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I had planned to bounce in here and tell you that Bloober Team has been given the go ahead to remake the first Silent Hill game as well, but current events are just... a lot right now. Even aside from international conflicts--like, I'm here to conspicuously ignore military parades and Seek Joy and all that, but the assassination of two Minnesota lawmakers on "No Kings" Day by a man still on the run was just really--something. And understand here that I say this with the Israel-Iran strikes on TV two rooms away--I hand-wave it as "international conflict" because I don't even know what to say or where it goes from here. It's one of those weeks where the sum of the whole is very heavy, and it's not my "job" to talk about it if I don't want to, but it's inescapably there. 

Anyway, I am working slowly on the Silent Hill 2 commentary. I'd like to have the next one finished by the end of this week, but who knows what a week can bring.

Reblogs of interest

Happy Loving Day, honoring the Supreme Court ruling that legalized interracial marriage in the U.S, named for Richard and Mildred Loving, who somehow had the perfect surname for this case. 

Rolling Stone interviews Joan Baez: "The folk singer and social activist on the reasons protesting has gotten 'dangerous,' why it’s essential to still show up, and what she felt seeing A Complete Unknown for the first time." She is an absolute firecracker and she's one of those figures I grew up knowing about without actually looking into and I need to change that. Also, here is some context for that Hozier remark.

The Invention of Memory: How the pandemic became "the past"

"I finished reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time in my life. With all of *vague gesture at everything* this going on. I Am Not Okay."

As Joan Didion wrote, every day is all there is.

As mentioned, "Big news in the fog fandom." As someone who obviously loves the current SH2 remake, the game that convinced me to start playing video games, I can't tell you how exciting this is. ("silent hill 1 remake must include this iconic moment")

"[attempting to flirt] if i was stuck in a timeloop id desperately explain my situation to you every single reset"

Kane Parsons is officially signed to direct the Backrooms movie based on his short film, now starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve.

"Disney and NBCUniversal are suing AI company Midjourney for Copyright Infringement." Follow-up: "This lawsuit is brutal. 'Bad news, everybody. We are being sued by Sauron, and somehow there's also another Sauron.'"

Speaking of Disney, "Sibling asked how ppl in star wars dance to jizz music and I had to give her an example." Cue Tumblr discovering that this was not a typo.

Archive.org has posted 30 GB of lost cassettes from the '80s-'90s underground including “tape experimentation, industrial, avant-garde, indie, rock, DIY, subvertainment and auto-hypnotic materials."

"YMCA in Akkadian (Ancient Babylonian), as written by Gilgamesh’s exasperated tourism minister trying to attract more gay guys to Uruk to keep Gil distracted from politics"

Big Challenges looks exactly like this; he is my constant companion in Hello Kitty Friendship Island because he will vacuum up all nearby items for you. I owe my 999 seashells to you, big guy.

xenomorp good friend for baby

"the wretched abomination known as the minotaur has discovered some chalk"

A seasonal reblog: Four Flowering Plants That Have Been Decidedly Queered

There are a couple memes going currently and I hope they never stop, including "Not what I'm called" ("hey guys" "CHUPACABRA")

Let's bother (a very indignant) mama

"let’s travel through the vast unknown with mama"

Video

If you've ever wanted someone to roast Elon Musk for 46 minutes, Josh Johnson is here for you.

This Norwegian video ("Trygg" means "safe") is basically what happened when I walked in to meet my new physical therapist and saw a Progress Pride sticker on his laptop.

The Basic Ball

blumineck talks about the accessibility of archery

"it is an easy movement for beginners" and this cat agrees

One of my all-time favorite Pallas cat videos

The sacred texts

"i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent martin scorsese movie???"

tricking your book into thinking you are ur phone

Do not want

Personal tags of the week

alexa: heres music from the bifrist incident

me: *aghast*

the fuck