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[eldontamalero]

I read that in this year of 2023, it will be the year of the rabbit, in the Chinese zodiac!!! My best wishes to all!! Happy start to the year!!

[fhtagn-and-tentacles]

OCTOPUS ERRANDS

by Brainfreeze Press

[444names]

Names generated from natural satellites and Pokemon

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[deathbyautopilot]

We Control the Narrative - On Website Eugenics, Homestuck, and Your Problematic Favs

Written by Sophia 🌀

I entered the digital realm at about 10 years old, just barely witnessing the shift from the web to apps. I played Runescape on a dusty old desktop fitted with Windows XP and would browse open forums for games I would never play. But as much as I try to remember the endless dotcom online world, works like Kate Wagner’s 404 Page Not Found expose just how far gone that era truly is. For two decades now, the internet has been gradually appropriated by a powerful few, corralling an expansive and free userbase into an easily controlled market.

Kate Wagner effectively captures the fleeting memories of the open internet in a time before apps, and the "thrill of the hunt" that came from this open landscape. Any hyperlink you navigated through could have opened up into a new world; knowledge you could have never imagined, groundbreaking new media that nobody had seen before, or complete communities redefining what it meant to have a personal blog.

This quote pulled from internet historian Olia Lialina summarizes the landscape best:

“It was a web of sudden connections and personal links. Pages were built on the edge of tomorrow, full of hope for a faster connection and a more powerful computer.”

But in a post-iPhone world, the shift towards streamlined and prescribed apps neglected the web into obsolescence. Maximalism gave way to minimalism, UIs gradually deteriorated, urging you to download their new app or subtly manipulating the content that browsers would expose users to. As a 90s kid, Wagner watched this happen in the fall of MySpace, where personal archives were purged simply because it was not profitable to keep them around. For me, it was the fall of Adobe Flash, and the creative media that it took away.

Adobe Flash and I go way back, with my most memorable internet experience happening on April 6th 2016, when the multimedia webcomic Homestuck released the flash video  [S] Collide as the conclusion to Act 6. Since its debut in 2009, Homestuck has become a legend of the early web; a rich and expansive digital narrative that the Atlantic dubbed “a story that could only be told online”. By blending IM chatlogs as dialogue, GIFs as panels, flash media, fully animated videos with complete soundtracks, and a one-of-a-kind narrative, this interactive site would draw in millions of users with each update and bridge the divide between forums, personal blogs, and social networks like Twitter.

When Adobe Flash went down in 2020, Viz Media (having recently acquired publishing rights) made little effort to preserve this 8000+ page time capsule. This prompted fans of the series to come together to compile the Unofficial Homestuck Collection, an optimized, offline version of the original site, even offering language filters to correct its less tasteful writing choices. This was an invaluable act, but it also represents a process of corporate neglect, and this ongoing cleansing of any media online that is deemed unworthy of preservation. Wagner compared this to a series of minor Libraries of Alexandria being burned to the ground, and rich personal narratives being buried beneath a controlled legacy of human history. 

“The artifacts of internet life are personal—that is, not professionally or historically notable—and therefore worthless.”

Homestuck fans are split between those who recognize it as a postmodern masterpiece comparable to Ulysses, and those who would be happy to see it left in the rubble of the old web. I understand the desire to leave the unfavourable behind us, but accepting the latter narrative gives in to what Wagner called “Website Eugenics”; A process of devaluing the maximalist, often personalized and gaudy, or in some way flawed in favour of the minimalist, rigid professional class standards being set for the contemporary web. In the case of “dated” media, either cringey personal blogs from middle school or crass lowbrow humour, they will be posited as a damper on material history, when in fact it is deeply human.

The more that we accept a narrative of some remnants being of value, and others being a poor reflection of our popular culture, the more that we allow an oppressive power dynamic to play out. Internet historians, archivists, and cultural commentators like Kate Wagner are doing what they know combats this agenda; revel in the legacy of the early web, retain all that you can, and do it authentically.

[icharchivist]

You're so right, why is SSR Lowain's weapon called that

i have so many question. Clearly it's about imposing dominance isn't it. Bro. Brofam Lowbro. what the fuck were you guys thinking.

AND It4S NOT LIKE THEIR SKILLS ARE ANY BETTER.

Champeri Shower??? Let the Macho Flow???? "Rizz up a random ally"???????? "LET HIM COOK"????????????

i'm going to strangle them.

[not-souleaterpost]

Was the "Monster" manga changed during serialization?

So for "research" for the iceberg (and cause a friend watched it and wanted to talk about it so I said yeah why not, its supposedly a classic lol) I read the "Monster" manga.

I'll talk about what I found in the videos, but one thing that doesnt have anything to do with SE or the iceber what I wanted to put out somewhere cause couldnt find on google anybody saying it, is:

I think the story of it was written in chunks, that would often "retcon" or atleast significantly add to the direction that was intended.

Now I'll start with saying I dont mean this as some takedown or critique, just as an interesting theory about the production of the story.

I guess only with mysteries or detective storys, especially ones that are so interlinked, one kinda wishes that everything is neat and tidy - even if I doubt that is actually allways true.

So first some circumstantial evidence - it is a serialised story, meaning it is written and published as it goes along, with the threats of cancelation and possibility of being pressured to be extended.

