#Like Dogs

[lunaticobscurity]

i watched a movie last night called like dogs. it's about some people who are kidnapped and kept prisoner by people who treat them like dogs being trained.

anyway, a lot of use is made of these collars, that are not only locked using two padlocks, but they have a remote controlled choking mechanism, which causes internal pockets to expand, squeezing the disobediant/misbehaving wearer's throat.

[how-much-for-a-whump]

FEBUWHUMP day 21:

Prompt: "Shackled"

Like Dogs (2021)

@febuwhump

[kasumingo]

weddings are lame i don't want to organize this

[valiisthea]

I know I don't use him much, but here's the softest bingo sheet I've filled out so far.

[frosty-the-killer-doll]

when i say scatterbrained, i fucking mean scatterbrained. this is like if cabin in the woods and pet merged, with a pitstop at girls against boys. it tries to be straight horror, but you can clearly tell it's horror-comedy. the story gets harder to follow with each and every twist; there's too much meat on this bitch's bones, with too little time dedicated to flushing out the individual details. 

that being said!! i was thoroughly entertained. it was a wild, hilarious ride, and i never wavered on rooting for lisa. i was hoping she and erika would bisexually run off into the sunset together, erika's psyche and tolerance for violence forever changed after this harrowing night... not the case, but the true ending makes sense narratively.

the many-named lisa is a loner at heart, charismatic enough to hide it, and desperate for someone to love her as deeply as she needs. i think a lot of her personality shines through her belief in love at first sight. she immediately develops an idea of adam in her head, and falls head over heels for the idea of adam rather than who he truly is. she doesn't actually know him, so she fills in the blanks with what she wants out of (a relationship with) him- just like george does with her. honestly, lisa's fixation on adam parallels wonderfully with the lengths george will go to make lisa kneel before him. 

i suppose an argument could be made on who took it the furthest, lisa v george? george sexually abuses lisa multiple times. lisa kidnaps adam and deprives him of his free will, though all they do is hold hands. lisa is definitely purposefully trauma bonding him to her, definitely grooming him... but george is the one that drugs and rapes lisa without her knowledge. lisa ruins the experiment a few times, george ruins it completely. lisa grooms adam and george kills off adam. he really does finish everything she starts, huh? lisa's the overaching villain, but george is the one we're supposed to root against.

i do love lisa. i wish they had spared more than a moment or two on her being raped. i wish we knew more about her. with how, uh, fickle this movie is with the information it peppers in, i'm not sure if the lack of consistent things we know about her is on purpose or not. but wouldn't it be grand if it was? that would be a fantastic way of showing how little everyone actually knew the real her ‼️

anyway. seriously, not as bad as you'd think. i think the more low ratings are knee-jerk reactions to people chained up in kennels... just, y'know, don't watch movies named "like dogs" if you can't handle people being treated like dogs?

[heavenplaceonearth]

i mean what is jod always talking abt like what are you even sayING HALF THE TIME just read the ntn preview

[cuntstable]

i hate when people call marcille a girlfailure btw like SHE ISNT. and shes not a ”girlboss” either. this is a neurotic and Permanently On The Edge of a Breakdown overachiever late 20s virgin just out of her phd program with permanently shaky hands from an addiction to overly sugary coffee and a deep desire to be crushed to death under falins giant jugs no matter the cost. the only thing shes ever ”failed” at is going to theraphy

[psychlocke]

laios you will always be iconic to me

[queer-is-future]

so when straight people ask me why I say I’m “queer” or “gay” instead of sharing my actual identity as a panromantic demisexual non-binary sapphic queer I just tell them “ok look, when you’re talking to someone who isn’t local and they ask you where you’re from and you either say the name of the largest city nearby or ‘town name, suburb of large nearby city’ so they can get some geographical context of where you’re located right, bc they’re probably not going to know the name of the little town you actually live in.”

but if you’re talking to a local you can say the name of your actual town bc they have a greater chance of knowing where/what that is.

ok well when I’m talking to a straight person I start with queer bc chances are they aren’t as familiar with the context of all the little towns in that big queer city and need gps (gay positioning system) to find me.

if I’m talking to another queer person and I say I live in a suburb of gay city in a town called panromantic on the demisexual side of the tracks which is in the county of queer and I live off the intersection of non-binary and sapphic, they’d probably be able to find me with little to no problems, make sense?

