[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

I’m about 90% recovered from my concussion, which was fun – I’ve also been pretty lazy about posting lately and it was nice to write a few posts out of laziness and then post them again after a week.

It will probably be a couple more days before the whole “brain still weird from concussion” situation has resolved itself, and during that time I’ll be posting pretty infrequently about life stuff because it’s like, I don’t want to stress my brain out by talking about that stuff when my brain is weird.

I think it’s nice to have this semi-informal set of rules for my posts (the main ones being “don’t stress your brain” and “if the quality of a post drops below a certain threshold in the next day or so, assume that the quality dropped that day because of a weird brain thing”) because it helps me feel like I don’t have to constantly over-think everything. (I would make this into a post explaining the whole set of rules but then I’d have to write a long post)

[gul-dukat-announcements]

[setyourphaserstoslutty]

I’m gonna make a omelette out of a Cardassian egg

[tomatoluvr69]

[replicatortrash]

[sunfloodme]

I have no idea what fandom this is supposed to be from and I dont even want to know I'm happy just reblogging my images

[setyourphaserstoslutty]

I’m screaming laughing

[gul-dukat-announcements]

[pyrrhic-victory1]

Cult leader dukat activates my fight or flight response

[adventuresandshopping]

[oldschoolfrp]

Tiger priestess deals with intruders in the temple (Luise Perenne cover, Different Worlds 9, Chaosium, Aug/Sep 1980)

[mielpetite]

Holiday prompt 7- holiday music + the 1970s!

You cannot tell me Crowley’s not personally responsible for the popularity of Feliz Navidad. It’s so bad it’s good. Aziraphale is yet again unconvinced by his bebop. 😂

I almost skipped this prompt after addressing 100 envelopes by hand this weekend, and recovering from my body’s over-dramatic response to the Pfizer booster, but I decided you all needed this laugh, and Aziraphale in a leisure suit as much as I did.

[bunjywunjy]

[o-kurwa]

[magicalgirlmindcrank]

My man was really gonna let a fucking BEAR into his house for the views and the BEAR had to be the sensible one here

[bjornkram]

I love bears, they are my favorite animal and I'm delighted to see pictures and videos of them taken from safe and responsible distances in the bears natural habitat. However I absolutely hate videos like this so much. People need to stop with the attitude that bears are just big cuddly dogs and learn some healthy fear and respect for these animals. They are killing machines, everything about them makes them some of the world's most powerful apex predators.

That bear has 2 tags on its ears making it a problem bear and in most places with bear populations in North America its a 3 strikes you're out system. If that bear gets in any more trouble they will kill it, and the problem with problem bears is that they've learned where food is, they know how to get into houses, and they know how doorknobs work.

PURPOSEFULLY letting a bear into your home only increases the likelihood that:
(1) you will be killed and the bear will be euthanized.
(2) the bear will ransack your home and the bear will be euthanized. (3) the bear will try to enter other homes in your neighborhood and your neighbors could get killed and the bear will be euthanized.

-You see where I'm going with this. There are no good outcomes of humans purposefully interacting with bears, you will die or they will die.

This video isn't cute or funny it's reckless endangerment and I seriously hope the person who filmed this gets legal action taken against them, they are extremely lucky to be alive.

[cosmictuesdays]

[andreii-tarkovsky]

To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)

Dir. Beeban Kidron

[brehaaorgana]

This was such a formative movie

[musicalhell]

This shit was revolutionary for the mid-90s. Among other things it helped me understand that transgender and cross-dressing were completely separate things.

[aqueerkettleofish]

To this day, I am in awe of the fact that Patrick Swayze not only campaigned hard to get the audition, not only auditioned in dress and makeup, but spent most of the day leading up to the audition walking around LA in dress and makeup.

This was a man who could sing, dance, act, ride a horse, fight, and walk in heels, he had nothing to prove to anyone, and he is MISSED.

[aqueerkettleofish]

Okay, I’m not done feeling about this.

If you’re younger, you may not know Patrick Swayze; he was Taken From Us in 2009. But Patrick Swayze was an icon of masculinity. Men were willing to watch romantic movies because Patrick Swayze was in them.

Patrick Swayze was fucking beefcake.

And this man didn’t just agree to do a movie where the only time he’s not actually in drag is the first three minutes, which involve stepping out of the shower, doing make up, and getting Dressed. He has ONE LINE that is delivered in a man’s voice, and it’s not during those three minutes.

And if you watch those three minutes, you see a stark difference between his portrayal of Miss Vida Bohéme and Wesley Snipes as Noxeema Jackson. (I am not criticizing Snipes’ performance. They were different roles.) Noxeema was a comedy character. Chi-Chi was a comedy character. But Miss Vida Bohéme was a dramatic role, played by a dramatic powerhouse.

When Vida sits down in front of the mirror, she sees a man. And she doesn’t like it.

Then she puts her hair up, and her face lights up.

“Ready or not,” she says. “Here comes Mama.”

And while Noxeema is having fun with her transformation (at one point breaking into a giggling fit after putting on pantyhose), Vida is simply taking pleasure in bringing out her true self. And when she’s done, she sees this:

And you can FEEL her pride.

All of this from an actor who, up to this point, walked on to the screen and dripped testosterone.

[jenroses]

It matters that this happened in 1995. It wouldn’t fly today, wouldn’t be the right choice, we’ve moved past it, but it mattered and was important that it happened the way it happened today. It’s one of the stepping stones.

[scoutandcowpany]

Looks like someone was nursing from behind

[terrypratchettappreciation]

[noirandchocolate]

Now a black-robed figure scurried through the midnight streets, ducking from doorway to doorway, and reached a grim and forbidding portal. No mere doorway got that grim without effort, one felt.  It looked as though the architect had been called in and given specific instructions.  We want something eldritch in dark oak, he’d been told.  So put an unpleasant gargoyle thing over the archway, give it a slam like the footfall of a giant and make it clear to everyone, in fact, that this isn’t the kind of door that goes ‘ding-dong’ when you press the bell.

–Terry Pratchett, “Guards! Guards!”
(illustration by Paul Kidby taken from the 2021 Dunmanifestin edition)

[catadromously]