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Nosferatu has something for everyone. Eye candy for the girlies who just like to watch sexy people. Great costume and set design for the historical girlies. If you're a monsterfucker this is for you. Angst lovers your time is now. If you simply enjoy Robert Eggers then prepare for this to be your favorite work from him. If you like your horror gross and disturbing and perverted then this is for you. Tragic romance girlies come get your juice. Gothic and dark romance girlies come get your juice.

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NCUTI GATWA in The Importance of Being Earnest

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I encourage anyone who wonders things like "Why does the DPRK hate the United States so much?" or "Why would the United States lie about North Korea?" to, well, first of all, cultivate a sense of empowered investigative curiosity about the world around them, but secondly, to just go to the wikipedia page for The Korean War and check under the "civilian casualties" section.

actually here I'll just drop a screenshot

I want you try to envision that number. The population of the DPRK in 1954 is cited by various Western sources as being between 7.7 million - 10.2 million, however more contemporary sources seem to lean towards the larger number (7.7 million was estimated by the CIA in 1954)

If we say 10 million people, with 1.5 million casualties. That's 15% of the post-war population. 15%. That's a little more frequent than 1 in 7. Imagine one out of every 7 people you know being killed. This study estimates that the median individual has a social network of about 470 people. Rounding down, 15% of that is 70 people. Imagine 70 people out of everyone you know personally being killed. 15% is massive. It's a genuinely sickening and horrific figure.

In comparison, in WWII, according to Wikipedia the UK had a casualty rate of .94% of their 1939 population, and the USSR had a casualty rate closer with 13.7% of their 1940 population.

The United States is a hulking behemoth of death and cruelty and genocide. It is a machine dedicated to one thing, which is the extraction of power and profit at the cost of any amount of human life. Like all bourgeois imperialist powers, it is a mechanism for the transmutation of innocent human life directly into political-economic power.

Moreover, The United States of America must be destroyed.

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The mental image of Qin Zheng’s hot-goth blackbird chrysalis suit was too strong not to sketch. 😂 He led that sexy sexy revolution in style.

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Hey kid you want a job?

Great get online and go to a job board. Indeed, Linkedin whatever. Now you're gonna search for a role that's in your city, fits your qualifications, and doesn't seem like a bad time.

See that easy apply button? Don't hit it they just throw those in the trash. Now you're gonna want to go to the company's website and check their careers page.

Oh? That job doesn't exist anymore. Cool go back to the job board and find another one.

Great you found another job, you're on the company's career page and the job exists!! So you're going to need to make an account on the career page website. They're using Workday, the same site as the last job you applied for? Who cares? You need to make another account for THIS job's workday page.

Now you're going to upload your resume. That'll autopopulate about 15 boxes with everything on your resume, except formatted wrong and with tons of errors. So just go through and painstakingly check the dates on all of that and rewrite everything you already laid out in an aesthetically pleasing format on your resume.

Ok time for the cover letter, explain why this specific job and company are deeply important to you. You love their mission statement and wouldn't even laugh if their ceo was gunned down in the street. You'll really want to reiterate the things you just spent the last 20 minutes filling out on the resume section

(Remember to include language from the job description, people who work in HR are lower than dogs and they need patterns or they get confused.) Write about a page, but hey don't sound too desperate or robotic this is where they judge your character!

Maybe add your portfolio site at the end here, who knows if that helps no one has ever clicked mine haha.

Anywayyy time to hit apply! Congrats! You'll see that confirmation email come in and you should be getting the rejection letter in about 2 weeks. Unfortunately your resume didn't have the right buzzwords and the AI auto rejected you :(

Time to start again and try not to kill yourself!

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I've been workin' this rock for 45 years. Wee-ooh! 🧜‍♀️🚨

Watch the full episode on Dropout

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I remember how fucking massive this video was 20 years ago when YouTube was in its infancy so it’s cool to read trivia about it. For anyone old enough to remember, it’s definitely giving VH1’s Pop-Up Video.

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photography by jerri prince

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hey so Los Angeles is in crisis right now.

Multiple concurrent wildfires are happening, two of which are extremely devastating. The Palisades Fire, which at this time is the deadliest wildfire in LA history, has burned 18 square miles worth of land and destroyed over 1,000 structures. The Eaton Fire has burned over 10,000 acres. And the Santa Ana winds are rapidly escalating the fires to where containment at this time is borderline nonexistent and firefighters are at a loss for what to do. People have died. The air is extremely hard to breathe from smoke. Elderly, disabled and transient populations are at great risk. Even 20 miles south and 30 miles west of the Palisades and Eaton Fires, the smoke is so bad that there are air quality alerts and the moon is red at night. These have been called “catastrophic urban firestorms” and the people affected need your compassion.

If you are directly affected by the Eaton or Palisades Fires, here is a list of safe evacuation centers:

photo credit: Adelettes2 on Twitter/X (retrieved from Google)

The DreamCenter is also taking evacuees.

