#in my philosopher era

[7roaches]

being a hater is something u inherently have to be humble and dl about bc if ur not u will also forget that you are also a flesh animal and that all the other flesh animals now really want to take the flesh part out

[arlesposting]

i hate art block i hate it BSHAHEWNBWEBENAJSJSJSJSNSBABSBS

oh my god...that's enlightenment era philosopher jean jacques rousseau as an extra history bean person....wow...!!!!!! ok bye

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

rewatching 13s era for me is not so much diminishing returns as it is something opposite and eviler...............increasing losses? increasing losses

[ijzermansdriesen]

When the haunting rescue my heart comes back... It's simply breathtaking. They're beautiful and in love and there is an ominous devastating colour in the music and things will not last. Again.

[otunnicliffe]

Chloe + Harry Potter And The Philosophers Stone:

Contains OCs!!!!

Ideal: Student from the Marauders era are invited to see Professor McGonagall and Professor Dumbledore to uncover the truths of the present and meet the remarkable twins who lived- only many years in the future through the use of the books in the hopes of changing the future.

Prologue

Chapter One: The Twins Who Lived

Chapter Two: The Vanishing Glass

Chapter Three: The Letters From No One

Chapter Four: The Keeper Of The Keys

Chapter Five: Diagon Alley

Chapter Six: The Journey From Platform Nine And Three-Quarters

Chapter Seven: The Sorting Hat

Chapter Eight: The Potions Master

Chapter Nine: A Midnight Duel

Chapter Ten: Halloween

AO3 Link

Quotev Link

[doinggreat]

“Where my hug at” in 2023 should get you in jail

[iamthekarmapolice]

i hate how change is just fundamentally inevitable. even if i spent my entire life in a single room, my body would still age and i'd eventually die. it's a law of the universe that entropy is always increasing. things tend towards uncertainty and disorder. fucking sucks that learning to deal with change and being good at adapting to new situations is the only way to go

[jeanmoreaux]

*✧ — FEBRUARY 2023 WRAP UP

not much to add other than that the number of rereads is more than a third of my reading this month, which really surprised me bc it didn’t feel like it. the new stuff i read was quite good—nothing under a three star, which is great! oh, yeah, and ofc fuck jkr (read the books in preparation for a children’s & ya lit course. has not paid off yet, even though the books were on the general syllabus. not much else to say on the topic; i think we all know the good and the bad this series has to offer lol.)

2023 goal: 40/100 books

as alway, feel free to drop book recs, questions, or opinions in my inbox; i am always happy to talk to you about books!

* –> newly added to my favorites shelf

follow my goodreads | follow my storygraph | previous wrap ups

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The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White | 4.5★ | review

Elektra by Jennifer Saint | 3.25★

Dig. by A.S. King | 4.75★

* The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham | 5★ | review

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys | 3.75★ | review

The Hidden Face of Eve by Nawal El Saadawi | no rating

The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak | 3.75★ | review

Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë | 4.25★ | review

The Book of the Most Precious Substance by Sara Gran | 4★

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi | 4.75★ | review

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rereads

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling | no rating

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling | no rating

Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler | 4.5★ | review

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling | no rating

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia | 4.5★

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern | 5★ | review

[leblogreblog]

the history of the world as we know can be divided on the sinusoid, the ages, going into extremes from focus on the science, human and its mind, deities being seondary concern (Renaissance) to focus on faith, emotions, feelings with all aspects of life being somehow centred around worship of higher powers and myth being more important than the fact (Middle Ages)

It's quite easy to tell that we're currently on the former part, with focus on what's tangible and thought over what's believed and felt; The modern era as whole is it, with our focus on innovation, faith being overrun by fact.

The questions I'd like to pose are:

Where do you think we're in this era? At it's beginning? During it's peak? Or maybe we're waning towards it's end?

What would you name it?

And the most interesting one for me that I'm still wondering on:

What event do you think will lead to us leaving this era into another one? What would cause humanity as we know to believe in gods over machines once again?

