Settle This For Me

It’s so upsettingly telling of how far the misinformation about this lovely man has gone that none of these results are of his actual last piece.

For reference this is the actual last thing Louis Wain drew before he died:

This is your official psa that Louis Wain was a creative man who also happened to be neurodivergent and experimented with hundreds of styles and levels of abstraction throughout his life, and those stupid fucking images of a bunch of his art collected in an order that gets progressively more unconventional and are supposed to correlate with his worsening schizophrenia are deliberately misleading, inaccurate and ableist.

THIS IS NOT CHRONOLOGICAL. I CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH HOW MUCH HE WAS JUST A CREATIVE GUY WITH A VARIED STYLE. STOP TREATING ART MADE BY NEURODIVERGENT PEOPLE AS A FREAKSHOW EXHIBIT AND SPREADING MISINFORMATION ABOUT REAL DECEASED ARTISTS FOR THE SAKE OF HORROR AND SPECTACLE.

lux interior and poison ivy of the cramps

THEY PLAYED VAMPIRES AKA THEIR FIRST EVER RELEASED SONG AND FAKE YOUR DEATH AKA THE LAST SONG RELEASED BEFORE THE BREAK BACK TO BACK OH MY FUCKING GOD

The Royal Ballet’s Frankenstein (2016), ph. Alistair Muir

ginger snaps (2000) dir. john fawcett

that kind of love only exists in the movies </3 (cannibalism, killing for each other or killing each other, being conjoined and not being able to survive separation, and licking side wounds)

Imagine how much scarier zombie movies would be if the zombies smiled when they saw you because they were excited to finally eat. Imagine walking into a building to go and find shelter, scavenge, whatever, and you shine your flashlight into a room only to find several zombies idling there. Your light catches their eyes and they turn to look at you, their expressions desolate and empty. However, the moment they spot you, their open mouths turn to wide uncontrollable smiles and their eyes disappear into slits. They almost look friendly. Maybe even some of them manage to laugh instead of groan. How would you feel after months and months of losing people you know to smiling hoards? How would you feel after every encounter with a joyful zombie leaves you shaken and tired and fearful? How would you feel after hearing the sounds of laughter mixed in with the sounds of screaming and flesh being torn? After everything, what would your brain's wiring process do to you when you see a friend smile? Would you hate smiling? Would you feel rage? Would your brain devolve back into a time where showing one's teeth always meant a threat? What would you do if the joy of the human race was now only kept by the dead

Stevie Nicks (by Paul Cox 1994)

having a normal morning (got genuinely emotional at 6 AM over how gerard way has never been more beautiful)

New Things to Beware on the Internet

On May 3rd, Google released 8 new top-level domains (TLDs) -- these are new values like .com, .org, .biz, domain names. These new TLDs were made available for public registration via any domain registrar on May 10th.

Usually, this should be a cool info, move on with your life and largely ignore it moment.

Except a couple of these new domain names are common file type extensions: ".zip" and ".mov".

This means typing out a file name could resolve into a link that takes you to one of these new URLs, whether it's in an email, on your tumblr blog post, a tweet, or in file explorer on your desktop.

What was previously plain text could now resolve as link and go to a malicious website where people are expecting to go to a file and therefore download malware without realizing it.

Folk monitoring these new domain registrations are already seeing some clearly malicious actors registering and setting this up. Some are squatting the domain names trying to point out what a bad idea this was. Some already trying to steal your login in credentials and personal info.

This is what we're seeing only 12 days into the domains being available. Only 5 days being publicly available.

What can you do? For now, be very careful where you type in .zip or .mov, watch what website URLs you're on, don't enable automatic downloads, be very careful when visiting any site on these new domains, and do not type in file names without spaces or other interrupters.

I'm seeing security officers for companies talking about wholesale blocking .zip and .mov domains from within the company's internet, and that's probably wise.

Be cautious out there.