The Kazoku Peerage Of The Japanese Empire.

It's the Da He Ding! Chinese ritual bronzes should be contemplated while reading Bataille on sacrifice

I was always amazed by the elaborate surrealism in ancient bronze. The examples are not limited to this famous Square Humanoid Ding (人面銅方鼎). My friend calls it "Shang era TV-set."

Animalistic motifs are common in household items and especially ritual items of the Shang and Zhou eras. However, such Janus-like vessels were rare even in those good old days.

Hunan Provincial Museum (湖南省博物館) collection.

Photo: ©老猪的碎碎念

the interview with Mamoru Oshii about his attempt to work with Miyazaki and Takahata is quite illuminating, and it even contextualizes their personalities/politics with the anpo protests

genuinely starting to feel myself getting angry at people constantly invoking the miyazaki "i feel as if it is an insult to life itself" quote because if you watch the context of that video he's actually (as he usually is) just being a horrifically misanthropic asshole to his underlings and putting them down while they are trying to show him their procedural animation project that they are excited about the progress on.

we really do not need to hand it to hayao miyazaki, like, ever. he is a horrifically bad person. if you want to blackpill yourself go read about his relationship with his son if you don't know already. we really do not need to put this guy on a pedestal, go elevate the opinions of the other ghibli animators in the credits instead of him.

All Intellectual Property is evil

thinking about the time my local garden centre put signs up that said "propagation piracy is a crime" and explained that "propagation piracy" is when you pick up a leaf or a twig that's fallen on the floor and take it home and grow a plant from it. I came home and mocked this because it's obviously extremely pathetic and stupid, and my ex got salty and said they were right and I was just like. you literally call yourself a communist and you are defending the right of corporations to protect their hypothetical future profits by classifying it as a crime to pick up a leaf

There is so much CONTENT in the world! We can't eat it all easily... It's amazing!

there's someone on Wikipedia who writes articles about Cantonese opera but constantly names paragraphs after generic figures of speech. For example, they titled a paragraph about the economic threats facing the opera as "All for Naught."

Here's an example from the article on the actor Yam Kim-fai (who is really good, btw):

I wonder if this is translated from Cantonese... maybe the original sounded very poetic

I hate all those youtube videos called like "This book is the worst" and they have some ooc suggestive or risky quotes on the thumbnail next to an npc loser affecting a shocked expression. It's so evil.

Please don't promote the idea that weird or explicit lines are a serious flaw in books

I assume this is from Capriccio Farce, which is very melodically creative and has a strange atmosphere... worth listening to

the word 'farce' here is a translation of "chaban" which was once a specific genre of Japanese theatre

"Soul of Adam who fell in the trap, there’s nothing you can accomplish anymore"

Think about the difference between a classical Greco-Roman statue and a roughly carved wooden mask. The Greco-Roman statue is both realistic and idealizing, rational, and dreamlike. Apollonian. The mask is rough and emotive, messy, affecting us on some level other than our rational mind... Dionysian. Statue = Euripides, Mask = Sophocles

listened to medea today and i gotta say. nietzsche's beef with euripides is truly crazy. like. i mean antigone was a good play but medea was a really good play. seems unambiguously to be an advancement of the art form. also idk, is it really meaningfully more apollonian and less dionysian than previous works. like. i means it not clear what he means by those words basically at all (i see this everywhere glossed as like "order" vs "chaos" and.... maybe that's part of what he means? it's clearly not all of what he means. well actually what he means is "of the nature of the narrative section of the play" and "of the nature of the chorus section of the play" but what that nature is...). medea is calculating but she's clearly passionate, and i feel like the way she takes everything from everyone has a very dionysian feel, the...abandonment of care, the willfullness. idk if this is anything. the chorus IS much more pedestrian and less spooky. so. he's right there

ANYWAY i think the most parsimonious explanation is "nietzsche hates slaves, and doesnt like that theyre portrated as people in this play" (he specifically mentions the centering of slaves as a bad thing! because he thinks it makes the play more pedestrian, i guess? but idk, it throw medea's otherworldliness into sharp relief! if the volume of eveyry character is turned up, you cant hear them in the din)

Edogawa Ranpo

I'm really tempted to start posting in glossolalia, just typing in made up words