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ivan nikolaevich bezdomny | иван николаевич бездомный

вскоре заречный бор стал прежним. он вырисовался до последнего дерева под небом, рассчистившимся до прежней полной голубизны, а река успокоилась. тоска начала покидать Ивана тотчас после укола, и теперь поэт лежал спокойно и глядел на радугу, раскинувшуюся по небу.

#literature #master and margarita #ivan bezdomny #russian literature

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John McKirdy Duncan, 1866-1945

[Athena] Force and Reason, n/d, tempera on paper laid down on canvas, 76x63.5 cm

Private Collection

#art #greek mythology

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thought of these today while watching this movie for the first time so i made them

I'm truly sorry to dracula fandom I don't know what I'm doing

#dracula 1931

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what's that feeling called when you want to rip open your ribcage and let the bird fly to the music and feel the sun caresse your tender organs?

#feeling it rn

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bitching about bad media literacy ignore me

Fight Club's pop culture legacy is so tragic to me. because it's a comedy, right, like it is meant to be satire that criticizes both american consumerism/wage-slave capitalism culture AND anarchist/nihilist "movments" at the same time (along with making fun of hypermasculine macho violence culture, and how that ties into the capitalism burnout -> violence thing, obviously) and most importantly it's FUNNY.

and if you watch any interviews with David Fincher or Edward Norton or Brad Pitt or Helena Bonham Carter or any other crew members then it is so INCREDIBLY clear that every person working on this movie understood not only the subject of the original book, but also fully grasped what the film was trying (and succeeding!!!!!) to criticize, and understood that it is a COMEDY. they all knew the tone of the story from day one!!! the people who made Fight Club were incredibly smart, talented people who were deliberate in the message they wanted to deliver. they understood what they were making. and they knew they would be misinterpreted before the film even released--they knew it would be divisive, they knew people wouldn't be able to handle the ambiguity. but it still fucking sucks that it happened that way :(

in large part due to poor marketing (Fincher got cockblocked by the network--Fox shut down his original marketing plan because they thought it wouldn't bring in enough cash) that appealed to the complete wrong audience--they hinged the whole thing on Brad Pitt's appearance and tried to appeal to men who looked up to him, aka THE EXACT TYPE OF PEOPLE THE MOVIE MAKES FUN OF--all of the themes just flew right over audience's heads.

you had all these people going in expecting a badass action movie, and so when Tyler Durden started philosophizing, everyone missed the glaringly obvious fact that you're NOT SUPPOSED TO AGREE WITH HIM & instead took everything he said at face value. which is how you end up with the cesspool of filmbro fans who just hate women and minorities and think Tyler is meant to be emulated. because they came in ready to see a hero protagonist, and so that's what they took out of it. they take it dead seriously. majority of people who like this movie do not find it funny because they do not understand that they are the ones being laughed at.

then on the other end of the spectrum you have all the people that, again, missed the SATIRE part of COMEDIC SATIRE and think that Fight Club somehow endorses the violence and hypermasculinity that it discusses. as if those things aren't explicitly shown to be an ineffective + outright dangerous solution to the problems produced by capitalism. people called it fascist when it came out, which is so far off the mark that you had to have watched the damn thing with your eyes closed and your ears plugged to reach that conclusion. again, this audience completely misses the intended tone of the movie (which it fucking nailed--it's not Fight Club's fault that people are stupid) and takes the whole thing at drop-dead serious face value.

it drives me crazy that so many people missed the mark THAT badly. even people who do comprehend it as satire still stop short and only discuss how it satirizes masculinity, and use it as a "haha look at all these dumb clueless men who don't understand REAL cinema" while also completely missing the points it makes about nihilism & consumer culture. type of people who say Tyler is based for blowing up credit card buildings & they're completely unironic about it. which is almost more irritating than the other two groups because like you were SO. CLOSE. YOU ALMOST HAD IT.

