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[dissemblance]

Can we all take a moment to admire the fact that 2801 technology still supports emoji functionality? 🤩 👍 🕷 💁 🩰 💫 🍆 🧊 💅 👁‍🗨 🎯 🤡 🔋 🐈 💲 🧙‍♀️ 🐦💋 🐜 👽 🕶 ⚡ 🕵🏻‍♀️ 💦 💦 💦

It seems like they're pretty set on calling us 'Hatchlings', so... hello, fellow Hatchlings, I'd like to play a game.

Two truths and a lie. I'll start.

  ① Starbucks makes the best lattes.
  ② I've never watched All Dogs Go To Heaven all the way through.
  ③ My birthdate is May 21st. What year? Every year. 😉😉😉 But my party in 2018 was 🔥🔥🔥.

Comments

@marion.adamopoulos

[cleaningsolutions]

Have you? I read a translation of Notes from Underground some years back, but many of the details have slipped my mind.

[...She read the book largely because she knew that the author had been important in the nebulous way a lot of names in the database of "famous or accomplished humans" had been, but she's had basically no schooling and didn't really get it or know how to engage more deeply than "wow this guy is miserable". The translation was of indifferent quality, besides.]

[medik]

You're fortunate. It's reactionary fantasy.

[cleaningsolutions]

How's that? What was he reacting to?

cw antisemitism mention

[medik]

Progress. The man was a religious radical who thought it pointless to try to make a better life. He hated atheists, Jews, socialists, anyone who dared question the status quo. By his reasoning, we should all accept our oppression and live in shackles until we die. He would have been a great writer if such ignorance and mysticism hadn't tainted his work.

[ His books were entertaining, yes, with a strong grasp of the Russian language, but such things can hardly be separated from the hand and the soul—figuratively speaking—which created them. ]

[cleaningsolutions]

That does make sense. I don't know much about human religions but they seem difficult. I wonder if he was too afraid to see anything good about change. Did he have a hard life?

[The Krakau haven't translated and made available much about any of the old religions. She kind of wishes they had, they were so important to her ancestors, even if what little she knows of them is baffling.]