Ancestors

Written by Passenger on 2025-01-13 at 21:15

I now have over a thousand followers. I've spent a little while purging my follower list of inactive accounts, so I think whomever remains is active. A thousand is too many. You all have terrible taste in whom you chose to follow. I am very disappointed.

Seriously, I'm flattered that you all consider me worth listening to, but also somewhat terrified.

What follows is a (light-hearted) attempt to prune my follower list so that only the strong remain.

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Written by Passenger on 2025-01-13 at 21:16

Firstly, blue is objectively the worst favourite colour. I'm sorry but it just straight-up sucks. If you thought your favourite colour was blue then please reconsider.

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Toot

Written by Passenger on 2025-01-13 at 21:18

Please don't attempt to rehabilitate nu-metal. It doesn't need a critical reappraisal or a modern reexamination. I still own most of the original albums from when I was a kid, and even them sitting in a box in my cellar is too much presence.

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Descendants

Written by Passenger on 2025-01-13 at 21:21

For every season there is a best sort of cuisine:

Summer: Ethiopian

Autumn: Ethiopian

Winter: Ethiopian

Spring: Ethiopian

The world has progressed beyond the need for other sorts of food. It is a solved problem.

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Written by Passenger on 2025-01-13 at 21:23

Brutalist architecture is Good Actually, but only the stuff that's real brutalism, not the "I dislike this international modernist concrete building so I'm going to call it brutalist" sort.

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Written by Passenger on 2025-01-13 at 21:24

Pears are the best fruit, unless you're allergic or you just don't like them in which case fair enough.

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Written by Passenger on 2025-01-13 at 21:25

The world needs a film of Life A User's Manual. It will be a terrible film. Everyone who likes the book will hate it and everyone who dislikes the book will also hate it, but for different reasons. We still need it.

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Written by Passenger on 2025-01-13 at 21:29

There's nothing morally wrong with Aussie Rules. It's possible for someone to live a decent healthy life and still enjoy watching it.

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Written by Passenger on 2025-01-13 at 21:30

Pineapple on pizza is nice but not on its own. It adds sharpness to the pizza, and tomato is already quite sharp, so it needs to be offset with something else. Ham and pineapple is a classic mix for a reason.

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Written by Asta [AMP] on 2025-01-13 at 21:32

@passenger@kolektiva.social hot peppers and pineapple, well caramelized? ​:kiss_of_the_chef:​

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Written by Passenger on 2025-01-13 at 21:47

@aud

Yeah, that's the good stuff. I think using sweeter peppers would be better, rather than hotter peppers.

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Written by Asta [AMP] on 2025-01-13 at 21:48

@passenger@kolektiva.social Personally I like the hotter peppers, but I'll take whatever ripe red ones since that sweetness does make an impact (double bonus points for ripe red hot peppers)!

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Written by Passenger on 2025-01-13 at 21:51

@aud

Yeah there's nothing wrong with hotter peppers in and of themselves, but I find them better when they go with heavier food that can provide balance to the heat; a chili or a curry, for example. Your tastes may vary.

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Written by Death by Lambda on 2025-01-14 at 05:18

@passenger @aud

Wait until you add coriander/cilantro and, optionally, sweet corn!

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Written by Passenger on 2025-01-13 at 21:33

It is possible, though difficult, to put too much rosemary on food.

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Written by Passenger on 2025-01-13 at 21:34

It's good that Tom Bombadil wasn't in the LotR movies. It would have been better if he wasn't in the book either. He's tonally inconsistent not only with the later book but with the earlier parts too.

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Written by Passenger on 2025-01-13 at 21:35

Werewolf: the Apocalypse 5th Edition is legit pretty good.

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Written by Passenger on 2025-01-13 at 21:37

Science fiction is inherently the most ideological sort of fiction it's possible to write, because it asks "what would person X do if they had access to power Y?" and you can't get more ideological than that.

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Written by Tor Lillqvist on 2025-01-16 at 16:00

@passenger Thanks for the reminder, I need to read the book, which has been in my bookshelf since the 80s.

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Written by Wilson on 2025-01-13 at 21:24

@passenger OMG this thread. I'm still here.

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Written by inquiline on 2025-01-13 at 21:22

@passenger I'm furious at you over blue but otherwise these are impeccable takes

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Written by Chris Ford :tw: on 2025-01-13 at 21:35

@passenger How do you feel about it being redeployed as a flavour e.g. Rina Sawayama's 'XS'?

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Written by Passenger on 2025-01-13 at 21:46

@cford

I have complex feelings about this. I really like what Sawayama is doing, but I feel that she doesn't quite succeed: she's using nu-metal as a signifier of crass, flat commercialism, which isn't wrong exactly but it misunderstands the historical context that nu-metal came out of. Nu-metal is like Dada or Situationism or Superflat: it loses a lot of its meaning if it's detached from its moment in history.

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Written by Chris Ford :tw: on 2025-01-13 at 22:07

@passenger Good point. I still cling to the idea that using nu-metal in an inauthentic way itself works as a metaphor for crass commercialism, though that's a bit of a get-out-of-jail-free.

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Written by Passenger on 2025-01-13 at 22:51

@cford

Again you're not wrong but there are many, many genres of music which can be used as a signifier for vulgar consumerism. What does this one specific moment in music history communicate beyond that?

(Genuine hot take: XS is a brilliant piece of anticapitalist art because it answers that question by saying "this is not just commercialism posturing as rebellion, but it's your dad's commercialism posturing as rebellion against your grandparents." The specific generational meaning of nu-metal has a specific significance within that song that it might not have elsewhere.)

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Written by Chris Ford :tw: on 2025-01-14 at 12:15

@passenger This is one case where art works viscerally and immediately for me so I try to retrofit intellectual rigour that isn't there, perhaps. 🙂

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