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in light of recent events

>>45398
Hating the author seems like a waste of time. Literal who. The show was OK. I don't like musicals. I fastworded those parts. The gay spider was very hot. Wouldn't have watched all of it if it weren't for him.

>>46626
TLDR I cannot stand watching hour long video essays staring at someones dumb face the whole time.

>>46628
sad.

>>46629
I can't tell if this is the TLDR, or you're saying that about me.

>>45887
>>45889
Highly disagree with the audio book idea, you need Capital in front of you, its not something you can put on in the background.

Where's freudposter when you need him?

https://archive.is/20250820100131/https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2025/08/it-girl-literary-heroines-are-all-cannibals-now

>What has happened to the literary woman? She used to slouch listlessly towards Bethlehem. Now she is eating people. Chelsea G. Summers’ 2020 novel A Certain Hunger follows a food writer who is in prison for murdering, cooking and eating several sex partners. In Ainslie Hogarth’s 2022 novel Motherthing, a woman deals with the Freudian fallout of her mother-in-law’s death by cooking a personal enemy. In Monika Kim’s 2024 thriller The Eyes Are the Best Part, a Korean-American protagonist gets her own back on white men who fetishise Asian women, by stockpiling and eating their eyeballs. This year’s Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito reads like a gory take on Agnes Grey and has its central governess joke about eating the children under her care.

>There is more. Lucy Rose’s bestseller The Lamb, published earlier in 2025, is a misery lit-adjacent tale of childhood abuse with a twist: the young protagonist must come to terms with her mother’s taste for lost hikers. Catherine Dang’s What Hunger, out later this year, promises to “[follow] the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants… as she grapples with the weight of generational trauma while navigating the violent power of teenage girlhood.” This violent power comes, as the reader may guess, with “an insatiable hunger for raw meat.” And in the Young Adult sphere there is Maika and Maritza Moulite’s 2025 novel The Summer I Ate the Rich, which uses its Haitian-American zombie protagonist to “[scrutinise] the socioeconomic and racial inequity that is the foundation of our society.”

>Inequity is the largest constant in this emerging genre. Almost every female literary cannibal resorts to cooking and eating people because of trauma in her past, and in each case the trauma is indexed to a larger political concern. Lucy Rose “explores how women swallow their anger, desire, and animal instincts.” One of the women in The Lamb has her first brush with cannibalism after she is denied an abortion. “My body was a stranger,” she says, “but my father wanted me to bring the baby to termPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>46545
Tbh literature is extremely trend-based now, a single popular book about female cannibalism is enough to spawn two hundred imitators, it doesn't mean the idea is resonating across the public consciousness.

>>46592
Yeah, everbody chasin that algo

Getting close to wrapping up Zola's La Débâcle about the utter misery of the Franco Prussian war, from the peasantry, to the army rank and file, all the way up to Napoleon III himself. He's done a great job of building up a sense of scale for the sizes of the armies and the landscape of northeastern France, then painting a picture of a landscape peppered with the debris of battle and flooded with torrents of shattered men and the victorious Prussians. Also love the way that even the largely defeated men can turn on a dime when they have nothing left to lose.
I've previously read Zola's Germinal, about a coal mining village in France developing class consciousness but then being utterly defeated. I definitely recommend it if you're not interested in constant talk about army maneuvers.
Anyone recently read any interesting fiction that they would recommend me? I want to read several more fiction pieces before I dive back into historical literature, I find that fiction does a better job of improving my reading stamina. Even memoirs can do the trick tbh.

>>46259
>So, what Tolkien is actually saying is that solar worship and the idea that the king is the avatar of the sun started here, and this religion of solar worship essentially led to the evils of empire building, as the above anon explained. It's anti-human.

Except the elves were worshipping the sun and moon back before they left the undying lands. The creation of the sun is a pretty significant event in the Silmarillion and is treated unequivocally as a good thing.

>>46263
Some variation of it then. The Black Sun worship could have started there. My understanding of the black sun is that it boils down to solar and lunar eclipses, and it would also probably be associated with comets and anything else that causes hellfire and years of acid rain and black/cloudy skies.

Sorry if it's offtopic but the reactionary obsession with lotr is fascinating to me.

Why Is The Right Obsessed With Lord of The Rings?
by The Bitchuation Room (with Francesca Fiorentini)
<Every fantasy franchise has an insufferable part of its fan base. But this one takes the cake. Powerful conservatives are obsessed with The Lord of The Rings. We know this because they name their military tech companies, surveillance companies and venture capital firms after objects in Middle Earth. Billionaire Peter Thiel has named 10 of his companies after things in Lord of The Ring, including Palantir, the Trump's regime's authoritarian surveillance company of choice. JD Vance has called himself a "Lord of the Rings guy," Elon Musk has hot anti-woke takes on The Rings of Power, and Jeff Bezos helped make that series by buying the rights to the franchise via Amazon. Even the far right even in Spain and Italy identify with the Lord of The Rings.

>>46620
Not a bad video

>>46154
no. it is an epic just like 300 but with fascism instead of the greco-persian wars. it is fascist apologia disguising itself as liberal victimization - if there was ever a difference to begin with. the premise here is that being a fascist is heroic and cool

>>46155
I think you might be retarded, anon.

>>45976
it shows him taking money from porkies to betray socialism and invent fascism in episode 2, but i don't recall the british intelligence connection being shown

>>46155
it depicts ᴉuᴉlossnW as a brutal monster in the very first scene.

K-On!

>visual medium
>characters just sit around and talk
>adulting is hard amirite fellow young adults with depression haha

Idk if its controversial to say this but about 99% of recent online "pilots" are generally quite terrible. I am rarely impressed by any of them. The most I can commend the individuals producing them on is their dedication to realize their gay and lame ideas.

