[archaicpantomime]

I’ve already posted about it before, but I’ve shared a short horror story that I’ve written on Wattpad and would really appreciate if someone read it! It’s my first post on Wattpad and my first public story actually, so it would be nice if more people saw it :).

It’s about a hunter and his friends trying to get to the bottom of the mysterious disappearances in the rural mountains.

https://www.wattpad.com/1516759278?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=link&utm_content=share_reading&wp_page=reading&wp_uname=Percival_B

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

the 1997 Anastasia film decided rasputin made a better villain than the bolsheviks and i’m still reeling over the fact an american company was given a once-in-a-lifetime historically justified reason to vilify communism and they SKIPPED it

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

the notes is just people roasting the musical adaption and ok fair

[karl-the-not-so-great]

They knew that if they animated young Lenin and gave him magic powers and a villain song america would be communist by now

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

you actually make a strong point

[thecaboodale]

Literally just the idea of that has me seizing the means of production

[thanatos-girl]

young lenin can seize my means of production ;)

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

This site has the moral compass of a bag of marbles

[retrotunes-deactivated20250619]

Bauhaus performing "Bela Lugosi’s Dead" in The Hunger (1983)

[ya-prosto-super]

[archaicpantomime]

Hi! I used to not share my stories that I wrote, but now I’ve decided that sharing them would be a good idea :) . I recently posted an older one of mine on Wattpad, so it would mean a lot to me if someone read it! It’s a short horror story. Here’s the blurb I wrote for it:

“Mysterious disappearances and deaths in the rural mountains leave a hunter and his friends searching for answers.”

https://www.wattpad.com/1516759278?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=link&utm_content=share_reading&wp_page=reading&wp_uname=Percival_B

Any feedback is welcome! (●⌒∇⌒●)

I plan to share more of my short stories in the future once I edit them!

[sloanesmortuary]

first book this year🧛‍♀️🧛‍♀️

[ditdotdashed]

History fans be like: "Yeah that's my scrimblo babygirl blorbo"

And the "babygirl" in question is a decaying, sad, middle aged man who's lived through the horrors of the world.

[galexibrain]

Spock, while deeply, deeply in love with Jim: He would never want me, he is human, and being with a Vulcan would demand too much emotional restraint from him.

Jim, while deeply, deeply in love with Spock: He would never want me, he's Vulcan, and he can't possibly tolerate my emotional ass.

Bones, while deeply, deeply annoyed with them both: Why can't someone kill me.

[infectiouspiss]

i'm the guy who hides in hispitals and gives babies transgender hormones and i do it for free because of communism

[depsidase]

[ohfolie]

hey sorry we put your good friend jonathan harker in a time loop. yeah he’s about to leave for his business trip again. but at least he’ll send you emails

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

the colonial ideology of zionism is not an inherent quality of judaism, in the same sense that the ideology of ISIS is not an inherent quality of islam, in the same sense that ethnonationalism is not an inherent quality of christianity.

Israel does not speak for the global jewish population, nor the jewish population of any particular country. This idea is far-right Zionist propaganda.

[mandy-lane]

[ankh-morporkianpostalworker]

I like that Vimes' reaction to Cheri Littlebottom's character arc in Feet of Clay is... distracted acceptance. Like, he's so caught up in the a-plot of the novel (Sam and Carrot Unravel a Conspiracy) that he doesn't really consciously notice the b-plot (Cheri and Angua's Adventures in Gender Expression). He notices her wearing fingernail polish and high heels, asks about them, and moves on before using her preferred pronouns at the climax.

It's easily missed, but it's nice that it's there.

Then, in Fifth Elephant, he's willing to throw the fuck down - like, start a goddamn war - when someone uses a slur directed at Cheri.

[gothicfairytopia]

y’all need to stop lying about crowley “taking care of the books” .. we all saw him throw minimum of two stacks off into some fuck ass corner. don’t lie

[thavron]

the fact that there is an empty chair behind him, which he looks at, which he could place them on, and he still yeets them over his shoulder never ceases to amuse me.

[parkayquarts]

vetinari is such a fascinating character to me because you cannot simply call him evil. he has all the aesthetic trappings of the Evil Ruler: a self-proclaimed tyrant, serious black robes, a devilish goatee, the tendency to raise an eyebrow or steeple his fingers in a grim manner, the torture chambers and dungeons in his palace, his wretched little pet that he loves so much, everyone is deathly afraid to cross him for fear of the Consequences, so on and so forth...

but he's not "EVIL". he doesn't take delight in senseless violence or act cruel for cruelty's sake. he's not ambitious or hungry for power. he's never a true antagonist, and is often working on the same side as the protagonists (or it might be more accurate to describe his role as a secret third thing). he's really not an unreasonable man on the whole. if vetinari is one thing, he's a pragmatist.

he considers idealism a waste of time because he knows his subjects too well for that. he can easily understand a cruel and villainous attitude, which is not the same thing as agreeing with it: with every new development in technology or society he immediately asks, "how are people going to exploit this? how could it be used dangerously?" not because he plans on doing it himself, but because it pays to know how somebody else will. ankh-morporkians agree: love him or hate him, vetinari's system works because it meets people where they're at.

this started as a post just about vetinari but then it got me thinking.... vetinari's method is not the only successful form of leadership we see. carrot is a natural born (ahem) leader whose outlook is the polar opposite from vetinari's; he operates on the assumption that everyone has good intentions and are fundamentally good people. and because he believes it so strongly and earnestly, people can't help but believe that it must be true, hence a self-fullfilling prophecy. which is great! the world would benefit immensely from more carrots!

buuut..... you can't really run a government that way, can you? you can't just say "let's all pinky promise to be chill and act super niceys from now on ok? 🙂" as a legally binding contract for millions of people. you need something to fall back on when that contract is inevitably violated. carrot can't imagine that anyone would ever do that, but vetinari knows they will, and accounts for every possible contingency. I think what pratchett is telling us, in a nutshell, is to plan for the worst and hope for the best.

the relationship between vetinari and carrot is one I don't see discussed much (admittedly since it's not very substantial), but it's interesting to think about. in his interactions with carrot vetinari is usually bemused at best and impatient at worst, but we know he's plenty smart enough to recognize carrot's value and what he's capable of.

[rawanly]