Dark Shadows sculptures

Plagued with chronic migraines, I became obsessed with Dark Shadows. I am a sculptor and moldmaker in the effects industry.

[evilbuildingsblog]

Imagine seeing this place with no prior knowledge of Christianity

[ilovecats4ever]

[funnypages]

When that cat does not want to move

[randomitemdrop]

Item: cat that can only be picked up by people it considers worthy

[nudityandnerdery]

Mjeowlnir.

[madgastronomer]

Mewmew

[thinksnake]

you LIFT Miette? you lift her like a hammer?

[dankmemeuniversity]

[youarealwaysenough]

Anyone who works a full-time+ job and either lives alone or in a situation where they're doing the majority of the household management: I'm so proud of you. However well or poorly you think you're managing this is the sign you're doing enough. This shit is hard. A no one is going to give you credit for how hard it is. No one notices a clean house, they only notice if it's dirty. But you're doing great, and it's okay to give yourself a break. You deserve it.

[cuntess-carmilla]

This deserves its own post:

The normal level of daily pain for an able-bodied person is ZERO, without needing to take pain medication, not even off-the-counter meds.

Not a little, definitely not enough to be "distracting but tolerable" with or without Tylenol. ZERO. (I'm shocked too every time I remember that the norm is to live pain free unless something happened to you, I know.)

If your baseline of unmedicated daily pain is above zero, you're dealing with chronic pain and you need to come to terms with that reality.

[cuntess-carmilla]

Babes, chronic pain is defined as pain that lasts over 3 months. That's it. Including pain that goes away but then inevitably returns. It doesn't have to be 100% persistent.

Stop scrutinizing and minimizing your own pain so much. It's not gonna help you OR the "actually" disabled/ill people you seem to think you'll offend by acknowledging your own suffering.

[exuberantocean]

...

I have no chronic pain from my condition but I do have chronic dizziness/fatigue and it just hit me how the same applies to that.

[sesiondemadrugada]

Judex (Georges Franju, 1963).

[willie-loomis-deserves-love]

So I was screencapping some things aaand…

I just…

I just can’t.

I don’t know what to do with this.

[barnabascollins]

how about this. is this what to do with it

[creepish]

me picking a scenario to fall asleep to: there’s nothing good on

[drst]

this post just came for my whole life what the hell

[noc10-moved]

*parts a bead curtain as i enter the room, carrying a glass of lemonade* 

hey….

nothing you ever read, watch, or participate in will be ideologically pure and without its problems. your quest to consume the most unproblematic material will be, in the end, fruitless. your enjoyment of anything will be sapped away, leaving you a husk starved for media.

 it is okay to enjoy things that have problems to them, so long as you do it critically and with an open mind, and take care to consider others.

*leaves the way i came*

[more-witches]

This is possibly the healthiest post I’ve seen on this site

[eroscestlavie]

w. h. auden, marginalia

[lesbianhallieparker]

THIS IS THE CUTEST SHIT IVE EVER SEENNNN

[memesandlaughs]

[the-silent-screamer]

All I’m seeing is a well paying job with good customers

[prismatic-bell]

Also?

MANY religions worldwide would consider this a solemn and respected post of work. Every form of paganism I have personally run across would say you’re doing an important duty. In Judaism, we’d say you’re fulfilling a Mitzvah by respecting the dead and honoring their memories.

If you go in with good intentions, any spirits still hanging around WILL NOT HURT YOU. Just show them respect.

[ruffboi-mags]

Also seriously that’s nearly $17k a MONTH. I’ve had jobs where I didn’t earn that in a YEAR.

Even if those ghosts ain’t friendly, I am full-on taking that job. $200k a year. $200k a fuckin year. No retail, no food service, no manager hovering and riding my ass, no annoying coworkers? I’ll deal with the ghosts.

[queer-lemons]

i’d take ghosts over people any day <3

[lady-byleth]

Fresh air, no sitting in an office, no customer service, just me and a bunch of gravestones and maybe Maria from three graves down having a hissy? For that money, what’s not to like?

[sindri42]

Plus like, what ghost is gonna decide ‘yes today I will take horrible vengeance on the person who quietly and respectfully keeps the plants tended and the headstones clean’. Whoever they’re gonna fuck with, it’s not gonna be me.

[basedyatsuhashi]

Fr tho, since when have you ever heard of the graveyard keeper being the one haunted? It’s always the dumbass who doesn’t listen to their advice that gets got.

[wakandama2]

Me and Miss. Johnson sharing some gossip while I tend to the rose bush her lover planted next to stone last year.

