#horror symbolism

[pintsofguinnesmakeyoustrong]

fuCK i just realised the 'viewer' costumes/toys look like the cameras on the set of the gordy massacre

[mehlsbells]

had some feels about how this horror story depicts death by suicide

turned out to be about 3,000 words worth

it's not graphic (and never, ever condemning) but always be careful with yourself

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for the record, tho I disagree with several points in the beautiful tumblr post I link to (which may be almost double the words of mine!? what a legend) it's a reading which points clearly to the text; the schism comes from our different readings of the text and broader media dealing with suicide and/or mental illness and/or queer stories.

I love a good disagreement, I don't love a sloppy read, the latter of which comprised many of the professional media reviews of the series. The fact 'people 'experts' paid to do so were overall less good and thoughtful and thorough than random people on tumblr pouring hours of unpaid work into it is, ugh *cries in The State of the Industry*

[exilley]

I do sort of wish western anime fans would analyze anime and manga from a framework of japanese historical and cultural context. Specifically a lot of works from the 90s being influenced by the general aimlessness and ennui that a lot of people were experiencing due to the burst in the bubble economy and the national trauma caused by the sarin terrorist attack. I think in interacting with media that’s not local to our sociocultural/sociopolitical sphere it’s easy to forget that it’s influenced and shaped by the same kinds of factors that influence media within our own cultural dome and there ends up being this baseline misalignment of perception between the causative elements of a narrative and viewer interpretation of those elements. It’s a form of death of the author that i think, in some measure, hinders our ability to fully understand/come to terms with creator intent and the full scope of a work’s merits

[sepulcher-of-the-light]

Art by Lucas Garcete

[iconsumethesoulsofthedamned]

You and I have begun to blur.

[twinkle-art]

ephemeral is the flesh

[muruffin]

* 𓂂 ◌✻ Fatal Frame * 𓂂 ◌✻

[apple-of-my-pie]

i think the moment i really Got what nope was trying to say was when jupe was talking about the gordy’s home snl sketch and it cut to a flashback of him as a kid, terrified and bloody after a horrible trauma - and then cut right back to him gushing about the performance of the actors that turned that trauma into entertainment

[armor-of-the-night]

Art by Lucas Garcete

[weirdlookindog]

William Mortensen - Chained Nude With Monk, 1924

[m-aximumjoy]

Some interesting similarities between the forms of Falling Devil and Darkness Devil.

There’s the use of multiple bodies to create a singular form, the angular shapes, the mantis-leg-like appendages, the sheer height.

These two also share very strong hand motifs, which makes sense for both of them: when it’s dark, you have to feel your way around, usually with your hands; when you’re falling, you try to grab onto something with your hands.

I’m curious to see if the other Primals look anything like these two.

[glyretic]

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[blacksyllables]

Art by Lucas Garcete

[goryhorroor]

horror symbols: crucifixes

In horror movies, crosses are often used as protective charms or magical weapons against supernatural enemies, but in horror movies critiquing catholicism, it could mean to a character a tramua of theirs and what is being used to scare them.

[sepulcher-of-the-light]

Art by Lucas Garcete

[oakt733]

me, infodumping about the magnus protocol : 😛🥳💃 the horrors!! 😁🎉🙌

my mother : .. the horrors … ☹️😰