Wow I should have gotten at least a nomination for a nobel peace prize for this post

Assad Zaman you are the prettiest person to ever live #tvl #tvlspoilers #thevampirelestat #thevampirelestatspoilers #armand

the most surreal thing about this era of open yelling about masculinity is that, if you grew up anything like I did, you were exposed to several sets of standards of masculinity and would be hard pressed to identify which of them the Paxtons and Millers of the world are living up to

in general I think popular discourse confuses "vices that were downplayed, excused, or ignored for men's benefit" with "traits that were upheld as masculine virtues" and this phenomenon is part of why: these particular men not only have few if any virtues but single out their vices for broadcasting

again and again and again and again

The kind of greed they talk about in the Bible

This fit in The Voyage Home is 💯 fresh. It's so funny they give Bones the pussy slayingest clothes in the movies

There's an argument to be made that most mass shooters fall into this category, and if you look at it this way we've been under sustained violent attack by right wing terrorists for like 30 years, with the second Trump administration as its apex and ultimate victory.

i would respect these people a little more if they just said straightforwardly that they think “voting republican” is a sacrament on par with the eucharist

“It’s going to be people with substance versus people with shallow knowledge. It’s going to be mastery versus faking it. It’s going to be people with good taste versus tacky. I trust you will put in the work necessary to be on the right side of those battles.”

Zachary Quinto as Spock and Leonard Nimoy as Spock Prime in STAR TREK (2009)

Good morning everyone. I am going to break another record: To be the first Little Izzy to visit Bandung, West Java Please follow my journey — Onil

"Independent bookstores are multiplying, although many people still think they're dying out" "The latest numbers from the American Booksellers Association show independent stores expanding at a pace not seen this century."

This is paranoid nonsense, for the record. It's largely describing someone who configured a website like a non-federal employee would and then doing a bunch of shadowy insinuation about why that might be.

Every day the stancil haters fall deeper into this hole. Please just block someone if you find yourself planning out revenge like this

Poe: howard is there some reason that you felt you needed to clarify this Lovecraft: i just feel like there's been a lot of sus pictures on deviantart lately

Lovecraft: cthulu is really the peak of masculinity if you think about it Barker: oh yeah? how do you figure that? Barker: how do you define peak manliness howard Lovecraft: oh well that's obvious Lovecraft: peak male performance is a reedy academic given to fainting

Angry hermit crab

I am starting to come around to the idea that they might be stupid enough to try this it will last fifteen minutes before every single person who uses an airport, which includes every rich person in this country and everyone who works at a television network, throws an apocalyptic shitfit

Is it just me or is this tissue box a little...

the worst people on the planet have hello kitty avatars and @s like yummycrumbly but DETESTABLEPERVERT666 would probably pull me out of a burning building

it's worth pointing out how ignorant a lot of the people this message is going to are. My okie grandma legitimately believed my sister was rejecting christianity when she went vegetarian at 12 years old. They don't know what words mean and anything that isn't an in-group signifyer is dangerous

Add it to the pile of absolutely wild AO3 author's notes

this is the thing about people who say they need to be exposed to more perspectives: no you don’t right wing perspectives are dogshit, especially these days - it’s either vicious, preening meanness or it’s the most obvious bad faith trolling you’ve ever seen there is nothing to be gained from it

I once again made this too spicy so I'm happily crying over my dinner. I didn't even use the habanero! i did a jalapeño and a cocky scoop of sambal. If you make this, add some veg. This time i did a bell pepper and spinach

In a now ended friendship i was trying to explain the idea of emotional regulation by imagining yourself as a 2yo that you are in charge of. Do you need a snack? Some quiet time? The friend said that was condescending. And i, baffled, said 'how can i condescend to myself?' I think about it often

Solidarity is where it’s at. ✊🏽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Not me opening my CONJURING lecture on Sunday with this.

Libertarian Viking Neighbor has additional thoughts

have you noticed costume designers like dressing vampires to match their hair color? it’s one way to make a person look like a creature, to visually separate them from the living

Why am i like this? -Unmonitored xfiles watching at 8 or 9 -At 13 I got oral surgery and was allowed to rent a video in the anesthesia comedown and i picked Bram Stoker's Dracula

Forgot to post my finished piece for the collaboration zine ‘ And They Were Monsters’ 🧜🏽‍♀️ 💦👀👌

JAPANESE DRACULA This is the fab Japanese movie poster for Coppola's Bram Stoker's #Dracula, 1992. It shows Dracula the #vampire as wolf, drawing on #werewolf texts such as Sabine Baring Gould's Book of Werewolves 1865, which informed Stoker's novel

Don't wake the roommate 🤫

I will probably need to repost this Gore Vidal quote multiple times this season so here it is for convenience

Quote “It is impossible not to feel deep sorrow when contemplating the immense suffering and humiliation endured by so many in stark contrast to their immeasurable dignity as persons infinitely loved by the Lord,” Leo wrote. “For this, in the name of the Church, I sincerely ask for pardon.”

“Recreation of something I saw in a dream” is basically my favorite genre of post, always send me this, send me yours, I am here for it

well i’ll be damned adrian chiles can write a eulogy

Someone pointed out they’re just exhibitionists, and suddenly a cloud lifted, and I knew I could go on with my life. They like this, it really doesn’t affect me, they should be taxed more. ~fin~

A friend did the maths on this and noted that in the last 5 years there has been one hostile news article for every ten trans people in the population total.

This is the “Lady with the Hood.” It is 28,000 years old & perhaps the earliest depiction of a human face. Made from mammoth ivory, its delicate modelling & drapery of the hood belie the idea palaeolithic people were artistically crude. It is a beautiful piece. 🏛️📷 National Archaeological Museum🇫🇷

have a yuriful day everyone

I made a frutiger aero soft soap themed xenomorph...

I saw David Byrne last month so I'm a little obsessed rn and i cry at Heroes just normal style in the right mood so this one has me sobbing youtu.be/w7HJZPlJn_U?...

I love "A discordant bricolage of hyperromantic elements" as a definition

Like lots of people I grew up battered by patriarchy and so I understand the temptations of gender essentialism, but we really can't succumb to it. We have more in common with each other than we don't; I refuse to cede men or maleness to evil; no demographic is innocent of violence and domination.

Most folks don't realize how central events like J6 were to the Jim Crow state. Dozens of unprosecuted coups & massacres—actively encouraged by those in power—revived the fundamental logic of the pre-emancipation state: that Black Americans had "no rights which the white man was bound to respect."

i would have rather america accelerated global electrification by building an unparalleled domestic green manufacturing industry but i'll take petrostate gangsterism scaring everyone into going green if that's the only option on the table