The Dupsha Dove

A blog about...stuff. Blogabble stuff. Stuff that I like to blog about. White. Bi. She/Her.

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[homunculus-argument]

2026 roommate: The dishwasher's loaded. 1926 roommate, having a black coffee, a cigarette, a shot of whiskey, two uppers and a downer for breakfast: Then what the fuck's he washing dishes for?

[annabellioncourt]

Hello from your local graveyard lurker and 19th century tourist. Quiz time!

which one of these 19th century men, in a fit of greif and possibly alcohol, broke open the crypt and coffin of their wife who died young of something that you can probably buy a cure to at CVS today?

Edgar Allan Poe

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Herman Melville

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Walt Whitman

Henry David Thoreau

Charles Brockden Brown

Thomas Read

idk/you told me this irl already. twice.

Voting ended on60m

[thedupshadove]

Keeping my eye out for similarities between Miles Naismith and Mike Nesmith.

[feldfrog]

Imagine being one of the parents for the kids in the Magic School Bus class. Getting those field trip permission slips home every single night.

Like what, another one? Doesn’t she teach? This just says Inside a Dog

[asimovsideburns]

Ms Frizzle sending you one (1) permission slip at the beginning of the year to cover all the field trips and you’re like huh that’s a little unusual but I guess it’s efficient at least and then you open it and it’s written like This

[bigscaryd]

Alternatively, it shows up right at in the middle of summer, when kids are being assigned to classes for the next year. It's 75 pages and titled WAIVER AND RELEASE OF LIABILITY. It is exhaustive and specific. You are required to waive liability for both "illness" and "microbiological assault." The jurisdictional and choice-of-law provisions specifically waive applicability of the Outer Space Treat et seq., and the Antarctic Treaty and states that no claims will be made to the International Seabed Authority.

[aleshakills]

Is there a word for occupying the space where normies think you're a freak and freaks think you're a normie?

[aleshakills]

I tell a woman with a 9 to 5 office job about the slightly niche speculative fiction novel I just finished and she goes "Oh, that's...interesting. I hadn't heard of that."

I tell a grungy chick I met at a dive bar about the same book and she kinda scoffs and goes "Okay" like I said my favorite show is Sesame Street

[thedupshadove]

Hypothesis: The kinds of books that make people say this are another example of "Lots of authors wish they could be making a movie."

[thedupshadove]

Because see, if the Vibes™ (by which I here mean the combination of costumes, set design, cinematography, soundtrack/soundscape, and performances) are good enough, you actually can make a film where nothing much happens and people will accept it. You can just immerse people in a place and a mood that you create. But fewer than one author in a hundred is good enough at prose and description to achieve the same thing with words alone that filmmakers can achieve with visuals.

[thedupshadove]

Hypothesis: The kinds of books that make people say this are another example of "Lots of authors wish they could be making a movie."

[thedupshadove]

Do you suppose a K-Pop group playing extra hard to the western market will ever release an album called Rubber Seoul?

[docholligay]

I know there's a lot of particularly lady blorbo feelings in the realm of "she wouldn't like kids" as a response to the easy, sometimes lazy tie up of "blorbo has kids and is a great mother" but consider the other options of:

She likes kids! But doesn’t want kids, and so doesn't have them.

She doesn't like kids broadly, but she does like hers.

She's an awful fucking mother who never should have had kids who didn’t like or want them but had them anyway.

She desperately wanted to have children but it didn't work out.

She didn't have kids or particularly want them but she's a good stepmother.

So many options that vary in domesticity but aren't a black and white "loves/wants/has kids vs hates/doesn't want/doesn't have kids".

I know all of these women by the way! The feelings around this can be much more complex! This isn't even me arguing against your blorbo hating kids it's just 'noooooo don't buy into a false binary you're so sexy!"

[forthegothicheroine]

Miss Piggy would be great as Penelope because human men keep finding her really attractive and she would enjoy stringing them along until Kermit came home and then violently chucking them out.

[forthegothicheroine]

via @thedupshadove

#Also if you go back to the original Muppet Show#even though Kermit would usually reject her advances toward him#he tended to get snippy whenever she got flirty with a guest star/a guest star got flirty with her#so he would participate in the throwing-out of the suitors. In my opinion.

[forthegothicheroine]

Imagine Kermit making The Face, flapping his arms and yelling "Get out!"

[thedupshadove]

I think the phrase he used was "Would you get out of here!?"

[forthegothicheroine]

Miss Piggy would be great as Penelope because human men keep finding her really attractive and she would enjoy stringing them along until Kermit came home and then violently chucking them out.

[unusual-suspects]

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[findafight]

Beneath the Golden Willow by Ed Perkins

[thedupshadove]

One thing I would like to see more of in Orphan Narratives is the child protagonist choosing their adoptive parents in the same way, and with much of the same underlying emotions and calculations, that an Austen protagonist chooses a husband.

[thedupshadove]

"Society won't allow me to be alone, or to take care of myself. I need to be paired with someone like you if I'm going to survive. But once we're paired, you'll have a terrifying level of power over me. Whether or not I want to be paired with You Specifically is the only meaningful choice I can exercise, and I can't afford to exercise it lightly or impulsively. It's necessary, but not sufficient, that I love you. I also need to trust you, and respect you, and believe that you respect me. And I need to have seen enough of you, in enough different circumstances, and not just see how you treat me but also how you treat others, that I can make that decision with confidence."

[thedupshadove]

One thing I would like to see more of in Orphan Narratives is the child protagonist choosing their adoptive parents in the same way, and with much of the same underlying emotions and calculations, that an Austen protagonist chooses a husband.

[thedupshadove]

"Society won't allow me to be alone, or to take care of myself. I need to be paired with someone like you if I'm going to survive. But once we're paired, you'll have a terrifying level of power over me. Whether or not I want to be paired with You Specifically is the only meaningful choice I can exercise, and I can't afford to exercise it lightly or impulsively. It's necessary, but not sufficient, that I love you. I also need to trust you, and respect you, and believe that you respect me. And I need to have seen enough of you, in enough different circumstances, and not just see how you treat me but also how you treat others, that I can make that decision with confidence."

[thedupshadove]

One thing I would like to see more of in Orphan Narratives is the child protagonist choosing their adoptive parents in the same way, and with much of the same underlying emotions and calculations, that an Austen protagonist chooses a husband.

[greatwhitecarcharodon]

he doesn’t know it but russell crowe’s dream job is playing the king at a renaissance festival. horseback riding. grand monologues. silly little outfits. a fuckass accent. leading the tavern in a singalong. unlimited beer on tap. nobody gets to speak to him unless they make it through his entourage. putting people in the stocks. getting put in the stocks himself.