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I'm as grateful for cellphones as the next person, but sometimes I think about how everyone having a phone on them at all times really did cause us to loose some things as a society. I mean - for example, kids these days will never experience their car breaking down and needing to find the nearest place with a phone they can use. They're never going to have the opportunity to tentatively approach a house only to discover that it's full of queer people having a party hosted by a transvestite to celebrate his creation of a sex homunculus, stay the night, and loose their virginity while unintentionally partaking in cannibalism. It's tragic, that kind of gay sexual awakening just doesn't happen these days because of cellphones.

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ppl are rlly trying to defend being on your phone during a movie in the theater what is going on

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the haunting of hill house tv series: love is stronger than trauma! family is the most important thing, and together, we can overcome the literal and metaphorical ghosts of our past!

the haunting of hill house book:

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Intérieur du grand magasin Les Galeries Lafayette, boulevard Haussmann Paris. - source Marios Ioannidis.

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50% off sale + 80$ worth of unused gift cards and I finally got the Jaques Demy criterion boxed set for 10$!

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In John Shirley's Dracula in Love (1979) that old Transylvanian hillbilly was an inhuman fiend wielding a prehensile penis with glowing eyes, but he could still be tamed. In true sensitive-male fashion, he only had to meet the right lady. Halfway through the book, he falls in love with a woman who saves his life. At the climax it's revealed that she is the living embodiment of Mother Earth and Dracula goes to her, crawling up inside her cavernous vagina while glowing like a 100-watt light bulb.

Grady Hendrix, Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction

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Book Cake (via WhenGeeksWed on pinterest)

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them: you don’t watch game of thrones?? really? how come?

me: 

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a study of comfort 🌿✨💀

an illustration for a blanket available for preorder! (only open for two weeks!)

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Did you guys see eyeball world

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Erika Kosmatka on Instagram

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If you were trying to do something along the lines of Rocky Horror today, I guess you'd have to riff on a later generation of horror movies. Some guys wake up in a Saw or Hostel type situation, a really sexy person says "Hello, what are your thoughts on your sexuality?" and then they sing about it while doing sexy death traps. Or something.

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Exquisite bookshop in Warsaw. Filled to the brim with excellent books.

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Just finished A Canticle for Leibowitz and I'm still not entirely sure about the ending. The way it tends to conflate religion wit morality admittedly rubbed me the wrong way, and I'm trying to parse whether or the final section is a proper criticism of that, or if we're just supposed to take at face value that the church is right.

In the final section nukes are dropped once again, and the world seems to be repeating a sort of cycle. As this happens people are getting treatment for radiation, and the terminal cases are being offered voluntary euthanasia so they don't have to die horribly. Very On The Beach. The current Abbott is super against this and tries to stop a woman from killing herself and her child peacefully, and like... to me that seems cruel and as though it could be a criticism of the church's morality in the face of horrible death. Nut from the vantagepoint of 1959 I'm just not sure.

The other thing that feels like a criticism is the refusal to baptise Rachel who is revealed to be autonomous and innocent in the final pages. Again this seems like criticism of the church's dismissal oh her and of difference in general. I'd like to think these two things together help parallel what the novel thinks about religion with what it thinks about technology; its not inherently evil, but it can fall into the wrong hands and make what human choose to do with it evil.

But im not sure that reading really aligns with the first and second parts of the novel either... I have to think on it more but just wanted to get out some initial thoughts.

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ads you see on the bus in vancouver

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>looking for a new retelling of ancient myth

>ask the reviewers if the book is classical reception or modern tropification

>they don't understand

>i pull out a diagram explaining the difference between what engages with ancient sources and depictions of the story and what relies on reduction of the story to its most marketable aspects

>they laugh and say "it's a good retelling"

>read the book

>its tropification