I forgot about making a post pretty much immediately, so I was like “why is this person asking me about maurice sendak”

Anyway! They aren’t mind blowing, but there’s just like a lot of things intersecting?

So I looked up “Mata Hari”, because I just felt like seeing stuff about the real woman, right? I don’t know why I chose to do this on Tumblr and not just like on Google. But I was just kind of interested in what the Tumblr shape of information about her would be? I know the things, I know the general was she wasn’t she, I know appropriating vaguely Malaysian background as just a Dutch lady was not a cool move but setting all of that aside just for the Optics of wow this is a weird thing, that was the tag I was in.

First thing I get is a Kpop star.

And then some kind of generic anime girl.

And some Eurovision.

And then it was just like this slow accumulation of weird intersections. The K-pop Star had recently been given the role of someone called matahari for some musical venture which might be about the original woman or might be about the generic anime girl.

Generic anime girl seems to be from like a fighting game maybe? One person is celebrating that there is at least one person on Tumblr who regularly draws fanart of her and the other is celebrating that she was finally given a new animation and some kind of buff??

Then there were still some a movie from the 1930s which people were going nuts over because they were fans of the 1930s Hollywood aesthetic, but I thought they all looked terrible in comparison to the actual lady in terms of capturing literally anything about her.

Lots of pictures of what people think this woman conjures up verses what she actually looked like.

So I’m looking at gif sets of this 1930s movie and this KPop star and a musical and fanart of the generic anime girl and colorizations of a woman they executed in the forties and screaming about the merits of a pop song from 2021 and it was just a weird intersection of things to see. Streams of information I am oblivious to daily.