#nihil rants

[artemisnihil]

The “should I see Oppenheimer or Barbie first” debate is nonexistent for me, because I live in Japan. Oppenheimer has not yet secured a release date here, due to its controversial nature.

I really don’t think the American war propaganda movie should be put on the same playing field as the feature length toy commercial.

[artemisnihil]

To be clear, this is WHY we were dunking on Rainbow Capitalism. Not because it was cringe or something, but because we always knew it was conditional and temporary.

Target sold Pride goods and people cheered and then some people said, “be careful, they’re not a real friend” and they were RIGHT.

Every single corporation, even if they’re still holding the line, can and will turn their backs on us eventually if that’s the way the tide is turning.

Let’s convince them we’re not finished yet.

Apparently Target is rethinking being anti DEI because foot traffic in their stores has been declining for like 10 weeks straight and their stock has been dropping in unison and listen, I know a lot of this is probably because consumer spending goes down in general when the economy is unstable (tarrifs, mass federal gov layoffs etc.) but I think we should just keep running boycotts of different brands to convince them that they only make money when they're woke. I know we dunked on rainbow capitalism because it was cornball and performative but I don't even give a shit. These companies shouldn't be able to be openly pro-Trump and expect us to ignore it. They should not be allowed to bend the knee to racist, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic, abelist, generally bigoted culture war bullshit without taking a hit to their bottom line. These billionaire dipshits wanted unfettered capitalism with a madman at the helm and they should not be allowed to enable that without feeling some of the hurt along with the rest of us. Make these corporate assholes think money is stored in the woke

[gayinajar]

I MIGHT BE ABLE GO SEE A GHOST CONCERT IN APRIL

AND SEE MY LONG DISTANCE GIRLFRIEND FOR THE FIRST TIME

AND ILL BE ABLE BRING MY CANE WITH ME TO TRAVEL

IV NEVER BEEN ABLE DO ANY OF THOSE THINGS BEFORE

IM SO FUCKING EXCITED

[eshaverse]

yk sometimes you gotta learn to say fuck it. literally. sometimes you need to go against what society deems wrong or bad, and just do what you gotta do. NO ONE is asking you to be perfect. if you're craving something, have it. no ones killing you for that. if you cant sleep at 2 am at night, and you're so annoyed you could cry, then fuck it just go on your phone or read something. even if its a shitty fanfiction. who cares if its deemed wrong and unhealthy. you know what's really wrong and unhealthy? torturing yourself for NOTHING. its not worth it. because making a bad decision once in a while won't kill you, but forcing yourself to go on a shitty decided life path that you dont like, will.

[justjudethoughts]

The older I get, the more I'm pretty sure there are a lot of people who just really, really hate joy. And the thing is, I don't think they realize they do. I think our culture has built them to be like that. I think it's part of the "Men Without Chests" thing C.S. Lewis talks about.

All you have to do is make a post about something you care about and watch the responses you get. No matter how innocuous what you said was, somebody is going to be weird and nihilistic about it. Of course, they have a right to respond. But that isn't the point. The point is that you could say something like "the memory of my great grandparents formed me as a person" and someone will respond "yeah, but you didn't know them, so—"

Say that you like Valentine's day and count how many responses like this: "I hate Valentine's day, it's stupid and made up" you get. Or that you like Taylor Swift. Or that you are moved by a certain tradition. Or that you think children's literature is important. Someone is going to pipe up for the express purpose of negating what you just said. They aren't getting anything out of it or contributing an experience of beauty to the world. They're just cutting down a spot someone else found and expressed beauty.

Have we really become so bitter that when someone shares a piece of their heart or their story our first instinct is to shut them down? Do we really hate happiness so much that we wish to dismantle anything we think we "made up"?

Gee, I'm sorry you think holidays are stupid and made up (wait til you learn where cultures come from). I'm sorry you won't listen to any music that's "too popular." I'm sorry that you don't think history is living and breathing and beautiful and matters today. I'm sorry you don't think anything matters. I'm sorry you think we are on a big rock of meaninglessness. But I don't.

And frankly, I think I'm having more fun than you.

