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Once upon a time, Animaniacs gave screen time to wise guy pigeons called, “The Goodfeathers,” and we loved it.

“Daria is no longer a squiggly, half-baked sidekick. She is the fully realized, illegitimate love child of Velma Dinkley and Janeane Garofalo, here to rebrand girl geeks as riot grrrl rebels.” From Haunted Fembot’s Daria Rewatch, Ep 1 Read the whole recap below:

Thinking about the chronic illness pipeline from Hot Cheeto Girl to IBS girlie.

the wolves inside me

You don’t need to go to school to be smart; you need to watch the first 12 seasons of “The Simpsons” #filmsky

a Kafkaesque nightmare wherein the soul of Dorothy Parker awakens to find she has been transformed into a toon in an Archie comic. #daria

Absurdism is just nihilism with jazz hands.

Tomorrow

I hate that our president wears his own merch.

When the 2025 Grammy Awards said, “the world is collapsing but your special fairy godmother still loves you.” #dianaross #grammys

The definition of mental wellness has changed. It looks like this now.

Donald Trump is so filled with the souls of corruptible men rn.

Sally Bowles is the original manic pixie dream girl #filmsky #cabaret

Hillmantok gets around the ruling-class perspective inherent in most higher ed courses and speaks to a desire for enlightenment, guidance, and philosophical deconstruction skills that can not be addressed by the “how to succeed” rhetoric of free online classes. More thoughts 👇

“There is a contradiction in the experience of a woman who is also an artist. She feels herself to be ‘subject’ in a world which treats her as ‘object’.“ Judy Chicago & Miriam Schapiro, “Female Imagery,” Womanspace Journal (1973)

I guess we’re making a short stop in Dickensian England before arriving in the Weimar Republic Hello, Consumption. I’ve read so much about you.

This “is a world ruled by straight white men who are comfortable giving orders to black men and to women (in the workplace and the domestic sphere) and who admit outsiders selectively and for profit.“ an out of context but relevant quote from @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social ‘s Mad Men reader #dei

Currently experiencing Erikson’s forbidden stage of psychosocial development: Resignation vs. Radical Chaos & Vengeance Manifest

Instagram said, “give us funny memes!” And I replied, “what if we reclaim the meme as a multimedia tool for popularizing the messages of intersectional feminism instead?” #audrelorde #gender #kittytsui #feminism

pretty sure I’ve been a ghost this whole time but not sure. will report back.

me, a damaged, insane person, trying to love my inner child.

sorry, I can’t rn. I’m engaging with legacy media to recall soothing moments from my past.

A labyrinth is a spiral—a frustrating, enigmatic, and cathartic journey to the center of one’s truest self. A maze, on the other hand, is a puzzle designed with multiple paths and dead ends— a meditation on overcoming adversities and hostilities that seek to exploit you. #filmsky #horrormovies

if you can’t afford therapy, I recommend watching tik tok videos of adults crying to “defying gravity”

You’ve heard of Carmen Sandiego? Meet “Vermin Mar-a-Lago” #melaniatrump #inaugurationday

#tiktok waking up this morning #buffythevampireslayer

Hi. I am Haunted Fembot. I write about alt femme culture and nostalgia. I would not say that I have mainstream appeal, but I am well-liked by writers, queers, and women with naturally brown hair. #culture #feminism #queer #filmsky #nostalgia

Rewatching Daria is grounding me. As an oddball female who grew up in the late 90s with a well-developed sense of the misogyny inherent in our world, I am forever grateful to her for reframing alienated weirdos as take-no bullshit, kiss-no-boots, feminist rebels. 📽️ #filmsky #culture #feminism #daria

Unfortunately, there are some things that Clarissa cannot explain.

advice

The tomorrows of 2025 feel like smoke on the wind. And tar in your chest. Mud for flowing water and a life lived in resignation by this body bound to endure abuse. So any way, that’s why I’m freaking out.

How “am” I?

Take me back.

This is how you fix Instagram’s rectangle grid update: go to post > elipses > adjust preview > fill Yes, you have to fix each post individually. Yes, this should be considered an act of terror.

Remember when Smithers was brown AND gay in season 1 of the Simpsons, and Fox was just like, “You can have ONE.”