#exurb1a

[sfsolstice]

exurb1a, from "Hi" in Poems for the Lost Because I'm Lost Too

[curiousacademic]

10 Video essay recomendationsss (all from YouTube, no order)

"the answer is not a hut in the woods" -exurb2a

"Fear of depths" - Jacob geller

"Frog and toad: the philosophy of simple living" - quality culture

"the most disturbing black and white movie ever made" - wendigoon (honestly all of his stuff is great)

"my favorite games I've forgotten" -razbuten

"what does your imagination look like?" - solar sands

"do you want to be loved? Or do you want to be yourself?" -sisyphus 55

"the Truman show: a cleverly disguised tragedy" -makebettedmedia

"the five kinds of paradox" -jan misali

"The tragedy of being too early - the timeline effect" -pursuit of wonder

All of these videos, along with the channels, are absolutely wonderful please give them a watch!

[technosignature-kyiv]

[localshoethief]

Found something on letterboxd that sounds like something exurb1a would say

[earthquakening]

Watching existential turtle

[to-the-moon-and-neverback]

I love you exurb1a live laugh love exurb1a lets all love exurb1a

Pls watch this video omfghsjaf

[borisotter]

[momoguido]

"She smiles as though nothing terrible has happened in the history of the world, ever. This is exactly the kind of person his mother would tell him to stay well away from. He swears he suddenly feels taller."

I cannot get over how good the writing is in The Prince of Milk. The pacing is all over the place, but the sentence-to-sentence lyricism makes up for it.

[immarriedtojermeybegayecho]

I love Hisarya from Geometry for Ocelots with such a passion, girl did not need to go through all that after being treated like how she did. If anyone hasn’t read Geometry by Exurb1a pls do, literally made me fall in love with reading in a way I haven’t in years

[greenstudies]

Favourite exurb1a quotes

From Poems for the Lost Because I’m Lost Too

“For no other reason than the joy of dancing in the mystery - with the dance as the point all along”

“Humans are ugly and strange and feel things involuntarily”

“On the left is eternity, on the right is eternity, and in the exact centre, that little slither is us, nuzzled between two alwayses”

“...that playing is a hard wired activity to attain hard wired joy”

“Rather that misery and dispair and hoplessness are entirely appropriate responses to a universe where children contract leukemia and large planes carrying good people nose it to the ground”

“I swear you’ll be more glad it happened than sad it didn’t continue”

“Some days I’m convinced that having a body and life is really a lease anyway. Renting carbon,”

“We have now and now is plenty”

“I’m not doing my best but I am doing”

[sfsolstice]

exurb1a, from "A Large Red Button You Must Never Push That Fixes Everything" in Poems for the Lost Because I'm Lost Too

[lovethyopps]

“If we meet again in another lifetime…

Promise that you’ll tell me that you love me sooner”

[logorrhea5mip]

I have to share a youtuber whom i discovered maybe 2 years ago. His videos are a mix of philosophy and science, with many presented as sci-fi stories or contrived scenarios. He also has a few great books, if videos aren't your thing.

[stuffing-pillows]

[malottie]

"Here comes a lot more future,

I wish us both luck."

hey, happy new year yall. i hope 2024 will be a good year for all of us. as good as it can be. hope can be hard to have, especially in today's world, and i honestly don't have it in me to sincerely believe everything will be alright. but if things don't end up being the worst they could have been, that's good enough for me. some things will be alright. some things will be good. some things will be better.

and i wanted to end this year by quoting my favorite poet, exurb1a:

"I'm not doing my best but I am doing,

Hopefully you are too,

A few days from now we'll be in the future anyway,

I suppose we both are already as of you reading that last sentence,

Oh, and again with this one,

How neat,

Here comes a lot more future,

I wish us both luck."