[juthemagicalclown]

One thing I like about Reverse 1999 is how the game tells different perspectives about potentially controversial topics that are commonly portrayed as negative in mainstream narrations not because inherently bad but rather because any depth is quickly dismissed. I am thinking about 1.6 event in regards to alcohol drinking (and prohibitionism), 1.8 event concerning communism (its true ideals and utopia), 1.9 story and nihilism (in its often overlooked positive connotation)

[angy-brows]

Does it bug the hell out of anyone else whenever you’re trying to stay positive and there’s that one fucking person that’s always contradicting what you say like “no we’re fucked, shit’s fucked, there’s nothing we can do, we’re all gonna die lol”

Like?? Fuck off, man. I’m already hanging on the edge, stop trying to pull me down with you.

[girlypopinspos]

I absolutely fucking despise the current trend of shows just ending miserably, or bittersweet at best. Everyone just wants to be cynical, and we're told that happy endings are "unrealistic" or "CRINGE."

NO. Happy endings are not "cringe." They're the reward for the characters putting up with so nuch bullshit, and for the viewers/readers for sticking with the story. And what does it even matter if happy endings are "unrealistic"? IT'S FICTION!

And this trend of killing the main character? Fuck off!

[thinkingofausername]

cw: rant, don't read if you're religious and easily offended

The older I get, the more I'm fascinated and avidly repulsed by religion.

I'm fascinated with the fact that so many people view religious texts as the objective truth. They don't even question it, it just is what it is. A virgin gave birth, a man made everything and is watching us all the time and knows everything about us and has a plan for us, a man turned water to wine and cured blindness and came back from the dead, another man parted the sea, etc. Somehow mermaids and vampires aren't believable.

I'm fascinated with the fact that religion holds so much power. It's put its hand on politics, education, healthcare. It dictates things it never should've. It's spoken of as a personal choice and belief which is to be respected and yet it's an all around force involved in things it should've stayed out of.

I'm fascinated with the fact that we never outgrew it, never evolved past it. It's such a backwards and rigid thing that I honestly can't believe we haven't left it behind. I can imagine centuries and centuries ago people needed to be told killing was bad because you will die and burn forever but how does that apply to this day and age? Shouldn't it be the most reasonable thing that our actions be controlled by morals, guilt, rationality, law, etc. If someone has to threaten you with eternal damnation in order for you to be good, than how good are you?

I'm repulsed by the mindlessness of it. It reads as nothing but mass control and simultaneously giving up control. It reads as controlling mindless masses who need to blindly follow something and never question it. I believe "the Lord is my shepherd" is very much on point. It reads as avoiding taking accountability. It reads as avoiding the fact that our lives are in our control. We have no inherent purpose and no one but us is guiding our lives. Our actions have direct consequences. God didn't save that person's life, it was the surgeon who performed the surgery for fifteen fucking hours. We are conscious creatures and we should be exercising critical thinking and not giving up control of our lives because "someone has a plan for us and all will be as he has imagined it".

I'm repulsed by the fact that it's spoken of as something that revolves around loving and forgiving and yet fear is at the center of it. We should believe in God because if we don't we are forever doomed? Religion gives you permission to meddle in other people's lives an question them and judge them? Religion gives you permission to look at a person with piercings/tattoos/skull accessories/black eyeshadow and feel free to tell them they will burn in hell? Religion gives you permission to look at two people who love each other in a way your beliefs don't align with and tell them they will be eternally punished for it?

I'm repulsed by the fact that it's based on lies and a superiority complex. Religion is apparently virtue and purity and mercy and yet it's caused and justified more suffering than anything else in the world. Religion painted women as silent servants in servitude of men and for the obvious reason men liked that and used it as much as possible and they still do. Countless women were burned for being "witches", people were tortured so they would accept a religion, countless other crimes were committed because it was "in the Lord's name".

I'm repulsed by the fact that nothing stands in the face of delusion. Religion is seen as the objective truth and whoever doesn't believe it is wrong, in denial, lost, has to be saved, waiting for God to be speak to them, etc.

I'm fascinated by the fact that the world is led by a cult and no one wants to admit it.

[artemisnihil]

For a little while my Reels algorithm was doing SO well. Nothing but gay Indian thirst traps.

Then it started showing me like… American gays and Pronoun Discourse and I cannot emphasize enough how much do not want to see that shit

Show me the gay Indians, Instagram. It’s the only reason I opened the app.

[askdewydrop]

Is it just me or is Omega too good for social media? Like the dude is with a walking embodiment of the social media algorithm! But noooooo big guy Omega says he doesn’t need a social media because it will ‘make your brain turn to mush’ or whatever kind of crap that pompous guy thinks. And yet Terzo has every sort of social media! Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr…you name it, he probably has an account on there. And not only does the guy have every social media account…he also has three phones. The reason? One for work and social media…one for one night stand and saucy pictures and then A WHOLE ASS SEPARATE PHONE FOR BULLYING COPIA! This man needs to be stopped! I’m out of words! I need to be snuggled into my nest…where is Mountain or Aether when you need them?!

