American Midnight: Swear Dragon

Propaganda

Lauren Bacall (To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Key Largo)—"Just put your lips together...and blow" excuse me ma'am i'm briefly going to turn into a kettle. She's the quintessential Femme Fatale who may betray me in the end but I'd let her it'd be worth it

Pearl Bailey (Carmen Jones, St. Louis Blues, Porgy and Bess)—vintage crush of all time, the most beautiful woman I've ever seen, and my GOD the PIPES! She wasn't in nearly enough movies, but every time I see her I'm aghast all over with what a gorgeous woman she was. Vote Pearl for diva glamor like no one else! (also....she was on the Muppet Show!)

This is round 5 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

Y’all need to stop with this “actors can only play characters that match their identity categories down to their astrological sign” shit cause there’s still some straight actors I wanna see take dick

Hearing them get so excited over the whale fall is so fun I love hearing people who are passionate about their work

one scientist, “worms.”

every other scientist in sync, “worms!!”

bosohurricane

Highlights from the conference room where they nominated contenders for Word of the Year 2023:

• They put Skibidi Toilet on the projector to explain what “skibidi” means.

• Baby Gronk was mentioned.

• We discussed the Rizzler.

• “Cunty” was nominated.

• “Enshittification” was suggested for EVERY category.

• “Blue Check” (like from Twitter) was briefly defined as “Someone who will not Shut The Fuck Up”

• The person writing notes briefly defined babygirl as “referencing [The Speaker]”. He is now being called babygirl in the linguist groupchats.

• MULTIPLE people raised their hand to say “I cannot stress this enough: ‘Babygirl’ refers to a GROWN MAN”

When technical issues occurred while voting on “kenaissance”, everyone had to reassure the speaker, Ben Zimmer, that he was “benough”

In a stunning upset, the last-minute nomination “(derogatory)” DEFEATS “cunty” as the most useful/most likely to succeed word of 2023.

Someone renominates “babygirl” for word of the year, saying that they have spent the past year trying to figure out if people are “little meow meows, blorbos, or babygirls”. This is in front of a room of hundreds of people.

ENSHITTIFICATION WINS WORD OF THE YEAR 2023

While verifying this was true (it is) I discovered that there is a wikipedia article on enshittification

Even though this means I'm going to end up with a poop emoji on my headstone, I'm ok with it.

UM.

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON'T KNOW

@mostlysignssomeportents IS THE PERSON WHO COINED THE TERM "ENSHITTIFICATION"

And we are so proud of our babygirl.

My roommate pacing the floor, talking to their partner on the phone: "NEIL GAIMAN called COREY DOCTOROW a BABYGIRL on MY POST"

There is something really unique about how wide the assortment of rappers feuding with Drake over the last few months has been. A firing squad composed of Kendrick Lamar, Future, Rick Ross, A$AP Rocky, and The Weeknd, all of whom make slightly different types of music. Both the poet laureate of hip-hop and Teflon Don have simultaneously decided that Drake is now a white boy

William Hays, Cirrus Sky, Woodblock print

this is the funniest thing I’ve read in my LIFE

HIM????

it's real btw

Op here, we're going strong!! Here's a picture of our Goob shrine

Peak dad behaviour

the primordial serpent

One-volume binding of Shimeji Simulation, one of my favorite mangas of all time. Folio size, Polar Duo, metallic silver HTV + case (with a little hole so you can see the girls being tender together 💙)

I made this one for a friend who mentioned that he'd be interested in reading the manga, but preferred to read manga in physical form. There's no licensed English translation OR print run of this, so I decided to make my own - I downloaded the Orchesc/a/ns translation/scan on MangaDex, compiled it all into a single volume, and reversed the PDF page order before imposing it into signature-form, so it can be read right-to-left, as intended! The edge art is hand-drawn by me, meant to mimic those geometric doodles that show up throughout the story. Hand-sewn headbands, to pull it together! And a little mushroom + fish charm bookmark, because OBVIOUSLY!

Fun fact: this is the first book I've ever bound that's been too chunky to fit in my home guillotine. It was nearly too big for my bookpress, too - but only nearly.

i'm so glad goncharov happened when it did, right before prolific public use of AI. that was pure honest gaslighting straight from the heart. real human whimsicality and trickery thru blood sweat and tears. we were a family. and we all gonched, together. you cant replicate that with any machine.

BRANDON LEE as ERIC DRAVEN

THE CROW 1994, dir. Alex Proyas

I know nothing at all about JoJo Siwa but for whatever reason someone was discussing her with me yesterday. I think it is very funny that KISS makeup has become a universal symbol for people acting in a rebellious way while doing nothing rebellious whatsoever. My name is Badass Coolman and I'm here to rock your fucking world with my song "Oh Baby I Love You"

Just watched the "Karma" music video for the first time and this is exactly what I was thinking: this is the result of people thinking Miley Cyrus' "I'm not a child star anymore" phase was cool. I mean the ultimate cause is child stardom itself, which is inherently traumatic to a child's development and inevitably leads them to lash out publicly against the insufferable expectation that they act like a Disney Channel star 24/7 while they're in 20s. There is a very real sense in which all of these people are, objectively, victims. But the more specific problem here is that Miley Cyrus' edgy rebellion involved the creation of some truly awful pop music, and for some reason people have retroactively decided that it was cool. At least Britney's dance pop rebellion sounded good

TIL In 1926 the famous pianist Fats Waller (then 21) was kidnapped by Al Capone’s gang to play piano for his birthday. He basically went missing for 3 days and was returned unharmed but drunk.

via reddit.com

What this headline leaves out is that they kidnapped him by doing the standard mob thing of driving a car up, pointing a gun at him, and saying “get in”. Fats thought he was gonna be killed until Al told him he was a huge fan

Unharmed, heavily intoxicated, and I believe something like $1,500 wealthier.

Nonono we don’t get to ignore what was just said prior. What the fuck DO YOU MEAN THE OPPOSITE OF YOUR MOTHER SELLING YOU TO ONE DIRECTION????!

so easily we forget the lore of our forefathers.

It bears noting that Fats being $1500 wealthier in 1926 dollars is the equivalent of being about $25,000 wealthier in 2022 dollars

back when criminals had a respect for the arts

ID: screenshot of a tumblr tag that says “this is like the opposite of your mom selling you to One Direction.” End ID