Crooked Fingers

The goal is to paint the above wall before it crumbles down.

[girljpg]

aghhhhhhh. okay I will persist

[forthegothicheroine]

The problem with saying "Frankenstein is about [X]" is the same as saying "Dracula is about [X]"- these books are not fables, they are novels. They do certainly draw from their author's lives and the cultural zeitgeist around them, so you could say Frankenstein is about:

Mary Shelley's birth killing her mother

Mary Shelley's own baby dying

Mary Shelley never really getting her father's love and respect

Mary Shelley's close friendship with Lord Byron, who had been exiled from society

Mary Shelley being exiled from society herself following her elopement

Mary Shelley "breaking up" a marriage where the wife later (but before the book's publication) killed herself

A bad dream

Erasmus Darwin's experiments

A holiday in a place with history about alchemists

A ghost story contest

All of those things were surely on Mary Shelley's mind when she wrote Frankenstein, consciously or unconsciously. The book is about all of these things, and also it's about an entirely fictional scenario.

[littlemonday]

One thing that comes up again and again in critical theory regarding Gothic literature is its “excessive meaning.”

In other words, there is no singular reading of a Gothic text.

[free-my-mindd]

[disuse]

ROLLER DERBY KISSES, Acrylic on MDF and leather, Riikka Hyvönen

[disuse]

bonus: here's my favourite title out of the series

[aniseandspearmint]

Oh neat i thought these were photos at first

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

I do love the tumblr experience of "scrolls... wait, A PAINTING?!"

[throathole]

[alphalone3141592]

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[whatcoloristhatcat]

dilute black (blue)

[big8cola]

Its actually so crazy to me that it is still so stigmatized to have body hair as a woman like what the fuckkkkkk what the fuckkkkkk thats not even like a social convention associated with men thats just like a bodily function what the fuckkkkkk

[black-quadrant]

when in doubt about whether or not to make a thing, do it for your 3 hardcore fans.

[black-quadrant]

nothing is too niche. even if it's 1 person. even if the 1 person is you. just create. make it exist.

[mylistofthangs]

[nepal]

Rice planting. Nepal

[monsterfuxxxxer]

Vibe checking. Nepal

[belligerentbagel]

I was curious about a source on this because OP has it tagged as “india,” while the two comments above affirm it as Nepal.

Interestingly, reverse image search brought up this photo, which appears to be a capture of the exact same moment, just from a different angle: 

Nepalese farmers throw mud at each other in a paddy field in Tau-Daha village on the outskirts of Kathmandu on June 29, 2010. The farmers are celebrating National Paddy Day on ‘Asar 15’ of the Nepali calendar as the annual rice planting season begins. AFP PHOTO/Prakash MATHEMA

Two more photos of continued vibe checking, also from Prakash Mathema [1] [2]

And a personal favourite from 2018 (in Lele village):

[i-am-a-fish]

I don't think dust needs to exist personally

[i-am-a-fish]

I really love this website and the people on it a lot

[ouroborosorder]

the girl who is comfy in bed yearns to be On The Computer. The girl who is On The Computer yearns to be comfy in bed. Thus does desire become the root of all suffering

[ixtaek]

[epicsause-official]

"comparing apples and oranges" has always been funny to me as an expression because people's go to exampe of two things so radically different that they defy any useful comparison are apples. and oranges. like you would struggle to find a more comparable pair of objects than that. theyre literally sold right next to each other in most stores.

[epicsause-official]

wikipedia has a whole ass section dedicated to international variants of the idiom so let me quickly run through them

see this is even worse than oranges. pears and apples are like the most comparable things ever. france takes another L

ok so this is what i mean. these are measures of temperature and texture and are in fact not very comparable. молодцы ребята продолжаем в том же духе.

colombia wins most vivid image invoked hands down. would not want that to happen to me.

and i think we can all agree romania wins this hands down. everyone give a big round of applause to romania

[spiribia]

the concept of never including women in anything or never liking women in order to avoid misogyny is really funny and by funny i mean a different word

[cornbreadxmilk-deactivated20220]

I got drunk and I just want y’all to know. It is NEVER okay to like someone. Like Romantically

[rootmode]

women are half the population

[rootmode]

pick your warrior

[rootmode]

[harbinger-of-silly]

All gays will go to hellsite

[king-of-oreo]

What if in hellsite but not gay

[punky-beaver-offical]

[king-of-oreo]

NO!

[avhira]

[hellsitegenetics]

String identified: A ga g t t at t t t ga T tag g a Ag agag Acctac ! T tag g a Ag agag Acctac

Closest match: Psylliodes chrysocephala genome assembly, chromosome: 4 Common name: Cabbage Stem Flea Beetle

(image source)

[graveexcitement]

[kebbopulos]

[spaghettihell]

[achillesinhighheels]

I actually have to build the life I want to live.