Under the Bridge

Blackout poetry exists on a dual axis from "banal" to "insightful" on the input side and "kind of deep" to "incredibly fucking dumb" on the output side, and while taking something banal and producing something kind of deep is well and fine, for my money taking something insightful and rendering it incredibly fucking dumb is where the real art is.

#i stuck the word 'banal' in there twice specifically so that 'anal' would be low hanging fruit#but i genuinely did not anticipate 'banana' --@prokopetz

Or watching the music visualisations whilst ripping a few CDs would be cathartic too.

This is the funniest thing i’ve heard my entire life 😭

Truth xD

We found him- the 20 year old with 10 years experience

Oh. Shit.

i think more final girls should be forty and kind of weird and off-putting

The book “final girls“ by Riley Sagar has that vibe. I don’t know if it’s what you’re looking for, but you might enjoy it. @beyourghost

well maybe you should blearily wake up at 5:08 in the pre-dawn light and find the sleeping soft tiny mammal body of your cat just inches from your head like a miracle too beautiful for speech, and you should rustle one hand out from your blankets to rub fingertip circles across the warm eggshell dome of her little velvet-wrapped skull and on the bristly patches just where the cups of her ears begin, and as she inclines her head into your fingers and purrs without ever opening her little eyes you should feel a love so tender that you understand how that love could have reached out from the fireside into the inky spangled nights long gone to reach her, and then you'll feel better

“Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.” ― C.S. Lewis

Mr. Collins would be such a fan of ai. He would love it. He would have it write scripts for him to use for complimenting people. He'd ask it what to do in social situations and then when someone would tell him "I think that's a bad idea" he'd be like "my dear madam it's so good of you to be concerned but I think the highly esteemed Grok knows a little more about this than a lady like yourself" and then he'd go humiliate himself publicly.

got cornflakes for fried chicken & the back of the box has its own recipe. easy as pie. "rinse chicken tenders with cold water and coat with crushed kelloggs corn flakes cereal." and then cook. no binding agent. no seasoning. nothing but a pile of flavorless chicken with a side of the extra-dried-out cornflakes that fell off it. serve warm with your favorite dipping sauce. doesnt even say serve hot. Serve Warm. wouldnt wanna get too wild with it. truly this is the spirit of cornflakes

Absolutely, and definitely less surprising than a fairy

I will concede, in this specific circumstance, it makes more sense

Not to be a pretentious asshole but yes there is a problem with people no longer reading the classics. A lot of the YA literature romance novel crowd perpetuates the myth that the classics are inherently boring and stuffy and there’s nothing you can relate to or learn by reading them. And they’re not. These beautiful universal things we enjoy, comedy, romance, tragedy, family strife, they’re still so poignant centuries after they’re written.

The problem, as I see it, is when a lot of people try to read the classics, they go for the biggest doorstop they can. Dostoyevsky, Moby Dick, James Joyce. The kind of book that even most people who read the classics don’t enjoy. There are books by all of those writers that are fun but those are not intended to be fun. Those are the big serious works. It always makes me sad as someone who likes to read the classics, that people will go for the longest least fun classic there is (Moby Dick), and then just write off all classics because they didn’t like that one book. Like no offense, babygirl, but stone cold Jane Austin or Alexander Dumas don’t have anything in common with Moby Dick. They are, this is true, completely different people. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, you should Google Rory Gilmore‘s reading list (from the Gilmore girls). It’s not the 400 something list of every book mentioned in the series but it’s the smaller list with 2 to 300 that’s just the books that she read on the show. Start with something that seems like a fun book from the list that you can read in a weekend.