Random Thought of the Day

[Nyctophilia]

Hi friends! I'm still working on the "surreal videos" Tangent, will post that within the next week

Interesting.

My videos are very surreal but I don't think this is the sort of thing she has in mind lol.

Also lol 'man or bear' is an option in this poll:



But I hope Satanism wins I guess? I wouldn't mind cuckolding if it was part of a video with other stuff included too I guess.

[Nyctophilia]

Imagine being stupid enough to commit domestic violence in the hallway of a hotel room where there are obviously cameras everywhere. Good job he is stupid though I guess so there's blatant evidence.

It really bothered me how much people made Diddy's whole thing about his sexuality and not his power and abuse. Like, who cares if he was "fruity"? This man abused several women and several men, with a lot of old school icons like Fat Joe and Busta Rhymes seemingly in on it but refusing to call him out. This is not about sexuality and it really speaks to a huge amount of biphobia/homophobia still present.

Never even heard that myself. Literally just saw security camera footage of him abusing his girlfriend.

Hip hop and homophobia go hand in hand

Yep. It didn't really start to change until Nicki Minaj and even then I think she's said homophobic things (haven't looked into it much,) but she had an alter ego that was a gay guy lol.

Roman Zolanski (pronounced roh-mun zo-lan-skee or zo-lan-sky) is one of Nicki Minaj's alter egos; he is Minaj's most well-known and utilized alter ego, as well as her self-professed favorite.[1] Zolanski is described as a homosexual male from London, England, characterized as being far more outspoken (and perhaps malicious) than Minaj herself. His first appearance in a song was in "My Chick Bad", a song by Ludacris. Roman was declared dead by Minaj herself on February 14, 2014.[2] However, five months later, Nicki held a Q&A on twitter and said that she will rap as Roman again when a fan asked her. Since then, Roman has made small appearances. A full return of Roman is expected to happen one day, but so far there are no indications of when.

She once collab'd with Jeffree Star too but not talking about that lol.

And regardless of her intent it did make room for a lot of other people like Lil Nas X

Lil Nas X also cites Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry, Drake, Miley Cyrus and Doja Cat as some of his biggest influences.

I mean there's a definite path from Nicki's 2012 Grammy performance:



and Lil Nas X giving Satan a lapdance.



The bar was always pretty low though. In hell if you will xD

Also Ashnikko.



There have been a bunch of [BEEP] women and non-binary people in hip hop though since the 2010s and it's all alternative stuff that isn't really central so doesn't exactly count for this discussion.



I do like a bunch of K.Flays music though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUcAPCxrSQs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT0vAQo2XUE

Really stretching the genre (then again genre wise I feel like that Lil Nas X track barely counts):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xI2VBjMrqk

Off the top of my head.

It's mostly bisexuals actually for whatever reason lol. (I'm guessing it's partly that a lot of people who were into emo music started making emo rap and trap metal music and this whole thing overlapped with e-girls, e-boys etc. Also that that demographic was like younger people who would have been into emo in the past etc.) Editing this post as I remember more and more bisexual rappers lmfao.

[Nyctophilia]

I'm not saying we're living in a simulation but:

• White people in Louisville are attacking the police

• Diddy's son dropped a diss song about the FBI so they dropped a video of his dad beating his gf

• Drake dropped a diss song accusing Kendrick Lamar of beating his gf

• Kendrick dropped a song accusing Drake of being a colonizing pedophile and party buses here in Nashville have crowds of people singing "A minorrrrrr"

• A kicker for the Super Bowl champs told women that their highest aspiration in life is in the kitchen

• His teammate is dating Taylor fukcing Swift

• A supreme court justice was flying the American flag upside down "stop the steal" style the week after the insurrection

• The mayor of NY had his personal guard pop his neighbor in the back and then arrested the neighbor

• a criminal trial outed multiple journalists/tv show hosts as being in a former president's pocket

• that former president is the one on trial

I think we're stuck in Netflix.

The writers would be told the script doesn’t work, it seems too outrageous.

Lol.

Of course that's not even everything.

