wake up, puppet boy!

wes(ley) [he/they] [21] gay vampire connoisseur

[ouppygirlpaws]

🦠 #my crobe

[microraptorhours]

i love you archival work. i love you alphabetizing. i love you sorting. i love you reshelving. i love you document restoration. i love you shelf reading. i love you inventorying. i love you analysis. i love you archival work.

[contemptible-scoundrel]

fuuuck I could use a mysterious benefactor right now

[kushblazer666]

nothing pisses me off more than a proud “no msg!” label on something. shut up you dumb bitch put the msg back in there so it tastes good. idiot

[furby-teeth]

silly guys

[devyat10]

[tickfleato]

tubi is an incredible streaming platform you'll go on there and they have like, classic who, and blue velvet, and a fuck ton of silent films, and columbo, and the donnie darko directors cut. And then they also have ants on a plane. Folks they have the hit movie ants on a plane

[alien-theory]

Alien Covenant (behind the scenes)

[gaycatdad]

She should be at the club

[rederiswrites]

Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

It's rude.

[to-wallow-in-insignificance]

if herbert west has 100 fans i am one of them. if herbert west as 1 fan i am that fan. if herbert west has no fans then i am dead but dont worry about it because i will be back in a second

[donniehaspronouns]

it makes me so sad seeing people in my life who tell me they think they might be trans but they’re too scared to confront that reality because the transgender experience just seems to be filled with terror and misery. trans people please never stop talking about the joys of being transgender. please never stop talking about your excitement and joy and happiness. maybe you think that the trans experience is all doom and gloom, too. I promise it’s not. focus on the joy and you will feel better I promise.

[lizlemondyke]

it’s funny cuz it’s true

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Tweet from bobo the clown (@/ bobo_circus) reading: the concept of character actors is so funny like. hollywood had to come up with a term to differentiate hot people and people who are good at acting /End ID]

[fredersen]

if it’s called house of leaves why don’t they just “leave” the “house?” are they stupid? ¹

¹ “Is He Stupid? / Is She Smart? / Are They Stupid?” Know Your Meme, March 16, 2023. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/is-he-stupid-is-she-smart-are-they-stupid. The phrasal template "Is he stupid?" was popularized in February 2023, when reddit.com user "Encajado" posted an image to the subreddit r/BatmanArkham with the caption "Why doesn't Batman just call the Justice League for help? Is he stupid?"

[afklancelot]

fuck every House of Leaves theory except this one

[uhhh-ghouls007]

But you must feed

[dateamonster]

level 1: the lost boys is gay af

level 2: the lost boys follows a not uncommon horror movie trend where monstrous and villainous characters are associated with alt fashion or other counter-culture signifiers, which may also call to mind an association with queerness as it exists in conflict with cishet cultural norms. this, intentionally or unintentionally, helps to position queerness as an evil threat to the status quo in the minds of viewers. while a lot of queer people end up seeing themselves in these characters in a positive way, its inappropriate to talk about how cool gay vampires are without at least acknowledging the implications of this in relation to the long history of queer-coded villains in film.

level 3: the lost boys is actually all a clever subversion of the aforementioned trope; while on the surface michael is positioned as the classic disaffected youth, child of divorce (this and him being in the care of a single mother helping to introduce the idea that his vampirism ie latent homosexuality starts with this initial failure to uphold conservative family values), falling in with the wrong crowd who corrupt him and creates a rift between him and his family, the twist of the movie reveals that the vampire gang exists under the authority of the head vampire who himself has all the signifiers of the wholesome middle class all-american dad figure. this recontextualizes the queer-coding of the vampires from a gang of wild subversives to a group of kids who, like michael, were most likely struggling with some sort of instability in their home lives and were groomed into vampirehood by their sire, the symbol of the father they perhaps lacked. the precious but fragile unity that exists among these outsiders cannot survive, not because a more normative family structure has some special thing they lack, but because they are chasing an idea of family that despite their counter-cultural leanings hasnt been meaningfully disentangled from patriarchy, as embodied by their literal patriarch.

level 4: the lost boys is gay affffff

[gayhockeyshow]

Hey…. Hey… Characters covered in blood, okay? You remember characters covered in blood?? You used to love characters covered in blood