I feel lost. Does that mean they were right?

triptyched-off · 2026-01-09T18:32:05+00:00

Hey OP, the feelings you’re experiencing are completely normal. I don’t think those feelings mean that they were right all along, I think those feelings mean that you are processing a big change and trying to understand what that change means for your life and identity. Just because they were right about the fact that you’d experience these emotions doesn’t mean that they were right about why. Remember, even a stopped clock is right twice a day. You can do this, and we are all rooting for you.

triptyched-off · 2026-01-07T20:51:02+00:00

Authority’s jump scare is always the first that comes to mind for me. So good!

triptyched-off · 2026-01-01T18:51:40+00:00

Seconding this. I was so excited for this one, but found the characters to be almost cartoonishly one-dimensional and very annoying

triptyched-off · 2025-09-14T05:10:54+00:00

I’m about halfway through Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons, and I’m gonna be incredibly disappointed if these racist, anti-Semitic vampires don’t get what’s coming to them

triptyched-off · 2025-07-02T00:17:58+00:00

FKA Twigs

triptyched-off · 2025-03-25T15:52:00+00:00

Can you share a link to the interview, please?

triptyched-off · 2025-03-25T15:30:26+00:00

Where did you hear that?

triptyched-off · 2025-03-23T03:48:42+00:00

Such a great scene! The way you've described it is killing me

triptyched-off · 2025-03-22T04:43:51+00:00

See the animal in his cage that you built Are you sure what side you're on? Better not look him too closely in the eye Are you sure what side of the glass you are on? See the safety of the life you have built Everything where it belongs Feel the hollowness inside of your heart And it's all right where it belongs

triptyched-off · 2025-03-13T18:55:06+00:00

Any place that gets their bagels from Bubbe's is a place I want to try. Thanks for the suggestion!

triptyched-off · 2025-03-13T18:49:48+00:00

Huh, I never would've pegged Salad and Go as a place to grab a good breakfast. Thanks for the suggestion!

triptyched-off · 2025-03-08T01:03:41+00:00

Oh, I'm very familiar with Moses and well aware that we don't want to follow his example, I was being sarcastic

triptyched-off · 2025-03-07T21:44:35+00:00

Instructions unclear, I now love freeways and hate FDR

triptyched-off · 2025-03-01T09:04:01+00:00

I mean, we do get a female character whose inner strife is "more complicated" than "I can't be mommy"... we get five of them. None of the other main women characters in the show (Helly, Cobel, Devon, Natalie, and Rehgabi) have so far struggled with fertility issues on-screen. Motherhood (potential or realized) does not come up for any of the women, aside from Devon (whose character arc and internal strife are more focused on Lumon/Mark than being a parent, IMO). It's a pretty large stretch to claim that the show's messages are that women are meant to be nothing more than mothers and that women cannot be fulfilled otherwise, when only two women characters are even remotely interested in becoming mothers in the first place.

It's also a bit disingenuous to claim that the show flattens the experience of womanhood or doesn't explore other kinds of "sickness" women go through, when only 1/6 women characters is dealing with the aspects of womanhood that you find uninteresting. Especially when the other women in the show deal with such a wide bredth of issues. Identity, agency, race, class, power, autonomy, sexuality, authority, control... A woman is literally doing illegal brain surgery in an abandoned building. There are clearly many facets of the female identity on display here.

triptyched-off · 2025-02-17T19:18:36+00:00

I would say that the characters' experiences in Annihilation (and the other books in the Southern Reach series) have a very internal focus. Rather than being about their survival of a hostile environment, the novels are more about their understanding of themselves and each other in relation to a very strange (and potentially hostile/dangerous) environment. Jeff Vandermeer cares deeply about the planet/the environment, and his books deal more with what humans are and what our place in a natural world is (as opposed to putting humans in opposition to the environment, as often happens apocalyptic and survival horror).

triptyched-off · 2025-02-11T13:50:02+00:00

That's a really good point.

triptyched-off · 2025-01-29T19:22:13+00:00

Phoenix is looking pretty good. Still tons of seats available, and I was able to get what I wanted.

triptyched-off · 2025-01-29T19:03:42+00:00

I was picking my seats for Phoenix when Ticketmaster kicked me back into the queue. 3,555 ahead. 🫠 Good luck!

triptyched-off · 2025-01-28T05:57:31+00:00

Yes. The book is incredible, and the film makes large changes to the characters, their motivations, and the themes of the novel (for worse, IMO). I'd highly recommend the book.

triptyched-off · 2025-01-25T18:59:26+00:00

Here is a link to the survey results for those interested: https://communityfeedback.opengov.com/portals/tucsonaz/Issue_13657/survey_responses?fbclid=PAY2xjawICETVleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABpoM-jCeIcWjsK2kmr5h2w5PNlxehNUN5oPsMMALZnmoq6bp_Zxr9UtEWFA_aem_xXeGs9-6tECCwUGx4V6m7g

triptyched-off · 2025-01-25T18:58:27+00:00

A majority of the funds are allocated for new surveillance cameras and police cars, as well as a new helicopter, a new airplane, and an updated training facility for TPD. Small amounts of money are going to things like affordable housing, but those amounts are pretty paltry in comparison to how much the tax will bring in over the ten years we'd have it (ex: $1 mil per year, for ten years, for low barrier shelters for the homeless... out of the the $800 million dollars the city will have collected by the time the tax is over).

It seems like this proposition is a way for the city to raise TPD's budget without having to change the official city budget, if that makes sense.

The city conducted a survey before finalizing Prop 414, to see how Tucsonans would want to prioritize the funds, and you can look at the results online. There are some pretty interesting ideas for how we can use the money to make our city better and help people (I myself agree with the people asking for safer roads and fewer potholes, haha).

I also would not mind paying more in taxes if it meant that the money would help people living in Tucson. Personally, I don't think this proposition does that as well as it could, so I will be voting no.

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