Just some guy, took him ten years to get an icon

He/him, don't even know what I'm doing here

[strejdaking]

Won't see for a while, but I think it's sweet they made a show apparently just about how cool and hot Hannah Waddingham is.

[ngoziu]

I HAVE HEARD THE WORD...

ORION, my second graphic novel with DC Comics is out in bookshops & comic book stores EVERYWHERE! ☀️

[teashoesandhair]

OK lads but. Why is the r slur coming back. It's 2026. Why am I hearing so many of The Youth use this word liberally and at whim. Do you need me to ground you. Do I need to sit you on the naughty step. Do you need me to strap you into the Learning Chair and deliver a 4 hour lecture about the history of the r slur, ableism, and why using that word is neither big nor cool. Or do you just need me to punch you in the mouth.

[neottia-orchids]

Another late Valentine's day post. This is the first original retro themed poster I made for last year's Marinler zine. It was inspired by 50's/60's painted travel and tourism posters, and specifically influenced by a poster for Rome that featured Piazza Navona.

Marinler zine #2 is available for free at: bit.ly/marinler25

You can also donate, all the funds will go to Palestine Children's Relief Fund

[strejdaking]

Over at twitter, people are constantly defending the Jacob Elordi casting, how this is what Emily Bronte imagined, how in 19th century Elordi wouldn't be considered white ect. and it's utterly insane when you remember Hong Chau and Shazad Latif are playing Nelly and Edgar Linton.

Pictured: An opressed brown guy and an old-money whitey

[strejdaking]

#jfdhg seeing them listed side by side like this is so embarrassing. knowing one of them is sizzling and the other looks like a wet tissue

No offense to Elordi, but... This feels like a glitch in matrix.

[friend-crow]

Apparently ICE now has agents posing as utility workers to get into people's homes. The electric and gas companies have posted information on how to tell if it's one of their workers, and numbers to call to confirm whether they've sent someone to do utility work on your house.

Stay safe, friends.

[alexwrekk]

ICE posing as utility workers to detain immigrants, Gresham lawmaker warns

Oregon state Rep. Ricki Ruiz said three people were detained in his district after ICE agents posed as utility workers.

[strejdaking]

Over at twitter, people are constantly defending the Jacob Elordi casting, how this is what Emily Bronte imagined, how in 19th century Elordi wouldn't be considered white ect. and it's utterly insane when you remember Hong Chau and Shazad Latif are playing Nelly and Edgar Linton.

Pictured: An opressed brown guy and an old-money whitey

[strejdaking]

I'll go ahead and say it before he appears: I like Aerion's short hair. Besides just generally making him visually memorable and stand-out, it serves his character, evoking less of a dark fantasy beautiful sociopath, and more of a Brat Prince 80's Sports Movie Jock. He's not the last heir of a glorious dynasty, nor a morally complicated black knight, he's Johnny Lawrence picking on a medieval Karate Kid.

[vastlywillow]

Seeing news outlets already letting them fully get away without even their own lying is insane.

"An extraordinary night time raid" "its unclear whether there was any legal justification" "legal basis currently unknown" etc...

Well that's because it was illegal and they don't care, stop pretending like they are taking tiny steps and checking legality. They just simply want more power to do literally whatever they want to any country in the world and will not stop for anything such as "laws" or basic "ethics"

[vastlywillow]

Also secretary of state has now given a legal justification and its the most laughable thing possible. "The strikes were to protect the soldiers carrying out the operation which we can do"

Oh so the illegal strikes were so you could protect the soldiers illegally there who were kidnapping a sitting foreign president?

Thank god that will hold up in american courts where we will be allowed to prosecute foreign presidents but unable to prosecute US presidents.

[vastlywillow]

Also someone saying "maduro was bad though" yeah but if a leader of a nation being bad was all the justification you needed then where is the 120 nation deep coalition coming to roll the US?

[vastlywillow]

EU has bailed on condemning anything other than the audacity of Venezuela for having the gall to be a target for the US. I didn't expect anything from them and still somehow slipping under the bar.

[theonion]

Calling such concern for linguistic precision a clear indicator of a thriving country, a panel of historians from Yale University issued a statement Thursday announcing that quibbling over the exact definition of a concentration camp was a sign of a healthy society. “Studies of the past tell us that nitpicking the particular semantics of the term ‘concentration camp’ as they pertain to a place the government is actively sending people with no criminal history is highly associated with national stability,” said historian Kristen Boyd, who added that the more pedantic one’s reasoning for a facility not fully satisfying the criteria for a true concentration camp, the better that bodes for a country’s future.

