#seinfeld: the novel

[weaponizedmoth]

George progress I made a few days ago

[sir-scarab]

Workin on the art for my visual novel tester. I've got these little pop-up panels to break up all the talking and whatnot; Bringing in my comics background a bit.

[writtenbygrimes]

Re-Creative Episode 51

I recently had the absolute pleasure of chatting with Joe Mahoney and Mark Rayner on their podcast Re-Creative. “Hosted by Joe Mahoney and Mark A. Rayner, Re-Creative is a podcast about creativity and the works that inspire it.” They have conversations with lots of creative folks and the art that inspires them. I had the opportunity to be one of those creatives talking about art! My episode…

[spacelazarwolf]

in honor of that anon who said jews have done nothing for the world, here’s a non exhaustive list of things we’ve done for the world:

arts, fashion, and lifestyle:

jeans - levi strauss

modern bras - ida rosenthal

sewing machines - isaac merritt singer

modern film industry - carl laemmle (universal pictures), adolph zukor (paramount pictures), william fox (fox film forporation), louis b. mayer (mgm - metro-goldwyn-mayer), harry, sam, albert, and jack warners (warner bros.), steven spielberg, mel brooks, marx brothers

operetta - jacques offenbach

comic books - stan lee

graphic novels - will eisner

teddy bears - morris and rose michtom

influential musicians - irving berlin, stephen sondheim, benny goodman, george gershwin, paul simon, itzhak perlman, leonard bernstein, bob dylan, leonard cohen

artists - mark rothko

actors - elizabeth taylor, jerry lewis, barbara streisand

comedians - lenny bruce, joan rivers, jerry seinfeld

authors - judy blume, tony kushner, allen ginsberg, walter mosley

culture:

esperanto - ludwik lazar zamenhof

feminism - betty friedan, gloria steinem, ruth bader ginsberg

queer and trans rights - larry kramer, harvey milk, leslie feinberg, abby stein, kate bornstein, frank kameny, judith butler

international women's day - clara zetkin

principles of journalizm, statue of liberty, and pulitzer prize - joseph pulitzer

"the new colossus" - emma lazarus

universal declaration of human rights - rene samuel cassin

holocaust remembrance and human rights activism - elie wiesel

workers rights - louis brandeis, rose schneiderman

public health care, women's rights, and children's rights - lillian wald

racial equity - rabbi abraham joshua heschel, julius rosenwald, andrew goodman, michael schwerner

political theory - hannah arendt

disability rights - judith heumann

black lives matter slogan and movement - alicia garza

#metoo movement - jodi kantor

institute of sexology - magnus hirschfeld

technology:

word processing computers - evelyn berezin

facebook - mark zuckerberg

console video game system - ralph henry baer

cell phones - amos edward joel jr., martin cooper

3d - leonard lipton

telephone - philipp reis

fax machines - arthur korn

microphone - emile berliner

gramophone - emile berliner

television - boris rosing

barcodes - norman joseph woodland and bernard silver

secret communication system, which is the foundation of the technology used for wifi - hedy lamarr

three laws of robotics - isaac asimov

cybernetics - norbert wiener

helicopters - emile berliner

BASIC (programming language) - john george kemeny

google - sergey mikhaylovich brin and larry page

VCR - jerome lemelson

fax machine - jerome lemelson

telegraph - samuel finley breese morse

morse code - samuel finley breese morse

bulletproof glass - edouard benedictus

electric motor and electroplating - boris semyonovich jacobi

nuclear powered submarine - hyman george rickover

the internet - paul baran

icq instant messenger - arik vardi, yair goldfinger,, sefi vigiser, amnon amir

color photography - leopold godowsky and leopold mannes

world's first computer - herman goldstine

modern computer architecture - john von neumann

bittorrent - bram cohen

voip internet telephony - alon cohen

data archiving - phil katz, eugene roshal, abraham lempel, jacob ziv

nemeth code - abraham nemeth

holography - dennis gabor

laser - theodor maiman

instant photo sharing online - philippe kahn

first automobile - siegfried samuel marcus

electrical maglev road - boris petrovich weinberg

drip irrigation - simcha blass

ballpoint pen and automatic gearbox - laszlo biro

photo booth - anatol marco josepho

medicine:

