#tw deformity

[dukesnukes]

KANE <33 FACIAL DEFORMITY IS SO FASCINATING TO STUDY.

[skydalorian]

Pretty Scenery for Halloween - Phenomena (1985) ~ Dario Argento

PART XVI

[blasfemmy]

goretober day 1: teeth

[jey-draws]

Had to say goodbye to another ferret :(

[appri-dot]

All my silly fucked up human mimic species should hang out

[wheelie-sick]

I've had "cripple" shouted at me from cars while I was walking down the sidewalk with a friend. I've had "cripple" shouted at me in the hallways of schools. I've been referred to as just "the cripple" by people who knew my name. I've had abusive parents use "cripple" to demean me. I've had "cripple" used to mock and dehumanize me for my entire life.

I'm also autistic and have several other mental and cognitive disabilities. every single time I was called a cripple they were referring to my legs not my mind. they were referring to the same legs they called "something out of a horror movie" the same legs they were grossed out by because they twist and bend the wrong ways. they were referring to my limb difference and my mobility aids. it was never about my mind.

and don't think that it's just because I was never called slurs for my mental disabilities. I was constantly bullied and mocked with the r slur, I was called schizo and psycho and crazy, but never, not even once, did they reach for "cripple" as the word to attack me for my mind.

it is just not your word.

[horygory]

Men (2022)

[vampz-on-the-block]

My favourite lil guy<3

[instantpansies]

she's the disco miniature golfing queen of my heart 💖🥰💞💗✨

RARGH PHINEAS AND FERB FANART!! BABEY!!

it's MY comfort show and i get to put underrated main characters in silly disco* outfits if i want

*interpret this very liberally

[djsherriff-responses]

This is mostly aimed at American people (I’m British) but do you think Eden allows abortions or not?

[kingxfmischief]

Part 2 of 3 for my oddities expo haul.

Armadillo paw, diamondback rattlesnake verts, little fishy pin, turtle skull, the annual shirt, wet specimen otter paw, and then a funky little arctic fox with a skull deformity. Almost didn't buy an arctic fox but found this funky dude and had to get him.

[der3ality]

[gorjee-art]

I keep forgetting to post things... so have my two boys! They're totally sane and right in the mind just innocent civilians! Just guys being dudes

[ofbeautsandbeasts]

Okay, I want to know how the transition of the phantoms deformity happened? How did we start from Leroux full face corpse while being skeleton like thin to ALW half faced deformity and "normal" body?

Hi, thanks for asking me a question! (my inbox is barren these days, except for the occasional tumbleweed...or should I say tumblrweed?) 😂

Well, I think Leroux chose a very corpse-like Phantom because an "opera ghost" should look macabre and close to death...just based on the name/concept. I do believe he was a fan of Bram Stoker's Dracula because Erik and Dracula have a lot of things in common. For example, Erik sleeps in a coffin, he has no mirrors in his house, he lives in a secluded and mysterious house, he doesn’t eat when Christine dines, he gives her Tokay wine at her first meal, he keeps her as his prisoner for a time, his eyes blaze, etc. I'm not sure if Leroux was trying to make his readers suspect Erik's a vampire all along or if he was paying homage to one of his fave novels or if he simply thought it would be cool to give Erik these traits. Gothic novels of that time just tended to have supernatural villains and Erik is no exception. It makes sense that a truly horrifying phantom would essentially look like a zombie...because what's scarier than something that really shouldn't be alive and is missing a nose??

(sorry, I couldn't resist adding some of my & @fantomexnoir's art 😆)

As for ALW's half-deformity, @textsfromthefifthbasement has it right about Michael Crawford rehearsing with a full face mask and it being difficult to sing/emote well, so they switched to a half-mask. Regarding why it's not just a skeletal deformity, I think that would be underwhelming to modern audiences because we've collectively consumed so many horror movies since they were first made that we need something more contrasting and unnatural like this:

Trust me, the first time I ever saw this deformity, I was completely BOGGLED! Like...his head has a HOLE??? That somehow doesn't get infected or bleed out????? Don't even get me started on the version that has exposed brain 🤦:

As for the "normal" body, it would be difficult/problematic to only cast underweight actors for the Phantom...but I'd so love to see someone like Matthew Patrick Davis do a performance as ALW Erik! He's the 6'6" man who dressed up as Jack Skellington and performed as him for a youtube video (link here). Just imagine him doing Stranger Than You Dreamt It and the Final Lair with the same creepy/spidery physicality!

Alas...I don't know when we'll ever get a super accurate Leroux adaptation. Maybe one day Guillermo Del Toro will get around to directing one...and then we can all die happy 👻

[an-angels-fury]

Okay, so I was searching for POTO content here on Tumblr, and everything was fine until I went across the 2004 movie hashtag and find a person saying how much they hated the movie, how much of a torture and a terrible experience it was to watch it (except for the Raoulstine parts), blah blah blah and all that kind of comments I've already read and seen a hundred times in this phandom. Basically, no big news...

You know, I could simply have ignored these posts like I use to do because everyone has their own opinions and tastes about things, right? It's not like I could or even wanted to waste my time trying to change people's minds. I'd much rather to keep posting about what I love and move on with my life... But then I read a part that literally made me lose my shit!

👇

The OP basically wrote that the Phantom is nothing but a stupid shit who isn't truly traumatized, he just fakes it (since, according to OP, he lets Christine touch his face and he's not deformed at all) and makes horrible things just because he seeks for attention and I just... 😤🤬

Yeah, be rejected by his mother and be abused and humiliated in a freak show during his childhood definitely didn't affect him at all. All his cries and outbursts were jure pure acting! He just invented this to manipulate Christine because he's a dramatic asshole and lying to make people feel sympathy for him is the only thing he knows how to do, right? 😒🙄

FUCK I'M SICK OF IT!!!

[jamesbranwen]

hey guys we can criticize AI art without being ableist. you know that right.