Rambling Science Clown @algusunderdunk - Tumblr Blog

"On the last day of autumn, before the first frost, find the Elder Oak on the island in the saltless sea, and offer up your most prized treasure. If your offering is accepted, your deepest wish will be granted. But if your offering is rejected, your skin will turn to bark and your limbs will harden to wood." Inspired by a walk through the woods in my new backyard in Sweden! The oak trees here are very different from the ones I'm used to in California and I'm constantly mesmerized by the beautiful twisting branches~

classichorrorblog

The Addams Family (1991)

tombstoneparty

Umbrella Performer helps their friends avoid the moon...

supermariomamafucker

they need to come up with more words like necrosis and miasma and mausoleum and cadaver and morose and decrepit and stuff like that just so metal bands can expand their vocabulary

kayla-denker

Trans women are the same gender as cis women.

The amount of "allies" that get upset at that statement of fact is criminal.

kayla-denker

🎯

bunnilena

additionally, trans women are the same sex as cis women

Sex as an “objective” and “scientific” means of categorizing people is misguided at best and an active tool of transphobia at worst. Saying that a trans woman is in a separate category from cis women just because she was CAMAB is twerf ideology in the dressings of science to make it sound objective and undeniable

demilypyro

hmm... there's a bright plushie keychain hanging off my backpack.... it's been there for years.... I think it was there before I transitioned, actually... I wore this backpack to class in college... did it come off as girly?... this isn't something a guy would like, is it?... but it's Jolteon, it's a cool spiky pokemon, so it's cool, right? boys like pokemon, I think.... this feels pretty subjective.

demilypyro

maybe the reason I was into pokemon for so long is that it was an acceptable way for a boy to be into cute animal plushies.

littledeadling

Comfort Objects:

A Horatio & Elethar backstory comic 💜🧸

inkskinned

how eerie to hear they're going to remake carrie. how eerie to hear they have made the mother into some kind of gentle well-meaning figure.

carrie is almost explicitly about the cycles of abuse. it is almost explicitly about how women and girls are taught to reproduce the patriarchy. it cannot be isolated from either message.

it shows cruel teenagers not as a random whacky plot point but instead to highlight that we are taught to mock other girls for not being fuckable; lest we ourselves be considered not-fuckable. we will eat our own kind to survive. nobody helps her because to help carrie would be to turn against the patriarchy.

carrie's mother has experienced abuse at the hands of her husband and religion not as a "sad backstory" but instead because it lampshades her behavior when she then turns and abuses her daughter while citing that same religion. we are forced to ask the question: what is the difference between the patriarchy and religion? aren't they both systems of control? we often see mothers as being the "ultimate" in innocence and kindness - but this book challenges that narrative. abusive mothers exist, and and always have. abusive women exist and always have. white women, after all, love voting for donald trump.

men are almost absent from the book, but their presence lingers. it feels almost like the red mark made after a slap - the men do not have to be there; the women will continue to abide by the rules without question. it is a devastating, haunting condemnation of the notion of feminine fragility. it accurately asserts that women are cruel, are capable, are power-hungry - and often are hiding behind perceived innocence to mask that cruelty. the abuse carrie experiences rests in a doubled betrayal: it is because of another woman. the supposed "sisterhood" is revealed to be thin, a guise of equanimity that is only offered to the "right" type of girl/woman.

many of us were not the right type of girl.

to go back on these main and obvious themes of the book - to rewrite the mother as some caring and sad creature is... a curious choice. i can't explain it, but it feels almost like censorship to me. it refuses a deeper meaning of the book (and one that questions the patriarchy) in favor of the incredibly thin plot of "what if scary girl had scary powers." i literally don't even know what level of misogyny it is that we have to defang everyone around her in order to tell her story. i'm baffled by it.

in the era of trad wives endlessly posting abusive content of their children online - the adaptation had plenty of meat to modernize her mother. in the era of AI and revenge porn and social media - there's a huge amount of space for a competent writer to play around in. after all, if the abuse is recorded and posted to media - and as the audience we're watching it without interfering - the story is now about us. it asks us who we are comfortable bullying.

it's okay if you feel like you don't have the writing chops to talk about how many religions are abusive and tacitly enable domestic violence. it's okay if you feel like you couldn't write a believable teenage bully. it's okay if you're just interested in "scary girl has scary powers."

but maybe, i don't know, choose a different fucking story?

armengoldira

spazzbot

@bovineblogger

bovineblogger

i feel like this is a good example of just how SOLID and STRONG cows are !!!!

i see a lot of ppl worrying abt cows being ridden or petted super vigorously, and thats super fair! it can look painful to an outside observer! but cows are actual brick shit houses. these guys almost ran full force into the side of one and she didnt even fall over!

steelnail

Are you free from your curse yet i miss you

modmad

time to toon in! three new pages of Into the Inkwell just dropped!

huge thanks to @lizzybeanbutt and @celebi9 who have been helping me with all these background characters, I love their styles adding to the life of the party! go give them a follow you won't regret it.

Read this whole dang Doctor Who comic from the start here