Violet’s Siren Songs

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

What they said.

I need some luck!

Hoping for some!

look this last two months have been A Lot

thinking about fleetwood mac and how they actually sang songs about each other. and performed them. about how much they loved or hated each other like what the fuck how

I mean can you imagine. singing about how somebody broke your heart and they’re literally harmonizing. they’re right fucking there. they’re in touching distance. insanity! complete insanity! I would either break down crying or fully snap and break their neck

fucking. silver springs!!! ‘you’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you!’ no fucking kidding he won’t stevie he’s literally behind you playing the drums! absolute madlads

This live performance feels like I’m watching my parents fighting in the kitchen

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dGykwC0fdJ4

The hobbits in LotR, every 5 minutes: Our adventure is not like we would have liked at all, it’s not fun exciting like Bilbo’s was.

Bilbo, who has been telling the bedtime story version of a story whose tragedy still haunts him: Ha, Ha, Ha, right…

@adhd-edward-teach

Using you summing up my thoughts perfectly as an excuse to say:

Tolkien’s choice here was absolutely commentary on the way the false glory of war was sold to his generation before they were shipped off to die in WWI.

1. romeo and juliet on the balcony, julius kronberg 2. the meeting on the turret stairs, frederic william burton 3. la belle dame sans merci, john william waterhouse 4. god speed, edmund blair leighton 5. the end of the quest, francis bernard dicksee 6. la belle dame sans merci, francis bernard dicksee

Fun fact: Your local public library very likely has an entire shelf or two dedicated to quilt books. I've just looked into my local library's collection, and it's impressive. Books I've wanted to buy for myself are available for me there, free of cost. Technically, a couple pennies from your local taxes cover the cost of the library, so you've already paid for it.

Always make use of your library. Millions of books, all right there. Learn how to embroidery, sew, paint, and other arts and crafts, just by checking them out in the library.

Most libraries also have copy machines and printers, and will cost very little to use. Copy the patterns you want to keep, or print out digital patterns you've found. I've done this many times! Especially now that I'm without a printer (mine died months ago after it refused to print in anything but yellow).

Use your library. It's there, you've already paid for it, and you don't have to go shopping for books.

also tangentially related to my last post - someone i worked with years ago told me about this thing she always tried to do. she said that every so often, when she's with a friend, she let's a stranger 'overhear' a compliment. she'll go to the shop and, as she's walking away from the till, she'll say something like 'that cashier was so lovely, weren't they?'. or she'll wait until someone walks past and say 'gosh didn't they look gorgeous in that dress' or 'their hair looks amazing' or 'wow that person's tattoos were so intricate - beautiful'.

and it really stuck with me. imagine walking past someone and overhearing them say 'that outfit really suits them!' to their friend. imagine choosing to shine a little light into the world for no other reason than because you think it's a nice thing to do.

With a handful of exceptions, I cannot use Video Tutorials for like, anything. Recipes, crafts, whatever: gimme a PDF step-by-step guide. Trying to follow along with someone in a video makes me crazy. I will occasionally use them as a supplement to written instructions (e.g. "how exactly do I make this stitch? Let me see someone else do it") but like the entire idea of YouTube recipes or whatever is madness to me. WRITE DOWN THE STEPS AND LET ME WORK ON IT MYSELF. I don't wanna be pausing every 10 seconds or listening to some person rambling.

we r besties

[ID: picture of Kermit and animal from the muppets hugging. Kermit is captioned with “me” and animal is captioned with “the beloved piece of media I would never ever recommend to anyone under any circumstances” end ID]

discord is perfectly fine for what it is but next time you get some weird ass error on one of your electronic devices and you Google it and the exact answer to your problem is found in an 8 year old post in the OT thread of a random ass 4K strategy game forum you never heard of then you’ll begin to understand why it’s such a problem that message boards are dying

met a women today and she was like “i’m mrs smith, soon to be mrs johnstone” and I was like “aww, that’s lovely! are ye gettin’ married?” and without blinking she hit back with “nah i’m divorcing the cunt” a legend tbh

Still can’t get over the fact that The Backrooms made liminal horror “mainstream” while also completely misrepresenting the genre, ditching the subtle, melancholic sense of unease for a bloated SCP clone with edgy shadow monsters.

