Something wicked this way comes.

kari: wannabe writer. INTP. runs on coffee. mostly obscure bloggings about original stories and owls.

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

true story that hapen today.

[asakusasisters]

SKD Revue male impersonators Ozuki Saeko & Kawaji Ryuko, 1950s.

SKD Revue was all-female theatre in Tokyo.

[nemfrog]

“Each circle represents the field of observation as seen through the telescope when focused on the moon. Each line in the circle represents the flight of one bird, the heavily shaded end showing the direction toward which the bird is flying. The broken lines represent the flight of birds that appearedout of focus.  (T)aken at Beloit, May I2, 1900.”

“The migration of birds.” Bulletin of the Wisconsin Natural History Society. v.2. 1902.

Internet Archive

[carolathhabsburg]

Miss Nora Kerin, edwardian stage actress. 1907

[teaboot]

She looks like she hunts ghosts and I respect and admire that about her

[sev-wildfang]

@lovelymimic

[beinartgallery]

Mixed-media sculpture by @articulated_imagination for our inaugural group show at beinArt Gallery (opens March 12) More info via link in our bio. For purchase enquiries, email: corinne(at)beinart(dot)org

#gerardgeer #skull #wings #beinartgallery #artexhibition #beinart

[kabaks]

YOU WROTE THE RULES. READ THEM. 

[queerembraces]

David Wojnarowicz wore this jacket in 1988, just 4 years before he’d ultimately die from AIDS. Sadly, just a few years ago some of his artistic work was censored at the Smithsonian. People in power are still content to try and erase his history and the continued struggles of people with AIDS

[tincanforest]

[whitepeopletwitter]

A very relatable mood.

[pagewoman]

[pagewoman]

The Autumn Equinox..Mabon

(after the Welsh god Mabon ap Modron ) when day and night are equal  

art by Romana C

[witchimageprequelle]

Reblog if you think thick thighs are great

[macklesufficient]

but did victor frankenstein actually have a phd

[macklesufficient]

no one’s answered my question

[macklesufficient]

THIS MOTHERFUCKER WAS AN UNDERGRAD

IMAGINE HEARING ABOUT THE DUDEBRO LIVING NEXT TO U IN THE DORMS “yah dave dropped out cuz he built a fucking person”

[necro-romantic]

victor frankenstein was a little bITCH and he had no degree at all, he was at college for like, a year and then he was like “lol these bitches ain’t got nothing on me” and he just got an apartment and stopped going to school so he could build a person. i don’t think he even formally dropped out, he just kind of disappeared and nobody even questioned it because that’s what you expect when some cocky asshole comes to class like “i know more than everyone in this school and one day i’m going to prove it by ending dEATH ITSELF” 

fucking bullshit victor, come home and eat some goddamn soup you wussass teenager 

fucking trashass motherfucker 19 year old sin machine

go get ur liver pecked by birds u mess of a human being

[banal-adventures]

i am never going to let the world forget that victor frankenstein spent 90% of the novel moping instead of doing literally anything else. actual quote from emo kid victor frankenstein “my only solace was silence - deep, dark, deathlike silence” like HOW EXTRA

[manicpixiesdreamdragon]

You’d almost think Mary Shelly was taking inspiration from someone she knew….

[viohra]

Leave Lord Byron alone

[genericboringusername-deactivat]

Lord Byron deserves what he gets and he knows it

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

my fav thing in wildlife research is the concept of animals being “trap happy” meaning the same animal goes into a trap on purpose again and again after it’s caught the first time bc it was like “hey…..there was food in there and Zero (0) predators and then they just let me go in the morning…….”

on one hand it fucks up our data but on the other hand……..I Get It you Funky Little Rodents

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

if it were pouring rain on my walk home from work at night and I found a big metal box full of pizza and a bed where no one else could bother me and the only condition is that in the cold light of day I’d have to face a bunch of scientists weighing me and then letting me go on the sidewalk I’d probably end up in there a lot.

[peer2peer2peer-deactivated20210]

okay i just had a bad epiphany but corporate interest’s influence on the internet is going to become so much stronger now that generations that are internet naturalized have grown up and starting working as “social media consultants”. advertising is going to become so much more subtle, manipulate your behavior to a greater extent, and completely pervade every aspect of our lives the more we rely on the internet for everything from entertainment to social validation. 

