e.e. cummings, excerpts from XAIPE (”when faces called flowers float out of the ground”), Complete Poems: 1904-1962
[Text ID: “–alive;we’re alive,dear:it’s(kiss me now)spring!”]
OK this question has been bugging me all morning so y'all please let me know
bc ours did nd I never thought much of it as a kid but know I'm thinking about it and it feels kinda gross? so pls tell me if this experience was universal or not it will haunt me forever otherwise
Re: Dracula’s choice to have the tone Jonathan has when describing the Roommates echo the tone he uses to describe the Count is SO GOOD. This scene is the most horrifying thing that happened to Jonathan yet, and he sounds horrified—but also admits attraction, and the descriptions have ab unmistakable erotic fascination.
But it’s not a case of “I’m horny for vampires but ONLY the women” like a lot of adaptions spin it. The way he lingers over the word “lips” is so much the same as how he did in the first description of Dracula himself. The way his voice trembled in anticipation as she drew close for the bite, the shivering awe of Dracula’s rant of his history. It’s fascinated and horrified and afraid and entranced and repulsed.
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We are living in the radio play revival tbh!! Audio dramas these days are SO good, and the reason why Re: Dracula is as amazing as it is is because it’s put together and acted by people very experienced in audio storytelling. I can’t recommend them enough if the art and storytelling style of Re: Dracula interests you, and the tumblr blog at @re-dracula will even recommend some based on your tastes if you send them an ask!
There will of course be butches who want to go by more androgynous or masculine (nick)names, but I do not think it should be an expectation put on us neither from ourselves or from those around us that we inherently should be uncomfortable by carrying an obviously woman's name.
just a reminder that being butch doesn't mean you have to hate your boobs some of us like them
Here's your meal you bastards. (ps. I need y'all to read into John's expressions and speech bubbles because i spent some TIMEEE figuring that shit out.)
And you can make the rubric for this question whatever you want. My personal one was that young me would be horrified to know she became current me, but that’s because I imagine it’d be quite horrible to a child learning and growing to no longer get to wonder who you’ll be when you grow up, and I think if she and I just like met somehow, she’d think I was a cool adult. Like one of those teachers you get to banter with a little.
Imagine losing your phone (or having it stolen, nobody's entirely sure) but you've got the location thing on so you can check from your computer where the phone is when it's turned on. You try to map out where the fuck it is, but it's been wandering around in places that don't have maps and people shouldn't access. It turns out that no matter who stole it, a fucking raccoon has it now, and you're pretty much run out of battery. You need this phone so you try to fervently figure out how the fuck you're going to get it back.
Okay, it hasn't been moving in a raccoon-like fashion for a while, so you're pretty sure that it's not being carried around by the raccoon anymore. Oh, it looks like it's been found, someone turned it on and charged it! A notification pings on your computer, someone has sent a message from your phone!
"23rqrferq233rqrw434r". The phone is moving on the GPS again. It has been picked up by another fucking raccoon!
...And that is roughly how I picture Sauron feeling when the Ring was once again carried by another hobbit.
when ppl say flash animation pretty much always what i can tell they’re actually thinking of is what is referred to in animation practice as puppet animation, which i agree sucks like 90% of the time (there are a FEW shows that use it very masterfully, like homestar runner and one i’ll show later, though)
guess what? this is flash!
this is also flash!
THIS is puppet animation:
the funniest part is that most puppet animation isn’t even done in flash anymore. people use after effects instead because it has MUCH more sophisticated and useful tools meant specifically for puppet animation.
the technique can be used well, however. my little pony does it so fluidly it looks practically seamless.
homestar runner doesn’t focus nearly as much on fluidity, but instead on constructing strong, expressive key poses and making every frame really count.

puppet animation isn’t even limited to digital mediums. in fact, it’s not new at all.
the adventures of prince achmed is the world’s oldest surviving feature-length animated film - that’s right, predating snow white by over 10 years - and it was done entirely using puppet animation; black paper cutouts atop illuminated backgrounds. and it’s truly fucking breathtaking.
Things I believe needed to be said. It’s not the technique or the tool, it’s what the artist does with it.
night in the woods is a gooooood motherfuckin game. class struggle, good pals, cultshit, punkshit. oh man.
Myths That Harm Blind People
MYTH: All “real” blind people are totally blind and only those “real” people can use canes.
TRUTH: Most blind people have some residual vision in one eye or both. In fact, less than 15% of blind people lack vision and light perception. ANY of these people are allowed to use canes, especially for crossing the street. Canes help with safety and allow others (drivers) to identify blind people. Even if these people have some vision, the cane lets people know “oh that person can’t see well or at all so I shouldn’t expect them to get out of the way or to see me approaching”. When crossing the street, a person with a cane will hold their cane out in the street for drivers to see. They will use their hearing or what vision they have to ascertain if there is a car approaching. Usually the car will stop, allowing the blind person to cross.
CONSEQUENCES OF BELIEVING THE MYTH: -You harass people who don’t “look” blind. -You believe blind people who look both ways before crossing the street, moving around you, or move toward/away from bright lights are “faking”. -You yell at, hit, and sometimes break the canes of those blind people you decided are faking based on your limited understanding of blindness. You make them explain themselves when they shouldn’t need to. -You make ignorant posts online about these ideas, spreading them around. -You make people afraid to use their canes when they need to.
MYTH: Blind people don’t use phones/computers
TRUTH: All phones and computers have accessibility features. This includes VoiceOver or large text. Some people simply hold the phone close to their face. Being able to use a phone does not mean anyone is “faking”. This shows how assumptions based on ignorance lead to other, more harmful assumptions.