pacemakers and defibrillators - louise robinovitch

defibrillators - bernard lown

anti-plague and anti-cholera vaccines - vladimir aronovich khavkin

polio vaccine - jonas salk

test for diagnosis of syphilis - august paul von wasserman

test for typhoid fever - ferdinand widal

penicillin - ernst boris chain

pregnancy test - barnhard zondek

antiretroviral drug to treat aids and fight rejection in organ transplants - gertrude elion

discovery of hepatitis c virus - harvey alter

chemotherapy - paul ehrlich

discovery of prions - stanley prusiner

psychoanalysis - sigmund freud

rubber condoms - julius fromm

birth control pill - gregory goodwin pincus

asorbic acid (vitamin c) - tadeusz reichstein

blood groups and rh blood factor - karl landsteiner

acyclovir (treatment for infections caused by herpes virus) - gertrude elion

vitamins - caismir funk

technique for measuring blood insulin levils - rosalyn sussman yalow

antigen for hepatitus - baruch samuel blumberg

a bone fusion technique - gavriil abramovich ilizarov

homeopathy - christian friedrich samuel hahnemann

aspirin - arthur ernst eichengrun

science:

theory of relativity - albert einstein

theory of the electromagnetic field - james maxwell

quantum mechanics - max born, gustav ludwig hertz

quantum theory of gravity - matvei bronstein

microbiology - ferdinand julius cohn

neuropsychology - alexander romanovich luria

counters for x-rays and gamma rays - robert hofstadter

genetic engineering - paul berg

discovery of the antiproton - emilio gino segre

discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation - arno allan penzias

discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe - adam riess and saul merlmutter

discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity - roger penrose

discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of the milky way - andrea ghez

modern cosmology and the big bang theory - alexander alexandrovich friedmann

stainless steel - hans goldschmidt

gas powered vehicles

interferometer - albert abraham michelson

discovery of the source of energy production in stars - hans albrecht bethe

proved poincare conjecture - grigori yakovlevich perelman

biochemistry - otto fritz meyerhof

electron-positron collider - bruno touschek

[mama-germany]

I will see the gifsets or photosets and think yeah that’s kinda funny and then when I watch the actual clip I think ‘that is amazing. they drained every single drop of funny out of it’

seinfeld is interesting because every time i see gifsets or photosets of it it's actually pretty funny but every time i've actually been forced to watch the show it's like nails on a chalkboard

[sadie-bug345]

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call me sadie !

rules for requests -

i do not write nsfw or smut

i am white and don’t feel that i am qualified to write imagines/hcs for poc or woc just because i couldn’t accurately portray that

same with neurodivergent povs. I am neurotypical and i feel like i couldn’t write it well enough. everyone is welcome on my blog no matter what though!!

i am a teenage girl so just don’t be weird🙏

FEEL WELCOME to request anything other than those topics please!!

ILYSM❤️

my interests! 👇

books: any se hinton novels, east of eden, the road, no country for old men, little women, persuasion, narnia, and more

movies: i’m a huge movie buff so there’s SO many but a movie i grew up on is ferris bueller’s day off so that mainly, outsiders obviously, and tex is such a gem also i love wonka and timothee chalamet like way too much

shows: seinfeld, simpsons seasons 1-10, parks and rec, office, lost, fringe, and ER

music: i can safely say i listen to everything, i love 80s and 90s rap and rnb (beastie boys and lauryn hill especially), all beatles albums and deep cuts, classic punk (clash, descendents, ramones), old alternative (the smiths, pixies, radiohead) acid rock (cream, led zeppelin, jimi) and i love me some taylor swift and billie (DONT HATE OK)

ALL photos on my blog (except movie stills) are by moi so do not steal please!!

i am totally open to requests so please give me some writing ideas, hcs, imagines, anything of the sort!! ilysm and see you later babes!

