𝕹𝖞𝖝 妛彁λ♀ :labrys-45-sickle:

instead of putting out a cigarette on you what if the 30 year old woman was an oldfag who hits you with memes from some niche subsets of internet culture that you really had to have been there to even remember

@unmind@social.xenofem.me lowkirk one of the best horror movies of the 21st century. it's like the pure distilled essence of the emotion of fear.

@allison@hidamari.apartments @georgia@netzsphaere.xyz year of the Linux desktop soon. thousands of fluoridated midwit ricers demanding free labor from unpaid contributors on fascist meme distros funded by Palantir and Israel

@nepetalactone@social.xenofem.me @unmind@social.xenofem.me when I first watched it I had really wanted to write a long review of it but I decided against it because I've been trying to resist the urge to talk-about other things instead of posting my own original thoughts on stuff (not that this hasn't resulted in me doing that haha... >_>). but the last two sentences of my letterboxd review were: "Like all good art, you aren't going to be spoonfed the point, and like all good horror, the point is entirely visceral and emotional, almost beyond words. You need to be able to let go and let yourself feel that kind of fear that you may not have experienced since being yourself a kid waking up in the middle of the night from a nightmare." something else I mentioned in my review is the Lovecraft quote about how fear is the oldest emotion and the oldest kind of fear is the fear of the unknown, which is why Skinamarink is not just a perfectly executed horror film but also understands horror as an affect better than few other things I've ever seen or read. all horror (channeling Thomas Ligotti rn) is ultimately about the paradoxical nature of abjection, of an eerily lively object, and precisely have *nothing* to do with "knowing" better. fear is fundamentally opposed to knowing and the experience of fear is an anticipation of the unknown, death being one of the most obvious and universal unknown, because such things being beyond words are beyond rational thought and language that from the perspective of a conscious and rational mind is essentially to be reduced to an object. but much like with intuitive thought, a productive imagination, paranormal phenomena, and the Dao, being a child is inherently a state of being able to be best acquainted with the purest forms of fear possible. that's part of what's so genius about Skinamarink as a horror film is that even if you've never had anything bad happen to you as a child (but especially if you have), everyone at some point in their lives has experienced that state of pure animal fear if only as a child having a nightmare and probably as an adult don't even remember it. it's not just universal in what it evokes but is even capable of channeling something that isn't even universal but properly Outside or *virtual* in the Deleuzian sense.

@winterklaus@social.xenofem.me fun fact sexual reproduction probably evolved at least partially due to bacterial cannibalism

@kyouu@social.xenofem.me @evamik@uwu.mikkonen.com @cyb3rm0shp1t@social.xenofem.me @unmind@social.xenofem.me it's also a biological motif that has existed for like 2 billion years

@MURRUMUR@social.xenofem.me @unmind@social.xenofem.me yeah because most people are stupid and have bad taste

@ripperdoll@social.xenofem.me cc @rowb1t@social.xenofem.me LSA mentioned

@rowb1t@social.xenofem.me @7666@comp.lain.la @sun@shitposter.world which way western man: Sinofuturist utopia (left ) or crumbling Angloid hellscape (right )

@rowb1t@social.xenofem.me @MURRUMUR@social.xenofem.me @unmind@social.xenofem.me the thing about It Follows is that it *is* in a sense about an STD but it's also a very midwit interpretation of the film. the Entity propagates through sex like a virus, but that tells you more about what the Entity can do, how it works, what the rules are, what sort of body it is :xf_ascended-spinoza: rather than what it's "about" or what it's a metaphor for. It Follows is another one of my top horror movies of the 21st century thus far and I think part of that is self-evident by how timeless it feels despite being probably the most paradigmatic example of the 2010s horror revival before it became reterritorialized by soy "elevated horror" A24 slow-burn psychological horror tropes. much like Skinamarink it gets at something about horror that transcends conventions that make us think of horror as a "genre" like fantasy or sci-fi and is more like, about the emotion of fear itself. but it has a very different take on it from Skinamarink. not exactly a deconstruction of horror but more like a decomposition of it, stripping-down the components of horror media to its basic parts then making something completely new where the horror is not in the "text" in either a modern or postmodern way (i.e. either symbolic of something or reflecting on the symbolism itself in a meta way) but rather creates a conceivable concept and then sets it loose to do fucked up things to humans. basically It Follows to me was riding on the wave of speculative realism and renewed interest in Lovecraft in the 2010s but made use of the conceptual framework of like "weird fiction" or "philosophical horror" like that of Lovecraft and Ligotti (and the first season of True Detective which came out right around then) in such a subtle and skillful way that hardly anyone to my knowledge has ever noticed and commented on how well-engineered it is.

