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imagine two mated wyrms twisting around each other, possessing an uncountable number of limbs, each claw of good or evil interlocked with its opposite, the coil twists further around itself into a skein of flesh. how i would describe DNA to a wizard

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Best Pali orgs to donate to at this time? Am thinking PCRF.

don't donate to orgs right now, donate to people. gazans need huge funds to evacuate to egypt, get treatment, buy food and other necessities. it is the most urgent and the best way your money can have the most impact.

here is fundsforgaza linktree full of verified gofundmes you can choose from

here is the operation olive branch spreadsheet full of gofundmes organized by different factors such as families, age, number of children, medical conditions as well as how close they are to meeting their goal etc

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still so mad we never got to see the fucked up and evil eskovian plants. i was promised fucked up and evil eskovian plants

#AND ESKOVIAN LINGUISTICS #!

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ddoes anyone else ever think about him saying this about allegra not realizing shes already been assimilated and that hes actually saying this about eskew. also does anyone else feel physically nauseous

#always loved this moment + in ep 28 when Riyo is calling her spouse home...

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The dog.

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I made this animation a year ago but I'm still very happy with it so I'm gonna give it some new life! I'd love to remake this sometime, but that's gonna be a far away future project I think.

#this is so cool. also reminds me of those dogs from old gods

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the liar

#as always I adore this art

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Israel has killed more children in Gaza since October than in four years of worldwide conflict

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Painting based on a “face” I saw in the wood grain patterns of the floor in my room at the psychward. Acrylic on 16”x20” canvas. (2022)

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Which 10 essays are going to be in Jacob Geller's book?

A little informed speculation, by me :)

As we know from the book announcement, there will be 10 essays in "How a Game Lives" (info from Lost In Cult website)

Here are the confirmed ones - ones that are mentioned either in Jacob's announcement video or the Lost in Cult website

Who's Afraid of Modern Art (announcement video & Lost in Cult)

Every Zelda is the Darkest Zelda (announcement video & Lost in Cult)

Control, Anatomy, and the Legacy of the Haunted House (Lost in Cult)

Fear of Cold (announcement video)

Returnal is a Hell of our Own Creation (announcement video)

Does Call of Duty Believe in Anything (announcement video)

Now, that's over half of the essays for the book! However, by looking at a specific screenshot from the announcement video, we can speculate a few more...

[Image ID: a screenshot of Jacob Geller's book announcement video (timestamp 0:55), showing Jacob surrounded by screenshots of seven of his videos. End ID]

Top left (screenshot of a woman sitting in a room, the text "white shadow... you were how I escape" over her): Returnal. Already confirmed.

Middle left (Jacob holding a picture book about Golem): The Golem and the Jewish Superhero.

Bottom left (a live-action man in a black outfit): I believe this is from The Single Best Gaming Moment of 2022 (immortality video). He doesn't talk about live action stuff a ton so I think this is a decent guess.

Bottom middle (white background with paragraphs of black text, talking about a game called "Blade"): you'd think this one would be easy to ID because there's so much text, but my friend and I actually have no idea which essay this is lol.... lmk if you know!

Bottom right (gameplay of Shadow of the Colossus overlayed with various forum posts): The Decade-Long Quest for Shadow of the Colossus' Last Secret.

Middle right (gameplay of some realistic first-person military shooter): Does Call of Duty Believe in Anything. Already confirmed.

Top right (simple buildings overlayed with a pink/purple filter and static): My best guess is that this is Four Short Games About Pain, but I'm really not sure about that...

Looking at these screenshots, we can for sure add The Golem and The Jewish Superhero and The Decade-Long Quest for Shadow of the Colossus' Last Secret to the list, bringing the total to 8 confirmed essays.

The last two will be that top right photo (which I think is 4 short games about pain) and that bottom left one (which i guess is the immortality video). However, I still don't know that bottom middle thumbnail, and if that's a new video too that means I got at least one thing wrong! Please lmk if you can ID any of these screenshots I was shaky on :)

#i just saw the announcement! #okay staring qt that graphic #: live action priest is from art in the pre-apocalypse and pink house is from control/anatomy #the text is for sure quoting the infinity blade article by geist but I can't remember when he brings that up? #i feel like it was a long while ago

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MEMENTO MORI AD ASTRA (PIRANESI/DYSON METAPHOR)

Indiana limestone, Irish slate, Georgia Regal black marble, French Marbre du Roi marble, glazed ceramic, glass, zinc - 20¼" x 11¼"x 9¾"

MEMENTO MORI AD ASTRA (PIRANESI-DYSON METAPHOR) addresses the idea of the ‘History of the Future’.  When I began working on it I thought the piece of limestone would be only half of the piece – the past element made of stone – and that there would be a future element made of glass, acrylic, and metal.  As the past element work developed it became clear an additional  element for the future was unnecessary — all that was needed was the directional perception of the future from the past.  A throne was the first metaphorical choice for this directional perception, but after making a throne of limestone, it was discarded in favor of the simple red-marble bench, below the crystal sphere (the future - the stars) and next to the top of the ladder coming-up out of the hole-in-the-floor.  The dual textured base represents the impetus of our collective human reality and the collective ideal of the microcosm  (the black marble was used in this particular case because of its tracery of white veining to represent the intricacies of the ‘ideal’ in humanity’s collective mind’s-eye). My bastardized Latin MEMENTO MORI AD ASTRA roughly translates to “remember your mortality - to the stars!”  I wanted to contrast the backward-looking 18th century Italian etcher Giovanni Piranesi with the forward-looking pioneer of astrophysics Freeman Dyson — and something of a nod to the Greek Titans Epimetheus and his brother Prometheus (whose names literally translate as ‘backward-thought’ and ‘forward-thought’).

