kontextmaschine

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

90s high school fashion would be what, grunge, the dELiA*s catalog, spaghetti-strap tops, Abercrombie/American Eagle/Aeropostale, Hot Topic mallgoth, Old Navy, bellbottom revival into wide-leg raver pants, clove cigarettes, wicca vogue, navel, tongue, and nostril piercings?

…country music going mainstream (“Country Morning” on VH1, this weird Paula Cole/Shawn Colvin/Meredith Brooks/Lilith Fair processing of like, MichFest, 90210 then Melrose Place then Party of Five, Dawson’s Creek, Felicity (Felicity!), layered girls’ haircuts, wine-red dye (but not yet unnatural colors)…

antiheroes, that and dead-baby jokes got flattened together as “edgy”

kontextmaschine:

90s high school fashion would be what, grunge, the dELiA*s catalog, spaghetti-strap tops, Abercrombie/American Eagle/Aeropostale, Hot Topic mallgoth, Old Navy, bellbottom revival into wide-leg raver pants, clove cigarettes, wicca vogue, navel, tongue, and nostril piercings?

…country music going mainstream (“Country Morning” on VH1, this weird Paula Cole/Shawn Colvin/Meredith Brooks/Lilith Fair processing of like, MichFest, 90210 then Melrose Place then Party of Five, Dawson’s Creek, Felicity (Felicity!), layered girls’ haircuts, wine-red dye (but not yet unnatural colors)…

90s high school fashion would be what, grunge, the dELiA*s catalog, spaghetti-strap tops, Abercrombie/American Eagle/Aeropostale, Hot Topic mallgoth, Old Navy, bellbottom revival into wide-leg raver pants, clove cigarettes, wicca vogue, navel, tongue, and nostril piercings?

>the kid at the 90’s-themed queer party who wasn’t alive back then pronouncing it “vers ace”

fionaapplerocks:

Fiona Apple //  Seattle 1997-03-21, photo Scott Flanagan

adzolotl:

ultraviolet-divergence:

audible-smiles:

audible-smiles:

@haldora absolutely EVISCERATED me with the tag “Farscape feels like a BDSM AU fic for a more respectable sci fi show that doesn’t exist” and deserved to be recognized for that achievement 

“even now when i think about it it evokes the strange half-remembered/half-imagined quality of a disturbing scene in an old cartoon that pops into your mind now and again that shaped your psychosexual development in ways you can barely fathom except i watched it when i was like 23″

… and then there’s Lexx, which feels plucked from the fevered nightmares of a sleep-deprived Farscape fanfic author who thought they could lucid dream themselves into the techno-organic sci-fi orgy they wrote the afternoon before, but were too embarrassed to put online.

🤔🤔🤔

Going back to the 90s to tell them we still care about Venom but mostly because we love how gay the premise is

You know, Ace Ventura and The Big Lebowski were both basically attempts to write Raymond Chandler stories about the kind of people that still lived in Hollywood in the ‘90s

Remembering all the sites like “ff7base” or “ffiix-planet.net” that would pop up as like fanmade teasers for the English releases of 90s Square JRPGs, and maybe 3 or 4 would emerge sustaining and they’d get occasional drips of “exclusive” screens and stuff

retrocgads:

USA 1996

Reminder online matchmaking didn’t really exist in the 1990s so >2 player games were generally aimed at LANs, which often meant a workplace

Asian girls were a thing in the 90s but while it was maybe novelty it wasn’t really a “forbidden” thing, just kind of well, the ‘70s immigrants’ kids are old enough now. And also on the internet in the “thumbnail gallery post” era Japanese porn still did the “here’s the prettiest girl you might see all day in a small town, well lit, posed, and shot to encourage you to work up sexual fantasies about her!” and American stuff was like “here’s a 35-year old stripper from an hour outside of Akron in pigtails and a tartan skirt spreading her labia minora open”

The Presidents of the United States of America – Lump (1995)

So the thing is in the ‘90s themselves, Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart occupied quite different niches, but her eventual status of “celebrity who’s been to prison” was really more typical of his

Fair

You know all the modern “yay queer!” stuff grew out of a ‘90s sensibility, but when you think Queers In The '90s, you’re picturing people who survived a plague and a much more hostile culture, been really tested and passed. Like to just be out back then required you to be exceptionally self-aware, self-fulfillment-driven, independent-minded, confident, well-situated in alternative-to-mainstream subcultures and support networks, etc.

Now it’s like, this lumpy schlub in a comic book t-shirt wants the dream normie partner in his dream normie life to be a man? ok.

You know, the kid obsessed with 90s culture would have a mental breakdown that turned him bisexual and mentally ill in an endearing, dreamy, mostly functional way.

“Okay but what if heterosexuality as usual, but sometimes women are the aggressors” was absolutely what the 90s were going for all along

The Crow (1994) and Blade (1998). Off-brand comic book goth aesthetic action.

“Why would you send a random thought about the ‘90s to kontextmaschine?”

Oh, okay.

So we have enough distance from it now, was “Joxer” or “Xander” a better X-heavy name for the comic relief nice guy on the 90s “girls are hot when they fight” show?