Florida man is going to have his work cut out for him soon.

you forgot Hispanic White Supremacist accidentally streams gay porn. Gets called out by disgraced, former member of congress, volleyball star, lawyer, doctor, purple heart recipient George Santos.

A few years ago (during the pandemic I think,) some right wing politician in Hungary was caught sneaking down a drain pipe while trying to escape a gay orgy so they currently have to beat that.

When the right wing homophobic party politician has to break lockdown rules to go to the gay orgy.

And I thought Dominic Cummings was weird (in general.) Remember the time:

'Two hands are a lot' --we’re hiring data scientists, project managers, policy experts, assorted weirdos…

People in SW1 talk a lot about ‘diversity’ but they rarely mean ‘true cognitive diversity’. They are usually babbling about ‘gender identity diversity blah blah’. What SW1 needs is not more drivel about ‘identity’ and ‘diversity’ from Oxbridge humanities graduates but more genuine cognitive diversity.

We need some true wild cards, artists, people who never went to university and fought their way out of an appalling hell hole, weirdos from William Gibson novels like that girl hired by Bigend as a brand ‘diviner’ who feels sick at the sight of Tommy Hilfiger or that Chinese-Cuban free runner from a crime family hired by the KGB. If you want to figure out what characters around Putin might do, or how international criminal gangs might exploit holes in our border security, you don’t want more Oxbridge English graduates who chat about Lacan at dinner parties with TV producers and spread fake news about fake news.

By definition I don’t really know what I’m looking for but I want people around No10 to be on the lookout for such people.

We need to figure out how to use such people better without asking them to conform to the horrors of 'Human Resources' (which also obviously need a bonfire).

Send a max 1 page letter plus CV to ideasfornumber10@ gmail.com and put in the subject line 'job/' and add after the / one of: data, developer, econ, comms, projects, research, policy, misfit.

I’ll have to spend time helping you so don’t apply unless you can commit to at least 2 years.

I’ll bin you within weeks if you don’t fit — don’t complain later because I made it clear now.

Thinking about it now this was probably a missed opportunity for me.

*updates CV with rambling internet post where I talk to myself about lemon memes.*

[Nyctophilia]

I saw my dad yesterday and he was listening to music on YouTube and then in the suggested section Budgie popped up and I was like 'oh it's Budgie they have a song I really like.'

and he was like 'I love Budgie.'

Which I guess shouldn't have been that surprising lol they are of his generation. Though YouTube comments suggest they were underrated.

I was trying to remember the name of this song lol:



I was like 'something about birds.. bird fan'

and he was like 'Bread Fan!'

I have listened to this particular song many times but not always great with names off the top of my head lol.

So then we listened to the song. My dad was talking about the lead singer Burke Shelley and said he sounded like a girl... He didn't seem to mind this. I don't think so though actually he just has a high pitched voice. Though I can't say since it was obvious to me he was a guy the first time I listened + watched that video. As a teenager I thought the lead singer of Coheed and Cambria was a woman just by listening to them so it's quite possible I guess if I listened to that song without seeing him I might have thought that:



I know there is a female vocalist during parts of this song but I mean I thought the whole thing was multiple female singers lol.

Not sure why this singing style is so popular in prog rock lol it's like the opposite of goth rock funny. Probably said this before.

So then my dad said 'a bit like Geddy Lee' (talking about his singing.)

So I was like 'yeah I think that's why the YT algorithm suggested me this video a while back because I was listening to Rush a lot.'

They're both bass players with the same style (at least in the 70s and maybe early 80s) who also sing in a high pitched voice lol.

I decided to not share that I think they were hot then though lol...

Edit: oh my god I forgot this tumblr post:

dad the prog rock men you like are being babygirlified on tumblr

The responses are hilarious too:

#the last thing I tell my father before I am disowned

#my first though was rush because i remember dad watching a concert of them on tv #i should listen to an album by them soon tbh

Omg that's terrifying are we the same person? That isn't even my account wth.

