Jasmine
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God's goodness appears in strange places.
Managed to pick up some new books recently! Really looking forward to diving into them.
I've never actually actually read much Danielewski but I got tempted into picking up Tom's Crossing on a whim. (Pynchon of course is an old favourite).
I've never actually actually read much Danielewski but I got tempted into picking up Tom's Crossing on a whim. (Pynchon of course is an old favourite).
November 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Managed to pick up some new books recently! Really looking forward to diving into them.
I've never actually actually read much Danielewski but I got tempted into picking up Tom's Crossing on a whim. (Pynchon of course is an old favourite).
I've never actually actually read much Danielewski but I got tempted into picking up Tom's Crossing on a whim. (Pynchon of course is an old favourite).
I started listening to Death Grips and instantly realised I've just become a more fundamentally annoying kind of person.
October 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I started listening to Death Grips and instantly realised I've just become a more fundamentally annoying kind of person.
I watched Zhang Yimou's Curse of the Golden Flower this evening which I've been meaning to watch for a bout 13 years. I regret not tracking it down much sooner, what a beautiful, brutal movie. An instant favourite.
There's a lot to treasure here but Gong Li's costuming is burned into my soul.
There's a lot to treasure here but Gong Li's costuming is burned into my soul.
October 6, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I watched Zhang Yimou's Curse of the Golden Flower this evening which I've been meaning to watch for a bout 13 years. I regret not tracking it down much sooner, what a beautiful, brutal movie. An instant favourite.
There's a lot to treasure here but Gong Li's costuming is burned into my soul.
There's a lot to treasure here but Gong Li's costuming is burned into my soul.
Catching up with the reviews for One Battle After Another and it's a great filter to just ignore any critic who starts by talking about a film's budget and the studios finances at the beginning of the review.
October 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Catching up with the reviews for One Battle After Another and it's a great filter to just ignore any critic who starts by talking about a film's budget and the studios finances at the beginning of the review.
Fear & Hunger's premise of "What if Griffith was rescued and then took on the God Hand?" Is incredibly hackish but the game makes it work by giving us the answer "Everyone would die in the most awful ways imaginable."
September 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Fear & Hunger's premise of "What if Griffith was rescued and then took on the God Hand?" Is incredibly hackish but the game makes it work by giving us the answer "Everyone would die in the most awful ways imaginable."
Playing through Fear & Hunger and this game feels like the most accurate version of how a traditional; "Dungeon Crawl" would go in that you just have you limbs cut off and die from tetanus while crawling away from maniacally laughing head of an evil wizard.
10/10 game so far.
10/10 game so far.
September 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Playing through Fear & Hunger and this game feels like the most accurate version of how a traditional; "Dungeon Crawl" would go in that you just have you limbs cut off and die from tetanus while crawling away from maniacally laughing head of an evil wizard.
10/10 game so far.
10/10 game so far.
Staying strong in my belief that England is a cursed land where nothing good can ever grow.
September 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Staying strong in my belief that England is a cursed land where nothing good can ever grow.
I always pictured Ligotti's stories taking place in a some industrial slump town made of stained concrete and rusted iron. Somewhere that resembled the decaying factory towns I grew up near. But looking at actual photos of Detroit all I see is endless American suburbia which looks more inhuman.
September 17, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I always pictured Ligotti's stories taking place in a some industrial slump town made of stained concrete and rusted iron. Somewhere that resembled the decaying factory towns I grew up near. But looking at actual photos of Detroit all I see is endless American suburbia which looks more inhuman.
I managed to see Weapons just before it left the cinema here. I know I'm late to the party but I really enjoyed it. It managed to thread the needle between being suspenseful and then very funny at times. I loved the shifting perspectives following various threads to a really fun climax.
September 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I managed to see Weapons just before it left the cinema here. I know I'm late to the party but I really enjoyed it. It managed to thread the needle between being suspenseful and then very funny at times. I loved the shifting perspectives following various threads to a really fun climax.
I don't think it's a good sign for the future of humanity that if I open the app store on my phone half of the top recommended apps are AI digital girlfriends.
August 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I don't think it's a good sign for the future of humanity that if I open the app store on my phone half of the top recommended apps are AI digital girlfriends.
I managed to get my hands on this! I'm very excited to read it, one of the few Thomas Ligotti books I haven't read yet.
April 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I managed to get my hands on this! I'm very excited to read it, one of the few Thomas Ligotti books I haven't read yet.
Waking up and finding out that the government has quite casually removed all trans people's rights is painful enough. But having to watch as all the most rancid bigots on either side of the Atlantic celebrate the pain and misery they've caused is unbearable.
April 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Waking up and finding out that the government has quite casually removed all trans people's rights is painful enough. But having to watch as all the most rancid bigots on either side of the Atlantic celebrate the pain and misery they've caused is unbearable.
I spent over ten hours travelling yesterday to see a doctor so that he could tell me that if I get my testicles removed I will be unable to have children. (This is the second time I've had to travel to see a doctor and be told this)
I had to restrain myself from replying by just reciting Kafka.
I had to restrain myself from replying by just reciting Kafka.
