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#unwell. #jjk

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going forward i will only consume problematic media

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eagle: so what do you think about stigmata

prometheus: you know we're in a pre-christian myth, right? like that word doesn't exist yet. your dumb joke is anachronistic.

eagle: stigma talons in your flesh

#Ne humor

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Old art 🤲

#princess tutu

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i know an engineer-type dude who said fiction bored him, because fiction is mostly-formulaic and tropey, and you can generally guess what’s gonna happen next, and yada yada

so his solution for this problem was… to solely read serial web novels in languages that (1) he did not speak, and (2) for which there was no actual translation, fan or otherwise

apparently, the combined forces of “trying to figure out WTF is going on via the power of Google Translate" + “cultural differences in storytelling conventions” + “the inherent randomness of where the hell amateur authors are gonna take their plots”—those all mashed up to make stories that were unpredictable enough to keep him guessing all the time

then he described to me this totally batshit-sounding Hungarian story he’d been obsessively reading once a week for years

and god i think about him all the time.  like.  that is the most wild way to process fiction that i have ever heard of, but also, i’ve gotta admire the sheer chaos energy of it

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this is what it feels like to open your notifications after you posted what u thought would be a banger but youve only gotten 1 like

#succession

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My boys… 🥺😢

#yep my boys my favorite boys!! 😭 #jjk

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It's so fucking over

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Perfect Blue (1997) Dir. Satoshi Kon

#a

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I don't want sex. I want drugs

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Is there someone you forgot to ask?

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I think

I think i am becoming unshackled from the anger . The upset, it doesnt make sense anymore. So its okay to be angry and upset, its meaningless.

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#johannes

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'A moonlight ride on an owl's back' from Fairy Guardians by F. Willoughby, 1875

#m

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I am utterly compelled. beguiled, even, by Daniil’s Horace quotation in Patho Classic: “ira furor brevis est,” or “anger is a brief madness” (Epistulae 1.2.62). The phrase feels like a more subtle precursor to Daniil’s Seneca allusion in P2: “Imperare sibi maximum imperium est” or “to rule oneself is the highest power” (Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 113.31.1). That is, both phrases advocate self-control; Seneca’s is obvious, though Horace’s requires context from the full phrase and letter proper, in which he advocates self-control through wisdom (sapienta). The entire sentence is: “ira furor brevis est: animum rege, qui nisi paret, imperat; hunc frenis, hunc tu conpesce catena,” or ((very roughly)) “anger is a brief madness: rule [your] spirit, which if not submitting, rules; you, restrain this with reins, this with a chain.” The juxtaposition between anger and madness particularly interests me, according to how these crop up in Daniil’s character. And yeah I *am* probably looking into this too much but umm. That is literally what I do let us proceed.

Daniil appears emotional, highly reactive, and potentially prone to anger; particularly given his reaction to Simon’s death and Aglaya’s supposed betrayal. Now as this concerns Horace’s quote, Daniil’s one concretely self-professed fear is madness: “Madness is frightening… It’s the only thing I’m truly afraid of.” This appears inexorable from his guiding rationality: “And I, a champion of reason, fear madness over anything else!” So. Most curious why the devs chose to have Daniil say this. His P2 characterization and general internal locus-of-control suggest that he would strive for self-control, yet the quote still feels almost ironic considering his general behavior. Especially since he says this to Saburov on Day 6 during his literal witch hunt, but Daniil’s Day 12 decision ostensibly hinges on his rage at Aglaya’s “”betrayal”””. It’s as though Daniil thinks his rationality and accordingly logical justice place him above madness, but he succumbs to his own form through his tendency to act on anger. 

#so interesting!! #i have half-formed enneagram thoughts about this... #pathologic #the character writing in this game is so incredinle