Gilded Age Garbage Fire

probably not a vampire [she/her, lesbian]

[beardedmrbean]

[poetrylesbian]

this sculpture is from 2011 by artist sara swink

[killer-fille]

cats have been bothering humans since at least 2011

[normal-with-adhd-is-a-joke]

Conservative beauty standards are back with a vengeance which means it's especially important to go out this summer with bellies out and bodies unshaved. Also be unapologetically disabled with mobility aids and wearable medical devices and stim toys and ear defenders and all that stuff. You need it. People need to see it. Everyone needs to be reminded that life is unquestioningly more enjoyable when you're not living inside an arbitrary set of rules created by people who are offended by all the wrong things.

[marzipanandminutiae]

Not loving the implication here that you have to show skin or do a certain thing with your body hair to be progressive, and if you don't, you're playing into conservative beauty standards

There is no singular aesthetic that is owned by a specific political faction. You should not be assumed conservative just because you look a certain way

[questionableadvice]

~ The San Jose News, June 24, 1929

[marzipanandminutiae]

"you shouldn't even marry people of the same race from other countries" is a fascinating form of bigotry that almost loops back around to the medieval "we ARE prejudiced against people from various African nations, but we are equally prejudiced against the French/Spanish/English/whatever [if those people from Africa are Christian]" type of racism/ethnic bias

[theconcealedweapon]

With socialized healthcare, you pay for other people's healthcare.

With capitalist health insurance, you pay for other people's healthcare AND rich people's profits.

There's an easy solution that keeps everyone happy. Just have socialized healthcare, with the option to set aside additional money to give to your favorite rich person. Then, those who only wish to pay for other people's healthcare can do that, and those who wish to pay for other people's healthcare and rich people's profits can do that too.

[beroebluejeans]

There is a quality of books (or movies or shows) that I can best describe as “stickiness,” which is separate from being good or even enjoyable: a sticky book is one I just keep thinking about. Sometimes it’s because a book is very good (e.g. The Locked Tomb), and sometimes it’s because a book is very bad (e.g. ACOTAR), but there are also very good and very bad books that are slippery, such that when I’m done reading them they slip from my thoughts like water from a hydrophobic surface.

[amazoogle]

Have and Have Not (2006) Crystal Schenk

[chromatographic]

look i reblogged this because this piece FUCKS but then

then I looked in the notes and y’know.

some people seems confused.

Why a shopping cart with stained glass? 

or This would be cool to shop with

or something about religion and NO

NO

THIS. Is about HOMES.

That style stained glass? Those diamonds? They speak to me, and they say “Townhouse”. and FANCY townhouse, at that. They say “City home, old home, a home that is RICH, a shelter from the storm and a safe place for a family”.

But on! a! shopping cart!

That evokes - to me - Homelessness.

The person on the street who had no other choice but to steal the best cart they could from a store’s corral just to have a way to transport the meager belongings that are all they fucking have in this world. And it’s NOT a home or a safe place or a shelter but it’s all you fucking have!

And this piece goes and puts them fucking together! AND NAMES IT.

Yeah this is fucking ART.

[marzipanandminutiae]

It's really interesting because I live in an area where a lot of of the housing stock is old middle/working-class duplexes and triple-deckers, and many of those have stained glass. So this doesn't necessarily read "rich person's house" to me so much as a combination of vernacular middle class and working class architecture with an equally mundane object (namely shopping cart). But also combining the modern with the historical, because you tend to see windows like that – which were the closest thing they had at the time to mass produced, to be clear, hence their presence in households that were not wealthy) -in older houses and apartment buildings 

It's really interesting how people's context impacts the way they interpret artwork!

[thatsbelievable]

[transmascreplica]

are we too far gone

[audioexorcisms]

[marzipanandminutiae]

Margaret Cavendish mention wooo!! For real tho, it's entirely reasonable to point to Mary Shelley as a real starting point but we shouldn't forget what Cavendish did for secondary world fantasy and everyone does forget.

Yes!

