#Cabinet of Horribles

[cabinette]

i just wanted to doodle kabru but things happen

#i say with shame that a tiktok audio inspired this #he is staring with SOOOOO much disgust. he's SOOOO so angry. #Laios and his STUPID bright smile and his HORRIBLE choppy haircut and how he's so FREAKISHLY fascinated with monsters #labru #laikabu #laios touden #kabru #dunmeshi #dungeon meshi #art cabinet

[fictionadventurer]

The more I learn about Civil War politics, the more I'm convinced that Lincoln's most impressive and useful leadership trait was that he never let his pride get in the way of doing his job.

Other people in Lincoln's position would have come to Washington with something to prove. They'd have resented the insults and tried to disprove them. They'd have tried to seize power and credit, rejected help, spent a lot of time trying to reach a certain level of respect.

Lincoln's response to, "You're just a backwoods lawyer with no executive experience who makes too many dumb jokes," was pretty much always, "Yeah. And?" He had no interest in petty personal power plays. He had a country to run. There was a war on. It didn't matter what people thought of him so long as the job got done.

He was aware of his personal shortcomings and was always willing to accept advice and help from people who had more knowledge and experience in certain areas. He presided over a chaotic Cabinet full of abrasive personalities who thought they were better and smarter than him, but he kept working with them because they could get the job done. For example: Stanton was absolutely horrible to him when they were both working as lawyers. Just incredibly mean on a personal level. But when Lincoln needed someone to replace Cameron, he swallowed his pride and appointed Stanton as Secretary of War, where Stanton proceeded to be mean to everyone in the world, but he whipped that department into shape and kept it running efficiently through a very chaotic war. Pretty much no one except Lincoln would have been able to put up with that. He could put up with people who were personally difficult if they could do the job he needed them to do--which he was only able to do because his own ego didn't get in the way.

Lincoln's example is a prime demonstration of how humility isn't underrating yourself--it's being so secure in your own abilities and identity that you don't need to attack anyone or defend yourself to prove your worth. He knew his shortcomings, but he also knew his strengths. He was willing to give other people credit for successes and take blame upon himself for failures if it kept things running smoothly. He was secure enough in his own power that he could deal generously--but firmly--with people who tried to undermine him. In a city full of huge egos, in a profession that rewards puffed-up pride, that levelheaded humility is an extremely rare trait--which is what made it so impressive and effective.

#history is awesome #presidential talk #so i went to a teeny backwater thrift store today #their tiny history book section just happened to have an old lincoln biography #i opened to the page about the cabinet #which describes the situation like 'seward was calling himself premier and lording it over everyone' #'blair was causing problems everywhere' #'welles was insulting everyone in his diary and especially hated stanton grant and seward' #'and stanton hated absolutely everyone in the whole wide world' #and as i was reading this i was internally kicking my legs with excitement and cackling with glee because this is the good stuff #i don't know why but i love these horrible petty men #they're like a bunch of raccoons fighting over territory in a dumpster fire it's so great #i read the whole chapter right there in the store #and it impressed upon me yet again how impressive lincoln was to put up with all these guys #(the writer was a bit simplistic and made a lot of these guys come off as worse than they were) #(like he made seward sound like a complete incompetent when he was a pretty good secretary of state) #(he had some grandiose ideas but the man deserves a lot of credit for keeping england out of the war) #(but for a one-chapter summary of these guys it wasn't exactly wrong and it was a ton of fun) #i very much did not want another book especially another american history book #but it was only fifty cents and i have a pouch full of spare change #and the writer's style was so much fun that i decided to take the book with me #i don't plan to read the whole thing (i'm sick of lincoln bios) but it's fun to dip into for things like this #and i had to talk to you about it

[liminalmindcore]

magine that the final boss exits the game, and you have to face him in the real world.

