#benjamin gluck

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German national team players arriving at the team's adidas headquarters at Herzogenaurach on October 7th, 2024.

via @/dfb_team instagram stories

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it is all our first time here || on family and growth

recently have been having a lot of difficult and challenging conversations with my family that have actually led to some change. it's not perfect but it's getting better. and that is really so much better than me having given up on our relationship. we can and will improve. they are trying to listen.

right now, gracie abrams | repose, john singer sargent | been a son, nirvana | maria a guzman capron| @/winchesterwhorehouse | musubu hagi | the book of images, rainer maria rilke | ladybird, greta gerwig | aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe, benjamin alire sáenz | your best american girl, mitski | 誰も知らない (nobody knows), hirokazu kore-eda | everything, everywhere all at once, the daniels | vita nova, louise gluck | the kitchen table series, carrie mae weems | e.a. bucchianeri | lecture: critical thinking at the new school, bell hooks & chirlane mccray | night sky with exit wounds, ocean vuong | everything, everywhere all at once, the daniels

[blackbatcass]

David and Cassandra Cain.

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal, Jeanette Winterson / First Memory, Louise Gluck / Journal, Day Three, Richard Siken / Bright Dead Things, Ada Limón / ? / Sue Zhao / To Live in the Body of a Survivor, Blythe Baird / I used to be a hole in the ground, Katie Maria / Plainwater: Essays and Poetry, Anne Carson / Questions About the Father, Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers / Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Sáenz / East, West, Salman Rushdie

[boyhood]

I have a new episode of my podcast All Miracles Are Strange. It's about hysterical weeping, Margery Kempe, EM Cioran, and two ceramics work by the artist Carolein Smit (above).

It's also about how I cry a lot.

In this episode, I referenced Tears and Saints by Emil Cioran, The Crying Book by Heather Christie, Cry Baby: Why Our Tears Matter by Benjamin Parry, Interior Castles by Teresa of Avila, the Book of Margery Kempe, Afterlives of the Saints by Colin Dickey, and the essay “Tears and Screaming: Weeping in the Spirituality of Margery Kempe��� by Santha Bhattacharji, which appears in the book “Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination.” I tried very hard to put in some bits from Margery Kempe by Robert Gluck, but couldn't make it work this time around.

If you would like to support my work or read more of what I do, you can find me on Patreon and Substack. If you want to see my studio work, you can see it on instagram and on my website.

This episode, along with all the others, can be found on both Spotify and Apple Podcasts

[technofeudalism]

where the whole "this is what you get for not voting for Kamala" argument immediately falls apart is around the point where you realize that all of this could have been 100% prevented if Democrats did their fucking jobs and governed with the same heavy handed disregard for "institutional norms" that Republicans do. if they had the balls to pack the Supreme Court and, subsequently, Merrick Garland did his fucking job and prosecuted Donald Trump and anyone who aided and abetted his crimes under the fullest extent of the law, we are not living in today's reality. period. fuck your "this will divide the country." Joe Biden failed to do his job because he is a cowardly, bought and sold corporate stooge who was too busy gluck-glucking Benjamin Netanyahu to protect his own fucking citizens from fascism.

[jonsaremembers]

fucked up devotion and terrible faith // a dan and phil crafts web weave

sources:

instagram post, @/silvija // "the lovers," timothy liu

"standing on my knees," john olive

"anthem," leonard cohen

jaime sabines, tr. from the spanish by guillermo del toro

"the castle," franz kafka and edit by @promqueendyke // "obrazXY42," zdislaw bekzinski

"sunrise," louise gluck

"hey believers," peter bradley adams

"how cruel of the universe," @8-bitfiction // "all this and heaven too," florence and the machine

"report to greco," nikos kazantakis // "peter grimes," benjamin britten

"love is war," american young

review of babel by r. f. kuang, alix e. harrow

"wait, is phil the skeleton? that's fucked up," part one, @2018hiatus

attributed last words, franz kafka

"o'death," frances molina

youtube community post, daniel howell // "in the fog," hermann hesse tr. scott horton

"the tragedy of hamlet, prince of denmark," william shakespeare

"wait, is phil the skeleton? that's fucked up," part two, @2018hiatus

kait rokowski

"water," sharanyan mannivannan

"the devil," the dan and phil tarot deck, art by @macabremaxx // "the lovers, the dan and phil tarot deck, art by @freshbaked-bread

the creative tarot, jessa crispin

slime (2024), @caratbow // instagram post, @/silvija

[mysterieuxclairdelune]

Hands are unbearably beautiful. They hold on to things. They let things go.

