i do what i want

Cooler brother of @fallenforonedisneyvillain (hes DESPERATE for validation if you want to follow him djfjfjfjjf). Host/body is in their 20s so sometimes shit gets spicy here. dont have the attention span for tags so gl HA

[charhounds]

i do not care if i reblog something ive reblogged before my memory is weaker than the lead in a mechanical pencil

[yellowpie]

If you signed up for my show you signed up for some reruns too

[blanq]

tumblr glitched and now there’s just a guy in the void

[daughter-of-prospero]

Wile E. Coyote, two milliseconds before he lights a match only to reveal he's surrounded by flammable traps he himself has set and the whole website explodes

[sequids-remade]

[vintage-6ug]

I LOVE mischaracterised remus man. Like in canon lore, that guy does not care or give a fuck about anyone!!! He just does whatever he wants whenever he wants because that’s what intrusive thoughts are like, right? He’s always doing something bizarre and/or crude for the sake of being a burden. BUT THEN FANON REMUS- oh boy he’s the sweetest little hyperactive bunny. Suddenly he is very sincere and loving to whoever he’s shipped with, suddenly he actually cares about roman(?!) and suddenly he’s more human (if yk what i mean? Still very very crude but not as particularly dramatic abt it..)

[kaboutertss]

I got the request to draw more Logan fanart and while looking through my saves for inspo I saw this woman dancing with her tie andddd I did this. Who should I sexualize next? Or maybe a ship?

[superbeans89]

Booty shorts that say this

[astriiformes]

College friendship is sending one of your friends who's graduating soon a giant list of monster theory and gothic horror academic reading recs so they can download as many PDFs as possible before they lose their university database access

[astriiformes]

Got a request for some of the recs here, so here's a short-ish list of some of the reading recs -- I've made an effort to link open source and/or at least slightly more accessible databases like JSTOR wherever possible, but some of these are, admittedly behind various paywalls that I wish everyone luck with circumventing in whatever manner you deem fit

Monster Theory - Really great anthology to start with, especially the first reading, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen's famous "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)" which is a personal favorite

The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts - A general SF/F journal, but there are definitely a lot of great monster theory and gothic horror readings sprinkled throughout. Consider taking a look at Veronica Hollinger's "The Vampire and/as Alien," the special issue on Dracula, and Faye J. Ringel's "Genetic Experimentation: Mad Scientists and the Beast," among others

Werewolf Histories edited by Willem Blécourt - Phenomenal anthology on werewolf scholarship, especially if you're interested in the connections between werewolves and witchcraft and/or witch trials in Early Modern Europe

Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters by Jack Halberstam - Of interest to those who are interested in the connection between the gothic and gender (among other topics). Halberstam has written extensively on both

The Journal of Dracula Studies - Exactly what it sounds like.

Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural - Another journal, which focuses on the connections between witchcraft and occultism, monsters, demonology, and the like.

Susan Stryker's "My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix" - An absolutely landmark piece of writing on Frankenstein and the transgender (and in particular the transfeminine) experience; one of my favorite pieces of academic writing of all time.

Speaking of Monsters: A Teratological Anthology - Another solid monster theory anthology

Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene - A really, really good anthology about the ecological gothic that I cannot recommend enough. As a known werewolf guy I especially like the piece "Wolf, or Homo homini lupus" by Carla Freccero

The Vampire Lectures by Lawrence Rickels - So many vampires

Monster Culture in the 21st Century: A Reader - Another anthology, I in particular recommend Rosalind Sibielski's "Gendering the Monster Within: Biological Essentialism, Sexual Difference, and Changing Symbolic Functions of the Monster in Popular Werewolf Texts" in this one.

"The Trans Legacy of Frankenstein" by Jolene Zigarovich - Definitely a good read if you enjoyed the Stryker piece earlier; it's a more general survey of the idea but might give you some ideas for further reading

TransGothic in Literature and Culture - A whole anthology of works on transgender identity and the gothic!

Twenty-First Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion - Not to be confused with the other similarly named anthology earlier, this one is on various modern perspectives on the gothic.

