Ruben > Recent Status Updates

Pynchon at his peak socialist. most industrialisation of the american landscape results in a magical re-appreciation for light in all its scientific, religious, and political applications. an airship crew from a cheap adventure novel finds Chicago ethnically segregated through electrical grids, Franz Ferdinand goes on a racist college bender, an anarchist priest tells sordid miners to use dynamite on capitalists. Yay

at one point the first interstate football game between Pennsylvania and Maryland is described as happening by accident because of a baby out of wedlock, which also serves as the ball

Charles Mason gets stuck, as if in Roadside Picnic, in 11 days stricken from the english calendar.

Jeremiah Dixon uses magnetism to flip a metal bathtub on its longitudal axis and goes off to have a quickie.

Still yaoi!

this is yaoi.

and also about whiteness as a project, how violent it requires its peripheral agents (settlers/colonisers) to become, to embrace savagery as a form of inevitable liberty.

But also it's yaoi

Aye yi yi

teared up at a description of physical pain felt only while biking against the wind in a rainstorm. how "youth" is used by anyone with a medical stake in your story to flat out deny the pain. first time seeing that idea Described and Understood, so I got the Identification Tears