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moxfirefly · 4 years

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So @teenage-mutant-ninja-freak wanted some Halloween headcanon’s for the lads, so let’s hop to it for one of my faves on here!

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• our resident violent teddy bear is pretty neutral when it comes to old hallows eve, he does in fact enjoy the candy

• speaking of candy, will eat pretty much anything even try out that obscure shit nobody likes

• he does also LOVE when you feed him said candies

• will show up at your window and say “trick or treat” with the most cocky grin

• say Treat and he’s gonna give you the MOST SENSOUS SMOOCH

• say Trick, he’s gonna steal a kiss

• send him pics of you modeling potential costumes

• the skimpier the better

• will lowkey Windows Shutdown if you dress up as a boxer. The shorts, the sports bra, the gloves, the whole shebang. rapahael.exe has crashed.

• prefers cheesy horror movies think: Army of Darkness, Tucker and Dale vs Evil, Nightmare on Elm Street: Freddy’s Dead etc

• if he could give out candy he’d def be the guy who high fives the kids and gasses them up and addresses them by their characters

• “oh heck Batman! You better get back to Gotham!”

• oh he’s also the guy who would give out extra candy to the kids

• pumpkin carving king

• Mikey loves scaring the shit out of him

• he claims he was ‘merely startled’

• won’t dress up, will be moody while having a pair of cat ears on his head that you insist upon because Dammit Raph we are all taking this picture and you are participating somehow

• Halloween Lover™️

• honestly our resident nunchuck bean loves all things spooky

• loves watching the NYC Halloween parade

• loves watching shows, movies, videos anything regarding to it

• will dress up

• will eat ALL THE CHOCOLATE PLS HIDE IT FROM HIM

• has defenatly said that famous “they are coming to get you Barbara” line, it’s drives Raph up the wall

• decorates the lair starting September honestly

• resident scare champion, seriously he has snuck up on Leonardo

• Halloween baking goods, join him this boy will feed you well

• will o.d on sugar cookies

• dress up as his fave superhero or game character, expect heart eyes all day and lots of handsy caresses, this boy will gas you up so much (he already does on the regular)

• cheesy horror films but he’s surprisingly high key into the Based on True Events ones. Think: The Conjuring, Blair Witch Project, Exorcism of Emily Rose, etc

• boy gets extra frisky on Halloween night

• will want to try and get into a party with you

• but if case not be he will throw a rager in the lair with the bros, you and the close friends

• y’all banging while a horror movie plays in the background

• “man if we were in that lake, that pissed of goalie would so kill us”

• “Mikey focus”

• “shit my bad, babe”

• Our blue boy enjoys Halloween surprisingly enough

• has to be forced into the party tho

• will end up having fun

• but will micro manage because Virgo™️

• actually won’t complain if asked to dress up

• sour candy lover

• old school horror movie lover: White Zombie, House on Haunted Hill, Dr Jekyll/Mr. Hyde, Creature of the black lagoon

• absolutely loves when you hide against his arm, he will purposefully find the goriest movies just so you could watch it basically buried on his chest

• humors Mikey because Big Brother Duties™️ so he helps decorate no matter how absurd it gets

• speaking of brotherly love 🥺 they love Hocus Pocus and watch it together every year cause Danny and Max reminds them of their relationship

• this precious brainiac loves Halloween perhaps rivaling Mikey

• he loves ghost stories, loves reading up on crimes and crazy events that happened around the time

• spooky podcast play all month long

• spooky playlist plays as well

• from old school Monster Mash style to more modern takes like Black No. 1

• will eat everything Mikey bakes, boys got a sweet tooth

• bring him seasonal coffee and he’s forever in your debt

• send him your Halloween costume idea, this lad will even help you MAKE it like legit even better than store bought

• Sci-Fi/Horror/Suspense/Psychological lover: It Follows, Predator, Alien Resurrection, Heredetary, Event Horizon, Splice, Martyrs, Suspiria, etc

• knows little know facts about certain scenes and effects

• “Did you know how many gallons of fake blood that took to make? Speaking off did you know you can make fake blood out of-“ Cue you screaming bloody murder at a graphic kill

• Resident DJ at the party (I have this headcanon that Donnie likes to make beats, remixes on his spare time when he needs to take a break from a project) Mikey says his transitions are so satisfyingly smooth

• Happily dresses up, begrudgingly helps his brothers with their costumes. They get so diva about it to a point where he’ll just mutter about not being on fucking Project Runway stop horsing around while wearing it of course it’ll tear!

• referees the games

• disqualifies Raphael almost every time

• once put on Halloween special effects noises

• splinter thought they were being attacked

• scared shitless of horror stuff? Let this adorable boyfriend of yours explain why “it’s illogical that a burned demon man in a striped sweater will invade your dreams and kill you my love....Now the monthman though-“

• “DONATELLO WE TALKED ABOUT THIS”

• “No conspiracy theories after midnight yes my apologies”

• once left a fake bug on Raph’s bed, spent the entire afternoon in a headlock

• Donnie and Raph actually spend time playing horror games though. Raph likes to play commentator. “Told ya that door was suspicious genius, but by all means get killed again” Cue Donnie rolling his eyes for the tenth time

• Loves seeing you all dressed up, especially if you dress up as a character he loves like Ripley from Alien.

#honestly i can be here all night #THESE WERE SO MUCH FUN #i hope you enjoy them #tmnt 2014 #tmnt bayverse #bayverse tmnt #tmnt oots #tmnt donatello #tmnt raphael #tmnt michelangelo #tmnt leonardo #leonardo #donatello #michalangelo #raphael #tmnt hc #requested headcanons #ask #tmnt 2016

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goodgrammaritan · 2 years

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Gratitude Journal

Yesterday I bought a new dryer. It's the first appliance I've bought all by myself, and including driving time it only took half an hour. I'm proud of myself for not freaking out even though I was making a significant purchase.

And then last night was another craft night at the library. We made little fake terrariums:

Janie, the gal I made friends with last time, was there, and while she didn't remember my name, she remembered I love reading and that I do yoga. She asked what I was reading and I told her about the Newsflesh series by Mira Grant, and the librarian leading the craft said, "Oh yeah, that's so good!" The librarian's name is Brooke, and I told her how I found the series through reading Seanan McGuire's Wayward Children series, and when I learned Mira Grant was her pseudonym, I had to check it out. Turns out Brooke is the sci fi librarian (and oh my god, she looks my age, was dressed super cute, and is a librarian, like everything I ever dreamed of being as a kid!) and we discussed how Seanan writes some AMAZING stuff (Wayward Children, Middlegame, Newsflesh) but how a couple of her serieses are oddly middle-of-the-road (October Daye, InCryptid), and the difference in quality is weird. I lamented that I couldn't read more of her stuff because the digital licenses had expired, and Brooke shared how frustrating it is with publishers and digital copies, like some are 2 years, some are 100 checkouts, and some are whichever of those comes first.

So I got to connect and socialize, and oh oh oh! I was wearing my Welcome to Night Vale shirt and Brooke, being a sci fi librarian, was familiar with it! Janie asked if it was a horror podcast, and I was like "horror comedy," and Brooke added that is also really heartwarming. Which is true. And I told them about the Night Vale live show, and showed Brooke my pics of Cecil from it.

Kinda crashing today, but it was worth it.

05/11/22

#gratitude journal #appliances #library craft night #socializing #connection #librarians #library

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nellied-reviews · 4 years

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Discomforts, Pains and Irregularities Re-listen

Hello! I hope you're safe and well, wherever you are right now, and looking after yourself as best you can. It's a weird time to be alive, certainly. Fortunately, there is in this life one thing we can rely on: Douglas Eiffel will forever be a dumbass. I've hit episode 3 in my Wolf 359 re-listen, and boy, did this one cheer me up. So, without further ado:

Discomforts, Pains and Irregularities

In which Hilbert and Hera make a great but also terrifying team, Eiffel will do anything to avoid his physical exam, and Mink-oH MY GOD YOU WERE BEING SERIOUS?!

I feel, off the bat, like this episode is different to the previous two in a really good, productive way. It's a subtle thing, but it's something I definitely noticed this time round; Discomforts, Pains and Irregularities just works differently to the first two episodes. Where they were a sort of slice-of-life affair and a then a straight-up sitcom, this episode is more of a comedy horror movie; where the conflict in the first two episodes was between Eiffel and the rest of the crew, here we get our first external threat; where the plot, in the first two episodes, revolved around mundane, small things like radio broadcasts and toothpaste, the plot here's about a mutant space plant monster. It's a neat way of setting certain genre expectations and helping us triangulate, roughly, what we can and can't expect from the show, establishing a couple of constants (we're probably not going to get an episode, for example, with absolutely no comedy), but also a range of different tones the show can play with (sitcom, B-movie horror, weird sci-fi)

That said, it's not obvious from the beginning of the episode that we've stumbled into a horror movie. At first, when Eiffel starts his log sounding so very defeated, it seems like we're being set up for an episode about Eiffel trying to dodge a physical exam. Which you could get a whole, pretty decent episode out of it, for sure - it would probably end up following a very similar template to Little Revolución. Step 1: have Eiffel do something ridiculous. Step 2: escalate things. Step 3: Eiffel is defeated. Solid, right? So when Hera announced that physicals are coming up, it feels like there's a predictable way that this going to play out. Not bad, per se. But we can see where it might be going.

