I have no idea what I'm doing.

Sometimes I make art. And sometimes I do bloody zombie makeup. But that's the same thing, right? I am currently completely spiritually obsessed with Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein. It has me in its snares. Also have a great love for MMFR, OFMD, WWDITS, JTHM, WTNV, Fallout, and skeletons. My activity can be a bit sporadic. And I swear I will finish my writings eventually.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[debkorvelus]

I feel sorry for the old man, but it was stealing.  There is no apparently about it. Water is not free, it’s not a right to have it, and people pay must pay for it.  If a government gives a thing to you like utilities, its still not free because they take it from somewhere else, like in taxes.  

[nutsacktorturer]

[gigastacyy-deactivated20231011]

my friend visiting my house: hey i’m thirsty can i get a glass of water

me:

[stormesandshowers]

Nestle isn’t gonna fuck you

[asingularcanadian]

Also water IS a human right, it’s classified as one by the UN the only country that really disagrees with this is the United States

[ruffboi-mags]

I know this post is a few years old, but I stumbled on it and I just want to also point out… Even aside from water being free or not, even aside from water being a human right,

the old man wasn’t stealing.

He was using a neighbor’s water, that the neighbor pays for, with the neighbor’s permission. Nothing was stolen. The old man just wasn’t the one paying. If someone comes to my house and I let them charge their phone while they’re there, are they STEALING electricity because I’m the one who pays the electric bill? If I take someone out to dinner, are they STEALING their meal if I pay for both of us? Get fucked.

I hope that person has become a better kinder person since 2021, but I"m not holding my breath.

[lgbtculture]

I want my gay rights now! - Marsha P. Johnson (NYC Pride Parade, 1973)

[vinylsoul]

Now would you pray before you twist the knife? Yeah, would you take my hand and take a life? I'm too damn young to give up on the light I'm used to the darkness, I'm used to the darkness.

Little bit experimental editing that has been going on for a few days! I've figured some things out but wasn't able to put it here because video editing is an ass and graphic design is my passion (FALSE) (LIES) (UNTRUE). much love to the frankenstein 2025 fandom tho, more power to the freaks

TW / FLASHING, GORE

[27-orange-lily]

Vegeta's Pride ✊🌈 (read L⇒R)

Bonus me at Pride with my Vegeta sign under the cut

[kawuli]

random PSA, I know a lot of people use duckduckgo as a Google alternative search engine, but it always kind of annoyed me when I was using it because it felt like No Name Brand Google

I have switched to using Startpage.com and vastly prefer it. for one thing, instead of displaying an "AI summary" at the top of the search results (unless you turn it off, yes I know), it displays the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, with link, whenever it finds one that's relevant.

also a waaayyyyy better sense of design than duckduckgo

also private, European based, least annoying search I've used lately (RIP old "don't be evil" Google)

[yomikoreadsbooks]

Keeping a list of Google alternatives just in case…

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

i have one of those, scraped from multiple different rec posts:

Search Engines

Infinity Search is an alternative search engine with a special focus on privacy

DuckDuckGo is a popular search engine for those who value their privacy and are put off by the thought of their every query being tracked and logged. Uses bangs, ![site] for in-page search (sells your data to microsoft and draws from fucking bing)

WolframAlpha is a privately owned search engine that allows you to “compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase, and AI technology.” A data search engine.

Boardreader is a search engine for forums and message boards. It allows you to search forums and then filter down results by date and language.

Based in France, Qwant is a privacy-based search engine that won’t record your searches or use your personal details for advertising. Uses “&” as a bang search.

Another privacy-based search engine is Search Encrypt, which uses local encryption to ensure that users’ identifiable information cannot be tracked. Metasearch across multiple engines. 

Offering unbiased results from several sources, SearX is a metasearch engine that aims to present a free, decentralized view of the internet. Can be self-hosted. 

Gibiru’s tagline is “Unfiltered private search” and that’s exactly what it offers. Requires AnonymoX Firefox add-on for privacy. 

Disconnect allows you to conduct anonymous searches through a search engine of your choice.

Swisscows provides fully encrypted searches to protect your privacy and security. Built-in violence/porn filter cannot be overridden. 

MetaGer offers “Privacy Protected Search & Find” through its anonymised search. A plugin will allow it to be made a default.

Gigablast is a private search engine that indexes millions of websites and servers real-time information without tracking your data, keeping you hidden from marketers and spammers. Variety of filtration and refinement options for searching. 

Oscobo is a search engine that protects your privacy while you search the web. By not using any third-party tools or scripts, your data is protected from hacking and misuse. Has a Chrome extension to allow use in toolbar. 

https://search.marginalia.nu/ an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. Use old-school searching rather than query-based for the best results. 

https://www.mojeek.com/ 

https://wiby.me/ - It’s goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites. 

https://4get.ca/ it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn’t have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it’s the best for research, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can.

https://www.searchenginemap.com/ for more on how search engines relate to each other.

https://yep.com/ is a crawler

https://www.etools.ch/ retrieves from Google, Mojeek, Bing, and Yandex, like Searx

https://www.dogpile.com/ 

https://searxng.org/ (next gen Searx)

https://luxxle.com/ - possibly conservative?

https://presearch.com/ - good for academic?

https://kagi.com/smallweb - free/randomised Kagi.

