What is this even

[jaubaius]

Tactoon-cat Cartoons

[articulate-anxious-atheist-deac]

With each I was like “Surely the cat doesn’t actually look like that in the image. surely this is an exaggeration.” but then I scrolled and yes, the cats are liquid

[lesbx]

i’m so used to how my cats behave that i forgot rudy doesn’t have low light vision like them, so i’ll come out of my room after dark and turn on my phones light and there will just be a pig in the middle of the room who, from his perspective, thinks i just fucking teleported in front of him and this happens and he’s always VERY startled

[lesbx]

artist rendition of an event that happens nightly

[everythingyouweretooafraidtoask]

GIVEAWAY!!!! I’m going to send one lucky person the two above “mythical” items!! The strawberry hard candy everybody’s Nana gave them but no store had and the cookies that nobody got to eat because there was a sewing kit in it. (If there’s anything else you think I should add, let me know!) 

Anyone can reblog this, one reblog equals one entry. US addresses only please. The winning entry will be chosen on December 1, 2016.

Good luck!

[everythingyouweretooafraidtoask]

UPDATE: I have also added -

[everythingyouweretooafraidtoask]

HOLY CHEESEBALLS! DUE TO AN OVERWHELMING URGE TO EAT ALL THE SUGAR I AM GOING TO SELECT AT LEAST TWO OTHER PEOPLE TO GET SOME SWEET DELICIOUSNESS!

[everythingyouweretooafraidtoask]

I WAS RECENTLY PAID BACK AND HAVE SOME EXTRA CASH I CAN SHARE SO I’M ADDING $$$ TO THE DEAL. EVERYONE GETS CANDY!!! ONE PERSON WILL WIN THE $20, ONE WILL GET $10 AND THE THIRD PERSON TO WIN WILL GET $5

[lapestelareste]

Visit Original Link

Welcome one and all to the very first episode of Reanimator, an audio drama interpretation of H.P. Lovecraft’s story Herbert West– Reanimator.

Series synopsis: Danielle Cain is a third year medical student at Miskatonic University in Arkham, Mass. Her normal, albeit high-energy, world is thrown into flux when Britta West, a fellow medical student, answers her call for a roommate. The audio files are a compilation of diaries, log notes, and other random slice-of-life snippets. 

Episode synopsis: Dan muses over her love life with Dean Halsey’s son, her new roommate, and the new semester of med school. West features briefly.

Feedback, response, questions, constructive criticism are all appreciated and encouraged! Please reblog and send it around.

Danielle Cain is portrayed by @propheticfire. Britta West is portrayed by @lapestelareste. The series was created and written by @kadael and @lapestelareste. 

(Original story credit goes to H.P. Lovecraft. The name “Dan Cain” is lovingly borrowed from Stuart Gordon’s adaptation of Reanimator.)

[kronos-keeper]

This is the continuation of the series we have been developing for the past few years.

[kronos-keeper]

ALL OF MY BOOKMARKS SAVED THEMSELVES

HALLELUJAH THANK GOD FOR CLOUD SYNCING

I thought I had lost roughly 2 years of research on multiple projects because my other computer doesn't work anymore. 

[pleatedjeans]

most adorable thing ever? [x]

[apolloadama]

oh my god there’s a part 2 where lancelot and neighbor cat go on an adventure to track down neighbor cat’s owner and neighbor cat’s True Name

[felixitous]

And there’s a PART THREE just detailing one of their play dates!

[sequinedk]

This is the kind of trilogy I want to see more of. No teenagers fighting for their lives, no terrible, abusive boyfriends, just kitties meeting kitties and doing kitty things.

[shatterstag]

everybody should read this it is the CUTEST THING EVER i live for animal friend stories

[lehrastar-deactivated20250708]

I need more of this in my life! T^T

[thegrumpiestoldman-deactivated2]

we ALL need more of this in our Tumblr lives!

[kronos-keeper]

:'3 kitties

[aikea-guineadreams]

[kronos-keeper]

goddamn. what saint is this?

[larmoyante]

If you are a monster, stand up. If you are a monster, a trickster, a fiend, If you’ve built a steam-powered wishing machine If you have a secret, a dark past, a scheme, If you kidnap maidens or dabble in dreams Come stand by me. If you have been broken, stand up. If you have been broken, abandoned, alone If you have been starving, a creature of bone If you live in a tower, a dungeon, a throne If you weep for wanting, to be held, to be known, Come stand by me. If you are a savage, stand up. If you are a witch, a dark queen, a black knight, If you are a mummer, a pixie, a sprite, If you are a pirate, a tomcat, a wright, If you swear by the moon and you fight the hard fight, Come stand by me. If you are a devil, stand up. If you are a villain, a madman, a beast, If you are a strowler, a prowler, a priest, If you are a dragon come sit at our feast, For we all have stripes, and we all have horns, We all have scales, tails, manes, claws and thorns And here in the dark is where new worlds are born. Come stand by me.

