"We're talking low prices."

It's Alecto, in her favorite t-shirt that she never got to wear from another life! I do hope there's still some Nona in her somewhere, but I also fully support her on her quest for revenge. Come on, Barbie-- let's go party.

this is so fun

gooby woobies

This is how Jacob started to fall for Kaylee

Couple years ago I saw these two board games at the store back to back. Well, not saw them per se, but ya know. Spied them out of the corner of my eye. And for a moment without reading the text, I couldn’t tell you which was which decade at first. Funny. Either they were in a rush to get these out the door or they wanted their throwback trivia game boxes to look uniform. I didn’t think too much of it.

Only, from then on I started seeing it MORE. Every time someone markets a 90s or 80s throwback…

Goddammit they’re identical! What??! How did we let this happen? As a 90s survivor and a designer, this drives me up a wall.

Look, I know I’m late to the party to complain about “the 90s look” when we’re just starting to get sick of the Y2K nostalgia train. But c’mon, the 90s were not The 80s: Part Two™ 

Trust me when I say that we weren’t all wearing neon trapezoids up until the year 2000. The 90s look being peddled is so specific to the tail end of the 80s and an early early part of the 90s - a part of the 90s when it wouldn’t stop being the 80s. This is Memphis design being conflated with the wrong decade.

Keep reading for a long ass graphic design history lesson and pictures of old soda and fast food.

Keep reading

my personal take on this is that a lot of US American 80s aesthetics was still around in or only made its way to other parts of the world big scale in the 90s, and that’s why the look is hard to distinguish for many.

I grew up in the 90s, but I was surrounded by US media from the 80s because television series took years to get localized, and even then the translation would integrate local 90s trends and combine them with the visuals of the USA in the 80s. Which gave us tons of media that textually had arrived in the 90s but were juxtaposed with the aesthetics of the 80s. To this day I have trouble separating the two trends because they coincided where I lived.

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rosanna warren, "eclogue" / wendell berry, "marriage" / ada limón, "the unbearable"

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Rattlesnakes behind every door 💥

standing in a stream

thinking about modern vampires who aren't suspicious bc they're just the local goth couple