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not sure if the poetry thing is still going on but here's something:

Андрей Вознесенский, Зов озера

Наши кеды как приморозило. Тишина. Гетто в озере. Гетто в озере. Три гектара живого дна. Гражданин в пиджачке гороховом зазывает на славный клев, только кровь на крючке его крохотном, кровь! «Не могу, — говорит Володька, — а по рылу — могу, это вроде как не укладывается в мозгу! Я живою водой умоюсь,может, чью-то жизнь расплещу. Может, Машеньку или Мойшу я размазываю по лицу. Ты не трожь воды плоскодонкой, уважаемый инвалид, ты пощупай ее ладонью — болит! Может, так же не чьи-то давние, а ладони моей жены, плечи, волосы, ожидание будут кем-то растворены? А базарами колоссальными барабанит жабрами в жесть то, что было теплом, глазами, на колени любило сесть…» «Не могу, — говорит Володька, — лишь зажмурюсь — в чугунных ночах, точно рыбы на сковородках, пляшут женщины и кричат!» Третью ночь как Костров пьет. И ночами зовет с обрыва. И к нему Является Рыба Чудо-юдо озерных вод! «Рыба, летучая рыба, с огневым лицом мадонны, с плавниками белыми рыба, Рива тебя звали, золотая Рива, Ривка, либо как-нибудь еще, с обрывком колючей проволоки или рыболовным крючком в верхней губе, рыба, рыба боли и печали, прости меня, прокляни, но что-нибудь ответь…» Ничего не отвечает рыба. Тихо. Озеро приграничное. Три сосны. Изумленнейшее хранилище жизни, облака, вышины.

1965

yes, it's still going on! thanks for the submission!

#ohhhh shortparis have an amazing song & music video based on this #i gotta read more voznesensky

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More random tropes that I fucking love: Becoming the mask you wore.

Like oh shit, this character who was sent to spy somewhere under a false identity suddenly realises they've started to genuinely become the person they claimed to be? Someone who's been telling the same lies about who they are for so long that they're actually forgetting that the story isn't true? Finding themselves genuinely doing the things they pretend to do in front of people, when they're alone and nobody's watching? Answering to a name that wasn't supposed to be theirs without thinking?

Ooohh-hoh-hoh, you lost track of yourself in pretending to be someone else? You were only supposed to impersonate somebody, a plausible background and a name you came up with on the spot, and now that the people you were supposed to infiltrate have become your true companions? You lost yourself in the game you played, and no you no longer know who you truly are, and where your true loyalties lie? And both sides would mark you a traitor if you came out with the truth. On a scale of one to ten, how bad did you fuck up.

Fuck that is a good trope. Never seen it done badly. Pour that shit on a table and I'll chop it into lines and snort it.

#reservoir dogs my BELOVED

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watching things with no fandom is so nice, like I'm the only one who thinks about these guys so I'm the only one Right about them and there's no one to contradict me. I'm like the niche fandom tyrant. but also sad because no friend 😕

#russian middle grade schoolers do write fanfiction for anna karenina #there's the devil's tar pit called ficbook and god save you from looking it up #karenin is ofc the fandom sexyman #but even i have to admit jude law kinda slapped in that one adaptation #anyway. relatable for so many books and movies #(oh yeah and i think that karenin's relationship with that one insane catholic lady who pretends she's not in love with him. lydia ivanovna #is completely hilarious and i love them)

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"On the Road" by Vasily Tevyashov (1987)

#many such cases

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My take on the Sherlock Holmes books

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the way that wes anderson casually drops a masterpiece on closeted gay grief and everyone ignores it because we’ve already seen ‘a single man’ or something

#asteroid city #it is also such a love letter to theatre and to writing and and #like i'm glad we have such a rich field to choose from but everyone who hasn't been screaming about this movie at me has let me down #yes it's not straightforward yes it's almost arthouse #but don't you love to use your brain a little bit sometimes?

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“I think he was looking for an excuse as to why his heart was beating so fast” says the guy who walks into Conrad’s house and immediately feels the need to punch out a window

#insane movie for insane ppl #asteroid city

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augie not telling his children their mother died at first, just like the narrator not telling us that conrad died at first... is this anything

#thank you gonna be insane about this for 3 business weeks #asteroid city

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#i quote this post to my friends at least once a month

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the typical way homophobia warps back around to become dripping with homoeroticism

simmons started with the premise 'how do i make my gay ex-couple celibate and pure as an angel's wing' and worked his way to 'i should make one of them not really gay just a kinsey 1 for this one guy only' (rediscovering a typical fandom strategy) and then he got to an eternal classic 'what if i was your student and fell in love with you for the very first time and you taught me everything both about life and about love' and then he shrugged and said 'good job and then they broke up amicably and never thought about it again'

#simmons is an insane little man! never thought twice before putting words to paper!! #the terror #peglar x bridgens #honestly gay & homophobic is the best thing for a story to be #like food without salt!! is gay fiction without the writer's homophobia!!

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the way that you people are sleeping on the only good & hilarious dynamic in the novel namely divorced peglar/bridgens. harry has had it with the know-it-all old man who always thinks him a child in need of protection and coddling! a man has his pride!! (or does he?)

#tell me this is not the height of comedy #peglar x bridgens #the terror

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the way that you people are sleeping on the only good & hilarious dynamic in the novel namely divorced peglar/bridgens. harry has had it with the know-it-all old man who always thinks him a child in need of protection and coddling! a man has his pride!! (or does he?)

#the terror #the book was much much worse than i expected but it gave me this #not intentionally ofc but simmons wrote what he wrote no takebacks

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i simply don't understand why simmons is so insane about command hierarchy. he so consistently paints the mere idea of challenging crozier (never mind outright munity) as nothing more than cravenness. in order to bring it home he has to have peglar monologuing to himself how he hates and despises mutineers??

i didn't think the show did a good enough job of balancing the two perspectives out but at least it tried, simmons didn't even consider there's something worth talking about

#idk i don't think the man understood any of the interesting themes emerging from his story at all #the whole imperialism & relationships to natives angle is just left dangling there #while in the show they really take it home #the terror

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the thing that delights me about mr cornelius hickey in amc's the terror is that the first notable thing he does is get caught bumping uglies with whatshisface and when you hear that you're like "oh, okay, this is going to be his character axis, he's the gay one" which means you are COMPLETELY unprepared for him to start murdering people. by the time you get to him running shirtless across the tundra and doing unprompted cannibalism his sexuality is entirely irrelevant. like this is an equal opportunity descent into madness. homosexuality is still illegal but i guarantee the giant polar bear with a human face is going to get him before the cops do which is a win for representation in my book

#god forbid if women do anything!! #and then the cops still get him first #(the flogging scene is when i fell in love with him & the whole show) #the terror #cornelius hickey

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ok but i do have to give it to him it's very funny when after peglar bemoans 'oh he's always talking down to me that's what you get for starting the relationship as a teacher & pupil he'll never see me as an equal ugh how irritating' bridgens just calmly goes on to lecture captain crozier himself (and narrowly escapes hanging). he's like that to everyone harry don't take it personally <3

i want to kill dan simmons with hammers

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i want to kill dan simmons with hammers

#listening to 'the terror' audiobook #it's predictably bad and predictably misogynistic #(altho i actually like sophia as much as i've seen her) #but now i've come upon the peglar & bridgens sections and i'm really struggling #never brings his 'sodomy' habit aboard the ship WHAT A GUY WHAT A CHAMP #hammers..... #the terror

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