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For Juneteenth, please discover my three favorite Black creators:
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I am a big nerd who writes about stories from Black history. The only things I take seriously are comics and history; everything else is foo
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Talking about pop culture, race, feminism, and other social issues with a lot of nuance and profanity.
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I do not believe we are playing "The Swan," from Saint-Saens' "Carnival of the Animals," correctly.
Everyone sees The Swan as this gorgeous lyrical piece, rising above the silliness of the rest of Carnival of the Animals... but Carnival of the Animals is full of bits that poke fun at musicians. Like "Pianists" and how "Fossils" uses his Danse Macabre. In fact, The Swan comes between those two movements.
I think The Swan is supposed to be satirical. It's extremely sentimental, based around a cello solo, and extreme phrasing. I think the intent might have been to overdo it.
Breathe loudly and heavily. Exaggerate your bowing. Play with more rubato. Push the phrasing and dynamics beyond the bounds of good taste. Play with even more rubato. Play like you have a Fever, and the only cure is More Rubato. Play like you have no faith that your audience is going to understand that this is The Most Beautiful Thing Ever. Play it like you have no concept of Too Much, or Going Too Far. Gild that 1886 lily.
And pianists, at the end... pretend to break down and cry because it's so beautiful, man, I just need a moment...
Let's make The Swan as funny as the rest of the suite. For Camille's sake. For the sake of friends everywhere who get together to have stupid fun.
Not that anybody asked, but I think it's important to understand how shame and guilt actually work before you try to use it for good.
It's a necessary emotion. There are reasons we have it. It makes everything so. much. worse. when you use it wrong.
Shame and guilt are DE-motivators. They are meant to stop behavior, not promote it. You cannot, ever, in any meaningful way, guilt someone into doing good. You can only shame them into not doing bad.
Let's say you're a parent and your kid is having issues.
Swearing in class? Shame could work. You want them to stop it. Keep it in proportion*, and it might help. *(KEEP IT IN PROPORTION!!!)
Not doing their homework? NO! STOP! NO NOT DO THAT! EVER! EVER! EVER! You want them to start to do their homework. Shaming them will have to opposite effect! You have demotivated them! They will double down on NOT doing it. Not because they are being oppositional, but because that's what shame does!
You can't guilt people into building better habits, being more successful, or getting more involved. That requires encouragement. You need to motivate for that stuff!
If you want it in a simple phrase:
You can shame someone out of being a bad person, but you can't shame them into being a good person.
Fun fact, that was literally what inspired me to make this post!
"Kill your local sex offender!" Oh, you mean the guy who went streaking at his local college football game on a dare one time? That's a sex crime.
"No, I mean-"
Oh, maybe the woman who had to pee in a public park that only had pay toilets, so she tried to hide behind the bushes but got caught? Public urination is a sex crime.
"What? No, I mean-"
Oh, maybe you mean the homeless guy who had to strip down to get his clothes in the laundromat to clean them for the first time in weeks? He tried being subtle, but someone called the cops on him, and now he's on the sex offender registry for public nudity.
"Rapists and pedophiles! Kill rapists and pedophiles!"
Oh, like the trans woman who got called a pedophile groomer for helping a trans kid escape her abusive parents?
Or maybe the black man who got labeled a rapist because he came on to another man's wife, and he decided to get back at him by charging him with rape?
How about the 17 year olds who were fooling around, fully consensually, in one of their bedrooms? That's still technically underage sex and thus rape of a minor.
Oh, or maybe you're talking about the doctor who performed genital reconstructive surgery in a state that just voted to get that classified as rape?
People will do everything they can to get you convinced rape and pedophilia are the worst crimes possible, then accuse whoever they like the least of being either a rapist, a pedophile, or both, counting on you turning on them just for being accused of the crime.
"Oh, so you're saying you don't want to kill a serial rapist?"
That's exactly what I'm goddamn saying.
Once we decide a group is okay to kill, the government will do everything they can to convince you that their political enemies are either part of that group, or just as bad as that group, to get you to kill their enemies for them.
The only way out is to accept every life as worth saving.
you know even if a homeless person or a starving person is in that position because of their own "bad decisions" i don't care. it doesn't matter. no supposed financial misstep is enough to condemn someone to homelessness or poverty.
Search and rescue teams do not ask if a hiker was properly equipped and prepared before they go out to look for them. EMTs do not ask if a driver checked their mirrors before they take them to the hospital. Lifeguards do not ask if a swimmer made a mistake by going into a riptide before they dive in after them. Judgement doesn't help anyone, including you, the person doing the judging. Just help people. Just shut the fuck up and help people.
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I'm still around, by the way. I just don't feel like being frivolous and brainrotty at the moment.
Bereavement can make a person see the whole world differently, especially if they have lost someone they were extremely close to, such as a spouse, a relative, or a very dear friend.
Especially through seeing others' reactions to their loved one's death, and the way others treat the bereaved... one may begin to understand things that were never clear before. One may begin to find a deeper understanding of what love is, for others, as well as for oneself.
If one has never yet lost someone especially close and deeply beloved, one must be careful in judging the motivations, attitudes, and reactions of someone who has. There may be elements to them that one simply cannot, yet, understand.