[felagund-fiollaigean]

this part of crime & punishment is funny bc raskolnikov is the only character aware that he is in a long russian novel about poverty and murder and soul-crushing guilt. everyone else thinks they're in a seinfeld episode.

[carriagelamp]

Winter reading is the cosiest reading, I love getting to read next to the Christmas tree when the lights are on! As usual, I tried to squeeze at least a couple Christmas reads in because I enjoy seasonally appropriate stories~

And Then, Boom!

An unexpectedly good read! This is a middle grade novel that I picked up on a whim because I had some time to kill and it was there. I figured I’d read the first bit and then be done with it, but I enjoyed it enough to get it out of the library and finish — it helps that it’s all written in free verse poetry and therefore a very quick read. I feel like free verse fiction books have become more and more common lately... as a kid the only ones I can think of off hand were those books like Crank written by Ellen Hopkins, but I’ve read a handful now that have been written in verse.

This book is about a boy who comes from a dysfunctional family. His father isn’t in the picture and his mom is neglectful — she’ll get “the itch” and then up and leave — so he primarily grew up with his grandmother. However in his life he frequently experiences “and then… boom!” moments, when a sudden disaster turns everything on its head. When his mother’s arrested, when his grandmother loses her house and they have to live out of their car, they're all “booms” he needs to weather. The book explorers some of those ups and downs and the difficulty of being a child who lives in poverty until the biggest and then, boom moment happens: his grandmother dies.

The Anxious Generation

My favourite book from this month; I’ve heard a lot of people talking about it and have been very eagerly awaiting my hold at the library to come in. It's a popsci account of Haidt’s research into the sudden increase in childhood anxiety that started spiking in the 2010s, and how smartphones and social media may play a significant role in it. As someone right on the cusp of this age bracket, I found it both an interesting insight into what’s affecting the younger generation, and also a sometimes uncomfortable spotlight on my own experiences and anxieties.

The main argument this book makes, despite the focus on childhood exposure to tablet devices and social media, is less about the internet and much more about the experiences children are being allowed. He points out how much less freedom and independence children are being afforded now, and how overprotective parenting is becoming more and more the norm. Children aren’t being allowed to take risks — not physical risks, but also not social risks. They don’t have time to play independently and unsupervised, they don’t get given chances to make social mistakes and learn how to repair them on their own and without adult mediation, and that’s having a serious impact on their ability to build and maintain relationships going forward in life. This is compounded by technology that further draws them away from important real world interactions and milestones.

It’s a very well-written book and I highly recommend picking it up. Whether or not you agree with every claim that's made, I found it gave me a lot to think about and most of his arguments are well-reasoned. I think it’s valuable to look at how it may be impacting people, both so we can do better by the children our society is raising and so we can do better by ourselves.

Behind the Screens: Illustrated Floor Plans and Scenes from the Best TV Shows of All Time

This was a fun coffee table book. The author researched different sets from iconic showsacross TV history and managed to create cohesive floorplans for them. Each section talks a bit about the show, what made it important for Western television, and some of the details that went into each blueprint. Some of the shows include: The Simpsons, The Office, Seinfeld, Friends, I Love Lucy, Sesame Street, Schitt’s Creek, Killing Even, Sherlock, The Golden Girls… you get it. There’s lots!

The Disabled Tyrant’s Beloved Pet Fish v2

This series continues to be ridiculous! I already have the third book sitting on my shelf, waiting for its turn to be read so I'm pretty bought in!

