Gunton Blurpus

I have no idea why anybody would follow me.

[Gunton Blurpus @CentipedeMouse]

This Creature Assigns Quests

[Gunton Blurpus @CentipedeMouse]

@LegoKoon @constans The modal person in America is tolerant and accepting but does not accept the literal truth-value of everything that comes from the world of trans issues

[Gunton Blurpus @CentipedeMouse]

Train reading review: Thomas Harris's Red Dragon is a good thriller. Silence of the Lambs is even better (significantly so), but not because Red Dragon is bad; SOTL does feel like a remix. Funny that a mass market paperback assumed familiarity with the works of William Blake.

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

by Dave McKean

[Daniel Keller @dnlklr]

@pictureplane Zoomers never experienced life before poptimism and therefore anachronistically associate historical popularity with coolness

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

vector illustrations depicting Kate Bush's iconic dance sequence from her song "Wuthering Heights", poster by Chloe Chapman

[Gunton Blurpus @CentipedeMouse]

@Madmaddingcrowd That sounds like an entry point for a whole other interesting story

[Gunton Blurpus @CentipedeMouse]

@PYeerk Additionally funny because they wouldn't dream of applying this outsized scrutiny to Certain Varieties of Targets

[Cinema Gems @CINEMAGEMS]

Nowhere (1997)

[Gunton Blurpus @CentipedeMouse]

@thefionen My wife did a phoneless version of this during The Sheep Detectives (the actor who plays He-Man is in the movie (my wife leaned over to me and said, "... isn't that He-Man?"))

[Gunton Blurpus @CentipedeMouse]

"Well, Well, Well, Not So Easy To Find An Uzumaki Adaptation That Doesn't Suck Shit, Huh?"

[ilikefreakyfilms @freakyfilms0]

Uzumaki (2000)

[Gunton Blurpus @CentipedeMouse]

Say what one will about Francis Dolarhyde: taking a date to go pet a sedated tiger is a fabulous first date idea

[john v. variety ❤️.U.∞ OUT NOW @johnvvariety]

It kinda sucks that 20th century poetry had all this innovation like free verse and Black Mountain style breath stuff and L=an=UAGE and even confessional and shit and then the internet increased the amount of poets by 100x and most people who write poetry kinda suck lol

[Gunton Blurpus @CentipedeMouse]

It is no accident that the negative idea of the hipster occurred with the "rise of woke" - not only did social media allow minorities to organize like they never could before, people got sick and tired of liberal arts educated white guys holding themselves out as style leaders

[Gunton Blurpus @CentipedeMouse]

Hipsterism happened in part because the Great Onlinification of the 2000s-2010s changed the game for tastemaking and gatekeeping. You could research, develop, and bicker about canons and reviews and trends without ever leaving your home. Anybody could do it - if they wanted to

[Gunton Blurpus @CentipedeMouse]

Tastemaker-types were temporarily superpowered, with a detailed set of aesthetics, unaware that the rise of social media use by normies allowed their tastemaking to be publicly countered with, "this is 'cool'? says who?" by everybody else

[Gunton Blurpus @CentipedeMouse]

@dee_of_e @offbeatorbit Yep. This makes perfect sense to me. The attempts to silo it into just one characteristic never feel real.