Catherynne M. Valente, “A Monstrous Manifesto”  (via witchqueen)

[reginalds-deactivated20210314]

…having Hamlet and the Ghost communicating in sign language—one might describe it almost as their “private” language—also served to produce the (in my experience, unique) effect of putting the father-and-son pair in a sort of psycho-spiritual bubble, contra mundum; a bubble that excluded all others and highlighted Hamlet’s isolation. The relationship between father and son portrayed in most productions comes across as distant, severe and (on Hamlet’s part) rather worshipful, even awestruck. In this production the father/son relationship is portrayed as having been loving and paternally intimate, which makes Hamlet’s reaction to his father’s tale of murder all the more harrowing. [x] [x]

[odysseiarex]

#but the only thing is you’d have to know the play first #which seems a little exclusionary #good reasoning though

if i recall correctly, hamlet spoke the ghost’s lines aloud to the audience (you can see his mouth moving in the 3rd gif there). the other time the ghost appears, the closet scene, hamlet didn’t translate but the ghost’s message was conveyed through emotion just as well. there was also a nice moment in the same scene where hamlet tried to speak to his mother through signing — the private language of their family unit — and she refused to recognize it.

the actor playing hamlet’s father is deaf, and has been working with the oregon shakespeare festival for several years now, signing in all his roles. obviously i haven’t seen everything he’s been in, but from what i have seen i can tell you that through a combination of body language and actors translating, the meaning is clear even without spoken language.

edit: the actor’s name is howie seago

[raisel-the-riveter]

I saw Howie Seago at Ashland and he was terrific, some lines are spoken by the scene partner as in this gifset, and others are left un-interpreted if the meaning is fairly clear or can be extrapolated from context. I love the idea of Gertrude refusing to sign as an indicator that she is totally over the idea of her + Hamlet Sr. + Hamlet Jr. as a family unit.

[jupiterjunebug]

My favorite thing that Seago’s done that Ive seen (though I’m sad I missed Hamlet now) was prolly Richard III. He was Hastings, and his mistress was his translator. This meant that his monologues were instead conversations with his closest confidante, who was a woman of color. They also staged his execution so that his last lines were curses delivered as they were dragged off to be killed. She was taken first, however, so he was left signing to a large group of people who had neither the capability nor interest in hearing what he had to say.

[quendergeer]

having hamlet speak the lines maintains (in a gloriously economical way) the possibility that his father’s ghost and his accusations might all be in his head, which is a key ambiguity that most stage productions really struggle to maintain

[lovepeaceohana-deactivated20181]

I don’t usually reblog shakespeare but this is worth reblogging for the commentary

[kronos-keeper]

Oh jesus, mentally unstable Hamlet latching onto what little bit of familial identity he has left, jesus christ kill me now.

Also to note: while the King is obvs powerful, his son who has a voice is another kind of Legacy in this adaptation. Hamlet can finally give voice to the kinds of wrongs the king has socially, politically, and literally been mute about.

[lediableaquatre-deactivated2015]

I love how he changes to the "tu" once he knows it's Valjean

Jean Valjean n’essaya pas de déranger la main qui tenait le col de sa redingote. Il dit:

—Javert….

Javert l’interrompit:

—Appelle-moi monsieur l’inspecteur.

—Monsieur, reprit Jean Valjean, je voudrais vous dire un mot en particulier.

—Tout haut! parle tout haut! répondit Javert; on me parle tout haut à moi!

Jean Valjean continua en baissant la voix:

—C’est une prière que j’ai à vous faire….

—Je te dis de parler tout haut.

Here

[kronos-keeper]

unnnngh sociolinguistics umph. Also chain guards are p much assholes, regardless of nation of origin, because that whole exchange reads like something from one of those shitty reality tv prison series.

"You call me sir when you speak to me."

"Sir--"

"LOUDER. I CAN'T HEAR YOU."

[sizvideos]

[lazyexceptwhencooking]

"Yeah, I fucking thought so."

[elegantpaws]

ROFLMAO

[thefandomdropout]

Move back !!

[kronos-keeper]

hope you'll pardon the random message, but i just read a bunch of your Deadwood meta and wanted to applaud the fuck out of it. insightful and well-put, heartful and painful (as seems apt, y'know?). so, yes. thanks for sharing your thoughts on the tumblr-thing; they were wonderful to read.

Oh man, thank you so much for dropping me a line. I'm so glad they were good for someone, and maybe helped add a little something! Deadwood hits me right in the feels, and I like sharing. 

[besmirchthis]

"Now the word does not take me when I read, nor do I feel Christ’s love, nor do those who listen hear it through me."