[peer2peer2peer-deactivated20210]

what im saying is its scary that corporate twitter accounts are getting good at twitter. to have the same avenue a human would to express themself. its like, an extreme anthromorphism of a brand, and that brand representing a corporate interest, and successfully passing itself off as a sentient entity on twitter, thats really weird to me.

[peer2peer2peer-deactivated20210]

like this is so fucked up. it doesnt immediately read as an advertisement, conceptually it executes the levels of irony and deconstruction that usually make for successful memes in this genre or whatever. its almost subverting itself, but ultimately it still succeeds as an advertisement. it makes me sick. for every misfire of corporations trying to relate (pepsi protest commercial), theres another company getting better at it

[radailurophiles]

okay but like my thing about this is… who is actually eating at these places because shit like this? yeah it’s funny but i never go to wendy’s because a meme, if i go to wendy’s it’s because i want a gross burger and a frosty, same with taco bell and mcdonald’s and wherever the fuck.

i really think that you’re blowing this out of proportion and having very little faith in people’s ability to decide what they want for themselves. it’s just not that deep.

[peer2peer2peer-deactivated20210]

It’s not about the effectiveness of the ads in question, but their complete omnipresence in every aspect and moment of life, and how bizarre and sophisticated the mechanations of advertising have become. If people don’t call attention to these things, they become normal.

[sausaged-rat]

The effectiveness of marketing isnt one-to-one, like, “ad says burger is good, I think burger is good, I eat burger.” That was 50 years ago. Y'all, since then these multi-million dollar corporations have been hiring psychologists and sociologists and anthropologists to study how best to get under consumer skin and theyve figured out it’s not about making you WANT a burger,

It’s about creating a Brand Identity - an anthropomorphized personality that your brain fits into an established schema (system of thought) so it’s easier to just drop into the background of your everyday life. It’s not about making you want a burger, it’s about making it so, when you DO want a burger, the first place you think of is Wendy’s, because their ads have made you think about them five time already that day. And most importantly, it’s about making sure you dont realize how often they make you think about them, so you don’t resent how pervasive they’ve become. They do that by tricking your brain into thinking of them as just another human-like personality. Your Funny Meme Friend Wendy’s. Wine Aunt World Market. Woke Jock Nike. Even your Endearingly Unhip Uncle Geico.

(hey also if you want dozens of terrifying examples of what I mean, just type ‘brand identity schema’ into Google like I just did and take a gander at all those scholarly articles discussing how best to acquire consumers, like we’re a fucking commodity)

[captainsnoop-deactivated2020041]

one time i said i didn’t like the wendys twitter and got called classist for hating retail employees 

this shit works. it makes people like Brands. gets under their skin and in to their minds. when i said i didnt like the wendys twitter i personally offended people that viewed wendys as a friend, that viewed the wendys social media manager as a friendly individual that they respected.

the wendys social media manager is not your friend. they don’t even really exist. there’s no one person that writes the tweets for wendys. there’s a team of 20 something year olds that casually observe the latest meme trends and crank out mspaint memes because they know they’ll get retweeted if the memes are relevant.

they trick you in to thinking that Wendys is a hip friendly young person, and they manipulate you in to thinking that disliking marketing is somehow a “problematic” “un-woke” thing to do. 

and it works. 

install ublock origin. on mobile, block every promoted tweet you see. don’t let them convince you that this shit is normal.

[lostinspaceandmeaning]

[hashtagloveloses]

we stan a literary icon

[hashtagloveloses]

please also remember the time Syfy whitewashed the TV adaption of her books and she ripped them to fucking SHREDS in an op-ed

[samsaranmusing-deactivated20140]

Orbital path of asteroid near miss in 2002. Yah, that’s how close we came to nuclear winter and possible total destruction.

[lonelyinsomniac-deactivated2014]

A visitor.

[davesproot-deactivated20140614]

It’s like it’s trying so hard to hit us and it just can’t do it

[mamasam]

All I can imagine is every astronomer drinking heavily from 2002-2003 like “There it goes–OH FUCK IT’S COMING BACK”

[remmoran-kynvahl]

Thanks moon <3

[le-sad-demiurge]

Moon: YEET

[operationsc]

I’m less concerned about how close it came to us and more concerned with how close it came to the moon

[iamnamedsilence]

It really looks like someone tried and tried to hit Earth…

[strayalchemist]

This gives me massive anxiety

[ponderation]

Pierre-Louis Ferrer