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these books are a well-written catalogue of all the secrets of the Universe, written in non-esoteric language

the author was the head librarian at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.

>>1748
ill check it out :)

>>1755
good luck sushi! you should be a bit familiar with bataille and at least the basics of kant and such but that's ez

>>83
blinding isnt the main issue for me its the fact that i read a book right before bed to avoid screen time but the backlight is legit just blue light so its useless in that regard

I like Dune because it's cool. God Emperor of Dune is the greatest love story ever told. Sheeana is my favourite character. I always laugh when I imagine her standing in the desert hurling insults at a captive sand worm and stamping her feet. Or bullying the priests for treating the sand worms with reverence instead of calling them by the derogatory name that she forces them to use.

>>1675

OP here

Now that i think about it, you know what would be absolutely COOL sushi??

Take screenshots of your uboachan posts, print them, and plaster them on a diary

>>1678
I think my parents would sodomize me with a sledgehammer

>>1656
>Do you keep a COOL diary?
Well, I wouldn't say 'cool', as the content's more like mentally ill in nature (the first entry literally opens with [i]'mini vent'[/i] and was about my mum fat-shaming me; it's suffice to say that 'mini' juxtaposes what it would turn into), but it's a diary at least, in the form of several txt files -one for each year- and daily entries, which often include rants wrote in utter self-hatred, but, y'know, stuff. I'm kinda annoyed that I started it digitally, it's exactly that as I've been procrastinating getting a notebook for several years -yayy [/s]: perfectly balanced depression, forever. If I die by my own hands, I'm thinking of giving it to a specific friend, but I have no idea if that'll just trigger them given their like-mindedness relative to me

>>1715
Can you please stop being suicidal, it's kinda bumming the mood.

>>1656
are you argentinian by chance op?

>>1251
35 lbs now…

>>1274
London! (not him)

>>1247
It's funny how this question works for both gym goers and trans people. I'm currently changing the gender of my physical shell.

It's still a work in progress but I've come a long way. Now I have plenty of nice clothes and A cups! For my next steps, maybe I could get better at makeup?

>>1247
1) I'm around 300lbs, and have inflexible hips. I want to hit the gym, but I fear my chronic inactivity and sedentary lifestyle has resulted in inflexibility issues that would hamper my strength-training so my mobility needs to be addressed. I actually can't sit "criss-cross apple sauce" anymore, as I could in my childhood.
2) Non-Obesity (i.e. being slim or being jacked) and flexibility
3) It's not time to weigh myself just yet but I think I did well this week, and lost 1kg/2lbs via dietary restriction. I've been following the StayFlexy guy on YouTube and, doing his routines, I was able to deepen my squat. For me, as you can imagine from the chronic sitting, the biggest obstacle for me to squatting deeply and comfortably is really the hips. My hips are quite tight, which also links into the issue with sitting with my legs crossed. I see a massive difference with my squat by simply working on the mobility in my hips. So, with the StayFlexy-guy's tips, I've got a good squat, and I've got good ankle mobility as well.
Now I'm working on Kadour Ziani's 7 Postures, and I've managed to master the easy variant of the "cow" position where one sits on the heels of their feet in a kneeling-position, and the feet are propped up to be standing on the balls of the feet (I included a picture. It's very easy to understand visually). Initially, I couldn't hold this position for ten seconds, but now I can do it. Also, I can Duck Walk now. There's a "duck walk" that's popular in the American homosexual scene, but I'm talking about the military-version.
4) Being faithful to my 5AM start in the morning means I don't need to skip progress through my mobility routine and Ziani's 7 postures, whereby I hope to "unlock" more and more of my lower body. After mastering the easy variants of the "cow" position, I hope to get good at the standard "cow" posture. Ziani calls it the cow, but he acknowledges in his book that it's more widely known throughout humanity as the Japanese "Seiza" position. Ziani has variants of the seiza that he advises one masters before moving on to the other postures, so I'll follow his plan.
And for weight loss, yeah, I plan to be faithful to my dietary restriction. There's been some ups and downs, but I think I can hold it now. I look forward to seeing how much progress I've made by around Christmas time!

>>1247
>1) Where are you at?
Currently between 112kg and 115kg. Slowly gained a couple of kg every year since I left the university.

Been lifting and doing some cardio for about a year now, but I don't think my size changed that much until I recently also started controlling my diet.

>2) What is your goal?
Continue controlling my diet and find a more varied selection of recipes. Eating the same food every day is nice, but I'd like some variety besides just chicken and salmon.

Also want to keep my exercise habit, so I don't lose my habit over winter like I did last year.

Lose much of the excessive body fat. If I could get down to under 100kg before christmas. My goal is maybe 80-90kg, depending body fat percentage.

>3) What have you archived so far?
I grew taller somehow. I think lifting just fixed my posture. It is much easier to do simple tasks like squatting down to tie my shoes.
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>>1761
Are you against using AI? I wanted to find the name of a film I watched on a plane-trip once, and I found it using a specialised AI that focuses on identifying movies.
If I were you, I'd google "film ai identify" or something and try one of those chatbots. Good luck stumbling upon a human being that knows this one thing you watched though.

