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one line from House of Leaves in particular sticks with me, a quote from a (fictional) french caver:

“Darkness is impossible to remember. Consequently cavers desire to return to those unseen depths where they have just been. It is an addiction. No one is ever satisfied. Darkness never satisfies. Especially if it takes something away which it almost always invariably does.”

House of Leaves. Opinions?

Mine: was incredible on the first read, in maybe 2009. A bit tiring on the second read, but still had some good moments. I expect that ther there's diminishing returns from that point but I don't care enough to find out.

Gosh Awoo is so much faster now. Thanks @vahnj !

I'm so glad I got round-dot stars and not penta-stars for this.

Still todo: hang fabric thing, hang (incoming) posters.

The Radio Tower is now full of stars.

(also apparently UV does weird things to phone camera)

Me about every three games:

"Fuck yeah, I have really good drops, time to go take on the world!"

<gets into a fight, is destroyed in zero point three seconds and maybe lands one hit>

"Mosqueda has earned my vote in the next election. I cannot say the same of you."

"As a city councilmember, you are the one of the prime political powers in Seattle. Capitulation only shows weakness. If giant corporations wanted to fight against solutions to homelessness, then that's a fight I expected you to take on wholeheatedly.

It's a joke to call this city democratic when corporate funding for paid signature gatherers is enough to cause an immediate policy reversal.

"Hi,
I'm a resident of District [redacted], and I am both shocked and dismayed by your decision to repeal the head tax. If you're not willing to stand up to big businesses using their money to spread fear and disinformation, then you don't have the courage necessary to hold office. This was never going to be easy.

There's a scene in Ruin of Angels (most recent Craft Sequence book) where it describes a hallway as "lit with a color she had never seen before."

And at the time I'm thinking, okay, magic octarine color, whatever. She's inside a squid god. A bit out-of-tone for the setting but okay.

Then a couple paragraphs later, it's mentioned that her escort's teeth are glowing, and I realized Oh! It's blacklight! I know how that looks.

That was a cool moment and captures some of the essence of the series.

@blackle@dev.glitch.social idk why but I've had the word "traitor" in my head all afternoon.

No, more than cool, I think it's *liberating*.

To put it more concisely:

Ontological and cultural-memetic explanations of identity are non-exclusive and I think that's really cool.

A huge amount of who I am and what I enjoy is shaped by the subculture and microculture around me.

That's okay. That doesn't make it any less real.

Maybe in other hypothetical contexts I wouldn't have ended up as a glow-loving fox-kin, but this is the context I actually inhabit. Culture makes us who we are.