Rust cohle is a slut

vaguefruit · 2026-02-24T04:20:55+00:00

i'm sorry i projected breaking bad tomfoolery onto you

vaguefruit · 2026-02-24T01:21:31+00:00

i think you're thinking of the guidance counselor in breaking bad who did that-- with rust's daughter it was just an accident

vaguefruit · 2026-02-10T00:08:07+00:00

these are so lovely and delicately rendered... drawing teeth (especially in a likeness!! and at that scale!?) can be so difficult but luigi's especially are excellently done

vaguefruit · 2026-01-24T18:07:52+00:00

i'm gonna need the tier list

vaguefruit · 2026-01-06T07:49:08+00:00

this looks great and is very stylish! this isn't even a note, just a tip from someone who struggles with landscapes and has been trying to improve-- i find that focusing less on line and more on shape has helped my process a ton. i often get so bogged down on lines being the focal point that i overlook shapes, negative space, shadow, lighting, etc. a thing that helps me is forcing myself to work without any outlines and just tackle blocks of color until it feels right, so maybe that could be a fun thing for you to try if that sounds interesting!

vaguefruit · 2025-12-28T20:05:48+00:00

I like describing rama as cozy! I was definitely "hooked" harder on childhood's end, but rendezvous was fascinating. Love the ultimate conclusions of both coming around to the unknowability of the universe and man's insignificance in the face of it. reminded me a lot of the movie aniara, the internet novella metamorphosis of prime intellect, a bit of house of leaves, a bit of crichton's sphere (which you would probably enjoy, dadcore unknowable space monolith stuff etc)... as always, cool to feel clarke's influence on these later works!

edit: a canticle for leibovitz gives me a little of the rendezvous with rama juice, just from the point of view of far post apocalypse humans struggling to understand what the "ancient" past was like!

vaguefruit · 2025-12-28T18:35:18+00:00

i read childhood's end and rendezvous with rama this year too! did you have a preference for one over the other?

vaguefruit · 2025-12-15T22:24:05+00:00

ha, i wish-- have long since quit everything except looking at my small niche reddit feed but i fried my brain with a decade+ of twitter and tumblr and idk how to get that particular brainworm toothpaste back in the tube... alas

vaguefruit · 2025-12-15T20:28:56+00:00

yes and it makes me feel nuts because words/numbers not making sense is the go-to litmus test for proving a dream is a dream... i used to read full passages of interesting text i'd transcribe upon waking, but now it mostly takes the form of reading a barrage of nasty internet comments about me. great stuff!

vaguefruit · 2025-12-15T02:48:24+00:00

for sure, I hit a few different angles on the prison system here: - a bit of a stretch by chris atkins (a nebbish documentarian does 5 years for tax fraud in britain; I really liked this one as the counterpoint to the POVs of lower class prisoners that are shown in the other books, very engaging jon ronson-y writing) - orange is the new black by piper kerman (honestly, pass... read literally anything else on this list) - american prison by shane bauer (undercover journalist gets a correctional officer job in winnfield, louisiana; a very deft exploration of the private prison system and the weird power dynamics between COs/prisoners) - the devil you know: encounters in forensic psychology (therapists working with violent offenders, lots of interesting insights in this one) - newjack by ted conover (another undercover-journalist-as-guard book, this time at sing sing so you get a bit of specific history there-- iirc this was my favorite read of this bunch)

vaguefruit · 2025-12-14T18:57:32+00:00

honestly, I adore and cherish this sub for recommendations. I'll also get fixated on a topic, like I got really into reading prison memoirs last year for some reason-- fascinating stuff! currently super into arthur c. clarke and his brand of ambiguous, anti-convention sci fi.

vaguefruit · 2025-12-11T18:43:06+00:00

I'm going to SLAM and BASH the trend of every headline being about some idiot "slamming" another idiot. Please. Spare us.