[transsexualraskolnikov]

LOL i’m also from the eastern bloc who has migrated (unfortunately) to the US, but not everyone guzzles western propaganda like you do so please do not speak for us

i don’t even know how to reply to this. WHAT western propaganda my dude????? just because i said that ……. the ussr was bad? that’s the western propaganda? also why is it always about “western propaganda” or “us propaganda” with you guys? you all sound like the old communists

really, like, is it the propaganda or is it the millions of constructed trials? or the kgb and literally everybody snitching on everybody because of constant fear? or the prague spring of 1968 that lead to the military invasion of 1968 and the consequent period of normalization in czechoslovakia? or the censorship of all the art and media across all the countries? or the tens of thousands of artists who had to flee if they wanted to create freely? or the hundreds of thousands of people who could barely LEAVE the eastern block and had to flee to other countries? no, im not talking about migrating but literal fleeing and not seeing their families and loved ones for DECADES until the eventual fall of socialism in 1989

and i don’t mean this in the mean way. i don’t mean this in the “oh my god you are so dumb look at all these things” kind of way. no, i’m just genuinely so disheartened whenever i see these posts that keep putting communism on a pedestal so much so they are willing to completely ignore the crimes of it. and this is not one of those “no regime is perfect” type thing, this is genuinely “please stop ignoring the horrid crimes of the ussr just because you liked reading marx” and please acknowledge that it was a totalitarian system that did enormous damage.

and, i mean, i get it. i also really liked reading marx. i even read your kropotkins and bakunins and a bit of lenin here and there. and yeah, the theories and thoughts are all enticing. who with a sane mind isn’t against the hoarding of wealth and for the equality of everyone? but, when talking about socialism in praxis, there is a reason historians rarely bring up marx or his teachings (or other theory/philosophers at all). that’s because, in the end, as much as the ussr paraded “””””the thought of marxism-leninism”””””” around, it failed it so graciously. it didn’t even come CLOSE to it, just used it as propaganda to mask their crimes against humanity and pretend they are all doing it for “the well-being and prosperity of all people”.

but at the end of the day, it’s really fascinating, the different view usamericans vs post-soviet europeans have on socialism. in our countries, socialism is considered the HEIGHT of propaganda. students in high schools learn to dissect old soviet posters in order to identify what elements were used to manipulate exactly what opinions.

[keepthemacramesecret]

reverse engineering research i did a year ago by searching discord dm's because the book is no longer available to borrow on archiveee

[spectershaped]

Overall I think there's a lot of substance to the idea of "no thought crimes and no thought virtues" as well as the associated idea of "the fleeting thoughts and emotions matter less, for better or for worse, than the actions you do in the end", but I also feel it's kind of an intriguing little rabbit hole?

If someone does the right things for the "wrong" reasons, then they have indeed done good things, but there remains the unspoken idea that there is a point where this person's desires and what is Right will not coincide. But then you end up getting into the idea of...what is a desire? Is it something you can fault someone for? How can it be something you have any control for, if the only thing that can motivate you to want something else is you wanting to want something else? Eventually we get into the question of "if one person did the right thing and the other the wrong thing, what was the ultimate difference there? what is the ultimate factor in deciding differently, and is it something we can fault someone for or does it all come down to a form of social engineering through reward and penalty?"

[fvckw4d]

I want to avoid falling in the trap of romanticizing the past but man some stuff did get fucking worse. A lot of stuff honestly.

[evolvingsidekick]

Living is also when I get to yap a whole page's worth about an interesting topic according to someone's interview

[lostintheglo]

All the important things like truth and love are buried in this society

[tsukiida]

i just scrolled through my blog and i realised i have only two modes: weird pseudo-philosophical rambling. and absolutely unhinged yelling. AND I TELL YOUUUU IT'S SO FUNNYYYYYYY because i spent so long trying to curate my voice and sound like a normal, fun, easy to approach person back when i first made this blog!

then again it's been 3.5 years so i guess my voice changed naturally 🤨 i'm not smart enough for this 😮‍💨