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[whitepeopletwitter]

Willie Wonka’s House of Horrors.

[i-was-today-years-old-when]

i learned about Marion Stokes, a Philadelphia woman who began taping whatever was on television in 1979 and didn’t stop until her death in 2012.. The 71,000 VHS and Betamax tapes she made are the most complete collection preserving this era of TV. They are being digitized by the Internet Archive. (x)

[followthebluebell]

i feel like this is selling her a bit short tbh.  It’s not like she was a random woman who decided to tape ‘whatever’ was on television.  She was a civil rights activist and archivist, who was extremely concerned about preserving history.  She believed that, by taping television, she would be preserving history EXACTLY as it was perceived at the time; she didn’t want the detail in the news to disappear with time.  And she was RIGHT.

Like I said, she didn’t just tape ‘whatever’ was on television.  It was extremely targeted towards news stations.  There were 8 VCRs running at all times in her home.  Her life—-and her family’s lives—-were centered around 6 hour blocks, since that was the amount of time that a tape would record for.  Her collections were also extremely organized. 

[archivlibrarianist]

The Marion Stokes Movies and Video Collection may be found on the Internet Archive here.

Wikipedia’s article on Marion Stokes may be found here.

A documentary of her life, Recorder: the Marion Stokes Project, was released in 2019, and seems to have good reviews, though I have not yet seen it.

[aliensexdream]

From archive.org (Internet Archive) - The Marion Stokes Papers contain documents related to the life and activism of Marion Stokes (1929-2012), civil rights activist, feminist, and news archivist. Stokes’ social activist career began in the 1950s, and encompassed many areas of left politics during a particularly transformative time in America. Her groundbreaking television show (co-produced with her husband John S Stokes Jr), Input, addressed many pressing issues, and much of it remains relevant today. Additionally, Stokes amassed a huge archive of videotaped television news, which is slowly being made available through the work of the Internet Archive.

[knuckleduster]

i feel like we need to spread the original of this around again bc everyone's been quoting it as "y bugs" or "et bugs"

[cinemapix]

FLORENCE PUGH as YELENA BELOVA BLACK WIDOW (2021) dir. Cate Shortland

[theyellowbrickroad]

i had the best human interaction of all time last night. i was sitting at a bar eating an appetizer and this guy comes up to order a drink and stares at my food and comments how good it looks. when i am drunk i use the word bitch like it is a comma, i plug it into any space in a sentence possible. so naturally the first thing i say to this stranger is, “go ahead and take one, bitch.”

he looks SO shocked and taken aback and goes “what did you just say? how do you know my name?” so i sit there for a moment trying to figure out what the fuck he is talking about, and then go, “…. bitch?” and he looks so relieved and tells me his name is mitch.

i cannot stop thinking about this. oh my god. imagine going into a bar and someone you know for a fact youve never met approaches you and says “go ahead and take one, mitch.” im cracking the fuck up. he looked like he thought this was the fucking truman show

[pinkmoon888]

girls will b like i'm crazy. i'm balls to the wall fucking insane and then spend all their time alone in their room on a dying microblogging platform

[kenobirey]

Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

[ingayderzim]

I so wish bobs burgers was real so i could be a passerby....ur friends invite u out to eat and ur like ok and u show up and the owner is standing out front screaming at the italian guy across the street....u bypass him and go inside and ur like isnt this the restaurant that got busted for serving human flesh and ur friends are like ya....u look at the chalkboard and it says the burger of the day is the texas chainsaw massa-curd burger and ur like ok....theres a teenage girl under one of the tables and shes like uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..there sre two guys that appear to be a gay couple at the counter and one of them has the worst toupee youve ever seen in your life, the other one is literally always here like every time youve been here hes here.....ur waitress is 9....at no point are u offered a beverage

[anxietyproblem]

[spillybun-deactivated20190921]

Ominous positivity

[spillybun-deactivated20190921]

You will be okay. You have no choice.

[jadedsoggy]

Everything will turn out fine. You cannot stop it.

[justabirdy]

You will succeed. It is inevitable.

[purehoneyblossom]

If you are mentally fatigued and your day to day life seems meaningless, please try to constantly remind yourself that you are living through a plethora of negative historical events. How you feel is a direct result of that. Be kind to yourself and take it easy. 

[wntw-virtuemoir-edition]

[sawasawako-archived]

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[vc-allthetime]

if you’re on tumblr and over the age of 24 it means the mental illness won

[1dietcokeinacan]

[lake-erie]

the rainbow is a well-known symbol of gay pride that originated in the late 1970s in san francisco, when the gay community promised to never again destroy the earth by flood