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[lustcannibalism]

the desire to engage in my hobbies leaving my body as soon as I have the day off even though I was looking forward to it all week

[weirdchristmas]

Today is the day! BENITO CERENO'S STARTLING TALES OF SANTA CLAUS is out today. Unfortunately, you can't get a copy at my local store because I bought as many covers as I could. And made two people by the last two. ORDER IT! HUNT IT DOWN! IT IS AMAZING!!! @benito-cereno

[centaurianthropology]

Victor Frankenstein (1957): The Could-Have-Been Tumblr Sexyman

Tonight I watched 'The Curse of Frankenstein', the first of the Hammer Horror Frankenstein series, and all I could think was that if this film had come out more recently than the late 1950s, Victor Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) would have been the absolute lust object of the best and most unhinged Tumblr-goers.

Look at this man. He is elegant, he has a thousand great Victorian-era outfits. He has cheekbones for days and pretty blue eyes. He's tall and thin as a rail. He exudes a palpable aura of superiority and bitchiness at all times.

GIF Credit: @doctor-frankenstoned

GIF credit: @docandbat

GIF credit: @theolikeworld

But all this gentlemanliness is a facade, barely covering the feral wet-possum-man hidden underneath. He's twitchy, he's weird. He has absolutely crazy blue eyes. He's obsessed with SCIENCE.

GIF credit: @petercushings

GIF credit: @jihyo-x

He's committed unspeakable crimes! So many crimes, and is constantly one scene away from being roughed up (mostly choked, because I swear the director of this movie had a thing about Peter Cushing getting choked by Christopher Lee ... it happens a lot).

GIF credit: @theolikeworld

GIF credit: @petercushings

GIF credit: @atomic-chronoscaph

He is absolutely, undeniably a freak and a monsterfucker.

He would be cancelled a thousand times. He is the absolute worst. A terrible human being. He would be so many people's Problematic Fave(TM). He would have so many Tumblr-goers cheering on his crimes and hoping he gets worse. And he would! For multiple slutty, slutty sequels.

GIF credit: @lonelyzarquon

GIF credit: @lonelyzarquon

And he was played by a genuinely sweet actor who adored his wife, liked painting miniatures, and was very open about being best friends for life with his looming, 6'5" oft-costar (who another large chunk of Tumblr would be absolutely feral about, but that's another story for another day).

Truly one of the great losses of the passage of time (and the fact that the Hammer Horror flicks really do take a certain sort of taste to actually enjoy), is that Peter Cushing's Frankenstein doesn't get his moment as the Tumblr It Girl of some fabulously-dressed, unhinged, crime-filled, bitchy Halloween season.

[strejdaking]

^42J.@C=ePJ5

[goth-queen]

[hollowboobtheory]

I support the "fiction isn't real so nothing matters" mindset but tbf at a certain point it can tip over into "the curtains are just blue" territory

[hollowboobtheory]

like yes actually there is a conversation to be had about how a characters actions are framed and how they thematically fit with the rest of the story and it can in fact reflect the author's beliefs. some authors are even trying to make a point

[hollowboobtheory]

not all depiction is glorification but sometimes it is and you need to be able to tell the difference. not because your immortal soul will be tainted by reading The Bad One, but because you need to have reading comprehension skills

[hollowboobtheory]

peer reviewed

[hollowboobtheory]

[smuganimebitch]

in terms of symbolism, since Hades is a representative of death, and Persephone is a representation of spring, it makes perfect sense to try to recontextualize their relationship as consensual and collaborative

[smuganimebitch]

"recontexulizing Greek myth in order to have them conform to the current culture's values and norms" is one of the most common things we do to them! 18th century romantics did it, medieval Christians did it, the Romans did it, even Greeks did it again and again to their own myths

the idea that the specific depictions of myths we happen to have archeological records of are the "true" myths and everything else is a bastardization flies in the face of how humans actually engage with myth, the Greek gods (and other pantheons too) are a stable of highly symbolic and evocative characters

[smuganimebitch]

Honestly when people kick up a stink about this, I read "You guys are playing with these dolls wrong, and this is important because the dolls are Very Old"

[strejdaking]

I get not liking fandomnization of myths, but it feels to me like that's exactly what they're doing, they just make mythological characters their fandom blorbos.

At some point, it's like being mad Prince Charming and the Fairy Godmother are villains in Shrek.