Li Yu gets isekai’d into a webnovel… but as a pet fish rather than any sort of character. Despite this he’s tasked with trying to help the “tyrannical” Prince Jing. In this book Li Yu has begun to get used to his role, gets more opportunities to transform into  a human, and has even officially met Prince Jing as a human. Li Yu is convinced that he’s being very very sneaky and that Prince Jing has no idea he’s both a human and a fish. Prince Jing is convinced he has somehow acquired a carp spirit and is being very respectful about not mentioning it since his fish clearly doesn’t want it to be known. However if his carp spirit wanted to be a bit more forward about siphoning off his life force, Prince Jing is very ready and willing 👀👀👀

Dracula Daily

For anyone who's been living under a rock unfamiliar with Dracula Daily, it's an "internet book club" that started a few years back during the pandemic. It's the entire, original novel of Dracula as written by Bram Stoker, but re-arranged by Matt Kirkland so that it is being told in chronological order instead, each new entry to the story being emailed to readers on the day it would actually be happening.

When Dracula Daily first started I had read Dracula literally the summer before, so it was too early for a reread but now enough time's passed that I figured I should buy the physical edition that was released and try to follow along this year. It was a ton of fun! The physical copy is nice because it’s included a ton of art, memes, and posts people made while doing Dracula Daily in previous years, so it was a lot of fun getting to see people’s insights as I read along! Obviously I didn’t quite stay perfectly up to date, hence me including this with my December reads rather than my November ones, but I was generally fairly synched up and it really did add to the tension… waiting to see what happened to one character when big gaps of time might elapse between letters or journal entries. This is a very amusing way to read Dracula, I think I even enjoyed it more than the traditional way.

Dragons at Crumbling Castle and other stories

A collection of some of Terry Pratchett’s old children’s short stories. Not a lot to say about it — it was fine. They’re fun little stories, and Pratchett’s talent as an author always shines through, no matter what he finds things to be satirical or clever about, things that make you laugh along with or actually stop to consider. By they are, ultimately, from earlier in his career and just short stories for kids so they obviously don't have as much meat on their bones as his other work. Still, it made for a nice audiobook to listen to at bedtime.

Juniper’s Christmas

A really cute Christmas novel, I read it at the very beginning of the month to start getting into a festive mood. In this story, Santa has long since retired but many people still miss and honour him. Juniper’s family, who works as caretakers in a city park, are one such family and they host a “Santa Vigil” every year that's one part Christmas festivities and one part a time for people to donate to support disadvantaged people in their community. However when officials threaten to shut down the vigil, Juniper’s mom goes missing, and a mysterious, gift-giving woodsman appears Juniper finds herself thrust into a action-filled Christmas adventure around London. This book as comically evil villains, flying reindeer, good social messages, and lots of magic! A very worthwhile read!

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (MDZS) v1

@redoftheturks has made and posted fan-audiobooks of the entire MDZS (and TGCF!) series!!! So really, it was completely impossible for me not to start rereading it, not when it was delivered up to me on a silver platter like that! And honestly what a blessing 🙏 this has been helping me unwind during some high-stress nonsense that's been cropping up over the past month. No matter how bad things are going for me, at least I know things are going worse and weirder for Wei Wuxian. And it is such an excellent reading. I swear this is just going to be how I imagine Wei Wuxian’s voice from now on, it’s so perfect. More than anything (maybe it's rereading with a fuller understanding of the characters and story, or maybe it's thanks for the great line delivery) it's really making me appreciate how much fun Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are having together which I'm not sure I fully grasped my first time around.

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation follows Wei Wuxian, the feared and powerful creator of demonic cultivation, who was finally killed before he could rain any more terror down on the world. The story starts 13 years after his death, with Wei Wuxian very unexpectedly waking up in a new body, in the middle of a strange, supernatural murder mystery, and with a need to hide his presence before people start coming for his head again. It should all go great!!! right?

Out of My Mind

This is a book I’ve been peripherally aware of for a while and knew was supposed to be a pretty good middle grade novel, so I figured I’d finally read it. It was… fine. The story is about Melody who has cerebral palsy, and it follows her time in grade five and the difficulties she has in connecting to her peers and communicating the thoughts in her head. Everyone expects very little of her, but things begin to change when she gets a new computer to replace her old communication board and suddenly has a whole new range of communication options open up to her… and gives her a chance to show just how much she actually knows in time for the big trivia contest that her school competes in annually.

