#you're sleeping on this film

[haroldramisbaby]

Just watched Analyze this by Harold Ramis and- THIS FILM WAS SO GOOD AND FOR WHAT??? highly recommended.

[lucy-moderatz]

She's the fiancée, you idiot!

[sunflowermp4]

karma's gotta come for all of us

i just hope she comes for you first

[hormonized-butchbaby]

[vimbry]

I realise it's cause the movie's based on the real whitley strieber's alleged non-fiction account of alien abduction, but I keep thinking about communion (1989) and all the tests and therapy the protagonist goes through, yet how no one sends this man home with a diagnosis of exploding head syndrome and sleep paralysis

[phoenixwrites]

Oooh while you were sleeping au sounds amazing!!!!!!!!Can give you a little more detail like who would be in the coma?

I actually think I'm going to have Steve in the coma, so I can sneak in a little Stevali as well, though I haven't worked out how the plotline for that would work (obviously I'd be diverting from the source material a bit to make that work).

I love the idea of Steve and Eddie as brothers since that was the canonical show dynamic oh who said that. Can you not picture Steve and Eddie standing with the priest, Eddie shooting him a death glare and going, "YOU SUCK." and Steve going, "I suck, or the suit sucks?" and Eddie replying "It's a toss-up."

It makes a lot of sense to me to have a very lonely Chrissy daydreaming about a handsome stranger she sees on the train platform (and saves his life) but then being swept off her feet by his brother.

I need to figure out who would play the Jerry role to Chrissy though. MAYBE ERICA. I think she has the snark to do it. "CHRISSY THEY HAVE DOCTORS FOR THIS KIND OF THING. YOU DO NOT JOIN FAMILIES LIKE THE MARINES."

[currentlyonstandbi]

there’s so many writing choices in this film that i could gripe about but i can’t deny the way the end scenes have me chewing dry wall. we’ve just spent the entire film seeing alex paint himself as the victim in all of this, a hapless bystander swept into the insanity of nigel’s world and having to pay the price for it. there’s little hints here and there that maybe there’s more to the story - e.g. nigel’s comment about alex and susan (to which alex offers immediate refutation) - but there’s never any real and clear indication. until the end. until we get that 9 month time skip and we see sally pulling up to the cemetery. until we learn that susan’s grave has been dug up and the skull stolen. and then the train scene my god, the reality sets in that alex has been playing them this entire time, that he’s become the very thing nigel always wanted him to be. the ending to this film is both the end of alex’s story and the beginning of jack’s.

[venacoeurva]

There’s SOME physical person shaped entity under Kurk’s outfit and given his association with the darkness and his little personal realm of the Comforting Dark I imagine he’s like a silhouette of a person when you see them at night and they’re darker than the pitch black or a shadow person based on how they’re described as a vacuously and impossibly dark form, maybe with the slight rim lighting outline his jaw and ears and whatnot. He probably lost or gave up his mortal skin long ago since he was privy to being a demiprince his entire life

[scattered-winter]

watching an interview with hans zimmer and it's crazy how artists will always always always be such perfectionists about their work no matter the level they're at huh

[lucy-moderatz]

[theskyexists]

instead of watching shitty ass period c-dramas that i could not find subs for or was too shitty to watch (basically ALL period dramas i can find are too shitty to watch. only yanxi palace and legend of mi yue and that minglan series have been of at all interesting quality) - i am now watching ‘raise the red lantern’ which is the complete opposite i.e. an absolutely harrowing look at how concubinage was forced on women with no other options and engineered to shrink their world to severe powerlessness, anger and self-destruction

[vanessagillings]

Here's my piece for Gallery Nucleus' upcoming "Once Upon a Dream," show, a tribute to Disney's Sleeping Beauty. I'm a big fan of Eyvind Earle's work (one of the main designers on the film, responsible for those square trees!) and it was such a fun challenge trying to blend his style with mine in this painting. The show opens June 1st, and if you're in the LA area I hope you'll check it out in person so you can see not only all the other artists' new pieces but Earle's amazing works as well!

[lasnevadaslaborunion]

It frightens and discourages me how pervasive "tribal" stereotypes and imagery are in the fantasy and adventure genres.

It's all over the place in classic literature. Crack open a Jules Verne novel and you're likely to find caricatures of brown people and cultures, even when the characters are sympathetic to the plight of the colonized peoples - incidentally, this is the biggest reason I can't recommend 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to everyone, despite Captain Nemo being one of my favorite fictional characters of all time.

