#thats where it lies

[kstarlitchaotics]

People liking Remy all of sudden cause he's wearing a crop top please I was a fan when he wore that awful strip shirt 😂❤️

[killjoy-prince]

House M.D. but it's when a character says the name of the episode

[karagna]

A Softer World posts but as my ocs instead

[urayuli]

omg........hi pest

[undefeatablesin]

My angel, my pride and joy, my beloved AKA the Good Hunter Ruza lmao 🧡 ft. Her Lost Chikage and her fun outfit from these screenshots! + some lil headshots of her in the Yharnam Hunter Garb, a look I also care Deeply About ✨️

[maxthesillyy]

forever insane about this

[manitapaleta]

mommy? sorry. mommy?? ...sorry.

S2 milfs!!! and Marco hehe

[skunkes]

[sweet-honey-fruit]

Trigger warning for mentions of underaged reader, incest, sa, and grooming. Nothing explicit, it’s just a conversation being discussed.

My thoughts might be chaotic. Disclaimer, I’m a firm believer that censorship in media is a bad thing. It can feed into the decline of media literacy, as well as block proper representation/awareness of situations.

With that being said, there are just some downright disgusting things that should not be touched on in a specific manner and it’s becoming a problem on Tumblr, specifically the Hoyoverse side of things.

There should be NO REASON as to why my tag searches/feed are covered with “underaged reader gets sa’ed and groomed by their uncle/brother.” No reason at all. Thats gross. Thats disgusting. Especially when there are other canon minor characters involved.

“If you dont like it, dont read/block.” And I do. But there's more to this issue than what can simply be ignored.

When it comes to writing dark topics, it’s more to bring awareness and evoke a negative emotion from its audience to get them to go against the topic that is written. THAT is not the goal with these fanfics. It’s obvious fetish content, and all it is doing is normalizing and creating a polluted pool of freaks within its community. It’s not warning anyone of anything, its goal is to not stir up attention for a topic. Its pure purpose is to turn on and cater to those who fantasize about that stuff daily. It’s obvious in the way it’s written.

I also dont understand how that shit is pushed SO HEAVILY on Tumblr’s algorithm. No amount of filtered tags or blocks can get rid of these vile fanfics being put onto my dash. So many of them aren't properly warned, and are using everday tags.

There are sick people who are reading these fics that want to do what is written. And that's dangerous. I've seen comments that say “This is so good! I wish my brother would do this to me.” WHY ARE WE CATERING TO THESE PEOPLE?? Why are we fueling this disgusting taboo? Writing about these topics in this way does nothing but stir up fantasies that should not be encouraged.

If you write fanfics like these to get people going, seek therapy. If you also write these fics and publically post them to “cope”, also seek therapy because that is not healthy.

If you write or support these creators, please block/unfollow me. I do not want this kind of people within my community.

[bacchuschucklefuck]

Can you expand on what you mean by Baron being "too cool" to really fit a horror monster? It's a very interesting concept and I'd love to hear your thoughts. Is it that they're too active/involved/tangible and it detracts from their scariness?

I feel like I should preface this with a wall of disclaimers lmao 1/I am a hardcore, down-to-the-marrow, avid, deeply sincere horror enthusiast, esp. horror creatures. this usually means my mileage is vastly different from the average populace's, and my scaredy bone has been disintegrated by longterm exposure. most things in a piece of horror media won't scare me! so I practically never use that on its own as the scale to talk abt horror experiences, but when something does scare me it's always a special occasion to be treasured. 2/canon d20 is never really meant to be horror horror, and for good reasons: it doesn't fit the company's output, it takes a kind of carelessness in production estimation that is always a huge risk, it's often vulnerable in a way that kinda goes against how TTRPGs usually facilitates vulnerability, and for most people it's just! stressful! d20, even with the "horror-themed" seasons, generally just plays with horror tropes and stays focused in its goal of being a comedy improv tabletop theater show. 3/fantasy high's chosen system is DnD, which as I've mentioned before is before all a combat-based game system, which means the magic circle of play is drawn based on stats that facilitate and prioritize combat. want or not this affects every interaction you have in the game, and given fantasy high's concept from the ground up (everyone's going to school of DnD stuff to get better at DnD) it's doubly relevant. 4/This Is Fine I have no quarrel with this. my meters are internal, I do not ask this show to be anything it doesn't advertise itself to be, and what it is is fucking great! I like it! when I expand on this ask's question it will be like a physicist going insane in a lab. that's the mindset we're going in with.

disclaimers done. my stance on horror as a genre is that it's a utility genre rather than a content genre or a demographic genre; it is the discard of narratives. it's the trash pile. horror, above being scary, is about being ugly and messy, it's the cracks on the ground any story inevitably steps over to stay a genre that isn't horror. the genre's been around long enough to develop a codex and a general language that medias and makers and enthusiasts of the genre can use to talk about and build onto, but if you go into individual pieces there's really no unifying Horror Story. one person's beautiful life can be another's horror story, it's just how it is.

