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Feb 3, 2025
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πΎLucius gave you good advice, so I'll just throw in some tools that can help you work with disks.
I will echo one thing tho, you prob want the cloud in there somewhere, because if a disaster strikes your house, block, town, or you're concerned about political instability having copies of that material in a very different location is GOOD.
Nov 13, 2024
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πͺI use alt+tab and variants the most, but Run is such a useful program that itβs probably my favorite. Ctrl+Shift+Enter to run as admin for bonus points
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πAlbums
Chelsea Wolfe - Unknown Rooms (Flatlands, Virginia Woolf Underwater)
Chelsea Wolfe - Pain is Beauty
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me (legit got jump scares when I first listened...)
Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter - Saved!
Julee Cruise - Floating Into the Night (maybe not typically seen as creepy or gothic, but I think there's a bit of those...might be conflating "strong atmosphere" with "strong atmosphere which is specifically <gothic>", idk)
Nicole Dollanganger - Natural Born Losers (Poacher's Pride, White Trashing, In the Land, You're so Cool)
Elysian Blaze - Levitating the Carnal; Beneath Silent Faces (think I should make a separate post for this ... not spoken about enough imo)
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Poppy Jean Crawford - Glamorous
Kate Bush - Waking the Witch; Hounds of Love; Under Ice (as above ... atmospheric ... Is it dark and gothic? To me, sort of)
Marissa Nadler - Janie in Love; Divers of the Dust Emily Jane White - Behind the Glass Bat for Lashes - What's a Girl to Do? Saram12saram - Fish Wish Kiss; Cripple Holly Henry - Crawl; Roswell Mercy Necromancy - Cruel; Bunny Poppy - Holy Mountain
Marissa Nadler - Janie in Love; Divers of the Dust Emily Jane White - Behind the Glass Bat for Lashes - What's a Girl to Do? Saram12saram - Fish Wish Kiss; Cripple Holly Henry - Crawl; Roswell Mercy Necromancy - Cruel; Bunny Poppy - Holy Mountain
Jan 17, 2025
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πMy efforts now reduced to basically nothing but numbers on a transcript (I did not retain the knowledge in my head oops)
Jan 18, 2025
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πPossibly if you were on a stricter, parent-controlled and technology-restricted diet, you might have to replicate that by forcing breaks between episodes, only playing the album at home (no portables). Just a hypothesis I have, not tested.
Otherwise, acknowledging that now you are more keenly developed, you need more acute stimuli. I suppose as a kid, stories were far more foreign and therefore wondrous, but having grown up, it's all been seen and so the stories have lost some lustre? In that case, best to seek more complex, nuanced stories and engage with them more purposefully to really extract inspiration ("meaning"). On my end, I've been writing on Goodreads and rym. Is this "cheating" by "forcing" a sense of wonder? Only to the extent that you don't see it as something you'd like to do. Otherwise, it's just an adult version of doodling your favourite heroes fighting their nemeses, play acting, etc. Analysis of this kind is only cold and incompatible with the warmth of imagination if conducted with academic rigidity (in fact even then, I might disagree ... haven't fully settled my thoughts on that).
Otherwise, acknowledging that now you are more keenly developed, you need more acute stimuli. I suppose as a kid, stories were far more foreign and therefore wondrous, but having grown up, it's all been seen and so the stories have lost some lustre? In that case, best to seek more complex, nuanced stories and engage with them more purposefully to really extract inspiration ("meaning"). On my end, I've been writing on Goodreads and rym. Is this "cheating" by "forcing" a sense of wonder? Only to the extent that you don't see it as something you'd like to do. Otherwise, it's just an adult version of doodling your favourite heroes fighting their nemeses, play acting, etc. Analysis of this kind is only cold and incompatible with the warmth of imagination if conducted with academic rigidity (in fact even then, I might disagree ... haven't fully settled my thoughts on that).
Feb 10, 2025