allegory, allegorier, allegoriest

All "takes" on this blog reflect real policy that will come to pass in the dark era of my rule

Postcanon Xiyao is good because JGY's ability to genuinely cycle through feeling all "🥺 precious cinnamon roll too good for this world... too pure..." about a man who fatally stabbed him kind of never gets old

yes.... good boy. put on your clocked stockings.... now the knee breeches... yesss... and the peruke.... you're doing so well.... #18thcentury #18thcenturyfication #forcefop #powderedwigfetish

thinking about max telling eleanor she was right and the important thing in this world is being a hardened career woman and they both have everything they wanted now and eleanor looking minorly tormented

i hope anne ends up sleeping with both of them

i don't think that ai is making people "stupid" and i don't think it's a psyop to turn us all into sheeple or whatever but i do think that you lose something when you get too dependent on a technology that does some mental task for you. like recently i've made an effort to try to navigate in the car without using gps for everything and within a short amount of time my mental map of the city i live in, my memory for directions, my spatial reasoning, and my ability to get lost without getting scared have gotten dramatically better. i don't want to live in a world with no gps available ever but i am glad that i have gotten less dependent on a fallible tool and am developing new skills. and doing little mental tasks like that is good for your brain i think. my mom has told me that since her workplace went paperless, her legs have gotten weaker, since she no longer needs to go up flights of stairs regularly. even if something is more convenient and in some ways better i think it's fair to ask what effects it might have on our minds and bodies y'know. they say use it or lose it and what are we going to lose if we no longer have to use it on the daily in all those little invisible inconvenient ways?

vampires glitter because they bioaccumulate microplastics from their prey

another interesting thing i haven't thought much about before--moby dick is full of weaving imagery, most directly in ch47 where ishmael and queequeg are actually weaving a mat. it reminds me of penelope and how her weaving is connected to odysseus' sea travels and his autobiographical storytelling, things that obviously constitute the narrative of moby dick. it's also explicitly connected to the fates and to destiny, something inevitable but also in a state of being actively created. this might be a reach but is that not also something you could say about the process of recounting a story, of reading a book, of interpreting a text?

oh i can't believe i missed this--the play format that keeps getting re-introduced into the book, the references to roles and acts and so on, that serves the same function, all of that stuff could be said with equal truth of putting on a play

it is very fun that ahab is so obsessed with having symbols Mean Something and yet he ignores what other people see as obvious omens that moby dick is going to fucking kill them all and god wants them to go home

although it is sort of difficult to tell what he truly believes is going to happen and what he's telling the crew/himself as encouragement