Disordered Narratives, Predictive Fictions

[otherwindow]

Mermaid witnessing a werewolf transformation by the beach and believes all humans are like that. Pirate: ahoy Mermaid: awooo? Pirate: a what

[otherwindow]

Pirate: [digging up treasure] Mermaid: no… bad boy… bad… no diggy hole… [sprays water] Pirate: what the fuck Parrot: what the fuck

[thespectacularspider-girl]

She thinks the parrot is just a transformed human too.

[red-queen-on-the-heathen-throne]

Love how the mermaid, whose home is presumably underwater, knows absolutely nothing about humans but does know about The Spray Bottle.

[otherwindow]

#can you imagine seeing a mermaid on a rock and she just fucking#throws her head back in a perfectly wolven howl#in the middle of the fucking ocean

[zmpl]

even if bioessentialism was real and all trans women had some inherent advantage over cis women in sports you could not pay me to give a fuck because sports are made up. they are games people play for fun. even though we as a society invented careers around sport it is still boiled down to the fun made up game where you kick a ball. or dribble a ball. or swim in a pool. or show people how fast you can run. it’s for leisure. fun. not serious. who gives a fuck. fun. #mygame⚽️🏀🏈⚾️

[chic-a-gigot]

Les Modes parisiennes, Pl. 429, no. 5, 1 mars 1884, Paris. No. 1. Toilette de ville en cachemire loutre et velours nacarat. No. 2. Toilette de visite en ottoman noir et dentelle. Bibliothèque nationale de France

Parfumerie Oriza, de L. Legrand, se des cours de Russie et d'Italie, 207, rue Saint-Honoré. Foulards et Cachemires de l'Inde, pour costumes, Malle des Indes, 21, rue de Quatre-Septembre. Robes & Manteaux de Mme Laurence Hardy, 76, rue de Rivoli. Corset Anne d'Autriche & Ceinture-Régente de Mme de Vertus, 12, rue Auber. Chaussures de la Maison Bernier-Laffon, 160, rue Montmartre.

No. 1. Toilette de ville en cachemire loutre et velours nacarat. — Le corsage à basque très.courte s’ouvre sur un bouillonné de velours et se borde d’un biais en même. La tunique plate devant se relève sur les côtés en plissant sous une riche agrafe de passementerie. La jupe est garnie de deux paniers relevés par une agrafe en leur milieu; elle est plissée dans sa hauteur et bordée d’un large biais de velours.

No. 1. City dress in otter cashmere and mother-of-pearl velvet. — The bodice, with its very short basque, opens to reveal a velvet ruffle and is edged with a bias binding of the same color. The tunic, flat in front, gathers at the sides, pleated beneath a rich passementerie clasp. The skirt is adorned with two panniers held up by a clasp in the center; it is pleated along its length and edged with a wide velvet bias binding.

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No. 2. Toilette de visite en ottoman noir et dentelle. — Le corsage est garni à l’encolure d’un ruché de dentelle qui forme sur la poitrine un éventail se continuant en coquillé jusqu’au bas. La basque descend en deux pointes bien accusées terminées par une broderie et des pampilles de jais. La tunique se drape sur le côté gauche et se borde d’un gros ruban de dentelle. La jupe est garnie d’un tablier drapé très bas relevé devant au milieu et bordé de dentelle, elle se termine pat un bouillonné, un volant de dentelle et deux volants plissés.

No. 2. Visiting dress in black ottoman fabric and lace. — The bodice is trimmed at the neckline with a lace ruching that forms a fan shape across the chest, continuing in a shell-like pattern to the hem. The basque falls in two distinct points ending with embroidery and jet tassels. The tunic is draped on the left side and edged with a wide lace ribbon. The skirt is finished with a very low-hanging draped apron, gathered up in the center front and edged with lace; it ends with a gathered skirt, a lace flounce, and two pleated flounces.

[sansevierias]

[sammroo167]

Daaamn

[chic-a-gigot]

Collection of women's fashions at the Longchamp races, 1900. Bibliothèque nationale de France

[subjectsix]

I don't know I'm not done talking about it. It's insane that I can't just uninstall Edge or Copilot. That websites require my phone number to sign up. That people share their contacts to find their friends on social media.