I’ll reblog when I can with more information for shelters but in the meantime please signal boost and add your own information if and when possible.

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Can't believe I haven't seen a ton of fan art for the world's horniest vampire. I have to do everything around here myself.

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Just laughed out loud remembering how early into the pandemic that celebrity Imagine video was. We were like 2 weeks into that shit and Gal Gadot gathered all her friends to sing badly into their iPhones.

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i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

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Search is turning up nothing, but that's Tumblr even if there is something, so:

Have I told you guys about my many adventures with the brothel massage parlour around the corner from my house yet?

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I've noticed a concerning trend in the overall online mental health community, particularly with younger people.

Context that may be revelant here -

I'm 30ish years old, severely mentally ill, and have spent half my life in the mh system at this point. I am also working on my psych degree and pursuing a career in this field. Most importantly for the sake of this post, I'm anti-psych meaning that I believe that the psych/medical system should NOT have the power to remove a person's autonomy and that any "treatment" which is not patient-driven is unethical. I recognize (poor) psych treatment can often be more harmful than helpful. This is something I've also personally experienced over the years I've spent in the mh system.

The issue I'm seeing is this -

People are starting to recycle the old-fashioned (frequently held by boomers and gen x) mentality that psych treatment, esp therapy, is inherently a scam, useless, or untrustworthy, and therefore they're throwing up their hands and going, "It's pointless to seek help anyway!"

There's no way I'd be able to fully unpack this issue in a single blog-length-friendly post, but it's getting so pervasive that I feel the need to try scraping the tip of the iceberg.

I think there's room to discuss psych abuse without discarding the entire field.

1. There are absolutely good practitioners out there who care deeply about helping clients, and who firmly believe in maintaining their clients' autonomy while doing so.

2. There are (a lot of) mental illnesses that simply do not have good outcomes for recovery without professional help, whether that comes in the form of medications and/or therapy.

The biggest issue, from my standpoint, is that the majority of therapists aren't being trained to work with things beyond mild to moderate anxiety and depression, marriage/family issues, sometimes eating disorders, etc. Not in depth. Your average therapist isn't going to have a good understanding of more complex issues such as personality or dissociative disorders unless they've taken it upon themselves to seek continued education in that--and many don't. This in turn leads to a not insignificant amount of therapists who are outright ableist towards severe mental illnesses.

The sad truth is if you want competent help, you are probably going to have to search for a therapist who specializes in your area--or at least one who's open and willing to learn. This shouldn't be the case and it sucks that it is, but this also doesn't negate the number of therapists who are genuinely good at their jobs and the amount of help they provide.

I know this is anecdotal, but I can tell you that good therapy exists. I've had bad--terrible--therapists who further damaged me. I will always speak about that issue openly. I have also been fortunate enough to find good therapy that has been immensely beneficial. I had to put the work in to find these therapists. They didn't fall in front of me on my first Google search. I dug, I looked for specialists, I made multiple contacts asking questions about their practices to find a good fit. But I did find it.

I think it's incredibly discouraging and harmful to scare people away from getting help. We cannot go backwards towards being so anti-psych that we are anti-help, anti-treatment, and anti-recovery. Not for our own good and not if we ever want to see the psych field continue to improve (and it has, incredibly so, over time).

So again I will say -

I am seeing people reinventing an outdated view of psych that I've commonly seen before in older generations. The avoidance of seeking help only led to avoidance of acknowledging problems, which is kind of what walked us all into a massive amount of generational trauma to begin with. Do not fall into that trap.

Expect to need to advocate for yourself, or have a trusted person help to advocate for you. Seek specialized treatment. Push for what you need. Don't give up on your recovery.

If you are able to (well and truly) recover on your own via self-help methods, more power to you. Please be cognizant of the fact that this is simply not an option for many people, especially those with severe mental illness.

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a lot of behaviors that get attributed to "female socialization" can be so much more easily and accurately understood as a person recognizing the power differential surrounding them and behaving sensibly in response to that.

like. does a woman politely listen to a man monologue at her because of some experience she had when she was twelve that magically cursed her to behave that way forever, or does she do it because the man has the power to hurt her and she knows it?

does a woman do all the dishes in her household because she is less capable of breaking out of a long-ago conditioned response than, like, your average trained dog, or is she doing that because she knows that all the men in the house will blame her if she doesnt and will make life worse for her if she speaks up?

maybe a lot of sexist patterns of behavior that are widely observed in society arent caused by women like, lacking willpower or backbone? maybe it is super fucking weird for supposedly feminist movements to imply this is the case when they talk about female socialization as the end all, be all of predicting human behavior?

isnt it both more useful and more respectful toward women to consider that they are perceiving their present circumstances accurately, and recognize when power is already being wielded against them, and take logical measures to deescalate and protect themselves because it works? is it not fucking clear to everybody that trans women in particular have to do this all the fucking time?