Shaleesh [she/her, comrade/them]

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Cake day: June 20th, 2021

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  • Huh, I wonder how common of an experience this actually is…

    Ok so its subjective obviously but its still a great album, I have it on vinyl and it is a glorious experience when listened to on bigass speakers. Now, the meanings of the songs have changed so much for me over the past couple decades or so, Posession hits WAY different when you realize that its written from the perspective of a stalker. I listen to “Mary” as a sequel to Bruce Springsteen’s “The River”. There are a bunch of things that tie the two songs together and I like the idea that Mary got to take back control of her life some years after getting knocked up by her dumbass boyfriend when she was 18.



  • I developed a one of those celebrity crushes on Sarah McLachlan after listening to Fumbling Towards Esctasy during one of my lonely summers between the school years. I thought her voice was so pretty and the more I listened to it the more convinced I was that she was a lesbian. I was utterly devestated when her wikipedia page contained no mention of being gay or bi. In fact, she was married to a MAN. I remember being in a funk over this for a couple days afterwards and deciding to interperet the album through my own sapphic lens, even if the artist herself was not that way at all.

    Very normal twelve year old boy behavior.




  • Disposable cameras. The wastefulness of an object made to be thrown away aside, they took bad pictures, and if you wanted to take more than 10-15 pictures of your trip you’d have to bring a bunch of the things with you. Price wise an inexpensive traditional camera and half a dozen rolls of film were about the same price of five of the things IIRC.

    Smart phone UI design still sucks but its so much better than it was in the early-mid 2010s

    References to sexual abuse under the spoiler

    The people who say shit like “Oh dating sucks now, you can’t even flirt anymore” drive me up a fucking wall. Its not that people are prudes now, people don’t put up with sexual harassment like they used to, and that’s a good thing. The discussion around consent seems to be a lot better than it was when I was younger. There have also been improvements in sex ed and survivor resources in the past decade.



  • The atmosphere and ballistics are the only things in Shadow of Chernobyl that aged even remotely well.

    The canonical explanation for what the zone is and how it works is sorta dissapointing because running (incorrect) theory that the NPCs talk about is tight as hell “Oh yeah its a totally unprecidented organism brought about by people fucking with psychic energy in some secret experiments and btw it hates us and the emissions are its immune response and also the zombies and monolith dudes are basically the zone hijacking the nervous systems of other organisms to act as extensions of itself”

    while the actual explanation is basically “Nah yeah after the meltdown a bunch of government scientists were like ‘yo lets do some fucked up experiments in the abandoned nuclear place’ and shit kinda got crazy with the genetic modification and it all went nuts after we tapped into the psychic field that surrounds the earth… so anyways we’re literally just five or so dudes hanging out in tubes of goo, we got a spot open if you wanna join the goo gang… please join the goo gang”

    (though i may be misremembering/misinterpreting a lot of stuff here)