Pale King Mighty in Sorrow

starting Wednesday 2/18, i will be taking my yearly Lenten fast from twitter and bluesky. feel free to DM or whatever as i will pop back in on St Patrick's or thereabouts, otherwise i will see you all Good Friday

don't have to name names but can you give an example of like a rhetorical move by which to recognize this sort of guy? i think i know what you mean from attending community college philosophy classes, but that might be too particular to be captured by the affect ur describing

Pierre Men*rd, Author of the Quixote

wonder what the Picos and Ficinos would make of the fact that we have in some sense fulfilled the Renaissance dream of speaking to alchemically conjured nonhuman entities but it has come at the cost of the humanist project of general literacy and textual exegesis

i think he gives off the vibes of someone who reads plenty. so many youtubers seem to exclusively watch other visual media and if they read, it's at a very low level, just synopses. that's a disastrous combination for a video essayist

there's v few theatre kid style youtubers i can stand to watch, my ideal youtube video is one where i barely have to see the face of the creator and thus avoid eye contact. i think the best guy on the website is Noah Caldwell Gervais cuz even his travelogues barely show face

dear transwomen: in these darkening times it's important to remember that you do not need to be Liv Agar or Maia Crimew, you can also make youtube videos for Steven Universe adults and befriend Hillary Clinton, even if you had a pre-transition islamophobia arc and a heroin problem

i think contrapoints is really important as a creator cuz i think a lot of young transwomen feel an unconscious pressure to be world historical geniuses to justify their already perfectly legitimate existences, but Contra shows you can be a beautiful woman even if ur dumber than dogshit and racist

YouTube video by Kate Bush - Topic Kashka from Baghdad

anthem of a future fujoshi national developmentalist state pulled into China's orbit after american balkanization:

music.youtube.com/watch?v=eDSx...

>it's real

every time one of these guys gets hit on cam everyone loves it, but they never learn that you don't post ur Ls

ive never understood the debates around the TRPF in Marx scholarship, you could maroon me on an island with Heinrich and when you rescued us i would believe in the TPRF as strongly as I believe that Mary was assumed into heaven

sorry i didn't put any Sports ones in there, i think the last time i remember my family celebrating a Steelers Superbowl Win, my father and very possibly his mother were still alive

doing the israeli thing of claiming inventions but for Pittsburgh: we invented Czechoslovakia, Reform Judaism, the Polio Vaccine, shrouding ur city in ash, Ms Rachel's shtick, Joe Magarac, play cycles, hospital dramas, the concept of Croatians and Serbs living together peacefully

Violent Femmes is so funny, like they're the least chudded gen x musicians simply because they were too Baptist to be homophobic

something dies in you the day you realize one of ur parents has mid taste in fiction. if ur the eldest sibling, it becomes ur unhappy duty to inform the others that Leon Uris wrote supermarket historislop fiction and just cuz they're long books doesn't mean they're Great

the late portion about the death of his father and the creation of Sleep Has Its House almost made me cry at work. Can't say much about the Nurse w Wound stuff cuz it doesn't really interest me, but Stapleton is the normalest subject in a book of freaks

you would expect as a fan of C93, the funniest story being this alt couple that spent a night with him trying to find a good restaurant and being weird as hell only to finally sit down with this psychotic and he prays grace over the meal and charms everyone.

the bits about Balance's alcoholism are like church bells of doom sounding out of a foggy lake and the coda attached to the second edition of the book includes a description of his death that hurted deeply. Tibet turns out to be exactly the kind beautiful and pure soul

finished England's Hidden Reverse, the first book ive managed to finish in a hot minute. if you care about Current 93, Coil, or Nurse with Wound at all, you owe urself a read thru. very well written and it almost makes me believe in music journalism

developments in youth language i like: -mogged suffix, slop affix, the use of "coal" to represent shitty posts

developments in youth language i dislike: goy- prefix, wider adoption of the term zog, the phrase "Diddy ahh blud" and concomitantly "sewerslide" and "grape"

Isabel Fall probably the exact karmic inverse of the Eye of Argon kid in that she wrote one stylistically perfect work of spec fic and never again after having the Nerd-Hate Machine pointed at her head and fired point blank

hey all, if you've been praying for my mum, i want to thank you immensely, she is currently placed somewhere her treatment can be assured and she can get through her current illness. my bubbe asks that you keep at it so we can get her home again in a happy healthy state

came here to rt

DONALD TRUMP: you know what folks they said, they said we couldn't find all nine billion names of God. They said that! But we have the best engineers, yes we do, and do you see it folks? The stars are blinking out one by one! Like candles, folks! [APPLAUSE] They're going out like candles!

not that type of homosexual unfortunately

how much money would you have to drop to get "Will [REDACTED] get assassinated before June?" on the board at Polymarket? i only ask because that would cause a very interesting series of events to occur

think how much better the interaction would go if she was called Flumina Babylonis, hello cousin Flumina, i am the family Helen now

fuck that, make her change it. to Flumina Babylonis

good strong name, works well with ur last name. if i had to transition i think i would go by Flumina Babylonis (from the psalms "By the river of Babylon...") which is why im cis