so i had the honor to help organize this years geminitay birthday art collab!
this year we had 20 gems from 19 contributors (plus lava, our wonderful background artist!!) and despite a few delays, we are pleased to present this! let’s call the few days late-ness just adding an element of surprise!
i'm always really weirded out when a horror movie is set in mass because it's always a very aestheticized experience. i always feel that it is inauthentic and alien to me, despite having lived here my whole life. i feel that horror set in new england is mostly either stephen king or written by authors who've never spent more than a week in the rural parts but like the concept of the witch trials or the puritans, and even when they try to emulate it and do some research, they come up short. it's obviously not a huge issue - rural massachusetts deserves to be mocked sometimes and it's not as if we're talking about cultural appropriation here (not usually. i mean. the old indian burial ground thing still happens in these parts and is very bad.).
HOWEVER, all of this to say that there are a million bad horror movies centered around massachusetts, but i should never have doubted oz perkins. likely thing to happen in mass.