April 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I spent over ten hours travelling yesterday to see a doctor so that he could tell me that if I get my testicles removed I will be unable to have children. (This is the second time I've had to travel to see a doctor and be told this)
I had to restrain myself from replying by just reciting Kafka.
I had to restrain myself from replying by just reciting Kafka.
I'm genuinely a bit surprised at how the "romantasy" genre seems to have taken over fantasy lit but there's been almost no effort to court that audience from Hollywood or the games industry.
I feel sure that whoever makes a gacha/dating sim about collecting a harem of fairy boys would outsell CoD.
I feel sure that whoever makes a gacha/dating sim about collecting a harem of fairy boys would outsell CoD.
March 30, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I'm genuinely a bit surprised at how the "romantasy" genre seems to have taken over fantasy lit but there's been almost no effort to court that audience from Hollywood or the games industry.
I feel sure that whoever makes a gacha/dating sim about collecting a harem of fairy boys would outsell CoD.
I feel sure that whoever makes a gacha/dating sim about collecting a harem of fairy boys would outsell CoD.
I got to see The People's Joker in cinema last night, which was pretty neat. Probably the only Joker movie I'll ever watch and while it wasn't really my kind of film I did have fun seeing it with the dolls.
February 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I got to see The People's Joker in cinema last night, which was pretty neat. Probably the only Joker movie I'll ever watch and while it wasn't really my kind of film I did have fun seeing it with the dolls.
This just looks like a group of background characters from Xavier Renegade Angel.
This is Meta’s brand new ad for Horizon Worlds. Not sure how I’m supposed to feel about it.
February 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
This just looks like a group of background characters from Xavier Renegade Angel.
I'm used to great works of art having awful fanbases but there's something special in the way the average Berserk fan fails to appreciate the actual manga.
January 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I'm used to great works of art having awful fanbases but there's something special in the way the average Berserk fan fails to appreciate the actual manga.
My obsession with Nietzsche has led me to start reading up on the Greek worship of Dionysos. Which is incredibly frustrating as a trans person because Dionysos was frequently depicted as an androgynous cross dresser but this aspect seems to be of no interest to the academics who write about him.
January 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
My obsession with Nietzsche has led me to start reading up on the Greek worship of Dionysos. Which is incredibly frustrating as a trans person because Dionysos was frequently depicted as an androgynous cross dresser but this aspect seems to be of no interest to the academics who write about him.
Hadn't really paid attention to Ethel Cain but dropping a video titled "My Favourite Types of Gay Porn" followed by an album of depressing drone music is enough to make me a diehard fan.
January 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Hadn't really paid attention to Ethel Cain but dropping a video titled "My Favourite Types of Gay Porn" followed by an album of depressing drone music is enough to make me a diehard fan.
Every time I tell someone from my gender clinic I wish I looked more feminine they get surprised and confused. They turn into Socrates and start going "Well what does 'looking like a woman' even mean?" like it's not their fucking job to help people transition.
January 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Every time I tell someone from my gender clinic I wish I looked more feminine they get surprised and confused. They turn into Socrates and start going "Well what does 'looking like a woman' even mean?" like it's not their fucking job to help people transition.
It's hard to overstate how much David Lynch's films mean to me. Some of my happiest memories as a teen are being introduced to his works by a boy I had a crush on. And later taking a girl who had a crush on me to see Wild at Heart in the cinema.
Farewell to one of the great artists of our times.
Farewell to one of the great artists of our times.
January 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
It's hard to overstate how much David Lynch's films mean to me. Some of my happiest memories as a teen are being introduced to his works by a boy I had a crush on. And later taking a girl who had a crush on me to see Wild at Heart in the cinema.
Farewell to one of the great artists of our times.
Farewell to one of the great artists of our times.
Currently working my way through Alan and Steve Moore's Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic.
It's an absolutely beautiful book and I'm enjoying it a lot even if I find myself unconvinced by this kind of syncretic esotericism.
It's an absolutely beautiful book and I'm enjoying it a lot even if I find myself unconvinced by this kind of syncretic esotericism.
January 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Currently working my way through Alan and Steve Moore's Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic.
It's an absolutely beautiful book and I'm enjoying it a lot even if I find myself unconvinced by this kind of syncretic esotericism.
It's an absolutely beautiful book and I'm enjoying it a lot even if I find myself unconvinced by this kind of syncretic esotericism.
When I was a teenager I was a very STEM brained child. I wanted to learn as much hard science as possible and being vaguely contemptuous of the humanities. As an adult though my biggest regret in education is not spending more time learning Ancient Greek and studying Art History.
January 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
When I was a teenager I was a very STEM brained child. I wanted to learn as much hard science as possible and being vaguely contemptuous of the humanities. As an adult though my biggest regret in education is not spending more time learning Ancient Greek and studying Art History.
Got a nice new dress!
January 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Got a nice new dress!
Seeing Nosferatu on a big screen was one of the best cinema experience I've had in a long time. The movie is so powerful that it made me genuinely scared, it was like watching horror films as a child. I had my hand on my mouth so I wouldn't scream. Five stars.
January 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Seeing Nosferatu on a big screen was one of the best cinema experience I've had in a long time. The movie is so powerful that it made me genuinely scared, it was like watching horror films as a child. I had my hand on my mouth so I wouldn't scream. Five stars.