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Do we all know what week it is? Weird Al and George do. #BannedBooksWeek

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It is that time of the year again. Weird Al and George RR Martin and some weird English bloke who used to write some comic book say READ BANNED BOOKS. READ BANNED COMICS. And support your libraries.

I thank you.

neil-gaiman

Guess what week this is? It is that week again…

wendydarling823

Queuing this up for Banned Books Week

#Banned Books Week #neil gaiman #weird al yankovic

Just love yourself.

How do I do that? What does that look like? I keep myself fed, clothed, employed. I buy myself little treats, I wander around Target after a hard day. I take care of myself.

But love?

Love the shy, scared little girl who couldn't make friends so she just became the tattletale?

Love the bastard child with no father who was seen as weird by the family she did have?

Love the little girl who learned very early that her feelings didn't matter, so when she was abused she didn't talk about it because who would care?

Love the body that outgrew childhood before the mind did, that ate to fill an infinite hole and then was told she maybe needed a lock on the pantry because she lacked self control?

(of course she did, you never taught it to her)

Love the body that looks like the pictures on the fridge a starving woman puts up to keep herself out?

Love the body that no one wants to touch, or make clothes for?

Love the body that women would rather die than be?

Love the adult woman who, at this point, doesn't even bother cleaning the mud off herself because she's only going to get pushed down in it again tomorrow?

Tell me, how do you love that?

#me

the-birth-of-art

Happy Labor Day

#labor #international workers day #may day

fuckyeahanarchistposters

Graphic by Wren McDonald

#labor #international workers day #may day

abigailcowen

Turning Red (2022) + 2002-era details (source)

rammyrue

Referring to these like historical details is doing me psychic damage mate

broken-horn-of-equius

Do you know how long it’s been since i’ve seen the words “T9 text message”?

wendydarling823

And Tyler the jerky kid is dressed like 90's/00's hip hop style including the Nelly bandage on his face!

#turning red #the 90s #the 00s #pop culture

#dash did a thing #hellsite #tumblr

elencaorange

Twitter

unicornempire

This is some truth laid down right here boy.

quasi-normalcy

Millennials have essentially been forced into a perpetual teenagerhood by socioeconomic circumstance, we desperately want to grow up, and we’re worried that we’re running out of time to do so

loryer496

interestingly, i feel like the opposite - i’ve grown up, unwillingly and unprepared to do so, and i want more time to figure my shit out before i’m ready to be seen as an adult. i’m almost 36.

sufficientlylargen

Oh man, I know that feeling.

I’ve seen a lot of older people scoff at the word “adulting”, but pretty much everyone my age or younger that I’ve talked to about it knows exactly what it means and feels it keenly, and I wonder if on some level this is because many older people think of “adult” as just an age category - one you’re in your twenties you’re an adult, by definition, and so anything you do is “adulting”, also by definition. But to our generation and younger ones, there are a bunch of things we associate with adulthood; it varies based on culture, socioeconomic status, etc. but everyone I know seems to have at least one thing that they think of as an “adult” thing - maybe having a steady job, or owning a car, or having time to go big with your hobbies, or having the energy for activism, or raising 2.5 kids in a nuclear family with a white picket fence in the suburbs, or even just going grocery shopping regularly instead of “in a panic because you’re out of toilet paper” - that they not only don’t have, but can’t even really imagine having.

And so we need the word “adulting” so we can separate “doing the things adults are supposed to do” from “being old enough to be an adult”, because by age we’re obviously all adults as nouns but most of us can’t fully adult as a verb, so maybe we’re not actually adults? Or maybe we’re “fake” adults, because a REAL adult would have organized their life by now and would be adulting all the time with ease, because adulting is just, by definition, all the things you’d do if you were a real adult.

wendydarling823

I'm 36, I have a career, a (tiny) retirement account, no debt, insurance. I still feel like damned teenager who is trying very hard to fit in with the grown ups but is wishing she was back at the kids table

#adulting #temporality #growing up

marinella-ela

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wendydarling823

Maybe stop jumping in the damn holes!

#spotted skunk #never knew these existed #animals

forgotn1

I'll never understand why Disney is so focused on live-action remakes when they literally own the rights to the Muppets. I would take a Muppet remake of a Disney Animation classic over a live-action remake all day every day.

You can't tell me Muppets Fantasia wouldn't be the greatest crossover event of our lifetimes. Muppets Black Cauldron would SLAP.

#finally someone said it #Muppets #Disney #remakes

Recurring dream themes:

Teeth crumble and fall out, teeth fall out whole, or there a large amount of food/gum in my mouth and no matter how many times I spit it out, more appears. Clearly this is about communicating.

I'm trying to steer a car from the passenger or back seat. Or I'm trying to steer a non vehicle (like a mattress, carpet, one of those PE scooters) on a treacherous highway. This is about being in control of my present and future, and how hard it feels to get anywhere.

Lately, it's about an apartment. I live in a building and my unit is hard to reach, or there's people in other, more lavish units that I can't get to, or I live in the top unit, someone else lives in the bottom, but there's a middle floor connected to both of us. It's supposed to be my space, but due to structural issues I can't actually live there. Or I can't get to the 2nd floor of my own unit for the same reason. I want more space, that space is already there, but I can't access it without fear of the floor caving in. If I tried moving to a new place, they're all smaller and more expensive than even the area I can safely occupy. Still mulling these over

#me #journal #dreams #dream interpretation

weaver-z

CLAIRES IS REAL????