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (October 4, 1720 - November 9, 1778) was an Venetian artist famous for his etchings of the ruins of Rome. 

Freeman Dyson (December 15, 1923 - February 28, 2020) was a British-American theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum electrodynamics, solid-state physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering.

#this is so insanely cool

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the flour massacre is ongoing. it is everyday. it was not an isolated event. it was not even the first time israel shot at and killed palestinians going for aid (they do it whenever they allow aid through). in fact, they did the exact same thing yesterday morning. just because smaller-scale murders go under the radar for lack of shock factor doesn’t mean they’re not happening continuously.

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hi i’m on episode 20 it’s really good

(rainless version under the cut!)

#wahoo #Love rain texture #and the perspective of these far off buildings #the lines also fit really well

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Israel has bombed—and completely demolished—the Great Omari Mosque in Gaza, which is the second oldest mosque in Palestine. There was no purpose to bombing it. There was no advantage to targeting it. Israel simply destroyed it to make a statement: that Palestinian religion and culture not only mean nothing to them, but are something they’re actively working on wiping out. This was one of Palestine’s most sacred cultural sites. Now it’ll forever serve as proof of the horrifying death and destruction the world has allowed to befall Palestine.

#re complicity of museums / archives / academically aligned institutions

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Matthew Thurber

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Hi. I want to sort of read about cities and cyborg cities and monstrous cities. I was wondering if you would have any recommendations? Theory, nonfic, fic anything. I'd really appreciate it. Thanks in anticipation.

Hello. Thank you for the question, and why not? This is not a comprehensive list by any means (no extensive theory at all or other forms of art, etc). I’m sure there are far better recommendations one could ferret out, but never say no to excellent literature:-

Fiction.

1. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake: a world of gothic grotesque, strange and gloomy and ornate and slumping into decadent decay, choked by ritual and custom. 

2. Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino: This book is a marvel, each chapter dedicated to a different city in the form of conversations between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan. His cities shimmer and shift and beguile you; they aren’t old-world noirs of vice and squalor, but cities of ideas and questions, dense with meaning, compact in every sentence.

3. Anything by China Miéville, including Un Lun Dun, The Scar, but especially Perdido Street Station: Perdido isn’t his best novel, but the prose crackles and it’s fantastic world-building: a dark, dingy, clanking neo-Victorian London of grimy decadence, occult science, body horror, oppression and corruption.

4. Neuromancer, William Gibson: Messy, energetic & innovative—the cornerstone of 1980s cyberpunk-lit: drugs, hackers, sliding realities, information overload. (Also coined the term “cyberspace”).

5. Hunger, Elise Blackwell: not a different world, exactly, but the past; the starvation of Leningrad—how humans salvage themselves, how a city dies.

6. From Hell, Alan Moore: A graphic novel set in victorian London, From Hell is the city at its darkest and most cruel - a place of shadows, the centre of an empire built on blood and bones, its masters lurking around every corner; a flicker on the periphery of your vision, the chill down your neck.

7. The Matthew Swift Novels, Stray Souls, Kate Griffin: These novels aren’t just about London, they want to be London, so viscerally soaked and stinking with the place that you know how Matthew feels to have it in his bloodstream. Griffin’s playing with some of my favourite tropes: psycho-geography and city as biological organism. 

8. Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said, The Man in the High Castle, and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick. PKD never moves far from the nightmare zone; his filthy, hallucinatory dystopias are full of technological bric-a-brac, hostile AIs, and humans drowning in the system. 

9. Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman: A novel about a London below London, a London between-the-cracks riddled with immortality and myth and magic. Gaiman has a knack for the uncanny, for person-shaped monsters with an insidious aura of wrongness. 

10. The Night Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko: A fascinating post-Soviet novel set in a Moscow that is alive and ravenous; where worlds exist behind worlds; where dark and light watch each other and the twilight is a city space where the lines between the good and not-so-good blur and shift, all encompassed by a landscape that can be deadly. Unnerving.

Others: Of course, writers like Charles Dickens and Daniel Defoe and Edgar Allen Poe and Jules Verne and Thomas de Quincey and Emile Zola and Charles Baudelaire have all explored the cities they inhabited as breathing, living things, bleak and bright and singed with flame. 

Theory, etc.

I’d look at these books as good start - Psychogeography, Merlin Coverley. Restless Cities, Matthew Beaumont. This Urban Design Course on Race & Justice, Metabolic Urbanization, Erik Swyngedouw, The Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin. London Orbital, Iain Sinclair. Formulary for a New Urbanism, Ivan ChtCheglov, Imaginary Cities, Darran Anderson

Hope this was helpful. Happy reading.

#wahoo

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The Bird Daughters. A comic about a bird woman and her dreams. made in the spring of 2023.

#love this