>>46596
>Idk if its controversial to say this but about 99% of recent online "pilots" are generally quite terrible. I am rarely impressed by any of them. The most I can commend the individuals producing them on is their dedication to realize their gay and lame ideas.
That's because all of these people live terribly lame and uninteresting lives. You shouldn't write from experience unless you actually lived an interesting life.

>>46596
I hate to give it to that loser John K but he's right that the general problem is that Western animation has been focused on the writing for the longest time. This is true even of current "indie" darlings or supposed saviors of the form like Smiling Friends.
There's some cool visionary shit on YouTube like umami, but that's never gonna lead to a sustainable career or big official projects for anyone. [as] had a brief period where they funded more daring experimental things but that's probably over. Story is all normies care about.

>>46598
>[as] had a brief period where they funded more daring experimental things but that's probably over.
We're never getting another 12 Oz Mouse.

Fun fact: one of the reasons he was so lenient on passion projects like The Venture Bros was because they included a short golf scene in a single episode. That's literally it. Then Lazzo lost his shit and wanted everything to be a gore-filled shitfest and then retired and executives clamped down even harder.

One of my favorite, maybe somewhat morose, pastimes is doing fandom archaeology. I missed the original golden age of pony but visiting old sites and forums gives me a taste of what I missed out on. One in particular that's always stuck with me is this one. Something about it is so earnest and optimistic I can't imagine this type of site existing on today's dead web:

https://web.archive.org/web/20141001001853/http://bronyaerospace.net/about-us/

I love revisiting the team's bios. It's just a bunch of dudes rocking. They're offbeat but they aren't hurting anybody. I'll never get over how social media pretty much bullied this kind of harmless nerdy and/or awkward Guy™ out of existence on the premise that hotter, cooler, and more socially attractive posters would fill the void and instead the internet just got taken over by the most cynical and self-absorbed natsoys, techbros, girlbosses and boomers. Unsanctioned "loser" fandoms and subcultures like bronies did more for giving people creative fulfillment and social acceptance than any corporate-sponsored influencer astroturf campaign or red vs. blue culture war brainrot since. We didn't know how good we had it back then, and we'll never get it back again.

Do you think we will eventually get to Tournament of Power, or was that plotline abandoned?

>>46303
>rainbowdash.net is still up
>still running the same ancient version of statusnet
amazing. I also remember it got banned by the Mastodon HOA for some reason

building communism is too hard fuck it just turn everyone into ponies

Socialism is mentioned at least once in the text of Fallout Equestria.

>>46447
If I recall correctly from some Graeber article or book I read once, there are artifacts in the north American northern coast that are from south/central America. Like some guy went all the way up the California coast, traded some beads, probably got drunk and hung out with people, and then went back home with the shit he traded them. 'Travel' is the human urge to explore and be exposed to new stimuli.

I just got back from my first trip to Europe. I went to Switzerland. It was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. Every place I visited looked like a fucking bob ross painting. Taking pictures there was basically cheating. The people were kind. The quality of everything I ate was better than anything I've eaten state side. I spoke languages other than English and Spanish unironically. The weather was perfect. They used the metric system and had round abouts with no traffic. I saw a cop ONCE helping someone after an accident. They all vote directly on issues effecting their community by mail. The trains and busses were pristine. The airport had smoking sections. I feel my ego shattered, my life has been a lie, and I live in an absolute shithole fascist third world desert. I fucking hate it here even more than I used to. Travel has opened my eyes. The places I used to dream of escaping to are shitholes in comparison to Switzerland. I've spent years trying to fix where I live, and this city has done nothing but steal my youth. Its dirty, everyone is so loud and stupid and monolingual. Who the fuck would build a city in a desert (oh wait cotton grows good here, durrhurr slave owners!). How can people have pride in this capitalist nightmare. I have left the cave and I just want to go back. OP was right, travel sucks, just like heroin sucks.

>>44628
FPBP

>>46463
Switzerland is basically social chauvinism: the country, like "nordic socialism" but with an even higher trade surplus, an astronomic cost of living and politically existing as little more than a stooge of global finance. Reminder helveticoids didn't have universal women's suffrage until the 90s.

Lmao in a few days I'll be going to Mexico. Going to fuck, get drunk, take psychedelics, and see cool sites. While you losers toil at work, keep that in mind. Oh, and also, when I'm done with that, I'm going to Thailand to train Muay Thai and continue the aforementioned. Then I'll travel through the rest of Asia and Europe when I get bored. I know you're all jealous lmao.

>>46589
I'd like to see that just to see the reaction of all these called shots she made from way back

Alien Earth is a fine show but they really need to stop with the Gen X rock on the soundtrack, it completely throws off the tone

>>46602
It was weird to me, but its literally only on the credits? just skip them.

>>46602
I'm just disappointed it's a prequel (ugh), that it isn't an adaptation of the Aliens comics from the 80s/ early 90s where the xenomorph takes over the Earth, and that it recons the communist bloc out of existence in favor of corpo domination.

ᴉuᴉlossnW: Son of the Century is worth a watch

John Carpenter is the best film maker of all time if you only count movies that were made to entertain you.

<Steven Spielberg wanted to direct a CALL OF DUTY movie and even pitched his vision and idea to Activision
<Activision got spooked by Spielberg wanting full control of the movie and its direction, and instead made a deal with Paramount
what the FUCK how r-worded do you have to be to do this

>>46604
He did make a call of duty movie. It's called saving private ryan and band of brothers.

>>46606
Not to bring vidya into the kino thread but CoD 1-3 (WW2 CoD) are peak CoD. It's been all downhill since Modern Warfare dropped.

>>46608
I guess it really helps your game to just take the best setpieces from top Hollywood movies verbatim and stitch them together