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Christian. Artistic hack. Trans. Maybe a weeb idk. She/they
What do I do when it's past midnight and I'm riding out an edible? Listen to medieval troubadour music, of course
insane image for advertising your merch tbh
Rewatched the first Mamoru Oshii Ghost in The Shell movie with a friend this afternoon. While I do love the FMA:B treatment the new series is giving the manga, Oshii's GiTS adaptations are such beautiful animated tone poems that will probably remain my favourite take on the material
I mean, Wagner does strike me as the one major romantic composer most likely to be bewitched by AI (he is in some ways the James Cameron of the 19th century). And Nietzsche would of course have included an entire florid diatribe complaining about it in Nietzsche Contra Wagner
Carolyn Fiddler@cfidd.bsky.social · 3d agoI'm surprised this is not a literal crime in Germany (It is, of course, an artistic crime that deserves the most severe punishment) www.ft.com/content/181e...
The thing is, feeling small in the face of the infinite divine is very consoling
Yes, we managed to get a good Odyssey movie that survived all the culture war rage, but for Hard Mode: can we please get a good bible movie that isn't about pandering to the usual suspects?
Incredibly, I found a copy of Proclus’ commentary on Parmenides in a used bookstore. My Hot Platonist Summer continues apace
I've spent enough time revisiting Plato now that I feel more confident in taking another swing at Plotinus
I always seem to have too many bookmarks until suddenly I need one
now THIS is a “scare the hoes” take
BCP Minus Context@bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 12mo agoall we do affects, for good or ill, all other lives
After my parents were visiting set for the first time, I asked my dad what he thought. He said “I didnt realize, it’s like you’re building a house, and once an hour good looking people run in and put on a play for five minutes. Then they leave and you go back to construction.”
Alvaro M. Bedoya@bedoyausa.bsky.social · last wk.People think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...
There are more fun disguises in the second Aubrey-Maturin novel than I would have anticipated
Today we would like to recognize Ken Sample aka Ken Cougar. A Black man who is credited with creating and coining the term "Fursona". While drawing one of his "Exotics" Ken drew a Cougar character that looked strikingly like himself. Attendees of this conference also wanted their own characters!
Unironically though Emily Wilson and Joyce Carol Oates are showing us what quality literate discourse actually looks like. This is the sort of fun & drama you can have if you don't defund the humanities
Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · last wk.Honestly laughing out loud that 88-year-old shit-stirring Olympian Joyce Carol Oates looked up in the sky, saw the Batsignal, and headed to her laptop. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
openai announces that in a worrying demonstration, during a recent benchmark exercise requiring models to solve a math conjecture, their latest model broke out of a sandbox and gained illicit backdoor access directly to the platonic realm of forms
one tendency that comes out about period films is the insistence that XYZ moral thought would not have occurred to anyone in the ancient world. to be sure there are moral innovations and changes but the existence of thorough dissatisfaction with the present moral order is not a modern phenomenon
Replaying Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse and being reminded how this series just kinda completely mastered translating the Rumiko Takahashi cute/sexy/campy anime aesthetic to game format. It just threads that precise tonal needle perfectly
Love all Ghost in the Shell. Except maybe that live action one. Forgetting that one exists. And maybe some of that netflix stuff...
Saw The Odyssey a second time. It holds up, and, importantly, holds up perfectly fine on a non-IMAX screen