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Dude I love subcultures. Most people don’t even know that the world was forever changed after Plagiarism and You(tube).

Something that bothers me about poor Jonathan's encounter with the Three Weird Sisters is - Why do they speak English? My original expectation was that they'd speak Romanian or any other local language, but Jonathan clearly understands them.

So, in my head canon, to prepare for London, Dracula started an English learning group with his roommates, meeting regularly to practice their English. Correcting one another for mistakes in pronunciation, praising one another's progress, trying some customs together (like a tea party or so).

I find this thought very, very cute.

jomjjeoro

hey guys. this is my invention. check it out

bastionkeeper

listen no matter how depressed I am whenever this post shows up on my dash I fucking lose it I just laugh so hard, it’s such a good post. The way it’s presented? Soap on a sink nozzle, okay clearly this is some sort of handwashing appliance. Then there’s just water going everywhere no further explanation it’s so good I’m so happy

leonkennedysprostate

all the daughters sold to one direction are being returned. they're all men now. or lesbians

arkred

This reads like a 10k post.

leonkennedysprostate

im immune to 10k posts. i got vaccinated

i-give-you-a-fish

You get an Orange Clownfish

Amphiprion percula

escuerzoresucitado

the-cassquatch

Ok but like. What the fuck is there to do on the internet anymore?

Idk when I was younger, you could just go and go and find exciting new websites full of whatever cool things you wanted to explore. An overabundance of ways to occupy your time online.

Now, it's just... Social media. That's it. Social media and news sites. And I'm tired of social media and I'm tired of the news.

Am I just like completely inept at finding new things or has the internet just fallen apart that much with the problems of SEO and web 3.0 turning everything into a same-site prison?

dj-of-the-coven

Long collection of resources under the cut.

You're right that the internet is smaller than it used to be, but there's still some cool stuff left in the corners. I'd recommend checking checking out Neocities if you haven't--it's an independent web hosting platform like Geocities of the old web, and there are hundreds of interesting and active pages discoverable both through their search function and through web buttons (links attached to small pictures with the title of a website) within the websites themselves. Here are three examples of web buttons you may find in link pages:

Most Neocities websites have link pages or button collections with anywhere from tens to hundreds of these. Don't be afraid to explore!

If you're looking for something more like a search engine, I can point you towards Marginalia. It's not a particularly smart engine, but it's perfectly usable if you've ever been taught to use search engines back when they were mostly run through keywords instead of full sentence comprehension. There's also an "about" and "tips" section on the front page with more information. The algorithm of Marginalia can be filtered by the user to allow, disallow, or require JavaScript depending on your needs, plus there are filters designed specifically to prioritize web 1.0 sites or mostly text-based ones. It is possible to search for modern websites with it, but it can return websites from just about any decade (since the invention of the web, obviously) so long as they contain the information you're looking for. For example, here are some random interesting sites I've found using Marginalia:

Native Languages of the Americas: Native American Cultures

BASIC HTML COMPETENCY IS THE NEW PUNK FOLK EXPLOSION!

Earthbound Text Labs by Bill Eager

The possibilities for discovery are truly endless.

Now you might want to know about directories. These make browsing for websites easier, but require you to read through and judge which ones to visit, as there aren't algorithms ranking the sites besides the whim of whoever coded the directory. Some of them have themes, others don't. Here are two that I've used:

Yesterlinks Directory

Ichigo Directory

Directories can be harder to come by just by surfing the net, but they aren't impossible to find. Many personal websites have their own directories of interesting sites hidden within them.

Webrings are similar to directories, but are actually more community-based. You have to register your website to be a part of a webring, usually by sending an email to whoever runs it and meeting some kind of entry criteria. For example, my personal website used to be a part of a webring called Sweet Dreams, which was for websites that heavily utilize color palettes and images of cute things, particularly sweets. Webrings will give you access to a widget upon entry that allow visitors and other members to browse between the registered websites in a massive ring, ergo, where the term gets its name. Webrings can have any theme or criteria for entry. If you can make a website about it, you can find a webring for it.

Now, you might be wondering about social media alternatives. I can't offer much, but I can nudge you towards the idea of forums. Here's one I found that could really use some traffic. I also browse a bit on MelonLand forum, which is actually closed right now--it's currently closed on Mondays--but on any other day of the week, you can find a fun community there dedicated to web revival. You can find it through MelonLand's main page. I'd also recommend checking out SpaceHey, which is a MySpace clone that's customizable and easy to use.

I hope this is of some help to you. The internet may feel less magical than it used to be, but that doesn't mean that the spark has completely died out. These types of indie websites need more attention if we ever hope to reverse the damage done to the internet by centralization and corporate interest. People are trying to make the web a cooler place to be, but we're going to have to do the work of finding and interacting with these projects in order to get them off the ground someday.

xerxestexastoast

ALSO you should consider browsing Virtual Pet List and seeing if there are any pet sites you might be interested in playing. There is a whole genre of browser games right under your nose

biothreads

Another one that I just found recently is this, which is a whole collection of blogs, organized by topic!

