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"However, the narrative trajectory of the triangulated love story is intercut with interstitial scenes that interrupt the filmic text. Each of these interstitial scenes begins with a few seconds of complete silence followed by a voiceover that conveys to the viewer some tangential information about one of the three characters. Equally as often, the voice-over conveys information about something happening outside the car on the road, to random people or to the actual landscape.

These scenes, which might otherwise be read as pastoral asides, are a key to understanding the film as anything but innocent or apolitical. They brush up against the "main action" of the film, steadfastly decentering the plot while nevertheless insisting on interdependence between the peripheral and the con- sequential story lines. Thus, a psychoanalytic reading of the Oedipal complex as it unfolds among the three protagonists allows for an allegorical understanding of their triangulated desire. Their Oedipal desire enacts the final crisis in revolutionary nationalism brought about by the onslaught of NAFTA and neoliberalism."

"In the Shadow of NAFTA: Y Tu Mamá También Revisits the National Allegory of Mexican Sovereignty" By María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo

American Quarterly, Sep., 2005, Vol. 57, No. 3, Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders (Sep., 2005), pp. 751-777

(Film Analysis Hours)

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when i was a kid my parents bought me an inflatable doll of the Scream by Edvard Munch (??) that was significantly taller than i was at the time and i used to slow-dance with it and pretend it was my boyfriend. It had its hands attached to its head obviously so it felt like he was always a bit horrified to be forced to dance with me

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I drew a quick little comics essay today about a topic near and dear to my heart: horror for kids!

Or, “why some kids like to read books that scare them, and why you should let them.”

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Edvard Munch, pictures of his dog, Fips, 1930s

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art by the talented @Secondlina you can read her comic on webtoons

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My absolute FAVORITE piece of art right now,

Monkey Seated on Rocks Above the Sea

Kano Sansetsu (1589 - 1651)

Source

I just love his little face

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disco elysium video essays :

Judicial Opinions: What Makes Disco Elysium a Modern Classic? [Full Spoilers] by Noah Caldwell-Gervais

Searching for Disco Elysium by Jacob Geller

The Philosophy of Disco Elysium by Kybitzed

What Disco Elysium Means to Me by Leadhead

Disco Elysium, Roleplaying Heaven by Curio

Disco Elysium: In-Depth Analysis by Nightmare Masterclass

Why Disco Elysium Is The Most Hopeful Game I’ve Ever Played by Kay and Skittles

An Analysis of Disco Elysium’s Protagonist by Steve Bahn

Disco Elysium - All Hobocops are Bastards by Renegade Cut (tw: police brutality footage/images)

Disco Elysium: Beauty in Failure by MangoSpeaks

Disco Elysium | Literary Analysis by Levity Books

Who is the Hero of Disco Elysium? by Static Canvas

Disco Elysium, Acid Communism, and Revolutionary Art [Spoilers] by Vogon Theater

The Philosophy of Disco Elysium: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, and Absurd Modernism by Epoch Philosophy

The Art of Disco Elysium Review: A Magnum Opus with Tequila Sunset by Artbook Addiction

Disco Elysium - An Existential Investigation by Jacques Smuts

tl;dr here’s a playlist of all the video essays listed

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Anton Vill - Thought Cabinet // Clive James - The poems I remember are the milestones marking the journey of my life (Guardian) // Karin Mamma Andersson - Collect One’s Thoughts // Follower of Hieronymus Bosch - Christ in Limbo

Some poems read almost like prose and some prose almost like poetry. The Thoughts, their descriptions, in Disco Elysium seem (almost) like poems to me (especially The Bow Collector, Cleaning Out The Rooms, Lonesome Long Way Home, Motorway South, White Mourning, The Insulindian Miracle), like Harry’s version of the Volta do Mar (the psychological regimen imitating the creation process of poetry to help with mental troubles), his method to not only make sense of the world but also to deal with his trauma.

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Soapy used to say that Alaska wasn’t just a state, but… a state of mind.

