Dust and Grave

The best scene in Nosferatu 1922, sound remastered because i felt that we had to have this

Me sneaking into the kitchen at 3:42 to eat leftover pasta

turn on sound and you’ll see what i mean

Scooby fan or not, you have to admit the backgrounds in Zombie Island looked amazing <3 

The creature who fell in love with the light

[Watercolor and gouache, based on ‘The Fog Horn’ by Ray Bradbury]

Shout out to people with auditory processing disorder!!!

what?

*holds up a sign that says “Shout out to people with auditory processing disorder!!!”*

*before the sign is fully up* Oh! Thank you for the support!!!

Love this so much

Petition to bring back the boop function next year for the ides of March where instead of a paw on the screen it’s a little knife that Caesar gets stabbed with

LGBT Person: "I lost friends when I came out as LGBT."

Trump Supporter: "And? You can't force people to be your friend. If you're living a lifestyle that goes against their beliefs, they have every right to stop being your friend. You have your freedom, and they have theirs. So stop complaining."

Trump Supporters: "I can't believe people don't want to be my friend anymore when they find out I'm a Trump supporter. People are so hateful. How did this happen?"

Also Trump Supporters: "Women don't want to fuck me just because I think If I get them pregnant I have control of their body. This is so unfair."

Watching this review of a restaurant in rural Minnesota that was a combination restaurant and haunted house. It had Frankenstein, Dracula, and other monsters just wandering around. All of the monsters had their own lairs you could eat in, too

This is from 1977, the year Dino's Other World opened; it burnt down in 1981, according to the uploader, and the ground is now a waste treatment tank

"There are creatures lurking around...that startle you."

"Ugh, I wish I could've been at Woodstock."

Well I wish I was getting beset by Draculas while eating an affordable burger in rural Minnesota in 1977. We are not the same

Me: WHY DIDN'T I KNOW ABOUT THIS??? *reads further* Oh, because it burned down when I was 3.

BORN TOO LATE!!! (Also. Monticello is not rural; it's a reasonably sized town on the Interstate between Minnepolis and St Cloud.

Afaik Monticello was a lot smaller at the time (under 3,000 residents in the 1980 census, versus 14,000 today). Or at least I remember someone saying that about this where I found it

That building! Everything was authentic Victorian era fixtures & decor. Of course it made a perfect haunted house.

It's clear the owners thought their operation through: the monsters never talk, never jump scare anyone, avoid children unless approached. I love the way they interact with guests.

There's no way those blatant copyright violations would fly today. I'm surprised they got away with it in 1977. Or maybe somebody at Universal did notice by 1981 and instead of a franchised Dino's in every city the owners complied with the Cease & Desist via arson?

Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke, the youngest MP in Aotearoa, starts a haka to protest the first vote on a bill reinterpreting the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi

Goes insanely hard

To provide further context from what I understand the bill wanted to take the rights guaranteed to the Maori in said treaty and expand them to all New Zealand citizens. The issue with that is that it sort of defeats the point of the protections of the treaty.

The Treaty of Waitangi is not even that good of a treaty. But it is better than any treaty the Crown signed with indigenous peoples

And it absolutely was not meant to be

The treaty as written screws over Māori, and was written in Te Reo Māori and English with deliberately misleading translations to Te Reo Māori. I'm not an expert by any means, but basically the Te Reo Māori version has clauses that promise much more independence and sovereignty, while the English version does not

However

The English version promises them rights as Citizens

From what I remember from University 10+ years ago, this clause, this sentence, was added last minute by the writer of the treaty. Like, right before the big signing at Waitangi.

And the Crown was PISSED

Because now they had a legally binding document that promised, in their own language, to treat Māori with the same rights as they would English. Which was absolutely not the goal. The goal was to trick Māori into signing away their lands and that honestly still did happen. The treaty was not a good faith proposal by the Engliah.

But its still better than anyone else got, and it's better than no treaty. And because nowadays we can't just ignore the Te Reo Māori side of the treaty, the government's of the past few decades have been honouring Māori sovereignty, honouring their stewardship of the land, and undoing a lot of the bad faith "sales" or straight up stolen land.

Except our current fuck nuggets, who want to make Te Reo Māori an endangered language again, and steal back that land because they want to mine on it and sell it and they hate that Māori stewardship is so environmentally focused and not profit driven.

So, in a way, the current government is more true to the intentions of the Crown who initially came up with the treaty.

But since those guys were colonising bastards, I don't see "honouring" them as anything good.

Even with criticism of the treaty, without it, Māori would lose a lot of protections to their lands, their culture, their language, and as a country we would go backwards to a time when they were even more discriminated against

Toitū te tiriti

Uphold the treaty

Awww shit yall know what it is

Why bird do this?

Woodcocks and a few other species have mastered this bounce-step in order to trick worms and other Arthropoda into thinking rain has come by sending rhythmic vibrations through the soil as they walk. Many bugs surface during heavy rainfall to avoid drowning, hence why the sidewalks are always littered with earthworms during and after a storm.

If you walk with rhythm you will attract the worm.

No fucking way

Eight of Cups and The Devil

Here's a path labeled "Good Intentions." Let's go that way.

I've added some new stuff to Etsy!

Prints of my Bublbee Pup, fridge magnets and stickers!

parents got a new cat they named lord montague and this morning i heard my dad in the other room say "i would have to advise against that decision, my lord" followed by a crashing sound

LMFAO

really enjoyed the imagery of this post..

I read Bunny by Mona Awad while recovering from surgery & it was SO cool! I had to make a mock-cover for it. 🐰🪓