#Gordy's World

[jeromeclarke107]

Something I haven’t seen a lot of people talking about in the Nope fandom is how every adult in the audience and on set leaves Jupe to die when the attack starts. This is the pinnacle of exploitation. When Gordy starts attacking everyone flees; nobody thinks about the innocent child trapped on the stage with him as he rampages. So many people made the decision to let this child (who has no idea what to do in this situation; hell most adults wouldn’t know what to do) stay on this set with a raging predator and protect themselves. I know it’s instinct to protect yourself to some degree, but this adds to the idea of spectle and exploiting people/animals for entertainment. Jupe was literally nothing more than an object for them to laugh at; the audience was using him for entertainment, the directors and producers were using him for money. Nobody expected him to come out of that room alive, and the saddest part is nobody cared. Children don’t have the capacity to evaluate the safety of the environment they’re around; they depend on adults to do that. All of those directors and producers and cameramen knew that Gordy could become dangerous someday, but Jupe trusted him implicitly, trusted them that he was safe. 

In the end, Gordy reaches out to him. Part of the reason for this is probably because he didn’t make direct eye contact, but I think there’s something symbolic about it too. They were both put in danger on that set, they were both confused and scared and alone, and the people around them were only exploiting them with no care whatsoever for their safety or protection. It makes sense that Jupe would trust an animal more than a person - the people who were supposed to keep him safe failed him. 

I feel like this also is super relevant to the way child actors are treated today. Jupe was put in an environment where he was actively exposed to a predator every single day. People put him in this position; he didn’t choose this. He didn’t know the dangers. He was exploited and he was hurt for it, left alone when the predator attacked. I feel like this correlates with all the children who are abused on movie and tv show sets who nobody stands up for when the predators come for them. People knew Gordy was a predator and they let him around Jupe anyway. People know that certain people in the industry are predators, and we let children around them anyway.

This movie gave me a lot of feelings. Feel free to let me know what you think!

[axollungz]

Unicorn Wars species swap or somethingg

[theknifeclown]

@lemonsiskull

Soft... and full of affects from my drawing program because I wanted to add a little flavor~

~texture~

[wildflowercryptid]

i'd still love to see a farming sim introduce a rival marriage system that let's you influence who gets with who (à la fire emblem awakening or fates' pairing system.) i think a wonderful life would've been a great game to implement that in bc i feel all the marriage candidates could interact with each other in really interesting ways, especially if that marriage system also allowed for same sex relationships.

[tagetesxd]

Ik I said I was working on Gordie n Piers but I made Raihan and Gordie instead

(Under cut)

Raihan

You can’t tell me he wouldn’t have a pearl necklace-

Anyway abilities and design notes :D

•maul (half the dmg Melony and Gordie does)

•always visible mouth

•tongue (like a red lizard, can steal spears, rock etc. Can’t grab creatures)

Gordie

•maul (same dmg as Melony. I promise I won’t give everyone maul-

•can survive 2-3 spear hits (gets slowed more depending on how many he got hit with)

•immune to spears if facing away (like running the opposite direction)

•bodyslam (same dmg as gourmand)

•about 3/4th of a normal scugs speed

Ik he’s kinda op but idc

I’ll prob make Nessa and Sonia next

[knowlesian]

look i know the ending of nope is purposefully ambiguous but also i will fight people in the parking lot because i am a full-on oj lived truther

[orangeypopsicle]

Ruminating on the commonly asked question, “Why didn’t Jupe ever go to therapy?” I believe that the question has a variety of possibilities.

A singular event, even one lasting six minutes, can have severely mind-altering effects that may take a long time in therapy to unravel. However, there are many misconceptions about healing from trauma, especially childhood trauma. We don’t know enough about what happened after the Gordy’s Home event or Jupe’s parents, but perhaps he did go to therapy, and it didn’t go on for long enough for it to have a lasting impact. Perhaps therapy sessions were voluntarily cut short by Jupe, who is shown to consistently downplay his trauma. There is a pressure to speed run recovery and get back to “normal” again, perpetuated by even the most well-meaning uninformed person and internalized by the survivor. If one were to reach a more simple conclusion, there also exists the possibility that Jupe simply never went to therapy. We should consider the context of the Gordy’s Home incident happening at the end of the 1990s. The societal attitude surrounding mental health has shifted radically since then, so the stigma surrounding therapy could have been a real issue. Not to mention that his trauma also could’ve been downplayed by other people, potentially overshadowed by the cast members who left with permanent damage, including and especially Mary Jo. For those who are unaware, there is an incredibly informative Fangoria article about Gordy’s Home as a collaboration with Jordan Peele that gives more insight into the chimpanzee attack.

