dras'kay, trevan

star-blessed hand wields thrice-cursed blade

[cynopterin]

[xie/it aux]. viet wasian. tme pddnos autist.

the header is a version of gerhard richter's abstract 'lake' from 1997, that i edited. :]

obligate symbiont & decay lover. more here.

previous urls: tombology & hematofaggot. :3

[sex-death-rebirth]

Two Dogs Howling at the Moon by Leonora Carrington, 1961

[tuherrus]

maybe my resolution can be to take better care of myself.....

[herpsandbirds]

Emeraldine Moth (Ceroctena amynta), family Erebidae, Brazil

photograph by Enio Branco

[vertigoartgore]

John Carpenter's The Thing Japanese movie poster (1982).

[meatsound]

when i grow up i wanna be the guy designing magazine covers in vampire the masquerade

[fleebites]

junicorn

day 06

‘tattoonicorn’

[nobrashfestivity]

Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Early Illustrations of the Nervous System late 1800s

[contemptible-scoundrel]

if we don't even do anything, they won't have any evidence to lead back to us...! it's the perfect crime...!

[mynnthia]

seeing news about the fallout remaster announcement feels like cruel irony to me

microsoft games are a bds boycott target, and because both bethesda + obsidian are owned by microsoft, this includes the games published by them.

microsoft is gonna further profit from a new virtual playground of ~post-apocalyptic bombed out towns in the desert~ while contributing to creating bombed out apocalyptic conditions in gazan towns, by collaborating with israel on so many fronts that bds calls microsoft the most complicit company in palestinian genocide.

and nostalgia-baited fans will still buy it bc playing pretend in a virtual world thats a knockoff of what real life people are currently facing – a virtual world funded by that very suffering of those real life people – is more important to them than simply playing a different game

[mynnthia]

anyway, to make this rant productive – if you have the means to send donations to palestine, heres some community initiatives:

Mona’s community aid initiative – verified by el-shab-hussein

The Sameer Project – has a british partner org, so UK folks can donate with gift aid here with no transfer fees

Revive Gaza Farmlands – has a canadian partner org, so canadians can donate via direct bank transfers with no transfer fee

Crips for eSims for Gaza – canda-based, so canadian e-transfers saves on transaction fees

[harborfreight]

[ysengrm]

[cheerio-charcuterie-board]

How it feels to take a shower

[annabelle--cane]

but can we TALK about the racialized subtext of "his wife has filled his house with chintz" linking together femininity, indian export goods, commercialism, and superficiality vs "to keep it real I fuck him on the floor" linking together masculinity, AAVE, authenticity, sexuality, and vulgarity? if our aim as critics of poetry is to reevaluate this text and arrive at a feminist interpretation then we must also consider the poem's vexed relationship to race so as to not be anti-black in our criticism of the piece's presentation of masculinized sexuality nor uncritically reproduce and elevate its image of orientalized femininity.

[annabelle--cane]

also, from looking at the original post (non-explicit gay sex photo but still a gay sex photo so you've been warned): there isn't even any chintz in the photo. the design elements in the room all look broadly western european with the exception of a tall ceramic vessel that may be decorated with a reproduction of a chinese ink painting. chintz is an indian textile pattern, you'll see it on dresses, bedspreads, wallpaper, tapestries, upholstery, etc., but nothing like that is in the image. to imply that the house's interior design is frivolous, artificial, and unusable, the poem utilizes "chintz" despite the obvious lack of chintz because "chintz," as a popular asian export good that went on to be imitated by european manufacturers, is considered kitsch, cheap, and womanly. and, though the angle partially obscures them, the two men in the photo both appear to be white, so the poem uses the AAVE phrase "keep it real" despite the lack of black people to invoke the perception of AAVE as raw, crass, and primal. in both cases, the racialized language is being ascribed to european/white subjects to impart the white subjects with different moral values.

[notahorseindisguise]

racecar backwards is some thing

[amazoogle]

gonna lose the race

[charl0ttan]

reluctinly crouch. and the starting line

[sewagebaby2]

[maclediumzeyheri]