#genre study

[lionofchaeronea]

Weapons and Physiognomy of the Grizzly Bear, George Catlin, 1846-48

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Leonid Pasternak (1862-1945) "The Night Before the Exam" (1895) Oil on canvas Post-Impressionism Located in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France

[finalgirlsamwinchester]

supernatural was truly just. a fifteen year long experimental study looking into an audience's ability to empathise with the Narrative Scapegoat. the results? most people are still filled with the medieval urge to throw rotten fruit at the resident Freak in the town square.

[vintagecandy]

Page full of paint study doodles that i spent way too long on ❤️ going to turn them into stickers too :)

[neversetyoufree]

She can't keep getting away with this

[frenchiepal]

-> study date at the library with a friend

-> went to the movies to treat ourselves

-> found out my ba advisor works part-time as a dj and only plays german rap so now i'll have to consider if my degree is really worth it

[stuckinapril]

About to deep clean & rearrange my bookcase …… I am about to be a girl reborn

[myfandomrealitea]

Nothing brings me joy more than simping ridiculously obnoxiously over "evil/bad/wrong/complex/villain" characters just because people can't understand the concept of enjoyment not being the same as condoning.

"How can you like Homelander?! He's a fascist racist murderer!"

Who?? My pookie? My Homie? Homelander?? He's my cinnamon son. Never done a thing wrong in his life.

"Billy Hargrove is an abusive racist who deserved to die!"

Billy Hargrove for President 2024. My BarbieBabygirl has never sinned since the day he was born. He crimed? Instant innocence. He's too pretty for jail.

The moment you try to shame or attack or harass me because I enjoy fictional evil little rat bastards I swear to god I will make promoting them my life mission.

Except Joffrey Lannister. Even in this den of sin we don't go that far. #justiceforthedirewolvesofhousestark

[potato-an0n]

Wanna hear a really sweet solangelo headcanon?

So, I have a Will headcanon that he’s an adventure time, steven universe, gravity falls, svtfoe, infinity train, the owl house, and basically cartoon fandom bisexual nerd (along with sci fi and detective/ mystery thriller but tht’s besides the point).

One of his first songs he learned on ukulele and guitar are songs from adventure time and steven universe but his fav to play when he’s stressed or “stimming” is the Island Song (or come along with me/ adventure time end credits).

Before they started dating, Nico one day was having a panic/ anxiety attack or was just overstimulated and stressed and spotted Will under a secluded tree or in the strawberry fields (idk) playing the Island Song. He was listening from afar and surprisingly, he felt calmer and at ease.

Now whenever Nico has a nightmare or is overstimulated, Will would sing or hum the Island Song. Sometimes Nico would get lulled to sleep or would quietly sing along with him.

Bonus ramble: Also, Island Song is the easiest song to learn on ukulele and guitar, tht’s why imo, it’s a good “stimming song” and the lyrics is really sweet in this scenario too 😭 like it’s such a simple song yet has a lot of depth to it too, okay I’m done rambling.

[thankstothe]

Our friend Greg...

[lyqiche]

hehehehe

[acediscowlng]

do you ever think about the absolute culture shock of edwin "book nerd" payne missing the most of modernism and post-modernism. cause i do. i think about that a lot.

just. think about edwin encountering The Waste Land for the first time and finding it very moving and reflects his own experiences very well, but also finding that very weird because like??? yes, the nihilism is great and all, he's never felt more Seen in his life, but he's also been to hell and what do you mean an entire generation of writers apparently just get what that feels like????

[devilsskettle]

i think some of the popularity that meta horror has garnered is a little bit disingenuous tbqh even though i do like some of the movies that have come out of the subgenre, people don’t realize that the foundation of the slasher genre was established in the 60s/70s and a lot of the 80s movies that have become so classic were already riffing off of the tropes established by those movies before full fledged meta took off. the idea to make friday the 13th was sparked by the commercial success of halloween. the original script for slumber party massacre was a parody of the genre and the movie retains much of that humor which is referential to past slashers by nature. + it intentionally uses typical slasher tropes around gender and sexuality to bring forward the concerns of teenage girls. is that not something that meta horror is frequently touted as doing? child’s play is like a slasher, “except —” which is what a lot of meta horror comedies do now (“slasher except it’s a possessed doll” is not that far off from “slasher except it’s freaky friday” and whatnot). this isn’t to say that scream isn’t foundational to what the slasher genre evolved into or that contemporary meta slashers aren’t doing something interesting but i also think they tend to lean towards cynicism towards the movies they’re deriving their themes from + they’re not even as different as they think they are from “classic” 80s movies that already are borrowing from classic slashers which in turn borrowed from even older horror (for example, in halloween, laurie is watching the thing from another world from the 50s which was adapted into the now classic john carpenter’s the thing in the 80s). and of course many of these older horror movies were adapted from literature which also inspired more literature. like the shelley/byron/polidori scary story writing contest is now legendary but also you don’t get the shining without the haunting of hill house (and you don’t get the haunting of hill house without turn of the screw, for example) and the shining is probably one of the most referenced movies by other media of all time. horror has always been an intertextual genre let’s stop pretending it didn’t become “self aware” until 1996

[alyona11]

Lmfao why people are so pissed about next DW episodes featuring musical number???

1) the fact that it's a Toymaker ep so having him alter the reality to make it a musical is one of the few scenarios where it would make sense

2) y'all fucking hate fun

[echochamber]

may i offer you some djats studies in this trying time

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