“But wait,” you may ask, “there’s so much work against the stigmatization of therapy in the current day. You’re implying that he went this long without seeking help despite that?” Yes, this is an unfortunately common reality for adult survivors of traumatic childhood events. As you get older, recovery sources for childhood trauma shrink to nothing. I personally have experienced this problem as a person in the recovery process from childhood trauma. Despite the overwhelming concern for children who go through trauma, it goes radio silent when they grow up despite them needing support. There’s this overwhelming feeling of people wanting you to “just get over it” because you’re so much older now, and certainly, you’ve healed mentally after all these years. While seeking to exploit his pain to regain attention from the public and dealing with the mockery of his trauma from the media are contributing factors to Jupe’s dismissal of his trauma, I strongly feel another is that he is now a married adult with three children and the incident happened as a young child. I feel emboldened to write so extensively on Jupe Park because he captures a reality for survivors of childhood trauma that I rarely see. Recovery is a long, complex road, and the processing of trauma, and lack thereof, can oftentimes look unpleasant. It’s why I consider Jupe being more sympathetic in the story as more than other people would. The things he did were wrong, but trauma can make you do really weird and awful shit.

[thefightjournal]

Terry Gordy vs Killer Kahn - WCCW 1984

[wrestler-smash-or-pass]

Miracle Violence Connection! (Tag team of Terry Gordy and "Dr. Death" Steve Williams)

[raan-miir-tah]

Ok since Daniel Kaluuya is voice acting Spiderpunk we are all soooOoOOo putting nope and get out references in his buttons and patches right? We’re all in agreement that this is nonnegotiable, correct?

[drarreckyninja]

drarreckyninja’s belated top 50 ships of Sep 2022 [20. Monick, 19. Chyan, 18. LaChambers, 17. Syan, 16. Frostiron, 15. Nygmobblezsasz, 14. Shory, 13. Shassie]

i did not realize how late in the month this is, so altering my belated list now; incorrect quotes will be for October's list

Fandom(s): Grimm

Pairing: Monroe x Nick Burkhardt

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Fandom(s): High School Musical

Pairing: Chad Danforth x Ryan Evans

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Fandom(s): Stand By Me

Pairing: Gordie LaChance x Chris Chambers

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Fandom(s): The O.C.

Pairing: Seth Cohen x Ryan Atwood

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Fandom(s): Marvel Cinematic Universe

Pairing: Loki x Tony Stark

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Fandom(s): Gotham

Pairing: Edward Nygma x Oswald Cobblepot x Victor Zsasz

Image: *art by 5miths (DeviantArt)*

Fandom(s): Boy Meets World

Pairing: Shawn Hunter x Cory Matthews

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Fandom(s): Psych

Pairing: Shawn Spencer x Carlton Lassiter

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[downpourslug]

i had an idea

not as cool as my omori au ik but its sillayy

[enby-denby]

I swear, I am going to go apeshit if I see or hear one more person call Gordy a monkey. It is my biggest pet peeve in engaging with any media discussing Nope.

[thingsmk1120sayz]

[tagetesxd]

Working on a rain world x Pokémon swsh au cuz the cast of swsh is just the best

Anyways Allister and Melony designs under cut

Melony

I didn’t really know what do do for Melony’s design so it’s really basic-

Ability time heehee

•maul

she deserves to be maul lizards

•bodyslam

max 1/4 of hp each fall

Allister

accidentally made the strap to big but I’m too lazy to fix it :P

Anyway-

•can speak to voidspawn

Listen, voidspawn is like the ghosts of rw

•can read pearls

Alli is a purposed being (bean) fight me

•can kinda see in the dark (?)

This kinda just fits although might remove it later-

[soulmusicsongs]

Ungena Za Ulimwengu (Unite The World) / Friendship Train - The Undisputed Truth (Face to Face with the Truth, 1972)