-Mary Ruefle, 'The Cart', Selected Poems

Do you know why God created gaps between fingers? So that... Someone who is special to you comes and fills those gaps by holding your hands forever.

-Shilpa Deolekar

I wondered what that was like, to hold someone's hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.

-Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

To have a lover's hands within our own hands, to become those other hands as those other hands are becoming you, is to be between two mirrors, is to be placed into the abyss of touch.

-Natalie Diaz, The Hand Has Twenty-Seven Bones

The way our fingers intertwine feels so natural and right; as if our hands hold memories of meeting in a thousand other lifetimes.

-John Mark Green

“Here is my hand,” he said.

“Here is my hand that will not harm you.”

-Louise Gluck, Epithalamium

“He didn't hold her back,

he just held her hand.”

-Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

[leatherforhell]

Circe by Madeline Miller / unknown / Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz / unknown / Nectar by Upile Chisala / Critical Role Campaign 2 / The Affliction by Marie Howe / Aubade by Louise Gluck / unknown / Rebeka Anne / BBC Merlin / Franz Kafka / She-Ra: Princesses of Power / My Tears Ricochet by Taylor Swift / Francis Forever by Mitski / mine (thalia grace muse) / Frank Bidart / unknown / Titanic (1997)

[ronanlynchian]

break rhythm here: your kiss is my justice masterpost

break rhythm here is my modern au enjoltaire fic where enjolras is a brit lit professor with weird roots, him and grantaire hook up, they accidentally ghost each other, and everything works out! it's still currently a work in progress, but you can read it here !!!

if you're here *from the fic*, welcome divas! this is a masterpost of everything that's been referenced so far-- including LINKS! hit the see more; i'll also be updating this post as i update the fic :)

here is the playlist where you can listen to every song i've referenced :)

title: a poem of love in eleven lines - gerrit lansing

chapter one:

ulysses - alfred, lord tennyson (title and ref'd in-text)

chapter two:

grace - jeff buckley

transatlanticism - death cab for cutie

lover, you should've come over - jeff buckley (title and ref'd)

mojo pin - jeff buckley

chapter three:

lover, you should've come over - jeff buckley (title and ref'd)

chapter four:

grace - jeff buckley (title)

maurice - e.m. forster

chapter five:

you & i - jeff buckley (title)

mojo pin - jeff buckley (again)

farewell, my queen - chantal thomas (no link, sorry friends)

everybody here wants you - jeff buckley

the burning heart - louise gluck

marriage morning - alfred, lord tennyson

the princess bride (no link again)

chapter six:

nightmares by the sea - jeff buckley (title)

letters between henry miller & anais nin

THE alex turner/alexa chung love letter

chapter seven:

the ghosts of beverly drive - death cab for cutie (title)

mortal kombat 9 (no link sorry)

wuthering heights - emily bronte

villette - charlotte bronte

the tenant of wildfell hall - anne bronte

jane eyre - charlotte bronte

frankenstein - mary shelley

an ideal husband - oscar wilde

emma - jane austen

playing it cool (no link sorry)

so we'll go no more a roving - lord byron guiding star - benjamin gibbard (even tho i don't specify, this is the song that r plays him)

panthea - oscar wilde

since feeling is first - e.e. cummings

to you - frank o'hara

chapter eight:

thousand fold - jeff buckley (title)

the birthday of the world - marge piercy

a birthday - christina rossetti

salvation - bell hooks

the new remorse - oscar wilde

the unbearable lightness of being - milan kundera

greek love-talk - rainer maria rilke

for hans carossa - rainer maria rilke

[kestrelsandcentipedes]

• hands that hold •

Credits: @sweatermuppet • Hand Bellmer, untitled (Hands Triptych) • Richard Silken, Crush • Don Snyder, untitled • The Inexplicable Logic of My Life, Benjamin Alire Sáenz • Keaton Henson, Small Hands • William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet • unknown • Sara Teasdale, A Song to Eleonora Duse in “Francesca da Rimini”; Sonnets to Duse & Other Poems • Danez Smith, Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems; “summer, somewhere” • Rudolf Bonvie • Basser, Though We Went Our Separate Ways, Archive of Our Own • Rudolf Bonvie • Zabé Ellor, May The Best Man Win • Louise Gluck, Epithalamium 

[hagatha-christie]

I didn't update what I finished reading in 2024 and my favorite books so here's that