In December 2022 I saw my dad watching a concert and then thought their music sounded good so decided to check out more later on YouTube. Then realised Geddy Lee was hot in the 70s and 80s very annoying in a culture that expects you to not express or feel attraction unless you're gender normative. Because feminising men is hurting them basically

That's not some objective statement it's just most men dislike it so it becomes harmful just like most women dislike being sexualised by most men so it becomes harmful subjectively. This has become a significant chunk of the culture war 'men are being emasculated' vs 'men are creepy and objectifying women.' I just don't know if the men realise that there's any sexual appeal to their emasculation seemingly not. Of course there are other motives but the sexual/romantic one is contributing significantly.

Then I became super obnoxious about it (as I usually do.) This is the exact psychological process (minus the feminisation aspect,) haha it's why I liked this tweet thread so much even though I don't find that guy attractive myself:



But if that guy whose twitter page I found the other day is anything to go by denial is probably a happier place for many straight men to be otherwise they just turn into radfem-adjs but replace women with men or incorporate men into the overall belief system. So femininity = bad and everyone is being emasculated seems to become the hypothesis. I think most radfems are either motivated by a fear of losing power and emasculation or an envy over feminine competition because they don't want to or can't compete in that particular hierarchy and instead of accepting that that's not the hierarchy for them, they have to destroy the entire hierarchy. Something like that. Also the fear of cooties is powerful.

This is also imo why you see a lot of trans guys and non-binary people who don't care as much as rad fems about feminine expression. Not the only reason but part of it. Also butch or androgynous lesbian women who are attracted to femininity care less about feminine expression too for obvious reasons.

So I describe radfem beliefs as a kind of masc4masc culture. Well that's just one lens/hypothetical way to view the cultural landscape. It's very hard to know what the [BEEP] is going on because everything really is complete chaos.

This guy is the same but with added evo-psych/genetic explanations thrown in and I think he considers himself to be far right and doesn't like terfs - he mentioned that in one tweet (I mean when I compare him to radfems there are of course many differences in belief but the core anxiety appears to be the same is what I mean):

These power notions are symptom of the uniquely western and recent coups where juvie male humans have ousted adult males [and all the traditions therein] leaving us with a model of the passive male. [...]

If this modern western human circumstance persists, fems who like gracile males will start to out breed other fem variants and handicap systems (fem vs fem indirect competition as paramount) will start to set in.

Femininity is foisted on fems thru the older members of the population (males) emasculating them.

If that doesn't happen, fems just keep growing.

If fems also have eggs [will if OBLIGATE dimorphic] they will still be pursued -- even if that means the winner male gets eaten.

*Ergo either the male will emasculate the female OR hyena-dom (or praying mantids) awaits.*

Pre req: vertebrate dimorphic sex is maturity battle 'tween hermaphrodites. If males domesticate/puppy-ify themselves -- ie. juvies win coups-- fems are the biggest she-wolves left.

Human homosexuality, along with trans and male subs, is the effect of being stunted by various *oppressions* N dysgenia. [...]

If I throw billions of fish over 10 gens on a beach I could very well select for variants that could hack it better (and so on and so on).

BUT that doesn't address whether I am an ABuser of fish while it happens.

The latest left is simply the recent page turn of the long, long book of coup where juvies oust the silverbacks. THAT is what selected us down neoteny and hive of specialists ("pervs"). ...The human way.

Absolutely correct.

The notion that females volunteer to be female is romantic fiction.

It's not so great since he sounds genocidal. I won't quote the tweets where he specifically is but he seems far right and obsessed with IQ which he associates with being far right - conviniently - but also seems to want to remove reproductive competition by reducing all Humans to the same reproductive phenotype.

Also this shouldn't matter but a lot of research suggests trans and homosexual people have a higher than average IQ. So his whole theory about how IQ is distributed is wrong in the first place. This was especially true of trans people attracted to the opposite natal sex in one study where it was like 120+ average in one paper from the mid 2000s (both trans men and trans women.)

And he fears that there's no reason after artificial wombs to keep around feminine people basically. Edit: he's not pushing that idea I think, I think that's his fear ultimately.