We do get the fun twist of Hera cooperating with Hilbert, and sounding surprisingly chipper about the whole affair. And I guess that makes sense? She doesn't have physical body in the same way as Eiffel and Minkowski do, after all, so she's not getting a physical, and I can totally see her making the most of it to troll Eiffel, or indulge in some Schadenfreude. Or perhaps she's just helping Hilbert because it’s her job. Who knows? Either way, it's nice, if a little bittersweet, to see Hera and Hilbert working as a team again and trusting each other; after season 1, we don't see so much of that, for obvious, murder-y reasons.

I also have to wonder, at this point, why Hilbert is running these physicals? He says it's to stop disease spreading, but surely the Hephaestus, a closed system with three actual people living there, has got to be disease-free, right? The only thing I can think is that this is actually part of his work on Eiffel, a convenient excuse to take samples and see how the Decima is doing. Which makes an already terrifying prospect even more frightening. I guess he also has to collect samples for Minkowski, to maintain his cover? Or - a more alarming thought that I kind of wish I hadn't had - he might also be taking measurements and samples in preparation for giving her Decima, should Eiffel go the way of Lambert and the last crew. Cheery stuff, you know?

That’s just me overthinking things, though. What we actually get, as the episode gets going, is a panicky, nervous Eiffel desperately bullshitting Hilbert to get the good doctor off his tail. Which is so very relatable. I feel you, Eiffel.

It didn't escape my attention, here, that Eiffel mentions a recent power outage. It's another sign that things were going wrong in the Hephaestus from the very beginning - something we won't get confirmed until Pan-Pan, I think?

It also didn't escape my attention, on a more immediate note, that Hilbert used up all of the water doing radiation experiments in the greenhouse. Which I bet is totally fine and totally didn't create the plant monster in the first place. Nope. Nuh-uh. No foreshadowing here.

In any case, Eiffel's ruse works, and then we get Eiffel and Hera just bantering for a bit, which is always a delight. Hera gets all sniffy (pun unintentional) about Eiffel's personal hygiene, Eiffel lobs a "you don't even have a nose anyway" back at her, she leans hard into her "well you're a feeble, puny human" shtick. It's fun, and I can totally buy that this might be a conversation they have had many times before. I don't know, I just really love their friendship, okay?

What I also love, when Minkowski calls to ask for help with the plant monster, is that Eiffel just straight-up assumes that she's also trying to get out of her physical. Like... has he met Minkowkski?! And yes, okay, technically she was in the greenhouses trying to avoid Hilbert. But the fact that now, when she is quite obviously not kidding, Eiffel decides to shrug it off? Genius. I love it. So very dumb.

Then, of course, we meet the plant monster, which is honestly one of my favourite things about this podcast. It's just so out-there! After two more slice-of-life episodes, it's delightfully weird, but also puts us firmly in the realm of soft science fiction. Like, there's no pretending, with a mutant plant monster, that this is going to be gritty, realistic, hard science fiction, and I kind of love that? Certainly, setting aside question like "is this scientifically plausible?" lets the show do all sorts of wacky, fun things that just make for a more engaging story. Mutant plant monsters are in the same cheesy B-movie vein as the Dear Listeners, super-soldier-creating viruses and mind control machines, and Wolf 359 is 100% better off for it.

Minkowski doesn't share my enthusiasm for the plant monster, sadly. She goes straight in with a flamethrower. Ah, Commander. Never change.

Eiffel still doesn't believe that it's real, even as he goes down to check on Minkowski, which is kind of hilarious, especially because it's such a tropey horror movie set-up. For such a pop-culture-savvy dude, he really dropped the ball on this one. But it's nice to see him and Minkowski bonding over being mutually freaked out by the thing. After two episodes of Minkowski being mad at Eiffel for various offences, it's cool that they're working together here, even if it takes the joint threat of Hilbert's physicals and a plant monster to get them there.

It's also here that the podcast format works so well, because without a visual on the monster, it's so much more frightening. Seriously, I bet all of our mental images of this thing are way more frightening than anything a TV show could give us, based just on Eiffel and Minkowski screaming.

Either way, we cut away pretty quickly after that, and the episode ends with Eiffel informing us smugly that the plant monster is still out there, but that, as a consequence of the ongoing monster situation, they have at least postponed physicals. It's a fun way to end the episode, anticlimactic in the funniest possible way, focusing on the dumb, mundane stuff and just dropping the plant mutant... for now. It leaves room for future stories featuring our resident not-so-horrifying monster (hello, Minkowski Commanding!). But honestly, it'd still be funny if the plant monster was never brought up again, and just hung round like the proverbial, vine-strewn elephant in the room. Which it kind of does, for a while, at least until Season 2.

It also works, I think, because this episode isn't really about how the crew would defeat a plant monster. Instead, the question the episode asks is just "How do the crew react when something really weird happens?" And the answer we get is something we'll see again and again: Minkowski goes on the warpath and tries to kill it with fire, while Eiffel is a bit more chill about things, possibly unwisely so. It feels like the blueprint for a whole lot of future disagreements where Minkowski generally leans towards more violent solutions, while Eiffel is a little more pacifistic, repping Team What's-Wrong-With-Handcuffs etc.

So yup. At the end of the day, like most of the early episodes, this one’s pretty heavy on the comedy. But it also establishes a bunch of new things that the show can do, and puts our protagonists into a totally new, strange situation, just to see how they react, paving the way for all sorts of future weirdness. Not bad, right?

Also, because it bears repeating, mutant space plant monster.

Miscellaneous thoughts:

Hera getting snarky about Eiffel's body odour bwahahahahahahaha

That noise is terrifying and will haunt my nightmares

Also, why did Eiffel record his physical six months ago? What could he possibly have been planning on doing with that recording??

"Tell him to go... ffffrequencies!"

Ewwwww spinal fluid samples

"Let's get this - oH MY GOD YOU WERE BEING SERIOUS"

"For God's sake, help me kill this thing!" "With what? Harsh language?" "With napalm, you moron!"

#wolf 359 #wolf359 #w359 #wolf 359 relisten #discomforts pains and irregularities #nellied reviews #introducing the plant monster #aka my not-so-small herbaceous child #I just really like the plant monster okay

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aion-rsa · 3 years

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How George C. Romero’s Heavy Metal Comics Keep Dad’s Zombie Legacy Alive

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The name is Romero. George C. Romero. And in case you didn’t guess, George C. Romero is the son of the late, legendary George A. Romero, the pioneering filmmaker whose 1968 horror classic Night of the Living Dead changed the face of horror cinema forever. George A. Romero and his small independent film collective created the modern zombie mythology, which has occupied a vast swath of the horror genre from George A.’s own later masterpieces like Dawn of the Dead all the way to modern weekly nightmares in The Walking Dead.

Meanwhile George Cameron Romero — the elder George’s son from his first marriage — went into filmmaking himself out of college, then veered into advertising, commercials, and online brand marketing with his own agency, where he created more than 100 campaigns and commercials, launched a film production facility in his native Western Pennsylvania, and directed a handful of features. Now George C. has entered the realm of comic books (which his dad also dabbled in with titles like Empire of the Dead for Marvel) through a partnership with the long-running, legendary-in-its-own-right sci-fi and fantasy comics magazine, Heavy Metal.

Romero is writing two series at the moment: the first, Cold Dead War (see cover art above), is a standalone book about a World War II bomber crew who find themselves reanimated after a freak occurrence during the Battle of Midway. Meanwhile The Rise is being serialized in each issue of Heavy Metal and offers an intriguing and gripping alternate history of not just the 1960s, but the origins of the zombie apocalypse in Night of the Living Dead itself.

The first issue (of four) from Cold Dead War hit the stands late last month while the first chapter (of 13) of The Rise has premiered in the latest issue of Heavy Metal, which arrived this week. That gave us the opportunity to speak with George about working in comics, the inspiration for both stories, and keeping his father’s legacy alive.

Den of Geek: How did you get involved with Heavy Metal and end up writing these comics?

George C. Romero: I actually met Matt [Medney], the CEO of Heavy Metal, through the tech producer for some podcasts that I do. He reached out to a connection of his at Heavy Metal, and Matt reached back out to me. We started talking because we were actually in the middle of putting on something that we called Def-Con 1, which is actually the first online fan convention. We did it like last year. The day that they announced that they were taking down all the conventions, I went on my show, and like two hours later announced that I was going to do one. I had no idea what I was doing.

Anyway, Matt and I met through that process and actually started talking about The Rise. Then from talking about that, and I think me going into detail with Matt a little bit about how The Rise was set in an alternate history from the ’60s, we started talking Cold Dead War. I think he just really liked where my head was at when it came to the alternate history and where I was going with The Rise. So we just started talking and he said, “What kind of story would you tell for Cold Dead War?” And I told him. He said, “Well, would you be interested in doing that?” I said, “Absolutely. Are you kidding me?” That’s how it started.

You’ve worked in film, you’ve worked in video, and you’ve worked in advertising. What makes comics different from these other mediums that you’ve worked in?

It’s interesting to think about it in those terms because I think, for me, coming from being a comic fan my whole life, not as hardcore as some hardcore comic fans, but a comic fan nonetheless, I always thought it was this wonderful kind of storytelling medium. Like you said, I’ve worked in a bunch of different mediums and different variants of this industry over my life. Getting into comics was always something that was appealing to me.

Then, on day one, I realized how terrifying it was, because here I was thinking that it was so limiting because I’m used to running around with a camera in my hand, in one way or another. So now I’m thinking there’s all these structure rules. There’s so many panels on a page, and you can push it to this many panels. You got to think about your paging this way. It was honestly kind of intimidating. At first I thought it was going to be very limiting.