I wouldn't use an adblocker if ads were just banners on the side funding a website I enjoy using and want to support. Ads pop up invasively and fill my whole screen, I misclick and get warped away to another page just for trying to read an article or get a recipe.

Every app shouldn't be like every other app. Instagram didn't need reels and a shop. TikTok doesn't need a store. Instagram doesn't need to be connected to Facebook. I don't want my apps to do everything, I want a hub for a specific thing, and I'll go to that place accordingly.

I love discord, but so much information gets lost to it. I don't want to join to view things. I want to lurk on forums. I want to be a user who can log in and join a conversation by replying to a thread, even if that conversation was two days ago. I know discord has threads, it's not the same. I don't want to have to verify my account with a phone number. I understand safety and digital concerns, but I'm concerned about information like that with leaks everywhere, even with password managers.

I shouldn't have to pay subscriptions to use services and get locked out of old versions. My old disk copy of photoshop should work. I should want to upgrade eventually because I like photoshop and supporting the business. Adobe is a whole other can of worms here.

Streaming is so splintered across everything. Shows release so fast. Things don't get physical releases. I can't stream a movie I own digitally to friends because the share-screen blocks it, even though I own two digital copies, even though I own a physical copy.

I have an iPod, and I had to install a third party OS to easily put my music on it without having to tangle with iTunes. Spotify bricked hardware I purchased because they were unwillingly to upkeep it. They don't pay their artists. iTunes isn't even iTunes anymore and Apple struggles to upkeep it.

My TV shows me ads on the home screen. My dad lost access to eBook he purchased because they were digital and got revoked by the company distributing them. Hitman 1-3 only runs online most of the time. Flash died and is staying alive because people love it and made efforts to keep it up.

I have to click "not now" and can't click "no". I don't just get emails, they want to text me to purchase things online too. My windows start search bar searches online, not just my computer. Everything is blindly called an app now. Everything wants me to upload to the cloud. These are good tools! But why am I forced to use them! Why am I not allowed to own or control them?

No more!!!!! I love my iPod with so much storage and FLAC files. I love having all my fics on my harddrive. I love having USBs and backups. I love running scripts to gut suck stuff out of my Windows computer I don't want that spies on me. I love having forums. I love sending letters. I love neocities and webpages and webrings. I will not be scanning QR codes. Please hand me a physical menu. If I didn't need a smartphone for work I'd get a "dumb" phone so fast. I want things to have buttons. I want to use a mouse. I want replaceable batteries. I want the right to repair. I grew up online and I won't forget how it was!

[bruntalism]

[birds-in-posts]

Yellow-headed blackbird (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus)

[misidentifying-animals-in-posts]

Black-headed yellowbird (Cephaloxanthus cephaloxanthus)

[elewys]

Bendy sinister Or and sable, in sinister base a blackbird counterchanged.

[scaffoldingchair]

One of the aspects of Deadloch that I loved was that Eddie’s wisps of grey hair were front and center in a shot so many times, with zero commentary or problem or ”being brave” for not hiding them.

In our culture of pathologizing going grey in your 30s and 40s (for all genders, tbh but especially for non-men) it was sooo good to just see that. It goes hand in hand with the whole ”no makeup, sweat and wrinkles, these people are humans” vibe of the show, and I love it.

[adricthemindnimon]

Y'all, the Deadloch season 2 ending is UNHINGED.

As is Abby.

I fucking love this show.

[baseballmomlesbiandad]

DO THE WORK BECAUSE I'M TRYING TO KEEP YOU

[swallowedabug]

Deadloch 2.06 (2026)

[strangesmallbard]

deadloch is literally the only tv show that exists. it’s hilarious it’s raw it’s real and it has plot-relevant lesbian erotica, crocodile justice, AND women who DO NOT shower or wear makeup. not a makeup brush and many pores in sight i promise. and while everything else is happening, it’s also highly critical of the carceral state. #shetland pony #lesbian giraffe

[feminist-space]

[ohdeargodwhy]

god the jokes in deadloch really come at you at a mile a minute huh

i was even tempted to check that amazon prime hadn't developed and accidentally activated a 2x speed setting

[jester-nonconforming]

watching Deadloch really is like being transported to another universe where women are allowed to look and act like regular people on TV

[costumeloverz71]

Ballgown, 1887–89