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Whatever you landed on has completely disappeared from Tumblr. Any posts including or referencing it have vanished, and none will ever be made again. No one else notices its absence, and no one else will ever ask about it.

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What can baleen whales even DO about orca whales. Like can they even fight back. Imagine being a huge fat floating mass of delicious meat living in an open void with no shelter to retreat to and there are these mouth torpedos that might just decide to show up and rip you open just whenever.

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"The shift from the Afro-Caribbean zombie to the U.S. zombie is clear: in Caribbean folklore, people are scared of becoming zombies, whereas in U.S. narratives people are scared of zombies. This shift is significant because it maps the movement from the zombie as victim (Caribbean) to the zombie as an aggressive and terrifying monster who consumes human flesh (U.S.). In Haitian folklore, for instance, zombies do not physically threaten people; rather, the threat comes from the voduon practice whereby the sorcerer (master) subjugates the individual by robbing the victim of free will, language and cognition. The zombie is enslaved."

— Justin D. Edwards, "Mapping Tropical Gothic in the Americas" in Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture.

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The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) dir. David Slade Avengers: Endgame (2019) dir. Anthony & Joe Russo

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Thoughts on robots/machines as a type of monster?

I cannot think of anything about robots or machines that would exclude them as being classified as a "monster" in fiction, Im now curious to hear from people who think monsters cant be robots on how they would define what a monster is.

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vampire books

I realized this year I have read quite a few vampire books and decided to see how many I have in my collection. The pile looks taller than it actually is because I have three different editions of Carmilla. I do have a few more vampire books on my wishlist including Anno Dracula, and that edition of Dracula that is the translation of the early 20th century Icelandic translation by Valdimar Ásmundsson, who apparently took so many liberties he wrote another novel entirely. And I cannot wait to get my hands on either of those.

the books in the pile from top to bottom in case you are curious or looking for recs:

The Vampyre by John Polidori

Due Racconti di Vampiri - a small book containing The Horror Of Abbot's Grange and The Night Wind Howls by Frederick Ignatius Cowels

Resurgir: Vampirismi dall'America Latina edited by Lorenzo Incarbone - a small collection of short stories about vampires by Latin American authors

Fangs by Sarah Andersen

The Southern Book Club's Guide To Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

Salem's Lot by Stephen King

Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice

Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu

Dracula by Bram Stoker

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i learned some snakeflies have bilobed tarsi (similar to chrysomelid leaf beetles) and it makes them look like they've got cute little paws :3 photo is inocellia sinensis

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Toucan Sam underwear ad. Idk. I'm tired. You get what you get.

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neolithic tool kit

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man, 2024 was a great year for ‘films that feel like they’d be fake trailers at the start of a comedy but turn out to be actual real films that they somehow released’, like just look at this lineup

these are all real films that somehow actually came out this year, like none of these feel real in any way, and yet they all 100% are

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art by Eyvind Earle

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when he says "ahwooo" it's scary because you think the werewolves are nearby. but then he says "the werewolves of london" and you think oh.. i'm not in london. but then you remember they could travel

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mfw im taking selfies and vaping on sunday morning but i realize im in church service

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keep thinking about this one

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Imagine romanticizing the grind when you live in a universe that has a large expanse of grasslands and colorful endemic birds