#in Springfield horror

[artcallednaturalviews]

That shoe older, like 2010 Sketcher, thank Snoop later, this shoe older than your last time

Dear ex Former President Trump

And Vance

Marilyn Manson, silly boys, said

You vacuous two (I know you)

God is in the T.V.

I’m

Trumped Not

[acosmicvoyager]

[vertigoartgore]

1994's Bill Morrison poster for the segment "Time and Punishment" of the episode "Treehouse of Horror V" (6x06) of The Simpsons.

Monty B (Comic Art Fans) : "This was done for the poster artwork of the Time and Punishment segment of the Treehouse of Horror episode V. "Treehouse of Horror V" is the sixth episode of The Simpsons' sixth season and the fifth episode in the Treehouse of Horror series. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 30, 1994, and features three short stories titled The Shinning, Time and Punishment, and Nightmare Cafeteria."

[thecittiverse]

Frinktober is BACK!

For a third year, my annual tradition of doing 31 Simpsons art prompts for October continues, and like previous years, it'll culminate in a big collage at the end of the month!

You too can draw along! Tag your pieces #frinktober so I can see and share! It'll warm my heart to see y'all participate, no matter what your skill level or how many days you do!

Don't like these prompts? Do the prompts from last year or the year before! Or make your own up! I'm a fan artist, not a cop!

I'll also be running a few polls during the month where you can decide what I draw for the Free Spaces. Keep an eye out for those!

Prompt 1 goes up October 1st! Have a Happy Frinktober, Simpsons fans!

[tragicmammal]

Springfield, Ohio: Pet Judgement Day (on Wattpad) 

🌪️ In Springfield, Ohio, the town's fear of migrants takes a dark turn as rumors of pet-eating monsters spread. Conservative leaders gather for a grand rally, but as night falls, the town's true horrors are revealed. 🩸💀

https://www.wattpad.com/1476816445-springfield-ohio-pet-judgement-day

[prairiedeath]

springfield, ohio

[sarah1228]

number 122 and a first time viewing 7.5/10 🎃🎃🎃👻👻👻

[hasaniwalker]

“It's always the one you least suspect!”

Treehouse of Horror IV

[adamisshortforadamant]

𝕴f you grew up reading 𝙂𝙤𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙗𝙪𝙢𝙥𝙨 or watching the 𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙩 𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙨 you’re gonna have to check out our 𝑽𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒕𝒚 𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒐𝒇 𝑯𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒓𝒔! 𝕺ur next episode, taking place 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙠𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙎𝙚𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧, is titled 𝖉𝖔𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖊 𝖋𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖊 & followsᆞ2ᆞoriginal 𝙗𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙙𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 stories set in the humble town of 𝘾𝙧𝙖𝙬𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙫𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙚 during the １９８０’ꜱ

• 𝙜𝙪𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙠𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙙𝙜𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙩 •

& 𝕹𝖔𝖜, 𝔴𝔢 𝔭𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔱𝔬 𝔶𝔬𝔲 . . .

[michaeldamico]

Man, why does tree house of Horror gotta be bad for the wise guys?

Aww... Frankie and Legs

they died because of trees...

Poor Louie gets thrown...

...why?

[irlsimpsons]

2024 Duff Calendar available on Etsy!

[danndesigns]

Springfield Clothing

[vertigoartgore]

2000's Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror Vol.1 #6 cover by Bill Morrison.

[voidingintotheshout]

Pour one out for a real one. The Simpsons tapped out just announced that it’s ending. It’s a Phone game that I’ve been playing for nine years. It’s been out there for 12. Everything from the Simpsons TV show from major characters that have been appearing over and over to memorable one offs, to characters that if you blinked, you would miss them. Everything. You could make Your own Springfield and design it however, you wanted. It was really fun to figure out how to place all of these people, their houses and businesses, as well as all of the other weird stuff from treehouse of horror and everything. It was all there if you wanted it. Well, a while ago, they announced after years of levels were you just got a donut reward (the in-game currency) but no new quest lines, they announced 939 was going to be the final level. I finally reached that level about a month ago.

Well, EA just announced that the game itself is ending. All of the premium items are now free. There’s no limits on the amount of land you can have or the amount of items you can have. All of the main characters from the game said goodbye and reminisced about all of the times they had. They thanked all of the people who made the game and all of the people who loved it, and announced that the game is going to end completely.  it’s going to be out of the App Store around October 24 and the game will stop working around January 24, 2025.

