/culture/ - arts & literature

I've been oscillating back and forth between Gravity's Rainboe and Gormenghast. It has been slow going but very interesting nevertheless.

Been reading Crime and Punishment as of late. The grief of not being able to read this in its original language is really setting in for me…

>>1531
Hear me out on Raskolnikov

>>1535
"I can fix him ass"-mfs when it's a murderer:

>>1536
>He was, by the way, exceptionally handsome, above average in height, slim, with beautiful brown eyes and dark brown hair

TAKE ME ALREADY PLEASE NNGH

Snippet of an old song I wrote a long time ago.

>>1192
I completely get what you mean. It’s just… something about it. The way movies like this “feel” are special.

>>1192
You gotta watch the longer cut of the film, they left out a lot of good stuff out of the shorter cut, but also the longer cut as-swell, someone needs to make a new cut.

https://youtu.be/HeedSt23l3E?si=hMAuNjai9uxYS-HP
The Leopard by Visconti
call me pseud all you like i don't care, it's a masterpiece

>>1411
I might have hallucinated this but I heard that Lynch had done something like that at one point and left it lying around mostly finished.

The movie I return to rewatch the most is probably The Master from 2012. It just has this nice flow to it.
I also really like >>443 and >>389 too, though they're not ones I rewatch as often for differing reasons.

album is sorg by Afsky. the painting that they used is the Death of Chatterton. Its a beautiful painting on its own but i also like the black and white version here.

Here's a few I like.

Arbol - Mild Sorrow Integrated
Four of Arrows - Great Grandpa
Manhattan Projects - Johnny Foreigner

Delta Sleep - Twin Galaxies
Tycho - Dive
Mass Of The Fermenting Dregs - Self Titled
STRFKR - Reptilians

>>1242
Škoda da nemoreš na mofucon.., Če bi rad naredu VN iz tvoih risb lahko programiram VN ko najdem čas.

Same sushi roll as >>458, I've been improving myself

baka

>>1436
very cute pink baka

>>1436
Yeah i agree with that other sushi roll, this is cute, good job

L'Amant by Duras, I read it when I was 17 and could not help reading and loving it even if I had no free time since I must prepare for university.

I can not read french but the translation is just amazing.

robinson crusoe is nice, call of the wild, Mao's great famine was interesting to me to see how the situation got worse in china and the buildup before the cultural revolution

My favorite books would be:
Zhuangzi
Journey to the West
The Mahabharata

i really liked:
germinial - emil zola
confessions of the mask - mishima
stranger - camus
pharaoh - prus (although stopped in the middle, movie is nice too)

When Marnie Was There. I didn't expect it to be that at all.

Does it really mean I suck at searching hard enough… (￣︿￣)

Women get hornier as they age, while men become less horny.

Harold and Maude is a classic.

>>521
I wish there was something similar to Shoujo Shumatsu. Girls travelling the wasteland without much point to it just hits well for me.

I can see that no one else has recommended it yet so let me start by warmly recommending Ayakashiko!
It's a cute story about a serious girl who has youkai friends of many different kinds. Together they create all kinds of antics but also have comfy times together at home. There aren't any prevalent male characters but there isn't any real yuri either.
This manga will soothe you when you need it. -w-

I've been reading Taimashi to Akuma-chan. It's about a demon girl who has a crush on an flirty charming exorcist who decided she is a good girl who shouldn't be harmed.

>>521
love how squishy those two are

I'll recommend the manga Hakumei and Mikochi: Tiny Little Life in the Woods, which also has a short anime adaption.

It follows the daily life of two inchling women who share a house carved into a tree trunk. They eat, drink, work, make friends, and live amongst talking animals and insects. Mostly eat and drink though. Seriously, a good numbers of pages are focused on food, either the potatoes cooking, eating, and getting shitfaced. Even the anime ED is has two characters singing about the types of food and alcohol they want to for a picnic. It's a pretty comfy seinen series that despite the fantasy elements feels very down to earth.

The anime isn't the most "animated" but I like the pacing and music. It introduced me to the series so I have a soft spot for it.

>>1496
You should throw the Confucian Analects in there as well to really get on the three teachings grindset.

>>1496
You may like reading the poetry of Hanshan & co. There are two translations available, by beat poet Red Pine and by sinologist Paul Rouzer.

>>1497
>>1498
I appreciate your recommendations.

>>1497
Reading Confucius changed the way I look at life. I'd also recommend the Great Learning and the Mencius.

>>1490
>if you are religious, then you believe in a metaphysics at all, as in, something more than our base reality
Even self-identified atheists do believe in non-observable phenomena that transcend our everday existence e.g. the market, the invisible hand, cooperate personalities, not to mention stuff from theoretical physics that cannot be empirically proven. I prefer to see the secular worldview as akin to a religion itself. It is traditional and has its own particular quasi-theological structure and value system. It just pretends its not one. It hides itself. Other rival systems of belief and morality are boxed in under the name "religions" and some pejorative labels are applied to them, this is designed to cement the secular worldview as the only one allowed to be socially dominant. It would be a mistake to flip this around and simply say "well religions are good and have these positive features" because its buying into a false distinction. The need to confront a secular modernity might bring religious people together, but I think struggling against a common problem isn't really the best way to build a positive solidarity because each religious community relates to the secular worldview in different ways. If you're a Protestant Christian or a Shintoist, it really isn't much of an issue to co-exist with it. If you're a Muslim, a Confucian or an Orthodox Jew you find yourself ostracized. Buddhists seem to be let off the hook, despite their teachings contradicting some secular dogmas (faith in the individual, that the world exists and is permanant etc). I'm guessing this is a mix of orientalist fetishism, lack of conflict between Buddhist communities and the West, and Buddhists being too passive.

>>1503
I hope so but maybe only one episode next time.

>>1504
Today or sometime else?

>>1505
Idk ask on the IRC or the mygaypolycule or whatever the girl running the stream uses.

>>1503
no

>>1505
>>1507
I ran the stream last time. someone else can but i'm not hosting and encoding it