nothin' but ink, bone, and stardust

I'm Mel. Basically I have no idea what I'm doing.

[frontmansdog]

there’s a t-shirt that says “I survived a bad day and all I got was the rest of my life” and yeah I still think about it

[daisywords]

the plot chickens (becomes scared of its own premise)

[hirocimacruiser]

Sakura Suzuki Mighty Boy Kei class pick up

[crochethub]

After 10 months of dedication, I finally finished! I confess I was hesitant to post it, since I'm not a professional, but I feel I achieved a good result. by TheresaZoe

[assiraphales]

I kind of miss the impulsivity that certain spaces used to allow. oh you want a hair cut today? hairdresser in the corner can fit you in before her 2 o’clock. tattoo of a cobra… sure leg or arm? even concerts, back when you could go to the box office thirty mins before any show. not saying these things don’t exist at all, but everything feels booked five months in advance and 10x more expensive

[lakevida]

i bet the pain will end if i arrange a perfect enough sentence about it

[pillforthesorrow]

In the Grey (2026)

[beggars-opera]

The tailors at Colonial Williamsburg made a suit for their cat

[vinceaddams]

The best part is that they were inspired by a diary entry from 1775, written by a 12 year old tailor’s apprentice who had been left unsupervised all day and decided to make a suit for a cat. Here’s a link to the blog post about it, but I’ll just paste the whole diary entry here:

“I had been at work about two months when Christmas came on – and here I must relate a little anecdote. The principal [the tailor] and his lady were invited to a party among their friends…while it devolved on me to stay at home and keep house. There was nothing left me in charge to do, only to take care of the house. There was a large cat that generally lay about the fire. In order to try my mechanical powers, I concluded to make a suit of clothing for puss, and for my purpose gathered some scraps of cloth that lay about the shop-board, and went to work as hard as I could. Late in the evening I got my suit of clothes finished; I caught the cat, put on the whole suit – coat, vest, and small-clothes [breeches] – buttoned all on tight, and set down my cat to inspect the fit. 

“Unfortunately for me there was a hole through the floor close to the fireplace, just large enough for the cat to pass down; after making some efforts to get rid of the clothes, and failing, pussy descended through the hole and disappeared; the floor was tight and the house underpinned with brick, so there was no chance of pursuit. I consoled myself with a hope that the cat would extricate itself from its incumbrance, but not so; night came and I had made on a good fire and seated myself for some two or three hours after dark, when who should make their appearance but my master and mistress and two young men, all in good humor, with two or three bottles of rum. After all were seated around the fire, who should appear amongst us but the cat in his uniform. I was struck speechless, the secret was out and had no chance of concealing; the cat was caught, the whole work inspected and the question asked, is this your day’s work? I was obliged to answer in the affirmative; I would then have been willing to take a good whipping, and let it stop there, but no, to complete my mortification the clothes were carefully taken off the cat and hung up in the shop for the inspection of all customers that came in.”

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

“I was hoping they’d beat me and forget about it but to my horror they stuck my work up on the fridge”

[zackbuildit]

Not just any fridge-

The public fridge

[dogpuppy]

[nineteenyearoldmeblog]

im fucking crying

[theprofessional-amateur]

link to bluesky post

[theprofessional-amateur]

In addition to how to turn various things, it includes:

Other useful AI Removal/Detection links

How to spot AI Hallucinations like a Reference Librarian (originally on Substack)

Library Freedom Project has a lot of handouts about AI on their Resources page

[judblanc]

ok so jud thinks jerking off is fine and doesn't even take it seriously as a sin in confession, doesn't really take the seal of confession very seriously either (tells blanc a lot of what wicks said, takes martha's confession publicly, is super nosy about her confession to wicks), doesn't show much regret for stealing and lying or anything other than outright murder if we're being honest, gets mad at priests for their vocal homophobia and misogyny and ableism among other things, agrees with blanc that most of catholicism is about smoke and mirrors and atmosphere, thinks the best person in his flock is a guy living in 'sin' with a woman (samson and martha weren't married), sees religion as a story we made up to explain something that feels true deep down (and he's constantly bending real world facts to suit his agendas let alone bending 'facts' from actual stories), doesn't think god wants to punish him/others but rather sees god as an inherently loving entity (literally only ever equates god with love and with truth too - ironic bc all he ever does is lie by omission) and thinks that 'broken people like him' would benefit from believing in a god that 'loves people when they're guilty' (<- does this sound like a catholic god??? genuine question) ...

how is he even catholic at all at this point. i'd say someone should tell him but i think he already knows.

[theotherpacman]

1) guilt 2) ocd 3) more cognitive dissonance than you'd think is possible to fit into a human skull

[judblanc]

ok LITERALLY nailed it this is exactly what i said under an ao3 comment recently:

[agentofdeterioration]

The Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad is, to a modern audiences, what classicists have called “boring as hell,” but I can’t help but think that if you were watching Homer recite it it would have been more like when comedians go, “anybody here tonight from Chicago?” and the Chicagoans in the back start cheering

Homer’s like, “and there were forty black ships from… LOCRIS” and the Locrians in the crowd start going absolutely nuts

[samreich]

ive been garf the whole time

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

The moral of Death Note is that cops raise evil children

[aslongasitsblack]

​a man who has never denied himself anything meets a man who denies himself everything and the hedonist tries to lure the self-abnegator into succumbing to the pleasures of the flesh and succeeds but their rendezvous makes accidentally clear that true pleasure is derived from the perilous destructive nature of intimate connection and eventually true actual love and so we come to conclude that in fact the hedonist is the one who has never allowed himself anything true while the self-abnegator has never strayed from the path of his want and then they put them on ice skates and gave them sticks

[pmamtraveller]

Checkmate

[redscharlach]

It has come to my attention that some of you have never seen what I firmly believe to be the greatest music video of all time: Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart. It is the perfect marriage of a galactically bombastic power ballad and a writhing mass of 1980s video clichés, thrown into the path of a wind machine and blasted down a moodily lit corridor into the realm of legend.

In case you’re wondering what the heck they were thinking of when they made it, I remember Bonnie once explaining on TV that it’s about the dreams of a headmaster’s daughter, hence all the boys in (and out of) uniform. In retrospect, the whole shebang is quite fascinatingly female gaze-y, and I’m pretty sure it was a major formative influence on my pubescent imagination.

And yes, there is also a very amusing literal version, but for my money, the original is definitely the most hilarious…

[redscharlach]

A sad and deeply fond farewell to Bonnie Tyler (1951–2026). May somersaulting ninja schoolboys sing you to your rest.

[inber]

Even wilder: the song was originally meant for some kind of 80’s vampire rock musical. Sources: 1 and 2

Steinman told Playbill in a 2002 interview that he wrote “Total Eclipse of the Heart” as a vampire love story. He said its original title was “Vampires in Love.”

May her memory be a blessing ❤️

[reena-jenkins]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYQi7NqRlHZ/?l=1

(Obligatory Miscast 2026 performances of Total Eclipse of the Heart by Ali Louis Bourzgui and LJ Benet - video from deathbylostboys on IG)

ETA: WtFffffffFff tumblr why wont you let me link to the most magnificent piece of vampire musical performance!?!??!