cursed to be thinking about Star Wars: A Certain Point of View short story Of MSE-6 And Men.
the worms the worms thy're in my brain the worms they're int here the worms the worm sth owrms
He is bugs
Puffy sleeves and blues Senator Palpatine is matching the Euops genus of leaf-rolling weevils
Camarotus singularis and the chancellor’s spectacular sleeves
What in the world? Frog legged beetle Sagra Fulgida.
The Emperor is a pale imitation of the humble stag beetle. Lucanus Cervus.
What a brilliant color! Agrypnus agrillaceus.
Starset really is the funniest band ever, they didn’t establish a fanbase before going off with their lore like most do, they dropped one (1) single in 2013 and then a year later, with no fame and one established song, walked up to the music scene like “hey we’re a secret society with a scifi message about a dystopian future, the only answer is to make science accessible and to fight against fascism and rock out” and then dropped the greatest cinematic rock album in history. unbelievable
I've been dabbling in character.ai and wonder if i should share the absolutely unhinged interactions I've been having. I know char.ai is known for this, but I really think I've done something here. I think I've found my calling.
Padmé Amidala in a deleted scene from:
ATTACK OF THE CLONES (2002) - dir. George Lucas
–From a Certain Point of View, ”An Incident Report" by Mallory Ortberg “It must, however, be pointed out that at present the number of planets destroyed solely by the unaided power of the Force is zero.” MOTTI JUST DRAGGED THE FUCK OUT OF VADER I AM FUCKING LIVING
The moon will sing a song for me, I loved you like the sun
Bore the shadows that you made with no light of my own
I shine only with the light you gave me
nono no you get it you Get It ! same band different fonts ! (particularly starsets love songs) where starset has the incomprehensible beauty and scale of space, sleep token have the incomprehensible beauty i assume one might find in religion, or a similar level of devotion. Like they are so small and the emotions are so big, you have to draw comparisons to astral bodies and dieties to properly convey it, and the loneliness that comes with it. A sort of reverence and devotion for something out of your reach.
I think thematically they have similarities, aesthetically they clash a little, but it could most certainly still slap.
hear me out, but i think a collab between sleep token and starset would absolutely fuckin SLAP
they have similar lyric styles (in my opinion), both of them are almost poetic in nature, and they both have that lovely touch of devotion, longing, self-loathing, and anger throughout their songs
i dunno, just a totally random thought i had but i think it would be such a cool idea!! plus, both sleep token and starset deserve so much more attention 😭
t-shirt that says ‘I LOVE BEING ALONE IN QUIET DARK PLACES.’ on the front and ‘I AM NOT A FUNGUS.’ on the back.
when I handed in my autism paperwork, I scheduled an appointment directly with my GP to go over my fully filled out and annotated paperwork, and go over the questions I'd made notes i didn't understand or needed clarified. I think colour coding was involved.
The way most autism literature describes "literal interpretation" is often not at all similar to how I experience it. Teenage me even thought I couldn't be autistic because I've always been able to learn metaphors easily.
In fact, I love wordplay of all kinds. Teenage me was fascinated to learn all the types of figurative language there are in poetry and literature.
But paperwork and questionnaires are hard, because there's so much they don't state clearly. Or they don't leave room for enough nuance.
"List all the jobs you've had, with start and end dates." What if I don't remember the exact day or month? Is the year enough?
"Have you been suffering from blurred vision?" Well, if I take off my glasses the whole world is blurred, but I'm fairly sure that's not what the intake form at the optometrist is asking.
Or the infamous (and infuriatingly stereotypical) "Would you rather go to a library or a party?" What sort of party? Where? Who's there? I work at a library. Am I currently at the library for work or pleasure? Does it have a good collection?
It's not common figures of speech that confound me. It's ambiguity, in situations that aren't supposed to be ambiguous.