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✧ Grian/Percy Griancraft ✧

Japanese-Canadian, DID system, 21yrs, He/she

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send me more posts like this. thank you

planefood

it feels like this sometimes

beguilingcorpse

i see a lot of criticism towards 17776 along the lines of “ugh if humanity actually stopped aging or dying and people really did just live forever they would not spend their time playing football… that is not what EYE would do with MY time…. this is so unrealistic….. clearly the author just wanted to write about sports 🙄😒” and like. yeah. yes. exactly. jon bois is a sports writer and sports analyst who wanted to examine why people love sports and why sports have cultural staying power and why he especially finds sports compelling and what sports have to say about the human condition and our ability to care. so he made up a fake scenario about humans being immortal and then he made it about sports. and he wrote about sports. the story is titled ‘what sports will look like in the future.’ if that isn’t something that you can vibe with then maybe the story simply is not for you

headspace-hotel

17776 asks you to be fascinated with football for a little while and if you don't take that invitation the story is much less powerful. The first time I read it I kind of skimmed through the parts talking about football because I thought, well, I'm not interested in sports.

The second time I read it I paid more attention to those parts and realized that they were an essential part of the story. This key component of fascination with a human pastime is the axis that the themes revolve around.

Fascination illuminates the world and reveals a lot of meaning in it. Much more can be understood through curious eyes.

aguywholikestanks

The key point is that 17776 and it's sequels are not about immortality, and it is not attempting to predict what would happen in this scenario. It is a study of the impact of sports(amongst other things) on people, using immortality as a narrative device to achieve this.

headspace-hotel

I think I got that in my first read, or at least I understood that the story was about play and the things that are intrinsically motivating to humans: what do we do when there are no stakes and there is no more "progress" to make?

Some of the segments are not really "about" sports, such as the destruction of the lightbulb, where the satellites mourn the "death" of an inanimate object that has meaning because it's been given meaning.

But, if you think you don't care about sports, and therefore don't pay much attention to the parts of the story that are digging deeply into the technicalities of the bizarro football games, you still miss a lot of the story's meaning, because the layers of depth and close examination and exploration show how love for something transforms it, making it endlessly fascinating and new.

I understood the theme of play as a counteracting force to our existential anxiety and feeling of need for "progress" and "meaning," but on my initial read I missed how the story is about love. Not love as an experience between people, but love as an orientation towards existence and your surroundings.

In my re-read it came through so clearly that WOW, this writer really, really loves football. And in the story, football is so inexhaustibly complicated and meaningful, to the point that it's impossible to ever fully appreciate, because people love it and they are always exploring new ways to play it.

It's interesting, because it's important to the story that the writer loves football, but it's equally important to the story that a lot of people don't love football, because these infinite wonders hidden in our existence externally appear so mundane. Football is just another boring, mundane thing that is transfigured by love. Our world is so worthy of being loved that we could never fully love it even if we were to live forever. That's what 17776 is about, to me.

localfriendlyeldritchthing

non football fan off to go find this book now, brb

headspace-hotel

is webcomic

byjove

“I’m afraid of getting cancer from the cadmium in my painting supplies” I’m not 😌 I love you cadmium yellow. I love you vermillion red. I love you uranium orange, haven’t worked with you but I love you nevertheless. Most of all I love you arsenic green.

byjove

This dress could kill you but I completely understand why people in the late 19th century were willing to take that risk.

byjove

Here is uranium orange fiestaware, proving that beauty truly is pain.

byjove

just found out about London purple 🤤

bundibird

I was wondering what was involved with London purple so as to merit its inclusion alongside such stars as arsenic green and uranium orange, and --

Ah, cool, gotcha

unashamedly-enthusiastic

Do you like the color of the poison?

english-history-trip

You know what was used as yellow dye for almost thirty years between its discovery and its current use?

TNT.

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panera bread is the only place that’ll probably never spell my name right

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Panera Bread is the only place that employs honest loyal men and then their whore employee women seduce them and basically their all a bunch of sluts. West Saint Paul Panera whores… I hate you.

browsethestacks

Still Can...

elventhespian

Best dialog

cognitohazardous

my idea for a shower butler. he lives in your shower and cleans the bathroom, restocks the soap, washes your back, and serves you shower beers. you can talk to him about your day and ask for advice. his suit is completely waterproof.

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card-of-the-day

Today’s card is: A 3x5 index card

horreurscopes

curetapwater

"Quick" "easy" "lazy" recipes love to pretend that prep and cleanup occur within a pocket dimension outside time and space.

watasnak

what the fuck are my mutuals doing

aflo

Settlers of catan

valtsv

ragebaiting my fat dragon

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adobe-outdesign

my favorite thing in the early Pokemon anime is when you’d see a photo of a Pokemon on the ‘dex screen only for it to cut to the actual Pokemon in the exact same pose

help-me-or-kelp-me

Life imitates art

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wine-dark-sky

I was so scared they were heading for a romance subplot but congrats to Project Hail Mary for going for the far funnier option of 'Trolley Operator' and 'Guy She Is Actively Tying To The Tracks'. What a dynamic. Movie of the year.

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