between love and hate

Natalie, 19, USA and im really into science, music, history and art and i just wanna learn everything 

[tyger-land]

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙧 𝙈𝙖𝙣 1973

[quasi-normalcy]

Thinking about religious horror as a genre, and how it kind of had its heyday in the late 60s and 70s with movies like Rosemary's Baby (1968) and The Exorcist (1973) and The Wicker Man (1973) and The Omen (1976). And of course, religious horror never really went away, but I don't think that any of the movies in the genre since then have really had the cultural cachet of any of these ones. And I think that what it comes down to is that these movies came out right at the point where the overwhelming hegemony of Christianity in Anglo countries started to go into decline. Like, Rosemary's Baby explicitly tied its horror into Time Magazine's infamous 1966 "IS GOD DEAD?" cover:

In The Wicker Man, Lord Summerisle explicitly says that the island reverted to Paganism because the Christian God had his shot and blew it. It's not subtle. And I think that the problem with the religious horror produced since then is that it, by and large, isn't really responding to a widespread cultural anxiety so much as it's just reshuffling tropes from the 70s. "Exorcism is scary, right? Throw in an exorcism! Ooh, spooky Nuns!" You can get some scares out of it but not the same cultural reach.

Anyway, I think that if you wanted to make horror that responded to contemporary religious anxieties, you'd almost be better off with premise that God isn't dead.

[not-your-asian-fantasy]

Atayal woman of Taiwan x

[sexhaver]

every time i start thinking about the Cagots i go a little insane

[softwaring]

moon and rainbow at sunrise by mark ham

[not-your-asian-fantasy]

The kingdom of women: the society where men are never the boss

It’s a place where women rule, marriage doesn’t exist and everything follows the maternal bloodline. But is it as good for women as it sounds – and how long can it last?

This progressive, feminist world – or anachronistic matriarchy, as skewed as any patriarchal society, depending on your viewpoint – exists in a lush valley in Yunnan, south-west China, in the far eastern foothills of the Himalayas. An ancient tribal community of Tibetan Buddhists called the Mosuo, they live in a surprisingly modern way: women are treated as equal, if not superior, to men; both have as many, or as few, sexual partners as they like, free from judgment; and extended families bring up the children and care for the elderly. But is it as utopian as it seems? And how much longer can it survive?

[sine-cinematography]

Dersu Uzala (1975) - Nature & Colors

Directed by Akira Kurosawa

Cinematography Asakazu Nakai, Yuri Gantman, Fyodor Dobronravov

[beaufortplace]

Dersu Uzala (1975) - Akira Kurosawa

[justframes]

Dersu Uzala  Akira Kurosawa  1975

[redarmyscreaming]

Dersu Uzala.

[netals]

Dersu Uzala ‘Дерсу Узала’ (1975) Directed by Akira Kurosawa

[lacalaveracatrina]

Владимир Арсеньев, Дерсу Узала, солдат Фокин и Чжан Бао (слева направо) в походе по бассейну реки Такема. Фотография из экспедиции 1907 года.

Vladimir Arsenyev, Dersu Uzala, soldier Fokin and Zhang Bao (from left to right) on a hike along the Takema River basin. Photo from the 1907 expedition.

[stelleamezzogiorno]

[bourneblack-deactivated20240910]

Another point for why it’s important to own your own copies of music and media, and not use streaming services, is because the copy you own can’t be taken back.

(This is also a good time to remind people that yout*be to mp3 converters still exist).

[corallapis]

please don't tell me you guys are ripping songs one at a time for the quality and getting mp3 -_- here's what you should actually do:

1. sign up for a free deezer account 2. download python if you don't already have it 3. download deemix-pyweb for your os (r/deemix will have the link if this one breaks) 4. extract the zip, click on deemix-pyweb.exe, login in w/ your deezer arl in settings (it'll tell you how, it's very easy)

ta-da! now you can download multiple songs, albums, playlists, and entire artist catalogs at the same time! in mp3 or flac quality! all organized w/ album covers & info & everything else!

also, you can convert any spotify playlists you have to deezer ones using soundiiz, or thru deemix itself. enjoy! 🎵

[jewishdaredevil-deactivated2022]

[ID: screenshot of playlists on deemix. end ID]

[maidarlingdesigns]

This little one is Aurora, the tiniest dumbo octopus in the world. She is just a tiny speck and even though her habitat is just a small forest pond, to her it's like a vast, deep ocean and the only world she knows.

[azpunkdotcom]

[liridi-deactivated20250617]

I hope he has a nice day