It’s a fine book, well-written, and I certainly don’t regret reading it but I can’t say it did much for me. Of course, I’m not the target demographic and I’ve never been a huge fan of contemporary fiction, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street

A fun nonfiction book that looks into all the people, work, and thought that went into the creation of Sesame Street. Honestly when I think of Sesame Street I do tend to just think of it as Jim Henson’s creation, so it was shocking to realise how late in the planning process he actually joined! So many people went into creating this show, and it was all done in such an intense, methodical way! They really were determined to try to bring early childhood education to disenfranchised families who couldn’t afford things like preschool. They had no idea if it could even be done, if this would be a failed project or not, and in the process they created a cultural behemoth! I really enjoyed reading this and learning about it all! ...And it gives you an excuse to think about the muppets, which, in my opinion, is always welcome <3

This Winter

I’ve been meaning to read this Heartstopper novella for ages, and am glad that I finally did. It’s a cute little story set between book 4 and book 5 (or is a prequel for Solitaire, though I haven't read that novel), which focuses in on Charlie’s on-going struggles with / recovery from his eating disorder during the holidays, his anxieties, and his relationship with Nick. It manages to touch on some serious or emotional topics, while also being sugary sweet and heartwarming in a way you want your Christmas stories to be. You get to see all three of the Spring children’s POVs throughout the course of the novella, which is a nice treat since that’s not something the graphic novels can really deliver.

Willodeen

Another book that was… fine. I do love Katherine Applegate’s works and I have no complaints against this one. It was a lovely story set in a world separate from ours that seems to be going through its own form of industrial (or at least steam related) revolution. It follows Willodeen, who was orphaned after a fire swept through her village and destroyer her home, killing her parents in the process. Fires like this are an on-going problem for the village which is struggling from climate change that is affecting everything from crops to the migration of hummingbears which their tourism industry relies on. While everyone else is worrying about the adorable hummingbears though, Willodeen is concerned for the disappearance of the screechers — an ugly, loud, smelly pest that most villagers are happy to kill and drive away.

The book is a very beautifully written story that looks at environmental change, charismatic vs uncharismatic species and how they fit together, and what a community can do for each other. I enjoyed reading it, it was clever, and it was quick. However my main complaint is that it feels like the novel equivalent of Oscar-bait. Very very beautiful and meaningful and it knows it, and it feels a little… hollow. Not fully formed. But whatever.

[allieinarden]

Has this romance novel ad pop up while I was looking at gifs from Seinfeld and honestly took a moment to realize it wasn’t from Seinfeld.

[1997thebracket]

Round 2B

Note: this is our threeway matchup to even the numbers going forward! The two highest-voted films will both proceed, and the third will be eliminated.

Space Jam: Come on and slam, and welcome to the jam! What happens when one of the biggest athletes in the world tries his hand at acting-- alongside the Looney Tunes, no less? A confusing but lovable cinematic treasure. In the half-animated comedy Space Jam, basketball legend (oft-cited as the Greatest of All Time) Michael Jordan and the Tune Squad face off against the dastardly Monstars for their intergalactic freedom. Space Jam was the first film produced by Warner Bros Feature Animation, and although it was first released theatrically in the US in November of 1996 it would go on to gross over $250 million during its global run into 1997, making it the highest-grossing basketball movie of all time until 2022. From the slapping soundtrack to the classic jersey designs now coming back into retro-rotation, Bugs and his crew could not feel more firmly planted in the sensibility of the decade. Space Jam also features Wayne Knight of Seinfeld fame flattened in a truly haunting use of crude CGI. Look up 'flat Newman' if you've forgotten.

