Pretentiously talking about how brilliant the new Fritz Lang movie Metropolis is and how “the mediator between the head and the hand must be the heart” but all the actual socialists start laughing at you for taking a fairy tale as actual social analysis.
JC, the feed is going... The platform’s going black! JC! No more hyperlinks, tweets of any kind. We'll start again, live in forums... If you receive this, if you survive... Then find us. FIND US!
the serenity of, from a fragment here and there, a solution piecing together, and a crisis abating.
i think one of the biggest underlinings in just how bad the western industry has been about its own legacy is like. myst isnt just an old game. it was final fantasy vii before final fantasy vii. it was that fucking huge.
Mystery pic: Busby Berkeley poses with dancers in an undated photograph. I haven’t been able to ID the film or why Ann Dvorak (4th from left) is part of the chorine ensemble. Anyone OH sleuths have the answer?
[...] and while he was going up on the way, some youths came and jeered at him, saying, “Stop saying twink! Stop saying twink!” When he turned around and saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two bears came out of the gay club and mauled forty-two of the youths.
Elgin Armory. God every single block in Elgin is so beautiful and quirky.
I’ve posted it before and I’ll post it again. A great building in Elgin
imho, anytime anyone asks for "lore" about a fictional setting they should be tied to a big log and fed into a buzz saw
england was invented by jrr tolkien in 1937, as a setting for 'the hobbit.' this still makes it an older nation than lithuania, which was invented in 1926 by kazys grinius, and unfortunately aborted the same year
open all borders. stop having them be closed 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴@dov.bsky.social · last mo.all of english language literature and cultural criticism since tolkien has been essentially various people trying to pretend they are more important, or more clever, or more creative than tolkien, and failing
In case you didn't know, we have a nifty Discord server to make reporting bugs or just interacting with other players (or talking Tolkien) more interesting: discordapp.com/invite/uczcz34 🍌
Join the The Last Days | M&B Mod Discord Server!
The Last Days of the Third Age is a long-standing, community-developed Tolkien-based mod for the Mount&Blade series. | 4530 members
discordapp.com
The Last Days of the Third Age 3.6 r4216 for Warband https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-last-days/downloads/the-last-days-of-the-third-age-36-r4216-for-warband
SHUT THE FUCK UP, HOLY SHIT IT'S REAL the essay deadass starts with "it is unknowable through what lens and mentality daisuke operated when he declared that bridget was a girl" i am going to Throw Up
Michaela Joffe@joffeorama.bsky.social · 2mo agoI'll be honest, I've never really felt the same way about Death of the Author after learning its origins (Barthes was angry over a Balzac story about a chaser, written over a century prior, for referring to a character as a woman instead of a femboy no I'm not making this up)
Singaporean artist Leia Ham reimagined LotR as Tale of the Middle Kingdom, since Chinese name for China (Zhōngguó) means "The Middle Kingdom." Her concept art includes the Fellowship, armors, buildings like Bag End, props like Aragorn's banner and Fellowship brooches, and more. #TolkienTrewsday
I went out for a walk and thought through my ideas on what the actual meaning of "everything is gender" as I believe it to (basically) be true is what I came down on is: the liberal social contract has come to be feminine-coded because women have adapted to it well
This is the Fuller Brooch & is regarded as a masterpiece of Anglo-Saxon art. It’s silver with niello inlay & is the earliest known depiction of the 5 senses. In the middle is Sight. In the roundel top left, going clockwise, is Taste, Smell, Touch & Hearing. 🕰️C9th AD, England 🏛️📷BM
I like the part of the Odyssey at the Phaeacian court where Homer has Odysseus turn to the camera and say: "Now, we've all been having a lot of fun here today, but let's remember who the REAL heroes are---the hardworking bards and harpers in your own neighborhood. Remember to leave a tip, kids."
New York in the bleak and blighted ’80s; the conspiracy behind the "Cultural Marxism" conspiracy theory; Kant vs. Bourdieu in the age of AI t.co/0PQR5ybvD2
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/new-york-in-the-1980s-the-cultural
t.co
Wow, that's a really strong message about change and giving a voice to the people! It reminds me of how in anime, a single determined character can shake up the whole system.
3/3 Getting rid of that pesky bishop. Never liked him much! Too Catholic. Now gone.
Ta-, Ga-, Po-, Onu-, Le-, and Ko-
madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · 3mo agowhat are the Six Genders? wrong answers only
The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi are very similar tonally, conceptually, and in overall quality. That people treat them like polar opposites is purely the narcissism of small differences.
Local Observer 🇮🇶🇵🇸🍉@observer46664.bsky.social · 3mo agoENGAGEMENT BAIT! What is your MOST CONTROVERSIAL Star Wars opinion? And I don't want embarrassingly lukewarm takes like "Jabba The Hutt was actually a good employer". I need opinions that could land you in jail. GO!
