The Humblest Goon

'What is it like to be dead and a ghost? Oh, do tell me Tom, I've been simply longing to know': Hauntology and spectrality in the 1989 BBC television series Tom's Midnight Garden Stella Miriam Pryce Ghosts, spirits and spectres play a vital role in the children's television of the 1980s, appearing as creatures of the imagination (Moondial 1988), entities possessing child bodies (Chocky 1984), otherworldly or supernatural tropes (The Box of Delights 1984, The Chronicles of Narnia 1988) and anachronistic relics returning to embody forgotten histories (The Children of Green Knowe 1986; The Watch House 1988). Some such phantoms materialize as disturbing, Gothic figures returned from the dead (Dramarama 1983-9; Ghost in the Water 1982), while others are benignly comic (Rentaghost 1976-84). However, towards the end of the twentieth century, ghosts underwent a transformation where hauntings had the potential to move beyond merely a plot device, cliché or generic trope and, as Maria del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren explain, they came to constitute

Ok, so I’m hopping around this book of essays on hauntology in YA media, this is the first, and it explores the child as the ghost in the ghost story.

The finale of the great TV comedy show Blackadder goes Forth.
Back then I didn't expect one of the funniest programmes ever to end with a scene that makes me cry every time I see it.
Every single time.

we’re about to start seeing a lot of “here’s a cost effective meal your grandparents made during the great depression”

semi obscure musical reference in my deltarune

younger generations have always dreamed to be in debt until the day they die

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just "Girl Stuff" with @pervert.biz

Dungeon meshi obsidian elves are peak

Pictures of a pink sea anemone sitting on top of a hermit crab shell.

Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.

Birthday cuddles and (cream)pie for Iroh~

more are providing examples in the replies and quotes of youtube's auto-dubbing and it just leaves me more befuddled as to how they consider this "the future". genAI's TECHNICALLY more advanced now than in 2021 but the results are still the same. the more human it tries to be, the more it breaks.

Real shit

Before Tinder, there was the Monkey Parade… How our grandparents and their parents found romance.

New article, definitely something for the social history fans - the monkey parade (or 'monkey run'). Teenagers promenading in towns and cities on Sunday evenings, flirting, cruising. It was dubbed the “monkey parade” or the “monkey run”.

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Saying “reading books in public is performative” is a very quick and simple way to communicate to me that you are a stupid little pig I do not need to listen to and in that sense I appreciate it

white cishet murderers are just poor wittle misguided babies after all, and for some reason this kind of sympathy is never extended to the victims

I stand by it

Sanders: Let’s be clear… If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling in their premiums… if resolution is passed tonight, we are on a path way to throw 15 million Americans off of medicaid and the affordable care act, 15 million.

It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore. It happens a lot 'round here.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

Primary Every Democrat It’s exhausting to watch poll-tested, donor-beholden congressional Democrats continue to be too old, too cloistered, and too bumbling to do anything as the government burns.

Chuck Schumer is about to lose his job (positive).

new minecraft server with my friends

at a cafe surrounded by loving couples on morning dates and im reading a 18th century naval warfare game

One of my long term goals is to paint a DKoK army using the colors of late ww1 french infantry

I blame Sabaton, yeah yeah cringe, but inspiration is inspiration

The painting I made for Guillermo del Toro’s @realgdt.bsky.social new movie 'Frankenstein' is on display at the exhibition at The Old Selfridges Hotel in London. If you’re in the area, don’t miss this breathtaking show

To see a painting I’ve made in a movie is an extraordinary feeling, but to see it in such film as 'Frankenstein' - that’s something truly transformative.

Huge thanks to Guillermo del Toro, Tamara Deverell, and Kate Hawley for the opportunity and the unforgettable experience.

Remember like a decade ago when white youtubers were sounding the alarm about FEMA concentration camps. Do u suppose they'll react with the same degree of alarm to this actual existential threat.

Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

another fun angle

it says a lot about the average politician that this guy seems to expect that zohran mamdani only said what he said to get elected and doesn’t actually believe in anything

axer stands tall and still in a gas mask and coat amongst people dancing at a rave. His eyes glow blue from his gas mask and a purple alert symbol is above his head.Everything is tones blue with glowing items in a shock teal colour. Large screens line the wall behind them as laser beams dance in the air. There's probly some really cool music playing; you decide what music, ok? That way it's REALLY cool.

The rave

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