#beyond bizarre

[buckitweride]

The 9-1-1 fandom vibes on tumblr are honestly atrocious. Despite trying hard to curate a positive space, the weird energy still creeps in.

Anyone recommend any discord servers that are friendly to multishippers? I’d love to supplement my fandom experience with spaces that aren’t obsessed with “winning” against other fans of a TV show none of us have any control over in the first place 🙃

[echocodex]

Teaser for an untitled film

[johnnyshrine]

★ 045 // “Vintage Valentine”

[drawingdreamboats]

BLOODY STREAM‼️🪽🎊

everyone go listen to the sax solo in bloody stream RIGHT NOW 🫵🏽 she needs you

➕ bisexual (x2) closeup:

[otome-dissection]

nah cuz say what you will about the new yakuza live action but this shit is fucking gay

[cenobitebf]

I've thought very hard about doom metal and have decided that all bands can be plotted across these 2 dimensions

[superdummymags]

someone drag the wonder of u arc away from me i can't stop drawing it it's such a funny arc to me

[c0dyc0la]

it wouldve been cool if diavolo never had a specified gender before he was revealed. like, the boss of passione is such a mysterious person that nobody even knows how to refer to them. talk to two people and theres a chance they wont agree on if the boss is a man or a woman. some think the boss may not even be a person. maybe a ghost. maybe a concept. maybe the boss is multiple people. maybe there is no boss. nobody would be certain. that way the story would feel like even more of a wild goose chase.

[cosmichorrorlesbians]

what's your dissertation about? you mentioned it in the siltcord and i'm really interested

oh my god hey I'm so happy you're interested! broad strokes because I've only been working on it for a few weeks but: the current theme is 'resistant landscapes' (both man-made and natural) in the later writing of Shirley Jackson!

Essentially, my main thread is that Jackson had two parallel strands to her work, which as far as I can tell began kind of interrelated but then diverged quite significantly? She's probably best known now for The Haunting of Hill House and to a lesser extent We Have Always Lived In The Castle, which are these. weird surreal psychological horror novels, engaging explicitly or implicitly with the supernatural, and centred around introspective, strange and sometimes deeply misanthropic female characters from isolated social units with dysfunctional, possessive relationships to each other.

Aaaaand then on the other hand she was known for being a 'happy housewife' who wrote these whimsical, quasi-autobiographical stories about all her children and how hopeless her husband was. These were popular too. Betty Friedan called her out in landmark 1963 feminist manifesto The Feminine Mystique for essentially spreading patriarchal propaganda.

The interrelation between the two is really jarring, because in one family is a source of horror and tragedy and in the other it's a source of, like... laundry. And Jackson's home life wasn't everything those stories made it out to be-- her marriage was unfaithful, her mother could probably be fairly called emotionally abusive, and as I talked about on the siltcord, she developed severe agoraphobia which often left her housebound.

So, yeah. My plan is to explore the depiction of families as constructed social units in dialogue with the environments they are constructed in in that work. Obviously a lot of that is relation of house to family, in the context of which Hill House is especially rewarding to consider, but I also want to look at relationships with nature and urban environments (especially in the context of settler colonialism and how that has had an enduring legacy in Jackson's particular part of New England), xenophobia (largely in regard to class, though racism and anti-Semitism are presences in her writing), domesticity and the idea of the housewife, and how horror relates to All Of This. The ideal of making a home within a hostile environment and of that environment turning on you, essentially.

I don't yet have particular areas of focus within that broad umbrella, but I might update with bits and pieces about it as I work? I don't really talk about academic stuff on here but I am very much Critical Literary Analysis Guy and I do also post relentlessly about haunted houses as a concept so if people would be interested in it maybe I will

anyway if you've read this far I recommend Horror in Architecture: The Reanimated Edition (2024) by Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing which is a book about how horror movie tropes can be mirrored in built environments! I'm reading it right now and it's conceptually fascinating plus fairlyyy comprehensible by academic standards (if a little dense) if you, like me, are a Fool who knows nothing of architecture. very good also for getting to look at pictures of some of the most Fucked Up Buildings (affectionate) you've ever seen.

[wonder-worker]

Wild how we know that Elizabeth Woodville was officially appointed to royal councils in her own right during her husband’s reign and fortified the Tower of London in preparation of a siege while 8-months pregnant and had forces gathering at Westminster “in the queen’s name” in 1483 – only for NONE of these things to be even included, let alone explored, in the vast majority of scholarship and historical novels involving her.

[brunossan]

Weird Crossover: Manly Handshake

Alucard: Just listen. We cant talk underwater, so we will use Hand Signals to communicate. We will do this (👌) to sign its okay. But if things arent okay, we will do this (🤙).

Ash: Wait! We can use someone who can read minds on our team to read everyone's minds.

Alucard: Thats True... *Looking at Frieren.*

Frieren: Well, i know a mind-network spell that we can use.

Ben: Aw, man. I was hoping to use this gesture i learned.

Ben: 🙏✌️👌🫡

Jaune: You can see her underwear.

Ben: YEAH! *Proceed to do the Manly handshake with Jaune*

Alucard: WE ARE UNDER ATTACK AND COULD DIE ANYTIME! STAY FOCUSED YOU TWO!

Frieren: Kids these days...

[mylove-thresher]

bro this was so infuriating to draw but like. Fugirl. (Insert giggle)

The anatomy is so off with the legs but like. I didn’t put too much effort on it ok. Let the legs be wonky doinky.

(What is wrong with me)

[allisonbrookearts]

Some doodles I made of my favorite characters from various anime and games I like :)

[onebizarrekai]

obligatory comically overpowered childhood character

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

So many now go on as if shows being cancelled after a single season is some new Netflix exclusive, but the entire history of television is filled with shows that were cut down in their prime, sometimes after only a couple of episodes had aired.