"Christians and Jews in the Twelfth Century Werewolf Renaissance" by David A. Shyovitz - Stand-alone article but really really interesting

Wonders and the Order of Nature: 1150-1750 by Lorraine Daston & Katherine Park - Incredible volume that gets into several different subjects surrounding the fantastical in the medieval and early modern eras, monsters among them. The same authors have written some other fantastic work, such as "Unnatural Conceptions: The Study of Monsters in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century France and England" and I honestly would recommend any of their work.

Monster Anthropology: Ethnographic Explorations of Transforming Social Worlds Through Monsters - A more anthropology focused volume, I particularly like Rozanna Lilley's "Drawing in the Margins: My Son's Arsenal of Monsters—(Autistic) Imagination and the Cultural Capital of Childhood"

Marvels, Monsters, and Miracles: Studies in the Medieval and Early Modern Imaginations - Another anthology, this time with a historical perspective

This isn't even everything I've dug into on the subject, but I hope it's enough to get folks started on some reading!

[happilyhadesbound]

underrated ship dynamic is 'they deserve each other /derogatory'

[lautakwah]

[martyreddie]

no! traffic light system will kill the patient! they need under-negotiated kink to live!!!

[dragon-png]

nodding my head to show that i approve of all the shitty things this character has done because i'm a bad person

[byjove]

if you find a part of a human body (not your own) you shouldn’t keep it in your house for the next 50 years. yeahhhhh. that jawbone is not for youuuuuuuu.

[byjove]

I just read an article about a man in Missouri who collected a woman’s skeletal remains he found in a cave and kept them in his house for roughly 60 years until his kids surrendered them to the local PD. I wish I could say this is the first time I’ve read about something like that happening but no.

[byjove]

I should clarify that the remains were declared to not historical in nature (usually signifying remains over 100 years old) and the death seemed suspicious but because of the 60 years that elapsed between her being found and the authorities being notified of her death, it is unlikely she will ever be identified and returned to her family. A 25-35 year old woman who was likely murdered in the 40s or 50s. Sitting in a stranger’s house for decades. It makes my skin CRAWL.

Historical or contemporary, unearthed grave or recent accident/violent death, DO NOT TAKE HUMAN REMAINS HOME WITH YOU WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU??? That is a PERSON.

[tomorrow-corporation-deactivate]

people are alive. bones aren't a person.

[byjove]

That is an interesting response to this post…

[tomorrow-corporation-deactivate]

i bet

[byjove]

I am trying to understand the point you are attempting to make by saying “bones aren’t a person” in the context of this post as human remains are, indeed, what remains of a person and every culture has unique ways of honoring their dead. Is it semantics to you? Is it an attempt to trivialize the humanity of remains that have been mishandled and/or stolen?

[byjove]

It looks like saying “don’t take home a random human skeleton you find” is actually an extremely contentious take on my part. Seriously wondering how many of these people have literal skeletons in their closet.

[pusheenthenerdcat]

"who cares" their family does.

"bones aren't a person" they are closure and comfort for multiple alive human beings.

[emptydragonseverywhere]

1) the lack of respect for human remains completely out of touch with most of the world's customs and cultures

2)given how many ppl here are struggling to respect living peoples' humanity, i'm not shocked that remains are being talked about like this. Disgusted, but not shocked

3) its very obvious which users were not here on tumblr for the bone stealing "witch" saga where we already hashed out how fucked up it is to just take human bones you find.

[lynati]

If I had a family member go missing and for decades I had to live with all the stress and axiety that came from not knowing what happened to them, and then found out a stranger had found their bones and kept them- kept my family's ability to rest- all that time, I'd burn down the house of anyone who said it was perfectly acceptable for someone to do that.

[alex51324]

I'm gonna play the "just in case they aren't trolling" game for a minute here and clarify:

you're right that bones, or other human remains, are not literally a person, because the person is dead.

However, human beings do not--across known cultures and time periods, they do not--treat human remains like any other inanimate object.

