A 113 year old organ (built in 1905) plays “Rasputin” by Boney M. Total jam.
To give you some perspective of just how *old* this thing is, this organ was around before the events in the last two verses of the song (where Rasputin dies) had even happened yet.
RA RA RASPUTIN
GREATEST ORGAN-PLAYING QUEEN
we should all be thankful that the loki show didn’t come out during his original time as a tumblr sexyman because we would have had a very real contender for the next onceler on our hands
i want you all to sit down and think about “loki, but there’s canonically an infinite number of variations of him” dropping in 2014 and count your blessings
tumblr meme culture is really just a form of neo dadaism
I’d like to clarify:
dada was a largely european art movement that took place after wwi. this time and place is not a coincidence. let me explain.
dada art made no sense. the artists who made dada lived in a world in which nothing made sense - in which conventional logic led to the senselessness of a world war. so, making art that made no sense, making - well, you can’t really call it art, so making ANTI-art that rejected the conventions that brought about that atrocity in the first place - it made total sense. (if that makes any sense.)
so the artists did weird things. new things! putting things that were already made together and calling it sculpture, cutting up bits of pictures and putting them together and calling that something to frame - this site has some nice examples.
but from my perspective - there’s serious intellectual continuity between the absurdity of attaching a bunch of tacks to the bottom of an iron, rendering it useless, and say…. bath bomb posts. Put a fucking macbook in a bath. it’s useless now. Nobody fucking cares anymore. you want something funny? you want a punchline? gun. that’s your punchline. Take it. I am laughing
in a way it could be a method of venting some of the frustration and hopelessness and dissatisfaction that tumblr’s userbase (largely, disenfranchised millennials) feels in the modern day. I can’t really speak for anyone else, but… at least from a US perspective, there’s plenty to be disillusioned about. growing up in a constant state of questionably justified war, income inequality, an economic recession caused by the actions of a handful of wealthy fucks who didn’t even get properly punished, growing awareness of police brutality, being called lazy and self-absorbed by the generations that gave us these problems in the first place… I can’t help but think that these factors (and more) could produce a similar mindset to the one that precipitated the first dada movement.
so of COURSE we make nonsense jokes. it’s a coping mechanism for a world which doesn’t make any sense.
related: this isn’t by tumblr but I have to plug UCLA’s atrocity of a virtual gallery once more. it really needs to be experienced, but… it’s definitely also millennial neo dada. from the presentation (like an unplayable video game) to the content (THE DOGS HAVE ARRIVED), it is exactly what I am talking about. it is a fucking shitpost. and it’s high art, too! I love this
tl;dr: my generation is fed up with this bullshit, and the best way that we can express that is by shitposting. alternatively, dada was an early precursor to modern shitposting and we should all thank duchamp for signing a fucking urinal
a dear friend has given a perfect update to some of my phrasing, courtesy of their word replace extension:
you see this? this is exactly what I’m fucking talking about. the thing that I’m talking about is:
I’d also say that while Dadaism was obsessed with the technological aspects of Modernity, of newspapers, of industrial mechanics and factory made clocks, neo-dadaism (of which shitposting but also the increasingly broad reach of the New Aesthetic and net aesthetics) is obsessed with the technological aspects of our time, or at the beginning of our time.
As just a comparison, the Clock in Absurdist and Dadaist art is both a symbol of the uplifting beginning of industrial relations (as one of the first complicated machines made by manufacturers, as the symbol of mankind’s ability to triumph and analyze nature and better ourselves) and as the deified symbol of horrific modernity (of demarcated time, labor hours, the oppression of the working class via managerial time), Neo-Dadaism/Absurdism has a similar relationship with early computers, which both symbolizes the utopian attitudes which we entered the digital age with, and the horrifying period we live in now, where the Digital is ever present and semi-deified.