Just curious, what are the rotating links to other works under the patreon, website and store links? like are they ads or shout outs, because they are very cool and I love finding cool internet stuff :)
That's the "random hot button" and it's just a bunch of things I think are neat, and that maybe you'd enjoy if you like RttS. None of them are paying me a dime. I wanted to make a list of them with short descriptions but haven't really had time to do the descriptions part, so here's just the current button contents: https://www.runawaytothestars.com/banner-links/
GO LOOK AT THESE!!!
what the medicine packaging says: "new and improved orange flavour!"
what I expected: orange juice
what I got: the taste of your parents just told you they're getting divorced, and your mum said she was taking you out for ice cream after but she actually took you to the "healthy" frozen yoghurt place and would only let you order the non-dairy orange cream soda flavour
Barbie’s having a sweatpants day
When they tell you You Can Be Anything, don’t forget that Unapologetically Comfy lies among those options
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that post about “you get bandits when you cut soldiers loose without pay” reminds me of the Thirty Years War, because one could say that beneath all the religious schisms and diplomatic jockeying, the heart of the thirty years war was “what happens when you have a state with just enough capacity to raise massive armies but without enough financial capacity to actually pay those armies” and the answer is that the line between professional armies and roving gangs of bandits disappears and every time you try to raise an army it just becomes another independently acting wildfire devouring the countryside. No matter how bad things get, every day I wake up and thank my lucky stars that I do not live in 17th century Europe. Or 17th century China. Or the 17th century Americas. Or basically anywhere in the 17th century.
One of my favorite little anecdotes about ancient mercenaries is that it was tradition for most of history to give your mercenaries two wages- "Bread" and "Gravy." Both were set at a daily value, but where "Bread" was intended to cover regular maintenance and life stuff and therefore paid out frequently (Here's your week's meal and gear repair budget!) the "Gravy" wage was paid out exclusively at the end of the contract as one lump sum. So like, your gravy wage and bread wage might be one silver coin per day each, so you're getting a handful of coins every week to cover food, and then at the end of an 800 day campaign, you get a wheelbarrow with 800 coins.
Employers liked offering this structure because then they didn't have to like, try to guess how long the invasion of spain will take and then carry 800 coins per soldier around the battlefield where it could be captured. It also gives them the chance to budget around the assumption that they take an enemy city and *find* vast sums of treasure even if they don't have the full value at the beginning of the war.
The main flaw of this system is that it's very easy to end up in a scenario where if you have, say, 50,000 guys that have been fighting for 800 days, you now owe 40 million silver to your army, and if the budget has not worked out to a 40 million surplus, you literally can't afford to end the war, but you can probably afford to pay them for a couple more weeks. So then you have to start thinking creatively.
Anyway across all time and history a lot of generals were ultimately beaten to death by men chanting gravy.
Surprisingly, nobody has mentioned Machiavelli's persuasive argument that hiring foreign mercenaries is essentially inviting foreign agents into your country and allowing them to dictate your policy. But that's probably because it's an entirely different problem with mercenary armies.
No, you don't understand. I want a solution to my problem that doesn't involve me stopping my behavior that's causing the problem.
"No-one expectth the leper gnome death knight! Our chief weapon ith thurprithe!"
"I thought your chief weapon was your runeblade."
"Oh, yeah. That too."
I think people should just be fine with disliking something without calling it slop or moralizing about it you don’t need to have some noble reason to say “i don’t like this”
This is so silly but I'm watching a short video essay on sincerity in cinema and the creator is talking about how he watched Lord of the Rings for the first time at 17. He explains that he'd grown so used to the 'ironic' meta style commentary in the movies of the 2010's that as he was watching the opening narration of LotR, he spent the entire time waiting for the joke to come. For someone to take it all back with a zinger line. He listened to Blanchett describe and explain the backstory, and he waited for the other comedic shoe to drop.
And he kept doing it. Scene after scene.
He spent the film expecting someone to make a joke about how unserious things were or to break the fourth wall or do some other self referential type thing.
Now, maybe I'm just at that point in my cycle or maybe I'm too delicate in general, but I literally teared up hearing that. Straight up cried a bit. It is so fucking sad that sincerity and genuineness is being bred out of people.
People say all the time 'this generation can't take anything seriously!' and really, is it any wonder? Younger people have been trained out of it. You are no longer encouraged to be genuine or show emotion or be honest. You are actively punished for it. In fact, you are almost guaranteed to suffer for it.
That is so fucked up. I'm sorry to go on a bit of a random ramble rant but it's so fucking gut wrenching to see younger people lose that element of themselves. You can't express your passion without being told you're 'crashing out' or 'cringe'. You have to live in this neutral state of fear of perception, and god forbid anybody step outside of it!
You're told you should only consume and succumb and be ironic and emotionless and cool.
Listen, if you're following me and you're like.... 25 or under, let's say. Please. I beg of you. Do not fall for this rhetoric. Please, for the love of all things, feel. Feel and create and be honest with yourself. Indulge in things that make you happy. Be sincere. Wear your heart on your sleeve. Do not let this hyper-capitalistic, hyper-consumerist, self-centred, individualist culture take that from you.
Bleed yourself into the work you create. Live. Don't fucking let anyone tell you different.
was it @zerowoolfe . If not they made a similar video which I enjoyed a lot!! very good creator I like them a lots. He does a lot of film analysis stuff and recently released an hour plus video about the origins of slash fics and yaoi
OSP Red gets tilted by insincerity in media while talking about lampshading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1gzqtwrutw
OSP Red does a whole video on bathos, the main technique that makes film narration seem insincere if done reflexively: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOj2hVjwrUo
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Among the cynocephalids, the most depraved souls make sacrifices to Oukh, the God of Stench.
thinking about diatoms again
microscopic living stars made of glass that eat the sun. and they're all around us. in every body of water. glass sun-eating stars.
I like them a lot. they produce up to half of all earth's oxygen. the air you breathe is thanks to sun-eating stars made of glass. and that's pretty cool.
and you know. like oblongs and triangles and some other bullshit
Mazel tov!
how long before this shows up on facebook (or bluesky) captioned, "THIS IS WHAT MICROPLASTIC LOOKS LIKE UNDER A MICROSCOPE!!"
