#it’s a bit of a catch-22
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therighthandofvengeance · 1 year ago
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John, a bitter widower, finds himself to be the caretaker of a lighthouse— which the residents of the coastal town have nicknamed “White Star”, due to its luminosity and habitual scintillation.
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t00thpasteface · 2 months ago
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there's a lot of comparisons to be made between catch-22 and m*a*s*h, and i think those have a lot of merit, but the thing about catch-22 is that in addition to the dark humor and pointed social commentary, it's DEEPLY absurdist. and for this reason i would say the most apt popcultural comparison for catch-22 is not m*a*s*h, but rather... ace attorney
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void-and-vortex · 4 months ago
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Frankenstein's monster is taking refuge next to your home and has found the last three books you've read. He's learning about the world through reading them, believing them completely true. What's his view of life?
Example: Chip War, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Catch-22: Humans are brilliant, humans are stupid, but overall humans are ambitious beyond bounds
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chrisrin · 2 years ago
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unda has me suffering so i had to doodle.
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breannasfluff · 5 months ago
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I try to do a fair number of ask games, posting questions and polls, and sending out asks to people across the community. I want people to feel comfortable interacting!
That said, it’s a lot of work and I’m wondering if it’s getting annoying. There’s plenty of other well-known blogs that do little and still have lots of interaction.
Wondering if I should take a break and let people come to me if they want instead for a while 🤔
I know some people are shy, but doing outreach IS work too. If nothing else, thank your friends who do it on a regular basis ����
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libraryfag · 1 year ago
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someday they'll be a pride where there isn't discourse on my dash. i had hoped it would be this year but i guess there's always next year. tch its not like i care about infighting within the community preventing us from actually being able to fight the real and increasing threat of fascism. its whatever
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unamused-kookaburra · 2 years ago
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George Clooney: war is hell and full of loss and tragedy, but the only way out is through it
Joseph Heller:
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skylordhorus · 2 months ago
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nothing makes me feel more autistic than shadow of israphel
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lambsquatch · 4 months ago
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I will never understand the hatred for filler episodes in shows. I want beach episodes, I want wacky hijinks that have no plot relevance, I want silly little episodes that focus on showing off more sides of a character’s personality! why are 10 episode seasons the norm now it isn’t enough!!!!
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dykeogenes · 2 years ago
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saw a vaguely positive recommendation of Some Desperate Glory by emily tesh from a couple of lesbians best known to me for objectifying fictional men on twitter so i went out and bought it (because i am not financially responsible and i trust the taste of these lesbians) and then i read the entire thing in two days and frankly i think i might not be able to carry on living after this. it was. well it was really good. like it was just. well. it was really good.
#like do you ever read a book and immediately go . i NEED to get high with an english major and a bisexual bioethicist RIGHT now#so we can have a DISCUSSION . about this book.#it's like. okay when i read catch 22 i NEEDED to lie on the floor of a high school hallway and stare into the fluorescent bulbs afterwards#(didn't get to. but it was what i NEEDED.)#when i finished little brother i needed to go wander around the basement of a home hardware.#and when i finished regeneration i needed to sit quietly and hold it in my hands like it was an EXTREMELY fragile bit of lead crystal#and when i finished enders game i needed to like. go write a novel that i had yet to conceptualize. again i didnt do this. but i needed to.#when i finished a marvellous light i needed to hug my kitty cat gently!#and now having finished this i need to smoke a fat blunt with an english major and a bioethicist.#to be clear i know those examples don't make sense and are a frankly hilarious bunch of books to have chosen.#but . Well. They were the ones i thought of.#it's just like!!!!! okay!!! so a computer cannot be held accountable and must therefore never make a management decision!!!!!!#so what does a computer that is smart enough to KNOW THAT#do when it is presented with a management decision???? HUH?#WHAT DOES IT DO???????????#there's so much good SHIT in that book! there's so much!!#it's like that. You get it.#like it's a book about omnipotent AI but the AI is neither a hero nor a villain. it's not a character at all.#even when it IS personified that personification is done with a lot of complexity#and a REALLY gorgeous distinction between literal personification -- creating a person to serve as an interface --#and the assignment of a person to serve as an agent --#and even that latter category isn't treated simply. because of course an AI cannot assign a person to serve its will.#because it doesn't have a will.#OR DOES IT. etc. this question we will of course debate eternally. this is how they get you. BUT YOU GET THE IDEA.#AND THE AI STUFF LITERALLY ISN'T EVEN THE CENTRAL QUESTION OF THE PLOT!!!!!!!!#like it IS a book about AI but it's. actually not really.#the question is not 'does AI exist' or 'is AI right or wrong'#but rather 'what do the possibilities presented by AI force us to confront about the nature of ourselves and our desires?'#and the plot isn't about the AI. it's about that nature of ourselves.#it's about cults! it's about misogyny! it's about rape culture! it's about eugenics! it's about the creeping realization
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lynzine · 8 months ago
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Three updates in one month
Feeling a lot more energized to keep writing!
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famiglia-lealta · 5 months ago
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I often talk about how 'Girl With The Pearl Earring' is one of Neri's favourite reads from growing up. There's a theme of in earlier times, woman having hair long and not tied up / covered in some way could be seen as loose and scandalous as showing your ankles.
It resonates with Neri's views about should she ever trust someone enough to call them her partner / lover / whathaveyou though - not only in physically and metaphorically 'letting one's hair down' - what it means to her as an expression of trust ans vulnerability, to be able to show anything beyond this 'professional, hard working, dependence no damsel in distress' kind of image she's constantly projecting and holding onto for herself.
It might seem like such a simple thing to anyone else, taking your hair down, taking clothes off, as bare and casual as the day you were born. For Neri; it's a lifelong offering. No pretense, no elaborate covers on the book. With all the best qualities, all the worst - scrapes, scars, occasional hypocrisies.
It's something you hold dear to protect; and it's something you can't take back once it's been seen.
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nitrateglow · 11 months ago
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When you can tell Alan Arkin's wife wrote the book...
Source: https://archive.org/details/crazyeights0000dana/page/104/mode/2up
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plugnuts · 2 years ago
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Why must I be 22 next week I don’t wanna be 22 yet
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sidleyparkhermit · 1 year ago
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I really was expecting, when Peter Bartlett's character realized Oliver fell in love with one of his actors, that his actual first guess would be Charles. It felt like such a conspicuous absence for them to not even do the joke. I want to know if there was a conversation about it
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wttcsms · 2 years ago
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i’m always open to chatting or answering questions or talking abt my wips/fics via my askbox but i’m in my last semester before obtaining my bachelor’s degree + i’m already in the process of pre-registering for my grad school classes. i need to take some time to focus on schoolwork and balancing my full time job ☺️ i am NOT leaving!!! i am NOT abandoning this blog!!!! i just spend a lot of time juggling attending class, working on assignments, whilst working 42-50hrs/week!!!!
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