on the curbs & sidelines

Chicory is a small, blue flower with a tasty root and it grows both in meadows and along the sides of interstates. I, however, work in the city and love the wilds and I'm queer and a Satanist.

[wishbow]

[highwaychicory]

[aenslem]

Why is there a watermelon there?

[glitchlight]

A migrating phoenix has stopped for a decadent sippy of water from a stagnant puddle in a Walmart parking lot and has ignited the years of accumulated fuel leaks into the surrounding pavement. It's so happy.

[sovietpostcards]

Cat sleeping in the kitchen (1981)

[convelocity]

I dug out so many bones, but they were never my own.

[sovietpostcards]

Orest Vereisky “By the Window” (1991)

[highwaychicory]

I'm thousands of miles away and 30 years from when this was painted, but if the squirrel has less fluffy ears this is basically my view right now.

[cryptotheism]

Gives you a sacred wound. Gives you a sacred wound. Gives you a sacred wound. Gives you a sacred wound. Gives you a sacred wound. Gets tired.

[highwaychicory]

Dwarf Fortress got weird since I last played.

[jareckiworld]

Henryk Waniek — "Jachin and Boaz" Two Pillars before the Temple of Solomon (oil on canvas, 1988)

[sovietpostcards]

"Got to Make Time For Everything" by L. Shepelev (linocut, 1961)

[cryptotheism]

What does French postmodernism have to do with your dang hamburger? Can we just have just one meal without bringing up Lacan.

[cryptotheism]

Y'all. The Exorcist movie did not cause the Satanic Panic.

It laid some cultural groundwork, sure, but The Exorcist released in 1973. The actual Satanic Panic didn't start until 1980, with the publishing of Michelle Remembers.

And it wasn't just a bunch of people freaking out for no reason. The Moral Majority had been turning American evanglical Christians into a cohesive voting block over the past 7ish years. When Michelle Remembers was published, America had a freshly born massive political block that explicitly benefitted from hysteria around tales of satanic possession.

[highwaychicory]

A lot of the Satanic Panic really lasted through the early 90s. Folks forget that with the 90s nostalgia - it was not a safe time to be spooky or queer.

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[lucidpast]

Crow Costumes, 1930s

[cryptotheism]

I saw Babymetal and dethklok last night it fucking ruled

[highwaychicory]

I also did this recently, and let me tell you - I *thought* it was the weirdest crowd until I went to an Amigo the Devil show.

[nobrashfestivity]

Treasures of Japanese Photography, History Tanpei Photo Club Hikari

Kotaro Iizawa, Ryuichi Kaneko Kokusho Publishing Association

[highwaychicory]

My new aesthetic is pre-Code mad scientist lab.

This is actually my old aesthetic, too, I just didn't have a great shorthand for it.