Spooky's Weird Little Blog

29 in human years | Any/all pronouns | I post what I feel like posting | Please indicate you're not a bot or I'll block you | Blog contains blood, horror stuff, etc. so be careful if you're sensitive to that | Mutuals DM me for my Discord

[chernobog13]

Count Orlok by William Stout.

[uaintthickurfat]

[opendirectories]

[opendirectories]

[rorronoa]

Inuyasha Chapter 109

[romancemedia]

Inuyasha & Kagome - Anime/Manga Counterparts

[nintendometro]

Nintendo Power #165, February 2003 - ‘Legend Of Zelda: The Wind Waker’ cover.

[rosieandthemoon]

Tararua Forest, New Zealand

[queer-as-in-fuck-12]

drug addicts deserve housing, food, water, and healthcare btw

[rratchuggerr]

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[keatxu]

abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don't wanna lose the rights to them

[omikronsoul]

Game companies hate emulation, but none of them seem to understand that a lot of us would just buy ROMs from them directly if we could. I don't want a fifth remake of Final Fantasy IV, I want to pay five bucks for the 3MB file you already made bank with thirty years ago. Nobody who wants to play something for the purpose of retro gaming is going to consider a $40 remake as the alternative option, and we're certainly not going to let the original dissappear. They're crying about opportunity cost for a product they're not even selling.

[justletmeremember]

op i know you're probably talking about like, video games, etc, but this is also critical for research science - my lab has so much abandonware, either because the company's out of business, or the company decided to not maintain it, and it's a fucking nightmare. we have two windows 95 computers that are CRITICAL for performing experiments/data analysis because the software needed is abandonware. one of the main roles for a guy in my lab is to maintain these little dinosaurs because if they go out, we lose access to ~20 years of raw data for research. part of why is that these companies also make their own file types, and make it difficult-to-impossible to convert those file types without their specific software. by habit, i convert all research files to more generic versions (txt, pdf, tif, etc) so that i minimize risk of losing my shit, but some stuff can't be converted.

for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.

so like, i know a lot of people look at the original post here and go "well op just wants old video games to play" (which is valid! games companies should not be able to push shit to abandonware and then close it off) but also this is critical for like. biomedical research. if y'all had any idea how much basic infrastructure built on science relies on shit that is technically abandonware, you would probably be horrified.

[flowerais-deactivated20211031]

let love in. believe compliments. be vulnerable and soft-hearted. tell people you love that you love them. see beauty in everyday things. live life like you’re in a movie. don’t be afraid to begin again.

[daughter-of-sapph0]

happy pride

[lindleland]

[learningtogirl]

I've seen this clip many times, but never really appreciated the power of "what was her problem?" Just casually assuming that lesbians come in a wide variety of shapes and being inclusive. As a transbian who is probably still closer to Homer shaped than to my ideal, that's huge!

[soyalexnajera]

[putall]

A behind the scenes photo of Sallye Richardson on the set of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

[th0rns]

via

[blessedscavengers]

a fun fact the boundary waters contains 1100 lakes. unfun fact the type of copper-nickel sulfide mine that the US federal government just voted to allow in the boundary waters watershed has a 100% chance of leaking and poisoning the entire watershed

made in 2026

[nevershootamockingbird]

[ ID from Alt: a black linocut on white paper of a muskellunge and the words 'water is life' above the fish and the words 'no mines, no pipelines, no data centers' below the fish in bubbly blocky letters / End ID ]