#vintagepulps

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔓𝔞𝔲𝔩 𝔒𝔯𝔟𝔞𝔫 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔖𝔱𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔩𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔖𝔱𝔬𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔰, 𝔩𝔞𝔱𝔢 յգկօ𝔰.

[cultfaction]

Reposted from @10centhorror I have tried to avoid the yawning chasm that is Pulp collecting but when I see such a gorgeous classic cover for a great price it’s a no brainer. Famous Fantastic Mysteries Dec. 1946 Virgil Finlay cover #pulps #pulp #pulpfiction #pulpart #famousfantasticmysteries #virgilfinlay #skull #horror #vintagepulp #classiccover https://www.instagram.com/p/CnnKcwtsZS9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

tuesday again 11/28/2023

tuesday again no problem will be taking a break for the 12/12 edition (not next week but the one after)

listening

previously featured Os Mutantes, a countercultural brazilian rock group, is back bc i heard A Minha Menha on an instagram reel by @/ vintagepulps on a showcase of brazilian pulp magazine covers.

the SECOND that driving riff hit i experienced a brief moment of fuckor bc this is exactly and precisely the kind of song i like. this translation tells me it translates to My Girl. it's got moon/sun imagery. it's exactly the kind of song to drive around to in the summer while having an absolutely crippling crush on the person in the passenger seat. spotify

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reading

you wouldn't download a woman...

TWICE

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watching

I'm No Angel (1933, dir. Ruggles) a 1936 black comedy written by Mae West and starring the babiest Cary Grant you've ever seen. i added it to my letterboxed bc i saw screenshots of this one specific dress. that’s so much sideboob. good for her.

we don't use the term "adventuress" anymore to describe a woman who does various physical or social stunts to land a husband and i think that's a shame. Tira (yes) is a burlesque dancer and (separately) a lion tamer at a down on its luck circus, becomes famous through putting her head in a lion's mouth, and leverages that fame to fall in and out and back into love.

your enjoyment of this movie will hinge on your tolerance for astrologers, circuses with animals in them, and depictions of black housemaids that have not aged super well, even if they're mostly there to stroke her ego. i'm sort of torn on what rating this would get today-- i'm assuming R bc there's a woman expressing desire but nothing actually happens beyond kissing and some sitting in laps. some peril for the lions i guess?

i do not think this particularly nailed its landing, and i'm not totally sure why they got back together, but mae west in straight up burlesque and the shimmiest dresses you've ever seen is so much fun to watch it doesn't really matter. this is sort of sidelining the her very funny, extremely quotable script. apparently any movie she wasn't allowed to write or heavily doctor her own lines just completely flopped, which i also think is very funny.

just straight up on the internet archive

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playing

triple header for Things That Came Out This Decade: Genshin Impact (September 2020), Deliver Us Mars (2023) and Gamedec (2021).

brief Genshin update: your main companion in the game, Paimon, the little fairy bitch, has been the recipient of some worrying foreshadowing lately. hey Paimon you wanna tell us anything???

Deliver Us Mars, free on Epic this week. i want to like this game. i think there should be more weird little eurojank original scifi B-franchises like this and you should be able to feed your family by making them. i do not want to continue playing this particular little franchise.

it's the second game by KeokeN (The Netherlands) and published by Wired Productions (UK, although they are partnered with Koch, which means they’ll be bought up soon), a studio of under 20 counting support staff (some of who are certainly part time or on hourly contracts) and an intern. after doing that basic background research i ratcheted my expectations back a couple notches and deleted a somewhat catty paragraph about video game hair.

this is a sequel to Deliver Us The Moon, which was a successful Kickstarter and Steam greenlight (TM (C) R) and it seems they spent the four interval years mostly polishing up the predecessor Deliver Us The Moon, which i do not own and do not plan on playing.

