caroline

[caroline]

[tenderbeasts]

Those links for all asking

Deadly history of women using perfume as poison
-Girlhood, medusa and female rage
-The allure of gothic horror
-Essays and thoughts on girls in horror
-Why girls get hungry in horror
-Mothers and witches
-Women in horror
-The female poisoner
-female werewolves
-Monstrous women - Catherine Lundoff
-Female cannibals and consumptive horror
-Horror films directed by women
-Women, killer plants and annihilation
-Female identity within the gothic genre
-Women in horror - the vvitch
-the vvitch, female sexuality in horror
-Angela Carter - The beast is female sexuality
-Body horror/monster reading list
-Consumptive horror

[caroline]

[sewbro]

grow big

[slumbermancer]

oh wow… he can reach all of the tall cupboards now :) LOL

[ironwoman359]

This is what bastardization of childhood looks like, not a mediocre all-female ghostbusters movie. 

[caroline]

[sashayed]

My name is Calfe
& Im too young
to know yet what do 
with my Toung!

So till my Mom say
“Dont Do That!”
Ill stick it out
And lik this cat.

[sashayed]

My little Calfe,
Im proud of yu–
yur living like
the Big Cows do.
Yur doing just
what Mom have said–
for yu lik cat,
and cat 

lik bred.

[lierdumoa]

Bad meme execution. 0/5 stars.

These poems are supposed to be imitative of 17th/18th century middle English poetry (pre-dating dictionaries and formalized spelling conventions) not early 2000s chatspeak, not babytalk.

These poems are also supposed to be in iambic diameter, giving them a pleasing songlike rhythm. The above has inconsistent syllabic structure from line to line.

These attributes are clearly illustrated in the prime:

So tired of people on this website and their flagrant disregard for syllabic structure.

No respect for the craft.

[sashayed]

1. first of all, how dare you. i would never, N E V E R, put forth a cow poem with inconsistent syllabic structure. these may not be my finest work, but the iambic dimeter is IMPECCABLE. check my scansion again and come back to me. I guess “know what do yet” is not ideal, but it falls within the constraints of the form. i’m genuinely appalled by this. i have SEEN inconsistent scansion in this meme, i do NOT approve of it and i have NOT done it. how dare you. HOW DAR EYOU!!!

[sashayed]

Secondly: it is not absurd to suppose that the linguistic constraints of a Cow Poem would depend on the figure to whom Cow speaks. In the original (and perfect) “i lik the bred,” the narrative cow, like a Chaucerian non-characterized narrator, directs her speech to an imagined and unspecific listener; not to “the men,” who are characters within the poem, but to some more general audience. (See the Canterbury Tales prologue for an example of this voice in action.) 

Later, poem_for_your_sprog has Cow address contemporaries like “dog.” You will notice that the voice of Cow varies slightly, in speaking to Dog, from her voice in the original “I lik the bred.” WHY, then, can we not extrapolate that Calfe – who is, after all, a narrator of limited capacity, being only a Baby Cow with a Baby Cow’s simplicity – would have its own variant voice? And why, too, would Cow not speak differently to her own Calfe than she does to an animal peer, or to reverent imaginary auditors? These are experiments within an emerging form – flawed experiments, certainly, but not mistakes ipso facto. Again: HOW DARE YOU!!!!!!!!

[sashayed]

my name is Cow,
and as yu see,
its worth yor tiyme
to studye me.
but if yu dont
like what yu red,

take 2 deep breths

and lik the bred.

[lierdumoa]

I am willing to concede on second reading that the syllabic structure is passable, and in that regard I’ve wrongly impugned the integrity of your work, however I maintain that your Frankenstinian amalgam of fake middle English with fake modern American baby talk is thoroughly unconvincing as either middle English or as modern American baby talk.

It’s an aesthetic failure, IMH(inh)O*

You’ve created the linguistic equivalent of a spork — vitiating two perfectly serviceable tools by attempting to fuse them.

Writing ‘till mothere says / do not do that,’ would have conveyed roughly the same idea without feeling quite so awkwardly anachronistic.

[sashayed]

My name is Rave,
and I can see
you’re bent on pa-
tronizing me!
”Anachronistic”
frankly seems 
a misplaced word 
to use of memes.
But since you want
to start that fight,
let’s step outside
and do this right.

Dude: if you want 
to not get wrecked
you’d better get 
your facts correct.

Like, “Mothere,” friend,
is not a word
that Geoffrey Chau-
cer ever heard.*

(*”Mooder” would be period-accurate, and also a good cow word.)

What’s more, the “eight-
teenth century”
has zip to do 
with, um, “M.E.”
And it’s not spelled
“diameter.”
What are you, pal,
an amateur?

I am not Chaucer
or John Donne
but if you try
to spoil my fun
with words you learned
in English class –

don’t come for me. 
I’ll kik yur ass.

[caroline]

[ladyyatexel]

Sick brain says: “… does fire have weight?”

[indigobluerose]

Husband is chemist and he says the gases that react to make the fire have weight, but the fire itself is energy and therefore does not have weight as we measure it.