CONSEQUENCES OF BELIEVING THE MYTH: -You accuse people using canes and phones of “faking” with zero understanding of the consequences. -You use this as an excuse to harass, yell at, and bully blind people for “faking”, both on the street and online. -You assume blind people don’t use social media which makes you think you: are free to make ignorant ignorant jokes, post pictures of blind people using phones, and ignore blind people online when they say something bothers them because “what? Blind people don’t use the internet”. -You post inaccessible content - no image descriptions or audio description for videos, etc
MYTH: Blind people have superior hearing
TRUTH: Blind people do not have superior hearing. They just rely on their hearing more.
CONSEQUENCES OF BELIEVING THE MYTH: This one is just annoying. It makes sighted people feel better or like blind people have something they don’t. It also gives them an excuse to assume blind people would have no problem crossing the street because they can just use their superior hearing.
MYTH: Blind people cannot read
TRUTH: Blind people CAN read. Look up Braille, accessibility in phones and computers, audio books, etc. Similarly: Blind people only read Braille.
CONSEQUENCES OF BELIEVING THE MYTH: This is something people like to say as a joke, but a surprising amount of people mean it. Many people know about Braille (and compare it to sign languages for some reason, but that’s another rant), and will often use these myths to exclude blind people from online spaces.
I made this because these myths are prevalent even in supposed progressive spaces. People will talk about ableism and in the same breath, make one of these assumptions. While it is frustrating that no one bothers to do the research, it is only assumptions and not well-meaning questions that hurt the blind community. Questions allow a person to respond; assumptions do not.
These assumptions have nothing to do with being a bad person, hating the blind community, etc. Therefore, they can apply to anyone. I would like for everyone to explore how they have interacted with or spread these myths and simply change their behaviors. In this instance, your intent only matters so much. It is your behavior that creates change and makes things easier for that blind person you pass tomorrow. Not harassing them, not accusing them of faking, will make their lives 100% easier.
I started this blog so that writers could include blind characters in their stories, thus easing some of the pressure of navigating confusing online myths that slip into otherwise meaningful research. In addition to including blind people in our fiction (either as characters or acknowledging them as consumers by ensuring accessibility), we should make things easier in real life by taking down these myths and correcting those who believe them. Even if we come across as harsh or humorless by doing so. And if you are someone who still wants to believe these things, ask yourself why you are so committed to “helping” blind people in ways they have expressed does not in fact help them at all. Thanks for reading!
that medieval peasant you’re trying to kill with hyper-pop is gonna make you clean and butcher a chicken and you’re gonna throw up.
I found a soft quietude come over me. Here I am, sitting at a little oak table where in old times possibly some fair lady sat to pen, with much thought and many blushes, her ill-spelt love-letter, and writing in my diary in shorthand all that has happened since I closed it last.
This segment gives me so much joy, but is a great example of what makes Jonathan incredibly unique among similar types of horror victims in Victorian literature.
A lot of academic analysis notes Jonathan’s traditionally feminine role in the early chapters of Dracula, but chalk it up to “the horror of emasculation”—that Dracula imposing femininity on Jonathan expresses the gender role anxiety of the time and is part of how Dracula terrorizes him.
But that’s just straight-up not how the book is written. Jonathan is comforting himself with his connection to the sweet, soft ladies of old, wishing he were writing love letters to his own love far away. He soothes himself with the image as a way to escape the horrors surrounding him. He encourages himself with the comparison to Shezerade and her cleverness earlier.
It’s the difference between “Jonathan is facing horrors traditionally imposed on female characters” and “the horrors INCLUDE the connection to female characters.” That distinction is enforced by how he, on his own, finds comfort and encouragement by thinking of himself among their number.
It’s a distinction that wouldn’t be obvious from just reading a summary of the story, which in all honesty seems to be what some academic analysis is working from.
Jonathan taking refuge in the women's wing, feeling comfort and kinship with its previous inhabitants is soooo good.
The fondness and little laugh in Ben Galpin's voice, as he imagines the lady penning a letter to her lover, takes what could have been a very bitter line and instead, turns it into one of companionship.
This makes what happens later, with the ladies, all the more awful.
Sometimes the smallest thing can rewrite the trajectory of your life. For example: the reason I could only think about Dragon Ball Z for five years of my mortal life is I attended a local theater one-act play based on Waiting for Godot where Vegeta and Frieza were fighting on namek and waiting for Goku. It was so good it rewrote my brain chemistry permanently
Vegeta's growing despair contrasted with Frieza's dispassionate apathy. Desperately trying to ignore the growing realization that Goku might never arrive, might not even exist. The spirit Halloween costumes blending seamlessly with the truly sensitive emotional acting. I would give anything to attend again but there will never be another run
I forgot a really important element of this, which is that the actors for Vegeta and Freeza had heelies on the whole time to suggest flying
everyday I wake up and mince garlic
a piece of media that is bad: mundane. effectless
a piece of media that is bad but had the potential to be so so good: unbearable. agonizing. soul crushing even
I've said this before and I'll say it again: it's more important to know and understand fully why something is harmful than it is to drop everything deemed problematic. It's performative and does nothing. People wonder why nobody has critical thinking skills and this is part of it because no one knows how to simousltansly critique and consume media. You need to use discernment.
This is ultimately why propaganda is going to work on you. Because you never learned how to think for yourself and the actual ideology behind things. You simply rely on group think and the bare minimum explanations to tell you what's good and bad.
Hello may I request some North American black bears being adorable gremlins? Just pure chaotic bearotonin, if you have any to spare.
Here are some chaos gremlins up to no good with bird feeders
And of course, don’t forget Brewster: busted for being a chaos gremlin
A perfect visual demonstration of why, if you live in bear country, you need to put your goddamn bird feeders away while they're active. Nothing is going to stop them. Not even the law.
Let this be your reminder to not feed the chaos gremlins