#final boss #final battle #aesthetic #arcade #arcade cabinet #arcade games #atari #retro video games #video games #nude art #retrowave #80s nostalgia #vaporwave #80s aesthetic #retro aesthetic #digital art #horror #horrible histories #beauttiful girls #women #vhs aesthetic #reality glitch #futurewave

[cainware]

I'm yet again thinking about Bernard becoming a vigilante and him and Tim are just?? Constantly dodging each other's questions about wounds and bruises in increasingly bizarre excuses until one day they're forced to confront the truth

#timber #timbern #idk man im just thinking about this ahain and it makes me laugh #oh yeah totally broke my hand in a uh. horrible cabinet slamming accident. #oh yeahvno yhr black eye isnjust. i ran into a door?? #adding a tag for #the delphi initiative #cause im gonna compile all future thoughts on vigilante bernard into that tag #cainschatter

[thewordsayer]

So uhhh

It’s Him

[two ink drawings of Conrad Veidt in the cabinet of doctor caligari. both are holding flowers, one is tiny, full body and in green ink, the other is just a portrait. both are pink tinted]

#the cabinet of dr. caligari #conrad veidt #it’s weird how handsome he is when he really shouldn’t be #this is a horrible depiction of him tho #the tint is just my lighting

[sixty-silver-wishes]

shout out to @ganymedian for introducing me to the weird ass caligari dub adaptation where cesare wilhelm screams when he dies

#the cabinet of dr. caligari #it was actually so so funny #the acting was HORRIBLE for the most part #and it could have been improved just a little if the actor for francis played cesare and the actor for cesare played caligari #but it was hilarious

[mantisgodsdomain]

As we finish drawing up our final Febuwhump prompts and putting the finishing touched on our initial drafts list, we are struck with the distinct impulse to convert ZB-162 to HBG formatting. This is a curse & a dastardly trick. This character. Is a fungus.

#we speak #ocs #zb-162 #its host is a honeybee also but it doesn't personally consider itself to be a bee. it considers that to have stopped when it was infected. #if it wasnt HORRIBLY INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE SETTING it would probably like. burrow into some fungus tech center somewhere #and simply set itself up at its usual signal-sorting-and-interpreting job #just kinda. burying its bee body and host somewhere. like the freak it is. #suspiciously intelligent ai on the fungus. There Is A Body Buried In The Walls. #sometimes it also eats people but like dont worry about that #cabinet man but its a fucking office computer

[tillman]

month away from the year anni of me deciding to dust off my interest in gg and get really autistic . time flys

#the real year anni of that was like last month . whenever violet visited and wefound the +r cabinet that got me really going #and the actual anni of me considering myself a gg fan is like . 4 5 years back or something but . #i literally rebloged youre my pockets eddie again late august and it started a horrible spiral #txt

[it-may-be-dull-but-im-determined]

Just over here looking at the list of new clowns running the UK...

#suella braverman???? as home secretary.?????? you could not make this shit up #she couldn't even argue uk law coherently when she was attorney general #priti patel was BAD but this is just laughable #these people are proved themselves to be incompetent over and over again #how the fuck are we going to get through another year of this shit #these people have zero connection with reality #the fact is that any competence has been systematically stripped out of the cabinet so that the chief clown could pick cronies #who are inevitably hard right wing horrible sociopaths

