Grunkle Harm

I kind of feel like copyright at this point is a cudgel used by a lazy landlord class of millionaire culture vultures and wormy hangers-on who spend their ugly lives figuring out how to pay artists and writers nothing in exchange for exploiting their work.

Hi, I've lost the rights to at least one work of great importance to me because of backdoor bullshit like this. If you are a writer that enters contests, be sure you read the fine print. Or, like, just don't do these contests? I know, the byline seems worth it, but they're predatory and terrible.

All they have is violence

Sunny days

Dark beige hardcover picture book with two-color illustration of mantis, title PRAYING MANTIS, author Harriet E. Huntington. Spine is fixed with bright yellow fabric tape

It is fun to have a mantis crawl over your hand or even climb up your arm to your head. If you wriggle your finger slowly and close enough to its forelegs the mantis will strike out at your finger. You might pretend that it is boxing. When it struggles in your hand its hooks can prick you. These hooks are not strong enough to break your skin. But if this happens you will realize how strong a mantis is, considering its size. A mantis doesn't scare us. But if you were an insect and the mantis were your enemy, then you would have reason to be afraid. If you can't catch enough flies or butterflies you can feed a mantis meat. Put a tiny piece of meat on the end of a wire. Wave it in front of the mantis. The mantis will think the meat is a live insect, grab for it, and eat it.

Facing page (torn): rather striking black and white photograph of a mantis on a hand

Fascinated by this extremely beat-up school library castoff from the LFL typeset like it’s a free verse poem about mantises

columbo but mole

Molumbo

"ETTORE SPAGNUOLO presents" over a skeleton in a crypt. Hell yeah.

Congratulations to Lucio Fulci's DEMONIA for having the most italo-splatter opening credit i have ever seen in my life

PANEL 1: Lewis is standing behind Oakley, seated. They are in a suburban backyard. There are trees and bushes, etc. LEWIS: "This is my cousin Oakley. He has THE BEST stories." OAKLEY: "I still get mixed up." LEWIS: "A secret government program imprisoned him in an adjacent timeline for five years, and I LOVE HEARING ABOUT THE ZANY DIFFERENCES!" PANEL 2: OAKLEY: "Over there Airwolf is back on TV--but now Airwolf is just an app a guy uses ta dispatch a' autonomous kill drone." PANEL 3: Lewis leans down to squeeze Oakley and kiss him on the head. LEWIS: "See what I mean? Fuckin' AIRWOLF! Who thinks of that?" OAKLEY: "Their smart phones are etched on bones harvested from dead criminals." PANEL 4: NARRATOR: "Later at dinner..." Lewis and Dinner are eating at a restaurant. Their server is talking to them. SERVER: "I don't get it--the government sent you to the future? Like TERMINATOR or whatever?" OAKLEY: "A PARALLEL NOW vibrating just a fraction off what we call 'reality.'" PANEL 5: SERVER: "Still, I bet it's nice to be back home see some family--" LEWIS: "'Course it is!" OAKLEY: "I had a kind of husband there. He tried to protect me in the arena."

me n oakley

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I'm embarrassed for all of us that we're still talking to Will Stancil, TBH? I keep mixing him up with Wil Wheaton.

Protesting is absolutely dangerous. It is v. dangerous for marginalized people, and even more dangerous if you don't have the money and knowledge to fight the system if you get caught in it. If someone says protesting is zero-risk and then asks you to text them about it, they are dumb or a fed.

Still from found footage horror series Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi where the main character is being asked about his plan to catch a kappa with a net while leaning on a metal baseball bat.

Kudo tells the camera "Be prepared to shoot everything in complete chaos."

Hi, I'm Jin Kudo, and welcome to Jackass.

your soul will lose against that feather every time!!!

"its too earnest and on the nose" ok? If you need ironic working-class protest songs, punk music is still over there waiting for you! go with god and leave the rest of us to have feelings sometimes

Bruce Springsteen rules because he could be taking the easiest money in the world from hyper-masculine MAGA chuds and instead he said "fuck you, this is for the martyrs in Minneapolis"

NOTE TO ALL NAZIS, FASCISTS, AND KANSMEN You delight, So it would seem, At making mince-meat Of my dream. If you keep on, Before you're through, I'll make mince-meat Out of you.