It turns out that it has been, and continues to be, one of the most freeing creative experiences of my entire life, because where you start out thinking, “Well, you’ve got this limited number of panels, a limited number of pages,” what you don’t realize is that each one of those panels is like the construct from The Matrix. As opposed to when you’ve got a camera in your hand, you’re limited to the fact that you can only shoot, basically, something that’s real.

In the comics, each panel is like this giant construct. If you can think it, it can be drawn. And if it can be drawn, then it can be in a comic. It was just so creatively freeing. To work with people like Matt, who really encourages you to just be the purest version of your own creative self that you can be. To work with [editor] Joe Illedge and [publisher] Dave Erwin on this process, I couldn’t have asked for better people to mentor me into it.

(see an exclusive preview of The Rise chapter 3 — with art by Diego Yapur — below)

Heavy Metal

Did that freedom allow you to change the initial concepts in terms of their scope?

A good question. I don’t think it fundamentally changed my approach to the story or any of the foundations of either story, Cold Dead War, from the original concept, I think what it did was it allowed me to go to a level that no other medium I’ve ever worked in would’ve allowed me to go. So it actually allowed me to sort of really expand and blow out my thinking, as opposed to having to say, “I want to write a scene for this movie, and this scene is going to take place in a gigantic Gothic prison. Well, now I need to go find a gigantic Gothic prison for that.”

So what you end up doing when you do a movie, is you end up saying, “Well, that’s not really a practical thing for my budget level, so let me change that giant Gothic prison to some sort of holding cell.” You start scaling back. Whereas with comics, instead of hitting the brakes, you get to hit the gas at every step of the way. It didn’t change fundamentally anything; it just allowed me to really kind of pay attention to that foundation and that groundwork, and get a very comprehensive story out.

They always say film is the most collaborative art form because you have the director, you have the writer, the actors, and so on. Are comics similar in a sense, because you’re the writer, but you also have the artist, the inker, the person who does the lettering, the editor, etc.?

Correct. It is extremely collaborative. Working with Joe and Dave Erwin and Matt, and Heavy Metal in general, and Diego and everybody who’s touched all of these projects, it’s been a tremendously collaborative experience. I think there’s a balance though. While it is collaborative among the architects, it’s less collaborative when it comes to your characters. In film, the actors play such a huge part, or your cinematographer plays such a huge part in helping those actors become a character, or something like that. When it comes to graphic novels and the comics, you get to kind of puppet master all of that without question. So while it is collaborative, it’s sort of collaborative in an architectural level. That makes it really fun.

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With both these series, you’re going back into the past. What made World War II the right setting for Cold Dead War? And is that book less directly related than The Rise to the mythology that your dad created?

I think with Cold Dead War, it’s no big secret that Heavy Metal has sort of undead zombie content in that era and in that period. From a writer’s point-of-view, I love exploring different periods of history. I love taking stories and putting them in those periods. I think for Cold Dead War it was so fun because there weren’t any rules that I’m used to, or any rules to really play by, with regard to a lot of the zombie stuff. It was just absolute pure fiction. Rooting that in a real period of time was an interesting challenge, but it was one that was a lot of fun to do.

The Rise is more directly related to Night of the Living Dead, and also presents an alternate version of a very turbulent era in our history.

The ’60s are such a key point in American history and world history. It makes it a joy. It’s a wonderful decade to work in. I’ve done some stuff in the ’60s time period a few times over my life. It really makes it a joy because anything that you would want to talk about, you’ve got a perfect timeline against which to talk about it.

Is this also an alternate history or origin for Night of the Living Dead? Because your dad always left the starting point for that story perhaps intentionally vague.

There’s a reason that I don’t call it a prequel, because it’s not a prequel. It’s very much my own personal sort of prologue. It’s my personal story. You know, being in this business, being George’s son, there’s certain things people have always wanted of me, or I think expected of me, and one of those things at the top of the list has always been a zombie movie. I’m very much the type, just like my father was sort of the outlaw filmmaker, I’m very much the type that if you tell me to make a zombie movie, I will dig my heels in and say, “I’m not making a zombie movie.” At least that’s how I was while I was growing up.

That kind of led me to have this interesting perspective on everything. Not to mention a lot of the conversations and things that I was lucky enough to be around. I think I’ve got a unique enough perspective on the genre, on what my father and those guys did, that I think it’s a really fun story in terms of him leaving things intentionally vague. I have no choice, as his son, but to continue that vagueness. Whether or not I personally believe that he left it that vague is another story. There are a lot of opportunities to expand some of the things that I believe that those guys wish they could have expanded on back then.

As George’s son, do you feel protective of the canon, and want to make sure that the stories, whether they’re done by you or anybody else, are of a certain level of quality?

Absolutely. I think, as any son would, I think there’s a level of protectiveness. There’s a protective coating around it. I think it comes from respect and love, and from kind of just being around it my whole life. Again, having the perspective I’ve had, I’m extremely protective of it. That’s why it took me over 10 years to find the right partner, like I found in Heavy Metal.

You originally wrote The Rise as a screenplay, right?

I originally wrote it as a screenplay because that was my world. I came up that way, so I wrote it. When I have an idea and I’m passionate about it and I want to get it done from front to back quickly, I write it as a script. Then I develop from there. But in my perfect worldview of it, I always envisioned it years ago starting as a comic and then moving into more live-action stuff. Then I got away from that, because over the years you have meeting after meeting where people say, “You should do it this way. You should do it that way.” You start thinking, “Well, maybe I should try doing it that way if it’s going to work, or if somebody is going to get behind it.”

To kind of go back to the roots of the whole thing with Heavy Metal and Matt and Joe, and David, it’s been really nice. These guys are as interested in protecting the brand and the legacy as I am. I think that that probably comes from being guardians of the Heavy Metal brand legacy, as well. They have a very unique understanding of what it means to respect and love and want to protect a brand that’s over 50 years old.

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If you step outside your family legacy and look at it objectively as a creator, what makes this genre and this mythos so inspiring to work in, and why do you think it’s been embraced for decades?

What those guys did in 1968 with Night was groundbreaking on a lot of levels. Not only was it groundbreaking in horror, not only was it groundbreaking against the time period, it was also groundbreaking for independent film. Really, they did a lot of good.

Then when it ended up in the public domain, I mean, I can only imagine how it must have felt. But years later, and again, with a little bit different perspective, what I came to realize was that what those guys did was they created this open source creature. Up until then, we had this universe of monsters. It was the Wolf Man and Frankenstein and the Mummy. But they had rules and they had copyrights and they had all this stuff…These (zombies) weren’t protected by the traditional protections that monsters had back then, so there’s this sort of open source creature where now everybody out there with an eight millimeter camera in their backyard is running around making little zombie films.

Now you have all these artists out there learning and using this stuff as their creative primordial ooze almost. They’re allowed to play in the zombie world kind of legally. So you’ve got people out there making zombie makeups and pulling off all of these effects and making these little short films, which then, as these people are growing, they’re gravitating toward the industry, gravitating toward horror, becoming bigger and bigger horror fans, and merging in the horror world.

Now you’ve got these creatures that have inspired, literally… I don’t know if there’s any way to count how many people have been inspired by what my dad and those guys did in the ’60s. They created a playground where people could work to not only discover but refine and hone their craft in this world.

Have you seen The Amusement Park (the “lost” psychological horror movie directed by the elder Romero, which will premiere this summer on Shudder)?

I saw it when it was called something else, years and years ago. I saw a work print of it. I used to have a little print of it. There was all this buzz about it years ago. I think he always wanted it to get out. It’s a perfect example of the fact that, especially back then, the industry didn’t want that out of George Romero. They wanted what they wanted. They wanted zombies. Got to get that zombie.

Can you share a good piece of advice that your dad gave you along the way?

The best advice my dad ever gave me was to cut wide. It’s funny because I used to sit and watch him at this big Steenbeck editing flatbed, where you cut the film and splice it together. He used to explain to me, “Always cut wide,” in terms of filmmaking, but that became sort of life advice as well, because you know if you cut too much out of something, then you can put it back in. If you cut wide, you can always scale it back. It’s a good way to look at life, too. Kind of cast the widest net you can and then reel in what makes sense for your spirit and your heart.

Heavy Metal magazine (including The Rise) and Cold Dead War are available at comics retailers nationwide.

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Since Orphan Black has ended, and I have a little more time...I was wondering what podcasts would you recommend? Since you sometimes write about them, I had to ask. :)

this ask made me so happy lol

I know I’ve told you abt The Penumbra Podcast* already but that’s always at the top of my rec list, it’s my favorite podcast. the gayest thing i’ve ever listened to :’)

ok but besides that here are my fave fiction podcasts:

Wolf 359* - about the small crew of a spaceship orbiting a star. it starts out light and gets very intense! it’s one of my absolute favorites

The Bright Sessions* - therapy sessions for ‘atypicals’ - aka ppl with superpowers. also starts out light and also gets very intense! aaaand also one of my faves. also it has great lgbtq+ rep (canon ace, bi, and gay characters)

The Adventure Zone* - I blog abt this one a lot bc it’s my second fave currently. It’s a DnD podcast and it has a SUPER good story and plot twists that you won’t expect. also, it’s hilarious. and has good lgbtq+ rep!

Eos 10 - basically, Scrubs in space. it’s hilarious. and a lil gay

The Strange Case of Starship Iris - it’s on hiatus rn but the 5 eps that are out are FANTASTIC. i love the characters. it’s about the crew of a spaceship as they investigate how the mc Violet Liu’s spaceship blew up. it has a lot of queer characters! and a lot of poc

Ars Paradoxica - Time travel! Really cool story plot!! very sci fi!!!! main character is ace!

