Unmute !
my mother: yknow i have a copy of dracula if you want to just read the whole book without having to wait for an email
me: no i like getting the email, its like a book club, and we all get to post about the new chapters together
my mother: are you perchance a middle aged housewife
twitter sucks for art because you have a maximum of 48 hours before your art post completely fades out of existence whereas tumblr lets things circulate forever. and also you can read all of the fun lovely things that people leave in the tags that they’d probz be too shy to say in a public reply
Whenever I take a long car ride I end up exhausted afterwards, and I'm always like "why am I so tired? I was just sitting around doing nothing all day."
But the answer, it turns out, is I was doing something. Riding in a car jars your body in many directions and requires constant microadjustments of your muscles just to stay in place and hold your normal posture. Because you're inside the car, inside the situation, it's easy not to notice all the extra work you're doing just to maintain the status quo.
There's all sorts of work that we think of as "free" that require spending energy: concentrating, making decisions, managing anxiety, maintaining hypervigilance in an unfriendly environment, dealing with stereotype threat, processing a lot of sensory input, repairing skin cells damaged by sun exposure, trying to stay warm in a cold room.
The next time you think you're tired from "nothing", consider instead that you're probably in situation where you're doing a lot of unnoticed extra work just to stay in place.
I honestly think the best direction @staff can take right now is the one Firefox and DuckDuckGo took back in the day, which is to realize that they're the only major alternative to a bunch of really morally reprehensible options and actively try to become morally decent, then use that as marketing
Like if the messaging around tumblr was "We'll never have an algorithm. We'll never sell your data. We'll never be bought by Elon Musk" and then they actually followed through on it all, they could fill a very desperately needed niche in the market. Rebrand tumblr as the not-predatory social media site and people will actually have a reason to check it out other than nostalgia
I think the consensus of the userbase is moving towards "staff is actually doing a pretty good job now for effectively the first time in history" so I don't think it's too far-fetched that they could go in this direction. And now really is the perfect time to do it
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I really can't emphasize enough how much I don't care if the anecdotes people tell on here are true. We are sitting around a campfire telling tall tales, embellishments and flights of fancy are part of the fun
buddhawithoutorgans
When the man at the bait shop tells you he almost caught a bass thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig you don't write a callout post accusing him of gaslighting
Frankenstein’s monster being called just “Frankenstein” is actually poetic justice on a meta scale. Oh, so you’re going to reject your son/creation for fear of God and his hideousness?? You won’t give him a name and only call him “Creature”?? Well everyone forever is going to only remember him by your family name.
How’s that feel Victor?
and while we’re at it, fuck this idea that ONE ACCOUNT has to belong uniquely to ONE PERSON. This is the same thing these silicon valley fucks want; their vision of the future where everyone has a unique biometric ID code implanted in their body is the ultimate extension of Netflix’s “no password sharing” policy. You want to use your friend’s car? Sorry, you can’t, you need to be an authorized user. Your mother wants to let you look something up on her OED account? Too bad! That’s only for her! The concept of perfect market efficiency gives them greedy little money bag eyes.
If I pay money to have a newspaper sent to my house, they don’t charge me extra when I show it to my dad. This password sharing thing isn’t just a Netflix problem; don’t be surprised if it shows up elsewhere in other forms. Stamp this idea out now or we’ll be stuck with it.
Pride and Prejudice but it’s set during the Spanish Colonial Period in The Philippines.
Quannah Chasinghorse for best dressed at the Met Gala two years in a row:
Jewelry was custom designed! a collab btwn Quannah and Antelope Women Designs
For the people saying that it wasn’t on theme need to watch her Met Gala interview. The style of jewelry and materials used were the same used during that point in history (1870-1890). They’re made from bone, porcupine quills, and shells harvested responsibly from her tribe.
Also, for indigenous tribes during the time period, this was not a “Gilded Age.” This was the time where gold was found in the Black Hills, and where the Fort Laramie Treaty was broken. Displacing and forcibly removing families from their homes. Children were kidnapped to be put into Christian boarding schools and never saw their families again. This was the time where Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse formed their alliances against Custer and the 7th Cavalry at the Battle of Little Big Horn. The tribes may have pushed the regiment back, but it lead to more tension and violence from the US Government in retaliation.
It was during this time where a camp in South Dakota was filled with the desperate tribe of Lakota families during the winter. They looked for comfort in their traditional ways and began praying for their ancestors to help them. The soldiers that had surrounded the camp didn’t know that what they were doing was a traditional Ghost Dance, they thought that they were trying to somehow communicate with other tribes and fight back against them. In the dead of winter, they killed over half of the tribe’s men women and children for no reason other than their paranoia.
From my perspective, the dress and the jewelry are representative of the beauty and the hardship of that Gilded Era. We may not have dressed in tulle and gold and jewels, but she is the splitting image of the spirits that would have come to answer the ancestor’s prayers. She represents the absolute spite that we Lakota and indigenous people have lived through. And she is such an icon for that.
Mahpiya techawin, pilamaya ksto.
[ID: screencap from Ao3: ‘1 - 20 of 260 Works in Dracula/Jonathan Harker]
interested to see how this situation develops in the coming days….
the subtextual homoeroticism in bram stoker’s dracula vs tumblr’s deep & abiding love for m/m content vs the OG dracula’s inherent unfuckability: fight!!
“inherent unfuckability” is a bold statement to make on the fuck that old man website
Heads up to Dave Malloy fans. OCTET has an official Instagram and Tiktok! @octetmusical for both of them. Give them a follow and duet us in “GLOW.” Thank you for all the support
I need y'all to understand something, Arizona tea came out in 1992, same size, same 99¢ price, that has not changed in THIRTY YEARS in spite of inflation. They only recently got to the point that costs became a problem for that price point and even still the CEO refused to change the price. If the price had stayed exactly in lockstep with inflation it would cost $2.03 today.
They're only having problems because their suppliers are increasing costs.
This is one of the most amazing examples there is of the fact that inflation as a metric is utter bullshit. Companies are seeing that number and choosing to raise their prices because everyone else is, and companies that recognize it as bullshit and choose to price ethically take the fall for it as their suppliers take away their profits. The actual change in cost to make a soft drink from farm to factory to retail has ONLY changed because some people in that process are collecting more process based on an economic measurement that is designed to fail and make excuses to raises prices.
IN THIS HOUSE WE RESPECT ARIZONA TEA
It’s Not a Plot Hole, It’s Foreshadowing
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It’s Not a Plot Hole, It’s Just Something That They Opted Not to Spoon-feed You Because It Would Be Obvious If You Thought About It For 20 Seconds
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It May Be a Plot Hole, But It Still Works In Terms of the Story’s Themes and Character Logic
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Okay, It Is a Plot Hole, What Are You Going to Do, Cry about It?
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All Works of Fiction Represent Constructed Realities and by Demanding a Lack of Plot Holes, You Are Improperly Importing the Rules of Objective Reality into a Subjective Creation that Must Be Judged Primarily on Its Aesthetic Merits
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Dude, Just Come-up With a Headcanon Like A Normal Human Being
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Is It Really a Plot Hole, or Are the Characters Just Not Making the Choices You Want Them To?
vs. for fuck’s sake, do you want more of the thing, or not? Because “Plot Holes” are often opportunities left open for future storytelling.
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It’s Doctor Who ¯\_(ツ)_/¯