#Making Monsters

[olreid]

[ID 1: But since vampires are immortal, they are free to change incessantly. Eternally alive, they embody not fear of death, but fear of life: their power and their curse is their undying vitality. From Varney to Dracula (particularly as Bela Lugosi intones him), from Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's disenchanted idealist, Count Saint-Germain, to Lestat and his friends, vampires long to die, at least in certain moods, infecting readers with fears of their own interminable lives.

ID 2: Vampires are neither inhuman nor nonhuman nor all-too-human; they are simply more alive than they should be. end ID]

nina auerbach, our vampires, ourselves

[kornocreep]

Wes Borland appears in Throat Full of Glass by Combichrist ; 2010

[lygise]

"When it was pointed out to [Ellen] Bass that she seemed to offer not one but several explanations of repression, she protested that her theories about why children repress memories were based on common sense. "Maybe I don't even think a lot about why people repress," she then said. "I can't necessarily give you the arguments that would be convincing. I can't give you the research proof, but I don't really operate like that in the world. I'm a really commonsense, practical person." The idea of sexual abuse is so horrible, she offers, that it just made sense that a child's consciousness couldn't hold such an experience. Asked if there was any scientific research to back up any one of her theories, she said: "Look, if we waited for scientific knowledge to catch up, we could just forget the whole thing. My ideas are not based on any scientific theories. As you can hear, I don't really have too many theories."

Like many who promote recovered memory therapy, instead of sticking with one theory about repression, Bass chooses to cover all the bases...Anyone intent on critiquing the theories of memory repression must get used to a moving target." "Examining sixty years of laboratory research directed at finding evidence for the current idea of repression, Holmes concluded that "At the present time, there is no laboratory evidence supporting [this] concept of repression." Those who support the idea of repression, Holmes notes, tend to agree with his conclusion that the experimental evidence is not on their side." - excerpt from Making Monsters by Richard Ofshe

[may8chan]

Making Monsters - Justin Harding & Rob Brunner 2021

[arsenicxarcana]

i mean i wasn’t originally gonna try to make a plague version of lucio but

DAZ offers plague doctors + poses to hit him with the judgin’ stick

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Expertise can't help you here.

[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'.

[21stcenturyschizoidfag]

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[stil-lindigo]

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[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Always love how much folklore especially creature folklore emphasizes that there is a way for you to win. These are the steps to ensure the dead don't rise: take them out through a hole in the wall and give them iron shoes. Vampires cannot abide sunlight. If you hear a dog howl on a churchyard path turn around and get home as fast as you can. Iron and salt and the colour red. None of this doomed idea, the world is incomprehensible but if you're a bit clever you'll survive it just fine, there's always ways out.

[olreid]

[ID: I can still hear Octavia's voice in my head. And I remember her talking about this book as she was writing it. She asked me, "What do vampires want?" Or words to that effect: maybe it was "What would you want if you were a vampire?" That sounds more like her. I don't remember exactly how I responded, but whatever I said, it was the wrong answer. The right answer, she told me, was, "They want to go out into the sunlight." end ID]

nisi shawl introducing the seven stories press edition of fledgling by octavia butler

[lygise]

currently reading Making Monsters by Richard Ofshe. it's a semi-comprehensive history of the recovered memory movement, it's history, it's faults, the development of satanic ritual abuse claims, and he touches on the movements relationship with conspiratorial thinking. i disagree with his belief that MPD is fictional but i understand that during his time the body of evidence for MPD was produced by hypnotherapists with a tenuous relationship to facts...the recovered memory movement has done caused so much damage to research on dissociative disorders.

i think Ofshe misses out on big players in the scene like Fritz Springmeier, and he seems unaware of the relationship between SRA and claims made in Edith Starr Miller's Occult Theocracy. on the whole Making Monsters is worth reading.

[itsclydebitches]

Love it when the kinda half-formed observations you make about an episode finally come to the forefront.

Watching the start of "Dot and Bubble": Hmm, everyone in this episode is very... white.

Halfway through: The Doctor certainly continues to stand out, especially in that bright red sweater amongst all the pastels

Lindy freaking out about the Doctor and Ruby being in the same room together: I suppose that could be due to some cultural taboo about interacting in-person when everyone is supposed to communicate via bubble, but that doesn't track with what we've seen of her work day...

The "twist" that the chronically online, all white, super rich, entitled to the point of satire, willing to sacrifice others without hesitation, oh so eager to colonize people living in a literal bubble (TWO bubbles) are *gasp!* actually, devastatingly racist...

Yeah, that's not a twist. That's all deliberately interconnected. The episode didn't suddenly move from an argument about social media use to an argument about racism; the two historically go hand-in-hand.

[arsenicxarcana]

anim challenge has a ragdoll plug in for Maya to use n if any of my models were done

real skyrim space force hours

[taikova]

for the anime watchers, dungeon meshi spoilers for character appearances i guess.

this came to me as i was drawing other characters like this,,, is this meme relevant, am i hip.

[themetalhiro]

He’s been getting away with it for years. No one on the crew has caught on yet.