#nostalgia sort of

[ceescedasticity]

Reportedly, my maternal grandmother's family was really into big, expansive Christmases with lots of gifts and she followed in that tradition; my maternal grandfather's family was not, and he was kind of irked by and disapproving of All The Stuff and only got more so over time.

My mother has for whatever reason combined the two into carrying out big, expansive Christmases with lots of decorations and gifts WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY disapproving of All The Stuff and being very ashamed.

[elodieunderglass]

Horror isekai where Perceiving the Weird Eldritch Thing gets you catapulted into a nightmare labyrinth of puzzle-solving.

I.e Those Who Perceive The Hunt of the Goblin King Must Partake In The Labyrinth and Can Only Be Freed If They Complete It In One Day and One Night. By Fae Law. For Reasons.

But the definition of “perception” clearly needs to be updated because some normal guy simply films the Hunt of the Goblin King Behind Arby’s, and puts it on Facebook -

No, not instagram or TikTok, it’s important that it be Facebook -

Because the rules are pretty clear, “the rules are the rules” as is carved ominously in elvish runes above the grim gate, and the Contract is Sealed. and so therefore the guy and 25 of their most random real-life acquaintances must run the gauntlet together. It’s Some Guy, their immediate neighbors, their first partner’s mom, their friends from hobby Facebook groups (oh this poor guy and their hobbies; the elderly birdwatchers from Facebook and the young up-and-coming drag king community), their random teen kid niece, college friends, a dog who also watched the video, a couple consisting of a woman who is the guy’s Facebook friend and showed her husband the video, and the husband doesn’t even know Some Guy, so he’s in the labyrinth and absolutely furious about being forced to be involved, and they proceed to break up over the course of the puzzle.

It’s important that the narrative keeps trying to be a sexy dark horror isekai! but within this the comedic reality of Catherine, 52, the guy’s horse-riding instructor, being passionately involved in escape-room-style puzzle solving and grappling with minor goblins. They are in fact speedrunning the gauntlet.

The Goblin King finally has to say: all right, actually, I only really set all this up to fuck with one (1) guy at a time, thanks for your willingness to participate, but I think all 25 of you can consider the gauntlet fully run.

And the group would be quite hurt by that. The rules are the rules. We have a contract, actually. Let Catherine cook.

[dreamingdeadly]

summer heat ☀️☀️☀️

[jakeperalta]

defining a "comfort album" as whatever feels right to you :)

[puppyeared]

fake ep idea + doodles

[keyfolk]

maddie's monolgue in i saw the tv glow was incredible, but it's interesting how so many viewers took her statement about burying herself literally. i think, generally, there are two veins of interpretation of this movie, reflecting which reality the viewer favors. you could believe that the tv show is the true "reality" of the movie, or that it's simply a surrealist backdrop to the story of one person's intense repression. in the latter interpretation, maddie's dialogue feels dangerous -- is she actually advocating suicide? or simply speaking in metaphor for the trans experience of coming out?

i felt that this scene tread the line between those two extremes. but more notably, i thought about acts of "suicide" a closeted or repressed lesbian would feel drawn to. the way that maddie describes the burnout guy she paid to bury him, how he didn't even know what he was doing -- to me, it felt like she was implying an act of sexual self-harm, testing her sexuality, "burying herself" in the emotional pain. the catharsis found in suffocating herself, allowing herself to dissociate and fade away, and then coming free with the understanding of who she really is... while i think her monologue can be taken in many ways, this interpretation resonates with me.

[nostalgicfun]

Sears Wishbook | "Little Bear" 🌈

[kindahoping4forever]

Luke via illumitati on IG

[rottenbrainstuff]

Jfc watching IWTV right now I feel like Daniel learning about that first interview

I slowly remember all of this, first the narrative itself which I had somewhat forgotten, but also the profound effect it had on me 20 even almost 30 years ago, how it’s entwined in my memories with other things going on for me that I am remembering again, stuff I had forgotten or thought wasn’t important and realizing now how important it was, how this stupid dumb story about stupid dumb vampires had its sticky little fingers all over my past, and how it was all neatly tucked away just waiting for when it was time to jump back out and completely take over my brain, again.

This is gonna be my blog for awhile bitches, sorry about that

[just-somedude]

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[niyana-the-ambiguous-mobian]

Sigh.

........I miss Final Space. I miss it so much, guys.

[amethystsoda]

90’s kids 🤝 vhs shelf 📼

[sanyu-thewitch05]

Why do I get the feeling that this is going to be where Dashcon 2 fails, because a large amount of people showed up due to the hype and they didn’t have a venue big enough for it.

[shinobus-left-eye]

i'm going to be brainrotting about the story and its shoujo manga tropes the whole day who's with me—

[irregularbillcipher]

been feeling nostalgic for my favorite old virtual pet sites lately

these will eventually be available as mini prints in my shop!

[ID

Two images are in the photoset.

The first image is a lineless digital painting of the logo of the Wishing Well 2 Webkinz game. It shows a smiling brown Webkinz puppy with a white face and paws, and a slight blush, looking down happily into a wishing well. The puppy's reflection is shown in the water, along with a cherry, a wishing well, and an orange. The well itself is a rainbow, stone well with a yellow roof. It is sitting on a green, grassy hill dotted with small white flowers. The sky behind the well and puppy is a very pale orange-pink, leaning on the pink side, and the sky is filled with clouds. A pastel rainbow stretched across the sky.

The second image is of an alien Aisha from Neopets. The Aisha, a green, cat-like Neopet with four antennae and a red triangle on their forehead, is in a spacesuit, floating in space. The suit is white and gray, and they have a red collar with an "A" as the tag. There is tubing, also gray, extending from the suit to a ufo in the top-right corner of the painting in a spiral. The Aisha is holding a large, yellow, five-pointed star that is glowing, and is smiling at it happily, their eyes closed. in the background, with the aforementioned ufo, is a sky full of slightly darker orange stars, also glowing, along with two planets-- one pink with brighter pink swirls, and one purple with crossing pink rings. The background is a deep purple, with some slightly paler purple clouds. The Aisha, tubing and ufo are all lined with a purple much brighter than the background, but all the background details, such as the planets, stars and clouds, are lineless.

End ID.]

[puppyeared]

what if i snapped and made an oc carrd