[inkskinned]

i got rickrolled today but it didn't work because i have adblocker installed, so youtube just told me i violated the terms of service. yesterday i was trying to edit a picture as a joke for my girlfriend, and google made me check a box to prove i'm human because i wasn't "searching normally".

it isn't just that capitalism is killing fun and whimsy, it is that any element of entertainment or joy is being fed upon by this mosquito body, one that will suck you dry at any vulnerability.

do you want to meet new friends in your city? download this app, visit our website, sign up for our email list. pay for this class on making a terrarium, on candlemaking, on cooking. it will be 90 dollars a session. you can go to group fitness, but only under our specific gym membership. solve the puzzle, sign up for our puzzle-of-the-month-club. what is a club if not just a paid opportunity - you are all paying for the same thing, which makes you a community.

but you're like me, i know it - you're careful, you try the library meetings and the stuff at the local school and all of that. the problem is that you kind of want really specific opportunities that used to exist. you are so grateful for libraries and the publicly-funded things: they are, however, an exception - and everything they have, they've fought tooth-and-nail to protect. you read a headline about how in many other states, libraries have virtually nothing left.

do you want to meet up with your friends afterwards? gift your friends the discord app. you can choose to go to a cafe (buy a coffee, at least), a bar (money, alcohol) or you can all stay in and catch a movie (streaming) or you can all stay in bed (rent. don't get me started) and scream (noise complaint. ticket at least).

you want to read a new book, but the book has to have 124 buzzwords from tiktok readers that are, like, weirdly horny. you can purchase this audiobook on audible! your podcast isn't on spotify, it's on its own server, pay for a different site. fuck, at least you're supporting artists you like. the art museum just raised their ticket price. once, they had a temporary exhibit that acknowledged that ~85% of their permanent art galleries were from cis white men, and that they had thousands of works by women (even famous women, like frida! georgia o'keefe!) just rotting in their basement. that exhibit lasted for 3 months and then they put everything away again.

walmart proudly supports this strip of land by the street! here are some flowers with wilting leaves. its employees have to pay out-of-pocket for their uniforms. my friend once got fined by the city because she organized a community pick-up of the riverfront, which was technically private property.

no, you cannot afford to take that dance class, neither can i. by the way - i'm a teacher. i'm absolutely not saying "educators shouldn't be paid fairly." i'm saying that when i taught classes, renting a studio went from 20 bucks an hour to 180 in the span of 6 months. no significant changes to the studio were made, except they now list the place as updated and friendly. the heat still doesn't work in the building. i have literally never seen the landlord who ignores my emails. recently they've been renting it out at night as an "unusual nightclub; a once-in-a-lifetime close-knit party." they spent some of those 180 dollars on LEDs and called it renovating. the high heels they invite in have been ruining the marley.

do you want to experience the old internet? do you want to play flash games or get back the temporary joy of club penguin? you can, you just need to pay for it. i have a weird, neurodivergent obsession with occasionally checking in to watch the downfall and NFT-ification of neopets. if i'm honest with you all - i never got into webkins, my family didn't have the money to buy me a pointless elephant. people forget that "being poor" can mean literally "if i buy you that toy, i can't afford rent."

you and i don't have time to make good food, and we don't have the budget for it. we are not gonna be able to host dinner parties, we're not made of money, kid. do you want some kind of 3rd space? a space that isn't home or work or school? you could try being online, but - what places actually exist for you? tiktok counts as social media because you see other people on it, not because they actually talk to you.

there was a local winter tradition of sledding down the hill at my school. kids would use pizza boxes and jackets and whatever worked, howling and laughing. back in september, they made a big announcement that this time, rules were changing, and everyone must pay 10 dollars to participate. when im not scared shitless, i kind of appreciate the environmental irony - it hasn't gone below 40. so much for snow & joyriding.

i saw a bulletin for a local dogwalking group and, nervous about making a good first impression, showed up early. the first guy there grimaced at me. "sorry," he said. "there's a 30-dollar buy-in fee." i thought he was joking. wait. for what? the group doesn't offer anything except friendship and people with whom to walk around the city.

he didn't know the answer. just shrugged at me. "you know," he said. "these days, everything costs money."

[eastgaysian]

[marypsue]

Keep seeing that post where OP starts like 'Thinking about...grieving the undead' and then adds on about like. Real life situations where people have not died but have left your life and you would have reason to grieve them.

All respect, that's an important concept, but that is not what I am thinking about when I read 'grieving the undead'.

[callisteios]

i made a character uquiz. i 100% promise you that you will get a character you know AND like

[adriles]

they are Cancelling me for dealing with my grief as best i can . also for the vicious war Crimes

[frosty-the-killer-doll]

okay i'm almost done w like dogs and wow. god forbid women do anything

[ink-the-artist]

Love the contrast between the Americans’ “Apollo” and the Soviets’ “Sputnik.” You got the Americans naming their rocket after a Greek god trying to communicate the grandness and importance of this rocket. And you got the Soviets naming their rocket “fellow traveler.” Like a friend you go on an  adventure with together. This rocket is our little friend lol