#this one's for you jordan peele

[antlerpunk]

I'VE GOT THE VOICES OF MANY IN MY THROAT THE TEETH OF A FROG AND THE TAIL OF A GOAT ONE EYED ONE HORNED FLYING PURPLE PEOPLE EATER PIGEON TOED UNDERGROWED FLYING PURPLE PEOPLE EATER

[korra-of-the-watertribe]

Happy Black History Month!

[laios-thorden]

To them [people who don't read horror] it is a kind of pornography, inducing horripilation instead of erection. And the reader who appears to relish such sensations-why he's an emotional masochist, the slave of an unholy drug, a decadent psychotic beast.

-David Aylward

horror is about catharsis. it is about experiencing fear or pain or shame or suffering via a piece of media, and being able to sigh in relief when it is done. it is about emotion and flesh and the human condition.

the point of the genre of horror is to inflict the emotion called "fear" or the related emotions "discomfort," "disgust" and "shame." if you do not want to experience and explore negative emotions and the stories that they can tell, you do not actually want to engage with horror. the point of horror is that it might make you feel bad or upset or, god forbid, scared. there are stories that rely on that and it doesn't make horror a lesser medium for narrative than any other genre. it just means that you personally might not enjoy horror.

it's fine to not like horror, but don't pretend like it's something it's not because it makes you uncomfortable.

a lot of takes about horror i see are like, "why doesn't horror have x, y, or z" and the answer is it does. you aren't engaging with the medium or searching out stories that have those things because you don't want to deal with the trappings of the genre (being scared/experiencing negative emotions). liking one piece of horror media doesn't mean engaging with the genre as a whole with all its tropes, trappings, and its rich and varied history.

Ursula K Le Guin writes,

A writer sets out to write science fiction but isn’t familiar with the genre, hasn’t read what’s been written. This is a fairly common situation, because science fiction is known to sell well but, as a subliterary genre, is not supposed to be worth study—what’s to learn? It doesn’t occur to the novice that a genre is a genre because it has a field and focus of its own; its appropriate and particular tools, rules, and techniques for handling the material; its traditions; and its experienced, appreciative readers—that it is, in fact, a literature. Ignoring all this, our novice is just about to reinvent the wheel, the space ship, the space alien, and the mad scientist, with cries of innocent wonder. The cries will not be echoed by the readers. Readers familiar with that genre have met the space ship, the alien, and the mad scientist before. They know more about them than the writer does.

the same is true for horror; people who do not engage with horror as a medium, as a genre, as a way to tell stories and convey meaning do not get to reinvent the wheel. doing so won't be met with gratitude by people who do like horror. it's not helpful. it's condescension.

[mmmthornton]

And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a spectacle.

At that time, at that place, who was actually there and who was not?

This dream you're chasing, where you end up at the top of the mountain, all eyes on you... it's the dream you never wake up from.

I was looking at the stars. I don't want to look at the real stars.

What's a bad miracle? They got a word for that?

She's a fool because she doesn't realize that her miracle is standing atop someone else's sacrifice. But that's the sort of person who receives miracles.

Right here, you are going to witness an absolute spectacle. 

Someday, Together, We'll Shine.

[devilsskettle]

i've watched a lot of good films lately in an attempt to catch up with a bunch of movies that have come out recently, but talk to me was the best movie i've seen in a LONG time

[jellogram]

Also it's insane that anyone got mad at Jordan Peele for saying he wasn't interested in casting white people. "But what if a white person said this about black people???" Tim Burton pretty much straight up said that and then continued to direct disney remakes and netflix shows so maybe shut the fuck up???

[charlieism]

nobody gets jupe from nope like i do. i get it i understand

[mildmayfoxe]

had a dream i was at this huge banquet thing where everything was free and after sitting at my own table for a while started walking around to see what else there was and found a table with a ton of boxes of rabbit shaped gummy candies in different flavors with two girls sitting at it & i politely was like “could i take one of these please?” and gestured at a box that had one of each flavor in it and without even looking at me one of them, in a really nasty tone, was like “no you can’t” with no other explanation. so then of course i took four boxes and walked away and was just wandering around looking at stuff and found a big mountain of cookies so i opened one of them (toffee or something. in the dream it tasted great) when the girl who told me no tackled me to the ground and started fighting me for the boxes of candy i took and i was like “why are you so obsessed with not letting me have any of these!!” and knocked her down on the ground and then my alarm went off and i woke up

[tariah23]

Hm.

[gretagerwigsmuse]

forgot i’m getting a peel at my facial today and i have plans to go to a wine tasting later. tbd if i am still going to the wine tasting later.

[cannellaeluce]

you know that thing about characters in a horror story not knowing that they are in a horror story and that being the fact informing all those poor choices that we as spectators recognise as such - 

well, I was watching a tv scene of a man entering a very dark building in the dead of night just because he heard a curious noise and I wanted to write down that fuck that, it is cis white men that do not know that they’re in a horror story, because women and minorities know they’re always a second away from it

[giantkillerjack]

I never understood the bit at the beginning of Fear Street hey hey everyone go watch it right now it is SO GOOD where one of the characters that the film wants us to sympathize with reacts to a local tragedy with a kind of flagrant, unhinged humor.

And then 2020 lasted for 84 years.

And I was like,

Ah.

I get it.

[trans-ylvania]

gone girl 2024 with florence pugh please please please

[oatmealswizard]

ohhh my fuckign gourding....... the doppler's effect is the change of the PITCH!!! the PITCH!!! of the sound with the movement of either the source of the sound or the observer, not the change of VOLUME!!!!

[ellcrys]

watched cabin in the woods tonight at a friend's recommendation

it was very entertaining but not my flavor of horror

[thecoffeelorian]

...When the NFL commercials play "I Got 5 On It"...