Leilani

trying to figure out what to do with my life but i procrastinate too much. She/her | ‘95 liner

[enba-and-luka]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[smalllfieldmouse]

my ex used to get pissed off every time i showed them this video they would be like "that's not how a train works" really angrily and storm out of the room

[smalllfieldmouse]

everyones gotta stop reblogging this bro they're gonna find it and get so mad they try to strangle me again

[kat]

i had a dream last night that the entire world used a currency (?) called angrypennies which as the name implies are obtained by experiencing anger. the stronger and more intense your anger was, the more angrypennies you'd gain. an all-consuming rage would earn you more than a slight irritation, etc. so people were always searching for ways to fuel their anger and purposefully keeping themselves angry all the time because they wanted to earn angrypennies. unclear if angrypennies could be exchanged for goods and services, or if they were just a collectible.

anyway, as if this wasn't heavy-handed enough, at one point british comedian greg davies appeared and explained that angrypennies couldn't be worth feeling angry all the time. this was a real revelation to dream-me and i was finally able to break free of the angrypenny grind and allow myself to experience emotions other than anger.

[kat]

it goes without saying that i will be using the word angrypenny as if it was part of the common vernacular instead of a term that my dreaming brain conjured up i.e. "he's all about the angrypennies" (derogatory way to refer to a guy who searches for reasons to be angry and possibly lacks introspection)

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[baddywronglegs]

The people who insist AI is smarter than a human are doing their fucking damnedest to manifest that

[shrewreadings]

Не верите. Доверите.

Do not trust: verify.

[darkandstormyranger]

finally some relatable content on ig

[cuunos]

being a kid and hearing adults say stuff like "woah 2011 was 4 years ago haha" didn't really convey the fucking horror of a youtube video crossing my recommended labelled "9 years ago" and it's from 2017. that's not true. 9 years ago is 2010 or something. don't lie.

[mysharona1987]

[ghost-mantis]

There’s actually a few things here that majorly dropped childhood mortality. In no particular order these include…

Vaccines (yay!)

Pasteurization

Implementing and enforcing food quality and sanitation standards. Did you know White Castle was called as such because their gimmic was that they continually cleaned and bleached their stores inside and out to prevent food poisoning.

The invention of antibiotics! The first sulfa drugs dropped in the 1930s-40s

Widespread access and distribution of enriched food products! Enriched flour did a lot to prevent malnutrition, and it’s how Wonderbread got its name!

We got a hell of a lot better with medical care for sick and premature infants. The first incubators for premature babies were actually used as something of a sideshow attraction at Coney Island! It was the only way the doctor who invented them could get funding to keep them running because no one thought it would work. It showed a lot of people that really premature babies could survive with the right treatment and eventually was adopted by hospitals.

The green revolution in agriculture that prevented around a billion people from starving to death

More recently it’s been widespread access to mosquito nets and medication to poorer and rural areas

[heinousier-bitch]

Strong contender for most depressing thing Charlie Brown has ever said

[the-haiku-bot]

Strong contender for

most depressing thing Charlie

Brown has ever said

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[loveridden1999]

doing things at the right age is literally a made up concept. you can start/pursue anything at any age. btw.

[loveridden1999]

remember remember

[medusas-daughter]

I love that Viktor Frankenstein is shown treating actually sick people horribly. I love that he goes on this long agrandizing rants about defeating death and then stands in front of people condemned to die, miserable and terrified, and looks them in the eye and goes "ugh terrible condition ugh be glad you're about to be killed you would have died anyway ugh" because yeah that's what an ego boost "I'm gonna defeat death and beat god" will do to you. That's a horrible doctor, an incredibly smart one, but a horrible one. He doesn't care about improving the quality of life of anyone, he doesn't care about actual healing, he cares about his ego, about getting retribution from death for having taken his mother, not anyone else's mother though, or someone else's son or father or daughter or sister, just his mother. Even when he finds out about Harlander, who has done so much for him, there was no empathy only disgust at his compromised body. And I liked that it was shown because so many doctors, even to this day still, despite the development of ethics and deontology committees, don't understand that the job isn't to defeat death or destroy a disease, the job is to help a human being. Even when you can't heal you should still do your best to help them, improve their quality of life even if they only have one minute left to live. That's the job.

