Vintage Stuff

This blog is full of the most elegant dresses, nice illustrations, horror films, and shitposts.

[jkparkin]

Tankers vs. Ancient Aliens #2 (Bad Idea, July 2026) variant cover by Juan Jose Ryp

[sweetoothgirl]

Milk Bread Blueberry Cinnamon Rolls

[notryvn]

— utahraptor foraging a bone pile

[jkparkin]

Transformers #34 (Skybound, July 2026) variant cover by Mattia De Iulis

[shaftking]

So can we be so fucking serious about the literacy crisis yet or are y’all still pretending that it’s just exaggeration that there’s a massive systemic issue where parents and educators have catastrophically failed a generation by passing them through school when they literally can’t do basic reading and math.

[nonenosome2]

The thing for me is, how does a parent allow that to happen?

I understand the teacher's couldn't care less, they get paid either way, but the parents allowing it to happen? Not even teaching them at home?

[tlaquetzqui]

The teachers don’t get paid either way, the parents get them fired for attempting to really teach reading, or anything else, in such a way that the parents’ precious little darlings might be told they’re wrong.

Parents have exactly the education system they deserve.

[ausefulblogforputtingthingsin]

Most teachers care very much. Its the only reason we stay in the low-paying, soul-sucking, burnout inducing profession for so long. The education system is built on emotionally manipulating teachers into doing unpaid labor, without which it would cease to function.

Teachers beg parents to read to their kids. Parents don't. We try to get kids to work through frustration, but parents have given them screens to microdose them with dopamine all day long, so they're incapable of focusing or sitting with discomfort. We're not allowed to tell kids they're wrong, and not allowed to hold kids back even if there's no way they could succeed in the next grade, since they can't read. When we do get to hold a kid back? Parents can appeal it and the school board will automatically pass the kid to the next grade in most districts.

Teachers care more than anyone gives us credit for, but it's much easier to ignore what we say while blaming us for not fixing a system we have zero control over. Teachers have been sounding the alarm about the literacy crisis since WAY before covid, and no one wanted to hear it. Teachers can't be the only ones working with kids and expect them to succeed. And I don't just mean working on reading. I'm talking about teaching kids how to handle emotions, how to not hit people, how to take no for an answer, and how to recover when they're disregulated. Teachers are increasingly expected to handle aaaaalllll that (and worse) times 30 (or more) before we can even begin to teach what the kids are actually supposed to be learning. And we get told if we just create relationships it will all be fixed. Oh and also make our lessons more engaging (when our competition for their attention is tiktok). Oh and document every behavior and every intervention (which means every single thing WE did to bend over backwards and try to get kids to participate in any way in their own learning, and also all the things WE did to fix their behavior problems before we get any support from admin) because "if you didn't document it it didn't happen. That documentation, btw, is pretty much always done for free outside of contract hours because there's not time in the day for it. And we don't get paid overtime. So tell me again how "teachers couldn't care less".

[tlaquetzqui]

Parents. Have. Exactly. The. Education. System. They. Deserve.

[jkparkin]

Daredevil #5 (Marvel, August 2026) variant cover by Alex Ross

[gwm247]

Paula Ranta

[theartofthecover]

Money Shot: The F*ck Offs #1 (2026)

Art by: Garth Graham

[jkparkin]

Warbird #1 (Bad Idea, July 2026) variant cover by Michael Cho

[tiikerix-art]

We didn't have internet for 88 days in iran

I'm too tired to talk about the crimes the Islamic Republic did

But 40 thousand iranians never get online again...

If you know what I mean

I'm sorry...

[animentality]

[coldgoldlazarus]

[intriga-hounds]

Lovely film photos by @unctions 🥰

[assiraphales]

I love the headcanons that are like ‘the eridians already figured out how to replicate earth’s atmosphere, temperature, food, light, the ocean for the human. ofc they found a way to extend grace’s life expectancy’ bc talk about my exact brand of cope. but I also think another motivating factor could have been no one wanting to deal w 400 years of rocky in a bad mood

[jkparkin]

Fire and Ice: Darkwolf #1 (Dynamite Entertainment, July 2026) variant cover by Stuart Sayger

[danskjavlarna]

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Some strange and unusual vintage diagrams.

[jkparkin]

Captain America #14 (Marvel, August 2026) cover by Valerio Schiti

[thatliznt]

Thanks to my friend, Grace and Simon now write love letters to each other in my version