Which suggests he's just incapable of having any kind of general appreciation for femininity or protective instinct for others and is projecting that (I mean why keep around any Humans? I don't know because they are intrinsically valuable? Not to resort to Christian sentiments *puke* but it's instinctual for the non psychopathic. People generally only start to devalue people's lives when they are extreme outgroup and/or threatning other's lives. It's hard to maintain empathy eg: for killers.) Which is why I brought that up before. You know like this.. I'm trying to find a quick example of what I'm talking about lol. Well there's that 'meme' thing where people are like:

"we must protect this man at all costs."

That's one example.

So Shoe doesn't even want to [BEEP] feminine men (I think,) she's bisexual but into dimorphism (I kind of got that from her Pokemon smash or pass video LOL,) and her husband is like a fairly average guy not a femboy. Not super masc either though. She likes dad types I guess. Still doing this though:





She's adopted many conservative beliefs too but it's instinctive I think. I will be observing in the future though. Lol conservative guys reckon if you marry a conservative guy you pretty much just morph into a conservative 100% so I am curious if conservative women who don't (as a rule) defend feminine men (like Abby Shapiro,) are insinctively different from women who convert to conservative beliefs or. Like does it seem to be social or not?

Again she's also bisexual (maybe that's related to certain personality traits + instincts?):



So is the sexuality more important than the politics? I actually assume at some point she'll stop making content though lol. As sane people who have families do lol until their kids are grown up and they become JK Rowling. (Or at least teenagers, I think JK Rowling's youngest was a teenager when she started discoursing looking now.) The neuroticism always has to go somewhere right? Same with Jordan Peterson.

Ftr someone on reddit recently posted about how their progressive dad who was supportive of LGBT+ people, women, etc fell down some kind of right wing conspiracy hole because of his friends + internet algos so pretty much changed most of his beliefs and values in a short space of time and so I think right wing guys who think it's just a female thing are full of [BEEP] haha.

But it's refreshing that the guy on twitter acknowleged it instead of just ignoring the preference. It just seems so obvious to me given the amount of influence Tumblr and related cultures have and the sexual preferences of the people on the website and in these subcultures. Most conservatives genuinely seem ignorant of the fact that there is a market being catered to. I don't know.

Do I think a more ideal scenario is a bunch of male radfems running around freaking out about how artificial wombs will stop them from existing unless they emasculate all females? It's not all that much different from the current way these people act and they're likely to get more hysterical about it.

What a time to be alive.

#dad? they babygirlified geddy lee?

Also amusing is that I think the age range of people posting in these tags can be as young as 16 but varies a bunch mostly early-mid 20s (I'm 33 which is geriatric for tumblr users who aren't Neil Gaiman or some famous musician or other. I mean of people who actually post their age in their bio which I guess lots don't. I know some people I followed on livejournal years ago in The Sims community are on Tumblr now though and they were in their 30s when I was a teenager.) Yet everyone's dad's still listen to prog rock and 70s rock/metal music?

and we listened to this other song that was pretty good:



My dad said he wanted to go see them live and was looking into that at one point in the early 2010s because apparently they were still playing around then but yeah I pointed out the lead singer was dead. I actually thought I read that he died somewhere between 2014 and 2019 but looking now it was 2022 so not that long ago at all. Also it looks like their last tour was in 2010 anyway so possibly it was too late whenever he was looking anyway. Half the concerts on that tour also got cancelled because the lead singer was hospitalised.

He also talked about this band called the Pink Faries who apparently did free concerts all over the place and he said they might have done some in Camden Town which sounds cool. I was thinking about the woman who was harassed for playing the harp. I'm sure that sort of thing happened back then too though. Then again if they weren't accepting donations people were probably slightly less annoyed. Some people really (as I said,) hate the idea of creative people getting paid.

I guess this was part of the free festival movement? Maybe he was talking about that.

Pink Fairies are an English proto punk rock band initially active in the London (Ladbroke Grove) underground and psychedelic scene of the early 1970s. They promoted free music, drug use, and anarchy, and often performed impromptu gigs and other stunts, such as playing for nothing outside the gates at the Bath and Isle of Wight pop festivals in 1970, as well as appearing at Phun City, the first Glastonbury and many other free festivals including Windsor and Trentishoe.

