Pensive Hastur

[pensivehastur]

My sideblogs

@lynch-mobs-are-bad-actually :  Politics (serious)

@duct-taping-zhenguo :  History, Star Trek, politics (shitposting)

@still-mad-about-worldbuilding :  Worldbuilding, science

@goncharov-mythos-repository :  “Goncharov (1973)”

[soulsplosion]

im being emo about dinosaurs again

[pensivehastur]

first result for "dinosaur" isn't even a dinosaur. what are we even doing here

[benjacksonstanaccount]

I'm sorry but this is just too funny not to put here (not my screenshot)

[death-by-sc0tland]

what the Fuck do you mean an official lungbarrow sequel just came out

[death-by-sc0tland]

for non doctor who fans this is as if they made a sequel to the bible

[pensivehastur]

specifically, a sequel to one of the weird nonsensical infancy gospels that all of the main Christian branches tried to eliminate by burying all of the copies in the desert but got referenced in the Qur'an anyway

[cleverwordsandotherstuffilike]

[marlynnofmany]

I love this for the creativity and the joy in the post. How perfectly these bits of rocks and shells show us two ladies frolicking in delight! At the beach, one might assume. They're having a great time. Good for them.

[sixappleseeds]

[ID: smooth stones and shells arranged in such a way that it looks like two ladies with their backs to the viewer, arm in arm, holding little handbags and skipping down the road]

[ionomycin]

My favorite pieces from 2025

[taraxippos]

Did anyone ever like attempt to document and compile the variations of Barney the dinosaur murder ballads across the elementary school system in the early 2000s. Like legit it has always fascinated me as a phenomena and I would love to know if there were like traceable regional variations or what.

[taraxippos]

Looking at the tags so far I’m kind of fascinated by how much the ‘I Love You’ parodies vary in their phrasing/murder weapons but the ‘Joy to the World’ ones are nearly identical

[karvina]

here is my collection of barney murder songs as they appeared in the notes and comments of this post at about 4 pm pacific 7/25, somewhat arbitrarily color coded to show similar memes. it appears that "baseball bat and 2x4" is the mode configuration but there is so much variation that that exact phrasing only makes up a small part of the set. if i knew more about statistical modeling i would turn this into some kind of data tree that shows which phrases are most likely to follow other phrases.

[yonae]

[pensivehastur]

Is there a CLOVER anime????

[phantomofthetrashcan]

Angel of Music

or, hey what if poto but like…….1960s shoujo manga

[wilberia]

Subaru and Hokuto in Tokyo Babylon

[pensivehastur]

why are Hokuto's tits out

[teal-tealwren]

heed the warning

[evi4th-deactivated20260105]

teal-tealwren

[rumpletrumple]

Forever mad the 2004 movie decuntified red death 😔

[melit0n]

They took away his stupid little boots I'm fuming

[musicalhell]

The virgin "I found this at Spirit Halloween in a bag labeled 'Crimson Demise'" Red Death vs. the chad "I spent the past six months hand stitching the trim on this bad boy AND wrote an opera at the same time" Red Death

[marzipanandminutiae]

the OG book version- no pun intended -had WORDS EMBROIDERED ON THE HEM IN GOLD THREAD, to boot ("Don't touch me! I am the Red Death stalking abroad!")

but both versions made Christine's outfit less weird and goth, which is tragic. in the book she was wearing a "white domino," which looks like this but white:

the traditional Domino costume is a long, loose coat-type garment and a little mask. and that's pretty much it. there were variations throughout the eras where it was popular, but without further description...that's what both Christine AND Raoul are wearing. just in different shades. It was a hugely commonplace masquerade outfit so it makes sense that she stipulated they should both wear it, if they wanted to talk secretly without being noticed

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Swallow the Sun by EranFowler

[centrally-unplanned]

Something that is both "neat" and maybe poorly executed about the end of The Godfather is that the final plot beat is Michael, seeing through the trap set by one of the heads of the other families Brazini, counter-ambushes not only him but every other family head and a few others to boot in a massive assassination spree. This isn't a movie about "plots and counterplots" so it doesn't come off as like a moment of cunning or anything, but you could see it that way - a man backed into a corner, on the precipice of defeat, finding escape through levels of violence his opponents lacked the stomach for. Kill or be killed, right?

The wrinkle there is that, from all appearances, the Corleone family is fleeing anyway. They are moving to Vegas and leaving the NYC business behind, the final scenes are a moving truck emptying out the family home. Brazini won, why is he trying to kill him? Michael wants to leave anyway, why take out all the other families beforehand? The movie does not spend any time on that motivation, and from that you really get the message that its just revenge, blood, violence. The act is done because the powerful do what they will. In its scope it is inspirational; in its ambition it is inconsequential.

Which is very thematically apt, but I will say the film spends so little time on the mechanics of the business and things like the move to Las Vegas that I can't really have faith in that interpretation. It can't really hit because you would need some understanding of its lack of necessity, which is only implied. And the sequel doesn't really go into much detail on the fallout of all this anyway (and Michael still has some NYC operations, how that survived is unexplained). I kind of think this is probably some book/adaptational issue, where the source material details this but the movie hasn't the time.

I think it still works, it comes through tonally once you think about it at all. But a YMMV moment.

[squidlife-crisis]

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

[duskxdawn]

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