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2023:

1. GET! WEIRDER!

2. CHILL THE FUCK OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3. IF SOMETHING ISNT MAKING YOU HAPPY IT’S NOT WORTH IT

4. STOP WORRYING ABOUT WHO YOU ARE AND START LIVING HOW YOU WANT TO LIVE

7. GAY SEX I GUESS

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Ryoko Kui please return my calls

#senshi hi hello senshi #dunmeshi

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#dunmeshi

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free my girl she did all that shit but the fandom is mischaracterizing her for it

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ive been the sam/jon parallel’s most loyal soldier since day one so naturally ive been thinking about how’d they interact with each other and i truly regret to inform you all that i think the euphoria of having somebody else on that beholding’s special guy wavelength would override the little amount of self preservation both of them have and lead to disastrous consequences

#THEYRE SO CUTEEE #tma #tmagp

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Not feminist as in "women should be included in the draft" but feminist as in "being drafted is a violation of bodily autonomy for any gender".

The draft should not exist. Drafting people into the military is a violation of human rights. You should not be able to force someone to risk their life. If you can't find enough people who care about a conflict to keep it going then it simply shouldn't keep going. You can't even force someone to donate a kidney using government power, why the fuck can you force them to donate their whole body and life to a cause they don't agree with or don't care about?

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vampirism poses the question "what if there was a fundamental, horrible, unending well of want in your soul that, if truly satisfied, would lead to great pain for all those you hold closest and, in turn, their absolute and total revilement of you?" and naturally as a person with no problems I don't relate to this in any way at all.

#CARMILLA I LOVE YOUUUU

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toulouse-lautrec farcille 🕯

#wauh……. lesbians #dunmeshi

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Alistair Petrie interviewed for The Terror (in costume). X

"I think that [Dr Stanley] is prepared in terms of what he sees. If you had given him a list of the injuries that he would have to deal with [...], some pretty brutal injuries start to appear [...] and so, the interesting dynamic to that is it doesn't shock or surprise him because he has seen it before. He has an odd reaction to the brutality that happens, there's a certain coldness to it, but when you take it in context of a man that has served in wartime then there's a certain kind of logic and a sense to it, because that emotional side of him has been, sort of, blunted [...] by what he has previously experienced. So from a sort of character point of view, it's an interesting dynamic. Why isn't he as emotionally engaged and curious about these strange [injuries] that are appearing? It's war. He's seen it. He's been there."

#I just adore stanley so much I need to talk about him more #the terror

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happy lesbian visibility week

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#HEYYYYYY GIRL #dunmeshi

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disclaimer i am not a scholar or a historian or an archaeologist. i just like vampires in a freak way and read a lot of weird articles + listen to podcasts and think about this a lot.

so the vampire burials that i know the most about were done in the general region of like... hungary / slovakia / romania / poland kind of following along the line of the carpathian mountain range. but also then in like, early america as well for some reason. random ass 1700s vampire hysteria panic swept the nation (all 25 square miles of it).

anyways so this area in europe is notorious for vampire folklore anyways so it tracks that where the european vampire folklore was originating = where people are most frightened of it for real. and so the vampire graves that have been excavated and studied are HONESTLY PROBABLY just the graves of like..... normal people who were ill in some way, and therefore cast into a suspicious light, and then died. but it was a fairly common belief that if someone WAS a vampire, especially prior to dying, then they'd return from the dead and attack and kill their family first before moving onto friends and neighbors and the rest of the community. bad for the community. so after the "vampire" in question died, the living would take extra steps to ensure that the deceased would not rise from the grave again and start killing them because well No One would like that! so one one hand its really kind of upsetting that-- essentially-- the dead were being accused and vandalized without the ability to protect or defend themselves AND THEN ALSO having their burial rites get screwed around with. sure you prevented the vampires but now we've got fucking ghosts. great work everyone.

and then on the other hand morbid freaky trivia is so fascinating to MEEEEEEE so here some of the most dramatic methods that i can recall from the top of my head:

dismembering the deceased's corpse ( with an emphasize on decapitation)

and for the decapitation, sickles or hand scythes were placed over the deceased's neck, so if they lived and sat up again, they'd cut their own throat

also rearranging the dismembered body (pieces) or the body (whole) in specific patterns

padlocking the deceased's feet together

placing bricks or rocks into the deceased's mouth, either breaking their teeth or making it impossible for any postmortem vampire zombie bite damage to be inflicted upon the living

pinning the deceased's corpse into the ground via steel or iron stakes to keep them from getting up. often stakes were stabbed thru the heart which is where the motif in media today comes from

but also sometimes removing the heart from the deceased completely and burning it also happened

burying the deceased with wreathes of garlic and poppy seeds and paprika peppers to act as wards to keep them where they were. which is hilarious also when you take into account how much garlic and poppy and paprika gets used in eastern european cuisine

and i might be making this part up LMAO but i feel like in my heart. and brain. that i remember a colonial american(?) story where an autopsy was performed on a recently deceased girl(??) whose organs still looked "fresh" and functional, as it were, and not like the organs of someone dead. because she was obviously rising from the dead and drinking the blood of the living which we can tell from her remarkably fresh organs. this was another great instance of vampire organ harvesting but i for SURE need to go try and find my source for this again.

and similarly, i also am like 90% sure I've read about exhuming someone who had been accused of being a vampire, and judging how their rate of decomposition was going, and if they looked too fresh and alive then they were a vampire and we can brutally kill them again. obviously differences in burial climates and situations would have no bearing or affect upon the body's rate of decay btw.

but then as we work our way up thru history, illegal body snatching also became an incredibly common thing as anatomists and doctors and surgeons needed the bodies to learn from. and I'm SOOOO so certain that grave cages / mort safes were invented because normal people did not want their corpses to be body snatched and turned into underground med student dissection homework. BUT ☝🏻 i have also seen claims that cages over the graves were put in place to keep the vampires IN the grave, not to keep body snatchers OUT of the grave. and then I went hmm. where have I seen big elaborate grave cages before?

mother fucking henry ford has a mort safe cage on his shit, so the only reasonable conclusion to all of this is that henry ford was a vampire. amen. my edible is hitting now and i cant think of a good conclusion to this post sorry. someday i will write an essay. or finish making my gay ass zine about this.

#YIPPEEEEE I LOVE ALL OF THIS #eating this up with a goddamn comically large spoon #grave cages are so interesting I love all the extra effort to keep things from getting in or getting out #thinking about Carmilla and everything they did to keep her from coming back too ugh. god I love vampire superstition so much

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Mama gave me music lessons,

now I play the saddest songs

#god this made me HORRIBLY sad when me nd Gale read it #ultrakill

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Hypnosis

#GOD they make me deranged #ultrakill

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clank

#KISSESSSSSSS #CLANK #ultrakill

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rise, lesbians!

#RISE RISE RISE

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Hello my fellow dykes, we have officially become visible ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

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