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My Twitter feed is full of poo poo about the Don't Worry Darling press releases, but it's all a big gobbledygook web of interdependent references so I can't really post a punchy one here but apparently Jerry Seinfeld and Kim Kardashian both made some odd personal decisions if you guys care about that https://twitter.com/EJ_Santana/status/1567199014755377154 https://twitter.com/erinisaway/status/1567193564274393090
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loquacius posted:My Twitter feed is full of poo poo about the Don't Worry Darling press releases, but it's all a big gobbledygook web of interdependent references so I can't really post a punchy one here grandma couch rear end jacket
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:fwiw there absolutely is truth to the idea that genetics determine your tendency for fat retention and natural “resting weight” but like, it’s nothing that can’t be overcome with mild diet control and absolutely nobody has a genetic predisposition to being 400lbs and unable to climb stairs "mild diet control" goes out the window once your body's metabolism is hosed. my aunt was on a 1500 calorie liquid diet for three months before her insurance approved bariatric surgery and averaged about .1% of body weight lost per week by the end of the 12 week period. maybe a neighbor was sneaking her McDonald's (she was housebound at that point, and this was pre Uber) but studies have been done on lab mice with similar results. it looks like poorly-understood epigenetic factors play a big role that I’m sure environmental pollutants like microplastics exacerbate significant calorie restriction along with a combined strength + endurance exercise program works for pretty much all obese people unless it's a tumor situation, so there wouldn't be any fat people in a concentration camp. but it's very difficult to incorporate one or the other into your daily routine, let alone both at the same time. PS the surgery worked and she's so in-shape now it's annoying indigi has issued a correction as of 20:59 on Sep 6, 2022 |
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Sep 6, 2022 20:56
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Kim ew. why would you do that
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Mid live divorces.
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indigi posted:Kim ew. why would you do that The main problem is the eyebrows IMO. Just have brows that don't match your hair like everyone else that has ever "gone blonde"
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Sep 6, 2022 21:00
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loquacius posted:The main problem is the eyebrows IMO. Just have brows that don't match your hair like everyone else that has ever "gone blonde" the eyebrows are the worst part but that harsh of blonde doesn't work with her skin tone imo. if she'd gone like normal human blond it would have been ok probably
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFqgmaO15x4 idk i dont dig the netflix cinematography but they knocked it out of the park on casting the main character
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Sep 6, 2022 21:08
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he should play dr caligari
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RandolphCarter posted:grandma couch rear end jacket
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Sep 6, 2022 21:14
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All I remember from Shallow Hal is when Jason Alexander shows his little tail 
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Bro Dad posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFqgmaO15x4 it's always a pleasure to watch German troops lose
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RandolphCarter posted:grandma couch rear end jacket gently caress, I'd wear the hell out of that Jacket. But I have terrible fashion sense.
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Frosted Flake posted:Pete Davidson must be stopped. yeah he sucks and women being into him is the biggest l they have ever taken
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Krull is a really good movie
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indigi posted:Kim ew. why would you do that It's like she went into the salon and asked for the "Edgar Winter" look
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Riot Bimbo posted:Krull is a really good movie that movie really creeped me out as a kid, especially the cyclops guy with the trident and the fire mares
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loquacius posted:The main problem is the eyebrows IMO. Just have brows that don't match your hair like everyone else that has ever "gone blonde" Matt Smith's character has this look in HOT D and I hate it. For as much as people ribbed the original GOT for Emilia Clarke having dark eyebrows against white-blond hair it was for sure the correct call. loquacius posted:My Twitter feed is full of poo poo about the Don't Worry Darling press releases, but it's all a big gobbledygook web of interdependent references so I can't really post a punchy one here I kept seeing pictures of Chris Pine looking miserable at a press junket and thought he was already making the rounds for the D&D movie lol. But it apparently is to do with this movie?
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He hates Harry Styles and Florence Pugh hates Olivia Wilde and that's most of what I can piece together
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Olivia supposedly bullied her hard for getting Harry's attention.
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Olivia Wilde told the press she fired Shia for being unreliable and he nuked her from orbit and shared a video of her begging him to re-join the production, assuring him that she had smoothed things over with Florence Pugh https://twitter.com/popbase/status/1563278837852450817 the conflict between Shia and Florence apparently being over the fact that Shia is an abuser. what a mess lol
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Tankbuster posted:Lovecraft wrote pulpy stuff for magazines that kept circulating after his death in a time of plenty for americans. I like reading his work, especially about the city with the cats that vibe. If you were gonna write a warmed over Tolkien take Robert E. Howard is the more obvious comparison because he was mostly a fantasy writer like Tolkien and is way more overtly racist in his stories than Lovecraft ever was. Like you can't go two pages in a Conan story without some unvarnished racist descriptions of people. And so far as I know he never second guessed his racism before he died like Lovecraft did.
