#put some Atmosphere in there

[pyrosomatic-metamorphosis]

im gonna be honest i dont care that the eggs bedrooms at NINHO look super scary rn. NINHO is a nuclear bunker built for survival, and that should ALWAYS be the #1 priority when building a space meant to be safe. If it isn't safe, then it has failed as a safe space, just by definition. That SAID- gaining functionality doesn't mean they have to give up a nice room entirely. There's still ways to decorate. The space has to be different now, but remember that each room started out as a double-block layered square box. even a nuclear bunker can have paintings on the wall

[iamanartichoke]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but as a creator -

I am fine with "the audience" -

downloading my fics

printing my fics

copy/pasting or screenshotting my fics

sharing your saved copy of my fics with anyone else who might want them in the unlikely but never impossible case that my fics are no longer available on ao3

making a book of my fic(s) and running your fingers across the pages while lovingly whispering my precioussss

doing these things with anything I create for fandom, such as meta, headcanons, au nonsense like 'texts from the brodinsons,' etc

I am not fine with "the audience"

doing any of the above with the purpose/intent of plagiarizing my work or passing it off as their own in any capacity

feeding my work into ai for any reason whatsoever

Save the fandom things. Preserve the fandom things. Respect the fandom things.

Enjoy the fandom things.

[mikimeiko]

The Fall of the House of Usher | Miniseries (2023), Mike Flanagan

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep - A Fragmentary Passage - Main Road

[the-selfinsert]

If (When, really) I learn to make music, I think one of the very first things I'll make is a Dusttale track. Something about that feels right in my bones.

[neatfrog]

I finished it 🫠

✨ my art ✨

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[pasdetrois]

some nosferatu 2024 thoughts 🖤

this is the first jonathan (well, thomas in this adaptation because stoker estate lawsuit) that i have actually enjoyed watching—which was very much helped by his character not being shunted off to the corner after the castle arc, and by him being played by nicholas hoult instead of harry styles (yes, apparently he may have been the original casting choice. thank goodness for small miracles).

one of the few van helsings i've enjoyed watching as well. dafoe brought a compassionate earnestness to the role, which is an important element for setting him apart from a generic researcher/healer figure that would otherwise fade to the background (as the '79 version did for me, personally)

ellen being the lynchpin of this film from beginning to end—her loneliness, fear, desire, shame, defiance, and strength. (of course it's not ideal to blend mina and lucy into one character, because it does almost imply an interchangeability between them, but i can give some leeway here due to timing constraints.) there's an out of time and place aspect to her (she and others refer to her "fae" ways several times)—which is undeniably in part due to being a woman in a world like this, especially one who has experienced what she has and is offered only shame and silence for it—but also a fundamental Otherness that ends up becoming the salvatory key to a benediction only a few will ever know of... there was something touching about the doctor recognizing her power and how in their time it could offer everyone but her salvation. and while depp may not have quite the haunting presence adjani does, i still enjoyed her performance. the way she spoke of her wedding to death dream, caught between a laugh and a sob was so 🩶

the tragic pas de trois element of the story and the faustianesque covenants ellen and thomas enter into with the count were awful and fascinating and even poignant. this gluttonous, rotting corpse who can not love, but is the only one to hear ellen's pleas, who speaks to her through the conduit of her token of love to thomas, whose castle recognizes thomas and never willingly releases him. and thomas and ellen, standing together in the wreck, no longer talking past each other, for how little it matters now beyond these precious few moments. i'm still thinking about the harrowing scene in the third act where they simultaneously invoke and rebuke his spectre. "show him our love"!!!

beautiful visuals, when i could see them (unfortunately, it did occasionally suffer from the lighting problem that most of its horror contemporaries do, in that i probably resembled the squinting lady in pink trying to decipher what exactly was on the screen at times). the shadow work was sublime though (and i assume inspired by the '22 version). loved the shots where the count's fragmentary silhouette appears in billowing curtains or looms ever closer over thomas and ellen's wide eyed stares. significantly more evocative than the later scenes where we actually saw the count's physical form.

the visceral physicality of it all! lots of blood and sharp, staccato contortions lending a presence and urgency to the scenes.

harding's character didn't really work for me (there was just a bit too much of the cliche, especially with some of the trite landed gentryman dialogue™️), but i can appreciate that he and his family were likely intended to be the Victorian Ideal foil to thomas and ellen, and the cost that ultimately incurred. and to be honest, the coffin scene was still more poignant than the equivalent in fennell's 2023 attempt at gothic horror.