I haven't read the Blazing World yet, but I know of its existence

[thesituation]

my 100% failproof way to handle reactionaries asking why i don’t shave at all is going “because i don’t want to” it works because what they really want is an argument about the merits of feminism, and they’ll draw it out and try to convince you it’s a cult or whatever, but you can avoid it all by sticking to “i just don’t wanna. don’t feel like it” and if they argue with you about it you can use your ultimate ability, which is “i’m sorry i thought it was a free country?” which, believe me, they cannot come back from. they’ll either drop it or start harping on something you didn’t say, and it’s important you don’t take the bait at that point. when they can’t argue with what you say, they assume your beliefs and attack those. and you crucially must be visibly baffled at their change of direction because it will make them seem and possibly feel crazy (which they are). “i don’t want to shave” is a perfect response because truly it all comes down to autonomy and the ability to do what you want. they’ll try to say “feminism makes you think you have to do that” and it’s important to not take that bait. to reiterate that you don’t know what they mean and you just don’t like shaving and that it’s really weird to look into it that deep. this works i promise

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[turgidturnip]

You don't even need to be a journalist, experts LOVE answering these kinds of questions. I, a regular-degular idiot, recently contacted the Smithsonian asking what kind of ink to use on mineral paper for maximum longevity, and I got a very detailed response in under 48 hours.

[beardedmrbean]

I love the midwest so much

[marzipanandminutiae]

if Frankenstein (2025) had gone differently and also had talking heads segments

random Swiss nun, 1856: so we had this postulant, Elizabeth

RSN: and she was. uh. a lot

RSN: like I know we're Brides of Christ but I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to try and kiss His statue with tongue. especially not the really obviously dead statue

RSN: and she only did that with the really obviously dead statue

RSN: her uncle was loaded though and she was pretty nice? Mother Margarethe was like 90% sure she wouldn't go through with her final vows so when she got betrothed to that Genevese twink, nobody was surprised

RSN: but she came back here two months ago with her husband. who was. not the Genevese twink.

RSN: he is also pretty nice. and they're clearly SUPER in love with each other. but he's seven feet tall and covered in scars and no two patches of his skin are the same color

RSN:

RSN: honestly it checks out for her

[marzipanandminutiae]

William:

William: my nephew who is made out of corpses and also a few years older than me, in a sense, saved me from a marriage of convenience and now I live in the guest wing of the palatial house that he and my ex-betrothed inherited from her uncle

William: because I'm not speaking to my shithead brother at the moment and I had nowhere else to go, really

William: I need. so many drinks

[marzipanandminutiae]

if Frankenstein (2025) had gone differently and also had talking heads segments

random Swiss nun, 1856: so we had this postulant, Elizabeth

RSN: and she was. uh. a lot

RSN: like I know we're Brides of Christ but I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to try and kiss His statue with tongue. especially not the really obviously dead statue

RSN: and she only did that with the really obviously dead statue

RSN: her uncle was loaded though and she was pretty nice? Mother Margarethe was like 90% sure she wouldn't go through with her final vows so when she got betrothed to that Genevese twink, nobody was surprised

RSN: but she came back here two months ago with her husband. who was. not the Genevese twink.

RSN: he is also pretty nice. and they're clearly SUPER in love with each other. but he's seven feet tall and covered in scars and no two patches of his skin are the same color

RSN:

RSN: honestly it checks out for her

[apolladay]

What category is your last name?

Son of some guy ("Johnson", "O'Brien", etc)

Job ("Smith", "Miller", etc)

Place/town ("Hill", "del Valle", etc)

Nickname/attribute ("Short", "Goodman", etc)

Hyphenated/multiple of the above

Other (describe in the tags!)

Unsure/results

Remaining time: 5 days 10 hours

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[santhipoma]

[glasshomewrecker]

Everyone should be aware of nitter.net

for any address to twitter you can replace the “x.com” with “nitter.net” and you will be able to browse as if you have an account. Lifesaver.

Similarly, imginn.com works for most Instagram addresses. I still haven’t found one for Facebook.

[proteusolm]

The Ojibwe nailed it. Wawa is exactly the right name for a goose.

[haha-cluck]

Our language is so right about so many animals. One of my favorites is the word for wolf: Waawoono (Wah-wu-no). That is absolutely the noise that wolves make lmao