I read 18 additional books, many of them not worth mentioning (I had several ebooks sitting in my library that I bought when I was going through a "I just wanna read something easy and dumb" and easy and dumb they were!). Here were some good ones:

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu Cat Sebastian's Cabots series (Peter Cabot Gets Lost was my favorite, I much prefer her 20th century romances to her 18th and 19th century romances) What I Know About You by Eric Chacour Open Throat by Henry Hoke The Puppets of Spelhorst and The Hotel Balzaar by Kate DiCamillo Winter Recipes from the Collective and The Triumph of Achilles by Louise Gluck The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science by Kate McKinnon

And here are my favorites of the year:

Brickmakers by Selva Almada: crass and violent and very effective Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar: inventive and the right amount of pretentious Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin: duh The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin: incredibly expansive world The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka: filled the The Good Place-shaped hole in my heart The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui: nuance!!!!! In Memoriam by Alice Winn: absolutely heartbreaking The Unidentified by Colin Dickey: I have so many annoying UFO facts to share with people now Death in the Haymarket by James Green: will forever be obsessed with this event How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu: still thinking about this months later Stitching Freedom by Isabella Rosner: embroidery is so important I will fight you if you say it's not Jamilia by Chingiz Aitmatov: spiritual successor to My Antonia Open Throat by Henry Hoke: silly and weird The Hotel Balzaar by Kate DiCamillo: like Big Fish but for preteens Winter Recipes from the Collective by Louise Gluck: like walking through the woods on a sunny, snowy day and also I should call my sister and tell her I love her The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science by Kate McKinnon: for weird kids and awkward kids and weird, awkward kids. Cannot recommend the audiobook highly enough.

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German national team players on their way to Düsseldorf, on September 6th 2024.

via @/dfb_team instagram stories

[softersalt]

"Gore Vidal, gentleman bitch" - Politico // United States of Amnesia // Sunlight - Hozier // "Lamium" - Louise Gluck // She Tastes Like Summer - Spilt Milk Society // A Separate Peace - John Knowles // Since I Lost My Baby - The Temptations // "The Space Traveler Talks Frankly about Desire" - Benjamin S. Grossberg

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aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe, benjamin alire saenz // while the child sleeps, sonya undresses, ilya Kaminsky // strangers, ethel cain // the naomi letters, rachel mennies // chance with you, mehro // robin's egg heart(break), ashe vernon // from eden, hozier // tyler knott gregson // seizure, louise gluck // Maurice, e.m. foster // the song of achilles, madeline miller // mastermind, taylor swift // Maurice 1987 // clementine von radics

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[junadeo]

Peter Rabbit is communism

Honestly, I don't think any of y'all are ready for what I'm about to say, but Peter Rabbit (the Movie) is actually Marxist/communist propaganda. I know it sounds ridiculous, but I am completely 100% serious with this. So, I made a longish essay analyzing the plot of this movie. There are spoilers, obviously, but you aren't missing out on a lot by not watching this insane woke dumpster fire of a film.

A much better name for this movie would probably be Revolutionary Rabbit ☭ .

Part I: introduction and context

Just so we're all on the same page, Peter Rabbit (the Movie) is a 2018 film directed by Will Gluck. It is partially live-action and CGI. Many of the movie's characters are taken from Helen Beatrix Potter's 23 stories, including the titular protagonist Peter Rabbit, but also Benjamin Bunny, Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail Rabbit, and many more. The movie also includes Beatrix herself as a main character, alongside an entirely original one, Thomas McGregor. The movie was first released by Colombia Pictures in the US.

Will Gluck, a movie director, and known communist, socialist, and wokist.

The first piece of evidence of this movie being communist lies in the fact that the director of this movie, Will Gluck, is also one of the executive producers of the leftist show Woke. That's right. The very DIRECTOR OF THIS MOVIE is a communist involved in the production of woke propaganda. But believe me, there's so much more.

Part II: beginning of the plot

So, the first 15 minutes of this movie is set in the Lakes district of England, where Peter Rabbit, his three sisters Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail, and his friend Benjamin Bunny, all live. The five rabbits often raid Mr. McGregor's garden and steal his vegetables. One day, however, Peter accidentally sets off a trap McGregor had prepared, causing McGregor to chase Peter away in an attempt to catch him. Luckly, Beatrix, a lovely artist who cares for the animals, catches Peter in her arms before McGregor could. It is later revealed that McGregor ate Peter's father, and that Bea has cared for the rabbits ever since their mom died. However, Peter goes back into the garden to take back his jacket which he lost and gets caught by McGregor, who then immediately dies from a heart attack caused by his unhealthy, American-centric diet. A ecstatic Peter then invites all the animals to McGregor's home.

