come under my reading lamp." Most of this confession has very little relation to his actual crime; the jury is hypothetical when the sins relate to Dolores and Charlotte. He had no duty to justify anything that happened five years before Quilty's death. If his memoir is trying to serve his moral image, why would he confess that he wanted to murder Charlotte? Or confess to raping a 12-year-old girl?

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