[becomealamp]

I know this could be read as validating the religious’s criticisms of atheism, but there is a fundamental sadness that comes along with accepting that all that is around us is based on nothing but a series of scientific chain reactions. the world, the universe was not created to be moral or to be balanced, just a byproduct of microscopic particles meeting one another. there is no cosmic rule to ensure that the world is good, that earnest labour will be rewarded, that evil will be punished. humanity can plummet into a miserable abomination of a species, and theres no divine being to save us, to bring us to salvation. they say every action has an equal and opposite reaction, but the same cannot be said for suffering. the laws of the universe couldnt care less about rewarding us for our pain. good people can be subjected to agony, and evil people could find victory, and the cosmos would not lift a finger to stop it. theres this widespread belief that humans are born good, and while of course i cannot know with certainty, i find this unlikely. just like the atoms colliding eons ago, we are a product of natural selection, an output of a natural algorithm. we prospered as a species because we could continue to reproduce, and nothing more. evolution does not guarantee that the victors are moral. one could say the opposite, in fact, as often those who reach the top do so by climbing atop the corpses of their peers. i find it rather conceited for us as a species to assume that our success means we are inherently moral, as no science backs this, only our own egos and self centered view of the universe around us. there is nothing holding humanity back from having a higher proportion of evil to morality, from everyone around you becoming cruel. nobody is coming to save us. nobody is coming to save the ones who remain good. the world could be hell on earth, and the universe would live on.

[witch-hammer]

I got featured on Alan Ursillo’s story. I can die happy now

[poetry-pastry]

Every now and then, I find myself about to comment on a post before coming to the realization that what I say is going to be seen by so few people that it truly doesn’t matter. I would be putting out a message to the world that would instantaneously be buried underneath the complaints and praises of millions of other human beings; it will instantly become obsolete and serve as unnecessary commentary that will likely never be read by any in over a hundred years.

But I think that this mindset prevents me and other people from contributing even just the tiniest little things. All expression and art is still just that, whether or not another person ever even reads it or lays their eyes on it. Not everything you do needs to be profound or have impact. Nihilism is a double-edged sword, it has a time and a place. Anyways thank you for coming to my ted talk

[can-of-pringles]

I was just thinking about it, but honestly the Sister Imperator comics didn't really add much to the overall story

[gogodollie]

Alright, what's your opinion about Nihil's relationship with the rest of his kid's mother(s)? And what role did Sister have in their lives growing up?

First off I’m so sorry for taking so long to answer this😭 I had half of it written down but had to think harder about it and completely forgot. I’m starting this off by saying all of my thoughts are based off of my own aus/speculation. Anyways with that being said…

Nihil’s relationship with baby mamas 1-3 is non-existent at best. In RHRN Nihil says that he’s almost 80 so I place him as being born in ‘44 which MEANS that he was a young father (25 yrs old in KTGG and already had 3 children). Like. Very young. In my hcs I think that Primo’s mother was a high school sweetheart of Nihil’s, I’d speculate in their junior/senior year. It was probably just dumb love and not really any substance, probably would not have gone anywhere after graduation (at a fault of Nihil’s) but sweet nonetheless. Until the pregnancy obviously because an unmarried teenage girl in the 60s??? I think she carried Primo to term (pressured from family) but after giving birth, essentially dropped off the face of the Earth and left baby Primo with a 17 year old Nihil. It was less so a purposeful act of abandonment and more like desperate parents pushing for their daughter to live an actual life that didn’t include being ostracized. Sucks for Primo and single teen dad Nihil but for Primo’s mom this is somewhat of a win! She feels guilt from time to time and thinks about what her baby is up to but overall? She’s content with the life she made for herself after it all and wouldn’t trade it for the world.