My favorite dada satire is probably from Georges Grosz who takes the kind of robotic modernist tube people of folks like Leger:
and turns them into these mindlessly patriotic broken automatons chanting rote phrases:
And it’s so so funny to me that there’s all kinds of Gen X artists out there creating art about the millennials on their damn cellumar phones who think they’re the inheritors of this aesthetic but really it’s people who use the Madden gif generator to shitpost because they’re taking the technology meant for a coherent purpose for a particular narrative and they’re breaking it and turning it back on itself.
I think you might be onto something…
Aside from color palettes and materials used, I see literally zero difference.
This is one of the top 3 best posts I’ve ever seen on tumblr and I’ve been here for years.
Love
STATUS: DAY MADE.
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This post has been on my mind constantly for ages.
it got better
I'm about to drop it but one last thing: no one is saying you have to like porn or have any particular feelings about porn or sex work. Like it would definitely help to unlearn the reactionary myths about sex work that are so pervasive in many ostensibly leftist spaces, since these myths inform people's politics, but the issue isn't really feelings, it's a labour rights issue and a human rights issue. The point is to advocate for sex workers to live free from carceral violence and discrimination, to organise with us as workers, and to support our attempts to organise while we're dealing with increasingly reactionary political landscapes. And yes, that also means acknowledging that you don't know the specifics of our jobs and will need to utilise our expertise sometimes too.
For example, way too many people support laws requiring condoms in porn because they don't know that condoms aren't meant to be used for hours at a time; they break when and cause painful abrasions which increase the risk of STI transmission. The porn industry has a system of STI and BBV screening that manages these risks very effectively because condoms don't work in studio produced porn. Mandated condoms are opposed by performers for these reasons and yet this is always spun as "the porn industry is against it" to imply that it's just studios and producers saying this, and people who don't care enough to investigate these claims take them at face value because of course the porn industry is so senseless and evil that it would oppose measures to protect performers right? This is yet another example of why this trend of reducing sex workers knowledge to identity politics is completely misguided and has to stop
I saw countless self proclaimed leftists supporting the latest round of sex work criminalisation in the US (while complaining about being called swerfs for doing so of course), which makes zero sense in the context of a political framework that opposes the surpression of workers and carceral violence, and acknowledges how propaganda manufactures consent. I don't know how you can rationalise "the state is bad except when it's oppressing sex workers cos I hate those whores" and yet this is something way too many leftists do.
Literally all you have to do is treat sex work as a labour rights issue and apply the same amount of critical thought as you would to any other governmental reform
I don't support the existence of the logging or mining industries at fucking all but I still don't advocate for legislation that would enable bosses to strip workers benefits, reduce their pay or ban them from striking, and I certainly don't conclude that because these industries are evil I should trust whatever the government says about them
Any early member of Harry Potter fandom will remember Cassandra Claire’s Draco Trilogy. Published from 2000 to 2006, many fans attribute popular Harry Potter fanon tropes to this early fanfiction series. However, what started out as an exciting epic quickly devolved into a massive controversy.
This Wank Wednesday, we’re taking a deep dive into the 2006 exposé that forever changed fandom. Fan critic Avocado, over a three day period, itemized the events around Cassandra Claire’s ban from FanFiction.net as well as the explicit plagiarism found in the Draco Trilogy.
Read about the Cassandra Claire Plagiarism Debacle (including links via the Wayback Machine of the original posts) with us on Fanlore.
i want a gay-coded-villain-coded hero. everything about their aesthetics says that they are evil and gay, but technically speaking their behavior is never anything less than noble and helpful, albeit in a weirdly sinister way.
doctor who meme | nine scenes [3/9]
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“You’ve been in that skin suit too long. You’ve forgotten. There used to be a real Margaret Blaine. You killed her and stripped her and used the skin. You’re pleading for mercy out of a dead woman’s lips.”
#anyways eccleston is such an underrated doctor#his acting in this scene alone should won him at least 10 emmy’s or whatever#i haven’t rewatched his season for more then 5 years now#but i still remember to this day his voice when he said ‘cause they begged’#it gave me so much shivers (via @julibernardo)