A photo of Beatrix (foreground left), the five rabbits (background left), and Mr. McGregor (center) and his garden (right).

Already, these first 15 minutes infuriate me. Peter Rabbit actually believes that he has a right to raid Mr. McGregor's garden, or in other words, his property, and a right to take and eat his vegetables, or in other words, his property. Other than this being completely immoral, trespassing on someone else's property and stealing their stuff is criminalized by countless laws in the United States and would quite possibly land him in death row. The only reason he has not been caught by the law is simply because he lives in the UK.

Keep in mind that this movie is made for children. Why does a movie made for children include a scene where a person literally kills and eats a rabbit? Is this movie for children or not? I guess it's just woke Hollywood nonsense again, not known for being logical or consistent.

Not to mention about all the anti-American racism present here? Mr. McGregor literally just eats an all-American diet, and then the movie claims that diet is what killed him. That's fucking ridiculous and so, SO racist. If that's not anti-American and racist, then I don't know what is. I really don't. And once again, this anti-American racism is indicative of a communist, wokeist ideology. Just think about it! You have to be pro- something, and if you're anti-America, then what else could you possibly be for, other than China? And - big shocker - but China is literally communist.

Part III: Thomas McGregor

At about the 15 minute mark of this movie, Thomas mcGregor (aka mr. mcGregor) is finally introduced. he is a perfectionist, a workaholic, and a controling man, working for the toy department of Harrods in London for ten years, waiting for a promotion. He sees the general manager, expecting his promotion, but is instead told that his Great-Uncle has died. Unfazed by such trivial information, he pressures the maneger to reveal to him whether or not he got a premotion. but sadly for him, the promotion went to a lazy and idiotic nephew of the managing director. This infuriates Thomas, causing him to fucking lose it and mess up the store. and because of that he gets fired.

A photo of Thomas McGregor (centre, right in front of the toilet), immediately before he goes to talk with his manager.

This momant provides perfect evidence that this movie is communist: the movie shows that even the perfect worker, a man who does absolutely everything perfectly and has done everything perfectly for years, that his work will not let him to clime the socio-economic ladder. His talents, his hard work, all of his merits, none of them will ever pay off. Yet, a lazy and stupid man is given a high-ranking position simply because he is related to another guy already in a powerful posision. This moment is, clearly, a jab at the idea of a meritocracy. Its an woke attack on our American system and I will not stand for it. Remember, that Peter Rabbit (the Movie) is (at the very least, supposedly) a childrens movie, and at just fifteen minutes communism is being shoved down children's throats! Ridiculous!

Part IV: conflict

After Thomas is firred, he then realizes that he had inherited the valueble mcgregor manor and that he could sell it to create his own toystore. When he arives he is shoked to find all the animalds and so he kicks them out. and cleans up the house and fixxes the fence. Bea speaks with Thomas, encourages him to let the wildlife freely enter the gardan, and givies him a pair of binoculars. Dispite Beas efforts Thomas keeps the gstes closed and ups the security. Petre and Benjiman sneak back into the garden, and are chased down by Thomas. while Peter escapes, Benjamin is caught by Thomas ahd taken by Tomas to be thrown of a bridge, but he is rescued by the other rabbits and Thomas accidentily drops the binoculars instead. Thomas than goes and buys an ellectroc fence and dynamite. Bea and Thomas met again, and fall in lovve with eachother, much to Peters dismay and jealosy. Peter and Thomus start anotger war between themselves, resulting in one of Bea's paiinting getting ruinned and Peter getting kicked out of Bea's home.

Peter Rabbit and Thomas McGregor going absolutely batshit insane on each other.

this part of the Peter Rabbit (the Movie) is prehaps the best part. I cant find any communism or sociallism here. Fore example Thomas literally shoos away all the trespassing animals who violate his propertie rights. He puts so much effort into cleanign his house, and it all pays of: a clear demonstratuon that hard work will always be worthwhile. Still, there are many propblems with this part of the movie. For example, why is there a man doing all this cleaning? I knoe that hes doing a lot of work, but why would he threaten his oun masculinity like that? And, if you pay attention, the narriator litterally says this: "romance is a powerful thing. It can sneak up on any two people. Even if one's amazing, and the other is a McGregor". I'm sorry, but that implies that literally any twlo people can fall in love, even if they're both men, or both women. And this is supposed to be a kids movie? if so than why are you promoting liberal gender ideology nonsence in this movie? I guess this just coms down to Holly wood always having to promote an ideology. If it's not marxist socialist communism, than it must be liberal gender ideology. Of course.

