a cult of sadness

i'm old and i don't know what i'm doing

[sandmandaddy69]

[rottytops]

[blackdabbathh]

Ivy and Lux in French Fetish magazine ‘Demonia’ 1991

[whoretzka]

god willing? prison 🙏🏻

[theegrandhorizontal]

Pawel Jaszczuk

[00000066]

[donnerpartyofone]

It's funny how my tumblr followers are not necessarily the target audience for my personal interests, but I'm going to try this anyway: Does anybody remember an essay (or op-ed, or something) by Joyce Carol Oates that would have had a title like (if not precisely) "In Defense of Stephen King"? I swear to god I once encountered such a thing, but it is now lost to memory/search history. I've found some transcriptions of her introducing him at public events, and plenty of little scattered supportive soundbites, but now I'm not sure if the specific essay I'm targeting really exists. Let me know if that rings any bells, and meanwhile here is a great picture I just found of JCO from 1987.

[junk-thunder]

most self-described "leftists" don't wanna hear this but honestly? my spoon is too big

[kosmogrl]

the thing is, it’s never too late for anyone to start over except me. I’m doomed and it’s over for me

[valentineua]

TO YOUR HEALTH, CIVILISATION! - Louis Raemaekers (1869–1956) (Dutch WW1 anti-war cartoon 1914-1918)

[junestrings]

a lot of people dont care about insect biomass collapse bc when they hear we are losing 2.5% of the insect biomass per year they just imagine the cockroach and housefly population decreasing by that much. they dont realize those are among the only ones that will remain unbothered

[sadcult]

I listen to podcasts (which I rarely do in recent years) at 1.75x speed because when people speak slowly/thoughtfully I find it absolutely unlistenable, I cannot pay attention to save my life and the average podcast seems to be hosted by someone who is apparently doing an exaggerated parody of a particularly sleepy public radio host. The dead air between words causes me physical pain.

Anyway for some reason the app I am using is stuck at 1x, no matter how many times I adjust the playback speed it remains at 1x and I straight up feel like I am going to throw up. I wanted to listen to this but I am definitely not going to make it.

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

woman = commodity and if you don’t like commodity you hate women because woman nothing but purchase commodity. purchasing commodity actually defines woman. purchase commodity is identity is community is self care is liberation. im a feminist

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

*me sagely, feministly* women always already shopping

[sadcult]

I have the treatlerite version of thinking the stripper likes me which is I think the baristas like me

[70sscifiart]

Andrzej Strumillo, 1975, detail from Polish edition of Little Man, by Sologub

[mercurys-in-retrograde]

let the contemporary record show mr beast was pretty ignorable for his whole career if you were just like, busy.

[yuckystinkingtooth]

[laterkiss]

i should've locked in when i was thirteen