Wait. Hold on. Do you mean to tell me that you thought Claire's, the real store, was some mass gaslighting effort by residents of the USA

weaver-z

@danwylds PLEASE tell me what other businesses you think are made up I'm so curious

thelovers-thedreamers-and-me

#claires #the comments are gold #USA #chains

Usually when my dream has a father in it, it's something like my mother has been lying to me and telling me my father was one guy when it's a different one, or dating someone and revealing him as my father, or telling me it's someone I've know all along.

Last night was a new one. There was a wedding my aunt or someone, and my father was coming into town for it. He wasn't someone I saw often, but we had a relationship and he and I were glad for this chance to spend some time together. He had to pick up a cousin of mine on the way, and he seemed annoyed that we would have this third wheel hanging around. He was gruff, demanding, and seemed rude to a lot of people, but he was sweet and patient with me.

Growing up with no father figure at all, two short-lived stepfathers, and useless uncles, it all made me view men with no attachment or trust. Had I ever been able to depend on a man to care for me when I was a kid, how might I have ended up?

#journal #me #dream interpretation

beggars-opera

I don’t know if I can contain my “The Muppet Christmas Carol has better costume design than most Oscar-nominated period dramas” rant until after Thanksgiving you guys, I have…so many Thoughts

beggars-opera

Ok, buckle up kids.

Basically they did not have to go as hard as they did here. A Christmas Carol covers 60 years of fashion through flashbacks and they still manage to do nearly everything right.

I’m mainly going to be talking about the human actors here because it’s harder to judge Muppet costumes proportionally, but those costumes are still on point 90% of the time.

First off, A Christmas Carol was published in 1843, and anyone who knows me knows I love the absolute train wreck that was mid-19th century men’s fashion. Do you like plaid? GOOD, BECAUSE IT’S ALL PLAID. Mixed with whatever else your little Victorian heart desires, color schemes be damned. Go wild.

This of course means I absolutely love Fred.

This outfit is hideous and it is also 1000% on point.

We also get to see him in a different outfit the next day, along with his wife and some friends.

First off, MORE PLAID, good for you. Second, I can literally find near-identical images of both these ladies’ dresses just by googling “1843 fashion plate”, I shit you not. To the damned year.

A good part of the story involves travelling through Scrooge’s life, so we get to see the costumes varying wildly over the course of several scenes. This was a time when styles were changing rapidly, and you had to keep up if you wanted to be fashionable and keep up appearances. Fashion changed so fast that you can often pinpoint an outfit to within a year or two like the ones above.

First, we go to Scrooge’s childhood school. Given the timeline that’s normally put forward Michael Caine is definitely not old enough to play Scrooge, but ignore that for now. Let’s say if Scrooge is 75ish in 1843, it’s about 1783 when we see him leaving school and going off to be an apprentice. We actually see a few years of Little Scrooge fashion, but it’s fairly standard stuff. Scrooge doesn’t have a super childhood and his clothing is pretty plain, but it’s totally on par for the time. Why this haircut though? It makes me sad.

Then we jump ahead a few years and it’s about 1789. The whole group is attending the Fozziwig Christmas party and have gotten tarted up like they’re about the storm the Bastille, including Gonzo and Rizzo.

Again, they look absolutely ridiculous and it is absolutely accurate.

Now, this is super ostentatious and a lot of people would have considered it way too French for their taste in this time period. But it definitely did happen (I’ve seen stripey bubblegum pink menswear in person) and like. It’s the Muppets. So, Rule of Funny.

Scrooge and Belle are dressed way closer to average Londoners of the time, and it’s worth noting that both are supposed to be somewhat poor. Fozzy pays everyone well but Lil’ Scrooge is still a skinflint and Belle is just getting by. They’re both looking darn good but their clothes are much more understated than everyone else’s and maybe even on the verge of out of style.

Even their hair is pretty good. Including his. Also, holy shit does this guy look like he could be a young Michael Caine. Like, he doesn’t actually look how Michael Caine looked when he was that age, but if I didn’t know that I would totally buy it. Wow.

Then we jump ahead another ten to twelve years or so. This is the period I know the least about, especially when it comes to outerwear, so Jane Austen stans please comment. I don’t think it looks too bad though.

Here’s a couple of fashion plates from 1801 and 1803 for comparison.

I’d also like to point out that there is a wide variety of costumes based on social class that we get to see in the 1843 “present” that you wouldn’t really notice. So while the Scrooge family that’s doing alright for itself is wearing the latest looks, the rest of the town is not. A few of the women in the crowd dancing around Scrooge during “It Feels Like Christmas” are wearing dresses a couple of years out of date. Not too far, but you can see some looks from the tail end of the 1830s before women started shrink-wrapping their sleeves onto their arms.

You can see something similar to these outfits from 1839 in the crowd.

Contrast this with Mrs. Cratchit, who is living in poverty and has put on her absolute best dress for Christmas; it’s silk but it’s ten years out of style.

This would have been the height of fashion in the early-mid 1830s.

And that’s important for making a world look real. Fashion was super important back then, but even so average people weren’t necessarily chucking their clothing out every year to keep up with the latest fashions unless they could really afford to. You would get there eventually, but you don’t want everyone in your universe, rich and poor, to look like they just stepped out of the latest fashion magazine.

It’s absolutely astonishing to me that they put so much effort into this. I don’t tend to go down the rabbit hole of nitpicking historical costumes in movies as much as some, but when a movie that you never expected does it very right it just throws me for a loop.

Was everything perfect? No, I don’t think any movie is. But this is the damn Muppets. They were under no obligation to do this. Add to that the fact that it’s one of the more accurate renditions of the story, to the point of including a ton of the original dialogue, both through the characters and through the narration, and they just created a masterpiece.

#muppet christmas carol #costumes #period clothing #historical fashion