#and I delivered

[pigeonstab]

Sans chugging a whole barrel of ketchup

Extras:

[walking-existential-crisis]

spreading the Project Hail Mary agenda by getting my cousin a copy of it for her birthday

[bun800]

I threw this up on Twitter but I'll throw it here too 😂 Please watch until the end. My contribution to the Cursed Cat Alastor trend.

[zorangezest]

what lovely kids I sure hope they don’t go on to die in increasingly graphic ways

[nintendont2502]

the perils of becoming friends with me (you get this shit)

[separatist-apologist]

Well goddamn, I wasn’t sure if I’d like the Azriel fic because you’ve turned me firmly into an Elucien girlie. But that was hot as fuck. 10/10 you can do no wrong. We love a feral man begging on his knees 🙌🏼

Remember the 2023 survey we did? Overwhelmingly people wanted to see Azriel beg.

[elodieunderglass]

changes and trends in horror-genre films are linked to the anxieties of the culture in its time and place. Vampires are the manifestation of grappling with sexuality; aliens, of foreign influence. Horror from the Cold War is about apathy and annihilation; classic Japanese horror is characterised by “nature’s revenge”; psychological horror plays with anxieties that absorbed its audience, like pregnancy/abortion, mental illness, femininity. Some horror presses on the bruise of being trapped in a situation with upsetting tasks to complete, especially ones that compromise you as a person - reflecting the horrors and anxieties of capitalism etc etc etc. Cosmic horror is slightly out of fashion because our culture is more comfortable with, even wistful for, “the unknown.” Monster horror now has to be aware of itself, as a contingent of people now live in the freedom and comfort of saying “I would willingly, gladly, even preferentially fuck that monster.” But I don’t know much about films or genres: that ground has been covered by cleverer people.

I don’t actually like horror or movies. What interests me at the moment is how horror of the 2020s has an element of perception and paying attention.

Multiple movies in one year discussed monsters that killed you if you perceived them. There are monsters you can’t look at; monsters that kill you instantly if you get their attention. Monsters where you have to be silent, look down, hold still: pray that they pass over you. M Zombies have changed from a hand-waved virus that covers extras in splashy gore, to insidious spores. A disaster film is called Don’t Look Up, a horror film is called Nope. Even trashy nun horror sets up strange premises of keeping your eyes fixed on something as the devil GETS you.

No idea if this is anything. (I haven’t seen any of these things because, unfortunately, I hate them.) Someone who understands better than me could say something clever here, and I hope they do.

But the thing I’m thinking about is what this will look like to the future, as the Victorian sex vampires and Cold War anxieties look to us. I think they’ll have a little sympathy, but they probably won’t. You poor little prey animals, the kids will say, you were awfully afraid of facing up to things, weren’t you?

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF Vanny and Michael if they met as teens

[visenyaism]

mysaria being the one to turn back and protect rhaenyra when daemon slipped away after making big promises and not delivering whatsoever yet again. i am going insane

[mousy-maja]

Hua Cheng, my beloved ❤️🦋

[linktoo-doodles]

unflinching

[ryllen]

[ x ]

[lambment]

they couldn’t resist that last zinger

[mythalism]

do you ever read through the solas and vivienne banter and lose your mind over what is some of the most interesting and telling solas characterization in the entire game

[hajimedics]

I'M NOT YOUR DOLL AND I'LL THINK FOR MYSELF AND I'LL LIVE FOR MYSELF

[emthimofnight]

werehog sonic and shadow to further push my "shadow should be manhandled more" agenda :)