Random Musings

do you ever laugh with your friends and think oh this is the point. this is the point of everything

The lack of context here is thrilling

I am 100% convinced that “exit, pursued by a bear” is a reference to some popular 1590s meme that we’ll never be able to understand because that one play is the only surviving example of it.

Seriously, we’ll never figure it out. I’ll wager trying to understand “exit, pursued by a bear” with the text of The Winter’s Tale as our primary source is like trying to understand loss.jpg when all you have access to is a single overcompressed JPEG of a third-generation memetic mutation that mashes it up with YMCA and “gun” - there’s this whole twitching Frankensteinian mass of cultural context we just don’t have any way of getting at.

Shakespeare, I love thee.

Hoopla been clutch

For my witches and pagan crew, Hoopla has a shitton of our sort of books, including some older Hermetic texts (you want Elphias Levi? He’s there), a guide to the Thoth tarot, Waite’s Pictoral Key, etc. It’s all in the Body, Mind, Spirit section.

This is it… this is the height of what memes and memetic culture can do and the purpose they can serve, and why it’s so important to have this freedom of expression and exchange. Protest, reference, the instant connection of ideas, heavy weighted messages conveyed by the simplest of means. This image speaks volumes about the state of internet politics right now, and it does so by omitting the most important and recognizable part of itself.

Also, look at the quality here and the effort the artist put into making Truth’s erasure so disturbingly seamless. 

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studio ghibli movies are like if someone took all of your fondest, softest childhood dreams and put them into a film