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I was lured..

By the annual discovery of my reworking of a painting of an old mill by adding Optimus Prime to it. Every so many years, as the moon goes, it is rediscovered and flurry of followers appear. They are of course unaware that I have not been here for...many years.

Yet, here you all are...still toiling here deep in the mines.

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Hans Thoma - Eight Dancing Women with Bird Bodies, 1886.

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The ‘Burbs (1989) dir. by Joe Dante

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Thermae Romae II (2014) // dir. Hideki Takeuchi

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remembering when i was 17 n i got really into writing this grand frasier fanfic in which seattles most affluent begin to disappear inexplicably . and on the eve of the big racquetball tournament niles and frasier r on their way to practice and niles disappears into the sewers. weeks go by and frasier occasionally sees signs and messages while his family says hes crazy bc he misses his brother. but eventually hes like summoned underground n niles reveals himself to have become king of these large rats that have occupied parts of seattles sewers n have been looking for someone to represent them in i guess political matters i never got that far. but i spent a lot of time thinking about it n id sit in the back when i worked in the produce department n just wildly scrawl on any piece of paper i could find trying to make sensible paragraphs. and id draw niles as the rat king n my manager found it

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the basic emotional condition of capitalism is anxiety, fueled by insecurity. one of the most common, yet most effective, rhetorical moves used by the apologists of capital is to present this motive force as aspiration, rather than terror - that is, to disingenuously figure the motion of the system as a running-to, instead of a running-from. it is like if the camera were only ever positioned behind indiana jones, following him as he “aspires” to reach the exit of the cave, not once turning around to reveal the colossal stone sphere just inches from crushing him

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Okay but genuinely who the fuck thought it was a good idea to kill off Lal? You know how much more I’d enjoy the show if Lal popped in every ten or so episodes like Alexander? You know what I’d give to see Lal interact with Timothy in Hero’s Worship? Data learning to love his daughter in his own special android way while he helps her navigate life, Lal helping Dr. Crusher with patients in sick bay because humans fascinate her as much as they do her father and she finds healing them fulfilling, Riker being incredibly awkward around her the first couple of interactions he shares with her before loosening up and teaching her the trombone. She had so much potential, she could have furthered so many other characters. They threw that all right out the window. Who in their right mind would do that?

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Ned: Everyone stop what you’re doing and pay attention only to me!

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Traditional winter dress In the Japanese countryside.  勝山左義長まつり2013

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Hollywood by the Sea, Oxnard, CA, 1927

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defunctland videos: you'll never guess who was responsible for this insane, batshit bizarre thing at Disney that got made in the late 80's to early 90's and everyone hated

Me, leaning forward: was it Michael eisner

Defunctland video: it was Michael eisner

Me, hooting and hollering: HOLY SHIT

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our noble leetspeak vs their brutish tiktok self censorship

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as you might know i am fairly neutral on the matter of retellings and i only watch commercial Feminist Retellings TM from afar because they are not quite the kind of dialogue with the ancient i am interested in, but i Do have an active concern about them, which is that my impression is that they often come from a position of arrogance and unwillingness to listen to what the ancient has to say. the core assumption is that the ancient has nothing more to say as it is. the core assumption is that ancient stories about ancient women need to be reworded, reframed, transformed for us to be able to connect with them. that horror and violence have no place in these stories. as if the modern world didn’t know any helen, any persephone, any philomela and procne, any arethusa, any cyane and so on. engaging with the ancient means picking up a millennia-long thread. if you cut it, you are either doing something revolutionary or something deeply meaningless.