Luca Juniper

@Acornanchees @_Qewl_ @aetherforge0 I think the bug part was the ability to place cushions at any arbitrary height in blocks like composters and cauldrons. They're placing them on top of signs here which is working as it should

@_Qewl_ @aetherforge0 No they didn’t. They marked being able to waterlog the cushion in general as intended but doing it with redstone lamps and having it turn dark unless lighten up was marked as a bug

Cushions rapidly becoming the best thing ever from like, the past decade.

@TheCesmi23 @nalbis Would you like to eat tasteless protein bricks and drink mineral water for the rest of your life?

@nalbis What the fuck is a foodie, it's like saying "I'm a airie" or "I'm a waterie", it's just sustenance

people are mad at this, but yeah this is like saying “i’m a foodie” yet you don’t like vegetables

I see a lot of discourse and advice about writing on this website that I find really backwards and/or stupid. I find it much easier to ignore when I remember most of these people are reading and writing fantasy/fan-fiction

No young brother, I will not turn down critically acclaimed Tv show Twin Peaks so you can scroll on Instagram reels

Sometimes I go to a second hand bookstore and wonder what the fuck the first hand who bought this book was doing

@snoopysfilms Mr Beans Holiday

so there’s this new letterboxd list that i’ve just made

@NetflixIsAJoke You know what Louis, sometimes I go get home, turn my lamps on and go 'wow, that's beautiful...'. Sex pest

Louis CK: Ridiculous is now playing on Netflix

@FranziaMom I think Joyce just has a particular disdain for this novel and the character of Stoner

Joyce with a fuckin bullseye. Another other reading of the novel is a misread.

@JoyceCarolOates gets the same type of people in her comment section that coalesces beneath Elon Musk tweets. 'I made the clutch move of not remembering...'

@PeterAWatt @JoyceCarolOates JCO has the same type of people in her comments that Elon Musk gets

@JoyceCarolOates I'm ashamed to say I read it years ago, but have no memory of it apart from that.

actually, he's a very weak person who, though hating his wife, lacks the courage to ask for a divorce & so just continues through years of recording every negative thing about her, hating her & inviting the reader to hate her, too.

@JoyceCarolOates The book is a reflection on what makes a life worth living. If the value of a life is measure up at the end by the total of what it produced then why are people moved by this story of a life that produced nothing? Of a life which we may say was negative overall? Who knows. fin.

@JoyceCarolOates in fact his life overall was a failure but he never read to me as whiny and resentful and thats what makes the book beautiful to me. Stoner was a small man, he lived a small life, he failed himself and those around him yet he lived, lived a life from beginning to end cont.

@_chase_____ Sports people create beautiful things in the same way artists do. And I say this not as a super large sports fan, theyre more similar than you think

@booksoftitans This feels a strange way of reading, plowing through the 'canon' like its some kind of checklist.. What do you aim to achieve when youre done (if you DO finish) being the most well read? 40 years is a long time, then what, do you go back to read the non-cannonical books youmissed

I’m rearranging my bookshelves around Stage II of the Books of Titans reading project, which centers around reading The Great Books by 200 Authors in chronological order. Stage I lasted from 2017 - 2022, and was my attempt to read a wide mix of 52 books per year. Somewhere along the way, I realized that books come from books and that there is a canon that many books derive from. I wanted to read those book. So in 2023, I began what will be a 40 year quest to read the greatest books ever written. I started with Gilgamesh and am now making my way through the Greeks. Each year gets better and this is the most fun I have ever had in my reading life. The nearly 350 books I read during Stage I that have resided on these shelves will now move to my backup book closet as I make room for The Great Books. I’m arranging them in chronological order by the year of the author’s death or by the estimated year of creation for works by unknown authors. The idea is that I will attempt to read the complete works (within reason) for each of the 200 authors. Want to join me on my quest? books.booksoftitans.com/immortal-autho…

@tolkienthoughts Its probably the most important and pivotal work in fantasy but in the wider literary canon? It wouldn't even crack the top 100. Fantasy authors were influenced by Tolkien, others, not at all.

@tolkienthoughts "One of the most read and studied works in world literature". Dont even joke lad

In 500 years when LOTR is still one of the most read and studied works in world literature, no doubt there will still be literary critics yapping about how "LOTR obsessives seem to have this idea that it's, like, at the very center of the literary canon."