Other Searchers

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free.https://cosine.club/ is an electronic music similarity search engine

[red-veril]

Welcome back to frankenkink discussion. In this essay I will

[katestewartt]

[nugulover69]

Klingon fujoshis love an only one bed (cold hard metal floor) scenario

[bocadelinfierno]

[aquilaofarkham]

happy pride month!!

[sergle]

are you guys hearing about this dude working to developing a vaccine for cats that he's hoping would like. theoretically double their lifespans?

[sergle]

turns out i wasn't making that up, his name is Dr. Toru Miyazaki! he also wrote a book called "The Day Cats Live To Be Thirty", so cats are kind of his thing.

apparently, cats' kidneys tend to be the thing that takes them down, something about their bodies being unable to self-clean their kidneys, and the vaccine is supposed revitalize the body's ability to do just that. It would be very VERY fucking cool to have cats suddenly reaching 30 years of age be the normal thing.

Could the macrophage-derived protein AIM save cats from kidney disease?

As they age, almost all cats develop kidney disease, from which they eventually die. Just as in humans, kidney disease i

Cat Kidney Disease Cure Nears Reality: Dr. Toru Miyazaki’s AIM Therapy

Dr. Toru Miyazaki’s AIM injection for cat kidney disease enters trials in 2025, aiming for a 2027 release. Greycoat Research supports the sc

[moki-dokie]

whoa wait i actually read the articles and it's so much cooler than just that!!

dude cracked the case about WHY kidneys fail, across the board as far as i can tell. turns out there's a specific molecule whose job it is to attach to waste and signal macrophages to come eat it. it remains inactive in cats for some reason, but the molecule is still there. basically what he's done is found the switch to activate them. this will be profound not only for our domestic babies, but for big cats too - especially cheetahs!

although his research was focused on cats, it's already being used to develop drugs for humans too!

on top of that, since these molecules are tags for waste, this could also dramatically lower the rate of fatty liver disease, liver cancer, urinary crystals, rheumatoid arthritis, and even some neurological cases! like, they're hoping it may have an impact on parkinson's and alzheimers, but it DOES have an impact on stroke recovery. like. holy shit.

furthermore, he's insisting that the feline drug be affordable if and when it rolls out onto the market. he wants this to be something anyone can get for their cat!! idk how much sway he'll have over the human drug, but hopefully enough that it, too, won't be that expensive.

annnnnd in his research that he's still doing for the human side of things, he's found a potential link between this molecule and estrogen. in the 20,000 samples he's tested, women between ages 10 and 29 had the highest amount of this molecule present in their blood (a higher amount means Something Fucky is going on, essentially. There's a higher amount of waste the body is trying to clean out) but it drops down to be almost equal amongst men and women after menopause. it hasn't been looked into yet, but fuck, just the fact it's noted and known and probably WILL be looked into soon??? imagine if this is what leads to figuring out all the various ways the ovaries and uterus fucks with people and how to fix it. or even like, maybe there's something about estrogen that makes it work better. who knows! but it's rad the link is there to be researched :D

man just think, not only could our kitties start living longer, healthier lives, but just maybe dialysis will become as rare and obsolete as the iron lung is for people. what a badass Dr. Toru is!

[fluxxdog]

"But I don't want to turn people into dinosaurs. I wanna cure kittie kidneys!"

[rorleuaisen]

Update: So they have done clinical trials and have submitted it for approval as of april 2026. They are expecting it to be available late 2026/early 2027

AIM Kidney Drug for Cats: 2026 Approval Update — How It Works, Efficacy & Expected Cost | Carelogy

The AIM protein drug for feline chronic kidney disease has been submitted for approval in Japan (April 2026). We break down clinical trial d

As for the study itself, the 360 day follow up on stage 3 kidney failure kitties showed that the control had a survival rate of about 20%, while the test group had a survival rate of 80%

New 2026 study: AIM protein boosts cat kidney disease survival from 20% to 80%. Discover how this scientific breakthrough is changing the fu

[idiomagic]

Our cat Scout is in the early stages of kidney disease. This might be available in time to save her!

[twiggzler]

Oh, this makes me happy. This will be available sooner than I thought.

[rogue-bard]

I for one refuse to accept a story, written by a rich and influential (for legal reasons sake alleged) rapist, that is telling us that, if we're being manipulated and traumatized by someone more powerful than us, the only way out is to kill ourselves.

Isn't that a convenient end for a story by Neil Gaiman lmao

[frankensteins-defense-lawyer]

I CALLED THIS SO HARD. And once I recognized the (unfortunately familiar) signature of NG’s emotional abuse in the Good Omens 3 script, I cannot unsee it. It’s plain as day to me now.

