#the art of excess
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bigcats-birds-and-books Ā· 29 days ago
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Books of 2024: THE ART OF EXCESS by Tom LeClair.
Another day, another "requesting niche out of print nonfiction from the library that they have to borrow from the Library of Congress, because of course they do"! I didn't actually read the whole thing because I'm not familiar with six out of the seven books he analyzes, but I did read the preface, the introduction, and the chapter about Le Guin's ALWAYS COMING HOME (which was really the epilogue lol).
His framework of "systems novels" was fascinating to me and my biology-oriented brain, and he flagged a lot of the same things I transcribed for my "le guin posting" tag, which I thought was neat! Unfortunately: he nerfed himself by spending most of his time on behemoth novels by six white men as Representative of Excess as Mastery, so I found his overall conclusions lackluster--like, dude, really, broaden your sample size if you're trying to generalize to American Literature Going Forward (it's no wonder Le Guin was the most hopeful and reconstructive of the lot, given the synopses of the other bricks he discussed). Neat intro and preface! And I found myself nodding along to a lot of his insights on Le Guin, but I also found myself rolling my eyes at how he tried to generalize from the texts he selected.
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kelddaa Ā· 3 months ago
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mornings in the desert
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kaiju-krew Ā· 10 months ago
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he not built for this
original
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poorly-drawn-mdzs Ā· 6 months ago
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Heartfelt Reunion.
[First]Ā PrevĀ <ā€“-> Next
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luxmoogle Ā· 7 months ago
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ā‹†ā­’š“†Ÿā‹†ļ½”Ėš įµ¤ā‚™š’¹ā‚‘įµ£ ā‚œā‚•ā‚‘ ā‚›ā‚‘ā‚ š“†œāœ©ā‹†š“† š“†Ÿ ļ½”
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coulsart Ā· 8 months ago
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How to counter the Ghostface: silly virus
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playerkingsley Ā· 2 years ago
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somewhere in exandria
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wardingshout Ā· 1 year ago
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fast travel duck my beloved....
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vpofcookies Ā· 6 months ago
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Two pieces for @voicesfortheblade as a gift for Eloise with the prompt: Boar's head replica pendant with ruby eyes and a thin gold chain
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kinokoshoujoart Ā· 7 months ago
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Marrying Carter in Harvest Moon DS Cute! (North American version)
ohā€¦ sorry no not the archaeologist, i mean Pastor Carter from Mineral Town!
(or is it Pastor Curdyā€¦.?)
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teeechnically his descendant, and it causes a game overā€¦ but this is the only time weā€™ve been able to marry him right?
so in the girl version of HMDS, thereā€™s two ā€œsecretā€ Mineral Town bachelors that you can marry by talking to them enough times on the phone. one is Mason, the guy who runs Mayā€™s Tailoringā€¦ but the second, Pastor Carter, is a bit more obscureā€¦
i couldnā€™t find them uploaded anywhere so here are his 2nd* thru 10th conversations+his proposal+proposal rejection in english! if you want to see it on youtube instead here you go
*i failed to record the first conversation when it happened, and thereā€™s no way in hell iā€™m resetting my whole game again (ā€¦yet), soā€¦just know the first one was like ā€œoh you want to talk? what should we talk aboutā€¦ā€¦.. ā€¦ā€¦ ā€¦.. ā€¦. i canā€™t think of anything. well see yaā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€ extremely riveting stuff
heā€™s so obscure that i didnā€™t even realize that he was a bachelor until i found out about the mechanic from this japanese wiki!! (hereā€™s an archive link to the page on him in case the page doesnā€™t work) all i did was test whether it worked in english since i couldnā€™t find any english info at all mentioning it. iā€™m sure others have found himā€¦ rightā€¦ā€¦..
in case the links above donā€™t work, a small guide to holy matrimony below the cut since i canā€™t find one in english
it works essentially the same as the Mason marriage (so itā€™s just a game over, sadlyā€¦), and the steps are pretty tedious and counterintuitive, so youā€™re unlikely to just stumble across itā€¦ but you too can get a priest to break his vow of celibacy for you or whatever!
you will need:
at least 2,050,000 G
20 cursed tools/accessories
if you really donā€™t want to dig up 20 cursed things you can substitute 100x ā€œremove a cursed tool/accessoryā€ for blessing a cursed toolā€¦
but, including all the cursed tools and accessories, thereā€™s only 16ā€¦ which means you will need to go dig up 4 duplicate cursed accessories using this method! yay!!! extremely pointless since you canā€™t sell blessed accessories until after marriage in DS for girl (at which point you canā€™t trigger pastor carterā€™s proposal)
you unlock a conversation with cardi when you spend at least 205,000 G. which means the quickest thing to do is to order removal of a cursed item five times, then bless 2 cursed items.
**be careful when blessing accessories to only equip one at a time!!! if you equip a stack of duplicate accessories, blessing that stack destroys the duplicates!!!! :( so just take 1 out of the stack and equip it!!!**
you also canā€™t unlock more conversations until youā€™ve seen the one you unlocked, so like even if you spend a million G youā€™ll just unlock one conversation, and youā€™ll need to finish that conversation and then spend 205,000 G to unlock the next oneā€¦yeahā€¦.
on the tenth conversation he abruptly reveals that heā€™s fallen in love with you and asks you to marry him! it ends your game, butā€¦.! on the bright side, it ends your game!!! youā€™re finally free from Hell Simulator!!!!
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bizabumblebee Ā· 2 years ago
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Takes a lotta work to maintain that ā€˜do
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robo-milky Ā· 19 days ago
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Daydreaming or reminiscing fondly~?
Srry guys, Iā€™m just finding Rollo and Clocheā€™ dynamic so much more entertaining atm- I just think itā€™d be so funny if NBC! Cloche did end up with a mini crush on Rollo (following the NBC Rollo simp train).
Extras! *Donā€™t think Iā€™ll ever finish the second one tbh
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eisenartworks Ā· 23 hours ago
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Starscream
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sboochi Ā· 1 year ago
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Oho? It's Red Shoes' 4th anniversary? Time to bring out an over-the-top Swan Lake AU fanart, then
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cookieshapedrat Ā· 1 month ago
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Painting pumpkins :)
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someratidk Ā· 9 months ago
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damn šŸ˜”
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