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HEY WOAH THIS IS HOW SEASON 9 ENDED

So... cub's recent tweet

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Me when I write my characters to be emotionally tortured by their relationships: 😈

Me when I am emotionally tortured by my relationships: 👎👎👎⛈️

no! healthy relationship will kill the character! he needs an unhealthy codependent romance with a side of power imbalance to live

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No pressure but do you want to explain why you like Noroi so much? Im a huge horror movie nerd and i would love to learn more about it because im sure if youre a fan you saw a lot of details i didnt get when i watched it once like 5 ears ago :D And i love to hear people geek out

I love Noroi for a lot of reasons, but I think the thing that makes it stick with me the most is because it feels so real. It's very low-key, it's not flashy, it's not overly dramatic. It's very grounded. It is done in the style of a 'found footage' documentary- and it's done so well, you forget you're watching a movie sometimes. You feel like you're just watching a documentary. The acting is incredibly candid. It makes you believe in what you're seeing. The sense of dread builds over the course of it's run-time very slowly. It has no jumpscares, no cgi, no horror makeup- that is not where the horror comes from. It imbues a dark, gut-twisting feeling in you as the movie reaches it's climax. And that feeling doesn't go away. It follows you into the night long after the movie has ended. The images flash in your head as you're trying to sleep, you reflect on that woman's actions, you feel a little ill. The scary imagery in the movie is barely decipherable, buried under the lens of low-quality video footage. It forces your eyes to try to make out what you're looking at, and when you fail to fill in all the dots, the fear and dread hits. It's a very unique feeling, one we are rapidly losing due to the advent of high-quality camera footage at our fingertips. Long gone are the days of 280p shitty 'real ghost footage' on youtube. I truly believe "low-quality" footage to be far scarier than any high definition scary makeup, cgi, etc- nothing wrong with those things of course, though. That's just another reason why Noroi sticks with me (along with the director Shiraishi's other work). Then, there's the historical aspects of the film that I love, that also lend to the realism. The old religious village that was forced to evacuate to make room for a modern dam, leaving their centuries-old homes sunken under a man-forged lake. A very sobering reality for many old Japanese villages in real life (also a theme in the Higurashi series). The religious practices & traditions we learn about from the village, the footage of the Kagutaba ritual, the scrolls, it's incredibly detailed and realistic. I just love stuff like that. You can tell the director is a huge history nerd and it rules. This movie makes me feel sick. I won't get into it for spoiler reasons (I truly believe everyone should see this movie), but the contents are truly harrowing, and made all the more harrowing with how realistically they are presented. God it's so good. EDIT: IT'S ON YOUTUBE FOR FREE GO GO GO

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severance cigs :)

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Just... The way Milchick is reprimanded for his vocabulary in a cult full of people who all use an overly verbose vocabulary and revere an idol who also uses the same overly verbose way of speaking in their revered texts and in theory it should be something that makes him fit into Lumon's culture, but now he has to "fix" a problem that isn't a problem for anyone else because what they're really saying is not "you use too many words" but "this way of speaking is not for you, you will never be one of us."

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she looked SO GOOD this episode

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Just realised the potential themes and implications behind Lumon higher ups wanting for Milchick to keep the flare and variety of his vocabulary to a minimum. Speak less sophisticatedly. I feel so stupid and sick.

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SEVERANCE | 2x07: Chikhai Bardo / 2x10: Cold Harbor

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not hating your parents not loving your parents but the secret third thing: vague acknoweldgement that they probably couldve done a better job but like yeah whatever theyre fine i guess. wouldnt choose to spend time when them if we weren't related. makes for decent small talk. like a coworker if your family was a job.

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Bitches will be like, "haha yeah, I was the most mature kid among my peers in class and thankfully never got the weird humour everyone seemed to have"

And then sit in their room alone on their birthday

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A lot of my brain has emptied out its more traumatic contents which scares me. If I can't remember the details of an event due to my scared mind repressing it out the window, how will I defend myself when people question my school trauma.

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just had a convo with my friend. she mentioned she doesnt like sake cause its sparkling.

“wait, sake is sparkling? what have i been drinking?” i said. because i also dont like sparkling stuff.

i look at the sake bottle ive been drinking from for fun events for the past year. its vinegar.

i’ve been drinking strawberry flavored vinegar.

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true ending

someone commissioned me this from my alt and I couldn't be happier

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So, let me guess– you just started a new book, right? And you’re stumped. You have no idea how much an AK47 goes for nowadays. I get ya, cousin. Tough world we live in. A writer’s gotta know, but them NSA hounds are after ya 24/7. I know, cousin, I know. If there was only a way to find out all of this rather edgy information without getting yourself in trouble…

You’re in luck, cousin. I have just the thing for ya.

It’s called Havocscope. It’s got information and prices for all sorts of edgy information. Ever wondered how much cocaine costs by the gram, or how much a kidney sells for, or (worst of all) how much it costs to hire an assassin?

I got your back, cousin. Just head over to Havocscope.

((PS: In case you’re wondering, Havocscope is a database full of information regarding the criminal underworld. The information you will find there has been taken from newspapers and police reports. It’s perfectly legal, no need to worry about the NSA hounds, cousin ;p))

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