This alone is not what I stake everything on, cause it is possible that somebody had it all figured out in advance and was steadfast that the vision will be written as it is, rejecting any pleas for bloat or fears of getting canceled before it is done.

One could say that it all is just part of the complex narrative web - but idk, to me its seems more needlesly complicated than complex, and thats what I mean with the feeling of the story being written in chunks, that would supperseed and rewrite some things that happened before:

But then we look at the story itself - at first everything seemed to lead to the evil orphanage, then it was supposedly some seminar in a reading group, then it was being held in a dark room Crona style (not getting into the twin swap thing, cause I think that was forshadowed, even if I had a resolution in mind that thankfully didnt come true cause it would have been to weird and stupid lol)

Think it is most obvious with little side storys and one of chapters that seem more like filler until the larger chunk gets figured out - while often very interesting and engading, they often did seem to get kinda forgoten, like the vietnamese unlicensed teenage doctor beauty (which idk felt kinda lowbro for the standards of the work, like atleast make her ugly, which would be understandable if she works non stop without caring for her health and doesnt feel so "mary sueish" for a lack of a better term lol)

Even some unanswered questions, like why Roberto tried to kill Nina at that sidestory in Italy, if he was totally loyal to Jonah - ofcourse one can suppose that with his obssession with him, he would want to eliminate someone standing in the way of single minded affection but still, weird to it not acknowledged in story.

Or on the other hand, lets look at the climax with the little town - I mean it is horrific to see that much death, but in the end it just a small town - like a nuke on Nagasaki killed prolly tons more, not counting radiation - what Im trying to say with the whole "he wants to be the last one stading when the world ends" it seems kinda small scale, like the dude was some wunderkind blackmarket banker at 15, with that one would suspect that he would try to start a nuclear war to tie back the whole theme of the cold war paranoia dehumanization and mysanthropie - the large scale massacacre of all against all in large scale.

But maybe Im starting to sound like those nitpick channels who go scene by scene of the newest superhero shlock and think they are smart for pointing out how space magic is not realistic.

So I'll end by saying that I quite enjoyed the story and think the fact the the author kept it together while adding new stuff on top at such a large scale is commendable on its own.

Lets see how 20th century boys will play out...

[grandhotelabyss]

Yeah, I was also curious about the narrator, especially if it is in a way Mann's own way to distinse himself from the "bad" of Germany, while it is clear there is no such thing - meaning Leverkühn and the narrator are the same (hell there is some youtube video game theory level proof of him knowing more than it is realistic of Leverkühn but I think thats maybe to lowbro to even use as "proof" lol)

But yeah, thanks for pointing out that literally comparison, I'm quite ignorant on books in general so I wouldnt have noticed it.

Anyways, it was an interesting book, sad that there isn't any discourse of it online, guess talking about if Spider Man is woke or not is more important🤷🏿‍♂️😂

You're welcome! I think the ambiguity of the narrator is Mann's way of being honest about the way Leverkühn's modernist ambitions can't just be dismissed as fascist but are actually attractive to creative temperaments, that they have to be dealt with somehow, not just denounced by bourgeois humanists. The only Spider-Man story that reminds me in any way, shape, or form of Doctor Faustus is Kraven's Last Hunt. Its writer has probably read Mann—he says, anyway, that the story was inspired by Dostoevsky! I don't know if it's woke or not, though.

[beautifulbizarremagazine]

There are still some amazing works available in @darkartemporium's Tiny Terrors 4 group exhibition! With over 100 pieces of art, it's one of their BIGGEST SHOWS of the year! For additional information and purchase availability please contact Jeremy@darkartemporium.com Artist shown: @lakincreative Andy Medium - Acrylic on Panel Size - 6" x 8" (Framed) posted on Instagram - https://instagr.am/p/CQq66MutHqT/

[terminallytwee]

DED SHY

[marcopolorules]

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[whatjanesaw]

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[eldontamalero]

Happy Birthday friend!!

[itsme-magical]

-TOGETHER WE WILL GROW- 31 hours and 288 sq ft later I finished my first large scale mural. Thanks to @kaligrey and @forestwolfkell for getting me set up with this opportunity. Huge thanks to my buds mike and cody for spending hours helping me touch up lines and fill in all that black.

This would not of happened if it wasn’t for those of you that reached out to help buy the paint and supplies I needed for this ❤️

This has been a fantastic opportunity for me and I have learned so much from this mural. I will always remember this thing no matter how temporary it may be.

[davepollotart]

Operation date night: To 3rd base and beyond...

[backyardgraffix]

classic #illustration #skull #bonehead #lowbro https://www.instagram.com/p/BmeNMspHoyl/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=11xbvf28m6na6

[grandhotelabyss]

Thoughts on Count Monte Cristo? Is it just a pulp lowbro adventure story or is that too reductive? I just find it funny how certain parts read like a proto version of these youtube shorts that put some phonk or other music popular on tiktok while playing a "badass" scene from a trash tv show like Breaking Bad, Peaky Blinders or even some super hero crap😂

Never read it, never felt called to read it except for mild social-political purposes (doesn't Gramsci trace the Nietzschean Übermensch concept, albeit with its political meaning inverted and its lowbrow source concealed behind a screen of "philosophy," back to Dumas and similar French post-revolutionary romances? I think I read that on a Marxist blog 20 years ago), which are not purposes enough to read a 1500-page or whatever pop novel. Why not One Piece? But if anyone would like to make a case for the Count, go for it.