#Shutter Ghost

[ask-shutter-ghost]

This was what coming back to Tumblr felt like after a two year hiatus! I'm so grateful and lucky for all the friendly, warm replies! It was an immediate reminder of why I joined the MLP Ask Blog community in the first place!

There were a lot of ponies and people who reached out, but I featured the first six who pounced on me immediately after I posted a pic XD Individual ponies and references below the cut <3

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Mittens Walking Pose Ref

@askthemareinabluebox's Ticker!

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@wildcowal's Feather!

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@allhorsenoplinko's Huckleberry Horse!

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@splungecoyote's Little Coyote!

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@leakypipes' Sun Spot!

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@temper-temper's Fairchild!

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[asktheartpone]

Day 1: Ghost

I'm so glad this worked out the way it did cause this is just perfect. XD

First day goes to @ask-shutter-ghost dressed up as well, a ghost! Spooky boi to start us off! <3

[askdaisydandfriemly]

Happy (belated) Pony Prom 2023!

Background by BonesWollbach on deviantArt with lanterns, dance floor, and nighttime edit by me.

@annualponyprom

@ask-luciavampire

@ask-forestville

@asktheartpone

@twila-bloggin

@ask-gadzooks

@asksnowblizzard

@nox-lunarwing

@aerialaim

@ask-shutter-ghost

Better late than never, right?

Tried to include everyone I could find with outfit references- sorry if I missed you!

[ask-healthy-light]

Photographer

Warm, yet heavy heart…

Simple doodle of Shutter Ghost ^^

@ask-shutter-ghost

[ask-shutter-ghost]

Shutter Ghost: This is Soft Howl! He, uh . . . gets a bit excited sometimes.

Soft Howl: NEW FRIEND! NEW FRIEND! NEW FRIEND! NEW - !

(References and flat color below the cut!)

Soft Howl Colors and Cutie Mark

Soft Howl Pose Reference

Fence and Yard Colors

Timberwolf Reference

Apple Tree Reference

A flat art of the trio, and a reference for drawing @ask-appletree 's Apple Tree, just in case anyone else wants to draw him! :D

Do you get along with other wolf hybrids? I have a friend who would love to meet you if so! I could introduce you :D

I.... am the only Timberpony.... I don't really know any other hybrids/cross-breeds. but I wouldn't mind meeting your friend.

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres: paranormal

[ask-burning-stream]

Burning Stream: There are some very kind ponies around here... but it´s time I get back to work

((Featured @thedumbguywithaheart43 and @ask-shutter-ghost. Thank you for the asks as usual!))

[dark-rob]

[ask-shutter-ghost]

Delighted to be drawing again! You can find some step by step guides here, and there's a transcript below the cut :D

Shutter Ghost: . . . So that's why I think my favorite ice cream flavor changes based on the weather.

Void: MRRW!

Shutter Ghost: Right, that's what I mean. Today, I think it's -

Lilah: PRINCE CHARMING!

Shutter Ghost: Uh, no, I'm - oh! You're not a talking cat!

Lilah: It's Rose Moon! She's fighting a ghost with water powers! If that gets on her magic paint -

Shutter Ghost: Rose Moon's in trouble?

Shutter Ghost: Rose! Are you okay?

Cursed Harvest: INTERLOPER! Leave this place, or you'll join the Moon family in THEIR GRAVES!

Shutter Ghost: . . . Friend of yours?

(Lilah Eveningwhisper the Breezie is now available for asks!)

[cornedbeefhashtags]

I just went into a Best Buy for the first time in years, and… friends, let me tell you: it is no longer 2009.

[ask-shutter-ghost]

Since you're in the biz of ghost hunting, I gotta ask: Do the names Necronomicon or Book of Vile Darkness mean anything to you, Shutter Ghost?

Shutter Ghost: Uh, yeah. They mean "stay away." There are certain things you just shouldn't mess with. Even Blanky knows that.

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Shutter Ghost's House Ref

[artshion]

This is a digital piece based off of slow shutter photos from my A-Level coursework.

