The Farmer's Star

These violet delights have violent ends...

[calebwittebane]

house we need to cure this patient

[calebwittebane]

jesser we need to cook this meth

[calebwittebane]

i dont know any more shows.

[calebwittebane]

roy we need to suck this session

[terrorignitis]

— Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Lord Byron (1812/1818)

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

[ID: Screenshot of tumblr tags reading “please op i am desperate for the context.” End ID.]

Sure, here ya go:

Lord George Gordon Byron was an English poet in the early 1800s.

He wrote several narrative poems that influenced the gothic genre and was a HUGE fucking slut. HUGE. This bisexual mess slept with so many fucking people it was insane, no gender was safe. Unfortunately that “no one was safe” mentality did not work out well for him bc there were a LOT of rumors that he impregnated his half-sister.

His only child from a legitimate marriage was from his wife, Lady Anne Isabella Noel Byron, who straight-up left him after a year. You know how divorce was uncommon in the 1800s? His wife was just so fed up with him that she did not care and left when her daughter was five weeks old.

This daughter was named Ada and would become known as Ada Lovelace.

Byron signed the separation papers and then left the country to have sex elsewhere and would later die when Ada was eight.

During that time if a couple divorced, usually the Dad would get full custody, so just in case he tried anything Lady Byron made sure to play the devoted and overattentive mother.

Lady Byron was absolutely paranoid that her daughter would become an insane gothic mess like her dad so she decided the only thing to do would be to make sure she did not become a Poet™. So she heavily encouraged Ada’s interests in science and mathematics.

Around the 1830-40s, Ada met Charles Babbage through a mutual friend and he showed her his prototype for a mechanical calculator. She got absolutely obsessed with this machine and began helping him out with it to the point where her notes on it became more extensive than his.

She also added notes to a translation of a paper on this engine that is considered to be the first published algorithm.

These notes on the engine and translation became the basis for computer programming.

She’s considered The First Computer Programmer™

So, because Lord Byron was a little slut and his wife wanted their daughter to Not Be, we now have to deal with tumblr discourse. Thank you and goodnight.

[autisticexpression]

Vampire fiction and science fiction as we know it today also exist as a direct result of his friends being stuck in a cabin with him during a storm so there’s that as well. Hot vampires and sci-fi nerds are also his fault.

[airandangels]

She was one of the people stuck in the cabin (well I think it was more of a 19th century Airbnb that the group of friends rented for a holiday that was then ruined by the weather) with him. Since they couldn’t do any outdoor activities they decided to write spooky stories and read them together instead. She wrote Frankenstein, kicking off the science fiction genre, and Dr John Polidori wrote… I’ve forgotten the title and it might just be “The Vampire” or “Vampyre” or something like that but anyway he did that. Dracula is much more influential now but that was the first big vampire novel. Byron didn’t create either genre but arguably motivated their creation by being an annoying horndog so they wanted to stay in their rooms writing instead of hang out with him.

[rattleroze]

It’s also worth mentioning that the summer they were stuck in that cabin is referred to as the Year Without Summer and was directly caused by the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia the year before. It is also blamed for failed crops and mass famine on almost every continent, and the explosion could be heard something like 1600 miles away. The eruption of Tambora and the subsequent lack of summer worldwide is estimated to have killed anywhere from 100,000 to many millions of people. If all the deaths from diseases such as cholera and typhoid that found perfect conditions to spread rapidly during the famines are included, the total death toll could be estimated around 40 million people worldwide, which would put it on par with world war one.

TL;DR: Byron being a goth slut led directly to his daughter inventing computer programming, and being stuck in a cabin with him during crazy weather patterns caused by the largest volcanic eruption in modern history on the other side of the globe directly led to the invention of the genres of science fiction and gothic horror

[brightlotusmoon]

Tumblr dragging Lord Byron is similar to its dragging of Ea Nasir, but more verbose and maundering and blunt and intense, which also describes Lord Byron.

[tinyyellowflowers-blog]

Recommend reading this callout article from 1869 by <checks notes> a Harriet Beecher Stowe.

[tinyyellowflowers-blog]

Sorry I recommend THIS callout post from 1869.

The True Story of Lady Byron's Life

Lady Byron has not spoken at all; her story has never been told.

[lost-carcosa]

The “cabin” they were stuck in:

Villa Diodati, near Lake Geneva, Switzerland.