Homecoming - Idk how to describe this one but it has an amazing cast (like Oscar Isaac, David Schwimmer and more) and great sound editing

Archive 81 - Idk how to describe this one either. it follows Dan, who’s listening to these tapes as a job and starts to notice that the content of the tapes is really... weird. and then the whole story gets really weird (but very good imo). it’s got some horror elements so if that freaks you out I’d be careful

also pretty much anything by Night Vale Presents but they’re pretty well known so I’m sure you’ve heard of them

nonfiction:

Nancy* - abt lgbtq+ life - it’s SO well done and I’ve enjoyed all their episodes. probably a contender for fave nonfiction podcast

Criminal* - stories abt or related to crime. this was one of my first podcasts actually

Revisionist History - hosted by Malcom Gladwell, about things ignored or lost in history

Harry Potter and the Sacred Text - if u like hp than you might like this! They examine each chapter thru traditional religious/spiritual practices and it gives a different perspective on the books. idk, i don’t agree with everything they say obviously (I’m v particular abt my HP headcanons) but it’s a fun podcast

Reading Glasses - a podcast abt books and reading. it’s new but fun

anything by the McElroy family (they’re hilarious) but shoutout to My Brother, My Brother and Me* (comedy advice show) and Sawbones (medical history podcast) which I’ve actually begun listening to

*Ok I know this is a Lot but I’m actually subscribed to 40ish podcasts (lmfao) so this is me, narrowing things down. I marked the ones w/ an asterisk that I recommend the most most, but these are all my Favorites

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Podcast Recs

The following recs/summaries may contain light-to-moderate spoilers, though I try to keep things vague and rot13 the more specific stuff! Here is an abbreviated spoiler-free rec list, for the sensitive among you.

Night Vale Presents

The three non-WTNV shows have all finished their first seasons (and Alice Isn't Dead just started its second). They're relatively short and contain complete story arcs.

WTNV: The ur-podcast, the light horror fiction narrative that kicked off the trend. Y'all know it or you don't. If you've somehow never heard it and don't want to start from the pilot, I recommend trying Episode 13; it's a stand-alone episode in a slightly different format than the rest, but it gives a good sense of WTNV's general aesthetic. Also it's just really really good.

Alice Isn't Dead: A surrealist horror roadtrip about a trucker searching for her wife Alice, who isn't dead. She's got nothing to lose and a lot of dangerous road to cover.

Orbiting Human Circus: Bizarre and magical and a little bit heartbreaking, like all good circuses should be. Julian is the janitor of a heavily fictionalized Eiffel Tower, and he desperately wants to be part of the Orbiting Human Circus show that he cleans up after every night.

Within the Wires: Dystopian sci-fi 1980s AU, told through a series of 'relaxation' cassettes. More grounded in reality than the others, though that's not saying much. The medium is also foregrounded much more in the narrative.

Hiatus

Wolf 359: SUPER dark, though you wouldn't know it from the first dozen episodes. However, the inflicting-trauma to coping-with-trauma ratio is low enough that I listened to the whole thing and will almost definitely listen to Season 4 when it's released starting this June. Also, no queerness whatsoever (making it unique on this list).

Eos 10: Spaceship sitcom. Less artistically ambitious than most of the others on this list, which is not necessarily a point against it.

Airing

The Strange Case of Starship Iris: Newer sci-fi podcast that I absolutely love; it ticks all my very specific boxes (including medium-as-message) and is also just really well constructed and executed. I adore every single one of the main characters. There are only 4 episodes but I'm so hyped about it.

The Bright Sessions: Audio files from a therapist to teens and young adults with superpowers. Everything I ever wanted X-Men to be: light on the fight scenes/explosions, heavy on exploring what it means to have superhuman powers and how that might affect your life/relationships.

The Penumbra Podcast: Cyberpunk noir pastiche that sometimes gets a little too broad for me but is generally good fun of the Thrilling Tales! variety.

Ars Paradoxica: Time travel in one of its more complex interpretations. Paradox is a major plot element. Kind of sci-fi historical fiction?

Now for the more detailed writeups, including overviews of queerness and genre. As I said before, potential spoilers are rot13′d...but Here There Be Dragons etc.

Night Vale Presents

All of these are incredibly solid shows with an otherworldly feel to them that I love, despite being otherwise quite different.

All main characters are queer; WTNV has queer side characters (including nonbinary characters), but afaik the only other explicitly queer characters in AID/ORC/WTW are love interests of the MCs. That's pretty understandable, though, given that the casts of the three non-WTNV shows are exponentially smaller, and they've aired significantly fewer episodes.

I want to mention something in a totally value-neutral way: none of the shows feature homophobia or directly discuss queerness (lowkey exception for one episode of WTNV). I actually enjoy that, personally; it's usually very restful to spend time in worlds where queerness is normalized and unremarkable. Occasionally, however, I do want a slightly more direct approach, so I wanted to make a note in case you're in that kind of mood.

Welcome to Night Vale The first and only podcast I listened to for about a year. Honestly, do I even need to say anything about WTNV? I do want to mention that I think it's gotten a little bogged down in continuity over the last year. AFAIK it wasn't conceived as a long-running narrative arc, and a lot of its early charm came from the total lack of context. After Year 2, I feel like it did start spending a little too much time explaining things and filling out backstory for elements that, frankly, didn't need them. YMMV ofc, and I still listen to/enjoy every new episode, but I'm not madly in love with Year 3 the way I was with Year 1-2. Queerness: Queer af! The main character gets a full same-sex romance arc; V'q pnyy vg 'unccl-raqvat' ohg vg'f fgvyy batbvat nf n ybivat naq urnygul eryngvbafuvc, juvpu vf rira orggre. Multiple side characters are queer, including a few nonbinary characters who use they/them pronouns. Genre: tucking into a short stack at 2am in a diner in the American Southwest, slowly realizing that the woman behind the counter called you by name even though you've never been here before, and also you can't quite remember how you got here in the first place. Alice Isn't Dead Beautiful, creepy, and acted by the brilliant Jasika Nicole. I'd place this more firmly in the horror genre than the others, so if you're sensitive to that kind of thing, take note; there's some suspense and a little bit of violence. That said, I am usually MASSIVELY sensitive and can't even watch trailers for horror movies (I have made my peace with never ever seeing Get Out), and I was perfectly fine with it. Queerness: The main character is a woman married to Alice, who isn't dead. It's like the opposite of the Bury Your Gays trope. Genre: driving along a nameless interstate late at night, the world around you narrowed to the section of road thrown into sharp relief by your headlights, and the occasional glint of animal eyes. The Orbiting Human Circus of the Air ORC is the most fanciful of the Night Vale family. The other shows seem like they take place in realities just a shade off from ours, but ORC completely throws any pretense of realism out the window. There's no real sense of a world outside the Circus, and why should there be? The Orbiting Human Circus of the Air has an infinitude of fantastical delights: singing saws, a bird that can mimic (almost) a full orchestra, tap-dancing mice. There's no trick or sleight of hand involved, not even a dusty tome of magic spells. ORC simply presents a world in which these wonders exist in hidden corners. The story is sometimes melancholy, and there are regular hints of a deep sadness underneath the surface, but the main character is defined by his determination and...well, 'optimism' would be too strong a word, but he has an unyielding sense of hope. He doesn't actually think things will turn out well for him (and he's so often right about that), but he clings to the hope that this time, maybe it might. Queerness: Gur znva punenpgre nyyhqrf gb na rk-oblsevraq bapr. This is one of the lighter touches of queerness in the Night Vale family. Genre: peering through a dusty velvet curtain just offstage, while brightly-costumed creatures dance to a tune you haven't heard since you were a child. Within the Wires While all Night Vale Presents shows have some kind of narrative conceit framing the audio medium (community radio station, trucker radio transmissions, broadcast wish fulfillment), those tend to be vehicles for the story and stylistic flourishes, rather than core elements of the story itself. WtW is presented as audio cassettes on full-body relaxation, and the cassettes themselves become key actors. This is not a story that could be told in any other medium, which personally I freaking love. This is also a more sci-fi show than the others, despite being set in AU 1980s, and more blatantly dystopic. The world-building's a little more evident, which is neither a good thing nor a bad thing; I think it's a side effect of being more sci-fi than fantasy. Everything feels like it has an explanation, even if the explanation is not provided, and it all fits together smoothly. Also: the narrator has a mild kiwi accent, which I find incredibly soothing. Queerness: Yep. Gur znva punenpgre unf n pbzcyvpngrq ohg qrpvqrqyl abg cyngbavp (s/s) eryngvbafuvc jvgu gur jbzna gur gncrf ner vagraqrq sbe. Genre: lying quietly in a sensory isolation tank until you inexplicably start crying for the first time in years.

On hiatus

Wolf 359 So, there are a couple voice actors in Wolf 359 that don't do a whole lot for me, performance-wise. I don't want to get more specific because YMMV and I'm also just a really picky audio consumer, but there you have it. Mostly it's not an issue, though. This is also one of the darker shows I listen to, although it starts out with more of a zany sitcom vibe. There's a fair amount of murder, murder attempts, and general people-being-horrible-in-ways-they-believe-to-be-justified. It's not something I think I could sit through again, but it is a captivating story told well. There's a lot of focus on the emotional arcs and characters dealing with trauma, which I am All About in sci-fi.