Mm.

Something similar happened in the 90s for a bit with raves 'free parties.' Including in Luton there's a pretty interesting story about that I was looking into a while ago but I posted about that before. With the Exodus Collective:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_Collective

Bedfordshire County Council voted unanimously in 1995 to support of a public inquiry into the alleged police harassment of Exodus, to be chaired by Michael Mansfield. The inquiry was then stalled by the Home Office.[2][5] MixMag profiled the collective in 1996, writing: "Exodus is more than just a free party sound system ? it's a housing co-op, a city farm, a ray of light in the concrete no-man's land of Luton. They've survived four police operations against them and are currently battling a murder charge, an arson attack and a tractor assault on their rave lorry. This isn't just about dancing, it's about an alternative way of life".[6][7] The murder charge was later dropped. In an uncommon sequence of events, the trial was first brought forward six months and then the presiding judge (Maurice Drake) agreed to step aside since he was a Freemason and the Exodus collective had for years come into conflict with masons.[8][9]

Investigating that sent me down a crazy rabbit hole before lol.

I was trying to find videos from Camden because that was an important place to me growing up but I can't. A while back I found some footage of King Crimson playing in Hyde Park which is probably related too:

The Stones in the Park was a free outdoor festival held in Hyde Park on 5 July 1969, headlined by the Rolling Stones and featuring Third Ear Band, King Crimson, Screw, Alexis Korner's New Church, Family and the Battered Ornaments, in front of an estimated audience between 250,000 and 500,000 spectators.

So the police kind of ruined that sort of thing later on. And now if you want to see a modern day prog rock/metal band like say Tool you have to pay 100+ pounds for tickets (of course this is true of any band or artist who is famous enough and does large enough concerts but Tool is touring atm so on my mind.) I mean there are bands who you can get cheaper tickets for but at the scale of success + concert size yeah. That's why it's important to find bands early I guess.

However I doubt a donation model is sustainable always and a lot of these musicians back in the day had other sources of financial support (though it does seem to work out OK for some YouTubers for instance, and some buskers) and honestly it's not like every band is going to be able to afford to tour now anyway (so I can't say the current system is working,) if they don't have enough fans and even rather large artists are having some time funding stuff like one British artist apparently can't go to the US for this reason and I thought she was reasonably big so yeah insane.

Recently, a tweet by Little Simz set Twitter on fire after she canceled her US tour this year because it was financially unsustainable. While many supported the British rapper, others questioned why such a successful rapper cannot make the tour happen.

One problem with not having a donation model and doing concerts in random places is that fans don't know this happens:

The indie-rock band Wednesday tweeted the costs associated with their SXSW stint. The band played seven shows, but only got paid for one. At the end of the SXSW tour, the band spent $2,182.39 and earned $2,084, leaving them with a loss.

???

I'm in a band. Getting gigs is easy. Getting paid? Not so easy.

Got screwed out of so much money by a pay to play venue. If I sell your tickets I damn well better get paid. Crocodile rock in Allentown can [BEEP] themselves, we brought friends along so we had more people than the headliner and we still got nothing

Did you sell ALL of their tickets? Because whenever a P2P venue/show tried to screw my band, we just refused to leave until we were paid the agreed amount (provided we sold all the tickets, which we always did, though multiple times I bought multiple tickets to my own shows just so we would get paid). We always warned the other bands at venues that tried not to pay us, too, so they knew not to play there.

P2P shows aren't even the worst. The worst is when the headlining band is in charge of paying the other bands, and tries to run with the money. [BEEP] you, The Elegance of Rot, [BEEP] you.

Honestly I don't remember, it was our first and 2nd shows and that was 3 years ago. I know we sold a lot of them but I don't remember how many exactly. But we were still entitled to something, so [BEEP] the croc rock

This one gig we did, we opened up for this old school New York death thrash band prime evil, and we had a blast doing it. We all had fun and we got to chat with all the other bands, it was a great night. Then when it came time to pay, no one knew who we were supposed to get the money from. We talked to the promoter, the owner, prime evil, and we got no where. I don't want to complain because it was the best show I ever played, but we ended up going home with nothing

I believe I've seen Crywank talk about this too.