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I regret to inform everyone that the Rings of Power is a "fine" show and no worse or better than any fantasy schlock you can find these days
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Any racism within the actual text of Lovecraft's stories is wrapped in metaphor, like how A Shadow Over Innsmouth and Rats In The Walls are about the existential horror he felt upon discovering his own lineage was not 100% pure Anglo-Saxon Oh and he named a cat a racial slur
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loquacius posted:Any racism within the actual text of Lovecraft's stories is wrapped in metaphor, like how A Shadow Over Innsmouth and Rats In The Walls are about the existential horror he felt upon discovering his own lineage was not 100% pure Anglo-Saxon besides his incredibly explicitly racist poetry, “cool air” is a good counter-example
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loquacius posted:The Wall… just remembered there’s a dog named after a racial slur in The Wall. drat
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double negative posted:besides his incredibly explicitly racist poetry, “cool air” is a good counter-example I have read neither of these but would easily believe it
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I finally got around to watching The Expanse and I absolutely love it. Are the books worth reading in addition to the TV show? I'm so glad it wasn't boring anime poo poo like Planetes
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It's been ages since I read Lovecraft but from what I remember he was more overtly racist in earlier stories like "The Terrible Old Man" or "The Street." There's also "The Horror at Red Hook" too. There's probably a lot more that I've forgotten though. Imo he's worthwhile for like four stories but you're better off reading the authors who influenced him. Supernatural Horror in Literature is still a good exegesis on horror fiction as well as a solid weird fiction reading list.
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I was just reading some letters between Howard and Lovecraft from the early 1930s and let me tell you they were not fans of Jews
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mawarannahr posted:just remembered there’s a dog named after a racial slur in The Wall. drat
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racism was a pretty central part of lovecraft's work and it's too bad lovecraft country was so lame cause there's plenty to work with there and instead they just wasted jonathan majors' drat time
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double negative posted:racism was a pretty central part of lovecraft's work and it's too bad lovecraft country was so lame cause there's plenty to work with there and instead they just wasted jonathan majors' drat time that show went from interesting to complete dogshit trash in like a span of 1 episode, incredible ive seen very few shows nosedive as fast
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Xaris posted:that show went from interesting to complete dogshit trash in like a span of 1 episode, incredible I think I gave up 4 episodes in since the third was the fun kind of cheesy horror anthology stuff but then the next one outright sucked again and I lost interest
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double negative posted:racism was a pretty central part of lovecraft's work and it's too bad lovecraft country was so lame cause there's plenty to work with there and instead they just wasted jonathan majors' drat time I completely forgot about this show lol. Yeah I remember really liking the first episode and then they took the show in a largely different direction after that. Oh well!
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Les Os posted:I was just reading some letters between Howard and Lovecraft from the early 1930s and let me tell you they were not fans of Jews Kinda lol given Lovecraft's wife was a Jew and she had to casually remind him of that after he went into rants
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:I regret to inform everyone that the Rings of Power is a "fine" show and no worse or better than any fantasy schlock you can find these days It doesn't have henry cavill in leather doing anime style swordfighting.
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double negative posted:racism was a pretty central part of lovecraft's work and it's too bad lovecraft country was so lame cause there's plenty to work with there and instead they just wasted jonathan majors' drat time The Ballad of Black Tom was a better riff on racism in Lovecraft. It's also probably where I got the idea that Lovecraft's conception of civilization is close to Afro-pessimism. Lovecraft was racist, but in a sort of unique fashion compared to other pulp writers at the time. I personally find some Howard stories unreadable because of racist descriptions. Lovecraft's use of narrators at the edge of sanity or recalling traumatic events softens the blow of some of the more explicit racism. Lovecraft even plays with this, when he has the protagonist of The Shadow Over Innsmouth embrace being a fishman. quote:So far I have not shot myself as my uncle Douglas did. I bought an automatic and almost took the step, but certain dreams deterred me. The tense extremes of horror are lessening, and I feel queerly drawn toward the unknown sea-deeps instead of fearing them. I hear and do strange things in sleep, and awake with a kind of exaltation instead of terror. I do not believe I need to wait for the full change as most have waited. If I did, my father would probably shut me up in a sanitarium as my poor little cousin is shut up. Stupendous and unheard-of splendours await me below, and I shall seek them soon. Iä-R’lyeh! Cthulhu fhtagn! Iä! Iä! No, I shall not shoot myself—I cannot be made to shoot myself! Like, this is definitely supposed to be a moment of horror. But it opens the possibility that the narrator is actually making a healthy choice when he learns a secret about his heritage. In the story "Facts concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family," Lovecraft kills off the character who finds out he's the descendent of an African white ape. Even in the latter more cosmic stories where Lovecraft introduces aliens that the narrators have respect for, there's interesting poo poo to dig into with regards to US views on race and power. Lovecraft has the narrator of At the Mountains of Madness describe the Old Ones as having a government that was "evidently complex and probably socialistic, though no certainties in this regard could be deduced from the sculptures we saw." Which is extremely funny because Lovecraft has Old One civilization be based on shoggoth slave labor. There's a few passages from The Shadow out of Time which I think are notable too. quote:What was hinted in the speech of post-human entities of the fate of mankind produced such an effect on me that I will not set it down here. After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize when the monstrous doom overtook the elder world. The Great Race (goddamn that name) are the best colonizers in the universe. They not only take over land, they take over the minds and bodies of the colonized. Their worst enemy is a civilization they tried and failed to exterminate. These fascistic socialists are so terrified about this oppressed race rising up that they refuse to openly discuss the issue, despite it's inevitability shaping the whole structure of their current society. This post is more a collection of notes than a specific thesis. Basically Lovecraft was a racist and created racist works, but they are still very interesting works to engage with, especially from a critical perspective. It helps that he was a failson who didn't have much power over people.
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