Austin Powers: Let’s keep this bracket groovy, baby! Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery is a spy spoof film released in 1997, written by and starring Mike Myers and featuring Elizabeth Hurley, as well as known names in the spy movie business Michael York and Robert Wagner. It was the first introduction of the titular icon-to-be Austin Powers, a free-loving secret agent who was cryogenically frozen in the 1960s, returned to us in all his velvet-suited snaggle-toothed glory in the ‘90s to face his nemesis once more. Parodying James Bond and copycat spy films as well as '60s pop culture, the movie would spawn two sequels and novelizations all sharing a similar sense for fashion, gags, and Austin’s recognizable catchphrases. As completely goofy as the film and its legacy is, critics were mostly favorable, with the New York Times writing "The film's greatest asset is its gentle tone: rejecting the smug cynicism of Naked Gun-style parodies, it never loses the earnest naiveté of the psychedelic era." (This is presumably an embarrassing typo: it’s shagadelic, Yorkie baby!)

Men In Black: Fifteen hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow. Men in Black is a sci-fi comedy, starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, which would go on to spawn a franchise after the success of the 1997 film. It centers around a secret government agency known as the Men in Black, tasked with monitoring and regulating extraterrestrial activity on Earth; these agents, notably our protagonists Agent J and Agent K, protect humanity from aliens living among us and ensure the world remains oblivious to their existence. The franchise was praised by critics and audiences alike for its unique screenplay, action sequences, and the humor and chemistry of the lead actors. Over the years, Men in Black has expanded to include multiple sequels, an animated series and spin-offs, all contributing to its enduring popularity as a cheekier take on the sci-fi genre.

[ncisfranchise-source]

Art imitates wife, as they say.

True Blood vet Lauren Bowles will play wife to her real-life husband, Patrick Fischler, in an upcoming episode of CBS‘ NCIS: Origins prequel spinoff.

As my Inside Line column reported just last week, an upcoming NCIS: Origins episode will introduce viewers to Special Agent in Charge Cliff Wheeler’s wife Shelly — a travel agent who is trying desperately to keep her family together despite a rebellious son and a husband who’s battling to keep his head above water.

Still to be cast in the same upcoming episode is Cliff and Shelly’s son, a rebellious, mullet-rocking, GnR-loving 15-year-old who feels much resentment toward his dad (deservedly or not).

TVLine hears that both the mom and son roles have the potential to recur.

In addition to her aforementioned run as True Blood‘s Holly, Bowles’ many TV credits include How to Get Away With Murder, Veep, The Messengers, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Seinfeld and Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ NBC sitcom Watching Ellie.

Bowles will also be seen this year in The Hunting Wives, Starz’s drama series based on the novel by May Cobb.

NCIS: Origins airs new episodes every Monday at 10/9c.

[annem-one]

breaking: girl terrorises others by oversharing (about me page)

i'm menna, i am 16 years old and from wales!

i now have a side blog (@bushisbisexual) where i post more about my main interests, so this blog will consist of things like my more casual interests and general complaining about day to day life

[film and tv]

currently watching: interview with a vampire s2

i'm a pretty casual enjoyer when it comes to film and tv, i do however collect dvd's because i believe they're simply superior to streaming services

some of my favourite films include: the sound of music (1965), the breakfast club (1985), your name (2016), the mummy (1999), jurassic park (1993), bend it like beckham (2002) and rogue one (2016) and some of my fav tv shows are: frasier (1993), seinfeld (1989), avatar the last airbender (2005), the it crowd (2006) and yellowjackets (2021)

[video games]

currently playing: the quarry

i am a self proclaimed gamer (not that i'm actually any good at the games i play), i'm a playstation > xbox preacher, my playstation is my BABY

some of my favourite games: the tomb raider games, spiderman and spiderman miles morales (i have yet to play spiderman 2 sadly), life is strange, raft, until dawn, the last of us, stray