Queerness: zero. Zip. Zilch. It doesn't feature any romance arcs at all, though, so...I found it tolerable. Honestly, if it hadn't come so highly recommended, I probably would not have given it a shot. Genre: placing your hand on a rusty, unmarked door that wasn't in the ship schematics, and knowing you must step through—you must step through. Eos 10 After my first pass at this write-up, I realized that I was being really negative—far more negative than this show deserves. So I want to be clear: I listened to and enjoyed every extant episode of Eos 10, and I'm looking forward to Season 3, whenever it's released. It's a pleasantly entertaining space sitcom and I've gotten attached to the characters; the writing's solid and the voice acting is generally pretty great. It's just not quite tailored to my specific tastes. Ok, back to what I originally wrote: This podcast feels a lot more mainstream/conventional in its tropes than the others. Unlike most of the podcasts I listen to, the medium is invisible to the characters: it's not pitched as a radio show or a voice recorder or a series of motivational tapes. To me, this adds another layer of remove between the audience and the story. It's fine, it's just very straightforward in its presentation, with no medium-specific conceit or anything. It’s not really outsider art in any sense, and could legitimately be a TV show if it had the budget. That's a pretty good description of the show as a whole, honestly. It makes no pretense at being high-concept, it just does what it does. Queerness: This one...is not very queer. One of the side characters is gay but it doesn't really come up a lot. There's also a gay minor character that gets mentioned but never appears, and it's kind of a running gag that the gay character has a thing for the main character, who insists he's straight. It's a gross trope and I kind of winced at it, but it's usually framed by other characters as "are you sure you're not interested, because [gay character] is way out of your league and you're really not going to do better," which mitigates it somewhat for me? Also, gurer ner uvagf gung gur znva punenpgre zvtug npghnyyl or vagrerfgrq va gur tnl punenpgre, but only time will tell whether it's queerbaiting or not. Look, it's not an ideal situation. If it’s a dealbreaker, I totally understand, especially since there's no clear answer to the "is this queerbaiting" question and due to some unfortunate creator health issues, we might not get one for a while. Genre: ducking out of the way as a harried-looking man in a lab coat and stethoscope pelts down the hallway, yelling "GET ME FIVE UNITS OF ALIEN SEX POLLEN, STAT!"

Airing

The Strange Case of Starship Iris

I love this show a disproportionate amount, given that only four episodes have aired. This is a newer podcast, and one I stumbled on completely by accident! I wasn't expecting much, but it was sci-fi and the main character's last name was Liu, so I decided to give it a shot. And then it turned out to be not only awesome but also totally queer! I think I actually said "HAH! YES!" out loud when the queerness was canonized within the first few minutes. (This is why I live alone.) Plus, this is a small thing from a throwaway line, but...the main character weighs roughly the same amount as I do. Do you know how often that happens with Asian characters? Never, is how often. For possibly the first time in my life, I feel like I can legitimately headcanon a main character who looks exactly like me. I'm definitely going to do some incredibly self-indulgent fanart at some point. Unprecedented overidentifying with the main character aside: honestly, it's like this podcast was tailor-made for me. MAJOR SPOILERS FOR EPISODE 1 (and kind of 2): Vafrpher ovbybtvfg wbvaf ent-gnt perj bs fzhttyref jvgu n sbhaq-snzvyl ivor naq nyvra phygheny pynfurf, nyy senzrq va n fvavfgre zrgnaneengvir gung hfrf gur zrqvhz nf n cybg qrivpr, CYHF cbgragvny ebznapr orgjrra na Rnfg Nfvna jbzna naq n Fbhgu Nfvna jbzna? Um, sign me the fuck up. The only downside is that this has definitely raised my expectations for new podcasts by an unreasonable amount. Every new podcast I've tried since Starship Iris has been vaguely disappointing. My podcast standards are way too high now, and it's all Starship Iris's fault.

Queerness: YES. The main character is a queer woman, there's a nonbinary alien species and the alien crew member uses they/them pronouns, and there's a trans guy. Also, this is wild speculation, but V guvax/oryvrir/ubcr gung bar bs gur bgure srznyr perj zrzoref vf orvat frg hc nf n ebznagvp vagrerfg sbe gur znva punenpgre. There's some explicit discussion of gender identity in a non-traumatic way which tbh is like water in the freaking desert.

Genre: ??? it's too new and I love it too much to assign it a genre.

The Bright Sessions

As I said in the spoiler-free summary: this is everything I wanted X-Men to be. Hell, it's everything I ever want superhero stories to be, and it's why I've been drawn to superhero stories since I was a teenager. The Bright Sessions deals with the complex consequences of, e.g., having empathy powers as a teenager while learning how to manage your own emotions and maturity. The main character is Dr. Bright, a therapist specializing in people with superpowers, which naturally provides the perfect angle for those people to get really navel-gazey about their lives. There is an actual overarching plot with a shadowy government agency, of course, but that's definitely not what I'm here for and luckily that’s clearly just a vehicle for the feelings.

Queerness: One of the main characters has a m/m romance arc; another main character is asexual; a side character (who may soon be considered a main character?) is bisexual. Because the conceit is therapy sessions, Dr. Bright does inquire delicately about how her patients may or may not be coping with emerging/existing queer identities, but none of them find it traumatic.

Genre: telekinetically fiddling with a desk puzzle limned in afternoon sun, as the doctor asks: "And how does that make you feel?"

The Penumbra Podcast

I'd had the Penumbra Podcast on my radar/subscriptions list for a while, but I'd never quite finished the first episode...until the remastered/rewritten first story was released. The difference is astronomical. The creators talk about audio quality etc. in their reasoning for recreating the first story, but for me, the main distinction is the skill in storytelling and the confidence to create noir without relying on questionable tropes to signal "hard-boiled!!!" I sometimes think the writing and characterizations are a little broad, but that may be down to genre. Penumbra doesn't really go for 'subtle' or 'realistic.' An important format note: there's a main character with episodic adventures, but in between the two-part adventures, there are one-shots in various genres. I actually skipped most of the one-shots because I'm not great with horror or kid stories.

Queerness: The main character of the main story is queer (jvgu na qryvtugshyyl rzbgvbanyyl pbafgvcngrq z/z ebznapr nep gung'f abg va n terng cynpr evtug abj), as are numerous side characters. It's a noir pastiche, though, so the main character is pretty self-sabotaging in all areas of his life; a 'happy ending' doesn't seem incredibly likely. One of the stand-alone stories is a queer Western, which I found delightful. It's also one of the few stand-alone stories that has a bonus follow-up episode.

Genre: taking a long, slow drag on a cigarette as the rain blurs the neon lights and filth of the alien city below.

Ars Paradoxica

Ars Paradoxica shares a producer with The Bright Sessions, which is why I tried it! Like all decent time travel stories, Ars Paradoxica is meticulously planned with a lot of moving parts. The worldbuilding is intense and requires actually paying attention, which can be challenging for me since I typically listen to podcasts while multitasking. Frankly, it moves a little slow for me...which is odd to say about a show that regularly has timeskips of months or years and literally involves time travel. I guess I feel that way because there's a lot of attention paid to the action and plot, but less to the emotional character arcs. And obviously my narrative preferences run a certain way, so I'm only really paying attention to the character stuff. Which, to be fair, certainly exists and is carried through well—it's just not in my preferred proportions. Plus, the cast is quite sprawling compared to most other podcasts, and the tone is almost Crapsack World but not quite.

Queerness: The main character is explicitly asexual and briefly explains it, and there are a handful of queer side characters. It's semi-historical, and there's some discussion of managing visibility etc.

Genre: staring into the dusty gears of a massive clock running backwards as the minute hand slowly approaches a blinking red light.

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targetdummy · 7 years

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I’m not interesting, but I was tagged by @givemebishies to answer some stuff about. These probably won’t be that cool or interesting for anyone else to read, but here we go!

Rules: Answer all questions, add one question of your own and tag as many people as there are questions.

1. Coke or Pepsi: Pepsi. It’s sweeter, and you’re supposed to sip soda rather than drinking it like water. Plus, MJ still forgave them after they caught his hair on fire, started his painkiller addiction, and dropped him as a promoter because of the child abuse allegations, so I imagine he at least liked to drink it.

2. Disney or Dreamworks: Disney generally. I’m not a big fan of either one, but I think Disney has made more important things in their time. Kind of unfair since they’ve been around longer, but whatever.

3. Coffee or Tea: Cappuccino. And even then I don’t want to taste the coffee in it.

4. Books or Movies: I watch more movies, but I think more books have had a serious impact on my life. I don’t know though, Rocky is a freaking masterpiece.

5. Windows or Mac: What? Where is my GNU/Linux option? Richard Stallman didn’t die for this! [For real though, I use Windows because I’m peasant trash who likes to play video games without spending hours on configuration. Though, I am considering dual-booting with Linux Mint in the near future. We’ll see. And Stallman isn’t dead, that was a joke.]

6. DC or Marvel: Marvel. Gotta have my Spider-Man and X-Men. The Avengers are also much more varied and interesting than the Justice League.

7. Xbox or Playstation: Playstation all the way. I can’t even name an Xbox exclusive offhand other than Halo or Gears of War. Playstation has a more interesting history too.

8. Dragon Age or Mass Effect: A friend of mine kept telling me to play both, but stressed Dragon Age more. I have played neither.

9. Night Owl or Early Rise: Night owl. I feel and work better at night. I like knowing the rest of the world is asleep.

10. Cards or Chess: Cards because they are an unlimited number of games! (So is Chess technically, but I like that with cards you can more easily have a random aspect if you want).

