sugasuite:

Yeah…. I mean… I get you and I’m all for soft, emotional, Bangtan…

But… sometimes hearing it too many times and overloading it can take away from the “realness” of it, you know? Because yes, BTS has stood for and will always stand for all of those things but what makes them different is how relate-able they have always been… and being relate-able is not just this…

They are quirky and goofy and confused and basically making a mess of adulting too… but they work hard at it. The movie showed one side of them… and narration made it more loaded that it should have been. They could have given breathers. There were three scenes I remember and enjoyed.

1 Jin working out…

2 Them playing in the pool and Yoongi being himself sipping wine…

3 Yeontan…

poshtae:

HYUNA AND EDAWN DON’T! GIVE! A! FUCK ANYMORE LMFAO!!!! 👏

wearepaladin:

elerena:

elerena:

bigbigbigtruck:

jhameia:

ignescent:

higgsboshark:

The thing about knitting is it’s much harder to fear the existential futility of all your actions while you’re doing it.

Like ok, sure, sometimes it’s hard to believe you’ve made any positive impact on the world. But it’s pretty easy to believe you’ve made a sock. Look at it. There it is. Put it on, now your foot’s warm.

Checkmate, nihilism.

I know I just reblogged this, but I thought about something to add: This is true of so many things. Everything we do that’s creative at all is a stand against entropy. . You probably can’t fix the world, but you might be able to mend a sweater, or fix a broken toy, or hell, make your bed. And any creative action is a spark of light against the void. it doesn’t have to be the best thing ever, it can be a doodle on the side of a receipt, it can be a cup of tea – but it’s something done, something made, something fixed. Nothing else in the world may be better form the tiny thing you’ve done, but the tiny thing still exists. There’s a tiny spiral or a little turtle on a receipt. There’s a pair of pants that button. There’s a warm cup of tea to drink, there’s a sock and a warm foot. Our existence is these tiny moments, strung together against the dark of night.

Make something.

When I was in grad school, I took up baking cookies as a way to make friends in the department really quick. A professor told me that during HER PhD she had also taken up baking as a way of keeping sane. A dissertation takes forever to write, you can sit at the computer for hours with no result, and it’s painful to think about. Baking, however! In a few hours you have actual material results. You can touch it, smell it, eat it. Nom.

This is a huge part of why I love weight training AND housecleaning. Quantifiable work, visible result.

there is literally not a single thing in these posts that is inherently incompatible with nihilism

I mean these are almost word for word EXAMPLES of existential nihilism

There are several reasons why not. For one thing, the authors do not agree and actively spurn the notion of Nihilism. That in and of itself is disagreement with existential nihilism’s conclusion that there is no meaning in the universe. You could argue that finding their own meaning is an example of existential nihilism, but they are not finding their own individual meaning but sharing examples of how they keep their sanity/find purpose as a shared meaning, which is against contrary to the root ideas of nihilism.

If the shared philosophy stated above could be anything, I’d argue it’s actually Absurdism, which is all about raging against cosmic midnight, holding tiny lights against the infinite dark and, accurately, completely, declaring victory for all time.

gnossienne:

Shall I tell you something? I am becoming exceedingly tired of these sorts of questions (of which I seem to receive several variants every week). While I naturally preen in the flattery, the question inevitably amounts to an utterly useless exercise in self-deprecation. I’ve seen similar questions posed and answered (bewilderingly unironically!) on other blogs, and I can barely refrain from rolling my eyes into an alternate dimension upon seeing these (“How do you make yourself seem more cultured?”, really?). It seems to stem from an underlying desire to appear interesting by virtue of a shared sycophantic adherence to a certain romanticised ‘aesthetic’ linked to The Secret History and similarly-themed novels (which, rather pointedly, is a darkly ironic deconstruction of pretentiousness; a point which appears to be lost on most of its readers).

If you must ask how to be intellectual or interesting, you have already failed in achieving either. Being an intellectual does not automatically make one more interesting, nor does being interesting make one an intellectual. Interest in classics, languages, and obscure media ought to be pursued for genuine interest, not a vacuous series of steps on the ladder to becoming ‘interesting’*. I loathe the idea that the accumulation of certain artistic and cultural affectations magically makes one ‘cultured’. Ticking off criteria on the road to an arbitrary ideal of ‘cultured’ is not cultured at all. In fact, it is completely anathema to it, it is servile superficiality. Being esoteric for the sake of being esoteric is an inane conceit, and the worst form of self-indulgent posturing that there is.

Stop looking up ‘how to be more cultured’ and actually find things that interest you. Read Homer if you like, but don’t continue reading it if you don’t like it simply for the sake of fear of not being aligned with an arbitrary ‘aesthetic’. Like what you like unequivocally and without shame. Stop focussing on what constitutes an ‘interesting’ person and simply pursue things that interest you. If you don’t know anything about art, start by reading about it. You are likely still young, so there is time yet, and instead of being made to feel insufficient by aspirational moodboards on the internet, think for yourself. Authenticity is in alarmingly short supply, so don’t contribute further to it by asking such preposterous questions.

*Also, please disabuse yourself of the notion that knowledge of primarily Western-centric canon and ideology constitutes being ‘cultured’; for instance, Rabindranath Tagore was more exceptional than Shakespeare could ever hope of being.