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You're thinking of Robert Pattinson, Pat Robertson is one of the most famous evangelists and is responsible for the American Republican Party shifting towards the conservative Christian crowd.
In my defense those are comically similar names
saw a christofascist die today: effervescent
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Chapter 8 WWDITS | Nandor/Guillermo | Mature | 3k words
Guillermo’s eyes are an inky, smoky black and he has two little holes in his throat and Nandor would do anything to wake him up.
Anything.
Chapter Summary: Nandor's Bright Idea
He's so fucking stupid. :')
loudly going "YOU'RE GOOD YOU'RE GOOD" to myself to ward off the memory of every embarrassing thing i've ever done
Today, I would like to commemorate an event which has laid a very profound impact on the internet.
Ten years ago on this day (06/08/09), a forum website called SomethingAwful held a photoshop contest titled “create paranormal images”. The contest would require participants to edit ordinary photographs into creepy-looking images, and then try to pass them off as authentic photos on other paranormal forums.
Two days later, on June 10th, a user by the name Victor Surge would find this thread, and become inspired. He submitted the two pictures above, featuring a tall, faceless monster which would stalk children, who would then disappear. He called his monster “the Slender Man”. After this initial post, Surge and others would expand on the character and the story, creating one of the internet’s most famous monsters. The Slender Man proved to be popular enough to spread to other websites, with 4chan, Deviantart, and TV Tropes all having their own Slender-Mania. On June 20th of that same year, another user on the SomethingAwful forums found the Slender Man, and also wanted to contribute. Noticing nobody had made any videos yet of the monster, he sat down with some of his friends and planned out a video webseries involving a former college film student discovering and unravelling the mysteries surrounding Slender Man; this would become Marble Hornets, one of the first horror-themed ARG’s of the internet.
That all happened ten years ago. Ten years of haunting the darkest corners of the internet, and Slender Man has built up a surprisingly dense resume, for a fictional monster. Several popular webseries, a couple hit games, at least two movies, even inspiring other characters in seperate series like the Silence in Dr Who and the Enderman in Minecraft. And all this within a ten-year period.
I think this just attests to how much humans can be inspired by an idea. From a small handful of edited photographs, we collectively constructed a new monster which lurks in our nightmares, and now it almost seems as natural as the horror mythos he was based on. For better or worse, the Slender Man seems to be here to stay. Happy Birthday, Slendy! Here’s to hoping you continue to be both terrifying and terrific!
it's a day ending in y so I'm dithering over posting schedule again, mainly because I will be traveling in areas with iffy wifi for almost three weeks starting Monday.
I know that I'll have some days in that trip when I'll have the time and wifi to edit and post chapters because my dad was really clear that he'd scheduled in "down days" during this trip, mostly because he kept exhausting me the last couple times we've done road trips. lmao. But I really don't know when these days will be because my father sent me the vaguest itinerary known to man. :')
so now I'm going back and forth between "you should sit on chapters to spread them out throughout the trip" and "you should post them ASAP bc you don't know when you'll have another chance"
so uh I guess I'm asking whether as a reader you would prefer to have a bunch of chapters all at once (as in, once a day for a few days), with possible several-day breaks between those chunks, or would you prefer to have them more evenly spaced even if it might take much longer in the long run?
if it helps you choose, the first plan would involve posting ch8 today and ch9 tomorrow and ch9 is a doozy but also ends on a cliffhanger that you'll have to just have to live with until we get to our first "down day". ALSO if it helps you choose, the fic is almost entirely done at this point. I only have to write two more chapters. (and obviously clean each chapter up for posting.)
so uh
so interesting how the no option is winning. its so curious how life will make us live in a parallel line to people we wouldnt have otherwise ever been so close with. its so radiantly poetic and beautiful.
You know, when I was designing my WWDITS tarot deck, I kept thinking "no one cares about a deck design that doesn't even have art, no one just wants to read your tarot meta" but then every time I'd remember that almost every super famous deck that changed the history of tarot was actually designed by Just Some Guy who hired an artist to illustrate it for him -- and it was usually named after the designer, not the illustrator.
(To the point where I actually get angry at how many female artists who did the art for tarot decks are forgotten, and why I always call it the Rider-Waite-Smith/Rider-Smith-Waite tarot instead of the more common Rider-Waite, which refers only to the card publisher and the man who came up with the meaning, symbolism, and overall design of the card. Justice for Pamela Colman Smith, etc.)
