In Color!

Hi! I'm Hannah, and this is my blog for whatever random stuff crosses my path. Thirtysomething, US, she/her. My Letterboxd

[70sscifiart]

Greg and Tim Hildebrandt, "Mammoths of Atlantis," 1982

[a-random-fandom-friend]

Because of Re: Carmilla, I thought you all would enjoy my edition of Carmilla :

The holes go all the way through, the sides of the book are red, and on some pages the text is colored red just under the holes !

I was so happy when I found it in a little french bookshop specialized in queer texts ❤️

[general-sleepy]

[ID: A paperback book. The cover is all white, apart from a simple silhouette of a woman's name and text in red: "Sheridan Le Fanu Carmilla." The As in Carmilla are inverted to resemble fangs. Two literal holes in the paper are placed like bite marks on the woman's neck. END ID]

[labelleizzy]

[general-sleepy]

[ID: A bluesky post by Sara Faber: "When you're on your way home and need just one more thing". Below is a picture of a storefront with a neon sign reading "Colombo Store". END ID]

[penandinkprincess]

i do not at all mean this in a perjorative manner, but i do think it’s important to be able to consume a piece of media and go, “i’m not the audience for this” and be able to just walk away 

there doesn’t have to be something wrong or “problematic” about something for a person to not like it. personal taste is personal taste. but something not doing it for you doesn’t mean it automatically has to be wrong or bad. it’s just not for you. 

[sindri42]

There’s been several times when I’ve watched a thing and been like, they clearly did what they intended to do, and did it well, and I don’t want any part of it. This is a high quality and deeply unpleasant piece of art.

[queenclaudiabrown]

“This is a high quality and deeply unpleasant piece of art” is a wonderful line, I love it, I feel it in my soul

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

too good a take to be left in the tags

[general-sleepy]

[ID: Tags: "#kinda baffles me when people have such a weak sense of their own aesthetic preferences that they think oh this must just be Bad Generally #like it's a shallow view of art but it's also a very shallow view of yourself #u are not a passive vessel for Good or Bad art u are a person with TASTES so OWN IT." END ID]

[raggedlyshorn]

was going thru some old files and found this one I made back during my read through of dracula daily from forever ago

[general-sleepy]

[ID: A surreal illustration in black, white, and maroon. Castle Dracula swirls into fog and then a distorted face with a single red eye. The outline of the eye extends into a crack in a mirror showing Jonathan Harker shaking. Text reads: "I fear I am the only living soul within the place. Imagination must not run riot with me..." END ID]

[garrideb]

My Three Favorite Vids by TM Productions

This week I'm sharing my favorite fanvids by TM Productions! You can find TM's vids on the Starsky and Hutch Video Archive here and on YouTube here.

Black Velvet Before this vid, Black Velvet wouldn’t have struck me as a Starsky song. The lyrics have little to do with him–they’re about Elvis, after all–but TM uses the perfect clips to evoke the song’s slow, sultry mood. From the opening shot of Starsky strutting to the beat, every movement he makes is woven into the music. The result feels like lightning in a bottle, and is probably the sexiest vid in the fandom. 

Uninvited I could rank this vid among my favorites simply for the match of the lyrics I don't think you unworthy, I need a moment to deliberate, with Diana hiding in Hutch’s apartment, gripping a knife. It gives me chills! But this vid does other clever things, too, like adding a constructed-reality framing device to explain the opening lines. Who Diana is addressing changes throughout the vid, which lets the entire episode map neatly onto the song’s somewhat opaque and contradictory lyrics.

They This vid is about the web of corruption and conspiracy Starsky and Hutch stumble into in Targets Without a Badge. Although there are some action clips, much of the vid consists of close-ups of the wide cast of characters, some of whom are caught in the web and some of whom are pulling the strings. We are also shown, over and over, our heroes’ gestures of frustration. With the creepy tone of the song, the vid captures the infuriating futility of facing a powerful enemy.  

[scifiblast]

Melvyn Grant Fantasy Art

[general-sleepy]

[ID: Two people ride snarling creatures that look like a combination of horses and velociraptors. They are pursued by flying pterodactyl-like creatures that appear to be shooting firebolts at them. A long-haired man brandishes a sword. A woman aims a bow at them. END ID]

[immediatebreakfast]

I could not enter it, as I had not the key of the door leading to it from the house, but I have taken with my kodak views of it from various points.

These type of details can appear as surprising at first because the Dracula book is set in the late victorian era, giving the expected feeling that everything must be ancient compared to our modern times...

Yet, this is Jonathan's kodak camera:

Once we the readers grab all of these details (starting with this one), and put them all together, it gives the picture of the whole novel being rather futuristic. Considering how one of the elements of the gothic genre is how the past collides with the changes of the present, it's very fitting that Jonathan talks about the ancient english building that the Count wants to move in... With the help of a modern camera.

[general-sleepy]

[ID: A metal box with a hole in the front and a wind-up key on top.

A contemporary ad for the Kodak Camera with the tagline: "You press the button — we do the rest." The copy below reads: "The only camera that anybody can use without instructions, send for the Primer, free." The price for the camera is $25.00. END ID]

[spockwithacat]

Yeah Rainbow capitalism is not because companies care it’s because they think they can make money selling Pride stuff but I like living in a world where the profit of pride stuff outweighs the cost of the backlash against pride stuff.