[books]

currently reading: the mysterious affair at styles by agatha christie and only the good spy young by ally carter

i am an avid fan of reading and buy far too many books for it to be healthy

i'll read pretty much any genre but some of my favourite genres are sci-fi, horror, fiction and non-fiction, murder mystery and spy fiction!! some of my favourite books/series are jurassic park and carrie (dare i say my favourite books ever), the pjo series, twenty leagues under the sea, the potkin and stubbs series, the gallagher girls series, literally any isaac asimov book and drift by caryl lewis

[graphic novels/comics]

currently reading: the thrilling adventures of lovelace and babbage by sydney padua

this is unfortunately where my true neek emerges because i am lowkey obsessed with comics and or graphic novels depending on your persuasion (if only i had enough space in my bedroom to collect more </3)

a few of the comics i have: the whole 'your name' manga collection, all of kami garcia and gabriel picolo's teen titans, like 99% of the atla comics, a few nightwing comics as well as a suicide squad one, i have a few batman ones, spiderman (peter) and spiderman (miles) as well as spiderwoman (gwen)

[music]

album/song on repeat at the moment: access all areas by flo

i am a PROUD music nerd and will seriously listen to any genre i do not discriminate, i recently got a record player so i'm getting into my dad's vinyl collection at the moment

my fav artists: ethel cain my forever #1, paramore, leon bridges, john coltrane, magdalena bay, kali uchis, the internet, gemini, flo and arctic monkeys! genres i listen to the most: modern rock, r&b, jazz, pop i again dabble in everything, i am a casual kpop enjoyer as well as country music but i wouldn't say they're main genre worthy

[misc.]

for any information on my more niche interests i would go to my side blog where i'm 10x more annoying (@bushisbisexual)

i am unfortunately a nerd at heart as previously mentioned so i am really into biology and physics, marine biology in particular has an unhealthy grip on my brain i also have a journal where i rate albums or ep's so i greatly appreciate any recommendations to listen to!

[tagging]

i am really not a tagging enthusiast but i use annem-one for all posts, anm.lb for liveblogging and annem-onevershutsup for random text posts but that's pretty much it

[asks + dms]

i'm open to any and all asks and dms!! i can't promise i'll answer them because im awful at responding to things but i am desperate for mutuals so!

[garudabluffs]

Iran women's protests are the focus of 'Persepolis' author Marjane Satrapi's new book

April 27, 2024 "Spanish artist Patricia Bolaños says she thought it was a prank when she got an email about working on the project with the famed author of Persepolis. It was only when Satrapi got in touch herself that she believed it. Bolaños, who lives in New York, says Persepolis is one of her favorite graphic novels but she knew little about Iran. / So she worked with one of the project's Iran scholars to illustrate the book's chapter on the "Aghazadeh," or noble-born, a term connoting nepotism and corruption that's used to describe the children of Iran's elite, its ruling mullahs and Revolutionary Guards. //

Bolaños says she was inspired by one of their Instagram accounts, "Rich Kids of Tehran," which showed the Aghazadeh wearing bikinis on French Riviera beaches, drinking alcohol and partying.

"It was really scary because these are the kids of those setting the rules, but they don't follow the rules," she says. "For me, it was like, how is this possible? Especially for the women. These kids are perpetuating this corrupt system. And at certain moments they have to collide with this other world of other women fighting and dying for freedom."

Bolaños wanted to know what those moments are like. The last cartoon in her chapter shows a stylish Aghazadeh checking her Instagram account. "She watches videos of women burning veils and yelling 'freedom,'" says Bolaños, "and the reader sees it reflected in her sunglasses. And someone asks her, what are you watching? And she says... nothing."