11. Chocolate or Vanilla: Are we talking ice cream? Vanilla. Are we talking brownies? Chocolate. Are we talking anything else? I don’t know.

12. Vans or Converse: I buy the cheapest shoe that feels comfortable and doesn’t make me hate myself when I wear them. I’ve never owned either of those.

13. Lavellan, Trevelyan, Cadash or Adaar: I’m sorry, I’m only a level 2 mage, I don’t know those ones yet.

14. Fluff or Angst: both I guess? I’m an angst lookin’ to get his fluff on.

15. Beach or Forest: Beach beach beach. I need to be warm and surrounded by water.

16. Dogs or Cats: I like cats and dogs that act like cats.

17. Clear Skies or Rain: Rain all the way. Rain for days. Clear skies are boring and make me sad. They don’t even move. I can feel rain. It surrounds me and makes me feel loved. Warm rain especially, or cool rain on a warm day.

18. Cooking or Eating Out: I prefer eating out in both senses of the term. But for real, I love restaurants. I love the feeling of being in one, and knowing that my food is being handled by someone who knows how to make it well. Then to just have it brought to me, it’s awesome. Like, I didn’t make this. I don’t deserve this. But you’re giving me this, just for some paper. It’s just so comforting. Oh, and takeout is awesome too, because it’s that experience, but with more control and less atmosphere. All of it makes me so happy, honestly, I can’t understate how awesome it is to pickup food from somewhere awesome. Shout out to my people at El Canelo, that’s the place I dream of when I’m hungry. Any Chinese/Japanese is great too. Then fast food, Sheetz and Chick-Fil-A especially can be great. All of it, man. I’m sorry, I wrote too much for this.

19. Spicy Food or Mild Food: Spicy! Specifically, spicy and sweet. It’s all a part of the experience!

20. Halloween/Samhain or Solstice/Yule/Christmas: Halloween is cooler theme-wise. Japanese Christmas though 💕

21. Would you rather forever be a little too cold or a little too hot : Yeah, I guess a little too cold, because I love the sensation of getting warm.

22. If you could have a superpower, what would it be? Phew, does what Dr. Manhattan have count? You know, just be god. Nah, I wouldn’t want that, that’s too much. Controlling time would be cool. Would probably be depressing in reality, but cool in theory.

23. Animation or Live Action: This really depends on the work.

24. Paragon or Renegade: I have no idea what this is referencing. But Renegade is a 1986 beat ‘em up game that I really like for one reason: it’s the start of the Kunio-Kun series that would eventually lead to Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari, or River City Ransom. Renegade isn’t amazing on its own, but really cool to see where RCR got its origin.

25. Baths or Showers: Showers usually.

26. Team Cap or Team Iron Man: Haven’t watched Civil War yet, but Iron Man.

27. Fantasy or Sci-Fi: Sci-Fi usually feels bigger than Fantasy and can include Fantasy elements without much of an issue (infinite universe, infinite possibilities), so I’ll go with it.

28. Do you have three or four favourite quotes?

Okay, these might get lengthy, so here we go:

1. (Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid 2)

“Life isn't just about passing on your genes. We can leave behind much more than just DNA. Through speech, music, literature and movies... what we've seen, heard, felt... anger, joy and sorrow... these are the things I will pass on. That's what I live for. We need to pass the torch, and let our children read our messy and sad history by its light. We have all the magic of the digital age to do that with. The human race will probably come to an end some time, and new species may rule over this planet. Earth may not be forever, but we still have the responsibility to leave what traces of life we can. Building the future and keeping the past alive are one and the same thing. “

2. (Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen)

“Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.”

3. (Shigeru Miyamoto)

“A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.“

And there’s a lot more but I’m bad at remembering them.

29. YouTube or Netflix: YouTube, I watch it way more than Netflix. I like all the different voices on YouTube, how accessible it is.

30. Harry Potter or Percy Jackson: Isn’t Harry Potter a My Immortal fanfic? I go with that one. Also, nobody will even remember Percy Jackson in ten years.

31. When You Feel Accomplished: When I’ve created something that people enjoy, and when I fulfill the needs of those I love. I haven’t been doing enough of either lately :/

32. Star Wars or Star Trek: I accept that Star Trek is superior in every way, however I will always defend Star Wars as my personal favorite.

33. Paperback Books or Hardback Books: Hardback. I am less likely to ruin it, and it looks nicer on a shelf.

34. horror or rom-com: I’m not a fan of either, but I like horror elements in other things.

35. tv shows or movies: TV shows. Individual stories that build to an overall story arc will always have more depth than a single movie. That’s why Samurai Jack is more compelling than any of the samurai movies it draws inspiration from.

36. favorite animal: Tiger.

37. favorite genre of music: Funk and its derivatives.

38. least favorite book: The Old Man and the Sea. I like Hemmingway, but it’s a book where nothing happens, the most exciting part is when he says the ocean is a women having her period, and the ending feels like actually watching an old man die. He doesn’t die in the book, that’s just how it feels.

39. favourite season: Summer. As hot as possible.

40. song that’s currently stuck in your head: ME NE’ER HA ME GUN SO ME HA TA MOO SHARP LI ME KNIFE

41. what kind of pyjama’s do you wear? Pajama pants and a t-shirt. I wear this all day when possible.

42. Handwriting or Typing? Typing. Gotta go fast. And I can’t compile my code from a piece of paper.

43. If you can only choose one song to be played at your funeral, what would it be? The Real Folk Blues.

44. What is your go to book/movie/tv show that you immediately find solace in when you feel down? Okay, I don’t know about books, movies, or TV shows, but I always find solace in any YouTube show that can make me feel less alone. It doesn’t have to be funny or interesting, I just have to feel like people are around me, talking, and being happy. Game Grumps works well for this, or most podcasts.

45. “Yer a wizard/witch, Y/N” - your reaction? I know. I didn’t learn to code just to not be a wizard.

46. Are you generally a messy or organized person? I’m an organized person who appears messy. It’s like a hashing algorithm. There is some initial data behind it, but you can’t make sense of the result, and there’s no way to reverse it.

47. What’s your go to comfort food? Anything fried. Especially fries. It just feels so familiar, so welcoming, like it can never be bad. Especially with good sauces, sweet and sour most of all probably.

48. Do you enjoy being creative? If so what’s your favorite way to create? I do. I’m not sure what my favorite way is. Writing is easiest, but making games and web stuff is so rewarding. I need to do more either way.

My question:

49: Other than Tumblr, what is your favorite website?

I have no friends to tag :D (But if you see this and nobody tagged you to do it, you can totally say I tagged you and do it anyway. I’ll vouch for you.)

#ask tag

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theapplesweremonitored · 8 years

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I was tagged by @dippedmoonshadow

Rules: Answer all questions, add one question of your own and tag as many people as there are questions.

1) Coke or Pepsi? Yikes, neither, they both nasty.

2) Disney or Dreamworks? Eh, either.

3) Coffee or Tea? I’m 48% coffee and 49% spite. Tea can fuck off.

4) Books or Movies? Depends, really. I tend to watch more movies than read books these days, but that’s because I read almost strictly fanfic. So, reading over watching, but movies over books.

5) Windows or Mac? Windows, good god, Mac can choke.

6) DC or Marvel? More of a Marvel fan, tbh.

7) X-Box or Playstation? XBox, I fucking hate tryna work a Playstation, but XBox One is only barely above the Playstation.

8) Dragon Age or Mass Effect? I have played neither, so Skyrim.

9) Night Owl or Early Riser? Night Owl

10) Cards or Chess? I am v bad at chess, so cards, I guess, even though I have zero poker face.

11) Chocolate or Vanilla? Hard to go wrong with vanilla, imo.

12) Vans or Converse? Neither, I prefer tennis shoes.

13) Lavellan, Trevelyan, Cadash, or Adaar? No clue what this means so I ain’t taking risks.

14) Fluff or Angst? I mean, sometimes I’m in the mood for one or the other or both, but I’m pretty much always in the mood for smut.

15) Beach or Forest? I hate sand and salt water so forest.

16) Dogs or Cats? I mean, it’s not one or the other for me, but cats require less effort, so cats. (Also, I love my kitty.)

17) Clear Skies or Rain? I mean, sometimes I just want it to pour, but generally rain comes with cold, so I’ll go with clear skies.

18) Cooking or Eating Out? Going out.

19) Spicy Food or Mild Food? I have the pickiest, whitest palate. I can’t stand any amount of spiciness.

20) Halloween/Samhain or Solstice/Yule/Christmas? I mean, theoretically, I enjoy Halloween more, but I never get to do anything for it, and at least my mom makes Christmas dinner.

21) Would you rather forever be a little too cold or a little too hot? Like, no matter what I do? I can’t just live my life all bundled up? Yikes, okay, a little too hot please.

22) If you could have a superpower, what would it be? Changing my appearance at will.

23) Animation or Live Action? Eh, I can dig both. My favorites tend to be live-action though.

24) Paragon or Renegade? Dunno what this means, tbh.

25) Baths or Showers? Showers. Can’t overheat in a shower (or at least it takes effort to.)

26) Team Cap or Team Ironman? Team Cap.

27) Fantasy or Sci-Fi? I love both.

28) Do you have three or four favorite quotes, if so what are they?

“What whiskey and butter will not cure, there’s no cure for” Irish proverb or something

“The bushes don’t rattle if there’s no wind” rough translation of a Hungarian proverb

29) YouTube or Netflix? I don’t see why I have to choose.