But Viktor didn't vow to become a better doctor, he only vowed to become better than his father but he was still on the same wavelength, still on the same ego trip, just better at defeating death. And the other doctors who rejected him, they were also on the same wavelength, still obsessed with their place vis-à-vis god, as good christians and good extensions of their god, that they shouldn't try to defy him. But noone in that boys' club was identifying the actual problem of their practice. That patients were accessories when patients should be at the center of every single decision a doctor makes.

[mary1goore]

as seen in guillermo del toro’s frankenstein, the mid-19th-century fisk coffin, also known as the fisk metallic burial case, featured an airtight seal and cast-iron construction designed to slow decay and preserve the body for viewing and long-distance transportation. developed by almond dunbar fisk in 1848, these coffins were marketed as sanitary, modern, and protective against grave robbers. their distinctive anthropoid (body-shaped) form, glass viewing plate, and metal shell reflected both victorian fascination with death and the growing influence of medical science at the time.

[phantom-threaded]

Frankenstein (2025) + trivia

[mary1goore]

there’s something about the creature’s many fragments and the stitches that bind it together that reminds me of a stained-glass window. just like a stained-glass piece is assembled from countless disparate shards, the creature itself seems intricately composed of different parts, its very patchwork giving it a strange, fragile kind of beauty.

[itsjustthechems]

i bought the $70 book about guillermo del toro's frankenstein film because i'm nuts, and here are some of my favorite highlights thus far:

• the fact that all jacob elordi really had to say for guillermo to cast him was "my father is spanish. also i went to catholic school and felt scared and deeply uncomfortable there" like...GDT's requirements are: you gotta be hispanic/latine, be filled with catholic guilt, or BOTH

• [regarding the nine hour prosthetic application process] "elordi recalls, 'the first thing guillermo said to me was that it would be my skin, and i would have to take the sacrament. like every morning, getting the prosthetics put on would be like the eucharist. that's how he spoke about it from the moment i came to the project.'" THAT'S INSANE LMAO

• this quote from jacob - "i love that the film doesn't have a fatalistic ending. what recourse does the creature have but to live? in all the drudgery and sadness and rejection, what else will you do but keep walking toward the sun?"

• the character of william frankenstein was based on guillermo as a child. guillermo gave the actor, felix kammerer, a photo of himself where he looked very little and sad and lonely, and felix carried that photo with him for the entirety of the film.

• the makeup artist applied subtle prosthetics to mia goth's face when she played victor's mother in order to make her look slightly more similar to oscar isaac

• jacob had to wear oversized fake teeth because of the way the prosthetics altered the proportions of his face. they also gave him large dark contact lenses to make him even more doe-eyed/baby-ish.

[sevenspoonfulsofsugar]

the monster's left eye being dead and catching in the light. his spine showing through his jacket. elizabeth's wedding dress being an homage to elsa lanchester's bride. that small streak of white hair in a curtain of black. red gloves. hollander's cane and victor's figurine. the milk. elizabeth's red bonnet and claire's casket. the first thing victor and his child do being reaching for each other, à la the creation of adam. victor becoming the exact person he despised the most. victor going back for his son. forgiveness into death, and forgiveness into life. the cinematography. the set design. the score.

baby we are so back

[medusas-daughter]

The Creature calling itself Viktor and following Viktor around is so much more tragic when you know how babies develop and how newborns don't yet realise they and their mothers are two separate people. And one of the first things babies realise about themselves is that they're a whole separate person. And one of the first things they do when they start developing as a person is find out they have hands and play with them and with textures and start exploring. And when they want to start talking, they put their hands and fingers on their parents lips and throats to figure out how that sound is coming out of there and then they start imitating. Guillermo Del Toro nailed every single step of human development in such a beautiful celebration of life.

And Viktor abused the crap out of the poor creature for not being smart enough when it was only following natural developmental milestones. Because, like most men, like his own father, he wanted to create life but he wasn't interested in raising it beyond that and instead wanted it to be born a doctor ready to show the world how smart Viktor is for creating a carbon copy of his brain except in a stronger immortal body. Elizabeth gave him five minutes of love and let him explore how sounds come out of her mouth and he started talking.

Idk why some people are complaining about the movie being different from the book when the essence is literally the same, Viktor created life as if it were a godly feat and not something women have been doing since the dawn of humanity, and then he abandoned that life as deadbeat dads do. And that abandonment is what created a monster out of an innocent souls who could have become a beautiful being had it been nurtured. That's literally what Mary Shelley wrote. She would have been proud of this story. On top of being an incredibly gorgeous visual story, the narrative is very loyal to the point Shelley wanted to make.