Part V: shit goes crazy

This is the piont of the Peter Rabbit (the Movie) where every thimg devolves into all out war. Petre and his famly decid to put boobytrapps in side Thomes 's home in aqn attemt to get rid of him, caosing Thamas many pain and frustetion. So thomas upgrafes his securite again, electrifoiing his femce. in response, Perte rewires the electic fence so wheng thomAs touches a toorhandle he receves a shock, prevocing Thomas to throw dynamite in the rabbits burrow. the rabbbits attack back by triggreing Thomass 's blackberry allergy. Thamos retalliates by lighting and throwing dynamte at the babbits. Bea notices the sounds and approches Thpmas asking him abuot the commotion. He assures Bea everytihng is alreight but Peter detonates the rest ofthe explosifes destroing the Beaas artstudio and the rabits burroew. Bea is uotraged with thomas and dismisis his explanation that the rabits were involved and splits up with him.

An explosive, trying to tear apart a heterosexual relationship.

the conflict thaet erupts betwen Thomas and Peter symbloises the violence that marxxists and comunists want, in oorder to achieve there terrible goals for sociietie. they want to terrorise, pillege, and destroy their way to create thier own litle utopia, to destrioy traditional, patriotic, AMERICAN values,like heterosexuality. as you can see, the btreaking up of a heterosexual relationship is exactly wat marxiists want, and its exactly ehat happens in this scene.

Part VI: Bee and Thomus departt and join up agein

Tomase is lreft heartbrokken, and geos back tto Londdon, wile pEtre rebit feils guillty aend remosefl fr hes actiones, aned so he goes into Loendonm widh Bonjiman to finnd Thumus and brieng him beck. bi nowe Htomas has reterned to harrots, and bakc in the cooutnriyside Bea is leaving hher homse, althoughh the ohter rebbits and the woldlife try tto stup her. Peter snd Binjimon encorage THomas two lissin to his heart end go back to the countrie side wth Bea. thommis agrees and gos.

Thommase meets Beaa back at Lakes annd apologies to herr. Petre Robot shoes Bea that he pooshed the dettinatore botton, comvinsing her thet thomsa was rihgt. A rich cuople who buorgt the mcGregore hous ise electriffied when the rabots riwire the elctric fonce again and scarred awey by the animols hwo gott insi de th e hause.

Formation of class solidarity. Beatrix represents the agrarian worker, while Thomas represents the industrial worker.

inn the lasst twentie minots of thise mivie a form of claess solidaride, is slowly formmed betweeen Tomass mcgregoir , hwo respresents the industiul werker, and Beatrich, whoe respresenrs the agrarian workers, against the exploitrive bourgeios r ich couple who wants to buye thir hous. Beayrrl and Thomasa noe littrolly live in the counrtie side, away from werking four rich buorgois cepitalissts. they literilly live in a comunist utopiae with the robits. it doosent get anymire explicit than this, it reolly dozn't. the mobie is litterolly yelling, screeming, even screetching in yur face "communism communism commumisn i love karl marx and vlodimir lennin" and mobody realizede.

Purt VII: movii ends

Port VIII: outfghjmk stuff

so in summery Peter Rabbit (the Movie) ise marcxist, sociallst, comunisst, lefttiest, wokist. liberalist, gender, ideolodgy, AND umpatreon all at the saem time. THYIS IS FUKKUNG UNBELIEVABLO! how could tey gottin awiy wid this? they arre puttinb gonfder thoery in yuoir minds with thies mobie as well and yrou alle jost ated it op!

four fuckks saqe did yuo knorw that JOER BIDEN and KARLL MARXS is even lkisted in thde credirs section? he IS fycking repsonsibl for this communits propugander, an evryoin all jist ignored it!! ajd they are listred rihgt nects to other communit dictaters, like josif staling, borax obama, and mau zetong! hoe is this evin acceptibole? siriousli fuck joe biden any those wokketarreckdds

butt yeahj. i dont hev anithim left to sae. Peter Rabbit (the Movie) is jusr communis scialist marxi st liboral gener thery pro joe bidan propaganda ans thereyteertyu are puttign it in thye mindes of you adn yuor chuldren, and yuor froinds and yrou. amorica is folling aport ind itser becgiyse igf big chmiigfdepret dimohggfret prioiugfddyjn mlikgefjklhy Peter Rabbit (the Movie).