HAPPY 30 YEARS OF NORTHERN EXPOSURE (JULY 12, 1990)

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the main thing that puts me off of playing chess is that there is 2000 years of gameplay that hundreds of people with higher IQs than me have spent thousands of hours studying the history of, so much so that when i put the pawn forward they say “ah i see youre going for the bulgarian somersault” and then i try to take their bishop with my knight and they go “aw, rookie mistake, youve played the frenchmans cumsock, and in approximately 37 moves i’ll have won”

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Lesbian Pulp Novels with Happy Endings, Part Two

It’s a myth that all lesbian pulp novels ended tragically, with one of the women dying or going mad and the other marrying a man. Happy endings (where two women end up together) were uncommon, but appeared in books throughout the pulp era.

Here are seven from the last decade of pulp. Free links to the texts have been provided where available.

See part one here.

1. These Curious Pleasures by Sloane Britain, 1961. “Sloane works as a secretary to a New York television producer. She lives in the Village and enjoys cruising the bars at night for one-night stands with women she doesn’t know. She has a few part-time lovers, but hasn’t found the woman who would steal her heart … until she meets Allison, a young actress.” [link]

2. The Jealous and the Free by March Hastings, 1961.

This novel follows Michele, an inexperienced lesbian, and her budding relationship with her roommate Leda, and her difficulties in finding her way as a butch lesbian. [link]

3. The Sex Between by Randy Salem, 1962.

“Lee is a butch woman with many conquests under her belt. She pursues other women with abandon and has lesbian lovers all over town. Her only problem? No matter who she is with, she can’t stop thinking of Maggie. Maggie is sweet on Lee, too, but the matriarch of her family, Kate, has decided Maggie must marry in order to produce an heir to the family fortune. Lee knows she has fallen in love with Maggie, but the thought of giving up her freewheeling ways frightens her. Will Lee admit her feelings for Maggie in time to stop the wedding? Will Maggie defy her grandmother and give up a fortune for a chance at love and happiness with Lee?” [link]

4. Forbidden Sex by Joan Ellis, 1963.

Jean is a secretary in the film industry who supports her lying and philandering husband full time. She’s tired of her unhappy marriage. When she meets an actress called Lee sparks fly, but Lee’s feelings are more than friendly. How will Jean react when Lee reveals her true feelings, and can Lee put love ahead of her career? [link]

5. Return to Lesbos by Valerie Taylor, 1963.

This steamy sequel to Stranger on Lesbos finds Frances, the heroine, stuck in an abusive marriage. She has given up on love when she meets Erika in a bookstore. Both have been damaged by life - can they find the strength to love again? [link]

6. Unlike Others by Valerie Taylor, 1963.

Jo has just ended a relationship with another woman, and decided she is going to focus on her career and stay away from women. Then she meets Betsy at work and all her resolutions go out the window. But Betsy is dating their boss, Stan … [link]

7. Journey to Fulfillment by Valerie Taylor, 1963.

Erika, a Jewish survivor of a Nazi concentration camp, is adopted into a U.S. family. In the United States she is free to meet women and to explore her butch identity. A prequel to the Erika Frohmann series (Stranger on Lesbos, Return to Lesbos and A World Without Men). [link]

(Please note: These books were written at a time when lesbian relationships were taboo in the United States and may reflect prejudices of the era. They may also contain confronting themes like violence against women). Source: The Lesbian Pulp Fiction Project

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Every named Powder Ganger in New Vegas ranked by ME

(based on no criteria whatsoever)

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In anticipation of the (now virtual) New York Caribbean Week and the annual Labor Day Parade, this August we’re highlighting artworks in the Museum’s collection that celebrate the presence of Caribbean culture and its diasporas.

