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Does a fandom for this thing even exist here? Oh well. Steela my beloved
the same philosophy that turns houses into homes applies to much much more btw
it applies to the books you mark and damage. it applies to the tub of ice cream you add sprinkles and syrup to. it applies to the stained pages of a journal and the sticker filled water bottles. the shoes you wore so many times they slip in easily now. every single thing sold as a product that we turn into something ours, not with money, but with life
there's this figurine of a lady wearing an outfit very loosely inspired by phantom of the paradise... my fellow contributor to the 50th anniversary zine @ciphersister redesigned it, and I thought it was cute so I drew my winslow wearing it
dungeon lords
There's something about seventies horror that reminds me of live theatre, actually. The sets and costumes are often cheap, and when it comes to period pieces, more 'inspired by' than accurate; the makeup is big and visible; even when the effects are really good, the blood is usually unnaturally red. The acting tends toward the broad and stagey.
And yet, it's also clear that realism is not the goal. Rather, the movie works to draw you in to a unified fiction, to get you to share in its nightmare. The best seventies horror I've seen has a dreamlike, Vaseline-lensed quality, a sense that it doesn't matter whether or not everything that happens in the movie is likely or even possible in real life. We've stepped outside of real life into a self-contained bubble with its own logic and its own sense, a dark fairy tale where the corpses of young girls might transmute into hares or eternally hungry floating heads, or the night of All Hallows might summon a stalking, unkillable masked evil from the past, or a ballet studio might be entirely controlled by witches. Even the lowest-budget, most exploitative Hammer flicks don't escape the touch of that dreaminess, that velvety, enfolding unreality. The movie suggests a world, and we, if we are wise, gladly succumb to the power of that suggestion.
Eighties horror, on the other hand, is all about the goo.
Common vampire bat <3
image description: close up of a reddish orange looking bat with a vaguely pit bull* look to it. image source: Jose Gabriel Martinez Fonseca
Common Vampire Bat (Desmodus rotundus) Whenever one says 'vampire bat', these are the bats that usually come to mind. Of the three vampire bat species, these are the ones that primarily lap up the blood of other mammals. They do not kill the animals whose blood they rely on, they make a small cut with their teeth and lap up the blood that wells in the cut until they are full, which is a small amount considering these vampire bats are only on average about 3.5 inches (9 cm) from nose to tail with a wingspan of 7 inches (18 cm).
*this is one of my favorite pictures of the common vampire bat because it reminds me so much of one of my dogs, a pit bull mix.
two little guys. srry if regular edgar looks inaccurate theyll look better when their not so large i promis..
Banging on the walls chanting "OPEN ENROLLMENT FOR ACA THRU JAN 15" like some deranged town crier. Election results aside, you have options to access healthcare as a RIGHT through the ACA. NO one can dismantle the Affordable Care Act in less than 4 years, so SIGN UP! GET YOUR CARE! USE THE SYSTEM!
You have options RIGHT NOW that will be stable thru the next year, the one after that, and I'd be shocked to see them shrink even the year after that. That means RIGHT NOW you can get signed up for next year to gain 100% covered preventative care (your annual check ups, pap smears, dental cleaning, vision check). You have the option to get checked and screened as you need, do NOT be dissuaded from exploring ACA choices. They are SOLID, LEGISLATED, and WORK BEST WHEN PEOPLE USE THEM.
I can't change most things around me, BUT I CAN tell everyone I know that THEY CAN GET LIFE SAVING CARE. THEY CAN GET PRESCRIPTIONS. THEY CAN GET PREGNANCY CARE. THEY CAN GET CANCER CARE. AND THEY WILL GET THAT CARE!!!!!!
SIGN UP BY DECEMBER 15, 2024 FOR COVERAGE TO BEGIN ON JANUARY 1, 2025. ENROLLMENT AFTER 12/15/24 WILL HAVE COVERAGE BEGINNING FEBRUARY 1, 2025.
When I read the story of Mohammed Alanqer ( @famousturtlebanana ) I was reminded of my own dear father, Christopher, and how much he protected me during my childhood, so I dedicated this poem to them both. There are more similarities between the Alanqar family in Gaza and my family in Australia than there are differences.
Mohammed was supporting his young family (wife Enas, and children Layan, Sarah and Adam) with a tech startup when war broke out in Gaza. During the war, young Amir was born.
His son Adam has hepatitis and his son Amir has blisters on his feet. He is struggling to provide food for his children because the prices of groceries in Gaza are so high, and there is no aid coming in.
You can help by donating to his GFM. If you cannot afford that, you can share this post. If you're a creative of any type, he would love you to create art for him.
His campaign is number #174 on el-shab-hussein and nabulsi's google doc as well as being reblogged by 90-ghost here
Tagging for reach
u know what fucking bless trans kids. bless trans kids who aren’t out and have to deal with being misgendered and misnamed at school all day and bless trans kids out are out and have to deal with transphobia at school and at home. bless trans kids who have to use the wrong locker room/bathroom and bless nonbinary kids who hate doing those gendered activities (ex. “all boys on one side all girls on the other we’re gonna play a game!!”) like fucking bless all of u u kiddos are so strong and i love u all it’ll get better
The Crocodile Mom
there's this figurine of a lady wearing an outfit very loosely inspired by phantom of the paradise... my fellow contributor to the 50th anniversary zine @ciphersister redesigned it, and I thought it was cute so I drew my winslow wearing it
found footage horror film
agitated girl: mike put the camera down
mike: He ha why its a home movey
hey reminder btw bc I'm already starting to see this I know we're all emotional and all
but do not discuss legally actionable things on tumblr
not " in minecraft" , not via slang, not Just Joking, not at all
absolutely plan what you're gonna plan but either (ideally) don't do it online or , if you must, use MUCH more secure means
something something summary line, just practice basic internet safety . in minecraft.
A reminder from the National Lawyers Guild: