#new old school

[eroticlamb]

debbie harry photographed by chris stein , 1976

“I was taking pictures of everything around me, among them Debbie ... I was always aware of her astonishing looks and the effect she had on people.” - chris stein (me, blondie and the advent of punk)

[teaboot]

When I was a kid, I regularly lost reading privileges for "having an attitude" and "acting out".

It wasn't as simple as being told not to read during other activities- one of the first times it happened, I remember being six years old, watching my stepfather pull fistfuls of books off my bookshelf and throw them to the floor in a heaping mess while I cried and asked him to stop.

It was weird. Every other adult I knew described me as exceptionally well-behaved, but at home, it was the opposite, and it was blamed on "learning bad habits from that shit you're reading".

Because I couldn't read at home, I spent all my free time at school in the library, reading with my friends.

When I grew up and moved away, I realized that my family life was toxic and abusive, and the "attitudes" I was being punished for were standing up for myself, standing up for my younger siblings, and resisting actual, real-life psychological abuse. Because I'd learned from what I'd read that my family wasn't normal, not like my parents said it was, and in my stories, the heroes were the people who spoke out when it was hard to.

It is insane to me that there are students right now who can't access books. It is insane that books are being outlawed. It is perverse that we are stealing away an entire generation's ability to contextualize their lives, to learn about the world around them, to develop critical thinking skills and express themselves and feel connected to the world or escape from it, whatever and whenever and however they need.

That is not how you raise a compassionate, thoughtful, powerful society.

That's how you process cattle.

It's fucking disgusting.

[vintage-tigre]

[owl-wolf]

um i turned him into a college physics professor

[lostnorthwinds]

YEAH SO I CHECKED THE WIKI.

RAYMOND'S JUST EDDIE. OKAY. THE NAME'S GOOD.

JUSTINE IS JUST VERITY, THE NAME'S GREAT! COOL.

NOW...

WE'RE TAKING EUSTACE SO BADLY THE WIKI REFUSES TO ADDRESS HIM ONLY BY THAT.

[wardingshout]

slowly getting back into stuff...

[loganslowdown4]

One puppet episode later—

I’ve been here *counts* 6? YEARS??

[lowpolyanimals]

Rabbit from Runescape 2 (10 April 2006 – 20 March 2007)

[the-blueprint]

Living Legends

[assiraphales]

spirk winning against gomens is very “who are you??” “I’m the owner of this house” bc no matter how u feel about it, the pairing is a literal cornerstone in fandom history to the point that its constantly referenced in media. you KNOW them

[youngpsichichugemuscle]

[eroticlamb]

Debbie Harry and Chris Stein photographed by Roberta Bayley, 1976 ♡

[mylittleredgirl]

how did you get your tv growing up? (if you had multiple houses or technologies, pick the one you most identify with your formative childhood tv experience)

op's formative tv experience was in a rural area with rabbit ears in the 90s, but before 18 i lived in a place with every one of these except satellite. rotary antenna is its own category because i will never forget the day when a friend's family put one in. the sheer power of turning that knob and seeing a wholeass giant roof antenna turning around and then you can pick up the x-files?? fucking religious experience.

[vintage-tigre]

Happy New Year! Time for Lemon Pigs! A new year tradition, bring yourself good luck for the ensuing year by making a lemon pig. You will need:

1 x Lemon

2 x Cloves

4 x matchsticks / tooth picks

A piece of tin foil

A knife

5p/Shilling/Nickel coin

Insert the matchsticks / toothpicks in the base of the lemon alla legs. Press in the close to the pointed front of the lemon. Make some little slits just above and pull the rind very slightly up (to create ears). Make a tiny slit at the other end of the lemon and make a tiny tin foil roll and insert into the slit (for the tail). Finally make a small slit beneath the clove eyes and insert a 5 pence piece.

*401 Party and Holiday Ideas from Alcoa, Conny von Hagen, 1971

*Lady Hollyhock and her friends : a book of nature dolls and others, published 1917

*Detroit Free Press, Sun, 8 Dec 1889, Page 11

*The Lemon Pig Completed in The Enterprise January, 1898

[fallstaticexit]

Oh, what's the matter, Landgraab? You're not threatened by me, are you?