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>>46579
i've been reccomended to watch it but skeptical about it being libshit. i have a bone to pick with many of these liberal portrayals of dystopia and authoritarian because im increasingly convinced its not how it works. but then it would undermine the liberal argument that all we need is decency and constitutionalism in politics to guard against totalitarianism, when you can use these very liberal instruments to achieve those goals.

There's a S Korean show on n*tfl*x called The Glory. Revenge story about a woman that was severely bullied and abused in high school and gets revenge on the bullies,teacher and parents years later.

>>46737
It's unrepentantly liberal. My favorite part is when people march against the theocratic fascists that murdered the government and overthrew the entire country armed only with bullhorns and signs and then are shocked when the fascists just gun them down, then the protesters immediately give up.

>>46737
There's something to be said about Gilead being a theocratic fascist state which relies on the commoditization of female exploitation and suffering and THT being a tv show that relies on the commoditization of female exploitation and suffering.

American Horror Story is kind of fun.

>>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.

i read le rivage des syrtes last month
in it we become acquainted with the venerable and illustrious country of orsenna, a country somewhere in some mediterranean sea experiencing some hundreds of years of peace after an unfinished war, outwardly rich and peaceful, the people of orsenna have grown restless beneath the surface as society slowly decays and retreats from the borders to take refuge in the heartland.
in front of orsenna and across the sea lies the country of farghestan, a sleeping giant of an oriental amalgam and perennial foe. the people of orsenna have been forbidden contact with farghestan after the last war and contact on their end has also stopped after farghestan collapsed into petty feudal clan wars yet now strange and mysterious forces are at work in farghestan just as in orsenna the people cry out for change, for something that makes them step out of their monotony and allows them to feel something new, no matter if the cost is the likely self-immolation of orsenna.

the book makes an excellent work of creating an atmosphere of foreboding, that something ominous and ineluctable is on the horizon even as you scream at the characters to get a fucking grip on themselves! and think about the consequences but they can't stop and even if they know what might happen they care not for they're sick and tired of the never ending peace.

excellent book to read if you're an fsl (french as a second language), the writing is very beautiful but you do need a somewhat high vocabulary to enjoy it. lots of florid internal monologue and reminiscence. don't know how well translated the english version is.

>>46696
forgot to add that i can't help but being reminded of the current state of the world in some aspects or with regards to certain people when reading it which gives it a certain layer of grimness

>>45585
Kolya Krassotkin is a predecessor to Cuno from Disco Elysium.

>>46630
sad.

Season 2 Trailer real, bois and girls.

>>46707
Mite b cool
Generic as hell trailer though

We've got two or three apple trees here, but they're too young to produce much.
Older varieties from around the area, and one which is just a ton of grafts.

We had a red russian pomegranate but we dug it up and moved if further south to my grandparents.
It's a very sturdy plant, to have managed to have been moved or died back to the ground three or four times.
It seems like it's doing much better at its current location though, it was just maybe a zone or two too cold here.

We've also got a small plot of russian kale.
Another very resilient plant that tends to do a little better in the fall when there's no butterflies to eat them.
Have a theory that the coloration of scarlet kale would make it undesirable to the green worms, and so would really like to cross them.
Getting something like a red russian kale!
I've never been able to get the scarlet kale to grow however. sad.

We've got some monstrous golden everglades tomatoes that grow like mad.
Most of them came back from unharvested fruits (this is because it's everglades).
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>>46749
>like folk stories
or… you know… mass line.

>>46749
pomegranates are very easy to root from cuttings. like so easy that fallen sticks will root themselves and in a couple years whole new tree

>Have a theory that the coloration of scarlet kale would make it undesirable to the green worms
me too. it works somewhat but you also want the waxy farina cuticle skin trait. they still eat it but prefer no wax, and the wax melts when you put it in a skillet and tastes the same. i have a lot of perennial kale and they regularly get to six feet tall and last around 4 years until the stem and root borers take them down. theyre all hybrids between galacian/jersey cabbage and purple tree collards

i picked loopers off mine yesterday and they were only on the plants in the shade which are all shorter and more delicate with floppy thin leaves. the ones in full sun have a full wax cuticle and no worms and very crisp firm turgid leaves. you could spray BT but im stress testing for drought and pests and selecting for purple

hoping my car passes inspection so I can get back to my crops before the frost comes

>>45013
>I also used to think it would be cool to see female space marines (I like Samus Aran) but now I know the lore and the fact that Sisters of Battle exist.
On the other hand, trans space marines can still be a thing. Like, space marines were already turned into these giant throbbling pieces of meat so they already had surgery on their bodies technically, it only makes sense to go even further and just transition.

