#i escaped my genre

[jackgoodfellow]

TW for what I can only describe as "comedic body horror"

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[adamofingolstadt]

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[andthebeanstalk]

Can anyone give me any examples of delicious meals that use unusual flavor combinations? - bonus points for fusion cuisine!

I'm working on a comic in which someone is preparing such a meal for a cooking competition, so I would especially appreciate examples that use more than two ingredients, but tbh any idea helps! ❤

[system-threat-detected]

Horizontober day 5: “Oh dear…”

I actually don’t know what I was thinking with this one. This just popped into my head with the prompt and I thought it would be fun to give a try!

Maybe a game over screen for a visual novel style game?

[fullscoreshenanigans]

Hey if the GF kids + GP team were watching horror movies (the oldest because no horror movies for the youngest kiddos or they will not sleep because some horror movie ARE terrifying) What movie would scare the most at every child/teen?

Like i can see Emma being scared of IT, whatever which version, especially the first scene (you know what i mean, right?) for exemple.

Ayshe would be probably scared by White Dog or Cujo :/ but not scared by the movie but scared and sad because of the poor dog (who is a victim in both movies, infected by rabies in one and trained to attack in another). she would speak for the first time to Norman to ask him do find her an appointment to vaccinate her dogs (because it's real dogs, not demoniac dogs or it would be hard for her to feed them in the human world. I doubt that people would be happy to see their beloved pet dog "vanish" (and be eaten).

Barbara would play "the cool sister who isn't afraid" but would be afraid by Scream (for exemple and would be clingy to Cislo/Norman/Vincent's arm for all the movie XD

Have you other ideas? =)

Feel this comes down to semantics because I don't think they'd find mainstream horror scary but more so unsettling? Besides like a well-earned jump scare getting the best of them that's immediately, viscerally frightening and might result in a comedic reaction they tease each other over.

But given everything they confronted in the demon world—both the direct, palpable terror of almost being eaten alive by the grotesque

(Chapter 117)

to the existential horror of realizing everything you've come to understand about yourself and that your very humanity and the humanity of all the people you care about is systemically devalued in such a cold, detached, clinical way—

(Chapter 28)

it doesn't seem like it would result in an immediate bubbling up of palpable terror for them with both the barrier of the screen and their understanding of horror media and media in general often being used to communicate an idea between a creator and their audience (e.g., the possession scenes in Talk to Me being used to symbolically convey the silent brutality of drug addiction, the existential dread presented by pregnancy and STDs in It Follows, etc.). But the important thing with a lot of these pieces is that while horrific violence might be perpetrated, there's still an underlying upholding of human life as inherently valuable and something to be protected, so they can have fun with it and appreciate the works for what they are.

What I believe would be a sticking point for them would be abject, wanton cruelty with no purpose. So like, torture porn, purposefully edgy works that revel in the audacity of boundaries pushed and the shock value of the obscene, exploitation films. Hostel, Funny Games, A Serbian Film, 120 Days of Sodom, etc., I can't imagine them growing up and being fans of this subgenre after everything they experienced.

So I wouldn't say Emma is scared of King's It, but would perhaps be unsettled by a cosmic malevolent force preying on children for no purpose other than personal gratification, and how that servers as a metaphor for the underlying fear of stranger danger present in the 1980s in the US. The specifics might be inaccurate based on statistics (child abduction more often being committed by someone a child knows), but it's the possibility of harm being done by fellow human beings and that one can't immediately combat it with physical retaliation like they did in the demon world due to optics and laws in this world that could lead her to dislike it for her own personal entertainment.

I feel like works that involve medical horror could be triggering for Barbara, or scenes where there's gratuitous focus on flesh being violently bludgeoned into viscera mush with how it might bring back the smells of when she'd enact that on demons.

And I haven't seen Cujo or White Dog, but it does sound like something Ayshe would find disquieting with how she considers her dogs family. Same thing with The Thing, though the dogs being killed and impersonated don't last the whole film. None of these would compare to Cannibal Holocaust, though; I don't think she could watch a movie knowing animals were killed on set for the sole purpose of entertaining people. It would be too upsetting (and why I haven't watched it).

[suits-of-woe]

[theshalesky]

Maybe longing is the thing i'm good at. I want I want I want I spend my day wishing for things i don't have. It's easy, isn't it? Dreaming about how your life could be If it was different So much easier Than actually... Living. I'm the cat Looking out the window, so lonely Hissing in fear at anyone who approaches them. I'm looking Over the fence, thinking: The grass looks so much greener in a different world. Maybe what i'm admiring in the thing i see Is not the life itself, but the fact That someone else is living it for me. (Maybe I'm just not good At living???) Maybe it will get easier, Maybe it won't. Maybe i should learn to appreciate The life i have - of course i should. But nothing makes a room feel emptier Than wanting something in it.

(stole the last sentence from @heartpeacenquiet :3)

[princess-of-purple-prose]

Does anyone have the tweet where it's like tri/stamp ep 8 baby vash BEAMING when luida says that instead of being handcuffed and locked up they're going to place a guard on him instead captioned "his bar for being treated well is in HELL" because I just watched that episode and am like. Shaking. Lmao.

[brother-emperors]

locking in a final design for publius (I’ve redesigned him. like, five times now) because I have a comic I want to draw and publius has to be in it

(the comic is antony becoming increasingly haunted by cassius, publius, and crassus during antony's parthian war until it's a full blow horror nightmare sequence)

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[jackgoodfellow]

Content Warning: ~comedic body horror~

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More from this series:

Comic cover page with concept/character summaries

Episode 1

All content from "I Escaped My Genre..."

The head and tongue in this panel are a 3D model that I made in Nomad Sculpt and then imported into Clip Studio. Then, upon deciding that 3D modeling is hard actually, I discovered I could fake a 3D look for the rest of the body by modifying a metallic brush. I was going for "thing you see in an early 2000s video game as a kid that fucks you up forever"!

[adamofingolstadt]

SAMO STEVENSON-INSPIRED MOOD BOARD!!!

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[ars3n1ck-r00lz]

saw a tiktok that was like "ask your friends which horror game you are" and i was like "lol lets see the options" and saw fnaf and immediately knew i could not send it to anyone cuz i got my answer

[yohankang]

i know i'm always bitching abt not being able to find any new good series but yesterday i stayed up reading Doukyonin no Sano-kun wa Tada no Yuunou na Tantou Henshuu desu (yes i know that's long... english title is My Housemate Sano-kun Is Just My Editor) and i was literally giggling and kicking my feet and trying not to laugh because it was 2 am and my flatmates were sleeping and i loved it so much omg. i love stupid comedy

[lamalamam]

give me one good reason why you aren't reading omniscient reader's viewpoint

[mariocki]

Donald Sutherland steals the show as a disarmingly charming bank robber (turned convict, turned escaped convict), as John Wood in The Saint: Escape Route (5.14, ITC, 1966)

[raven]

i wish i could get a dreams wrapped. i want to know what genre my dreams tend to be in. i think its cyberpunk