[trans-yllz]

consumed with missing wei wuxian now. need to (as always) continue my rewatch so bad it's unreal

[justanimalsofficial]

Just Animals Issue 2 Page 7

The finished page WITH speech bubbles. Art by Ghost-Troupe

Posted using PostyBirb

[gh0stcav3]

ohhhh i shoulda actually watched this damn movie

[knowyourbmovieactors]

OCTOBER HORROR MOVIES 2024 (DVD EDITION) #4 SHUTTER

After the success of The Ring and The Grudge, movie producers were desperate to secure the rights to that next great Japanese vengeful ghost story that they could thoroughly water down with an American remake. One set of producers snapped up the 2004 film Shutter, which had been a number one box office smash in its home country… of Thailand.

OK, so it's not a Japanese original, but we're pretty confident an American audience won't notice the subtle cultural differences as long as it's set in America and features nothing but pretty blonde people. But, you know what? Let's get Masayuki Ochiai on board to direct. With a Japanese director known in his own country for doing spooky supernatural stuff, that should at least give it that good ol' Ringu flavor, right? What's that? He wants to cast Megumi Okina from Ju-On (the original Japanese version of The Grudge). OK, I guess that's doable. The rest of the cast can still be a bunch of pretty Americans doing all their vengeful ghost stuff in America… What's that? He's not comfortable shooting in America, because he doesn't speak English very well? Um…

And that, friends, is how we get the 2008 version of Shutter: an American adaptation of a Thai film shot in Japan. (And what the hell, let's cast a Tasmanian actor in one of the leads while we're at it.) The world is now truly flat.

The resulting film is OK, if a little too long. It's a pretty standard vengeful ghost story, in the tradition of The Ring and The Grudge. In this case, the twist is that the aforementioned vengeful ghost lets its presence be known through the medium of spirit photography, i.e. blurry white marks on photos that could have just as easily been caused by any number of picture-taking mistakes, but which people immediately attribute to ghosts. In our story, the newlywed American couple relocates to Japan. Husband is a professional photographer who got a high profile job through a couple of old buddies who work over there. Wife is wife. We get one line where she mentions she's certified to teach 6th grade English, but other than that we get no hint that she has any kind of job or identity outside of her husband. He has previously worked in Japan and speaks the language. She has not and does not.

It's actually a pretty good metaphor for a woman trapped in an abusive relationship. She's been cut off from her friends and family. The only information she can get from her surroundings has to be filtered through her husband. His old buddies in Japan are douchey frat-bro expats from America, and you get the hint that he used to behave just like them. Between the way the camera frames his interactions with every pretty woman in his vicinity and the fact that all his photo shoots seem to revolve around Western fetishized depictions of Japanese women, it paints the picture of a guy who's got more than a few little Asian fantasies dancing around in his head that she wasn't aware of. She has no job, no friends, and no way to way to support herself aside from this guy who is hanging out more and more red flags every day.

And of course, there's the ghost that's stalking them through photographs. As the supernatural stuff becomes increasingly difficult to ignore or explain away, Mr. Photographer Husband is forced to dribble out more and more information about his past, none of which looks very good for him. The ghost wriggles her way through the scene, pale faced, with long, lanky black hair, in scenes very reminiscent of Ringu and Ju-On. The dirtbag bros get their comeuppance, the wife is freed, and the ghost--while not exactly put to rest--gets what she wants. It's alright. By the time Shutter was released in 2008, the novelty of this particular sub-genre had worn off in America, and the movie doesn't really up the ante in any way. Still, a decently solid film.

THINGS I LEARNED FROM THE DVD EXTRAS This DVD that I bought (the "UNRATED DIRECTOR'S CUT EDITION") has almost as much in special features as it does in actual movie. There was no way I was going to watch all of them, but here are some highlights: -In the "Inside the Lens" featurette, a lot of non-Japanese people talk very confidently about how Japanese ghosts are different from Western ghosts. (There is one short clip of a Japanese "expert" in spirit photography who seems, frankly, quite bored) Very few of them mention the fact that this is actually adapted from a Thai movie. -There is a short feature about the history of spirit photography, which is absolutely riddled with factual errors; not least of which being their failure to mention that the first guy to "discover" spirit photography was very publicly outed as a fraudster. -Immediately after the short telling you how spirit photographs are totally real, there is another short that teaches you how to fake one with Photoshop. Both of these shorts are narrated by the same guy.