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A fresh pinned post: October 2025

Hello! You might remember me from Livejournal/Twitter, or you might just like what I post here. I have a lot of health tribulations! I work around those and sometimes talk about them.

Weekend Links: On Sundays I summarize the most interesting things I posted/reblogged that week, so check those posts or my archive out.

First look on Patreon: Over the last couple of years, I’ve mostly written about whatever strikes me, like not realizing I grew up in a haunted house, or that time The Ring nearly killed me. The Patreon is primarily a mailing list (and Weekend Links are always public), and I love having free members—so you can keep up with me no matter how many social media platforms crumble into the sea.

Returning in 2026 if the fates so allow:

Varney the Vampire masterpost

Perfume discussion masterpost

Gaming: The Silent Hill 2 remake was the first video game I ever played, because obviously that's what you want to start with in 2025 CE. Slowly but surely I am recording gameplay for my eldritch channel and writing commentary posts here. These involve easter eggs, research, thematic/music discussion with @idoherty451, and fighting Every Monster. @beneath-the-null-moon is my SH sideblog. I now have Silent Hill f to play as well, fog help us all.

The most notes I've ever gotten: The saga of the stolen radio tower

In conclusion, I am on Patreon, YouTube, Bluesky, and Dreamwidth, if Something Happens and you need to find me.

#pinned post #masterposts #me for some reason

bitterkarella

Midnight Pals: Backrooms

Kane Pixels: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the backrooms Pixels: it's filmed entirely in the Hilton Stamford Hotel in Stamford Connecticut Pixels: if you know you know

Poe: we lost too many good people there King: i think mark danielewski is still lost in the lamp room

Pixels: so this story takes place in 1990 Grady Hendrix: radical, dude Pixels: because we want the gritty analog camcorder found footage aesthetic Hendrix: [flips skateboard] bitchin'!

Pixels: it's about a failing furniture store owner who discovers a secret dimension of free, self-replicating furniture Pixels: just the thing you would think he would need to revitalize his failing business Pixels: but it doesn't go there

Pixels: its called the backrooms and it's a labyrinth of random, procedurally generated backrooms King: Oh! is it reflective of the furniture store guy's mental state? Pixels: haha what no this isn't silent hill

Pixels: the backrooms is symbolic of our inability to break out of patterns of self-defeating behavior Pixels: or maybe it's indicative of our destructively sentimental attachment to place Pixels: there hasn't been such a melange of random thematically resonant imagery since A Cure for Wellness

Pixels: the furniture store owner decides to explore but there's danger in the backrooms Koontz: he should call on the backrooms red cross Pixels: the what Koontz: they have a partnership with the Backroom colonists at M.E.G. and the Republic of Aurielle Pixels: Pixels: what

Koontz: you know, the republic of Aurielle Koontz: they're only one of the biggest factions in the backrooms Koontz: a polity going back to the Korthie Casiagen War Pixels: Poe: oh yeah dean is really into the lore Poe: he's been reading the backrooms wiki Pixels: the backrooms what

Poe: yeah there's a whole wiki Poe: kids love lore so they made a enough to fill a wiki Pixels: oh cool Pixels: cool cool cool Pixels: cuz yeah cuz there's nothing that really improves liminal horror like overexplaining it

Koontz: anyway, you might encounter entity 76 (The Dribbler) on level 97 but you won't have to worry if you picked up the power up (fragmented doedecahedron) on level 45 Pixels: Koontz: but first you'll want to obtain the dreamstone (object 98) from the sayer of time (entity 12) Pixels:

Koontz: of course if you make it to level 186, you might encounter the katanga chancellor (POI 68) or the electric tastemaster (entity 9740) or skibiddi toilet (POI 53) or maybe even hazbin hotel (entity 96453) Pixels: Pixels: you shouldn't let dean go on the internet Barker: i've been saying that!

#midnight pals #the midnight society #backrooms #not silent hill catching strays!

sometiktoksarevalid

#video #fashion #runway #kinda

thebelfry

I just learned that the Russian word for “ladybug” translates to “God’s Little Cow”

vampireapologist-archive-deacti

It’s the same in Irish! bóín Dé!

peniswizard69

in hebrew it’s “our rabbi moses’s cow”

vampireapologist-archive-deacti

Oh I love this news!!!!

pulmonary-poultry

Multiple cultures upon seeing a ladybug for the first time: “Who’s cow is this????”

thejonymyster

postilionstruckbylightning

It feels like some early humans were naming things and one of them ran out of ideas.

Human 1: (points at animal) What’s that?

Human 2: Cow.

Human 1: (points at bug) What’s that?

Human 2: … little cow.

Human 1: But it’s so much smaller. Who would have use for such a small cow?