[ladyyatexel]

cold medicated brain thanks mister indigo for his service

[caroline]

[teaboot]

I understand why people dislike leather and animal products. But leather is such a good resource? Like… My mom bought a sturdy leather coat in 1989. I’m in my 20’s and I now wear that coat. That’s a 30 year old coat? 30 years, two generations, one coat. Versus, like… A plastic one, that rips and gets thrown out, or releases bits into the ecosystem every time it’s washed, takes a billion years to decompose, lasts maybe a decade if you’re super duper careful, and uses oil products in it’s construction.
Like, yeah leather is expensive and comes from a living animal, and I’m not saying that you should go out and buy fifty fur and leather products for the he’ll of it, but like… Maybe the compromise is worth it?
One animal product, valued and respected and worn down for generations, versus like… Six plastic products that will never ever go away?

idk, I could be wrong.

[800-dick-pics]

this is why im so fucking pissed white colonial fucks and white vegans get so enraged at indigenous people for using hides/leather and animal bones as if that shit breaks or rips like cheap polyester does

[xandrachantal]

I have a wool coat from the 50s and it is warm, comfortable. stylish. I hate polyester clothing. Wool, leather and fur coats can (and should) be purchased secondhand. They last forever and you’re not giving directly to those industries

[caroline]

[obovoid]

this is the most intense 2 minutes of sexual tension ever put to film

[dicknurse]

this is the physical manifestation of a risky text

[thelooter]

I remember watching this for the first time, I had to pause the video out of the sheer INTENSITY of that scene and to pace around the house because a scene has never made me feel so anxious before in my life

[fuckyahumor]

holy cow

[caroline]

[andillcallyoubymine]

Literally why would you ever go for Bernie when Elizabeth Warren is RIGHT there

[ralfmaximus]

A vote for Sanders is a vote for Trump. All he can hope to do is spoil the Dem’s chances.

VOTE BERNIE IF YOU WANT 4 MORE YEARS OF TRUMP 

[elfwreck]

FUCK THAT NOISE HELL NO.

We are not doing this again.

Lobby hard for your choice in the primaries, but do not insult the other options. 

I like Warren a lot more than Sanders. I like Klobuchar and Harris better than either of them. Right now, Gillibrand is my top choice. 

BUT I WANT TO BE ABLE TO VOTE FOR THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE IN NOVEMBER, whoever that turns out to be.

And since I want to be able to get behind them, I want to know what their good points are. I want to know what I can expect them to do, and - this important - what issues aren’t on their top priority list, so I can let them know what matters to me. 

All of them are smart, decent people. All of them want a better country, a better world. All of them would, on their worst day, be better than Trump at his best, assuming he has something a sane person could call “best.” 

No infighting this time. No circular firing squads. Do not insult, denigrate, discourage, or bully people who are supporting the candidates you dislike. WE NEED TO WORK TOGETHER FOR THIS.

Before the primaries, figure out who is the best representative for your interests, and promote the hell out of them. Encourage people to vote. Get people registered. Tell everyone why you like this one better than that one - based on policies and history, not “he’s a lying scumbag” or “she caters to corporate greed.” 

None of them is perfect. ALL OF THEM ARE BETTER THAN WHAT WE HAVE - do not help the Republicans (and the Russians!) suppress progressive voters by badmouthing other people’s choices.

I don’t want Sanders. I think he’s too old (and so is Warren) and we need people whose understanding of business and social dynamics are based on recent trends. I think Sanders is too caught up in social class as the only real axis of oppression; I don’t think he understands intersectionality. I worry that he favors gun rights more than is safe.

I’m not voting for him in the primaries. But if he gets the nomination, HE HAS MY VOTE IN NOVEMBER. And not in a “ugh, holding my nose and voting against Trump” way - he wants medical care for everyone; he wants college to be available to all; he wants strong unions and worker support. I can get behind those policy plans.

No litmus tests this time. No single issue that convinces people to stay home in November 2020. Pick one you like, or pick a few that you’re deciding between - but don’t convince yourself that any of them are evil incarnate and must be stopped at all costs.

Because we have that. And Republicans know damn well that they only win elections by splitting and suppressing votes for Democrats - so they’ll be hyping “this candidate is too terrible to vote for!!! Just stay home!” for the next year and a half.

[sl-walker]

FUCKING THIS.

We do not shoot down any decent, viable candidate this time. 

[lameforger]

america if yall start infighting about this again and it results in trump winning bc yall vote blank bc yr fav didnt win ill 100% never feel sorry for yall ever again and you will be dead to me

this is way too important to do the infighting shit the left is known for

[caroline]

[dreamingofmotherhood93]

Just an FYI for those in the US with insurance issues

[teratomarty]

Important information! Insurance coverage decisions are made by medically ignorant bean-counters. Until we can dismantle the whole shitty system, know how to scare them into submission.

[nerdgasrnz]

This is like that procedure Mr. Incredible told that old lady

[caroline]

[anthropologyapologist]

Honestly it’s pretty weird being a poc in academia. During my undergrad I didn’t feel it as much because I was doing an ethnic studies program as well and everyone was latinx so now that I’m focusing on just anthropology in my grad program I’m really noticing the difference.

[anthropologyapologist]

I really miss being around latinx academics. All the professors were latinx too and there’s only one latinx professor in the anthro department. Being able to talk to other students with the same cultural background as me is really understated. I miss the way the people in the ethnic studies would organize in order to raise funds for migrant youth or central american organizations. You don’t see a lot of that in this anthropology program. As much as they talk about participant observation, there is such a disconnect.

[caroline]

[poefinn]

I’m a simple man. I see a cowboy hat, I say “I wanna be a cowboy, Babey,”