#filth elder

[bitter69uk]

“Well, it would be a crowded world if we didn’t have death to re-arrange the scenery.”

/ Kenneth Anger interviewed by Purple Magazine in 2018 /

Funny how shocking it feels to type the words “His Satanic Majesty Kenneth Anger (3 February 1927 – 24 May 2023) has died”.  (Sprueth Magers Gallery announced his death earlier today via Twitter). The pioneering experimental underground filmmaker, author and occultist was, after all, 96 years old! I always assumed whatever pact Anger made with the devil invested him with immortality (or that he’d at least reach 100). Repeatedly seeing Anger’s homoerotic masterpieces like Scorpio Rising (1964) and Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965) at an impressionable age (often at the much-missed Scala Cinema in London) made a profound impact on me, and his two salacious wildly irresponsible volumes of Hollywood Babylon are like sacred religious texts! What a total original Kenneth Anger was. His art will live forever. Pictured: portrait of Anger in his youth in the 1950s by Edmund Teske.

[absurdlakefront]

John Waters is absolutely one of my favorite people alive.

[admiralgiggles]

This book is a shit show in the best possible way. There is quite the cast of characters to unpack and though the story does a lot of bouncy bounce bouncing around (hehe) he does a really good job of keeping the story on track. It is my opinion that even those uninitiated in the style of John Waters would enjoy this read, unless you are easily offended, in which case pass on this.

[biglisbonnews]

Watch John Waters give tours of his Baltimore homes (1986 and 2014) Just four years after Polyester, John Waters gave an on-camera tour of his humble Baltimore apartment which he refers to as Dreamland Studio. His collection includes oddities you'd expect from him including fake food, paintings of murderesses, an electric chair prop, and a whole lot of books. — Read the rest https://boingboing.net/2023/01/14/watch-john-waters-give-tours-of-his-baltimore-homes-1986-and-2014.html

[sasquach-scratches]

GORE

[bylightofdawn]

Dear Star Wars Fans

It's Hot Take time with El.

I am sooooooo fucking sick of seeing these "Weh, Star Wars sucks now posts" or "Disney keeps putting out the bad stuff and is RUINING MY CHILDHOOD" posts.

It's legitimately like I'm being transported back to the '90s/early 2000s forums where endless fanboys were whinging over Lucus ruining Star Wars with the prequels. And BTW, they have not stopped in the past 20 years. They will continue to be pedantic and toxic and generally pessimistic about everything.

So to come to Tumblr and see that same mentality being shoveled about like three pounds of horseshit that cross my dash at least once a day. And well, I'm grumpy enough this afternoon to go off.

Hot Take Point One: Just because YOU don't like a show or a series doesn't mean your opinion is the majority. There is someone out there who loves the season you're proclaiming is the worst thing ever. That character you detest is someone's special blorbo and the ship you despise is someone's OTP. And that is okay; their tastes are entirely valid, and your experience is not universal. You are not a peerless bastion of flawless good taste and the supreme authority on Star Wars.��

How do I know this? Cause you're on this hellsite and you like Star Wars. 

I'm not naive enough to expect people to not bitch about and complain about things they don't like, and honestly, you're allowed to do that. I encourage you to do it. I want people to keep in the back of their minds that it's their opinion and that it's not universal. And their opinion is no better than another person's. Even someone who you think has a shitty opinion or ships something 'problematic'. If you're going to proclaim someone else has dogshit taste, I would encourage you to look into the mirror and realize someone else thinks your tastes are dogshit as well. And fuck right off with canon is the only real and valid opinion. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES DISNEY HAS CHANGED CANON? They can't make up their fucking minds; nothing is set in stone, so just enjoy what you enjoy and let other people enjoy what they want. We're all here because we supposedly love this fandom, right? I feel like people have lost sight of that point. We're supposed to love Star Wars, and it should bring us together as a fandom, not tear us apart. But that's a rant for another day.

Hot Take Point Two: Have a little appreciation and respect for the people working on these shows. Unless you are in the industry or working on said show, you probably don't understand the amount of work, effort, blood, sweat, and tears that goes into making these things. Some of these people grew up dreaming about working on a Star Wars IP. This is probably a dream come true for a lot of people working on these shows, and you're pissing all over those dreams for popularity points on the internet like this is fucking Reddit, and you're farming for upvotes. No, it's not perfect; yes, there are going to be shitty VFX and cringe as fuck dialogue. 

It's not perfect, but they do their best with what they get handed. We had a saying in my old print shop, you can only shine up a turd so much. aka you take the shit you are given and you try and make it as polished and pretty as you can but at the end of the day you're working with the shit you were given. And I'm not saying these series are criticism proof or that you're not allowed to ridicule some of the terrible bad choices made.

I will go to my grave ranting about the ridiculous batshittery of fucking jetpack jousting in Mando S3. 