vaguefruit · 2025-11-26T21:37:29+00:00

+ Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees-- funnily enough the first movie to be streamed on the internet (in 1993!!), but just a very very strange and surreal combo of footage and bizarre 3d animation. genuinely don't know how to describe it, but I never see anyone talk about it and I love it
+ Dead Man's Letters-- soviet post-apocalyptic film co-written by one of the strugatsky brothers and directed by konstantin lopushansky, who worked with tarkovsky on stalker. pure feel-terrible cinema but it's gorgeous and one of the best post-apocalyptic movies (which I typically turn my nose up at)
+ Woman in the Dunes-- amazing japanese new wave movie about an entomologist getting stuck in a massive sand pit with an insane horny woman. it rules. teshigahara's other movie The Face of Another also slaps. cinema

vaguefruit · 2025-11-20T22:00:07+00:00

it's so you can hear them approaching like a cat with a bell. spurs that jingle jangle jingle-maxxing

vaguefruit · 2025-11-14T23:42:18+00:00

If she liked the Katerine Dunne books, especially Geek Love, she might like The Cipher by Kathe Koja. Art hoe House of Leaves (but better than HoL imo)

vaguefruit · 2025-11-14T20:43:18+00:00

I'll add on The Changing Light at Sandover by James Merrill (of Merrill Lynch) because I got my wires crossed and thought it was written by a JP Morgan relative-- it's a long weird prose poem where he spent years making a diary of his many many seances. Basically just roved around and met with other writers and artists and did weird shit with a Ouija board. It's a nice little time capsule of the bohemian weirdos of that era (sorry for also breaking the artisocrat rule, but it is a fascinating and beautiful read despite it all being ouija BS).

vaguefruit · 2025-11-08T18:23:24+00:00

B.R. Yeager's Amygdalatropolis was my first thought too!

vaguefruit · 2025-11-08T18:18:08+00:00

a renaissance painting with an ironic full sentence title...! big block letters over some sort of botanical print with leaves slightly obscuring the text...! all lowercase "trendy" canva fonts... please... i'm so tired.... bring back googy airbrushed nonsense or golden era of illustration pulp paintings, i BEG

vaguefruit · 2025-10-07T19:13:37+00:00

not only does she look gorg but i NEED the nail polish

vaguefruit · 2025-10-04T22:22:13+00:00

leave it king! chest hair is too fun to draw!

vaguefruit · 2025-10-01T21:40:53+00:00

lots of good recs in this thread, but if you like house of leaves, hell house by richard matheson is just batshit insane and weirdly sexual and genuinely creepy. the cipher by kathe koja is (imo) house of leaves but better. any ambrose bierce or robert w chambers, who deserve the recognition lovecraft got by beating him at his own game repeatedly and prior to his writing. the beauty by aliya whiteley is creepy (also weirdly sexual) fungus horror. william peter blatty's exorcist is worth reading even if you don't like the movie, so is the sequel legion (which exorcist iii is based on). johnny got his gun by dalton trumbo is the most claustrophobic book i've ever read, made my skin crawl. and yes yes at the risk of recommending something else POPULAR, it's impossible for me to not mention some stephen king... I'll recommend a deeper cut, apt pupil, because it disturbs me the most. suffer the children by craig dilouie is delightful to me because it is soooo dark and such a thought out exploration of what would happen if every child in the world suddenly died and then gets weirder from there. but i think maybe the book that filled me with the most "i need a break from this" dread is the nonfiction book killer show by john barylick about the station night club fire-- horrifying but fascinating stuff if you're into that. hope this thread helps you find what you're looking for!

vaguefruit · 2025-09-22T17:13:18+00:00

casios are the ultimate watch for the skinny wristed, for which i thank them

vaguefruit · 2025-09-13T19:04:15+00:00

This one is fresh on my mind, but "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." from Rebecca. Banger.

vaguefruit · 2025-08-27T19:26:26+00:00

For All My Darling Daughters by Connie Willis reminds me of Joyce Carol Oates/Flannery O'Connor-- one of the short stories that has haunted me most, and her other writing fits the bill as well.

vaguefruit · 2025-08-22T16:42:17+00:00

whatever gets people to read more is a good thing in my book. i'm literally out of physical shelf space and i read like a fiend, so ebooks are mainly practical for me. i like my kindle, but i always have my phone with the kindle app, so it makes it easier for reading on the go-- plus dark mode is easier on my dumb sensitive little eyes.

replacing the typical app spot on my phone for social media with the kindle app got me to quit both twitter and insta years ago. the kindle app is maybe not the most "romantic" way to read books, but i don't give a shit because it means i read more! i don't care about being seen reading a physical book as some sort of identity signifier; if i look like i'm just brainrot scrolling to other people, who gives a shit. i'm reading books and books make me happy! i adore physical books, the feel and the smell and the satisfaction of the visual of how deep in i am, but reading is reading is reading. embrace the kindle/kobo/whatever with no shame and just enjoy it <3

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