a book for me which has artistic value but which i cant read because it irritates my very intensely is American Psycho. fuck reading that book, but he was doing something cool and interesting.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I miss Jumpingzombie and her delightfully juvenile brand of humor
i went through all my childhood and a big chunk of my teens disliking dark stories because they just seemed nasty and scary to me . . . i just couldn't see any appeal in them at all
during my later teens i went through a phase of liking a certain level of superficial darkness, but nothing too extreme
i guess at present i'm about as open to grimdark as i ever have been, but could probably stand to broaden my horizons
i went through all my childhood and a big chunk of my teens disliking dark stories because they just seemed nasty and scary to me . . . i just couldn't see any appeal in them at all
during my later teens i went through a phase of liking a certain level of superficial darkness, but nothing too extreme
i guess at present i'm about as open to grimdark as i ever have been, but could probably stand to broaden my horizons
Well, your openness to reading Ligotti is a good sign. Philosophically speaking, his work is pretty bleak.
i went through all my childhood and a big chunk of my teens disliking dark stories because they just seemed nasty and scary to me . . . i just couldn't see any appeal in them at all
during my later teens i went through a phase of liking a certain level of superficial darkness, but nothing too extreme
i guess at present i'm about as open to grimdark as i ever have been, but could probably stand to broaden my horizons
Careful in the grimdark categories, there's a lot of shadows and edges.
The thing that annoys me the most is nerds getting angry about realistically portrayed vulnerable characters not being utility-maximizing ubermensch badasses
There's someone on SA who does the internet critic thing, and has reviewed every issue of Sonichu starting six or so years ago when he was finishing up high school.
It's interesting because as the series goes on, the dude grows up in more ways than one and slowly becomes disgusted with the troll community and the way they treat Chris.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
There's someone on SA who does the internet critic thing, and has reviewed every issue of Sonichu starting six or so years ago when he was finishing up high school.
It's interesting because as the series goes on, the dude grows up in more ways than one and slowly becomes disgusted with the troll community and the way they treat Chris.
There's someone on SA who does the internet critic thing, and has reviewed every issue of Sonichu starting six or so years ago when he was finishing up high school.
It's interesting because as the series goes on, the dude grows up in more ways than one and slowly becomes disgusted with the troll community and the way they treat Chris.
A house was built for you, before you were born. The earth was meant for you, before you came from your mother. But it wasn’t prepared, and its depth wasn’t measured;
no one’s yet looked into how long it should be for you.
Now you’re brought where you’ve got to be.
Now someone has to measure you and then after that the earth.
Your house won’t have high ceilings:
it’ll be low and level, when you lie in it. The end walls are low, and so are the side walls; the roof is built right up against your chest.
That’s how you’ve got to stay in the cold, cold ground...
There's someone on SA who does the internet critic thing, and has reviewed every issue of Sonichu starting six or so years ago when he was finishing up high school.
It's interesting because as the series goes on, the dude grows up in more ways than one and slowly becomes disgusted with the troll community and the way they treat Chris.
There's someone on SA who does the internet critic thing, and has reviewed every issue of Sonichu starting six or so years ago when he was finishing up high school.
It's interesting because as the series goes on, the dude grows up in more ways than one and slowly becomes disgusted with the troll community and the way they treat Chris.
The thing that annoys me the most is nerds getting angry about realistically portrayed vulnerable characters not being utility-maximizing ubermensch badasses
Strictly speaking, Jesus was actually part of a tradition of radical mendicant rabbis who were particularly prevalent during that period. John the Baptist was another obvious one, but even at that point travelling holy men preaching to the diaspora from outside the synagogue were their own parallel tradition.
Claimants to being the messiah were so common among the Jews that Romans made jokes about the stereotype.
Yeah, Judaea was kind of a hotbed for religious eccentricity and militant politics, which tended to overlap quite a bit. Jesus was interesting because, if the Gospels are to be taken as reflective of his teachings, while he was in many ways very political, he framed his arguments in a very apolitical way: "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's," and so forth. It was sneakier and less equivocal than many of the flashier claimants. And really, it seems like the guy never really thought of himself as any more of a "son of God" than any other rabbi or any other human; that people took this literally is at once a testament to the problems of cultural translation and testimony to what this man's charisma must have been.
Didn't he call himself the "Son of Man", which was probably intentionally vague?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You know, if he were named Nathan instead of Steven you could still make the theme song rhyme!
That's why the people of this world have faith in...
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during my later teens i went through a phase of liking a certain level of superficial darkness, but nothing too extreme
i guess at present i'm about as open to grimdark as i ever have been, but could probably stand to broaden my horizons
Well, your openness to reading Ligotti is a good sign. Philosophically speaking, his work is pretty bleak.
It is almost a work of uncompromising nihilism. It's only a few edits away.
Funny how the British media will do absolutely everything possible to look for reasons that the NHS is failing that don't involve the government.
Watching a critic develop is a really nifty thing. Much easier to do online than in other places.
The earth was meant for you, before you came from your mother.
But it wasn’t prepared, and its depth wasn’t measured;
The end walls are low, and so are the side walls;
the roof is built right up against your chest.
It was nice but now I have heartburn?
Not even my full name, my nickname of "Em".
This is a couple of hours after yet another nightmare.
I think my flat is possessed.