READ MORE https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/tnyradiohour/articles/jerry-seinfeld-on-making-a-life-in-comedy-and-also-pop-tarts

[anyaexe]

charanya.delaney@MacBook-Pro ~ % cd /Users/charanya.delaney/Projects/music_recommendation_algorithm.py

These are the outputs of a (very lazy) machine learning model that set out to predict what songs a listener would enjoy based on their input. Partly inspired by (x), using the songs from the discord server for funsies. Made my computer freeze like three times. Have I listened to all of these songs? Absolutely not

Nat:

Already Over - Sabrina Carpenter

The Manuscript - Taylor Swift

I know it won't work - Gracie Abrams

i wish i hated you - Ariana Grande

Anya:

Now U Do - DJ Seinfeld & Confidence Man

Sober Feels - Nia Archives

I can be your future - Mozey & Shady Novelle

Sunshine Riddim - Bandit & Disrupta

Ollie:

Never Need Me - Rachel Chinouriri

breaking news - flowerovlove

Talk Talk - Charli XCX

Strangers - Ethel Cain

Lola:

Unwritten - Natasha Beddingfield

How will I know - Whitney Houston

Say my name - Destiny's Child

Jealous - Nick Jonas & Tinashe

Eddie:

Savior Complex - Phoebe Bridgers

Futile Devices - Sufjan Stevens

Kokomo, IN - Japanese Breakfast

Everything is Embarrassing - Sky Ferreira

Heni:

Homesick - Noah Kahan & Sam Fender

Creatures in Heaven - Glass Animals

Tiny Moves - Bleachers

Nonsense - Sabrina Carpenter

Parker:

The Feminine Urge - The Last Dinner Party

Cool About It - boygenius

why did you invite me to your wedding - Kevin Atwater

tolerate it - Taylor Swift

Rhia:

Back to the Old House - The Smiths

Sunday - The Cranberries

When the Sun Hits - Slowdive

Cherry Waves - Deftones

Logan:

Silk Chiffon - MUNA & Phoebe Bridgers

Crying Over U - Medium Build

Deeper Vell - Kacey Musgraves

Time Shrinks - Arcy Drive

Jesse:

Highway Tune - Greta van Fleet

Killing in the Name - Rage against the Machine

Run - Foo Fighters

Californication - Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Monty:

Not - Big Thief

Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space - Spiritualized

Teen Age Riot - Sonic Youth

I Don't Belong - Fontaines DC

Gen:

Apple - Charli XCX

Too Sweet - Hozier

get him back! - Olivia Rodrigo

Style (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift

Freddie:

Whatta Man - Salt-N-Pepa & En Vogue

Party Up (Up In Here) - DMX

Da' Dip - Freak Nasty

Dream Job - Yard Act

Charlie:

Mean Girls - Charli XCX

Tears - Perrie

ART - Tyla

French Exit - Dua Lipa

Silja:

Starburned And Unkissed - Caroline Polachek

Hater's Anthem - Infinity Song

Crushcrushcrush - paramore

Missing Out - Maya Hawke

[elcomfortador]

The Sarah Silverman Program Has Gigantic, Orange Gays

“Muffin’ Man” (March 1, 2007)

You know what’s super complicated? The Sarah Silverman Program. It’s funny, but just talking about why it’s funny in 2023 necessitates a lot of discussion of controversial topics including but not limited to ironic racism, straight dudes playing gay characters, January 6 and several people who are now canceled. Nonetheless, Drew (and not Glen, because Glen is not in this episode) is joined by Henry Gilbert to discuss why this show’s queer representation was novel and still should be important all these years later.

And yes, if you’re like “I could swear that Drew said this week would be Seinfeld,” you are correct; that episode will now be coming next week. Stay tuned!

Did you know that Henry also has a podcast? It’s called Talking Simpsons, and it’s a lot like GEE just specifically about The Simpsons. 

Watch Glen's episode of Ninjago: Dragons Rising, now streaming on Netflix! And if you're not sure what a Ninjago is, watch Ninjago Decoded, Glen's video series that explains the history of the Ninjago TV show.

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[steveharrington]

i’ll honestly never understand why people think iasip is a novel concept like. a show where all the characters are bad people already exists and it is called seinfeld and it didn’t rely on like white people saying the n word in the very first season (not saying that seinfeld has a clean bill in terms of like social awareness but it never stooped that low) like the characters in seinfeld are somehow evil in a more believable way yk which makes it Funnier at least to me