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not to be insensitive but some of the salem witch trials were so funny bitches like “i saw her at the devils sacrament!!!” girl… what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament 👀

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Okay update: I decided to watch her video to see if she cited her inspiration and she does! As specifically this image. Which she cites as being from the 16th century - due to the tagging from the BnF a lot of people mistake it as being from 1393 (including the Drawfee episode I now watched several hours ago) whilst most of the tweets about it describe it as 15th century - so I wonder where she saw it

This is the video by the way if you want to make it!

And this is the original manuscript

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Initially I could only find this cool Medieval Cat Hood pattern by Daisy Viktoria Couture from about a year before the Drawfee episode, which is clearly inspired by this image! This image and the pattern are the only two versions of this cute medieval style I can find. This has taken HOURS of my afternoon. To begin with I couldn't find an original source for this image from before this post at all. It is not easy to hunt down the page this is from on the BnF website. And ofc it's in black and white

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I saw this image in an old drawfee episode and wondered about the history of it (because of the hat, obviously, I want the hat). Trying to track it down on the internet was nigh on impossible. This seems to be the oldest reference to it. The image is real, it can indeed be found in Latin 1393: Horae ad usum Parisiensem - a Book of Hours, Use of Paris from the end of the 15th-16th century, but the only scan of it is in black and white. I have no idea where Damien Kempf got this coloured photo and I'm too much of a coward to ask him on twitter - possibly he went in person and took it himself of the coloured microfilm

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Very late to the party, but that MA thesis on Jonathan and Mina's gender presentation that circulated on Tumblr some time ago (Jonathan, Mina, and the Holiest Love: Intimations of a virtuous queerness in Dracula (1897) by Viktor Karlsen Hessen) really is so, so good. From a deep dive into Jonathan as a Gothic heroine, complete with step-by-step comparisons with an actual Ann Radcliffe's heroine as well as the other female characters he's paralleled with in the text - Scheherazade and Lenore - to an exploration of how Mina's masculine traits are treated as positive throughout the novel and survive into the ending. Also, the author is very careful and rational when talking about Stoker's personal views and sexuality, neither jumping to conclusions based on a few facts nor disregarding those facts at all.

Also, there's a section comparing Mina to other female characters in Gothic literature who do not act in accordance with the Victorian gender norms but are punished for that - Helen Vaughan from The Great God Pan and Marjorie Lindon from The Beetle, and I personally am 1) always there for some The Great God Pan talk, 2) always there for dragging The Beetle.

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Tried this recently following a double all nighter and I stayed awake for 96 straight hours

Currently doing an Insomniac's Gambit. For those of you who don't know, this is when you mess up your sleep schedule badly enough that you attempt to fix it by skipping an entire night of sleep then going to bed at a reasonable hour the next day. Crucially, it does not work

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And I dream too much and I don't write enough and I'm trying to find God in everything

if i were a woman, i would tweet “ginger snapped so jennifer could body”, but i’m not a woman, and i don’t use twitter, and i haven’t seen jennifer’s body, and i don’t make a lot of money or have a car or look nice

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Sat in advanced quantum mechanics class like:

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I wish everything was quieter and softer and less often. 

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1999 Whimsical World of Pocket Dragons Real Musgrave “Squish” Figurine / no res. | eBay

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reblog if it's okay for your mutuals to message you and create an actual friendship, not just interactions

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I saw someone talking about the slavery in the original interview with the vampire novel and Louis' position as a plantation owner and how they found it uncomfortable and irrelevant. And I knew that I didn't agree but couldn't quite put my finger on why I found it important to the novel.

Louis is preoccupied throughout the novel with philosophical questions on the morality of being a vampire and how it separates him from God no matter how hard he tries to be a "good vampire" only eating rats, never feeding on people, he does everything in his power to be a Moral person but he can never become one whatever he does because he is a vampire, no action will stop him from being a monster. And I think that's very relevant to his past as a plantation owner - no matter what he does he can't undo his past, he can't fix the incredible harm he caused, he cannot think his way out of being a monster, and this is realised externally in his vampirehood. In fact, although worrying constantly about his unholy nature, he doesn't think much about the people he enslaved or the evil he perpetuated before being turned a vampire. Instead he thinks a lot about how he is now, unfairly, "innately" evil, innately sinful, how he didn't deserve his fate. He's preoccupied with his nature and how he is percieved, by others and by God. The lives of the black people he enslaved are forgotten entirely in the changing decades. Vampires have frequently in more modern and contemporary fiction represented aristocracy. And as Louis becomes more isolated with the centuries, more inward, I think there is a representation there of the growing irrelevancy (not lack of existence of) aristocratic white supremacy. Louis is an outdated relic of the past that continues to prey on the population. He continues to need more than he can ever give. And he continues to be a monster

In many ways Louis was a vampire for years before he was turned, he was a vampire from the moment he took ownership of the plantation. His "undeserved" vampiric nature is merely a physical manifestation of what was always the case, that he has always preyed on others to live. And he continues to live in Louisiana, he watches it and New Orleans change and grow and he continues to prey on the population - just as the effects of white supremacy and slavery (even though that age is long gone) continue to prey on the American people to this day. He became a monster of his own making, a physical manifestation of the horror and the racism that he perpetuated in his own lifetime

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Hey, don’t cry. Free online database of Japanese folk lore

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Everyone talking about when ao3 is down what do they do blah blah turning to Tumblr blah blah. Open fanfiction dot net!!!!! It's a great site with loads of great fanfiction!!