@MURRUMUR@social.xenofem.me @unmind@social.xenofem.me ngl over the past year I've increasingly started to feel like 99% of the population is barely more sapient than an ape but with less intuitive intelligence. I keep telling myself this is a very arrogant way of thinking and that I should remember to be humble so I don't get filtered by Choronzon but genuinely most humans are like stupider than animals.

it's giving the D

@ripperdoll@social.xenofem.me I'll have to remember to finish it whenever we hang out lol. I've only read part of it but it's really fucking cool

@ripperdoll@social.xenofem.me oh yeah I gotta rant at you sometime about this really cool book that came out in 2020 called The Immortality Key

@monkey@brain.worm.pink @vriska@lizards.live already exists

@cyb3rm0shp1t@social.xenofem.me @unmind@social.xenofem.me I wish anything scared me, I tend to forget people even have reactions like that towards horror movies

@monkey@brain.worm.pink do monkeys even count like they're basically just spicy humans

@cyb3rm0shp1t@social.xenofem.me @unmind@social.xenofem.me :pondering:

burn shit down and kill people

@vriska@lizards.live bars

@rowb1t@social.xenofem.me welp not gonna make this one -w-

certain types of posts are just verboten because they receive too much engagement but sometimes I slip up

@vriska@lizards.live as you shouldn't

might need to finally just do polyphasic sleep. fuck it

type of shit I'm on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6-0v3SVcO4

nicotine withdrawals

@7666@comp.lain.la @sun@shitposter.world whereas turning right leads to Canadian London

someday you will make some maggots very happy

if you willingly choose to write software in python you should be sent to a reeducation camp

cybernetics, systems theory and complexity theory (and Deleuze's milieu (including Stirner and Nietzsche) if you're deep into philosophy) are a better theoretical basis for critiques of the state than that of basically all ideologically anarchist writing I've ever come across

death to amerikkka of course

@lizzie@brain.worm.pink for citizenship in a country that isn't Hitler incarnate yeah

@7666@comp.lain.la yeah I can see it lol

oh yeah I'm doing some Research fuck this "real lesbianism has never been tried" shit we're gonna write some motherfucking theory to inform the praxis

@rowb1t@social.xenofem.me I'm already tired all the time anyways so clearly trying to be normal isn't working for me

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@rowb1t@social.xenofem.me we'll see about that

I don't need therapy, I need a fat blunt and an interesting computer science paper

@dushman@hollow.raccoon.quest @sun@shitposter.world @7666@comp.lain.la nightmares beyond human comprehension

@coolbean@brain.worm.pink @woof@fedi.aria.dog @wire_witch@social.xenofem.me I have one, it's basically useless even as just a pocket computer because of how goddamn slow it is and how very clearly every "mobile Linux" distro is trying to make Linux do things it was never meant to do with apps that are not optimized for the hardware they're running on.

why does processing carcasses have to be such an involved and conspicuous process I just want piles of bones as fast as possible

@vriska@lizards.live if there are any women reading this begone succubi you will not steal my orgones

Not Invented Here award 🏅

@7666@comp.lain.la behead those who insult GNU Emacs

@TV_Glow@social.xenofem.me they're kinda doing that unintentionally by making it impossible for anyone to get jobs :v