commission for wonderful amelia!!! thank you so much for introducing me to amatka (and tidbeck's works in general, their books are incredibly good!!) and for many thoughtful horror recommendations!! <3
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if i look back, i am lost

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shark vs the universe
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Andulka
Stranger Things
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we're not kids anymore.

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Origami Around
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I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
Jules of Nature
noise dept.
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commission for wonderful amelia!!! thank you so much for introducing me to amatka (and tidbeck's works in general, their books are incredibly good!!) and for many thoughtful horror recommendations!! <3
Cafe Trip
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Do you think Cruella deVil effectively utilized girl power when she tried to skin 99 puppies for fur coats?
that moment when noise cancelling headphones cancel noise 😍
Things That Happened in 2020 That Don’t Feel Like They Did:
-The Witcher came out
-The movie Parasite wins at the Oscars
-Stickbugging
-Kim Jong Un “died” like three times
-Ray Bans Official Charity Sale For $26.99 Today
-The murder hornets appearing and disappearing in like a week
-The Sonic movie came out
-Jennifer Lopez pole dances at the Superbowl
-4/20/2020
-X Æ A-12 Musk
-UFOs are real apparently
-Plane flights were like $15 at one point
-For some reason, Clone High is making a comeback
-Leaving school in March for a “few weeks lockdown” and now we’re here
-Friday the 13th was the last “normal” day for a lot of us
these all feel 5 years away at least
it's 2022. donald trump has died in disgrace days after being impeached and jailed. my chemical romance's new album is coming out the same day as the new spiderverse movie. the lizzo and janelle monaé collab song is blowing up the radio. lil nas x has a verse in it. you and your partner have time and energy for dates after work after jeff bezos' assets have been seized and distributed to the public in the wake of his arrest for keeping employees in unsafe working conditions.
oh what a life
Like to charge, reblog to cast.
Everyone has been vaccinated for free and the virus hasn’t caused a single death in months.
Those dates you go on with your partner? They’re in public. Unmasked. Your server smiles at you. Everyone feels safe.
You can hug your friends.
You can see a movie. The people in the movie are gay people of color and they kiss and live happily ever after.
And so will you.
LIKE TO CHARGE, REBLOG TO CAST
The Muse’s Revenge, Ilya Milstein
So I’m just going to leave this picture of an old Pablo Picasso here for reference.
#I recognized the reference but had assumed it was more of a general influence however they used the same molding and everything#I’m sure it’s supposed to be more of a general statement rather than being about any one artist and I’m sad there’s no caption on her site#but Picasso was certainly one of Those Artist Dudes#which is to say he was an abusive douchebag to most of the women in his life (x)
yeah fuck this dude
Not to be dramatic but this is absolutely the right way to deal with creepy old men whose “art” is just pictures of naked women
Let’s not forget to acknowledge Alexandre Dumas this Black History Month
The writer of two of the most well known stories worldwide, The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo was a black man.
That’s excellence.
Let’s not forget that he was played on screen by a white man. And the fact that he was black is barely ever mentioned or the book he wrote inspired by his experiences.
Other things not to forget about Alexandre Dumas:
chose to take on his slave grandmother’s last name, Dumas, like his father did before him.
grew up too poor for formal education, so was largely self-taught, including becoming a prolific reader, multilingual, well-travelled, and a foodie, resulting in his writing both a combination encyclopedia/cookbook (which just— is fucking outrageous to me) AND the adaptation of The Nutcracker on which Tchaikovsky based his ballet
he also wrote a LOOOOT of nonfiction and fiction about history, politics, and revolution, bc he was pro-monarchy, but a radical cuss, and that got him in a lot of hot water at home and abroad.
even beyond that, he generally put up with a lot of racist bullshit in France, so he went and wrote a novel about colonialism and a BLATANTLY self-insert anti-slavery vigilante hero (which he then cribbed from to write the Count of Monte Cristo, the main character of which, Edmond Dantés, Dumas also based on himself).
(…a novel which also features a LOAD of PoC beyond the Count, and at LEAST one queer character, btw, bc EVERY MOVIE ADAPTATION OF ANYTHING BY DUMAS IS A LIE; seriously, at LEAST one of the four Musketeers is Black, y'all.)
famously, when some fuckshit or other wanted to come at Dumas with some anti-Black foolishness, Dumas replied, “My father was a mulatto, my grandfather was a Negro, and my great-grandfather a monkey. You see, Sir, my family starts where yours ends.”
for the bicentennial of his birthday, Pres. Jacques Cirac was like, “…sorry about the hella racism,” and had Dumas’s ashes reinterred at the Panthéon of Paris, bc if you’re gonna keep the corpses of the cream of the crop all together, Dumas’s more widely read and translated than literally everybody else.
and they are still finding stuff old dude wrote, seriously; like discovering “lost” works as recently as 2002, publishing stuff for the first time as recently as 2005.