Hot Take Point Three: I will also argue that there are good elements in every new Star Wars IP released by House of Mouse. Yes, even the one you hate down the cockles of your black heart. I challenge you to shut out the noise from Tumblr, the bandwagon hating on something, and go in trying to find something you enjoy in a season or an episode. Find, say, 5 things you enjoy or a character (even a cringy one) or a set piece you visually find interesting. Maybe a funny joke or even a special effect so ridiculously stupid you can't help but laugh. (I'm looking at you Ahsoka fighting god damn fighters with a lightsaber while on top of the Ghost zooming around at full cruising speed. It's so utterly preposterous I can't help but laugh and shake my head all at the same time.)

You don't have to post about it or speak about it to anyone don't worry your friends don't need to know you might secretly enjoyed something you all 'hated'. Though I would also challenge you to actually speak about it as well because...hear me out here, you might find NEW PEOPLE who enjoyed those same things you might make more friends in the fandom, shocking I know. 

But just trying to FIND a positive thing in a show will give you a slightly more balanced relationship with how you consume it. Honestly, that's just general life advice you should try and take to heart. That's a freebie from your old Auntie El there. 

It's so easy to be a negative, pedantic fan who hates what we claim to love. But by making the conscious choice to find something good in this so-called pile of shit in front of you, maybe your relationship with the IP will be a happier one. If nothing else, you'll perhaps get sparked and remember what made you love Star Wars so much in the first place. 

So yeah, keep in mind your experience is not universal, even if you hate it, respect the time and effort it took to make it and try and find what sparked joy in you in the first place when interacting with the media. 

Oh, one other thing? 20 years from now? You're prolly going to look back on these shows you hate and find yourself nostalgic and maybe even a little apologetic for how much you dogged on this stuff because there will be a whole new cycle of brand new IP people are creating where people are proclaiming THAT is the worst shit ever made and they don't make Star Wars content like they used to. 

Cause that's just the human condition, and as someone who has been in this fandom for thirty years? I've seen that cycle replayed multiple times. We love the Prequels now, but twenty years ago, everyone hated them and thought they were ruining Star Wars. It doesn't get worse, it doesn't get better; we just grow older and learn to have a new perspective and learn to interact with the fandom in different ways. 

I'm just begging you, please stop being negative, toxicly pedantic fans who just sit there tearing down everything and learn to interact with the thing you claim to love with...actual love.

[thedeadthree]

WHAT FORM OF LOVE DO YOU EMBODY?

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LOVE AS A RELIGION

[ love as the sole object of your reverence--nothing about you is holy, but maybe your love for another is ] when sappho said "in the crooks of your body i find my religion" and when the cast of les mis sang "to love another person is to see the face of God" and when halsey said "i found God, i found him in a lover" and when katherine philips wrote "to the dull angry world let's prove there's a religion in our love"

LOVE AS A HUNGER

[ love as ravenous desire, love as something fragrant and home-built ] when florence welch said "we all have a hunger" and when jenny slate asked "who will come into my kitchen and be hungry for me?" and when violet trefusis wrote "I want you hungrily, frenziedly. passionately. I am starving for you..." and when anne carson asked "what are we made of but hunger and rage?"

LOVE AS VIOLENCE

[ love as bloodshed, crimson as a knife slipped between your ribs ] when ocean vuong said "to arrive at love, then, is to arrive through obliteration" and when franz kafka said "you are the knife i turn inside myself; that is love" and when ada limon said "how do you love? like a fist. like a knife" and when richard siken said "sorry about the blood in your mouth. i wish it was mine"

LOVE AS DEVOTION

[ devotion: love, loyalty, or enthusiasm for a person, activity, or cause ] when ruth said to naomi "where you go, i will go, and where you stay, i will stay. your people will be my people, and your God my God" and when hozier sang "i'll be the dreadful need from the devotee that drove [orpheus] underground" and when deathcab for cutie sang "if there's no one beside you when your soul embarks, i will follow you into the dark"

LOVE AS A CHOICE

[ love is beautiful because it's built deliberately ] when casey mcquinston wrote "that's the choice. i love him, with all that, because of all that, on purpose. i love him on purpose" and when jenny slate tweeted "i just want someone to grab my little face and scream on purpose, on purpose i am going to care about you" and when jodi picoult wrote "after fifteen years, love isn't just a feeling. it's a choice" and when the good place said "if soulmates do exist, they're not found they're made"

LOVE AS TENDERNESS

[ love as gentleness after a lifetime of cruelty ] when ocean vuong said "sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined" and when pablo neruda said "like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar" and when anais mitchell wrote "all i've ever known is how to hold my own, and now i wanna hold you, too”

[edmunderson]

Just realized, but unless someone has caught zojja up on things, she has no clue who aurene is since aurene hatched after the end of HoT

[bitter69uk]

“I've always considered movies evil; the day that cinema was invented was a black day for mankind.” Kenneth Anger.

Born on this day: His Satanic Majesty, pioneering experimental underground filmmaker, author and occultist Kenneth Anger (Kenneth Wilbur Anglemyer, 3 February 1927 – 11 May 2023). Repeatedly viewing Anger’s visionary homoerotic masterpieces Fireworks (1947), Scorpio Rising (1964) and Kustom Kar Kommandos (1965) at an impressionable age had a profound impact on me, and his two salacious wildly irresponsible volumes of Hollywood Babylon are like sacred religious texts.