30) Harry Potter or Percy Jackson? Dude, Percy Jackson, all the way.

31) When do you feel accomplished? I don’t.

32) Star Wars or Star Trek? Grew up on Star Trek. Never had even a passing interest in Star Wars until TFA.

33) Paperback Books or Hardback Books? No preference, I have both.

34) Horror or Rom-Com? Ugh, romcoms are cringey but horror movies freak me out.

35) TV Shows or Movies? Even split, really.

36) Favorite Animal? Ehhhhh, not a fair question. Right now, at this moment? Sugar gliders.

37) Favorite Genre of Music? I don’t really have one. Excluding, like, country and screamo, I like everything except the things that I don’t like.

38) Least Favorite Book? Fifty Shades of Rape and a novel called “Push” that is genuinely traumatizing.

39) Favorite Season? Probably autumn.

40) Song that’s currently stuck in your head? Last song I listened to was “Bad Things” by Camila Cabello

41) What kind of pajamas do you wear? Dude, I wear a mishmash of sweatpants, leggings, tank tops, and various actual pajama sets.

42) How many existential crises do you have on an average day? Averaged out I’d say about 0.7

43) If you can only choose one song to be played at your funeral, what would it be? “Dig It” from the Holes soundtrack.

44) Favorite theme song? “Mental Meta Metal” by Jeff Williams.

45) Harry Potter Movies or Books? Books, but as I get older, I get less and less impressed with the writing.

46) You can make your OTP become canon but you’ll forget that tumblr exists. Will you do it? Pfft, are you kidding? I’m in the shipping business for the aesthetics and sloppy makeouts, not the emotional payoff. I’m keeping tumblr, thanks.

47) One thing that annoys you the most? Stupid people. Just, like, completely sincere, self-awareness-of-a-pudding-cup stupidity.

48) Dreamcatchers or Horoscopes? Eh, I’m not really into either.

My question: 49) Web-series or podcasts?

I tag: Dude, I don’t even know 49 people. @loyle-trash @izzybutt @arirashkae @eggshellseas @rospeaks @hawthornsword @foxtricks @yogurt-gun @randomingoftherandomness

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diplomaticspoonie · 5 years

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weird asks that say a lot

1. coffee mugs, teacups, wine glasses, water bottles, or soda cans?

What am I drinking? Probably soda can, though.

2. chocolate bars or lollipops?

CHOCOLATE>

3. bubblegum or cotton candy?

Gum

4. how did your elementary school teachers describe you?

I don’t honestly remember? I was in the gifted program, though.

5. do you prefer to drink soda from soda cans, soda bottles, plastic cups or glass cups?

Can are the most recyclable.

6. pastel, boho, tomboy, preppy, goth, grunge, formal or sportswear?

Grungy prep? Like, I wear polos a lot, but they’re all old and fucked up.

7. earbuds or headphones?

headphones!

8. movies or tv shows?

9. favorite smell in the summer?

rain

10. game you were best at in p.e.?

dodgeball? I mean, regardless, I was fat and slow

11. what you have for breakfast on an average day?

sometimes a breakfast sandwich, sometimes a littl ething of nuts

12. name of your favorite playlist?

“spoonie encouragement”

13. lanyard or key ring?

ring

14. favorite non-chocolate candy?

skittles?

15. favorite book you read as a school assignment?

Johnny Tremaine

16. most comfortable position to sit in?

Half lotus

17. most frequently worn pair of shoes?

Sneakers

18. ideal weather?

Overcast, dark, windy, feels like it will rain but isn’t yet

19. sleeping position?

side

20. preferred place to write (i.e., in a note book, on your laptop, sketchpad, post-it notes, etc.)?

Laptop

21. obsession from childhood?

DINOSAURS!

22. role model?

Captain America

23. strange habits?

I pick at my eyelashes and eyebrows to try to keep loose hairs from falling in my eyes

24. favorite crystal?

The Dark Crystal

25. first song you remember hearing?

Bad, by MJ

26. favorite activity to do in warm weather?

swim

27. favorite activity to do in cold weather?

drink hot cocoa

28. five songs to describe you?

Shit, uh... 1) Color in Your Cheeks, Mountain Goats 2) I’m Still Standing, Elton John 3) What’s Up Danger, Blackway and Black Caviar 4) Barrett’s Privateers, Stan Rogers 5) All Hallow’s Eve, Type O Negative

29. best way to bond with you?

Complain with me? Overthink something?

30. places that you find sacred?

Bodies of water in general, but specifically the Ohio River. the “Point of No Return” in Benin, due to the immensity of horrors that took place there.

31. what outfit do you wear to kick ass and take names?

I don’t have an attitude for that

32. top five favorite vines?

God, I’m old.

33. most used phrase in your phone?

“Above ground.” It’s how I tell my wife to come get me from the metro.

34. advertisements you have stuck in your head?

At the moment, none. But there’s tons in there somewhere, including some old horrible racist ones.

35. average time you fall asleep?

2 minutes?

36. what is the first meme you remember ever seeing?

“All Your Base” (I said I’m old!)

37. suitcase or duffel bag?

suitcase

38. lemonade or tea?

depends on what i’m doing

39. lemon cake or lemon meringue pie?

pie. always.

40. weirdest thing to ever happen at your school?

muhammed ali coming to visit? (I went to his alma mater.)

41. last person you texted?

my wife

42. jacket pockets or pants pockets?

yes?

43. hoodie, leather jacket, cardigan, jean jacket or bomber jacket?

hoodie

44. favorite scent for soap?

sandalwood

45. which genre: sci-fi, fantasy or superhero?

fantasy in theory, superhero in movies

46. most comfortable outfit to sleep in?

just my undies

47. favorite type of cheese?

probably just because I can’t get it now, wagash.

48. if you were a fruit, what kind would you be?

pineapple

49. what saying or quote do you live by?

i feel a bit weird, since i think it’s a bit appropriative, but this from the great Jewish scholar Pirkei Avot: “ It is not incumbent upon you to finish the task, but neither are you free to absolve yourself from it. “

50. what made you laugh the hardest you ever have?

i’m old, so it’s hard to say, but i always love Muppets.

51. current stresses?

work, upcoming move, the rising tide of authoritarianism around the globe

52. favorite font?

times new roman

53. what is the current state of your hands?

what the hell does this even mean? they’re fine

54. what did you learn from your first job?

that being a lawyer seemed to suck

55. favorite fairy tale?

three little pigs?

56. favorite tradition?

i’m not a tradition guy. i love caroling, in theory at least.

57. the three biggest struggles you’ve overcome?

1) the idea that my father was in hell for his adultery 2) getting into the foreign service 3) divorce

58. four talents you’re proud of having?

1) perseverance 2) mental math 3) good with people 4) bartending

59. if you were a video game character, what would your catchphrase be? “fuck it” (it was my mom’s catchphrase)

60. if you were a character in an anime, what kind of anime would you want it to be? i don’t know enough anime. a middle aged male equivalent of magical girl?

61. favorite line you heard from a book/movie/tv show/etc.? “you my dear ricky are not just a sentimentalist; it seems you’ve become a patriot!”

62. seven characters you relate to?

1) Captain America (I can do this all day) 2) Captain Marvel 3) Group Captain Mandrake 4) Willow Rosenberg 5) Luke (from Cool Hand Luke) 6) Viktor Laszlo 7) Bow

63. five songs that would play in your club?

1) Voodoo, Godsmack 2) Django Jane, Janelle Monae 3) Turalu, the Bollox 4) Block Rockin Beats, Chemical Bros 5) Children of the Underworld, Tiamat

64. favorite website from your childhood?

brunching.com (ok, i was in high school when it came out -- we didn’t have the internet when i was a kid!)

65. any permanent scars?

emotional or physical? one on my hand

66. favorite flower(s)?

roses

67. good luck charms?

not anymore

68. worst flavor of any food or drink you’ve ever tried?

durian.

69. a fun fact that you don’t know how you learned?

no freaking clue. sorry.

70. left or right handed?

left

71. least favorite pattern?

loud checks

72. worst subject?

art

73. favorite weird flavor combo?

no idea...i like all kinds of weird combos. globally peanut butter and jelly is weird.

74. at what pain level out of ten (1 through 10) do you have to be at before you take an advil or ibuprofen?

7. (I’m always at a 3 or 4.)

75. when did you lose your first tooth?

7 years old. it was loose for FOREVER.

76. what’s your favorite potato food (i.e. tater tots, baked potatoes, fries, chips, etc.)?

depends on meal and mood, but usually hash browns

77. best plant to grow on a windowsill?

any you use in food

78. coffee from a gas station or sushi from a grocery store?

gas station coffee. it’ll do the job w/o killing me

79. which looks better, your school id photo or your driver’s license photo?

well, my school id photo would be about 15 years old at this point, so probably that one. (now, my work id photo is better.)

80. earth tones or jewel tones?

jewel tones

81. fireflies or lightning bugs?

lightning bugs

82. pc or console?

what am i playing? both have good points

83. writing or drawing?

writing

84. podcasts or talk radio?

podcasts. talk radio blows.

84. barbie or polly pocket?

whichever my cousin has (which, considering my age, meant barbie)

85. fairy tales or mythology?

is there a functional difference? i don’t think so.

86. cookies or cupcakes?

87. your greatest fear?

dying.

88. your greatest wish?

immortality. if limited to realistic things, becoming an ambassador.

89. who would you put before everyone else?

the needs of the world

90. luckiest mistake?

dating someone 5 years younger than me.