Fight Club should've been a box office slump (i say this lovingly) & ended up as a cult-classic black comedy with a modest audience who could actually use critical thinking skills and get the point it was trying to make. but no, instead it's been made into a symbol of misogynist filmbros and wannabe-anarchists & the circle of people who are actually interested in exploring it thematically is so painfully small.

the creators knew what they were doing and it's so insanely frustrating that they reached the complete wrong audience (by no fault of their own!!) Fight Club has become this pop culture monster that everyone knows from the first rule (don't talk about Fight Club) and it somehow spawned the term "snowflake" + all the bigoted bullshit that came along with that. despite the fact that Tyler is an obvious hypocrite who is plainly shown to be in the wrong and the irony is NOT SUBTLE. IT BEATS YOU OVER THE HEAD WITH IT. THERE ARE STAR BUCKS AD PLACEMENTS. HOW DO PEOPLE NOT GET THIS.

anyways. essentially Fight Club is meant to be funny and it IS so fucking funny when you don't have a little rat in your ear telling you that everything shown on television is the honest-to-god Objective Truth. louddddd sigh.

#fight club #omg first time i see someone discussing how this movie also goes against its anarchistic ideas. #you're so right

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I really liked how this sticker turned out, so I'm posting it separately 🐍🕊️

#art #religious imagery

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It's a shame that Catholicism is so dead set against reincarnation because they could have some real fun with it.

For starters, you could do more with the saints. Like, a priest could declare that a lay Catholic with a particular ailment or bad situation is a reincarnation of a saint who experienced something more or less similar to them. Say they have shooting pains after a knee surgery - well, sounds like you might have been Saint Sebastian, who got shot with a lot of arrows once but he got over it. And yes, I know lots of people have neuropathic pain like this but there's nothing in the role book that says that they couldn't all have been Saint Sebastian in a former incarnation. Saint souls are very powerful and can split or reproduce by binary fission, use your imagination. In fact, go and seek out those other people whose priests have identified as Saint Sebastians, that sounds like a ready-made support group, you're welcome.

But that's not even the best part - you can go all out with this and say that the reason that Jesus is so important is because EVERYONE ALIVE TODAY is a reincarnation of his soul - the biggest, juiciest, most divisible soul of all. So all that Catholic stuff about suffering and sacrifice and whatnot is a logical consequence of being a reincarnation of Jesus Christ himself. Feeling hard done by? That's you getting ghost memories of being on the cross, whipped by centurions, etc. We've all been there, because we've all had our go on the Jesus ride. If you're not a Catholic for some reason that's probably because you're still in the queue to be Jesus. Once you've been Jesus once or twice then you'll get it 👍

Listen, if any bishops or cardinals or other criminals are reading this, I'm pretty cheap to hire. I've got a lot of ideas like this ready to go. DMs are open.

#op why are you the only smart person ever #christianity #spirituality

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tw vent, religious imagery, blood, guns (possibly eyestrain)

#vent #religious imagery #saint sebastian #the creation of adam #idk if this is traumacore probably not im srry #religious trauma

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I want a piece of media about technological dystopia where the rebel characters have to write "/tp to" into a cheat code bar to get somewhere quick

#had anybody done it before? #that is so much more realistic #minecraft #????

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Yukio Mishima as saint Sebastian

#yeah he's not a great guy #but you know he wrote a very homosexual book (which mentions st sebastian) so he gets a pass #saint sebastian #photography

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grrr i hate women grrr i wanna have sex with this guy i made up in my head grrrrrr

#fight club #he's just like me fr

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something like dis

idk if those things have a specific name, in my family we just call it a "top (of the tree)", but more specifically it's called a "spire" I guess.

people really loved christmas trees (without actually celebrating catholic christmas) in my country, but then soviet government came and banned religion, so the people had to un-religion the tree for kids, so no stars of bethlehem or angels, and it stayed like that, but still fun.

Christmas poll

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“you better not be a lonesome traveller exploring untouched and rugged terrain this fall”

my silly ass:

#mood #but actually every season

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Cameos Compilation (details) © Photo and collection RMO

Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, RMO Via artblart

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moving far away to a sunny place.

#naturali

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#art

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