noclassnowitnosoul

[noclassnowitnosoul]

I love the presence of recurring sets in Black Sails. When scenes return to these settings so that characters can have more conversations in them, we the viewers (and sometimes the characters as well) are visibly and forcibly reminded of the prior conversations and plot points that took place. The tavern office in Nassau as its actual seat of power is the most obvious, but there is also the brothel, the beach, and to a lesser extent the fort. Every captain’s cabin, although they are each different from each other, also follows this motif. The cabins enforce a rigid hierarchy in their similarity - the stern windows, the novelty of privacy aboard a tall ship, and the captain’s desk or seat as a visible symbol of authority. Huge amounts of nonverbal character work can be done in these recurring sets, just by placing different characters in different positions.

Which is why hitting Skeleton Island and wiping ALL of that history and context away hits us so hard.

#op you are a genius #black sails #I cant even explain how meaningful this is

[noclassnowitnosoul]

A couple of years ago I became obessed with slugs and made this sweet creature, a slug with legs called Sluguenda, in a time of being uncertain and depressed, she lifted up my spirits and along with her I made up the ‘Molluscat’ species for fun. I hope you like them!

[noclassnowitnosoul]

The introductory “Hate” monologue from I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, with AM voiced by the TikTok TTS

[noclassnowitnosoul]

i love divorced dad rock so so much. mr breaking benjamin just GETS me

[noclassnowitnosoul]

[noclassnowitnosoul]

the anglo mind cannot comprehend binnenpretje

[noclassnowitnosoul]

I just had the age old discussion again with a few Dutch classmates. It was about a phrase Dutch people often throw out there: "Dutch is an ugly language." And every time I hear it my heart breaks. Not that I didn't agree with it when I was younger, but I do now realise how wrong I was.

The argument people bring most often is that it just sounds ugly and funny. But I think what people deem ugly about Dutch is exactly why it's such a beautiful language. We are generally seen as a very direct (or rude) people, not beating around the bush but talking about things exactly as they are. This could also be why Dutch people gravitate towards English so much, where you have so much choice in vocabulary that you can usually find a beautiful and poetic way to phrase things and make it "artistic".

But when you then translate those English sentences back to Dutch they sound super weird, and people then claim it's because Dutch is a broken language. But I think there's a strength to every language and as long as you lean into that you can create such profound things.

My favourite example is from a line from a Dutch song by Racoon from this Dutch album.

Spijt is iets voor later, maar dan ben je bijna dood

If you translate it you get something like "Regret is something for later, but then you're almost dead." it just sounds weeeeiiird. I feel like the second part of that line sounds especially bizarre, but then again, I'm not a native English speaker so I can't truly know.

But the Dutch example feels perfectly normal; it's raw and genuine, and this is where Dutch as a language excels. Tap into your emotion, lay them bare and sing about them. I don't know if this rawness makes people uncomfortable, but it seems like Dutch art requires a level of vulnerability for it to sound genuine, and perhaps that is why it can be confrontational? I'm not sure, these are just some thoughts that I had to get out there. I'll probably write up something more coherent later. Maybe I should start sharing more Dutch art and get people interested in the language.

Regardless this is why I don't believe that we will ever stop learning languages even with the rise in translation software. You can translate factual information perfectly, but emotions do not carry over cleanly. I mean I'm living in Japan right now partly because I want to truly understand haiku and Japanese literature. It's why I read English authors in English, and Dutch authors in Dutch, even when the English translation is more popular.

Just, Dutch can be beautiful if you're open to it. We Dutch people are very good at being spineless, but straighten those backs and write a poem or something, you'll feel better afterwards.

[noclassnowitnosoul]

The Dyke Project manifesto printed on the back of estradiol and testogel boxes

[noclassnowitnosoul]

this is by far my favorite safety/warning sign btw. they really went off with this one

[noclassnowitnosoul]

Hey! Here’s a little five page comic I did about boot blacking and kink. I had a lot of fun with it, and talked to some really cool people.

[noclassnowitnosoul]

Communists and anarchists will spend all day talking about abstract concepts and structures like capitalism and the state, but willfully ignore the very real, tangible curse placed upon me by the foul necromancer

[noclassnowitnosoul]

deleting my dating apps because i want to meet someone the old fashioned way (i am brutally beating a man to death to maintain my extremely fragile status as captain of my pirate ship and you're my new lying ass fake cook with his silly little fake name witnessing the scene like you're both scared and horny)

[noclassnowitnosoul]

"The T-Men Photo Gallery" on thetransitionalmale.com (2007)

[noclassnowitnosoul]

Mauro C. Martinez (American, 1986) - Trust (2022)

[noclassnowitnosoul]

notice how after he shredded this, vaccines started being released

[noclassnowitnosoul]

Who up treinvervangending their vervoer

[noclassnowitnosoul]

revolutionary girl lithuania