SPREAD THE WORD.

And for the record, I know his abuse and rape are “alleged”, but I read the famous lengthy article that went into such great depth on the events with extensive interviews of everyone involved. In this, his intentional manipulation of the associated victims is undeniable. The only question becomes to what extent he actually wielded that abuse, and… well, you can come to your own conclusions when presented with all the facts and testimonies in said article. I quickly went from a hopeful “he couldn’t have meant it like that” defender to a stout affirmer of his guilt. That’s it.

It’s especially recognizable to those of us who have personally suffered long term emotional abuse in a serious relationship, one we tried so hard to sustain before the writing on the wall finally became apparent after years of being subtly gaslit and manipulated into a corner.

If you disagree with this take on GO3, but have never personally experienced emotional abuse, please consider that it’s often very difficult to understand or recognize for what it is—it fooled us for years, after all—but the signs are there if you know what to look for. Please hear us out and consider we know what we went through, and would likely notice the first sign before others who have never been on the receiving end of such abuse before. We know the subtle signs, thanks to the related trauma the abusers saddles us with.

I see your gaslighting bullshit, NG, we know what you are. And clearly you’re not attempting to mend your ways. You’re an unrepentant rapist still trying to inflict abuse on GO fans in any way you can, and you’ve sullied not only yourself but Terry’s beloved characters with your vindictive directives and malicious message slipped into the GO script.

But I won’t let an emotionally abusive rapist take my beloved story or characters away from me. Fuck him. GO belongs to us now—a sentiment Terry would undoubtedly share.

@sailing-ships-for-profit

[muirin007]

Trying to nail down a Victor Frankenstein design I like! Very much had Harry Lloyd on the brain when noodling with these; he's got a spectacular face. (And I always forget he played a Viktor, albeit a slightly kinder one...mostly.)

As much as I love the idea of him with glasses, he's starting to look a bit too much like a particular kid wizard now backed by billions of dollars worth of bigotry with those on, so off they'll go in the next round.

Really want to hone in on something both sharp AND youthful, because he's only in his early 20s in the novel, and I especially want to emphasize his physical frailty, particularly when compared to Henry (and, you know...the Creature.) I did give a design with longer hair a go, but he looked a little too heroic, and that's Henry's job! Main things I want to stick to are:

Hair all over the place

Dark circles (as a lifelong dark circle-haver, regardless of how much sleep I get, we need some more representation, gdi)

Pointy! Ouch!

It's also very tempting to make him look explicitly villainous, which I think is a mistake. Because he does abominable things, but, as much as the Internet hates to hear this, he isn't a fully good or fully evil person--just like the Creature. Victor's not a GOOD person. But he's also not a cackling, mustache-twirling antagonist. That's what makes him so fascinating. He's EXASPERATING. He's insufferable and prideful and cruel and calculating.

He also comes from a genuinely messed up home life that he tends to idealize, and, let's be real with ourselves here...he's dealing with some pretty suppressed homoerotic FEELINGS that were NOT OKAY in the 18th century, so that'll make you act up.

One of my favorite things about this novel is all those morally gray areas, all the conflicting back-and-forths. Victor is arrogant and cowardly and monstrous for what he does to the Creature; he's also YOUNG and naive and genuinely does love those who he loves. When you remember how YOUNG he is canonically, it really explains a LOT.

[remnantglow]

looked a cool artist i found and instead of her actual art the first result google showed me was AI art made with her work. i hate it here!!!!!!!

[remnantglow]

well anyway. my discovery of the day is the art of Jeffrey Catherine Jones! she was a trans woman who painted a huge amount of fantasy & scifi cover art for books and magazines, among other things :)

[animentality]

[crimsonsoulpower]

Thinking about that Oscar Isaac interview where he says Victor abusing a newly born Creature doesn't register to him as hurting someone else, someone separate because he sees Creature as an extension of himself.

I wonder if Niall and Ruben see themselves causing hurt and pain in the other as another act of self sabotage rather than hurting a separate different person.

[this-is-trans-joy]

everyone loves to hate terfs until they realise that it actually entails rejecting bioessentialism entirely and then suddenly you’re “taking things too seriously” and you “don’t have a sense of humour” like i’m sorry but saying protect the dolls doesn’t make you immune to terfism it has seeped into every corner of mainstream feminism and unless you’re actively searching it out and checking your own biases you will always be at risk of sharing a space with terfs

[this-is-trans-joy]

“Only women can—” nope. “But all men—” nah. “The divine femininity of—” gonna stop you right there. “Everyone born ama—” if you finish that sentence I’ll kill you. “Men don’t experience—” you’re wrong. “Gender isn’t real but sex is imm—” *loud incorrect buzzer*

It also goes without saying that bioessentialism inherently can’t be trans inclusive no matter how hard you try. “All men including trans men—” probably not. “This is only a woman’s issue—” is it really? “Afabs only—” why? “All trans men are like—” what? what are they like? finish the sentence i dare you.