I don't know if this also happens to bigger bands working with record labels etc (being indie is very difficult with managing all this sort of stuff,) but obviously a lot of venues just want people to play music and then not pay even when they're supposed to be paying.

I'm guessing they can get some money from merch sales where applicable.

"Why do so many artists and creative people hate capitalism?"

A real mystery.



"The conservatives really have a problem with this in particular because conservatives tend not to be that creative by temprement and it's a mystery to me because they should be concerned with economic development and beauty is so unbelievably crucial to economic development."

"One of the things that's really interesting about the university of Toronto is one side of the campus is beautiful, medieval cathedral and the other half is god awful factory and the thing is the attitude towards knowledge has paralleled that architectural transformation. At one point the humanities was a sacred endeavour, and so was being educated in the university and that's turned into mass factory and that's reflected in the architecture."

There's a school near here that has a brick tower that I felt reminded me of a concentration camp tower (well a chimney for a specific purpose.) I pointed this out to my brother while we were walking past it recently. It also reminds me of the Tate Modern same vibe with the tower. I've also compared that to a concentration camp tower. It's ominous to look at. It was a power station though.

However factory works too. Probably less dramatic lol. (I have visited a concentration camp before and the vibes were bad and worse. edit: I mean a former concentration camp in Germany.) I find it interesting though and I think it's making a statement much like brutalism is. The architecture might effect how people think but it's also downstream of how people think and the culture.

Also. Having those two sections next to each other also sounds interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxGPe1jD-qY

"There's a lot of people who are blind to beauty. It's actually one of the things funnily enough- it distinguishes conservatives and liberals roughly speaking. Liberal people tend to be high in openness but they're not very conscientious they're not particuarly dutiful, they're not particularly orderly, they're not particuarly industrious. Not compared to conservatives."

"You are an open late teen and you have conservative parents and you say mum, dad I think I've decided that I'm going to be an artist. That's a complicated discussion isn't it?"

"Yes it's like discussing colour with someone who is colour blind and I mean that. It's actually a perverse thing about conservatives in some sense. The data on the economic utility of artists is really strong. I mean artists and entrepreneurs are the same people and of course entrepreneurs are the people who provide all of the vision for the entire capitalist system but conservatives tend to be so blind to art that they can't even see that the artists are the people who drive the economy forward."

"If you want something that's already been invented, implemented, and then turned into a machine you don't get someone creative to do that. They're off to do the next thing. They're not even interested in that. You'll bore them to death."

"The problem with being creative is that you're useless at the bottom of the dominance hierarchy because at the bottom of the dominance hierarchy you should do what you're told to do. You're not there to think outside the box. You're there to learn what you're supposed to do and implement it and creative people that's that isn't what they do."

"It's very hard to be an artist and survive over any reasonable period of time."

Someone he's talking to: "What's wrong with our social structure. Well first of all are creative people common? Are there a lot of them? Is this a problem we need to solve? To find a way to integrate them and I don't want to say exploit them but exploit their creativity for the greater good. We don't seem to be very good at that. We've marginilised them. There's no minimum wage for visual artists for example."

"We do an abysmal job of it."

"Can we fix this?"

"Well the correlation between grades and creativity is 0. [..] Educational institutions do a great job especially before the university level of just crushing creative people because the education system was actually set up in the late 1900s to train the children of workers to be obediant workers."

"You don't produce creative people in factories. You produe factory workers in factories. And that's fine except there aren't any factories anymore so we should probably stop doing it."

"The thing about being creative isn't just that you have to be creative you have to be more creative than everyone else. And good luck with that especially in an era where creativity is distributed unbelivably widely on platforms like the internet."

He says that but I feel like if I existed in most other times I would have made 0 money instead of making a small amount from YouTube. I also managed to sell some stuff with my designs on zazzle but I didn't actually end up getting any of that money for reasons I went into before. The tl;dr though is [BEEP] Zazzle.

