#the spectre of communism

[kropotkindersurprise]

February 2024 - A spectre is haunting carnival in Rio de Janeiro. [source]/[song]

[saffitaffi]

Cold villains. Elegant, refined, maybe, with disinterested eyes and icy composure. Their breath makes a shiver run down your spine, their freezing fingers following the curve of your neck. The coldness is almost, IS inhuman. A ghost of the past come to haunt you for eternity. A vampire, come to steal the life from your veins and the vigor from your step. A victim of scientific experiment gone horribly, horribly wrong.

Vs

Hot villains. Temperamental, wild, feral, full of barely contained desires and unquenchable rage. Their eyes spark and burn and blaze with all the things they want to do. Are they made of fire, or are they just full of energy? Sweaty and passionate and involved. They would never sit from the sidelines. Their very touch leaves blackened ash in the wake. They are so very angry, and will not back down, even if it might be wiser to.

Which do you prefer?

[revacholianpizzaagenda]

Scholars of the Revolution will agree: it's a graadian taunt.

[watchmylegs]

Some awesome pumpkin carvings 🤩

[age-of-moonknight]

“An Unquiet Grave,” Moon Knight: City of the Dead (Vol. 1/2023), #4.

Writer: David Pepose; Penciler: Marcelo Ferreira; Inker: Jay Leisten; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Letterer: Cory Petit

[rawliverandgoronspice]

weird post, but I just don't like how asexuality (and aromance too btw) is talked about online as a negation of things, as like an absence of understanding or an absence of action or an absence of intent. sometimes we slide back into "too stupid to get it/no thought brain empty" or just "oh you're asexual, you're then just Not a part of the conversation" territory, and I'm sorry to say but aspecs' relationship to sex and romance is *so* complicated most of the time, and I feel like exclusion framed as inclusivity is still a fairly recurrent problem, even in queer spaces.

I feel like we maybe lack good public resources on the emotional details of that experience. we're just lacking deeply personal art made by asexuals still in my opinion. the space ace stickers with cakes are cute and all but I'm personally really really over this as far as genuine representation goes

[black-rose-events]

[Text ID: A meme of a white cat with its ears pointed flat and wide, tearful eyes. The text at the bottom reads ‘when hero doesn’t want to fight anymore’. End ID]

BUT WE WERE NEMESES 🥺😭

[stormyoceans]

Monica, are you okay?

[wallylinda]

i get why everyone wants to moralize the gl corps into space explorers but realistically it’s still just going to be the same level of “progressiveness” as before. like park rangers: the green lantern edition is still going the have the common tropes where they head to an alien planet → meet the local population → inevitably get mixed up in a problem → superheroes function as superheroes do → oh wait, this is a cop allegory again! i mean cmon wtf are they going to do in space if they’re not going to fight ppl. none of them know jackshit about galactic wildlife they’re getting poisoned if they try to repopulate an endangered species or some shit like that 😭😭

[bibismovingcastle]

Anime that I watched with rating:

Keep in mind that rating is personal. I tend not to care about animation but how well written it is, the plot/story, and how it gets me emotionally:

Made in abyss s1 9/10

Dororo 9/10

Dorohedoro 9/10

Mieruko-Chan 8/10

Demon slayer 9/10

Komi can’t communicate s1 8/10

Ajin Demo human 7/10

Akudama Drive 9/10

Jujutsu Kaisen 9/10

Fire Force 8/10

Blood Blockade Battlefront 9/10

A silent voice 8/10

In/spectre 7/10

Yona of the down 8/10

Romeo X Juliet 10/10

Place to Place 7/10

N° 6 7/10

Corpse Party 6/10

Ao Haru Ride 8/10

Another 7/10

Yuri on Ice 7/10

Naruto 9/10

Naruto Shippuden 10/10

Erased 9/10

Death parade 8/10

Death note 9/10

Darling in the Franxx 8/10

Claymore 7/10

Bungo Stray Dogd 9/10

Blend S 7/10

Angel beats 8/10

Your lie in April 10/10

Full metal alchemist brotherhood 10/10

Made in abyss movie 8/10

list in update

[world-of-fire-and-flight]

Pair of Dorks

A/N: This literally just came to me this morning despite daydreaming up snippets while my co-conspirator (@heroes-villains-side-blog) were cooking up our prompts for @black-rose-events and planning out our Villaintine’s Day event😅 As for the prompts, I chose Grumpy!Villain x Sunshine!Hero, “I loathe you”, and black roses with a dash of sleeping curse and nemesis-versary/nemesis proposal from @black-rose-events’ Villaintine’s Day prompt list!

Warnings: uhhhh….none? Maybe some harsh words/teasing at someone else’s expense but otherwise I can’t think of anything that requires a warning😊

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“What’s this?” Villain asked, eyeing the offered rose suspiciously.

Hero blinked at her, then at the black rose he was offering her. “It’s a rose?”

