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Eddington is the newest movie from Ari Aster (the guy who did Midsommar), and it's about a small town in New Mexico whose residents get internet brainrot during the opening months of the 2020 pandemic lockdowns.

I'm going to be real and admit that I couldn't sit through Eddington. After about an hour and a bit, me and the people I went to the theater with just all sort of turned to each other and shrugged and got up and left. After reading how the movie ends, I think we probably made the right choice.

People say the acting in this movie is good, but like. It's fine. The cinematography is mid, and the writing is aiming for a type of satire that it's not well-observed or well-researched enough to achieve. Aside from one line that made me feel really bad for laughing, it's not particularly clever or amusing.

Idk man. The movie isn't bad; it's just boring.

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► please, she's perfect in your design (ongoing)
tellius | volke/ilyana
explicit | 4604 words
cw canon-typical violence, arguably underage sex, situationship nonsense of the unhealthy and undernegotiated variety

"I'm not the only one putting myself into the middle of interesting events… remind me, how many did you offer to cut down for that laguz woman? At least I get something back too."

Zihark flinched, stepped back.

"You… so you are…!"

"Settle down," Volke said. "I've been a shadow for longer than you know. We have an agreement... And she isn't being harmed. I'm just not at liberty to discuss."

[ After the war, Volke picks up a new hobby, and it's unraveling why Ilyana is so hungry all the time. Ilyana's new hobby is him, and being the vessel of a god.

Ch 4-5 | Ilyana and Volke both meet old friends, and learn new things about each other and the nature of whatever it is they're doing together. It's messy, and they don't entirely have a good time. They have a little of a good time. ]

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Event: Fandom5K is an exchange for fic of 5,000 words or more or comics of 5 pages or more, depending on the request. These requests are all for fic.

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Due date: These are for an exchange that has just revealed the collection, with creators anonymous until 16 Aug. If you're interested, please leave a comment with the timeline you would need, and we can discuss!

EPH 1 - Top Gun (Movies), Top Gun (Movies), Top Gun (Movies), Twister (Movies 1996 2024), Gundam Wing, Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon | Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (Anime & Manga), Wolf's Rain (Anime), Voltron: Lion Force (1984), Crossover Fandom

EPH 2 - Newsflesh Series - Mira Grant, Ready or Not (2019), True Detective: Night Country

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rynling

There's a type of writing about media that I've come to think of as "posting," and I get the feeling that it's probably best for me to avoid.

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Essentially, when it comes to this sort of longterm research project, I should write about what gives me joy instead of writing about what gives me panic attacks.

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rynling

Just to get it off my chest: ecofascism is the idea that (a) environmental change is inevitable; (b) only “strong” people will survive the resulting disasters, and (c) this is how it should be. To give an example: It’s okay that people in Texas die during extreme heat events, because if they weren’t poor (and therefore without value as human beings) they would have AC or live somewhere else. Americans often like to give examples in other countries (generally in South Asia, and generally in relation to flooding, mainly in Bangladesh and Pakistan), but climate-related catastrophes definitely happen in the United States.

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So anyway, I guess it’s probably time to write another book.

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► please, she's perfect in your design (ongoing)
tellius | volke/ilyana
explicit | 3310 words
cw canon-typical violence, arguably underage sex, situationship nonsense

She wanted to ask him to keep her warm. If the rest of this has been anything to judge by though, that would be foolish.

But then there was that deeper need. She wanted him now, not to wait for them to find firewood dry enough to burn, to tend it a while until it was burning on its own, to collect snow to melt to start to boil to replace their water, to lay blankets down.

She bit her lip.

"I'd like to go back to… ahh… to being hungry," she said, bitterly.

He sighed. "You don't seem to have a choice."

[ After the war, Volke picks up a new hobby, and it's unraveling why Ilyana is so hungry all the time. Ilyana's new hobby is him, and being the vessel of a god.

Ch 3 | Ilyana finds out what they aren't, and then what they can be. Volke gets more tied up in things. ]

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Due to various unavoidable circumstances at work, July was a tough month. My anxiety and insomnia were off the charts. But I survived, and the crunch is over! I’m looking forward to taking it easy in August. I’m going to play some video games, watch some movies, visit some friends, and just generally chill out and enjoy the nice weather.

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rynling

What happened to Kanye?
https://pod.link/1740187810/episode/d3296dfdc71b51c6bf8143bb88ebe497

Akilah Hughes joins the podcast to discuss whether Kanye West has always been a mirror to the American zeitgeist, and what's wrong with all of us.

Panic World is a podcast about how internet culture has affected mainstream society, and I’ve been enjoying it so far. The quality of the episodes is variable depending on the guests, but I like this one. Hughes makes an argument that I agree with, which is basically that the “everyone has a voice” quality of the internet was great up until around 2016 or so, when many of us realized that the “silent majority” (of people with unfortunate political opinions) perhaps should have remained silent.

Along the same lines, the recent “What happened to JK Rowling” episode (here) is quite good as well. This episode isn’t saying anything that people who spend a lot of time on Tumblr don’t already know, but it’s good to hear the story presented as a cohesive narrative in the context of the broader conservative shift in people who formerly identified as progressives.

rynling

This is what’s been making me happy in July:

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rynling

And also, the comics website I write for just won an Eisner!!

So I guess that technically makes me a three-times Eisner award winning comics writer. "Technically" is doing a lot of work there, but still. That's really cool.

A handful of the graphic novels I reviewed won Eisners as well, so it's nice to know that I have good taste, but what makes me even happier was to see some of the smaller publications I reviewed get nominated in the first place. Even if the indie stuff doesn't win, it's amazing to see it appear on the same shortlist as giant, high-profile books. All my love goes to the queer artists out there in the world making weird art.

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► please, she's perfect in your design (ongoing)
tellius | volke/ilyana
explicit | 5947 words
cw canon-typical violence, arguably underage sex, situationship nonsense

"Your coat… you must need it, it's very cold. I ate everything… thank you… I feel much better."

She slipped it from her shoulders, held it out, the heft of it almost too heavy on her arm.

"Hmph. I sold it to you. You will still be cold… Daein winters are long."

[ After the war, Volke picks up a new hobby, and it's unraveling why Ilyana is so hungry all the time. Ilyana's new hobby is him, and being the vessel of a god. ]

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This was another bad week. I tried to ask a few people for help with various obstacles; and, to my surprise, they all got really mad at me. Maybe it’s the heat, or maybe it’s just something in the ~~political climate~~ water. I’m doing my best not to take this unkindness personally, but it can be hard sometimes. I guess, if nothing else, this is a reminder to be willing to help other people without making them feel weird or guilty about it, even when I feel like hot garbage myself. In any case, the crunch period at work is almost over.

In the meantime, I’m just taking everything one step at a time while going on lots of nice walks with my dogs. The end of July is the beginning of Philadelphia’s “this is actually kind of an attractive city” season, so I’m enjoying it as much as I can.

Also! My stonecrop flowers are blooming!! Look at them:

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