[infiniterattheorem]

new branch on the 9/11 ellen domino effect dropped

also the reason vampires are mostly portrayed as sexy aristocratic assholes is absolutely influenced by the sheer amount of time Polidori spent around Byron…

[weltenwellen]

Hanif Abdurraqib, The Crown Ain't Worth Much

[weltenwellen]

Danez Smith, “little prayer”

[weltenwellen]

Hanif Abdurraqib, "Glamor on the West Streets / Silver Over Everything"

[wayoblew]

list of GL’s this year with episodes count:

cambodia:

don’t mess with senior s2 (sequel to don’t mess with senior): 13 episodes

korea:

friendly rivalry: 16 episodes

japan:

call me by no name: 8 episodes

ayaka is in love with hiroko s2: (sequel to ayaka is in love with hiroko) 6 episodes

even though we’re adults: 12 episodes

futari escape: 10 episodes

taiwan:

fragrance of the first flower s2 - (sequel to the fragrance of the first flower): 12 episodes

china:

lies never lie: 21 episodes

thailand:

petrichor the series: 10 episodes *aired from nov. 2024 to feb. 2025.

pluto the series: 12 episodes *aired from nov. 2024 to jan. 2025.

mate the series: 12 episodes *aired from nov. 2024 to jan. 2025.

us the series: 12 episodes

gap the series rerun: 12 episodes (slightly extended and or new scenes/cuts)

reverse with me the series: 8 episodes

i am the devil the series: 7 episodes

extended/director’s cut of i am devil the series s1: 4 episodes

i am devil the series s2: 4 episodes.

your apple the series s2 (sequel to apple my love the series): 33 episodes BUT they are 10-15 minutes long.

i’m your moon the series: 8 episodes

b-friend the series: 12 episodes

music story: losing control: 3 episodes

music story: losing control s2: 3 episodes

whale store the series: 10 episodes

denied love the series: 10 episodes + special that airs jan. 2026

harmony secret the series: 8 episodes

only you the series: 14 episodes

somewhere somehow the series: 13 episodes

roller coaster the series: 8 episodes

queendom the series: 12 episodes

love design the series: 8 episodes + two special’s

poisonous love the series: 10 episodes + poisonous love special episode

mission: love or lies: 4 episodes

player the series: 12 episodes

unlimited love the series: 10 episodes

my safe zone the series: 8 episodes

dangerous queen the series: 8 episodes + special episode (airing in 2026)

clairebell the series: 8 episodes

runaway the series: 8 episodes

like a palette the series: 10 episodes

play park the series: 8-10 episodes ~> moved to 2026.

not mentioned: mini series under 20 minutes (*your apple is excluded), reality tv programs, short films or shorts, bl’s with side gl pairings, or movies.

[lelif]

on survival

-// @aridante // @orivu // @buzzkillgirls // ? // ? // richard siken// @cemeterything // moomin, tove jansson// @disenchanted-killjoy // isn't that enough, shawn mendes// @ prettytheyswag on twitter// @ coletyumuch on twitter// ? // ? // bird by bird, anne lamott// undertale// @strawberrycircuits

[aqueerkettleofish]

The word is "renascence." See the poem of that title by Edna St. Vincent Millay

[tlirsgender]

We need to do something about straight women's misery in their hetero relationships they're largely just resigned to living in I'm so serious. Can we try women's lib again can we liberate the women

[catastrophe-z]

You can lead a horse to water but you cant make him drink it or something cause they geniunely do no care no matter how much you try to tell them. Uts all being male-centered, men are so important to them that they darther be miserable bc of one than happy (or even miserable) without one

[blissblur]

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[moonlit-falling]

Angels and computers have compatible software btw. They're made of the same stuff. My halo is filled with circuitry, and your memory stores are made of light.

[fairycosmos]

the first time i heard an adult say we all have to do things we dont want to do in life i knew i was doomed

[fairycosmos]

i feel like ive missed out on so much in life. i wish i had been born different. there’s so much grief in this feeling

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

ai generating my suicide note cause I couldn't think of anything

[floridakilo]

how life feels when you accept that you’re the problem

[valentin1k]

valentino + pink pony club

[cvntylewis]

Still thinking about Valentino saying "I think I'll give him less kiss, but in bed everything stays the same" when he was asked about his relationship with Marc. LIKE THAT'S SO UNHINGED TO SAY TO THE MEDIA. If I was a fan at the time I would of thought that man just outed the both of them.

[gnawgag]

skylines and turnstiles - mcr / saint sebastian - antiguo de lisboa / flectcher sibthorp