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[theopolis]

Harry Osborns fashion in 1970s comics vs 2000s comics

[agelessphotography]

Untitled, New York, New York, Gordon Parks, 1963

[sharkfiinn]

i wonder how long carl knew before grace did

[queen-mabs-revenge]

got tapped for lowlands away last night which !!! and it went well! except i panicked in the beginning bc i'm always worried about the key (seeing as how i'm mostly singing harmonies bc the usual keys people gravitate towards are too low or sound goofy ass if i sing them the octave up).

so. i bought a pitch pipe.

you truly never really leave chorale.

[thememedaddy]

[petrel-va-line]

God it’s so fucking funny that the copyright trial scene exists in the book. Literally the one scene where Grace isn’t present or narrating and it’s entirely so Stratt can have a “fuck you I’m doing what I need to save the goddamn world” moment. Andy Weir straight up broke his entire framing device solely so he could give Stratt this moment.

[petrel-va-line]

oh my fucking god

[petrel-va-line]

#well none of his editors caught it either so#egg on everyone's face.#that's just how powerful stratt is she can break narrative framing devices from sheer aura alone

Tags from @synthyk

Ok yeah I'm gonna incorporate this into my belief system now, Stratt somehow psychically compelled her own creator to break his framing device and let her have this scene solo in order to aura farm not only on the court but on Weir and his editors.

[diamondringsandgutterbones]

"get a job" "unemployed behaviour" okay but like. girl your ableism

[heating-element]

girl your abelism. girl your inexplicable capitalistic worldview. girl your view of labour productive for capital being directly tied to your worth as a person. but also really holy shit girl your abelism!

[whatevergreen]

People’s Front against fascism: police officers charge into anti-Nazi protesters organized by the Communist Party in Los Angeles, August 7, 1938.

[queen-mabs-revenge]

lost in the sauce 🐝

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You wake up one day and discover you've lost control over a random action or feeling!

Spin the wheel to find out what!

How bad is it?

Actually way better than before!

Its good

It's alright

It's annoying but I'll be fine

It's pretty bad

IM DEAD

worse than death

Nothing changes/results

Remaining time: 4 days 21 hours

This idea was submitted by @dbnekonico!

[moveslikekeithrichards]

when you save alarms for specific things but then you just keep reusing them. like sure wake me up at the chocolate milk alarm, what do i care

[hoot-alex]

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

the last song you listened to is your battle theme now how is it going

good

bad

great

awful

meh

perfect

results

Remaining time: 2 days 18 hours

[screamingsquamousthings]

Dash simulator when you follow a bunch of random blogs to add to the ecosystem:

mutual-1: had eggs for breakfast today

mutual-2: this post contains blocked tags

one-smeemble-figure-a-day: Smeeble with Strawberry, Happy Fun Company, 1997

fandom-mutual: does anyone ever think about blorbo’s oedipius complex

fantasy-nouveau: the most gorgeous illustration you’ve ever seen from some book published in 1903

retching-ribcages: a bunch of pictures of a sculpture collection depicting various household objects as meat

mutual-3: i hate this show i hate this show i hate all of you this place sucks

birds-are-cool: Splendid Fairywren (Malurus splendens), Native to Australia

blog-you’re-trying-to-impress: snorkum does NOT give good head hes gonna bite your shit and then start crying

fandom-polls: Who gives better head? (blorbo) (snorkum)

pretty-colors: #857ef4

mutual-4: just snorted a line

[fraddit]

Haunted house horror movie where the humans are house flippers and the audience is rooting for the ghost to kill them before they tear down all crown molding and paint all the wood.

[fraddit]

Everyone in the notes saying this is Beetlejuice, no it's not. Yes, Catherine O'Hara's character in that movie is changing the house in a way the ghosts don't like, but she's not flipping it. She's changing it to suit her tastes. Maybe her tastes are horrible, but at least she's doing something for herself. She's planning to live there long term, not sell it for a profit to the next person who comes along.

I'm talking about something that explores the horrors of our current housing market realities where everything is fucking beige or gray. Where it's nearly impossible to find fixer uppers as a first time home buyer because people have made a job out of buying the most affordable houses in any given market and then gutting them and whitewashing them with the cheapest materials possible only to mark them up and sell them back to people who actually want to live there and might have liked or wanted a place with some character or that they could have fixed up to their tastes but now can't because the shitheads ahead of them raised the price.

There are so many ways to do this that aren't fucking Beetlejuice. (Which is a great movie! But it's not what I'm talking about!)

Personally, I'd love for it to be filmed like an HGTV show. For it to be like a standard haunted house movie, in that it's from the point of view of the people buying the house. Unlike Beetlejuice, which is from the pov of the ghosts predominantly.

Maybe there aren't even any actual ghosts. Maybe it's the house itself that's seeking revenge on these people.

Maybe it's like these awesome tags from @queen-mabs-revenge: #oh this feels very 'capitalism: a horror story' coded#the dead labor of centuries of workers screaming out from the bones of the house#the physical stress injuries and damage that the workers who created the parts of the house and who labored to build it underwent#manifesting physically in the flippers as they demolish and destroy those parts of the house in kind#like a few fingers start to lacerate and separate from their hands#bc a nameless worker caught their fingers in an unguarded blade on the production line#the horrors of industrial capitalism factory production ripping through their bodies as they rip down that crown moulding#oh gothic marxism we're really in it now

Maybe it's a million other things. But it's not Beetlejuice. Or at least it doesn't have to be Beetlejuice. It can be something else. We can have two cakes!

[queen-mabs-revenge]

legend has it that if you say his name three times, @thelitcritguy (author of the above-mentioned 'capitalism: a horror story') announces a new book p much exactly about the thing 👻🏚️

[thelitcritguy]

Some really exciting news!

My next book has a home with the incredible, radical independent publisher Haymarket Books.

It's about haunted houses, debt, precarity, the American cultural imagination and the nightmares we've all gotten used to just living with.

I can't wait for you all to get to read it.

[probablyasocialecologist]

Study links data centres to heat island effects worldwide

University of Cambridge scientists have discovered a pronounced heat island phenomenon correlated with the development of data centres.

Called the Data Heat Island Effect, the study showed that temperatures are rising an average of 3.6 degrees fahrenheit (2 degrees C) in areas immediately surrounding the " locations of the main AI hyperscaler centres", while as much as a 16.4 (9.1 degrees C) degree increase was shown in the most extreme cases. Its findings also provided insight into how widely felt the thermal effects are, claiming the centres and associated heat islands could impact a total of over 340 million people worldwide.

[...]

Each of the 6,733 data centres that constituted the research group were located away from largely dense metropolitan areas. The study claimed that heat island effects were being carried by a distance of up to 6 miles (10 kilometres) from the facilities.

[...]

"The prevailing logic has been one of acceleration, the infamous 'move fast and break things', which translates into building capacity first and perhaps mitigating later," Harvard researcher and architect Marina Otero Verzier told Dezeen. "If development continues at this pace, we will see a significant increase in emissions, the intensification of thermal effect." "These impacts extend well beyond the data centers themselves, shaping entire territories, although those living next to them usually bear the burden." "In a context of ecological fragility and energy instability, a moratorium is needed, followed by a much stricter regulatory framework that would involve public oversight."

9 April 2026