[custer-mp3]

they really don't make Bigass Cabinet For Computer anymore. we were at the used furniture warehouse the other day & they had so many. that's the way things should be. lock away that wretched machine when you're done looking at it

[custer-mp3]

Lock That Fucking Thang Up

[general-sleepy]

[ID: Wooden cabinets containing desks with desktop computer setups. END ID]

[bump-of-whump]

Ref Recs for Whump Writers

Violence: A Writer’s Guide:  This is not about writing technique. It is an introduction to the world of violence. To the parts that people don’t understand. The parts that books and movies get wrong. Not just the mechanics, but how people who live in a violent world think and feel about what they do and what they see done.

Hurting Your Characters: HURTING YOUR CHARACTERS discusses the immediate effect of trauma on the body, its physiologic response, including the types of nerve fibers and the sensations they convey, and how injuries feel to the character. This book also presents a simplified overview of the expected recovery times for the injuries discussed in young, otherwise healthy individuals.

Body Trauma: A writer’s guide to wounds and injuries. Body Trauma explains what happens to body organs and bones maimed by accident or intent and the small window of opportunity for emergency treatment. Research what happens in a hospital operating room and the personnel who initiate treatment. Use these facts to bring added realism to your stories and novels.

10 B.S. Medical Tropes that Need to Die TODAY…and What to Do Instead: Written by a paramedic and writer with a decade of experience, 10 BS Medical Tropes covers exactly that: clichéd and inaccurate tropes that not only ruin books, they have the potential to hurt real people in the real world. 

Maim Your Characters: How Injuries Work in Fiction: Increase Realism. Raise the Stakes. Tell Better Stories. Maim Your Characters is the definitive guide to using wounds and injuries to their greatest effect in your story. Learn not only the six critical parts of an injury plot, but more importantly, how to make sure that the injury you’re inflicting matters. 

Blood on the Page: This handy resource is a must-have guide for writers whose characters live on the edge of danger. If you like easy-to-follow tools, expert opinions from someone with firsthand knowledge, and you don’t mind a bit of fictional bodily harm, then you’ll love Samantha Keel’s invaluable handbook

[totallyboatless]

The fact that Jacob Tierney gave a shoutout to Dante’s Cove in the GLAAD award speech has me legitimately emotional in a way i never thought i’d be about Dante’s Cove lol

I’ve talked on here a bit about how i’m one of the dudes that experienced the fujoshi-to-trans-man pipeline after slowly learning that the way i engaged with gay romance is *not* the same way cis women enjoy the same media on the whole

I discovered Dante’s Cove in high school and remember pirating it (like the Mega Video days of pirating). I watched it under the covers in my room with the door closed because i felt SO much shame about how i enjoyed it and was TERRIFIED at being found out. It was the first truly sexy piece of gay media i ever engaged with that wasn’t fanfic.

I don’t know if i’ve ever even referenced Dante’s Cove to anyone in my adulthood, even though i have my shit figured out now and have let go the bulk of the shame i felt in my bones about being a queer trans man that is primarily romantically attracted to men.

The fact that Heated Rivalry not only exists but is so loudly celebrated, and so unabashedly sexy, and that Jacob Tierney calls out Dante’s Cove specifically as a stone that helped pave the way to being able to make HR—it feels like a full circle moment.

I cannot believe i’m in a time in my life where i can enjoy queer media like this in the sunlight.

Life is weird and cool and i’m glad to be living it

[fidelcostco]

WAIT HOLD ON I cannot fucking believe when I was like four years old my parents were cajoling me to walk with the family and trying to get me to keep up even though I kept insisting that I was "tired" until they took me to a doctor and found out my LUNGS DIDN'T WORK. how insane that we live in a world where reasonably loving parents think their FOUR YEAR OLD is trying to be LAZY. like they were mortified to be clear. adults are just so trained to ignore children's complaints as untrustworthy, kids just need discipline, they can't possibly speak for themselves. what the fuuuuck.

[fidelcostco]

YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE BTW you should always be trying to take children seriously, especially very little ones but definitely all of them. the most disempowered class basically legally defined as property and most people are like "yeah that's good actually I hate when they Loiter lol they're stupid and loud and i actually think children should stop existing. restrict their personhood more actually"

[jeanritchie]

now what were your great-grandfathers' jobs. that's more interesting. mine were a factory worker / industrial baker, a security guard, a lawyer, and a dairy farmer.

[phoet]

omg. mina. girl. you won't BELIEVE the size of his lunatic asylum.

[fictionadventurer]

The Phantom of the Opera: I was born with facial deformities that are so horrific that even my own mother couldn't bear to look at me.

Me: So that's why you have to live as an outcast in the basements of the opera house?

The Phantom, who has been an admired performer, palace architect, royal executioner, and chief contractor of the opera house who is able to go out in public with no alteration to his face except a false nose and mustache: No, that's a separate choice that I've made.

[friendsofabracadaver]

@jennyfair7

[molabuddy]

its kind of fun to uninstall programs you arent using to free up space and see them all beg for their lives