the film mostly follows its predecessors and the novel with regard to the treatment of the villagers. not ideal, to say the least, but from a straight adaptation position, you're in a tricky spot given how much the "fear of the uncivilized, foreign invader" bigotry is baked into the text itself. it likely wasn't egger's priority, given how short this chapter was in the film, but i feel there's more that could have been done here.

lovely string work in the soundtrack, especially the pendulum swing between a sense of poignancy and foreboding. these were a couple of my favorite tracks:

[aromanticasterisms]

the epic highs and lows of rereading your own writing to seek out parts you disliked and analyze Why you disliked them to do better in the future

[iceclew]

Wirst die falschen Freunde haben Die die Wahrheit Dir nicht sagen! Und am Ende ganz allein So furchtbar anders sein!

Anders Sein kann auch bedeuten Sich nicht jedes Mal zu häuten Wenn der Wind sich einmal dreht Schmerzhaft ins Gesicht Dir weht!

Nach dem eig'nen Weg zu suchen Auch einmal für and're bluten! Nicht die Augen zu verschließen Und den Gegenwind genießen!

Listened to this song in bed at the very convenient hour of 4am (listen I'm having some days of, and my sleep scedule gave up like on the first day, ok) and suddenly I had a real urge to draw Kafka's Kaiju form… Then this morning the postman woke me up to bring me the new tips for my graphics tablet pen, so I basically had to do it, right? (૮ ˙ ﻌ˙ ა no more scratching on the surface! yay! )

[moggettt]

art vs artist 2024 🖊️

[sporesgalaxy]

tempted to start appearing more weeaboo-like at work just to bring everyone down a peg. i dont know what im bringing them down at. emotionally, maybe. not because of how anyone is acting really but it's just too effectively catholic in there.

[cerealmonster15]

My confession is I used to really really really noooootttt like characters that had all pointy triangle shark teeth. Really creeped me out and i found it extremely off putting. I think I simply got used to it over time lol exposure therapy forced upon me so now I dont really care. I feel like there one of the reasons I never wanted to get into black butler lol like I had some friends into it but there were a few characters that kinda unnerved me just at a glance so I was not really wanting to pursue it

[synthaphone]

i know if i ever did an escape room IRL i’d just be like :\ i wish this was more like Neutral’s Room Escape games :/

[demodraws0606]

Would I be shot to death if I said TPOT is better at writing certain emotional/serious moments than Inanimate Insanity (though it is on a case by case basis).

[aroaessidhe]

2025 reads / storygraph

Green Fuse Burning

horror novella

an Indigenous lesbian artist is signed up for an artists’ residency by the girlfriend she’s drifting away from

she’s struggling with grief and regret after the death of her estranged father, and feeling disconnected from their culture - and the residency is in a cabin by a swamp, near where he grew up

during the week, she starts to hear strange noises and experience dark visions, feeding her with inspiration and drawing her deeper into the swamp

climate change, Indigenous identity, grief and acceptance of death as part of nature

[protectorcraft]

somebody asked abt what i liked abt The Sexy Brutale (Game) and i figure i can give a little synopsis of my experience and the general gameplay loop. spoiler free because i Would really recommend going in w/o spoilers.

the game is- at its most basic- a stealth/puzzle game. it focuses on spying on other characters to gather information to better solve problems.

the problems? watching your friends and fellow guests of the hotel-mansion-casino "The Sexy Brutale"'s masqurade party get murdered horribly by the staff over and over again. yuuuup. also you're stuck in a timeloop, if that wasnt clear.

the mansion's owner- the marquis- is no where to be found, and its your job to stop your peers from dying by Any Means Necessary, find the marquis, and put a stop to this once and for all.

it has a very striking style! fun, colorful, and stylized- and do NOT get me started on the sound and music design. yes its electroswing but it genuinely fucks hard. the writing is charming- humor is good, the foreshadowing is fucking superb, and the characters are easy to get very attached to despite only knowing them at their lowest. (i love you trinity). while it's far from graphic, some of the deaths are incredibly brutal. had a like "cupped hand over mouth" reaction to a few of them.

i cant say it'll be for everyone, but depending on stuff like how much time you spend exploring and how good you are at solving the puzzles, i'd say the full experience sits at around the 8-15 hour range. (and speaking from experience, if you like isat you may very well like this game)

also i cried like a bitch at the ending.

ALSO also as of writing this it's on sale for four whole american dollars right now- which is objectively a steal

go! go try it! right now!