I know this probably doesn’t matter to anybody but in an era of corporate greed and considering the Simpsons is still on the air, it’s really cool that a freemium game like this decided that they wanted to actually stick the landing and have a real ending. I’ll miss it. It was really fun to actually figure out what my town should look like and how much residential versus commercial there should be, and where people would live and all of this other stuff. It was really fun and I’m gonna miss playing it.

[vintagerpg]

This is Horror Tales: Spirits, Spells, & the Unknown (1974), edited by Roger Elwood and gorgeously illustrated by Robert Baumgartner. It is, I thiiink, the last in an unofficial 6-volume series of similarly bound and dressed books from Rand McNally (the others are Tales of Terror, Monster Tales, Baleful Beasts and Eerie Creatures, and two volumes of Science Fiction Tales. Most of them are edited by Elwood. I know them from when I was a kid — my local library had a few of them on the shelves. They don’t seem common on the second-hand market, which makes me think they were primarily marketed to libraries, similar to Helen Hoke’s excellent anthologies.

I confess, I have never read this. Honestly, I don’t recognize a single author. Well, one, maybe, I think might be a shitheel who got booted from the Horror Writers Association a couple years back. The rest ring no bells — if you told me they were all Elwood writing under different pseudonyms, I’d believe you.

I’m hear for the art, really. Baumgatner’s stuff is somehow both wholesome and nightmarish. There is a folksy vibe to his style and it mostly feels warm and inviting, but everything also looks like it might melt into horrible goo at any moment, the way the G.I. Joes do in the mindfucking horror cartoon classic, "There's No Place Like Springfield." I particularly like the one of the kid in bed, scared of the shadows and the tree outside, because it reminds me of staring at my wallpaper as a kid in bed and being convinced it was moving and that the toys in the pattern were going to come down off the wall and get me. God. Where was I? Halloween? Horror? Never turn the lights off ever again?

[mostlysignssomeportents]

The "religious liberty" angle for overturning the overturning of Dobbs

Frank Wilhoit’s definition of “conservativism” remains a classic:

There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progressives/#comment-729288

Conservativism is, in other words, the opposite of the rule of law, which is the idea that the law applies equally to all. Many of America’s most predictably weird moments live in the tension between the rule of law and the conservative’s demand to be protected — but not bound — by the law.

Think of the Republican women of Florida whose full-throated support for the perfomatively cruel and bigoted policies of Ron Desantis turned to howls of outrage when the governor signed a law “overhauling alimony” (for “overhauling,” read “eliminating”):

https://www.orlandoweekly.com/news/this-is-a-death-sentence-for-me-florida-republican-women-say-they-will-switch-parties-after-desantis-approves-alimony-law-34563230

This is real leopards-eating-people’s-faces-party stuff, and it’s the only source of mirth in an otherwise grim situation.

But out of the culture-war bullshit backfires, none is so sweet and delicious as the religious liberty self-own. You see, under the rule of law, if some special consideration is owed to a group due to religious liberty, that means all religions. Of course, Wilhoit-drunk conservatives imagine that “religious liberty” is a synonym for Christian liberty, and that other groups will never demand the same carve outs.

Remember when Louisiana decided spend tax dollars to fund “religious” schools under a charter school program, only to discover — to their Islamaphobic horror — that this would allow Muslim schools to get public subsidies, too?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/louisiana_n_1593995

(They could have tried the Quebec gambit, where hijabs and yarmulkes are classed as “religious” and therefore banned for public servants and publicly owned premises, while crosses are treated as “cultural” and therefore exempted — that’s some primo Wilhoitism right there)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-francois-legault-crucifix-religious-symbols-1.4858757

The Satanic Temple has perfected the art of hoisting religious liberty on its own petard. Are you a state lawmaker hoping to put a giant Ten Commandments on the statehouse lawn? Go ahead, have some religious liberty — just don’t be surprised when the Satanic Temple shows up to put a giant statue of Baphomet next to it:

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/17/639726472/satanic-temple-protests-ten-commandments-monument-with-goat-headed-statue

Wanna put a Christmas tree in the state capitol building? Sure, but there’s gonna be a Satanic winter festival display right next to it:

https://katv.com/news/offbeat/satanic-temple-display-installed-at-illinois-capitol-next-to-nativity-scene-menorah-decorations-snake-serpent-satanic-temple-springfield-christmas-tree

