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Hello! You might remember me from Livejournal/Twitter, or you might just like what I post here. 2024 was a rough year health-wise, but we persevere. Here’s what I’m doing as of January 2025:

Weekend Links: On Sundays I summarize the most interesting things I posted/reblogged that week, so check those or my archive out. Spine trouble laid me out for the second half of 2024, so those posts will return in February 2025, knock on wood. 

First look on Patreon: Mostly I’ve written about whatever strikes me, like not realizing I grew up in a haunted house, or that time The Ring nearly killed me. I have a Patreon tier where you can get longer posts—reviews, recaps, audio/transcripts and such—before I put them up here. A few things are even Patreon-only. That said, it’s primarily a free mailing list (and Weekend Links are always public), and I love having free members—so you can keep up with me no matter how many social media platforms crumble into the sea, and you can get major posts in your inbox so that you don’t miss them in the chaos of Tumblr. 

Gaming: Totally new endeavor. I fell in love with Silent Hill 2 remake playthroughs and decided to play it myself… even though I’d never played a video game before. I’m going slowly, but I’m actually doing pretty well! Commentaries in various formats (text, voice… video?) have begun. ETA: I finished! Video commentary will start the week of February 17th, hopefully.

Varney the Vampire masterpost: I have picked up with the Varney the Vampire recaps I did on Livejournal a million years ago; after a shorter hiatus, those will return in early 2025. I am gonna be real honest with you, whenever I’ve fallen off recapping Varney, it’s because I hit some chapter of repetitive, empty dialogue where nothing happens and I don’t know how to make it interesting. We’re just going to acknowledge that from now on and keep moving. 

Perfume discussion masterpost: I got interested in perfume—the history and how it’s made and wtf is “white musk"—and so I write about that periodically. I had sinus trouble throughout 2024, so hopefully I’ll be able to get back to those now. For examples of my approach, check out Guerlain’s Mitsouko, Zoologist’s Tyrannosaurus Rex, Jean Patou’s Joy, or Aquolina Pink Sugar.

Basically I just pursue whatever I feel enthusiastic about, and people tell me that they like coming along for the ride. Feel free to follow along if you’d like. 

mrshamill:

narcissistcookbook:

artsytoad:

Jacek Yerka, Eruption 

www.artsytoad.tumblr.com

i like tumblr because occasionally i’ll be recommended a 12 year old post that depicts something so absolutely my shit that it makes me believe in art again

i have a lot of jacek yerka paintings, many of them live as my screensaver.

attack at dawn

mushroom king

returning home (my favorite)

(via janedrewfinally)

elodieunderglass:

alexaloraetheris:

smallerdelusions:

squirrelmop:

Had to do a double take when I first saw this; I thought the peel was a creature. May I gift you: pineapple dragon?

@elodieunderglass

Enchanting! Thank you! The pineapple dragon would be so well-armoured against piercing attacks 🥹

(via profmeowmers)

ymutate:

Anastasia Trusova (Russian, born 1989)

“Cat in the Garden”

(via magratpudifoot)

trolltales:

Nøkken by Theodor Kittelsen

in it’s true form and disguised as a white horse

(via happyheidi)

botanyshitposts:

the lichen knowledge iceberg i have constructed on request

(via sashayed)

tomatonibbler:

Some closeups of the best graffiti I’ve ever seen

(via profmeowmers)

lhoandbehold:

lhoandbehold:

I’ve been looking for a fun/quick little animation sideproject to flex my frame-by-frame muscles, so introducing Margie! A cat-goose dragon based on this little fella from this medieval manuscript

Some additional thoughts

(via katrinastratford)

convelocity:

ALT

Yet amidst the quiet, there’s a whisper. A subtle assurance of a guardian watching over you.

Grab prints here

(via bunjywunjy)

lavalampadvocate:

yuri-alexseygaybitch:

yuri-alexseygaybitch:

They need to invent more fake celebrities like Hatsune Miku and Gorillaz and the Muppets because it’s genuinely the most sustainable way to maintain a parasocial relationship with the entertainer class.

Kermit the Frog can never get canceled because Kermit the Frog has no agency or personhood beyond what he is imbued with by the collective labor of puppeteers, voice actors, singers, and writers. He is, along with these other examples, effectively a celebrity by gestalt. He has transcended the inherit instability of the celebrity class through diffusion of responsibility for his personhood. He is a god.

(via ranthadine)

titsay:

tangerines