Langston Hughes (1943)

when one of us shines, all of us shine

What you did was impulsive, capricious, and melodramatic, but it was also wrong Rose Family Original Enchiladas you fold it in Whoo do chankalow a ddoobeed wo oh oo oo shwee sha ba dey aloo it should've been you Then allow me to offer you some advice: Take a thousand, naked pictures of yourself now. You may currently think, "Oh, I'm too spooky." Or, "Nobody wants to see these tiny boobies." But, believe me, one day you will look at those photos with much kinder eyes and say, "Dear God, I was a beautiful thing!"

In the lea of a picturesque ridge lies a small, unpretentious winery, one that pampers its fruit like its own babies. Hi! I'm Moira Rose, and if you like fruit wine as much as I do, then you'll appreciate the craftsmanship and quality of a local vintner who brings the muskmelon goodness to his oak Chardonnay and the dazzling peach crabapple to his Riesling Rioja. Come taste the difference good fruit can make in your wine. You'll remember the experience, and you'll remember the name: Herb Irvling-ger. Burt Herngeif. Irv Herm-linger. Bing Liveheinger. Live Link. Burt Herkern. Burn-. Agh! Bingo Lingfucker. eh-haha ah ha ha ha ha ha eh ha ha ahha ha ha ha haaaa ha! Question: what is your favourite season? Awards!

The Crows have eyes III The crowning I am booked up David. You should see my schedule. I am positively bedevilled with meetings et cetera Don't start with me you frippet! You don't have the media training! How many of you beautiful young things have a background in theatre - raise your swords? After a glut of unanimous ideas put forth the room is suddenly bombinating with anticipation. Can we all feel that? At first I wondered aloud "Why would a competitive vocal group not reach out to a trained chanteuse?"

I used to sell a zine dedicated to Catherine's IMPECCABLE portrayal of Moira Rose on my table at cons. It is is in full.

Right? Like woah, check out the Denis Leary of apologetics over here, too hot to handle with the etymology jokes

I'm a trans guy who lives in a world shaped by white supremacist Christianity. I cannot travel freely or piss in public or ride the bus safely or get the health care i need. Your unwillingness to call out the worst in your flock is killing me.

So yeah, go ahead and ruin Deborah's brunch.

Respectfully: it would be far more meaningful if y'all would actually just start saying these things directly to the hypocritical Christians in your lives instead of sharing your imaginary clapbacks on social media

Aw, i forgot about ANGUS!

Line of Sight: A Trans Day of Visibility Poetry Cabaret — Elastic Arts Foundation Join us for an evening of trans poetics. Even as our lives are under siege by a violent and racist empire, trans people continue to live extraordinary lives and make art that reflects those lives. On...

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I honestly can't pick between the two, both are flawless

I honestly can't pick between the two, both are flawless

Counterpoint: ROMEO AND JULIET (1996)

guitar thing 1/30/2025

futzing with glitch delay is good and good for you

a funny joke, but also a realistic warning in some situations

Have y'all ever seen the episode of Conjuring Kesha where Whitney Cummings meets a trans ghost and then an exorcist convinces her it's a demon

And she's like "of course, i love trans people so much, a perfect disguise"

This sounds like a joke but it is absolutely true people.com/music/kesha-...

bb the kitten is curled up on my lap, her head pressed into my palm, her leg at an impossible angle. she looks like a striped horseshoe

look at this photo @harmonwest.bsky.social took of a very normal, very usual cat

the soul is glued inside of its fleshy tabernacle, and cannot freely move about in it, nor even move out of it, without running great risk of perishing

i look forward to having different versions of this exact argument until we're both dust, tbh!!!

i can't even afford to bring my website back and my subscribers are just kinda... waiting, i hope

not to be dramatic but i really need some stuff to start working out soon 🙃