[absurdlakefront]

John Waters giving a tour of his Baltimore apartment in 1986. A lovely dose of endorphins for today.

[biglisbonnews]

Just four years after Polyester, John Waters gave an on-camera tour of his humble Baltimore apartment which he refers to as Dreamland Studio. His collection includes oddities you'd expect from him including fake food, paintings of murderesses, an electric chair prop, and a whole lot of books. — Read the rest

[wcrstarter]

hc + (supernatural) politics

ℌ𝔢𝔞𝔡𝔠𝔞𝔫𝔬𝔫 𝔪𝔢𝔪𝔢// @purehybrid

Before her execution, the politics of the supernatural world engaging with the local mortal nobles was a delicate balance she had to help her father Viktor and the members of the council uphold. Viktor was grooming her to take the place of Amelia, his paranoia led him to believe that Sonja was less likely to betray him and easier to control as a fellow vampire Elder being his daughter; something she knew very well but wanted little to do with, as she would have preferred to act as a soldier and general of the deathdealer armies to protect their people in that way, boots on the ground than in the council chamber.

From her early childhood to her adulthood, it was expected of her to act as a member of the council and be part of the vital decisions as a leader of the Covens from matters such as how to position the troops to keep the Children of William at bay to trade deals with the local lords and fiefdoms that owed them tribute. The troubled waters of bureaucracy have always been smooth sailing for her, having been raised to handle various state affairs with ease. Even if she would prefer not to be involved and help in other ways.

After her execution and resurrection, the political climate of the supernatural world she awoke to was an entirely different beast from the one that she once knew. The infighting of the covens horrified her, but it was the war being raged on the lycans that truly disgusted her. An entire had broken out because of her death, the blame her father had laid at Lucian’s feet to justify the mass genocide when it was Viktor himself who had signed her death warrant. 

Because of how the vampires wrongfully sought to exterminate the lycans, Sonja wants to turn her back on the new world and wash her hands of them, but her honour will not let her. She is part of why the events have unfolded, and will interfere to make things right. Try to put to an end to the Blood War and release the truth on the war’s origins, and save her beloved’s people. She has never once held contempt in her heart for the lycans, nor for the Children of William who were turned against their will--both of them belong to the Corvinus family and neither is above the other in her eyes. Anyone that is foolish enough to claim species purity in her presence will be knocked down a few pegs.

But in terms of helping the vampire species, she is unlikely to interfere with politics to save them, she does bear a grudge to the surviving council members that were responsible for the death not only of herself, but that of her unborn child. If she can prevent such a tragedy from occurring to anyone else, she will. Selene and her family can count on her to run interference and help, she views them to be family through Viktor siring Selene, and Lucian siring Michael. As a result, she would tear down the supernatural world to keep them safe, grant them the clemency and peace that she was denied.

Surviving members from Lucian’s original pack are given the same clemency, most other lycans allow her to act as a go between them and the Covens. Others like those who operated Antigen or assisted Marius, she is less likely to help but more issue a warning to stay out of her way and she will leave them be.

[queerographies]

[Il signor So-tutto-io][John Waters]

Con una onestà disarmante e una carrellata di battute da lacrime agli occhi, "Il Signor So-tutto-io" di John Waters può essere preso tanto come una raccolta di saggi di raffinata intelligenza quanto come un manuale d’istruzioni per la vita.

Probabilmente nessuno nella storia dello show business americano può vantare una parabola artistica paragonabile a quella di John Waters. E del resto nessun altro è stato in grado di passare dai film low  budget che facevano inorridire i critici per il disgusto alle retrospettive celebrative al British Film Institute, dagli spettacoli di mezzanotte nei teatrini più malfamati alla conquista dei…

[stayallnite]

Cradle of Filth - Evermore Darkly > https://www.deezer.com/us/album/94350482

[starkie-md]

I’m a faggot. I’m a dyke. I’m a tranny. I’m a crossdresser. I’m a transvestite. I’m a pervert. I’m a queer. I am everything and anything and nothing if I want to be. I am every gay, lesbian, trans, ace, bi, nonbinary, queer person that walked this earth before me and will walk this earth after me. No one and I mean no one will ever strip my identity away from me. I am alive. I am here. I am you, your friend, your relative, your coworker, your neighbour, the stranger you opened the door for. No dirty fucking bootlicker will ever get to extinguish my existence. No fucking law or legislation will ever erase me. I will scream, I will bleed, I will fight, I will riot like the elders before me did. My history is written in blood and in sex and in community and in love. I am the passion and filth and desire and hope and anger and hurt and love of all of us. You can change laws, you can silence us, you can try and fucking kill us but we will never die. We will never be erased. We will never stop fighting. You can not kill us. We are everywhere and we are filled with more rage than you can possibly fucking imagine and our love is stronger than your hatred. My brothers, sisters, siblings, fags, dykes, trannys, and all of my queers will outlive you because you can’t kill us. You’ve tried so many times and we’re still here. We will always fucking be here. You want a fight? We’ll give you a fucking riot and we will burn it all down. Fuck you.