this makes The Monster a deeply intriguing piece of the genre. thing is a monster is in a decent percentage of any story - it's just when the antagonist force steps into something past a certain line traced out in the story's world. monstrousness is in pretty much every western fantasy story, it's in any story with a hero and something to vanquish or win; more than anything it's a proxy of that thing up there. the line in a narrative's world. the monster is the guard of the unknown lands, where heroic, civilized people don't tread.

what does this mean in the context of horror? the genre is about that perceived lawlessness, that "unknown land" so to say. we're in the monster's home. that's the literary context that we often walk into a horror piece with; the monster knows more than you about where you are. it may not understand you, but it holds more information than you, and with that it moves swifter than you, has more covered than you, and is more assured in its existence in this context than you. it's a struggle to catch up to it, it's nigh impossible to get one over it, and you're never sure it'll 100% work, because you just don't have the information necessary to.

with that framing you can kinda see where I'm coming from here: horror's often about the breaking of rules. I always think a monster's most effective when it breaks well-established rules of both existence and visual storytelling. think Possum (2018) or Undertale's Omega Flowey or the Xenomorph Queen - unique change in medium, unique change in graphic, unique change in design language, etc. in that sense I actually really like how canon baron plays out: they don't really function like anything else in the fantasy high universe, the bad kids have not managed to kill them when they've felled literal gods, their domain in fhjy literally introduces new mechanics to encompass their existence! from an experience design standpoint they slap mad shit. BUT! I can't help finding their character, like as a character riz (and the other bad kids, eventually) interact with, to be very... coherent? in design. this is kinda hard for me to articulate in words, it's more often a sense you get once you've looked at enough of these scrumptious fuckers, their general design and the way they show up is just kinda too clean, so to say. always kinda newly made? fresh unboxed. it, once again, makes sense for their lore - they are looking for more about themself from riz - and their function - they're an antagonist in a game experience, they're meant to be interacted with in a way that produces results and meshes with the existing magic circle - but that shininess takes away from the implied history they should have dominion over and the person they're haunting doesn't.

from another angle there is kinda something there about how put-together canon baron is as a concept; the domain they call home is riz's deep-seeded fears, extremely vulnerable things he's drawn borders around to quarantine and refused to walk into. things that from his perspective would irreversibly shatter certain pleasant fictions his world is built on top of. canon baron, While Extremely Cool, I feel is kinda too neat to connect with and signify the apocalyticized mess that'd result from this paradigm shift. the part where they're in riz's briefcase and looking through every mirror is Very Cool And Fucked Up! but ultimately the show draws a line around them as well, by making game-physical, tangible spaces they're in (the mirrors and the haunted mordred manor) and put riz and the bad kids there only when they need to confront stuff. riz is meaningfully narratively away from baron's unknown land for most of fantasy high.

with that and all of my disclaimers in mind my conclusion here is if canon baron wants to be a Horror Monster they'd have to cross way more lines. be a Lot more invasive. hence (holds up my class swap baron like a long cat)

[dykentery]

i love waking up from a nap and being like 🤓 as u slowly remember everything thats happened in your life of late

[picklesinabottle]

I do think it's fun that fantasy!jagerman looks away from grace when he says "I love...jesus" and then looks her dead in the eye when he says "I love...to fuck"

[ef-1]

peter bayer you're going to be so embarrassed when I launch you into the fucking sun ❤️‍🔥

[metanarrates]

watched a majora's mask analysis earlier today with my fiancee. my verdict is that I actually really enjoyed the op's interpretations, but that I wished that they talked more about mm's literal level and what one can get from it, rather than talking about those events as if they are strictly metaphor. yes, of course the metaphorical layer of the game is rich to dig into, but it's also such an open-ended and surreal game that it's difficult to nail down every single distinct metaphor that can be derived from its events. which is why I consider it necessary to discuss the way the literal layer presents itself and what sort of motifs and ideas exist there as a baseline before you begin looking at it as metaphor

[stevethehairington]

when a person gets a boyfriend or girlfriend and immediately puts every last shred of their attention and time and effort solely into said boyfriend or girlfriend and absolutely nothing and no one else — that is actually one of the shittiest things a person can do

[cosmicterrorthe8th]

Another Grant headcanon:

I think he wrote love notes when in relationships, and he went all out with like making the paper scented and stuff. But like he had no good perfume so he ended up using his horrible body spray. So like the lucky boyfriend would like find a paper reeking of the body spray like every once in a while.

Also I think he was someone who fell deep into romance because having a crush and feeling butterflies in his stomach was better than numbness. So he would pursue every crush even if he knew it would not end well because of the thrill of it. I think this sucked but I think he atleast felt like this is a normal way for life to suck.