>>46521
AI slop

>>3335
Yea theres kind of a nice (seems to me very deliberately) meta-textual irony in the 40K lore where Chaos, this big evil Other that is supposed to be the justification for mankind being this militaristic fascist hellhole, is actually the product of this millitaristic fascist hellhole itself. The empire of man is literally shadowboxing its own repressed subconscious manifesting in the warp. Kind of a parody of how fascism tends to scapegoat its own internal contradictions on outside forces. Something the chud warhammer fans generally dont seem to pick up on.

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

"Bottoms" (2023)
Finally scratched it from the backlog and it was way better than I expected. It is an astute satire of both modern fascism and the liberal reaction to it: appeasement and compliance. It presents itself as a parody of the usual cliches not only in western romantic comedies, but also K-dramas and streaming-oriented media in general, but the mask slips rather easily and it makes it clear that those element are only there for comedic relief.

Vidrel is a good example: the fight parodies action movies, but what makes the scene funny is that nobody reacts negatively to the guy kicking the girl in the head, instead they feign consternation at the protagonists for not being completely pure and politically correct.

anyone here uses rateyourmusic to rate movies?

I'm here to tell everyone to watch "Time" (2006) by Kim Ki Duk. Try to watch it blind without knowing anything about it. Legit one of the wildest rides I've ever had watching a movie. Ever.
One of those movies that make you think "how in the fuck is this not considered a massive classic?"

>>46357
Kubrick was a master of cinema
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa-KBqOFgDQ

>>46718
It's the only way, it seems.

>>46664
Ask ChatGPT or DeepSeek for feedback on your writing.

>>46740
>ask an app designed always to suck up to you for feedback
What a great idea!

>>46717
Fanfiction gets a bad rap, but it's got a long history of being among the most celebrated genre's in Western culture. Dante's Bible fanfiction single handedly shifted how Christians viewed hell and the afterlife. One of the central figures in the Divine Comedy was Virgil, who authored one of the classic works of fanfiction, the Aeneid. Wagner's Viking fanfiction became one of the most celebrated and influential operas in history. Lord of the Rings could be considered Tolkien's magnum opus, and it's barely concealed fanfiction for all the medieval history and literature that he was immersed in, with Gandalf being an expy for Odin, Boromir for Roland, and plenty more.

Fanfiction is a particular type of fiction, but it isn't an inferior sort.

>>3558
I am writing this to try meet like-minded writers. I am a published writer with 5 short stories, and over a dozen poems, in print. I work in horror and weird fiction, mainly because I feel like it is closest to Romanticism and Marx's literary topoi of spectres, vampires, hauntology, and more. In the past, I was mainly a /lit/ poster, and don't use /leftypol/ as much as I'd like to, but I have always been some strain of Marxist or communist or anarchist or egoist. I studied Ezra Pound's epic poetry at a PhD level and wanted to reconcile his economic poetics with Marxist understandings of art and world history, but was heckled out of my degree by neoliberal-minded Butlerians and their fascist ilk.
Check out my currently catalogued writing credits and feel free to email me if you want to chat about writing or books:
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?358638

>>20454
>Ward is liberal
Wildbow predicted the rise of "titans" who cause the foundations of the world order to crack

Worm was a story about the collapse of liberalism into neofeudalism, as seen in Hurricane Katrina. Its sequel Ward is about how these inhuman tech oligarchs like Elon Musk are far above normal bourgeoisie, just as Porky capitalists are above workers. That's why Glory Girl is so triggered by the idea of titans being way stronger than her where regular people are like "lol its just Thursday for us, relax". This accelerationism trend of wealth accumulation towards the ultra powerful makes the "petite" bourgeois class very offended by the idea that Elon Musk has exponentially more hegemony than they ever will. Taking control over the firmament on which we all stand isn't fair!!!

>“I’m on a brink, and I can’t see it, but I can feel it,” the man said.
>“Try not to think about it,” Rocketround said. “Okay?”
>“I can feel it,” the man said. He wasn’t paying much attention to Rocketround. “All the way down to this vast well, partially filled with potential energy. Like I’m on the lip of a volcano and it’s an impossibly long fall with only magma at the bottom. I don’t know if I’m better off throwing myself down into that or leaving it alone.”
>“Leave it alone,” I said, my voice joining more than one other person’s.
<“What if my thoughts and brain get made into a part of that? One piece in that thing’s construction. What if it makes me immortal, forever a part of this thing? A recording of me in there, how I think, how I do things.”
>“We’ve studied parahumans, powers and power sources a lot,” Roadblock said. “We’re pretty sure that’s not a thing.”
>“Yeah,” the guy in the clearing’s center said. “But…”
>He trailed off.
>“It’s not a thing,” Rocketround’s voice joined Roadblock’s.
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Anyone following his latest story? How is it going?

is stalin canon in the world of pikachu or whatever

>>46727
Only in the first game when the US existed.

>>46726
every niche fiction community has someone that makes most of the daily contributions so you should just ask this question in wildbow's discord server