Deliver Us Mars bills itself as an action-adventure, but during my time with it, it was more of a cinematic movie/walking sim with extremely light puzzle/platform mechanics. there are extensive childhood flashbacks following a dad around as he trains his daughter to be an astronaut. the timing and insertion of these never quite clicked for me-- they take forever and they were never as interesting as what they interrupted.

this game is not good at signposting or tutorializing. i had to restart a chapter twice bc the unique controls popped up for a brief fleeting moment on screen and weren’t in the keybinding settings. i could never quite get the mouse and keyboard camera sensitivity right, and platforming/vertical elements seem to only be partially implemented: you can only really successfully approach certain segments from extremely specific dead-on angles. there are like three big boxes in your path that you have to clamber over at one point and i do not think it should take a solid minute and a half for me to get over them. some reviewers praised the lack of signposting during the launch sequence (causing you to frantically look around at a million unlabeled buttons and levers to see if any of them were highlighted as a thing you can click) as a fun way to ramp up stress but i fucking hated it.

after two and a half hours, and only just making it to a ship OUTSIDE mars, i decided there are other games in the world. this hits some sort of minimal viable story benchmark for me, i can see why some people love it, but i don’t want to find out what happens bad enough to play through a slow game that handles terribly and isn’t much fun to exist in.

does get points for big fuckoff dishes.

Gamedec is an isometric RPG, where you are a near-future private investigator who handles delicate personal matters inside wildly popular MMORPG VR games. unfortunately all the trailers suck shit.

this is catnip to me. i love a no-combat game where i have to walk around and talk to everyone and click on everything and write things down in a little notebook. i loooooooove being nosy. i've played through the first two and a half chapters (kinky second life, racketeering farmville, and real life uh oh) and i'm having a fucking marvelous time. the writing team clearly had a lot of fun, the VR game worlds feel very alive and vibrant-- there's a ton of possible weird little flavor interactions that go a very long way toward making me forget this is a limited-perspective isometric. this is like praising an RPG for doing what it says on the tin and being an RPG, but the most recent RPGs ive played have been fucking terrible. it's not shoehorning me into one-true or main-path choices. extremely forgiving of failure, which is good bc i straight up accidentally killed my first client. i know he was a kid but he kinda had it coming imo. sometimes kids just suck shit

im so delighted by this shitty little apartment-- it's got to be fucking bizarre to exist in, bc of the ultra-loft ceilings you need to make it be isometric, but it somehow manages to feel like a studio apartment and a seedy back office all at the same time. a game that is in general very fun to Look at. will have more thoughts as i continue playing but this is really scratching some sort of itch for me. commits to the bit. funny but sincere. a pastiche in ways i personally do not find annoying. has not hit me with like konami code style references yet. due to the fact this is also in my epic games store library i believe this was also free at some point

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making

fallow week for me. phil has been regrowing skin at a good clip and i can no longer feel each individual vertebra, AND we have another vet appt on friday to get more/different antibiotic goop and all of her vaccinations and microchipping done. mack made a hairball and is getting put back on an actual wire slicker brush grooming schedule. my beautiful girl seems to have a particularly dense coat among the domestic shorthairs of my acquaintance, although that may be bc she is a new england girlie and we constantly exist in air conditioning?? mixed feelings about scheduled brushies from her, even with short and light sessions. we’ll get there.

helping.

[pin-striped-soup]

By Virgil Finlay, via @vintagepulps.

[oliviafrankenstein]

💚 Thanks @thegreenwitch___ !! 😭 💕 We'll be printing more of these soon in tees and crew sweatshirts! . . . #creature #creatureshirt #screenprinting #oliviafrankenstein #creaturefromtheblacklagoon #rockabilly #monsters #horror #pulp #vintagepulps #scifi #vintagepinup #spooky #alien #beachbabe https://www.instagram.com/p/B2jb_LvhqTo/?igshid=6iehekq4akf5

[sicsemperserpent]

Keep writing though the world rages on. #nanowrimo . . . Hannes Bok painted this November 1941 cover of “Weird Tales” magazine. Who else is writing a “weird tale” this month? Also, this is our first encounter with Manly Wade Wellman, whopper of a name! #weirdtales #pulpmagazine #pulpmagazineart #pulpcover #vintagepulps #manlywadewellman #henrykuttner #augustderleth #edmondhamilton #alonzodeencole #1940s https://www.instagram.com/p/BqKaE6bnH91/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1r30avhaq5b7o

[lesliekane1]

Vintage Garage Chicago has the goods Rated G to R for #racy #barbie #barbiecollector #vintagegarage #vintagegaragechicago #pulpfiction #thatsdirty #smut #barbietingz #vintagedolls #vintagepulps #seenatvintagegaragechicago #buyvintage #shopchicago #vintagedoll #vintagemarket #thirdsunday #vintagehomedecor #uptownchicago #collectible #ratedr #leslielovessunrise #lesliekane1