Exactly what is done with the remains varies from one culture to another, but they are always treated as a special category of matter, and usually in a respectful way, often treating them as though the person were still in them. (Especially when the death is recent.)

We know the difference, of course, and in an extreme situation, we'll acknowledge it. If you were--for some reason--in a room with your grandmother's remains and a live baby that you've never seen before in your life, and that room catches fire, obviously you're going to grab the baby and leave the body, because when you get right down to it, the baby is a person and the stuff in the coffin isn't.

But in normal life, outside of emergencies, we treat human remains as honorary persons. It's not necessarily logical, but it's pretty deeply ingrained; there are no known human societies, past or present, that threw human remains out with the rest of the trash.

(Well, not their own people's remains, anyway. When you see human beings treating human remains like trash, it's generally because they had also been treating the people like trash when they were alive.)

[lizardsfromspace]

Calling this "Tumblr discourse" is the most terminally online thing I think I've ever seen but anyway this whole thing reminds me of Elizabeth Weiss, the former anthropology professor who tried to defend keeping indigenous people's bones for study by...turning it into a debate about creationism and science vs religion? Arguing that it's "superstition" and religious to care about people's bones not being used for science, since they're dead and not a person anymore so it shouldn't matter. It would seem that every culture regardless of their religious beliefs or lack thereof have a taboo about the dead but I guess the anthropology professor missed that

(that she was married to a hardcore "race science" guy named J. Philippe Rushton & worked with him while she was arguing against any laws against letting her keep Native people's bones is surely irrelevant)

[storyweavingspider]

Is this the new bone witch sequel

[storyweavingspider]

Y’know I mentioned the bone witch but honestly I think the fact that the pussy phrenologist was fingerbanging corpses in front of her dad is a much more related thing to this topic

[storyweavingspider]

There’s a pussy phrenologist convinced that you can always tell if a person has has bottom surgery or not by what the vagina “looks like” (you can’t, lot of bottom surgeries look wildly different)

Relatedly, it came out that her dad bought medical corpses for her to finger to “find their gspot” under his observation… in their fuckin mansion.

But this flavor of desecration sounds more like this post to me.

[hollowboobtheory]

I have to upload this as a video bc you can see her think this in real time

[maraudingcaptain]

OP you just can't leave out this golden comment

[rosieandthemoon]

I am cordially inviting all of you to post this in the comments/reblogs of any and every Al post you come across, on any platform. Especially useful for accounts who “teach” people how to use Al.

[sodorz]

thinking abt how fucked up steam engine boiler explosions can look. theyre just pipes under there

gives me the idea of a ghost/monster engine that looks normal, albeit a bit battered, only to swing their smokebox door open and a myriad of pipes come bursting out like fucked up tentacles

[marlynnofmany]

I didn’t know a train could be an eldritch horror, but here we are.

[siphersaysstuff]

The Call of C'thchoochoo.

[ploobytumbls]

I would like to share the story of a very understandable but unfortunate mistake i made at work recently

So I'm weeding our ancient and terrible collection of children's books for the first time in possibly ever, and I'm making a decision about a book about migrant workers by Sandra Weiner, called Small Hands, Big Hands. And I'm not 100% sure and I go to just see if there's anything out there about this book's being notable in any way so I do an open web search for

"small hands big hands weiner"

And then I look at my results for a moment

and then at last I somberly add to the end of my search, "BOOK"

[chaostheorietblr]

I have one like that:

In mathematics, you often consider the two-dimensional plane - you know, the idealised flat two-dimensional object that extends infinitely - which can be real or complex (doesn't matter what that means)

On this, you can perform a mathematical operation called a "blow-up" (resulting in a more complicated geometry)

I needed to look up a formula related to this, so I confidently typed into the search bar:

"Blow up real plane"

The results were not what I wanted and I am not sure if I'm on a terror watchlist now.

[three--rings]

This reminds me of my corsetmaker days when i found myself searching for "extra thick boning."

[evilvillain123456789]

a pit of dread forms in your stomach as you parse my "evil baby on board" decal and realize you have a moral duty to rear end my vehicle as hard as you can

[gravityjunior]

Starting a collection