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Rick’s “4 bands still played in 2100” video sent me down a rabbit hole, so I wrote an essay arguing the reason is older than streaming
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Rick’s “4 bands still played in 2100” video sent me down a rabbit hole, so I wrote an essay arguing the reason is older than streaming

Rick’s video asking how Nirvana, Queen, the Police, and the Beatles out-draw nearly everyone still working lodged in my head and wouldn’t leave, so I wrote an essay trying to answer it. My argument: his four winners share one thing that living bands don’t, a closed catalog. Nothing new can ever be added, so it stops being a career and becomes canon, bounded and knowable how scripture is. It builds on Rick’s own points (biopic, covers, small discographies) and pushes toward what he gestures at near the end, that history has already decided. Grateful to him for the question, and curious what y'all makes of my answer.

https://aquaregiascriptura.substack.com/p/sealed-vessels

u/ryanmaple — 13 hours ago
▲ 5 r/prequelappreciation+1 crossposts

Modern Masters: The Master and the Chickenhawk

Disclosure up front: this is my own essay, and I'd genuinely love this community's read on it.

I got stuck on two Star Wars videos side by side. One is Star Wars Theory premiering his Vader fan film after years of work, no AI, no shortcuts, given away for free, thanking fans at the door one at a time. The other is a commentator spending half an hour explaining why Revenge of the Sith is "garbage," isolating the worst line and ignoring everything around it.

I ended up reading them through Iain McGilchrist's Master and Emissary: one attends to the whole (six films of buildup, the pure cinema of a scene, the lore), the other grabs one decontextualized piece and holds it up as proof. It turned into an essay about the difference between people who build and people who burn, why the prequels became a kind of generational scapegoat, and why "this is bad" is so often a scapegoat rite wearing the costume of criticism.

It's not really about whether you love or hate the prequels. Most curious what you think about the "every generation gets its own Star Wars" part.

aquaregiascriptura.substack.com
u/ryanmaple — 1 day ago
▲ 18 r/adultswim

Adult Swim gave its 25th birthday to Robot Chicken on purpose — here’s why that isn’t a joke at the network’s expense

https://preview.redd.it/ao7g27yq65jh1.png?width=468&format=png&auto=webp&s=7ec5325c46db43cad91e68d0fac5a45a83e9501b

I wrote an essay that starts from Adult Swim handing its own legacy celebration to two guys who’ve spent two decades mutilating legacies, and argues that’s exactly right. My claim: Robot Chicken is a sacred joke in our oldest sense — a satyr play, the Feast of Fools, a totem feast — a licensed fool profaning our myths in order to keep them. It gets into why Lucasfilm blessed their Star Wars specials, why the show has been a better steward of these properties than the studios that own them, and why comedy is the higher form, not lower. Would love this sub’s read.

https://aquaregiascriptura.substack.com/p/robot-chicken-is-not-desecrating

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u/ryanmaple — 7 days ago
▲ 18 r/robotchicken+1 crossposts

The Name, YHVH, AUM, the coincidence of opposites across traditions.

https://preview.redd.it/3emdxq471nhh1.png?width=539&format=png&auto=webp&s=fab637be4fe943fa5882766cdd013ae4e3a0bc35

The climax of an essay I wrote argues that traditions which mapped the absolute longest did not call it a structure — they called it a Name. YHVH built from the verb "to be" and holding a marriage of opposites, the Tao’s yin and yang as one figure, AUM folding the states of consciousness into the silence that closes it, Cusa’s coincidence of opposites. It gets there through physics, Bohm and Penrose, but ends by pointing past the diagram at the Name. Would value this community’s response.

https://aquaregiascriptura.substack.com/p/nobody-invented-this-universal-pattern

u/ryanmaple — 8 days ago
▲ 8 r/Medievalart+1 crossposts

Medieval craftsmen built near-perfect Penrose tilings 500 years before Penrose — and erased the construction lines on purpose

https://preview.redd.it/ktf6nrmh1khh1.png?width=468&format=png&auto=webp&s=c1200d21e852fc0eaaccfeb72b30f874f4593ca5

I wrote about the moment a physicist realized the girih tilework on a 1453 Isfahan shrine was, in effect, a Penrose tiling, five centuries early — and how the same "order hidden beneath the surface" runs from Egyptian proportion grids through Vitruvius and the Pantheon to Chartres. Craftsmen laid down sacred geometry and then erased the scaffolding so the beauty could stand on its own; my essay is about putting those construction lines back. Thought this crowd would appreciate the tiling history in particular, and let me know what you think.

https://aquaregiascriptura.substack.com/p/nobody-invented-this-universal-pattern

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u/ryanmaple — 15 days ago