Series / anime
Pantheon (2022) – On the uploading process
Discussing the uploading process as portrayed in the anime. Read the full page
*Watching a scenery IRL*
Pia: It’s like something from a painting.
Davis: That’s because people paint landscapes.
Black Mirror S06E02 “Loch Henry”
– What’s so bad about being a pig?
– It’s undignified.
– Undignified?
– Walking about with your nose the same height as your asshole.
– Snout.
– What’s that?
– Pigs have snouts, not noses. So it would be your snout the same height as your asshole.
– Nose, snout… You’re still trotting about gazing up everybody else’s assholes all day long. What kind of society is that?
– An equal one?
Black Mirror S04E05 “Metalhead”
Life is unpredictable and control is just an illusion.
Hannah, 13 Reasons Why
When you’re suffering, that’s when you’re most real. Read the full page
Horace and Pete – How do you find love?
A sad girl after a bad online date, another girl, a guy, Leon, and an old man at the bar. Continue reading
Picky eaters, they grow up to be depressives and sexual anorexics, you know.
Pazuzu in The Exorcist (TV series), episode 4 season 1
– There’s a common, sentimental notion that angels are all around us, solving little domestic problems. But in the Bible, when humans encounter an angel, they fall to their knees in fear. These are beings of tremendous power. Think of the first renegade angels, in league with Lucifer. They were strong enough to challenge God. And surely, God…
[…]
God actually created these rogue angels, knowing that they would defy Him, because what was the end result of this defiance?
The police superintendent: – Lucifer came to Earth in the guise of a serpent.
– Very good…
[…]
And what did we gain from that famous snake? Knowledge, free will, the ability to think for ourselves, which led to everything you see now in this room: civilization, art, culture, music… life. In some strange way, these rogue angels were the architects of all that we hold dear.
Dr. John Rexroth in The Exorcist (TV series), episode 6 season 1
– I tell myself I bear witness, but the real answer is that it’s obviously my programming. And I lack the constitution for suicide.
Rust in “True Detective”
All right, look, man, I’m cashing in. I’m done. I’m 40 shit years old, I got nothing, I got nobody. And I don’t want anything, I don’t want anybody; and that’s the worst part: when the want goes. That’s… that’s bad. I mean, like, suffering is one thing, or “not having” is one thing… But when you just don’t care anymore?
You know, I’ve gone soft in the last three pussies I’ve been in. You get to a point where you go “Maybe it’s time to just put a period at the end of my… whatever this was.”
Louie, S02E09 – Eddie (Doug Stanhope)
You know, Kyon… have you ever realized just how insignificant your existence on this planet really is? […] It happened to me. And I’ll never forget it. Back when I was in the sixth grade, my whole family went out to go watch a baseball game at the stadium. I didn’t really care about baseball, but I was surprised by what I saw when we got there. Everywhere I looked, I saw people. On the other side of the stadium, the people looked so small, like little moving grains of rice. It was so crowded. I thought that everyone in Japan had to be packed in there.
So I turned to my dad and asked him, “Do you know how many people are here right now”? He said since the stadium was full, probably fifty thousand. After the game, the street was filled with people and I was really shocked to see that, too. To me, it seemed like there was a ton of people there. But then, I realized it could only be a tiny fraction of all the people in Japan. When I got home, I pulled out my calculator. In social studies, I’d learned that the population of Japan was a hundred some odd million. So I divided that by fifty thousand. The answer was one two-thousandth. That shocked me even more. I was only one little person in that big crowded stadium filled with people, and believe me, there were so many people there, but it was just a handful of the entire population.
Up till then, I always thought that I was, I don’t know, kind of a special person. It was fun to be with my family. I had fun with my classmates. And the school that I was going to, it had just about the most interesting people anywhere. But that night, I realized it wasn’t true. All the stuff we did during class that I thought was so fun and cool, was probably happening just like that in classes in other schools all over Japan. There was nothing special about my school at all. When I realized that, it suddenly felt like the whole world around me started to fade into a dull gray void. Brushing my teeth and going to sleep at night, waking up and eating breakfast in the morning, that stuff happened all over the place. They were everyday things that everybody was doing. When I thought about it like that, everything became boring. If there’s really that many people in the world, then there had to be someone who wasn’t ordinary. There had to be someone who was living an interesting life. There just had to be. But why wasn’t I that person? So, that’s how I felt till I finished elementary school.
And then I had another realization. I realized fun things wouldn’t come my way just by waiting for them. I thought when I got into junior high, it was time for me to make a change. I’d let the world know I wasn’t a girl who was happy sitting around waiting. And I’ve done my best to become that person. But in the end, nothing happened. More time went by and before I knew it, I was in high school. I thought that something would change.
Haruhi in “The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya”