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your_future_ex_wife wrote: »your_future_ex_wife wrote: »your_future_ex_wife wrote: »amorfati601070 wrote: »Ever secretly want the collapse of society? We need a reset button.
I have romanticized that, yes. It’s a lot if the appeal in post-apocalyptic novels
the only thing i remember (i think at least) from Alas, Babylon was the scene where someone dies from absentmindedly wearing a ring that had become irradiated after the fallout
Into the Forest when the father dies because he was an idiot with a chainsaw...
I was very recently trying to explain the appeal of this genre to someone who was more fed on adventure quest stuff and it was difficult to put into words. We almost had different worldviews and I wonder which came first.
Post apocalyptic stories are always told from the survivors point of view while the overwhelming majority of people involved don't make it through the event. short stories like ' asteroid struck and I slowly suffocated on the ash and dust", " shot to death by Walmart employee while trying to liberate supplies" or " power went out and my neighbor skulled me with a brick to take my bug out camper" that should be a genre. Guess just apocalyptic
Because there’s no story there. And yeah, it’s definitely romanticizing. Like folks who think it’d be cool to live during the Renaissance. Maybe if you were ultra wealthy. MAYBE. But I really dig indoor plumbing
I didn't say they'd be good stories. Of course you are right, it is also one of my favorite genres of fiction. Silo, Hunger Games, Far North, love them all. I recently re read Day of the Triffids. Considered the first " comfortable" post apocalypse novel. Of course it's English, Alien sentient plant invasion, nothing a little spot of tea and high castle walls can't take care of.1 -
The difference between those two pieces of art.
The Charging Bull was crafted unsolicited and at the artist's expense ($360,000) in the aftermath of the Stock Market crash of 1987. The artist drove the sculpture to the New York Stock Exchange on a truck and illegally deposited it outside in 1989 as a Christmas gift to the people of New York. The bull was impounded by the NYPD but after public outcry was re-installed at its home ever since facing up Broadway at Whitehall Street.
The Fearless Girl was commissioned by wealth management firm SSGA as an advertisement for an index fund.
The Bull's artist saw this piece of corporate advertising and told the city to move it or he was coming to take the Bull back. She now stands in front of the NYSE advertising SSGA.4 -
I had no idea
The difference between those two pieces of art.
The Charging Bull was crafted unsolicited and at the artist's expense ($360,000) in the aftermath of the Stock Market crash of 1987. The artist drove the sculpture to the New York Stock Exchange on a truck and illegally deposited it outside in 1989 as a Christmas gift to the people of New York. The bull was impounded by the NYPD but after public outcry was re-installed at its home ever since facing up Broadway at Whitehall Street.
The Fearless Girl was commissioned by wealth management firm SSGA as an advertisement for an index fund.
The Bull's artist saw this piece of corporate advertising and told the city to move it or he was coming to take the Bull back. She now stands in front of the NYSE advertising SSGA.
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That movie made me cry.. and I don't like that. It goes in the pile of "movies I will never watch again".2
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if bob ross and mr rogers were around today- five bucks someone would've already gotten them fired for their old tweets4
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irishiwasfitter wrote: »Thinking back to the time I posted that squat picture and people gave me hell for it so I deleted my account, was upset over it for a while but came back with a new name and now people like me lol
I liked you then. Then again, I don’t think I saw the picture. 😉
ETA: shall I call you moonsomething?1 -
irishiwasfitter wrote: »Thinking back to the time I posted that squat picture and people gave me hell for it so I deleted my account, was upset over it for a while but came back with a new name and now people like me lol
Ahhhh ... They'd reported my progress squat pics on my profile page. You cannot control other peoples sensibilities.4 -
Behindblue_eyes wrote: »The chocolate chip cookies I froze yesterday to save for a later occasion. I'm thinking today is that later occasion. 😏
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irishiwasfitter wrote: »your_future_ex_wife wrote: »irishiwasfitter wrote: »Thinking back to the time I posted that squat picture and people gave me hell for it so I deleted my account, was upset over it for a while but came back with a new name and now people like me lol
I liked you then. Then again, I don’t think I saw the picture. 😉
ETA: shall I call you moonsomething?
I was callhermoonchild after the song from the movie Buffalo 66 it was literally just a picture of me dressed up for a girls night out, a gin in my hand and squatting in heels for a mirror selfie because I was too tall to fit in the whole mirror lol
Meh. *kitten* em. 😁2 -
i cant do this anymore0
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JustReadTheInstructions wrote: »NoHookUpZone wrote: »i cant do this anymore
Do what?
Not hook up. It's smash time!7 -
irishiwasfitter wrote: »
I can’t stop thinking about this. Goals.
Yasss. Absolute goals.0 -
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