A collection of 1,966 blogs about every topic

derinthescarletpescatarian

Look guys the real internet IS STILL THERE I'm going to cry

cloudyeveniing

Getting off of twitter and onto neocities has really healed me and I am so glad to see it is healing other people too ;u; let's retreat into the self-made digital woods and away from corporate bs pls, I am so tired

nyx-shifts-222

REBLOGGING

casualcryptid69

We’re under a severe thunderstorm warning rn and my dad just opened the door to show my dog because he was begging to go out and it reminded me of that part in Dracula where Dracula opens the door to the howling wolves and Jonathan’s like um actually I’ll stay inside thanks

addicted-to-his-knife

Graves: Do you like chicken.

Luigi: Not particularly.

Graves: Do you like curry?

Luigi: No.

Graves: Boy, you won't like what I did then.

Luigi: Did you make chicken curry?

Graves: No, I fucked your sister.

j4zz4lop3

dead wife montage but her corpse is actually still in the walls of your house 17 years later behind a picture frame because you put her there yourself obviously.

vintageandroid

I'm laying here trying to take a nap but can't sleep and instead I have a bunch of messy thoughts about the character of Marni in Repo! The Genetic Opera and how she haunts the narrative.

Specifically, how she's still impacting several of the adult characters and their behavior and motivations (Nathan's grief and overprotectiveness and guilt; Rotti's anger and resentment and vengeance; Mag's love and making connections) and how most of the adults still even talk TO her and often about her...

but the only time Shilo even acknowledges her are a) visiting her grave (which may be because it's one of the only places Shilo's been out of the house, judging from flashbacks) and b) "Mother can you hear me / thanks for the disease". Even Mag showing her the Eye Video™ in "Chase the Morning" doesn't seem to have a strong impact other than "how did you do that?", nor does Rotti giving her Marni's dress. And why should it? 17-year-old Shilo is the only one who has really come to terms with Marni being dead, because to Shilo, Marni has never been anything else. She was born while Marni was dying, and even growing up in Nathan's Marni Shrine of a house, she's never been a real person to her. She's always been a ghost to live up to and to resent.

And idk what conclusion I'm reaching except that Shilo, not hung up on Marni, is also one of the less stagnant people in the movie and also the one who succeeds in moving forward by the end. And that's interesting.

(Okay, to be fair, Mag actually seems pretty sensible and to have moved on in her way, as her main character motivation is "Actually I don't want GeneCo to own me and my eyes anymore" which does not have much to do with Marni aside from the apocryphal possibility that her eyes were harvested from Marni's body. Seeing Shilo gave her some peace before the end but she was already making her choices there. Still, it's worth mentioning that her only real emotional connection seems to be Marni and, when she finds out about her, Shilo, because of that affection.)

But also, it's interesting that for all she impacts things, we never fully learn what Marni was like as a person, and why she left such an impact on people. Rotti speaks of her as a possession who was stolen, and Nathan speaks of her constantly but always in the context of loss, but we never learn much of HER. And in a movie where the human body is a commodity, it's interesting that her SOUL is objectified. Not sexually but still very much objectified.

Anyway I dunno. I am full of thoughts. As someone who finds grief and regret and stagnation to be frequent motifs in my own work, Marni's role is very interesting to me.

Especially since most of the people in the movie are very stuck on her, but her only actual words in the film are "Chase the morning / Yield for nothing" which suggests to me that everyone's stagnation is actually the opposite of what she'd want her legacy to be.

vampire-connoisseur

behind every single dad is a singler, more evil single dad

lupinus-bicolor

underrated part of Repo! The Genetic Opera is after nathan uses some poor dead guy as a sock puppet then just stops and looks at himself like What the fuck is wrong with me. Why did I just do that.

pluckedanarchist

repo really is the movie of all time tbh. it's about nature vs. nurture. It's about family curses (genetics.) It's about how grief changes you. It's about death. It's about parenting. It's about the commodification of the human body. It's about the unchecked greed of the healthcare system. It's about destiny. It's about how the medical system both creates and punishes addicts. It's about a bunch of goths having fun. It's about nothing at all.

woah-its-mimi

lowkey giving generational trauma, learning to push through and break the cycles

meiliariotz

GeneCo brand top surgery where if you don’t pay on time a Repo Man comes to sew your tits back on

plushdablush

Random thing for people to consider is that since Laika is the saint of one way trips should Felicette be known as the saint of safe landings since she did make it back to the ground safely

somefishycat

tu LANCES félicette ? tu lances son corps comme la fusée ? oh ! oh ! prison pour les scientifiques ! prison pour les scientifiques pendant Un Mille Ans !