Nari Ward’s layered and evocative sculptural practice takes shape from found, and often discarded, objects. Ward draws on Jamaican folk art traditions of repurposing and reimagining new forms from unexpected materials. In Crusader, a shopping cart acts as a chariot, an old chandelier as its prow, and a ring of used gas cans encircles a tall, curved cocoon made of interlaced plastic bags. The gas cans and applied tar extract point to oil as fuel for energy, and of global conflict and change. The shopping cart references social and material instability at home, given their use by unhoused people for mobile storage. Though Crusader sits silently when installed in a gallery, it was once navigated by the artist, poised within the shopping cart’s protective shell, through the streets of New York City, its subtle rattle competing with the sounds of Harlem. 

Starting September 9, come view Nari Ward’s video of Crusader, along with other videos from the Brooklyn Museum’s collection, in an upcoming outdoor screening series—stay tuned for details!

Posted by Carmen Hermo Nari Ward (Jamaican, born 1963). Crusader, 2005. Plastic bags, metal, shopping cart, trophy elements, tar extract, chandelier, plastic containers. 2008.52.1a-b. © artist or artist’s estate  Installation view of 21: Selections of Contemporary Art from the Brooklyn Museum, 2008

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So I was told that Human Planet had a segment about pigeons in the Cities episode that I might be interested in and I was honestly so underwhelmed. I haven’t finished the episode so maybe there’s more pigeon stuff but I feel like all I saw was more Birds Of Prey Are The Only Cool And Acceptable Birds and pigeons are Trespassers In Our Urban World Who Shit On Everything And Are Useless On Top Of It. Which isn’t true and I’m so tired of this being framed as some horrible burden that humanity must face. Pigeons are the victims here, not us. 

Hate of pigeons didn’t start until the 20th Century. Before that was about 9,900 years of loving them. The rock pigeon was domesticated 10,000 years ago and not only that, we took them freaking everywhere. Pigeons were the first domesticated bird and they were an all-around animal even though they were later bred into more specialised varieties. They were small but had a high feed conversion rate, in other words it didn’t cost a whole lot of money or space to keep and they provided a steady and reliable source of protein as eggs or meat. They home, so you could take them with you and then release them from wherever you were and they’d pretty reliably make their way back. Pigeons are actually among the fastest flyers and they can home over some incredible distances (what fantastic navigators!). They were an incredibly important line of communication for multiple civilisations in human history. You know the first ever Olympics? Pigeons were delivering that news around the Known World at the time. Also, their ability to breed any time of year regardless of temperature or photoperiod? That was us, we did that to them, back when people who couldn’t afford fancier animals could keep a pair or two for meat/eggs. 

Rooftop pigeon keeping isn’t new, it’s been around for centuries and is/was important to a whole variety of cultures. Pigeons live with us in cities because we put them there, we made them into city birds. I get that there are problems with bird droppings and there’s implications for too-large flocks. By all means those are things we should look to control, but you don’t need to hate pigeons with every fibre of your being. You don’t need to despise them or brush them off as stupid (they have been intelligence tested extensively as laboratory animals because guess what other setting they’re pretty well-adapted to? LABORATORIES!) because they aren’t stupid. They’re soft intelligent creatures and I don’t have time to list everything I love about pigeons again. You don’t need to aggressively fight them or have a deep desire to kill them at all. It’s so unnecessary, especially if you realise that the majority of reasons pigeons are so ubiquitous is a direct result of human interference.

We haven’t always hated pigeons though, Darwin’s pigeon chapter in The Origin of Species took so much of the spotlight that publishers at the time wanted him to make the book ONLY about pigeons and to hell with the rest because Victorian’s were obsessed with pigeons (as much as I would enjoy a book solely on pigeons, it’s probably best that he didn’t listen).  My point is, for millenia, we loved pigeons. We loved them so much we took them everywhere with us and shaped them into a bird very well adapted for living alongside us.

It’s only been very recently that we decided we hated them, that we decided to blame them for ruining our cities. The language we use to describe pigeons is pretty awful. But it wasn’t always, and I wish we remembered that. I wish we would stop blaming them for being what we made them, what they are, and spent more time actually tackling the problems our cities face.  