ALSO IMPORTANT:
SWAG
I am absolutely ashamed to admit I had NO idea Dumas was black.
when this post first went around (a year ago apparently) I was like BUT WHAT ABOUT DADDY DUMAS THOUGH because basically
daddy general dumas was an immense fierce french warrior who was a 6 foot plus, stunningly gorgeous and charismatic Black gentleman
he invaded egypt
the native egyptians said “is this napoleon? this must be napoleon. we for one welcome our majestic new overlord”
then napoleon showed up
napoleon has all the presence of yesterday’s plain Tesco hummus
the native egyptians were like “… no… no, we’ve thought very hard and we’ll have General Dumas actually”
this did not make napoleon happy
in fact it made him jealous
napoleon felt so emasculated that he launched a campaign of revenge against General Dumas, including taking away his pension, that probably inspired a lot of Alexandre’s rather satisfying scenes in which fathers are nobly avenged and the money-grubbing villains are rubbed in the mud
I was never taught that he was Black either. WTF.
General Dumas (aka Thomas Alexandre Davy de La Pailleterie) looked like this…
…and like this…
…while “Napoleon has all the presence of yesterday’s plain Tesco hummus“…
:-D
I suspect Alexandre Dumas would have laughed at that, because besides looking like someone who laughed a lot…
…he was also a foodie.
He was also born in present-day Haiti. Back then, it was the French colony of Saint-Domingue.
ooooooh well then
There are legit no limits to how much I adore Alexandre Dumas, none at all, and I will fite anyone who claims that casting a black man as a musketeer (like BBC did a few years back) is somehow wrong ALSO look at his hair that is a Fierce ‘do for someone living in the age of pomaded slick hair and artificial whipped cream-y waves.
Yes yes yes!
oh wow this is all new to me! and i actually read the Count of Monte Cristo. you learn something new everyday
Agdgsgsgsg I’m LIVING for this Reef2Reef thread. This guy was worried about his urchins getting sunburnt so he made them little hats
IT GETS BETTER
In the wild these urchins will in fact carry a small rock or shell exactly on top like this and im so happy there's people taking advantage of that and who care about their urchins as pets.
i visited an aquarium at some point, and our tour guide told that when the staff had a party, they put a little decorative plastic hat from a booze bottle into the sea urching tank, and just left it there because the sea urchins liked it, and kept taking turns in wearing it.
Discovering that sea urchins wearing hats is a thing in this world means so much to me rn
The guy who produced Suicide Squad is now the treasury secretary of the United States and 5th in the line of presidential succession
to those who keep asking:
no, this is not a shitpost
its steven mnuchin
welcome to my twisted government?
Black-Owned Alternative Shops 2
From left to right: (top) In Control Clothing, Nnnasty Gem, (bottom) Sinister Sisters, Gothic Lamb
From left to right (top) Glam Goth Beauty, Vicki be Wicked, (bottom) Black Widow Beauty, Three of Swords
From left to right: (top) Dark Jasmine Fashion, Bad Dahlia, (bottom) Funky Punk NYC, BlkGrlsWurld
From Left to right: (top) Wickedland Jewelry, Voodou Fairy, (bottom) Pretty Boy Gothic, Spookie Kidz
From left to right: (top) Tears of my Enemies, Von Kreep Art, (bottom) Afro Punk, Sweet Bitz
From left to right: Kolby Brianne, Welcome to Berry
Basically ever since we developed human brains we’ve been desperately trying to turn them off
Humans: [evolve self-awareness]
Humans: oof, don’t like that
Yoooo lemme bless your dashboard
(Feel free to add your pics too 😏😏)
the good energy in this post,,,
🥺I love this
i know nothing abt leslie jordan besides the fact that he doesnt miss… he just doesnt miss
“I think that’s why homosexuals were put on this earth - JUST ! To make things pretty. Rabbits”
apparently the dallas police dept set up an app where u can anonymously submit videos of ppl breaking the law so they can find and arrest them and kpop stans are spamming it with fancams to the point that it crashed… can we get 100k likes for our soldiers