[kronos-keeper]

One of the few times ever we see Rev Smith not smiling. He looks weary and battered, and it's probably one of the only times he shows how he actually feels. Because he knows he can't fool the doc, because the doctor has insights about his body that Smith can't begin to deny, because he's not that type of person.

But he tries to weave his terror, and his pain, and his uncertainty, into a broader narrative. Where his own loss, in his sense of self, of identity, of safety, is part of a plan that will mean something. Perhaps not to him, perhaps not now, but it will to someone, at some time. 

This is one of his last few moments of clarity, of self insight, and it's terrifying to him. It's terrifying to him, to see someone as capable and experienced as Doc Cochran, terrified on Smith's behalf, as they jointly witness his mental and physical decline.

And there is nothing either of them can do. Especially not with the limited resources in the camp, with only one medical professional. 

When Doc Cochran says, "And you want to continue... like this?" some people imagine Doc is offering Smith euthanasia. This is one possibility, but brain surgery had been performed before to cure epilepsy caused by lesions and tumors around this time, as well. The Doc is trying to offer anything in the range of medical expertise he can-- anything but the suffering the minister is undergoing.

And Smith is suffering. The amount of seizures he's having has been progressing, and at this point, it has become multiple seizures, daily. Seizures, especially the kind Smith has, hurt. Not the way that a broken limb does, but they hurt in the way when you've woken up after having done some kind of intense exercise you're unaccustomed to. Or in the way it feels like after you've been beaten.

His head aches, even his eyeballs ache. Focusing hurts. Especially moving his left side hurts, since that side of his body, all the muscles, clench up and stay that way for as long as he's seizing. They stay sore after it's passed, like you slipped and pulled a muscle. Pulled muscles hurt, don't they? Now imagine doing that, do the same area of the body, multiple times a day.

And he can't quite get his head together. Sometimes his thoughts break through in a moment of clarity, and he rushes to let it out. Sometimes, he can hear himself talking, without recognizing he is speaking, without understanding what he is saying. 

Sometimes he sees the fear, the horror in other people's eyes. He is sorry for that fear, that horror; he hopes it means something better, but he can't be sure.

[upstartgeek]

for those of you who have seen it, why do you like Re-Animator?

i know why I like it, but it’d be interesting to hear from some of y’all

[schrodingers-rufus]

Primarily, I love Herbert West as a character. I’ve always loved mad scientists whose motivation is FOR SCIENCE, and Herbert is an especially interesting one. He’s egotistical, manipulative, and rude, but he’s also weirdly relatable. He works so hard, and he just wants his hard work to pay off. He has so few friends that, as soon as he decides he likes Dan, he clings hard (and unhealthily). (Also, he’s as close to a canonically asexual mad scientist as I’ve ever seen, given that Jeffrey is on the record as saying he’s ace. *throws confetti*)

I also like that Re-Animator is so very much set in academia. The fears have to do with plagiarism, with professors abusing their authority, with working hard and never seeing payoff, with nightmarish roommate situations, with student loans and losing your college sweetheart.

[kronos-keeper]

^What Schro said, but adding my own 2c.

I quite like Reanimator for its weirdly, historically situated horror. Where much of the horror is from Puritan mores being defied and broken, and there's a lot of underlying cultural associations and knowledge you have to have in order to grasp the fullest part of the horror. 

And then this is all re-situated into a 1980s context, where this league of New England higher education is slowly becoming modernized and mainstream, and the fight to retain identity while acceding to cultural advances.

I love the way that horror is accessed through a small man's relative fearlessness in everything, excepting his ignominy among his professors and peers, which constantly gets in the way of his professional quest. How the most horrible thing for him was being hypnotized, and forcibly giving up his work.

How two people come to terms with aspects of humanity they would much rather do without (Herbert, with having to live with humanity at all; Dan, with needing to accept there is a wide range of human experience, and death, depravity, and deformity are all parts of these experiences), and how this functions as a kind of coming of age narrative for them both.

And Reanimator was basically the catalyst for my love for mad science. 8>

[imisshowitwasbefore]

[destinydiamante-deactivated2022]

mostly nature

[kronos-keeper]

I have been working on creating a wall of weird shit and books, like some kind of misplaced alchemical student. this is like the representation of my inner vision. 

[kronos-keeper]

the best part of being a tenant paying rent is that I don't have to be present for when my landlord shows up. If I want to, I can just hang out in my room (which is what I am doing right now), and not come out, or have to engage in whatever repair jobs he does.

[kronos-keeper]

Backhacking the hell out of Windows 8 shouldn't feel as viscerally satisfying as it is.

But goddamn does it feel really good to suddenly have the Start button back, rather than getting smacked in the face by some fucked up splashscreen every time I want to find a program.