"Think about Stephen King he's a really great example. Half the money in the publishing buisness goes to Stephen King."

"So creative people are getting a really rough- they're not getting a break at all and there are probably more creative people doing non creative work in the work force then the other way around?"

"Oh definitely, definitely. And the thing is I don't want to paint too dismal a picture about being creative. Because one of the things that pays off is you get to be creative. There's great aesthetic joy in that and depth."

"Well schools do that all the time. Stop daydreaming and pay attention to your work. Well what if my work is daydreaming? Well then we're going to punish you because you're going to be a good worker in a factory."

"So where are the creative people in our society we know that they're artists."

"Creative people are overrepresented among people who you might regard as failures over the life course and radically overepresented among people who you would view as succesful. And that's the high risk, high return gambling strategy. Any managerial, administrative position is generally very low creative. Writers, artists, movie makers, literary people."

"Back when the impressionists first showed up there were riots when their art was hung because the idea of percieving that way was so radical that it caused people to have emotional fits and so artists teach people to see and I mean that literally."

I was trying to find the video where he says this quote or something like it:

"I don't know why they don't fund the god damn artists." - Jordan Peterson.

Lol found it finally.

"It's the thing that mediates the relationship between order and chaos so it's half chaos. That's why it's not comprehensible and artists play exactly the same role in society. [...] They're the civilising agents. I mean look at Europe and this is one of the things that really bothers me about the fact that conservative people have a hard time properly valuing art economically. It's so paradoxical because conservatives are vrey concerned about economics. It's like OK fine then why don't you fund the damn artists because Europe is so beautiful it's just heart breaking when you go there."

Probably the only thing we agree on lol.

"People are terrified of colour. They paint their walls beige. They're terrified of art they buy some mass produced thing because they don't want anyone laughing at them for their lack of taste and they would get laughed at because they have no taste."

Beige mums fit into this too lol:



"It's a toy. Not a bomb threat. Why does it need to be neutralised?"

Just a perfect illustration of this lmfao.

Also this video is hilarious.

"OK that's just homophobic you replaced the adorable rainbow toy with what looks like a disassembled dentist chair."

but yeah removing the colours in this case actually changes the entire purpose of the object to nothing. A boring group of shapes that are all the same shape not even different shapes because they're all arches. You are now learning half as much.

And it is at that point that I figure at least some of these mums are just doing this (because it wouldn't be the first time on tiktok from what I've seen):



Oh I know there are research papers about distraction and learning with mixed results etc. I looked into it before after watching this video but just the language used and how spartan the extremes of this subcultural movement is fits in very well with an uncreative worldview.

Lol:



I've not been to Canada but he has a very low opinion of it aesthetically.

[Heelsbythebridge]

It is hot as balls here. Hot. As. Balls.

[Nyctophilia]

Uh yeah I hate this kind of thing.

Like Far from the Madding Crowd. This soldier guy is giving me the creeps. The other guy is insane/posessive. Obviously a bunch of men are unstable and jealous but it's not entertainment for me. Just to get to the end. Also after further investigation (as I hadn't read the book,) the 2015 film cut a bunch of stuff so it was even worse/more nonsensical.

I say this as someone who has often enjoyed characters being jealous in fictional contexts either female or male characters but there are specific ways to write that I guess and this story isn't going for that in the first place it's portaying an abusive relationship.

I - sorry... I ...
Did they make a romcom//romantic-esque movie out of something that usually you'd see in an FBI or Criminal Minds episode...?

I feel like it's not really supposed to be a romance or the romance is secondary. I know it says 'romance' but it sounds like some kind of drama. I looked up the book the film is based on and apparently it's based on the writer's parent's relationship too. I feel like that's a very millenial thing to do lol (although she's slightly older born in '79.) Seeing as many of us are traumatised in one way or another by our parent's relationships.

Some of the details having read the plot (since I know I'm not going to watch/read it,) annoy me even more.

