Moth’s Domain

Dolly Tree (Costumer for The Thin Man 1934) appreciator. Taxpaying adult

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

My horny ass could never be a mechanical engineer

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

Really funny post to come across after dropping out. Damn. My horny ass couldn’t be a mechanical engineer

[charlemane]

i think the luckiest moment of my life - at least, the luckiest moment i'm aware of & can remember - was when i poured HOURS of wrist-grinding labor into nålbinding baby socks with no pattern & vague measurements pirated off a machine-made baby sock, and they turned out weirdly long and skinny. and then the baby was born with such weirdly long and skinny feet that the only socks that fit him were the ones i made. what a very specific little lottery to win.

[argumate]

the past decade has been incredible for the "finds global dysfunction hilarious" bitches and absolutely terrible for the "wants to see global progress bitches"; it's me, I'm bitches etc.

[pwhl-mybeloved]

[markovchaingang]

my lord. the two statues you commissioned are finally complete. yeah, the double-order with the vast and trunkless legs of stone and the shattered visage. i like to think we captured the sneer of cold command pretty well. it's a really thought-provoking piece my lord. very deconstructionist. i'm sure that even a traveller a thousand years from now could take one look at it and instantly recognise it must have come from an artistically enlightened culture

[tariah23]

Oh…. Well, it’s over for Crunchyroll I guess

[studentofetherium]

it gets worse: funi had an option to buy anime outright. but, it was bought digitally, and now CR has said that they're not going to honor that, so if you bought anything from funi digitally, CR are taking that away from you

[lastoneout]

This is absolutely insane but the part that I find funny is that there isn't a community on earth more dedicated to piracy than western anime fans. For ages the only way to even get your hands on anime and manga in the west was piracy. I literally don't think Crunchyroll could have picked a worse group to try the "we're a monopoly so we can charge you whatever we want" play on. I doubt there's a person over the age of 25 who saw that and thought anything other than "welp, okay, piracy it is then!" like honestly the Crunchyroll executives are out of their fucking minds with this one.

[scifigrl47]

What I think a lot of new fans miss is that... there used to be rules.

I have now run anime cons for 20 years. I got into anime in the period where the internet was rising, and legal access to this stuff was sparse, and generally limited to the biggest titles. I bought Fruits Basket on four. Separate. DVDs. I got each ON SALE for around 20.00. I paid EIGHTY PLUS DOLLARS for 4 DVDs of Fruits Basket.

But most of my early access was on blank DVDs with names and episode numbers written clumsily in sharpie. Handed over by friends, traded at con meetings, mailed to me by a friend via media mail. Fansubs and bootlegs, torrented and copied endlessly.

But there used those be a rule. A covenant. Unbreakable. Once a property was licensed, all illegal distribution stopped. Instantly.

The last episode of Fullmetal Alchemist I saw involved Hughes in a phone booth. The series was licensed right after that, and all access stopped. Fansubbers closed their listings, torrents dried up.

Because the end goal was licensing. We wanted nice, physical copies. We wanted professional, properly coded subtitles. We wanted an English Dub cast. We wanted to make anime a viable industry in the West.

So we bought Fruits Basket for eighty goddamn dollars.

So as I reach bitterly for my DVD burner yet again, it's time to remember. We upheld our part of the bargain. We bought it legally from them. We paid to see this industry grow and thrive.

We didn't break the agreement. They did.

[coralmarks-deactivated20170821]

these are my predictions for how the right wing will evolve in 2014

[coralmarks-deactivated20170821]

gonna resurrect this one last time just so everyone knows that i predicted gamergate

[teaboot]

if only “strange old mountain hermit” was a sustainable career

[teaboot]

Alas I enjoy indoor plumbing and have a beautiful baby son who deserves nothing less than luxury

[lakefama]

my queer men's birding club has been doing an art challenge where every month we draw a new bird as a human - these are my birds from the past four months!

[uristmcdorf]

@pride-knightess look what he did to your boy

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[hardrockerhippie]

At first i was like: why the hell is this on tumblr?! And then it suddenly made sense...

[ekjohnston]

This is incredible.

[unbossed-deactivated20251218]

“Nonviolence declares that the American Indians could have fought off Columbus, George Washington, and all the other genocidal butchers with sit-ins; that Crazy Horse, by using violent resistance, became part of the cycle of violence, and as “as bad as” Custer. Nonviolence declares that Africans could have stopped the slave trade with hunger strikes and petitions, and that those who mutinied were as bad as their captors; that mutiny, a form of violence, led to more violence, and, thus, resistance led to more enslavement. Nonviolence refuses to recognize that it can only work for privileged people, who have a status protected by violence, as the perpetrators and beneficiaries of violent hierarchy.”

— Peter Gelderloos, How Nonviolence Protects the State (via shephilosophy)

[galadriel1010]

Every time I have to use a non-UK plug socket I feel sorry for it. It's just a little guy. So weak and flimsy. I want to get back to my strong butch wife.

[disordersofresonanceandairflow]

[hugeconditions]

i think about this post so often

[gumi-megpoidd]

you're faking being into petplay and frotting for clout.

THATS WHAT YOU THINK IM FAKING????

[gumi-megpoidd]

[stitchposts]

[sovietpostcards]

Yuri Gagarin, the hobbyist photographer, at home with his wife.

[ghostedmarshmallow]

Yuri Gagarin being identified only as an amateur photographer and not literally the first human in space has me on the floor

[o-craven-canto]

[o-craven-canto]

This is a good reminder that there is a lot of texture and complexity to people; every human contains lots of aspects that would be completely unrelated if not for the fact that the same person experiences them. It’s easy to forget this, and compress the people you meet into a caricature; even celebrities usually end up being famous for one thing alone. But even something as glorious as the first space travel by a living human does not fully encompass a life.

This, too, is Yuri.

[booksandchainmail]

"the catholic church has a secret demon/vampire hunting branch" is pretty common in anime (see: blue exorcist, a certain magical index), but hellsing is the only show I've seen to take the logical next step of also having a branch of anglican secret vampire hunters

and they and the catholics hate each other and get into fights over who gets to kill vampires in northern ireland

[armengoldira]

[anonymoustypewriter]

That's the fucking whoville Christmas band contraption that drove the grinch to madness