Human 2: (panicking but in too deep to stop now) God.

derinthescarletpescatarian

The “Lady” in the name “ladybug” is the virgin Mary. People just cannot stop giving religious names to this bug.

The reason for this was that if you lived in an agrarian society then your survival was a throw of the dice every year, depending on the success of the crops. A failed crop year is a very hard year where deaths are expected. And if you grew a cereal like wheat, there were several things that could cause your crops to fail, but one of the big ones was if you happened to get a fuckton of aphids. You know what eats aphids? Ladybugs! If there are lots and lots of ladybugs around, there was a good chance that it’d be a good crop year! They were little crop protectors! When your family lives or dies on the success of that crop, of course they’d be seen as a blessing and given an appropriate name!

magical-bear-dubin

That is such an interesting etymology!!!!

And entomology too i guess

asparklethatisblue

in German they’re Marienkäfer which also pretty much means “Mary’s Beetle”

istadris

In French it’s “Good Lord’s Beast”

Not even a cow, it’s just a little Creature but we know for sure God loves it.

dent-de-l1on

In Dutch it’s “Lieveheersbeestje”, the Good Lord’s Little Beast

A liddol creeture

#ladybugs #linguistics

oddarette

Yep, I made a frutiger aero soft soap alien… 💧🐠🤍🫧🧼

celaquinn-ichard

The cleanomorph

#xenomorph #art #oddarette

hthrrloooo

Catastrophize Benedictine

prismatic-bell

Hallucinations Matzo.

#anhedonia proteindrink

godlikesiren

Jean Paul Gaultier, Spring/Summer 2009 Haute Couture.

#jean paul gaultier #fashion #runway

termagax

Hello there. Guess how much money I made last year? $28. I’m an investment banking analyst at a boutique firm, in M&A. I have my undergrad from the University of Chicago, one of the top schools in the country. With bonuses, sometimes I make even more. Are you jealous of that? Most people on Tumblr are usually jobless or they decided to major in the humanities and are poor.

$28?

#life's rich tapestry

normasshearer

Listen, sister, when are you going to get wise to yourself?

NORMA SHEARER & PAULETTE GODDARD as Mary Haines and Miriam Aarons in THE WOMEN (1939) dir. George Cukor

#the women #norma shearer #paulette goddard #gifs

qwantzfeed

getting hate mail from a dog is ruff, ruff, ruff

#dinosaur comics

reynard61

Let's ambush mama! 😼

dvandom

"Why do Pallas cats always look grumpy?"

"Pallas kittens."

waywardmartian

The sheer roundness of this kitten must be admired.

#pallas cat #manul #manul monday #the body is round

mentalhealth

how much of ur online presence is performative and how much is it u being u

soil-boy

baby every me is me, we are the mask and the wearer

cottoncandylesbo

oh fuck... the adderall has hit my system... the change, it's happening... grRRRGH...!! get away from me, before it's too late...!!

(flails on the ground, then stands up and does the dishes)

#oh shit I was supposed to do some laundry

coffee-khaleesi-deactivated2020

When I was training to be a battered women’s advocate, my supervisor said something that really blew my mind:

“You can always assume one thing about your clients; and that is that they are doing their best. Always assume everyone is doing their best. And if they’re having a day where their best just isn’t that great, or their best doesn’t look like your best, you have to be okay with that.”

Any now whenever anyone in my life, either a friend or a client, frustrates me, disappoints me, or pisses me off, I just tell myself They are doing their best. Their best isn’t that great today, but I have days where my best isn’t that great either.

bogfox

Op I’d like to thank you for sharing this. Ever since the first time I’ve read it I’ve held it in my mind and it really has helped me to be kinder to others and to myself.

madlori

There’s a pretty famous Tweet that goes around from someone’s therapist, who told her “You can’t do your best all the time. If you did, it would be your normal.”

That…yeah. Rewired me a little.

stupidfuckingquestions

zebablah-deactivated20160105

television history

virginmarx

i’ve been trying to explain this sketch to people for years

real-faker

there is literally no way to explain this sketch it’s just a thing you have to see and even then I’m not sure why it’s so funny

traycakes

“Dear Sister” is the rare SNL sketch making fun of a specific pop culture moment that transcended the thing it is a satire of. No one remembers the OC but the sketch is still wonderful regardless.

cinemaocd

So I’m sure the lore is in the notes but here it is reconstructing from the rusty leaking trap of my memory: the Canadian show Degrassi used this music cue when the character Drake got shot. The OC used it in the exact same way the following year in an episode when Marissa shoots Trey. They also used different parts of this same song earlier in the episode at Caleb’s funeral. Actually connecting it to the the running theme of death/endings through the episode.

and SNL finally was just like enough already with the “Hide and Seek”