And now we come to Dobbs, and the cowardly, illegitimate Supreme Court’s cowardly, illegitimate overturning of Roe v Wade, a move that was immediately followed by “red” states implementing total, or near-total bans on abortion:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/15/paid-medical-disinformation/#crisis-pregnancy-centers

These same states are hotbeds of “religious liberty” nonsense. In about a dozen of these states, Jews, Christians, and Satanists are filing “religious liberty” challenges to the abortion ban. In Indiana, the Hoosier Jews For Choice have joined with other religious groups in a class action, to argue that the “religious freedom” law that Mike Pence signed as governor protects their right to an abortion:

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/21/legal-strategy-that-could-topple-abortion-bans-00102468

Their case builds on precedents from the covid lockdowns, like decisions that said that if secular exceptions to lockdown rules or vaccine mandates existed, then states had to also allow religious exemptions. That opens the door for religious exemptions to abortion bans — if there’s a secular rule that permits abortion in the instance of incest or rape, then faith-based exceptions must be permitted, too.

Some of the challenges to abortion rules seek to carve out religious exemptions, but others seek to overturn the abortion rules altogether, because the lawmakers who passed them explicitly justified them in the name of fusing Christian “values” with secular law, a First Amendment no-no.

As Rabbi James Bennett told Politico’s Alice Ollstein: “They’re entitled to their interpretation of when life begins, but they’re not entitled to have the exclusive one.”

In Florida, a group of Jewish, Buddhist, Episcopalian, Universalists and United Church clerics are challenging the “aiding and abetting” law because it restricts the things they can say from the pulpit — a classic religious liberty gambit.

Kentucky’s challenge comes from three Jewish women whose faith holds that life begins “with the first breath.” Lead plaintiff Lisa Sobel described how Kentucky’s law bars her from seeking IVF treatment, because she could face criminal charges for “discarding non-viable embryos” created during the process.

Then there’s the Satanic Temple, in court in Texas, Idaho and Indiana. The Satanists say that abortion is a religious ritual, and argue that the state can’t limit their access to it.

These challenges all rest on state religious liberty laws. What will happen when some or all of these reach the Supreme Court? It’s a risky gambit. This is the court that upheld Trump’s Muslim ban and the right of a Christian baker to refuse to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. It’s a court that loves Wilhoit’s “in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

It’s a court that’s so Wilhoit-drunk, it’s willing to grant religious liberty to bigots who worry about imaginary same-sex couples:

https://newrepublic.com/article/173987/mysterious-case-fake-gay-marriage-website-real-straight-man-supreme-court

But in the meantime, the bigots and religious maniacs who want to preserve “religious liberty” while banning abortion are walking a fine line. The Becket Fund, which funded the Hobby Lobby case (establishing that religious maniacs can deny health care to their employees if their imaginary friends object), has filed a brief in one case arguing that the religious convictions of people arguing for a right to abortion aren’t really sincere in their beliefs:

https://becketnewsite.s3.amazonaws.com/20230118184008/Individual-Members-v.-Anonymous-Planitiff-Amicus-Brief.pdf

This is quite a line for Becket to have crossed — religious liberty trufans hate it when courts demand that people seeking religious exemptions prove that their beliefs are sincerely held.

Not only is Becket throwing its opposition to “sincerely held belief” tests under the bus, they’re doing so for nothing. Jewish religious texts clearly state that life begins at the first breath, and that the life of a pregnant person takes precedence over the life of the fetus in their uterus.

The kicker in Ollstein’s great article comes in the last paragraph, delivered by Columbia Law’s Elizabeth Reiner Platt, who runs the Law, Rights, and Religion Project:

The idea of reproductive rights as a religious liberty issue is absolutely not something that came from lawyers. It’s how faith communities themselves have been talking about their approach to reproductive rights for literally decades.

The Clarion Science Fiction Writers’ Workshop (I’m a grad, instructor and board member) is having its fundraiser auction to help defray tuition. I’ve donated a “Tuckerization” — the right to name a character in a future novel:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/clarion-sf-fantasy-writers-workshop-23-campaign/#/

If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/11/wilhoitism/#hoosier-jews

[Image ID: Moses parting the Red Sea. On the seabed is revealed a Planned Parenthood clinic.]

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