[francescapanisinger]

Solo seria . Link in Bio 🔜🔜🔜🔜🔜 . . #girl #picture #vintge #oldschoolrap #oldschool #vintageclothingforsale #unhastiletto #stiledivitasano #stiledivita #interiorstyle #vintagepulps #dresssecond #dressbkk #dressjeans #dressbunga #dressbunga #dressparty #oldschool #piclab #picturedisc #picart #picturetokeep_edit #pictureedit #picturebooks #picturetokeep_bnw https://www.instagram.com/p/CMFHtm4MA7o/?igshid=zpuy3641pdct

[nathalierattnerart]

Moonlight Beauty “Red is for danger Darling! Are you willing to come play with me?” Artwork by Nathalie Rattner

Instagram @nathalie_rattner

[southbostonbitch]

Reposted from @vintagepulps Illustration by Virgil Finlay . . . . . #vintagepulps #pulp #pulpmagazine #pulpart #illustration #illustrationart #vintage #retro #virgilfinlay https://www.instagram.com/p/B-q71QKBJVB/?igshid=ry61a30rm4xv

[tonihearncollage]

Snakes Alive, 2022.⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

[cultfaction]

#Repost @vintagepulps • • • • • • Thrilling Detective - September, 1935. I’m guessing but I think the art is by Rafael DeSoto. . . . . . #vintagepulps #pulp #pulpmagazine #pulpart #illustration #illustrationart #vintage #retro #raphaeldesoto https://www.instagram.com/p/B37-u1SFkPJ/?igshid=1v1svubujcb77

[slaneart]

‘The Pirate Airship’ #writer John Noy #illustrator Howard Leigh #publisher John Hamilton Ltd, London 1931 My father’s reading as a boy #vintagepulps #rippingyarns #childrensbooks #dadbooks #retro #illustrations https://www.instagram.com/p/BzcQDMXJYmP/?igshid=noh09qgfmrsw

[amsaklapper-blog]

LE FILM COMPLET

French pulp serie of film novelisations. From 1921 until the 50′s. 

Even during the Occupation...Look at the serie title lettering of this one (Nov.16th, 1940)...a little gothic, isn’t it ?

L’étrange visiteur (Love from a stranger, with Basil Rathbone & Ann Harding), novelisation by René Lemoine.

Publisher: Société Parisienne d’Editions, 43 rue de Dunkerque, Paris

[theoceanpurple]

La esfinge cometa es un libro de ciencia ficción escrito por el autor español Ralph Barby, se trata de una reedición publicada originalmente en los años 80. Un terrícola y un marciano, Ikem y Nemrod, viajan por el ancho y basto universo. En uno de estos viajes aterrizan en un planeta donde se encuentran Anaem, un centenario sobreviviente, que se cree solo en el planeta, y testigo de la devastación causada por la misteriosa Esfinge cometa. Este cuerpo celeste trae consigo la destrucción de todos los seres en los planetas por donde pasa, salvo por una pequeña fracción que es puesta a resguardo dentro de pirámides ¿Les suena familiar? Efectivamente, la Tierra no es el único planeta en el que se han descubierto pirámides ¿Hubo un extermino hace eones en nuestro hogar y en otros? Esta y otras interrogantes intentarán resolver nuestros protagonistas entrando en contacto con la primitiva civilización que heredó el pequeño planeta de quienes sobrevivieron resguardados en las pirámides. ¿Conseguirán descubrir el misterio tras la Esfinge cometa y prevenir, quizás, una posible catástrofe? Estamos frente a 116 de páginas de acción y misterio envuelto por un escenario que recuerda al antiguo Egipto. La única parte que no envejeció bien fueron los personajes femeninos que están ahí para ser el interés romántico de los protagonistas y nada más, pero teniendo en cuenta que la historia fue escrita en 1983… En resumen, es una lectura ligera y que atrapa con su incógnita, pero que hay que leerla teniendo en cuenta el contexto en que fue creada. #reseña #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #booklover #bookadict #bookcommunity #bookstagramargentina #bookstagramchile #sietchediciones #Sietch #Vintagepulp (en Santiago, Chile) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNkTcn6lnYd/?igshid=120loshbckqfj