91. boxes or bags?

for what? what am i using them for? they’re different things with different uses!

92. lamps, overhead lights, sunlight or fairy lights?

depends on what i’m doing. for a party, fairy lights. for reading, sunlight.

93. nicknames?

Frosty

94. favorite season?

winter.

95. favorite app on your phone?

most useful might be FB messenger or Signal, but I’m partial to Marvel Puzzle Quest.

96. desktop background?

some beach scene

97. how many phone numbers do you have memorized?

about 5?

98. favorite historical era?

if it’s a setting for something, WWII. if it’s to live in, and i can’t live in the present, 1990s.

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nightmareonfilmstreet · 7 years

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From Sharp to Dull; The Top 13 FRIDAY THE 13TH Films

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From Sharp to Dull; The Top 13 FRIDAY THE 13TH Films

For nearly 40 years, the Voorhees dynasty has been terrorizing teens from Camp Blood to beyond (Space. I mean in Space). The franchise has spawned over 12 films, a TV series, comic books – and one of the most iconic menaces in Horror. Today, on the day of his birth – we honor Jason Voorhees in the TOP 13 Friday the 13th films!

*Record Scratch*

Wait!? Didn’t I just say 13 films? Why yes, Dear Reader I did. We’ve also included a few surprises along the way…

#13 – Nick Antosca’s Friday the 13th (TBD)

Friday the 13th by Doaly

Nick Antosca (Channel Zero, Hannibal) was orignally commission to write a draft of the new Friday the 13th before Paramount brought in Aaron Guzikowski (Prisoners, Contraband). The project was ultimately scrapped but fans can still read the Friday the 13th that could have been! Nick Antosca’s screenplay plants you right back in the late eighties, on the last day of summer camp. An absolute brilliant approach to a character who’s story has been told (and re-told) many times over, Antosca’s script is everything a lifelong Friday fan has been looking for…including a quick hint to a possible winter-set sequel. You can find a link to the un-produced script and a full summary of the entire screenplay HERE.

#12 – Jason Goes to Hell (1993)

I’m sure this is someone’s favorite, but I’ve always found it very hard to like to this movie. Jason Goes to Hell is the biggest tease at the prom, and it’s expansion of Jason as an evil entity that come travel from person to person is absurd. A product of it’s time, The Final Friday was born from a period in the 90s when everything had a sci-fi bend with mysterious, Lovecraftian qualities. And yes, this film did lay the groundwork for Freddy vs Jason but ultimately, that’s all anyone remembers about the entire 88 minutes of Jason Goes to Hell. That said, the character design for Jason with his bulbous head growing into his mask is a highlight, and well worth the price of admission.

#11 – Friday the 13th Part 7: The New Blood (1988)

Psychic Powers. That’s really all you have to know about Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood. Oh, and Terry Kiser (Weekend at Bernie’s) makes an appearance as Dr. Christopher Crews alongside Kane Hodder in his first of four credits as Jason Voorhees. And that’s pretty much it…

#10 – Friday the 13th Part 5: A New Beginning (1985)

A clever take on a franchise that someone, somewhere thought needed a thorough refresh, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning was an…interesting twist on the story-line. We spend a good majority of the film questioning Tommy Jarvis’s sanity and his possible murderous tendencies only to discover that a Jason is in fact, plain old Roy. A New Beginning is proof that a Jason by any other name is still a Jason but it fails to deliver. Still, the film did teach us the importance of controlling our temper, sharing chocolate bars, and how to chop wood.

#9 – Friday the 13th Part 3: 3-D (1982)

While Friday the 13th Part 3: 3D have have taken 9th place on our list, it’s killer synth theme is 1st in our hearts. The film that gave Jason his iconic mask, Part 3 brought us a new dimension of terror. The 3rd Dimension!! Set mostly inside the Higgin’s barn, Jason finds time to pitchfork a few local ruffians and chop some unsuspecting co-eds in half. While perhaps the singularly most important film in the longevity the franchise has enjoyed, Part 3‘s is less menacing than he is oafish.

#8 – Friday the 13th (2009)

I have a bone to pick with everyone that hates this fantastic remake. Not only does this movie contain the most psychologically researched Jason portrayal since Kane Hodder’s brilliant run, Friday the 13th (2009) contains one of the greatest cold opens of the entire series! Arguably, the first 15 minutes of the film, is another film all on it’s own. Jason is not messing about this time around. The kids has trespassed and they must die- well, everyone except the cute girl that remind me of my mother. Sure, everyone in the cast is gorgeous but don’t forget, Friday the 13th (1980) had Kevin “Freaking” Bacon.

#7 – Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)

I’m of the opinion that you owe Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan a proper re-watch before condemning it forever. Yes, this chapter takes Jason out of Crystal Lake and New Jersey proper. Yes, we spend the first half of the movie on a boat, but I’m telling you, this movie is so much more fun than you remember. They threw everything they had at this flick, including the most entertaining fist fight since They Live (1988) and an incredible interview with Arsenio Hall.

#6 – Friday the 13th Part II (1981)

Marking his first appearance as an adult, Friday The 13th Part II helped to build the mythos and Legend that is Jason Voorhees. As it is written in 1st Cunningham, Chapter 2, Verse 13: “When I was a child, I spoke as child, went to camp as a child, and drowned as a child; but when I become a man, I put away childish things.” There comes a time when we all realize it’s time to take up the pick-axe and blaze our own path. Had Pamela lived long enough to see the man her little boy came back from the grave to be, I’m sure she would have been very proud.

#5 – Friday the 13th (1980)

The films that started it all. To not include the original Friday the 13th in your countdown is a transgression no horror fan (or crazed-killer) could forgive. Complete with groundbreaking special effects from Tom Savini, Friday the 13th (1980) was the film that changed the landscape of horror forever. Influencing practically all horror films that followed, Sean S. Cunningham’s cult classic belongs on the Mount Rushmore of Horror alongside John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978), and Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). Betsy Palmer as Pamela Voorhees brought a fresh take on the revenge-driven killer, surprising and terrifying audiences. While some (including screenwriter Victor Miller) scoff at Jason upheaval of the franchise, nothing changes the brilliance of the original Friday the 13th.

#4 – Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter (1984)

Four Words: Crispin Glover Dance Number. The Final Chapter is (count it) the 2nd attempt to close the book on Jason Voorhees. Believe it or not, there was a time when studios actively tried to end there franchises, once and for all. Originally intended as a trilogy, Part IV was a clever attempt to axe Jason and introduce another villain: Tommy Jarvis. We would eventually see this play out in future installments but Part IV laid the groundwork for a story-line that would be abandoned only 1 film later. Fully graduated into his Hockey Mask attire, Jason spends no time hiding in barns, or poking fresh eye holes in his head-bag. Don’t stand too close to windows, and don’t bother asking where to corkscrews are, Jason is coming for you, and you’d better make the best of the time you have left.

#3 – Jason X (2001)

Alright, alright, alright- please stop yelling at your phone. Widely considered a low point in the franchise, Jason X took Friday the 13th to places it had never gone before: Space! You’ll find that if you try and laugh at the insanity of the “Lower Register” Friday films, you’ll find you enjoy Jason X quite a lot more than you ever thought possible. And honestly, what’s not to love?! You need one-liners? Oh we’ve got oneliners. You’re looking for off-the-wall lunacy and buckets of blood? You better get ready for a wild ride. There is literally a scene where a space soldier is impaled on a space drill, only to have his space comrades report, “He’s screwed”

#2 – Freddy vs Jason (2003)

Sure, not technically a Friday the 13th film, but it’s still very much a Jason Voorhees story, and that’s good enough for us! Also, bonus points for the Freddy feature because if there’s one thing every movie needs more of, it’s Freddy Krueger. Fans are still debating who really won this fight but regardless of the outcome, it was an epic battle 30 years in the making. Say what you will about Freddy vs Jason this movie completely delivered.

#1 – Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)

A perfect blend of horror and humor, Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives is a favorite of many horror fans, as well as the hosts of the Nightmare on Film Street Podcast. With a soundtrack that consists almost entirely of Alice Cooper, Jason Lives is a brilliant example of the franchise tipping it’s hat to the audience. The film is aware of itself and leans hard into the absurdity and ridiculousness of it’s premise. Part VI also contains some of the most outlandish kills of the entire franchise, including the Smiley Face Tree Smash, and the RV Death Mask. In many ways Part VI is a modern retelling of the Frankenstein story but for the most part, it’s just one hell of a good time.

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nightmareonfilmstreet · 7 years

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From Sharp to Dull; The Top 13 FRIDAY THE 13TH Films

New Post has been published on https://nofspodcast.com/sharp-dull-top-13-friday-13th-films/

From Sharp to Dull; The Top 13 FRIDAY THE 13TH Films

*Record Scratch*

Wait!? Didn’t I just say 13 films? Why yes, Dear Reader I did. We’ve also included a few surprises along the way…

#13 – Nick Antosca’s Friday the 13th (TBD)

Friday the 13th by Doaly

#12 – Jason Goes to Hell (1993)

#11 – Friday the 13th Part 7: The New Blood (1988)

#10 – Friday the 13th Part 5: A New Beginning (1985)

#9 – Friday the 13th Part 3: 3-D (1982)

#8 – Friday the 13th (2009)

#7 – Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)

#6 – Friday the 13th Part II (1981)

#5 – Friday the 13th (1980)

#4 – Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter (1984)

#3 – Jason X (2001)

#2 – Freddy vs Jason (2003)

#1 – Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)

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