[matresist]

Capitalism is already a game played by rich motherfuckers to see just how much of your soul you’re willing to sell to put food in your mouth and a roof over your head. What’s a ghost or two compared to some of the other shit that I’ve had to do? Haunted? Fuck. It’s probably just a bunch of folks still upset about wasting their lives trying to warn you not to waste yours too. 

[takethekeyandlockherup]

My Brain: man I miss tumblr! Why did we ever leave?

My Laptop: impersonating a Bowing 77 trying to take off, showing page upon page of colorful gradients.

My internet connection: Look upon my workings and despair.

[smackattack101]

Dark Shadows (1966-1971) Plot Synopsis

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

“kids these days are always on their phones, kids these days never go outside” ok how about kids these days have less freedom of movement & access to public spaces than any previous generation, forcing them indoors, forcing them to rely on electronics, when many would prefer to be outdoors hanging out with friends

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

this isn’t about the pandemic btw, this trend has been going on for like. 20 years now. it started with millennials and gen Z only has it worse

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

kids these days:

less unstructured time than ever, constant ‘extracurricular’ obligations cutting into time spent socializing, exploring, relaxing.

more supervised than ever, not allowed to take public transport or spend time alone in public spaces (previously the norm for teens and pre-teens, until media sensationalism made hypervigilance the norm). not allowed to be around peers except when adults are available to supervise/drive.

(despite the fact their parents are working more than ever? bc our whole culture around employment is abusive and exploitive. fewer and fewer families can afford to have parents at home, even as kids are allowed to do less and less without adult around.)

capitalism run amuck + defunding of parks, libraries, etc means it costs money just to exist in public, which is fucking nuts. (it also costs money just to get to public spaces. our world is less walkable than ever and public transport programs are constantly sabatoged. no wonder that some kids are desperate to get their driver’s permit–at extra expense and risk.)

and when kids do try to spend time away from home, they gets accused of loitering???

you’ve built an environment composed of nothing but soulless strip malls and chain coffeeshops, and decreed that kids who spend time there are a “nuisance.” literally where the FUCK else are they supposed to exist? at the libraries you closed on weekends? at the parks & sports fields you stopped funding, the woods you tore down, the backyards that get smaller with every development? at the movie theaters & arcades & restaurants they can’t afford? on the streets they cannot drive on, on the sidewalks that lead nowhere, and where you have banned bicycling & skateboarding & rollerblading & existing for any length of time?

kids these days want to spend time outside, time in public, time hanging out with friends in person. kids these days do not want to constantly rely on the internet as their main source of socialization & leisure. but you have stolen all their options.

you have locked an entire generation indoors and thrown away the keys, and you have the audacity to complain that the prisoners spend too much time in their cells.

[countesspetofi]

Also, speaking for Generation X, not all of that time we spent being left to our own devices and ignored by our parents was necessarily that good for us. Like, it would have helped my emotional growth and mental health immensely if I’d had some confidence that the adults in my life gave half a damn about me.

[takethekeyandlockherup]

I feel this so hard.

I grew up as the only lower middle class kid in a fancy neighborhood.

Once you hit a certain age- you’re not allowed to be anywhere.

People would try to escort me off the premises when my mom dragged me shopping and left me somewhere to wait for her. I looked like ‘an urchin’ in my secondhand clothes.

The bottom really dropped out when they closed all the major Bookstores, and the one surviving comic book store made a new policy that you weren’t allowed to read the books or sit down.

I used to have to invent elaborate cons pretending to be with some adult to be allowed to use a bathroom downtown.

[cryptcatz]

i cannot believe it is 2021 and a bizarre portion of abled ppl STILL seem to believe that all wheelchair users are paralyzed and if they have any use of their legs they are OBVIOUSLY faking

the concept of part-time wheelchair users isn’t that hard to understand what is up with y’all

[countesspetofi]

SO MUCH THIS.

And the same goes for visual impairment/low vision. I wish I had a nickel for every person I’ve encountered who cannot grasp the fact that there are many shades of gray between having normal vision and being totally blind.

Back on the topic of mobility/stamina, I used to spend a lot of time on theme park forums, and so many jackasses don’t get it that a person’s day-to-day life may be manageable without a mobility device, but walking ten miles around a park in a single day is only possible with one.

And on the other side of the coin, you get people saying things like, “A wheelchair won’t help me in the park because it’s just as painful to sit for long periods.” Like, what do you think, the seat is covered in Krazy Glue so you can’t get back up and walk around when you need to? 

[takethekeyandlockherup]

I have migraines that mainly effect one eye- giving it visual static- photophobia and intense pain. So sometimes I wear an eyepatch- and I do run into people who seem fucking pissed at me like- you better have no eyeball under there, or you’re just doing this for attention.

[ladyphibes]

[forthegothicheroine]

So many questions…