Taylor (5'5")

@vertarchy

Arkansas archeologist. Kentucky Colonel. Poet. he/him

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Taylor (5'5")@vertarchy· May 23

Watched Salò. Baby's first film to clutch your pearls to.

A 4.5 star review of Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom by me.

Reads:
Everything you've heard about this film is true. It's horrifying, disgusting, difficult to watch and harder to stomach.

It's also baby's first outrage film. The violence, the gore, the rape—pales in comparison to what's in the New French Extremity movement. Hell, Human Centipede is a more revolting film with less to say.

The horror of Salò isn't just what's happening on screen, the actual torture and rape and shit eating, but the circumstance. The fact you know these men will get away with it because of their position in the fascist party, and the fact the only people in the film capable of stopping them are just following orders.

Taylor (5'5")@vertarchy· May 11

I have never once seen this deployed except to make fun of someone questioning the premise of a mean or bigoted joke.

Man looking at himself in a mirror. Words stylized like a book title reads, "Did I just argue with a joke? Part of a Bluesky educational series."

Taylor (5'5")@vertarchy· Feb 17

are you cousin it?

Taylor (5'5")@vertarchy· Jan 6

Froggy nap

Poppy, a black golden doodle with a flat coat, napping cuddled with her frog toy.

Taylor (5'5")@vertarchy· Sep 10

They were hiding under her picnic table to get away from this egret harassing them.

A white great egret stalking two brown ducks on the bank of a pond

Taylor (5'5")@vertarchy· Aug 30

A tweet by Donald Trump (Deseaced) (from 2020, iirc)
"I have died. Badly."

Taylor (5'5")@vertarchy· Aug 22

My contempt for the Yankee liberal is quite endless, really.

Quote tweet from "Fossil Locator" @FossilLocator
"There are feral humans in the Appalachian ans they're occasionally responsible for disappearances"

Quoted tweet:
"What's a conspiracy theory you believe with your whole heart?"

Reply to previous tweet by "Fossil Locator"
"I love the range of responses to this from 'you're being mean to Appalachians!' To 'I grew up here, you don't go into the woods after dark, don't get lured off trail by whistling, and if you hear whispering turn around and go back'"

Reply to first tweet by Joshua Lisec
"That's not a conspiracy theory.

I met one of these families in 1998 in the hills above Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

Their kind has since retreated higher, deeper into the mountains, far and away from the tourists.

Only to be stumbled upon at the opportune moment.

As it were."

"Fossil Locator"'s reply:
"Ya, most of them just want to be left alone. But there's a few that may have been alone for too long and you hear things and you hear places you don't go."

Taylor (5'5")@vertarchy· May 18

Highlights from the car show

A black and white photo of a truck wheel. The bolts are spikes.

A black and white photo of a model Dale Earnhardt's stockcar sitting on a car engine.

A black and white photo of an extremely low pick up truck, taken from ground level.

A black and white car bumper and a shopping cart sitting in the middle of the sidewalk.

Taylor (5'5")@vertarchy· May 16

heartbreaking: the worst person you know just made a great point

Taylor (5'5")@vertarchy· May 6

It even has skulls and crossbones

Taylor, a man making a squinting face with long, tied up hair, wearing a blue shirt and a red bowtie with a skulls and crossbones pattern

Taylor (5'5")@vertarchy· May 2

Anyone need some Blue?

A punch jar at a BBQ place, it is full of an electric blue liquid.

Taylor (5'5")@vertarchy· Apr 28

The Mississippi State flag, it is broken into 5 vertical stripes in red, yellow, blue, yellow, and red. In the center is a blooming magnolia flower, surrounded by stars with a yellow star at the peak, and the motto "In God We Trust" under the flower.

Taylor (5'5")@vertarchy· Apr 26

Waiting on hibachi

A scene of rural town, an empty lot, a crossroads, with low clouds in the sky.

Taylor (5'5")@vertarchy· Mar 22

Lol

Fisherking1000's handle showing the "Jesse Singal follower" tag

Taylor (5'5")@vertarchy· Mar 14

Misint. Fact 4: The Moon-Eyed people are a Mississippian myth. As I understand, the Moon-Eyed people are very specifically a Cherokee myth. If I'm wrong, I'll happily be corrected, but this likely would not have been a story existed among the Chickasaw and Choctaw of this story's setting.

“Indeed,” said Harold. “After our talk yesterday, I was curious. So, I decided that if they were going to be waking me up at ungodly hours anyway, I might as well get some information out of them about the mounds. I was right when I told you no one knew why the Mississippians kept burning down their cities or where they went, but a lot of legends from other tribes feature a common enemy that might be to blame.”

Gideon sat on the stool beside Harold. This sounded like the kind of story worth settling in for.

“There’s even less known about this enemy tribe, if they even existed, than there is about the Mississippians, but in the stories they’re always referred to as ‘the Moon-Eyed People’. Legend says they only came out at night, burrowing in the ground during the day because the sun was too strong for their eyes. They also say the Moon-Eyed People were strangely pale. Some historians—white historians, of course—think this means they were actually Vikings or other early European explorers, but they would, wouldn’t they? White folk are always putting themselves into things where they don’t belong.”

Taylor (5'5")@vertarchy· Mar 14

Misint. Fact 3: Mississippians burned their entire towns. House burnings were common throughout the Mississippian world, for many different reasons. But rarely, if ever, were entire towns burned at the same time.

Gideon leaned his elbows on the counter as he listened.

“They would burn down their villages every three or four hundred years. Burn ‘em right to the ground. All their homes and crops and everything. And then, craziest of all, they’d build right back on top of them. On the exact same spot!”

The old man huffed and returned to his book. “Can’t have been all that impressive if they kept burning ‘em down, but I still got to deal with the damned archeologists trying to dig ‘em back up!”

Taylor (5'5")@vertarchy· Mar 14

Misint. Fact 2: The mounds weren't burial mounds. Some were, some weren't. However, burials were common in mounds throughout the Mississippian world during their entire civilization.

“But they’re not burial mounds?” Gideon asked, interested despite himself. Until Ray came in, his choice was either talk to Howard or learn how to make rotisserie chicken at home from the infomercial.

—It’s so easy! Just set it and forget it!—

“Not burial mounds at all,” replied Howard, clearly pleased to have an audience. “They built the mounds for their chiefs to put their houses on. The lowly common Mississippians like you and me had to build their houses on the ground and literally look up at their leaders. Goes to show, some things never change. But you want to know the craziest thing we know about ‘em?”

Taylor (5'5")@vertarchy· Mar 14

Misinterpreted fact 1: The Mississippians "disappeared". No they didn't, their polities collapsed under the pressures of colonization and genocide and they coalesced into some of the Tribal Nations we know today, such as the Chickasaw and Choctaw (in this story's Mississippi setting).