BABY MAMA TWO🗣️ Also dgaf about her baby, so sorry Secondo. I do think the case with Secondo’s mother is a lot more tragic than any of the other mothers because she was just in the worst position prior to getting pregnant and things really only got worse from there. She was probably just some girl who met Nihil at a bar by chance and these two were just absolutely never meant to come across each other. At this point I think on both ends there’s a good deal with substance reliance brewing because of the constant partying and drugs which is putting a strain on the relationship (which is more like a dependency really) and the pregnancy is kind of the last straw. She doesn’t want a baby at all, has no interest in a life with children or settling and isn’t ready for any of that- isn’t even sure if she’d want that with Nihil of all people anyways. I think Nihil pushed for her to carry out the pregnancy thinking that it might save the relationship or do something with the mess they had because he’s stupid and naive and surely another baby wouldn’t hurt, right? So she does in fact give birth to Secondo, who’s got a good deal of respiratory issues at birth and only pushes her away from the idea of caring from him more. She doesn’t even stick around long enough to heal up completely, gone within a few days of the birth with some friend before Secondo makes it out of the NICU. It takes her some time to manage the postpartum depression and everything else she has in her plate but I do think after a good while she does sober up and learns to cope with everything that had happened. At the end of the day, it’s all like a bad dream to her and the memories are all fuzzy. Nihil attempts to find her for a while after Secondo is born but nothing ever turns up. She’s off in the next state over and doesn’t ever think about the baby she had, definitely doesn’t wish things

Baby mama: TRES. Okay so technically we only know about this one because Tobias wanted to include his mommy and if he was asked in an interview today he would completely forget what he said about this matter years ago. SO. I think baby mama #3 was an aspiring actress or model- I tend to imagine her being similar to Olga Baclanova, at least for a face claim. Anyways whatever, Nihil and baby mama 3 are both very ambitious at this point and they genuinely seem compatible. Between working dead end jobs and trying to make something of themselves, they’re actually pretty affectionate and things are looking up (at least compared to the last two). They’re well off for the time being but then SURPRISE. The man that doesn’t know what a condom is had helped create yet another unplanned baby. Who would’ve guessed. It’s exciting at first but in the way that it feels like playing house- they’ll have their flat, their baby, and their dream careers! But give or take a few months and she quickly realizes what a damper this is going to put on everything she had planned for herself and the fantasy in her head is falling apart. She’s falling out of love, she’s realizing that her life will need to change drastically to fit a child in it, and she knows that nothing can be the same. The difference between baby mamas 1-2 and baby mama 3 is that she is at a place in life where she is willing to take on motherhood and actually does want to be a mother. Sure, she didn’t expect it to come so soon but she does love and want Terzo. She waits until a while after Terzo is born to break up with Nihil, didn’t want to push him away during the pregnancy out of fear that he would completely deny Terzo a spot in his life. The split is fairly clean and it ends up as a split custody sort of arrangement which really depends on what the parents have going on as opposed to a healthy routine for Terzo. Nihil and baby mama #3 still get along fairly well and kept in contact up until Terzo was around 13 when they figured he could make the arrangements himself (where he tends to choose his mother over Nihil). There’s no bad blood but it’s sort of like a lingering sadness and “what if”s though there’s no real desire for that ending- they’re both happy with where they’ve ended up in life and got to live out their dreams, even if just for a short while. Side note, Terzo’s mother gave up the acting gig after birth and settled for modeling which later turned to visual arts when she eventually couldn’t keep up with that lifestyle.

I’ve got to keep it real with you here, I don’t think Sister Imperator ever cared to have any sort of relationship with Nihil’s children and didn’t ever attempt to take up any sort of “step-mom” role in their lives. Sister doesn’t come across as someone deeply interested in caring for homemaking or having children or anything of the like. Given the very current politics surrounding women’s rights and the feminist movement at the time combined with growing up in the satanic church, it just doesn’t seem like something that would ever call to her. She sees Nihil’s children as tools for the clergy in the kindest way she possibly could, I guess? Sister knows the basics of childcare and development and wants their needs to be met- so they’re well enough to later take on their clergy duties. I don’t even think she would do all that well with reprimanding them which is something she excels in usually (verbally abusing people is one of her favorite pastimes). She expects Nihil to be a father to them and their sole caregiver but also expects a great deal of Nihil’s time as a partner. Sister is a 25 year old, unmarried, and childless woman so of course she’s going to want to live her life to the fullest and free of distractions. She may feel pity towards Primo and Secondo at times because she sees her own childhood in their experiences (absent mother, semi-neglectful/absent father) as opposed to Terzo (present/loving mother and a father in his life). It’s not enough to make her motherly towards them but it’s something that they feel and she figures that’s enough.

TLDR: Everyone involved was just too young and stupid and selfish to gaf and did not have the generosity required to bring a child (or several) into their lives.