Spoiler: Abort his child

I just wanna talk, Ryle.

Exactly lol.

Especially my mood right now and various stuff I've been reading recently.



LOL suprisingly considering how I engage with social media I never actually do this. I barely get around to watching stuff I actually like the sound of lol let alone this sort of thing. Sitting and watching an entire film is too much for my attention span most days. If I see it at the cinema it's easier.

I still haven't even seen 50 shades of Grey though I feel like I know most of the details from reading bits and pieces online over the years.

It Ends with Us was the worst book I have ever read. I will be hate watching this, though.

Didn't you see the meme? Someone spent about 2 minutes making that for the quote retweets.

College graduate Lily Bloom moves to Boston with hopes of opening her own floral shop. She has recently given a eulogy at her father's funeral in her hometown of Plethora, Maine. Her father abused her mother, who kept the abuse a secret, leading Lily to resent both of them.

Lol I invent like entire towns worth of people in my mind from time to time (with some overlapping characters,) because I've played too much Sims in my life, and I have this lesbian couple (both aged 38,) who live on this small island next to a larger island where one runs a flower shop (on the larger island,) with her best friend. The other woman works as a nurse and plays football (soccer,) on this local team and they have a 6 year old daughter.

The friend is a 'native American' though not really because they live in a Sims like world and is married with a few kids.

This is also reminding me of Monsieur Venus because the male character who is feminised was a florist before. That's a very dark book and it doesn't end well for him. Flower shops and flower themes in general are also common in shoujo manga.

can i remind yall that the main character writes letters to ellen degeneres

Wtf is this book/film lol?

I want everyone to know that a lot of the story is told through the protagonist's young diary entries. And every entry opens with "Dear Ellen" because she loves Ellen Degeneres so much

Oh I see I did that with Green Day for a few months when I was 14.

I get that Ryle is kind of Spoiler: supposed to be a villain (even though people on twitter describe it like a love triangle that's not what I'm getting from wikipedia,) but even reading the wikipedia pages for that book and it's sequel are really annoying me to the point of wanting to write myself into the book.

Read the plot on Wikipedia this is kinda the worst book of all time

It's what I was doing.

Literally this is heterosexual culture.

I guess it must be. Somehow I never even knew this whole thing existed. I lost touch with it sometime around the end of the Twilight era. I mean I knew about 50 shades too of course but didn't read or watch it.

At this stage all I know is man vs bear.

A gigantic moth has flown into my room. Whyyy? It's not even the right time of day quite yet.

People keep quote retweeting this with Taylor Swift's song set to various ships they like or something lol.

you will never be caskett my tears ricochet edit

you will never be mattelektra my tears ricochet edit

stydia my tears ricochet edit cleared this sorry

Sony you?ll not come even close to this masterpiece

you will never be midgelenny my tears ricochet edit

Are they bots? Maybe.

i especially loved the sexualization of ryle appealing to the young girl audience whose going to lust after him and condone his actions and miss the abuse message this book claims to promote ♥️

If they do anything will probably be gay (slash) fanfiction lol, but I don't know what demographic this appealed to in the first place.

Let's see what's happening on ao3 already.. *searches*

8 Works in It Ends With Us - Colleen Hoover

Very not popular.

Lily Bloom likes the taste of revenge more than she likes being married.

Basically I hate Ryle and I hate how the book ended so I wrote Lily getting some revenge on Ryle and then leaving him for good instead of Spoiler: having a child with him or allowing him to stay in her life


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So proud of you guys.

We do of course also have the obligatory gay fanfic I mentioned among the 8 fanfics:

It's been three years since Lily Blossom Bloom started dating Atlas Corrigan.

Two years since they broke up.

Now, in the wake of the absence in his life now that Lily's no longer in it, Atlas can't help but commiserate with Ryle Kincaid, the brilliant neurosurgeon who happens to be Lily's ex-husband. And the father of her baby.
Their friendship deepens over time until finally, Atlas can't take it anymore and confesses these new and strange feelings that he's been developing to Ryle.

I'm sorry her middle name is Blossom?

I don't ship it.