>>1762
As much as I hate AI, I already tried with no results. It hallucinates too much and the conclusion I've come to is that I need a way to search by camera angle instead. It's such an usual choice for a suicide that I believe anyone who has seen the scene would be able to identify it.

I read another Borges short story from the "Ficciones" book (also knows as "Fictions" and "Labyrinths". The next time I post a review regarding this book, it'll be the entirety of this Short Story compilation, rather than individual short stories.

"The Approach to Al'Mutasim" is what I read. It's like a literary commentary? I believe I know a little bit about Borges to expect stuff like this. He's basically reviewing a fictitious book. Interesting, I guess. I did quite enjoy this read, although my reading comprehension was somewhat poor I feel. I don't feel I always understood what I was reading.
So, what did I even read? A review of a fictitious story about a man who murders what seems to be a Hindu, and goes on the run, looking for this saint "Al'Mutasim"? I won't be checking Wikipedia to understand this short story this time. If I don't get it, I don't get it. And yeah, I don't get it.
It was somehow interesting to read though. As the narrator speaks about the literary world that he's in, how writers would often choose the more honourable choice of leaning into historical classics rather than leaning into their contemporaries, I thought insights like that were interesting as I don't know much about the world of literature. Apparently James Joyce's Ulysses makes heavy use of… well, I initially understood the text as saying that it made heavy use of Homer's Odyssey, but I think it just said that it made heavy use of Homer's texts. I don't know what else Homer wrote besides the Odyssey.

I feel like the parts of this short story that I enjoyed the most, were the ones where I was learning about this book he's reviewing. It did seem somewhat interesting. I even learnt how it ends! And I learnt a lot of new words along the way.
languor
metempsychosis
cabalist
pullulation
Like man, I feel it's going to take some time to get used to books.
Well anyway, unlike what I said in my previous review, where I felt that one had to be a huge literature fan already before reading Borges in order to enjoy his work (to be fair, there was a lot of literature reference in this short story too…) I do feel like this short story was enjoyable, despite me not knowing too much about literature. But I don't feel it was particularly great, I think I just enjoyed reading it. Like I said, someday, I'll post a review of the entire compilation.

I tried to read Notes from the Underground.
Didn't last more than 7 pages.
I get the same experience reading rants on big imageboards or other websites dedicated to gossiping how much they don't like something and how they're so smart because of it. Am I supposed to take the narrator seriously?

>>1727
Lolol, Dostoevsky the original shitposter. I read Karamazov Brothers and consider it the second biggest waste of time after my read of Naruto manga.

Piranesi good

It's about living in labyrinth. :)

Ive been reading The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells! Currently on novella #3 Rogue Protocol. I was inspired by the TV series to start reading this collection.

On another hand, I received a history book The Norton History of the Mathematical Sciences by Ivor Grattan-Guinness from a local library for free because I kept looking for it after return, yet not finding it again since it was scheduled for destruction. Spine damage. It inevitably happens with texts, an unlucky thing, though, Ive got book tape to keep it from getting worse at a faster rate.

these are all very cool, i wish i could draw like that

fuck me furshi rolls

my fake internet boyfriend doesn't have a fursona. the lynx i drew in >>1733 was originally for him based off of a really rough old drawing he did but i got really attached and now its mine

but now i want a fox fursona, if not just because i want to be able to give him a fursona

i have no idea what im doing. i need advice

also as seisatsu said foxes are really common so i need advice on making it unique. but simultaneously not ugly? the woes of 21st century man…

also ONLINE DATING IS SCARY qwq

i consult the oracle for guidance

>>1737
You don't have to be a regular red fox or gray fox. There's other less common foxes like the fennec fox.

>What are some creative species for fursonae that you think are overlooked?
I saw someone's sona being like a regular Ant, and it made me realize how little "common insect" sonas there is!

>>1704
pic rel i drew fan art of SHADOWFAX in paint :3

im feeling sad and my polish computer boyfriend isn't awake help me sushis qwq

>>1740
i guess bro

these are really cool!

>>1695
I really like your art style, particularly that chibi on the left side. dont know what that style is called but its cute

>>1701
thanks sushi here is the same woman from the first drawing again. just a bit into her twisted world. it cut off

>>1695
Your drawings are amazing sushi!!

Do you have any of Yuki Nagato?

>>1726
sure sushi i never watched haruhi but here she is with my current read at my local library where they have a sign that references legendary english electronic band depeche Mode. it cut off again

Current favorite kino - there's a lot of movies I can say are better, but this one is my personal favorite. I find the editing unlike any other movie I've ever watched, not just in form but in it's unique relationship to the narrative, themes, etc. Starring and (nicely) scored by it's director who's a douchebag allegedly. It's Eternal Sunshine for schizophrenics.

>>1680
you missed Hard Candy or is it because hes a dude now

>System Crasher

10/10 KINO

>>1683
what is the trend? is it just a big list of movies other sushis have already mentioned?

>>1697
They are all about little girls

>>1680
Crossing out Alice (1988) from the list. It was seriously the best. Coming in with no expectations, I was thrilled by the beautiful, perfectly dreamlike way the film animates the terrifying corpse wonderland. The grotesque flying hospital bed is something straight out of a Silent Hill game. Watching a brave child interact with this horrific, surreal world was wonderful - I loved the movie.