I personally find this to be a much better take on a similar premise:

No jumpscares. No monsters.  Just an eerie, dreamlike sense of being lost in a completely desolate, sprawling brutalist hellscape.

There’s something so unnerving about architecture that has the aesthetic of being man-made, while also realizing that nothing about these buildings would be of any practical human use.

Reasons I like subtitles:

1. I can see how people’s names and the cities and the countries are spelled.

2. I don’t miss any words, so everything they say makes sense.

3. I get to know what background noises and conversations are.

4. The descriptions of the noises people make are freaking awesome. Ex: splutter, grunt, chuckles.

5. I can see who says what.

6. I don’t have to have the volume super loud so I can hear the dialogue, and I don’t blow my eardrums out because the ambient noises and music is SO FREAKING LOUD.

I freaking love subtitles.

Spoke to a gen z person the other night and apparently the young folks don’t know about the very legal sites from which you can access public domain media (including Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other Victorian gothic horror stories)?

Like this young person didn’t even know about goddamn Gutenberg which is a SHAME. I linked to it and they went “aw yiss time to do a theft” and I was like “I mean yo ho ho and all that, sure, but. you know gutenberg is entirely legal, right?”

Anyway I’m gonna put this in a few Choice Tags (sorry dracula fans I DID mention it though so it’s fair game) and then put some Cool Links in a reblog so this post will still show UP in said tags lmao.

Spreading the news to my followers - if you weren’t aware of this before, here’s the link to Project Gutenberg - https://www.gutenberg.org/

Project Gutenberg is a gigantic collection of books that are in the public domain.  You can read the books through the site or you can download them in various formats so you can get the format you prefer for your eReader of choice.

It is free. 

It is legal.

I was reviewing the list of the top 100 books downloaded yesterday and I saw a fair few that I had to read for college classes - so if you’re a college student and your professor assigns you to read Plato or any number of older works, check here before you buy a copy.

I reread the Anne series several years back - they were free through this.  I need to reread Pride and Prejudice at least once a year, and my e-book version is from this.  Someone recommended Jekyll and Hyde to me a few weeks back and I got a free copy from this.  When I went to Haworth on my last holiday before the plague times, I brought books by the Bronte sisters with me to read or reread that I downloaded from here.  It’s a great resource.

Yes yes yes! I was honestly so flabbergasted that this young person hadn’t heard of the gutenberg project! It’s been around for AGES, maybe longer than the kindle has? And it’s such a huge project and wonderful resource! It used to be a household name (or maybe that’s just my family, thanks to my dad being a cheapskate nerd [affectionate]). I was so glad to be able to share this resource and others with them though, and I wanted to make sure no one else was missing out!

If you look at the first reblog from me I also recommended a few other resources, most of which were from www.archive.org, home of the Wayback Machine! They run openlibrary.org, where you can check out ebooks of some public domain titles! They even have the Bone series by Jeff Smith!

And archive.org itself has all kinds of public domain media including music and movies! For Dracula fans, here’s a radio show adaptation of the book, starring Orson Welles! And here’s a 1920 movie adaptation of “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” starring John Barrymore, the grandfather of Drew Barrymore!

I’m so excited to see people falling in love with classic media through Dracula Daily! Let’s keep that fire blazing!

Also, if you can’t handle reading things, check out libirvox.org! it’s a free audio book project taking public domain works and people doing free audiobooks! there’s a lot of great stuff on there, but it takes things in the public domain and makes audio books out of them!

it’s a super nice project, and you can find some really nice readers there!

Everybody got so excited about Dracula that I downloaded it from Librivox and listened to it during my morning commute.  There’s some really good recordings on librivox and you should all check them out!

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