Like... tarot really started being used for cartomancy when commonly used tarot decks (like the Tarot de Marseille) were retroactively assigned meaning by French occultists. (Who in turn said their interpretations were based on ancient Egyptian mysticism, which is very funny when you think about the fact that the Rosetta Stone hadn't been translated yet so none of them could read hieroglyphs.)
So from its infancy, there's always been a sort of separation between the art and the writings on symbolism/interpretation. Cards existed, guys wrote books about what those cards could mean. Then they started designing decks specifically for cartomancy with an even greater eye toward meaning and symbolism, and those decks are named by and/or after the people who designed that side of them, not the people who illustrated them.
So like... I may be kind of bad at art, but I am good at being Just Some Guy. (With a sort of "feral academic" flavor to it.) So I guess that actually makes me super qualified to write like 20k words of tarot symbolism and interpretation based on my favorite idiotic vampires. lmao
I'm not gonna commission any artist, though, because unlike those other guys, I was not born with a silver dick in my mouth. (Thank you, Nandor.) Instead I just bounce off the fucking walls every time a wwdits fanartist posts an illustration of one of my card interpretations. lmao
I bet in the 20s all the weird German emo girls were thirsting after the Somnambulist
German emo girls be like “ich will 😍🥺”
Don’t hide this magnificent piece of info in the tags.
The bloke (Conrad Veidt) was an outspoken opponent of antisemitism, and when he refused to divorce his wife (who was Jewish), Joseph Goebbels had him blacklisted.
He also donated tons and tons of money to poor children who had been negatively effected by the Blitz in London after he moved to the US, following his becoming a naturalised-British citizen after leaving Germany in the 1930s.
Don’t forget that in 1919, he starred in “Different from the Others”, a German film protesting the anti-homosexuality laws in place. It’s widely regarded as the first pro-gay film. Conrad Veidt was a goddamn hero.
I just feel like this pic is relevant to the discussion
He was also the highest paid member of the cast in “Casablanca” (where he played a Nazi officer, again), even if he only got second billing, because he was THAT big a star.
He and his first wife divorced after… well she said it better than I ever could.
“I excused a lot of his failings and whims because I loved him. But one day he did something to me that I couldn’t forgive. I was singing that evening at the cabaret. I left him home and he told me: “I invited a few friends; we’ll dine while we wait for you.” And it just so happened I had received a new dress from Paris. That evening, after work, I arrived home and what do I see? All these gentlemen dressed as women. And Conrad had put on my Paris dress. At this point, I divorced!”
And as Anita Loos put it
“Any Berlin lady of the night might turn out to be a man; the prettiest girl on the street was Konrad [sic] Veidt.”
Good to see the tumblr sexyman precludes even tumblr
It’s important to mention, I think, that he served in WWI on the Eastern front. He became I’ll in the trenches and while recovering joined up with the theater his girlfriend worked for, and spent his recuperation putting on plays for the troops.
He also believed in spiritualism and thought that he himself was a medium.
He was sexy man, Betty Grable, and Alistair Crowley all at once. So…no wonder tumblr likes him so much.
I was unaware of his existence until just now but this is amazing.
However since Crowley was an antisemitic malicious selfish bastard I’d have to say he was the opposite of Crowley.
Fair point. Didn’t know much about Crowley, just that he invented tarot cards and popularized them. I personally stay well away from all of that nonsense. Alright, let’s amend it to a benevolent psychic witch or something. As you like it.
Veidt’s role as Grand Vizier Jafar in “The Thief of Baghdad” (1940) was the inspiration for Disney’s version in the animated “Aladdin”.
His makeup as Gwynplaine in “The Man Who Laughs” (1928) was the inspiration for The Joker.
And his role as Cesare The Somnambulist in “The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari” (1919) was the inspiration for Tim Burton’s…
Well, look at him.
went for a walk this morning and saw a baby banana slug eating a rose petal 😭
hottsyforpottsy said: Do ITTTTTT ;)
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I wanna say that I'll post ch8 tomorrow (Sunday), but like. I guess that depends on how patient I can be today.
I’m at the Pat Robertson is dead party
I’m at the Trump indicted party
I’m at the combination Pat Robertson is dead Trump indicted party
I am trying to Have Restraint this time and not just post chapters of this fic as soon as they're written, but mannnnn I am so impatient.
characters who are absolutely convinced down to their bones that they are unlovable being subjected to the mortifying ideal of being wholly and unconditionally loved. that’s the good stuff. never get tired of it.
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