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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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25 ways to be a little more punk in 2025

Cut fast fashion - buy used, learn to mend and/or make your own clothes, buy fewer clothes less often so you can save up for ethically made quality

Cancel subscriptions - relearn how to pirate media, spend $10/month buying a digital album from a small artist instead of on Spotify, stream on free services since the paid ones make you watch ads anyway

Green your community - there's lots of ways to do this, like seedbombing or joining a community garden or organizing neighborhood trash pickups

Be kind - stop to give directions, check on stopped cars, smile at kids, let people cut you in line, offer to get stuff off the high shelf, hold the door, ask people if they're okay

Intervene - learn bystander intervention techniques and be prepared to use them, even if it feels awkward

Get closer to your food - grow it yourself, can and preserve it, buy from a farmstand, learn where it's from, go fishing, make it from scratch, learn a new ingredient

Use opensource software - try LibreOffice, try Reaper, learn Linux, use a free Photoshop clone. The next time an app tries to force you to pay, look to see if there's an opensource alternative

Make less trash - start a compost, be mindful of packaging, find another use for that plastic, make it a challenge for yourself!

Get involved in local politics - show up at meetings for city council, the zoning commission, the park district, school boards; fight the NIMBYs that always show up and force them to focus on the things impacting the most vulnerable folks in your community

DIY > fashion - shake off the obsession with pristine presentation that you've been taught! Cut your own hair, use homemade cosmetics, exchange mani/pedis with friends, make your own jewelry, duct tape those broken headphones!

Ditch Google - Chromium browsers (which is almost all of them) are now bloated spyware, and Google search sucks now, so why not finally make the jump to Firefox and another search like DuckDuckGo? Or put the Wikipedia app on your phone and look things up there?

Forage - learn about local edible plants and how to safely and sustainably harvest them or go find fruit trees and such accessible to the public.

Volunteer - every week tutoring at the library or once a month at the humane society or twice a year serving food at the soup kitchen, you can find something that matches your availability

Help your neighbors - which means you have to meet them first and find out how you can help (including your unhoused neighbors), like elderly or disabled folks that might need help with yardwork or who that escape artist dog belongs to or whether the police have been hassling people sleeping rough

Fix stuff - the next time something breaks (a small appliance, an electronic, a piece of furniture, etc.), see if you can figure out what's wrong with it, if there are tutorials on fixing it, or if you can order a replacement part from the manufacturer instead of trashing the whole thing

Mix up your transit - find out what's walkable, try biking instead of driving, try public transit and complain to the city if it sucks, take a train instead of a plane, start a carpool at work

Engage in the arts - go see a local play, check out an art gallery or a small museum, buy art from the farmer's market

Go to the library - to check out a book or a movie or a CD, to use the computers or the printer, to find out if they have other weird rentals like a seed library or luggage, to use meeting space, to file your taxes, to take a class, to ask question

Listen local - see what's happening at local music venues or other events where local musicians will be performing, stop for buskers, find a favorite artist, and support them

Buy local - it's less convenient than online shopping or going to a big box store that sells everything, but try buying what you can from small local shops in your area

Become unmarketable - there are a lot of ways you can disrupt your online marketing surveillance, including buying less, using decoy emails, deleting or removing permissions from apps that spy on you, checking your privacy settings, not clicking advertising links, and...

Use cash - go to the bank and take out cash instead of using your credit card or e-payment for everything! It's better on small businesses and it's untraceable

Give what you can - as capitalism churns on, normal shmucks have less and less, so think about what you can give (time, money, skills, space, stuff) and how it will make the most impact

Talk about wages - with your coworkers, with your friends, while unionizing! Stop thinking about wages as a measure of your worth and talk about whether or not the bosses are paying fairly for the labor they receive

Think about wealthflow - there are a thousand little mechanisms that corporations and billionaires use to capture wealth from the lower class: fees for transactions, interest, vendor platforms, subscriptions, and more. Start thinking about where your money goes, how and where it's getting captured and removed from our class, and where you have the ability to cut off the flow and pass cash directly to your fellow working class people

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I think about the grass between

One wall and another

The glorious stretch betwix

All mine

To run and to pretend

A knight in the lady's court disguised as a boy

Travesring door frames

Long eroded by centuries of ancient feet

And at the edge of the long stretch of grass

At the end of the ancient castle walls

A steep, steep drop

To the town Below