Villain hummed, leaning against the doorframe of her home—her home. How did Hero even find her? Who else knew what he did? The beginning of a headache began to pound in her temples. She hoped Hero hadn’t spread the information of her home address to the entire heroic community. She didn’t want to have to move again, actually feeling a sense of comfort in the quiet neighborhood of spacious yards and privacy and houses tucked back from the road, nestled amongst the woodland.

“And so what? I accept it, sniff it, and fall victim to a sleeping curse?” she frowned, “No thanks, Hero. Now get off my property.”

Villain straightened. Before she could take a step back and slam the door in Hero’s face, she found herself freezing at the slack-jawed expression that had taken over Hero’s features.

“Wh—” he started, then stopped and shook his head decisively. Even so, he still sputtered as he tried to explain himself. “No! It’s just, uh, a rose. You know for our nemesis-versary.”

Any amusement Villain had from watching Hero squirm as he tried to explain what he was doing here and what the rose was for evaporated. In its place was confusion as her eyebrows knitted together. “Wait, our what?”

“Our, uh, nemesis-versary?” Hero shifted on his feet and finally dropped the black rose, glancing at it self-consciously. He avoided her gaze as he continued, “It’s been over two years since we started fighting each other, and exactly a year since we’ve started to fight each other exclusively—though I guess that has to do more with my case assignment from the Agency then a conscious decision, but still—I just…I don’t know. I saw the black rose and thought it was cute.”

“And you decided to give it to me? For our nemesis-versary?” Villain asked, folding her arms over her chest. Her lips quirked into a small amused smile as she took in his pink-tipped ears and worried brows, the way he bit his lip. “A celebration that literally no one’s ever heard of?”

“Well, yeah. Who else could I give a black rose to?” Hero said quietly, his voice hardly a murmur. “I thought it was neat and because I’m trying to be more financially responsible, I needed an actual reason to buy it other than—”

“Oh so you’re giving it to me as an excuse, and not from the kindness of your heart?” Villain grinned deviously. It was too easy to tease Hero, especially when he was so vulnerable. This entire interaction reminded her of the time his mask had slipped during one of their fights. He’d tried to cover his face with his hands and tell her not to look at him, but it was too late. She’d already seen his face.

Hero’s shoulders slumped. Villain didn’t know why the sight of his defeat made her heart pang. Normally she loved victory, but this was…unprovoked.

“Well,” she said with a click of her tongue. “At least it’s not red. That would be cliché and yellow would’ve been the wrong color entirely. I think the black rose suits me.”

Hero’s gaze snapped up to her, taking in her waiting hand. Hesitantly, he held up the flower, watching dumbly as Villain took it. He opened his mouth to say something, but quickly closed it.

Twirling the black rose between her fingers, Villain smirked at him. “Happy nemesis-versary, Hero. My gift to you is a crime free day. Enjoy it while it lasts.”

Villain left him standing on her porch, gaping. She locked the door behind her and walked away, not bothering to see if he’d gone. Laughing to herself as she set the rose down on her kitchen counter, she grabbed a glass and filled it with water. How could such a thorn in her side be such a dork? Maybe she needed a new nemesis, one who actually deserved to be punched in the face. Or the gut. Shaking her head, Villain dropped the rose in the glass and stared at it for a second too long. A soft smile came to her face. Maybe they were both dorks.

[ofide]

maybe the real epidemic is all the ghosts and phantoms...... have you considered that

[agustinrmichel]

Richard Stanley’s ‘Color Out of Space’

[brookbee]

Something I love about Star Trek is how episodes will reference different genres, and sometimes I wonder what it would be like if they leaned into it even more. Going so far as to mimic filming styles, or modifying the soundtrack to sound like it belongs in a different genre for an episode.

Like hypothetically if I were to make a Star Trek show that’s reminiscent of TOS while also making it into something a bit new, I think I’d lean into the genre of the episode way more than they would have been able to in the 60s bc of cost and time constraints. Like as an example take the most Western inspired episode of TOS, “Spectre of the Gun,” and have them trapped in that Western world down to the filming, music, etc. And once they have the breakthrough of how they’ll escape slowly transform back to the typical Star Trek episode style where it’s sci-fi observing a different genre. Showing that they’re only trapped in the genre for as long as they don’t have a solution to their problem.

Idk I think that would be neat

[spectrearia-archive]

started playing hatsune miku: project diva mega mix recently and now i'm kind of addicted?? uh oh lol

barely even sunk 4-5 hours into the game and already i'm attempting songs on hard/extreme difficulty xDD i'm just impatient I guess haha

[age-of-moonknight]

“Memory of a Killer,” Moon Knight: City of the Dead (Vol. 1/2023), #1.

Writer: David Pepose; Penciler: Marcelo Ferreira; Inker: Jay Leisten; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Letterer: Cory Petit