Imaginal Disk is definitely my top contender for album of the year. I was semi-familiar with Magdalena Bay prior to its release and this really feels like they've elevated their sound into something genuinely unique genre/production wise. it's such a vivid, mesmerizing piece of art, I love it.
remember the wise words of leroy...
It's legit terrifying whenever I step out of my little bubble and realize the level of copyright cocksuckery that is normalized in online artist communities.
my dealer: got some straight gas. this strain is called “linguistics class” you'll be zonked out of your gourd
Me: yeah whatever. i dont feel nothin.
50 minutes later: dude i swear there's invisible words in these sentences
my ∅ friend, pacing: the determiner phrases are lying to us
auditory processing disorder? oh you mean my psionic mind shield
Twilight and her mini evil clone In a couple of hours. I was bored
Stop me if you've heard this one before Girls like us are rotten to the core (Let's go!)
-underscores and gabby starts
pencil crayon, 2025
I'm as much of a descriptivist as the next linguist, but I do hate the resulting misconception that there's no such thing as incorrect grammar
two zany guys from @maximumgraves's comic
if I ever have to see that fucking blorbo jesus crucifixion scene from good omens again i'm going to fucking lose it.
that doesn't invalidate the statement. theoretical analysis of oppression is often necessarily simplifying because, as you pointed out, life is infinitely complicated, and sometimes you have to gloss over potential complicating factors if you want a political statement more specific than "oppressed people are oppressed by their oppressors". and once you've identified a generalized pattern of oppression, say, men oppressing women, you can begin to interrogate how that is impacted (intersected even) by other patterns of oppression