I just have a lot of feelings about how complex and multidimensional hating pigeons actually is

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Yay, it’s finally here! Sim State Dude’s Open For Business for Sims 3 has arrived! I had the privilege of being part of a fun and great group of simmers who helped test this mod over at MissyHissy’s Discord and this mod is amazing, definetly a game changer! *Download and install Dude’s mod and enjoy!*

Watch the launch trailer video on his Youtube channel here!

Link to SSD’s Youtube channel.

Sims State & Co mod notes:

Welcome to Sim State! A new mini expansion focused on adding ownable stores to the game in an open ended format. Create a store, hire employees, set objects for sale (without rugs!), restock objects, earn XP on sales to increase your rank and more! Check it out below! DISCLAIMER: The mod has been thoroughly tested by myself and other simmers but due to the nature of public release I cannot guarantee you won’t run into a new one! As a rule make backups to keep your saves safe, but you can shutdown a business by purchasing a computer and using the ‘Manage Business’ option on the lot, this should fix any Sim State specific issues for a buggy lot. Thanks! DONATIONS Completely optional but for anyone who enjoys the mod and would be interested in helping out financially you have my deepest appreciation! FEATURES -Ownable Stores Create and run stores across town, you can open a maximum of one business per lot, but there are no limits on the amount of stores you can run! Pay the $1000 set up fee and start today! -Hire & Manage Employees Use the scripted OFB register to manage your store and hire/fire employees! Call them into work and assign them roles, you can even switch households and work at a store run by another sim, create managers and complex economy systems around your town! Running an upmarket boutique? Customise your employee uniforms to match the style. -XP & Ranks Stores level up in rank similar to resorts. Using a custom UI system you can earn up to 5 stars which allow for more employees and higher prices! The ratio is 1:10 per Simolean earned! -Customer Satisfaction Points Inspired by a similar mechanic used in The Sims 2 your businesses earn points for each purchase. Use these points to purchase the $1000 cash reward or a security system! -Petty Theft Yup! Crime can be an issue for your stores, keep and eye out on sims eager for a freebie! If you see a notification popup and your stock diminishing you may be able to catch the thief quickly by clicking on them and using the 'Stop Thief’ interaction; this will call the police and have them arrested! Purchase the security system to automatically call them and halt any negative impact on your Customer Satisfaction Points! Keep an eye on those Kleptomaniacs and Evil sims… but anyone with the right motive could leave you missing a few items! -Mystery Shoppers Randomly sims that visit your store will have a chance of being a mystery shopper which will earn you a nice bonus of funds! Keep objects stocked up and prices fair to stand the best chance of high rewards. Can you get a perfect 100/100 score? -Frugal Sims… Not everyone will be happy with your inflated prices, keep some objects set to a low mark-up to ensure frugal sims don’t complain! -Power Surges Randomly during thunderstorms your sims have a chance of experience a power cut! Don’t worry though, the don’t last long… usually! -Custom UI’s & New In game Lessons A few visual improvements to the notification system give a fresh look to the game. You can also find 8 new lessons under the 'Sim State’ heading! Well after months of work and the great sims community I am pleased to finally release the mod! As mentioned above it may have a few outstanding bugs but hopefully nothing too serious, let me know how you find it in the comments! I would love to see what stores you run with Sim State so please post about the mod and your experiences on social media and YouTube! A few special thanks go out to Battery, GameFreak, Lyralei and Zoeee for all their help getting this project to release and helping me understand the Sims 3 API and learn C#! Finally I will be posting the source code and assets as open source in the near future, I am stepping back from active development myself but I know there’s a selection of active simmers interested in supporting the mod into the future. I would appreciate credit for the original idea and version but if you wish to take the mod/update it or release it in an updated form elsewhere I would be interested to see where it goes! Thank you to everyone who helped out and everyone who tries the mod, I really hope it adds something new and fun to The Sims 3 scene! I really believe that with the right motivation someone could create an entire new EP for TS3 it really is very moddable when you get stuck in! Enjoy! Regards, Sim State Dude (& Co)

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