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#there's this wild thing i do where i dont trust the chemical lables on containers in the lab #which is 1000% irrational bc by law they have to b correctly labled #i guess its probably more that i dont trust my ability to read the lables. thats a lil more irrational #lil more rational i mean. bc dyslexia and a short term memory that has been certified as below average #so i read the lable and think ok i read the right thing. then i turn around and im immediatly like ok but did i remember that right? #and so i have to go back and check multiple times. it happens everytime i have to pour ethanol #ill pour it into the container and still im like. ok but is this actually ethanol???? yes! u checked the cabinet 3 times and it behaves #like ethanol! wtf is ur problem??? good lord. this is part of the reason i hated chemistry labs #i would get so fucking stressed out that i would have to leave the room and lay on a bench outside so i wouldnt pass out #bc i dont deal well with time pressure and i would have to read the instructions over and over and over and walk back and forth to the #chemical. distrusting of what i just picked up bc i cant trust my eyes and brain. and that eats up a lot of time #and is super fucking frustrating. its also y i go to the lab at weird times so ppl cant see me tracking and back tracking bc my brain cant #go straight from a to b. annoying. its also y i cant handle cooking bc its literally like chemistry #i cant trust my brain to understand instructions under time pressure. i hate it #i also have to tap my pockets like every five minutes to make sure i still have my keys on me bc idk im afriad ill lose them #recently ive been very bad abt locking my door too. as in i lock my door. take ten steps away and cant remember if i locked my door #so i either have to go back and check. and its always locked. or i walk away with a horrible sinking feeling in my gut #even when i kno i locked it. im like. but did i tho??? and i always forget to double check until im like annoyingly far away #whatever. its not that bad. just annoying mostly. sigh... im back taking measurements for the next 4 or 5 days #im being a horrible mope bc all my time feels empty. like i gotta probably say thank u to coauthors for their help getting a manuscript #accepted but i just feel so detached abt it im like so fucking what? but whatever. i gotta pretend to b a functional person #and then work on all rhe other manuscripts that r way more boring. like sure useful whatever i dont care its gonna b boring to write #uuuuugh this what the stupid measurements do to me. im an empty shell. i dont even kno what to draw or read or watch. im just bleh sad #bc i kno im activitly making bad and wasteful choices but i self awareness doesnt seem to help #alas. trapped in a web of compulsive patterns #unrelated

[cabinette]

they're sooo so special to me....

sigh, hi @cjsees <333 are you sick of me yet <333 /J

#wf2 #stagehands #OUGH I LOVE SUNNY AND TERGE SOOO SO MUCH A HORRIBLE AMOUNT MY CUP RUNNETH OVER #art cabinet #I'M INSAAAANE ABOUT THEM I WANT THEM TO GET BETTER INSTANTLY #tf2 oc

[erabundus]

@sylvctica &&. replied... OUGH THAT SOUNDS SO GOOD. on the opposite end u have attracted a 13 foot tall god deer

he's ( unfortunately ) quite used to being at something of a height disadvantage — though this is ridiculous even by HIS standards ...

#sylvctica #( i've had this tea hanging around for WEEKS but i've only gotten to trying it now because i have a horrible problem -- ) #( -- where i just buy boxes of different teas & never drink them ) #( send help my cabinets are full my family is judging i am the sole tragic tea enthusiast in this household )

[confuzing]

Watched the first six episodes of del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiouities.

They’re all very good and spooky so far, but The Autopsy is the one that really got me spooked.

#guillermo del toro's cabinet of curiosities #It was like a horrible animorphs

[medicinemane]

Bart realized he could get up on to the fridge from the spot here likes to stand between the kitchen and there diningroom

#my cats #look at the horrible job painting the last guy who had this place did #fun fact before i had the electricians move it the socket there fridge plugged into was... #that's right; inside the kitchen cabinet

[timehascomeagain]

i am so scared abt the state of this country. Kmssssss

#idw go back to college in this climate n idw quit my job during an oncoming r*cession like this is horrible i hate being 18 #and the truss cabinet.....................Fear #Fear in my soul..

[dogtheories]

of the fitz and argonaut-inverse, who would most enjoy being given chocolates (romantically or otherwise)

hmmm. i think mave probably Gets Given chocolates (because people dont know what gifts to get her) but she doesnt particularly like them. and maybe ummm nasir would like getting them but nobody gifts them to him. VERY SAD

#soda.exe #fitz would never give mave chocolates he gives her a new horrible looking custom sex toy every year which she promptly sentences to death #in some cabinet to be locked away forever. but you love the mega tentacle buttplug he says. and she tells him to kill himself