pop culture intertextuality is just so damn *fascinating*
today a parody movie (50 shades of black) comes out, based on the 50 shades of grey movie, which was based on the 50 shades book, which was based on twilight, which was somewhat based on interview with the vampire (which anne rice based on an earlier short story she wrote), which was based on Dracula and other vampire stories, which originally came from Dr. John Polidori’s The Vampyre (even though Vampires were a thing in folk tales before then, he was the one who made them all classy, etc.)
so really, like so many things, this is all Lord Byron’s fault.
It is kinda funny how two different staples of the horror genre (the vampire and the mad scientist/monster combo) both have their origins in the horrifying experience of being trapped in a cabin with Lord Byron.
you wanna know something that fucks me up when i think about it. what really fucks me up. that the west coast of the us has different butter than the east coast. like it’s an entirely different shape. when i learned that my brain metaphorically exploded. something as fundamental and constant as butter is completely different based on whether you grew up in oregon or south carolina. where is the divide. why doesn’t anyone talk about this. oh fuck i’m thinking about the east/west butter divide again i gotta calm down
i’m from massachusetts. when i first learned that not only is the bottom butter common in the western part of the us, but it’s the only butter that some people know, i lost my goddamned mind. i had never even SEEN any butter than the top butter until i bought some at trader joe’s and was like what the goddamned hell is this. now every time i see tj’s butter in my fridge i have a minor exestential crisis. that first time i googled the history of butter. east coast butter is called elgins and west coast butter is called west coast stubbies. i need to stop talking about this because it makes me fall into a butter-fueled spiral if i think about it for too long
Jesus I wonder where the cut off point is?? I’ve lived in five midwestern states and I’ve only ever seen east coast butter and this is disturbing to me
Thank Christ, I moved to Seattle from Louisiana and have been so confused for a year now and it’s such a relief to know it’s not some weird fever dream
im from the uk and when i came to the eastern US and saw ur long butter it absolutely freaked my entire bean
Very ironic that this april we are stuck at home with a new popular videogame thats about collecting various grist and crafting in a randomly generated world full of animal consorts……
I keep going back to watch this video it just captures my sense of humour perfectly
Demön
Once upon a time, my friend made the mistake of telling me her house was haunted so I spent the whole night yelling “Lucifer come at me bro” and other ridiculous shit along those lines until she got a blurry picture of our dear friend, Luci
