LoneStarOnTheWestCoast

I love books, history, whimsy, geekery, and pop culture.

[mankillercalledbunny]

The answer to "How did these Ancient People do this????" is basically always

1. A lot of dudes. Just a ton of fucking people from beginning to end of the process.

2. Ancient people weren't stupid, they just figured shit out the same way we do: fuck around until you find out.

3. We're gonna plan this out and it's gonna take ten fucking years, and you will cope.

4. Sticks and string are surprisingly versatile and can be used for a variety of purposes, like moving stuff and making sure things are even and go in the spot you wanted to put them in!

5. I want to make this easier and more efficient to move. If I put this on the round thing and push, it will move. If I put this in water, it will move. If I get some animals and rope and have a whole bunch of them drag it, it will move. All of these things are a better option than one guy trying to pick the whole fucking thing up.

[oflambandmoss]

being weird and full of love can save you

and it might save those around you, too

[imstuckin1999]

The ladies of the WB photoshoot

[brucesterling]

[serpentinesomebody]

me, posting stuff for over 7 different fandoms at random all on the same blog:

[5bi5]

Yelling “we got company” right before being attacked by a horde of enemies probably feels good as fuck for an action protagonist

[the1920sinpictures]

1928 c. Joan Crawford in publicity shot with a matching boudoir doll.

[thememedaddy]

[wilwheaton]

This is both objectively hilarious, and a reminder of how easily stupid people are fooled.

The Satanic Panic was fucking INSANE, y'all. This shit was everywhere, and ya boy was in parochial school at the time, so they REALLY went hard into how serious and deadly this whole thing was.

Meanwhile, little kid Wil was listening to Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, WASP, Maiden, and playing the hell out of D&D and other fantasy tabletop games.

It was my first, and most profound, experience with a large group of people -- my teachers and other authority figures -- being completely consumed by bullshit that I knew was fake. I would watch these breathless news stories and listen to my teachers repeating whatever nonsense they'd been fed at church or on talk radio, and know in my heart and soul that none of it was true, because I listened to the music and played the games and watched the movies, as did all of my friends, and none of us were conjuring black masses (though if we'd had the candles and robes, I'm sure we would have cosplayed it).

The Satanic Panic shaped a lot of my values and convictions. I was in 5th grade when I began to wonder if these teachers and other adults who came to school to lecture us about the dangers of the music and games I already (secretly) loved knew they were lying, or if they were just stupid and easily misled. (I suspect it was a little from column a and a little from column b, as it frequently was with those right wing christian nationalist nutjobs who ran my school).

I remember so clearly when I saw through them all, and realized that all of it was bullshit.

So I guess I have the Satanic Panic to thank for giving me the push I needed to completely reject religion as a fear-based cult built on lies.

I was in 5th grade when I figured that out. It's wild to me that there are full-on adults today who haven't caught up.

[lonestaronthewestcoast]

Tag yourself I'm "decorative dagger"

[nsvry]

[laineylovesladybugs]

Bring back 2014🌺

[tomsfuckdoll]

Bring back anything from 1980 to 2016 please 🙏😔

[maureen2musings]

Nantucket blooms

anantucketsummer

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

FINALLY watched “a knight’s tale.” pretty fun but literally what the hell was jocelyn wearing for the entirety of the movie

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

????????

[english-history-trip]

EXCEPT

THE 16TH CENTURY WHITE HAAAAAT

She was just fashion-forward, you guys

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

@threadbareturnbacks WAIT this is so cool!!!

[eussoros]

Knight's Tale didn't try to match the aesthetic, it tried to match the VIBES, and it hit in so many ways.

[baronfulmen]

I really appreciated that it started with the crowd singing We Will Rock You because that's an incredible way to set audience expectations.

[finnglas]

A Knight's Tale belongs to what my wife and I call the Ren Faire Genre - not historically accurate, but historically VIBING with some strangely historically accurate notes thrown in (Chaucer!?).

[kingfucko]

A Knight's tale is culturally translated so that the audience gets what's going on better. the tournaments are a major sporting event, the knights are admired like rock stars, the ladies are beautiful and fashionable. if you actually dressed a lady in a way that was beautiful and fashionable in the past a modern viewer would be like "what the fuck is with her". most historical-setting movies pretend that they are not culturally translating, even though all of them are all the time inherently because they're being made by a person of our current culture...

[aces-to-apples]

My favorite thing about "A Knight's Tale" is that the director's explanation for why it's all Like That was basically "no matter what century you're in, the '70s are always the '70s" lol

[theabigailthorn]

you're all wrong, she's got that shit on, she looks great

[kisxmesoft]

[lets-steal-an-archive]

[lizardsfromspace]

Over time 90s music will get boiled down to just cheap nostalgia for boy bands. This is disgusting. How dare you erase the year where everyone was inexplicably super into Gregorian Chants

[lizardsfromspace]

"Wait were they reall-"

IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE TIME DRIFTS SLOWLY A WORLD WHERE MUSIC CARRIES YOU AWAY EXPERIENCE PURE MOODS, THE PERFECT SOUNDTRACK FOR YOUR WAY OF LIFE DIRECT FROM EUROPE THIS MULTI-PLATINUM COLLECTION HAS WON THE HEARTS OF MILLIONS SET ADRIFT WITH THE TIMELESS PLEASURES OF TUBULAR BELLS OR TAKE A TRIP INTO THE UNKNOWN WITH THE X-FILES THEME NO OTHER COLLECTION GIVES YOU THE FEELING OF PURE MOODS

[theluckydimecaper-deactivated20]

YouTube has a playlist for this!!!

Various Artist - Pure Moods (Full Album) (1994 Original + 1997 Re-release)

Here is the entire tracklist for Pure Moods, a wonderful and totally beautiful compilation album from the dawn of the contemporary New-age m

[xelbleedsglitter]

I OWN ALL THESE ALBUMS

[musicalhell]

And Celtic music. Between Riverdance and Titanic Celtic music was huge in the late 90s to the point that Loreena McKennitt was charting on Billboard:

[elodieunderglass]

My family were the Gregorian and Loreena McKennitt family btw.

[depsidase]