You can't escape it in modern cinema, either. You'll see white heroes venturing bravely into jungles and tombs to steal from natives who don't know how to use their resources "properly." You'll see them strung up in traps, riddled with sleeping darts, forced to flee and fight their way out. Hell, Pirates of the Caribbean, a remarkably inclusive franchise in many other ways, had an extended sequence of the white heroes escaping from a cannibal civilization in the second film.

And when fantasy RPGs want a humanoid enemy, the "bloodthirsty natives" are the first stock trope they jump to. World of Warcraft is one of the most egregious examples, with the trolls - blatant racist caricatures with faux-voodoo beliefs, cannibalistic diets, Jamaican accents, and a history of being killed in droves by (white) elves and humans - being raided and slaughtered in nearly every expansion.

It doesn't matter how vibrant and distinctive the real-world indigenous, Polynesian, Caribbean, and African cultures are. It doesn't matter how much potential these real civilizations offer for complex and sympathetic characterization. Anything that doesn't make sense to the white western mind is shoved under the same "savage" umbrella. They're different. They're strange. They're scary. They have to be escaped, subjugated, eliminated, ogled at from the safety of a museum.

Modern writers, directors, and developers don't even seem to realize how horrifying it is to present the indigenous inhabitants of a place as "obstacles" for non-native protagonists to overcome. "It's not racist," they say, "because these people aren't really people, you see." And if you dare to point out anything that hurts or offends you as a descendant of the bastardized culture, you're accused of being the real racist: "These aren't humans! They're monsters! Are you saying that these real societies are just like those disgusting monsters?"

No, they're not monsters. But you chose to design them as monsters, just as invaders have done for hundreds of years. Why would you do that? Why can you recognize any other caricature as evil and cruel, but not this?

This is how deep colonialism runs.

[he-calls-me-kitten]

Dirty Dozen

GN! MC x Pervert OM! Characters

Pervert! Lucifer who pretends to be more drunk than he actually is so he can lean on you when you escort to his room, pulling you into his arms and refusing to let go when you reach his bed. Even if his hands wander inside your clothes, you can't really hold it against him.

Pervert! Mammon who tries to do his best in tests and classes, cause he recalls every praise you give him while jerking off. And when you sit on the sofa, he sits on the ground leaning on your thighs thinking of you sitting on his face.

Pervert! Levi who designs the skimpiest possible cosplay outfits for you and only changing it after he's sees it on you himself. He asks you to twirl around or bend over even when you already feel exposed, brushing his knuckles against your bare skin to take measurements.

Pervert! Satan who sometimes recommends you the most erotic books he owns and loves watching your face change shades and your thighs squirm together with every page. He sometimes whispers the characters lines into your ear so he can hear every subtle gasp or moan.

Pervert! Asmo who asks to help him film couple thirst trap videos and messing up on purpose to hold you in risque places or even press kisses as the 'challenge' requires. Will deliberately put the same perfume he's wearing on you, so it seems like you spent last night in his room.

Pervert! Beel who likes to feed you big mouthfuls of food and thinks its so cute the way you still manage to fit it in your mouth. He loves holding hands with you, his large ones completely encasing your smaller ones - it reminded him how tiny and cute you'd look writhing underneath his large form.

Pervert! Belphie who watches you sleep during sleepovers while he implants sex dreams in your head using his powers. He watches you whimper and twitch with your hands between your legs as he ruts into his pillow right next to you.

Pervert! Solomon who loves to put you in accidental situations where you simply have to rely on him, especially in close proximity. The Box of Truth was just the beginning with your chest pressed up tightly against his, now he's secretly planning a trap where you both have to fuck a few times to escape.

Pervert! Simeon who secretly loses his mind every time your hands touch his exposed bare skin and looks for excuses for you to do it. Once on a dare, you had wrapped your arms around his waist and playfully bit his shoulders, and now he jerks off to it once every week.

Pervert! Diavolo who likes to seat you on his lap to help him work, feeling the softness of your cute little ass against his groin. Sometimes he'll grind against you subconsciously and then excuse it saying he's just trying to make sure you're not bored while he's thinking of ravaging you at his very desk.

Pervert! Barbatos who is just desperate to worship your body and give you more pleasure than you can handle. He is already so esctatic when you allow him to massage your back, now only if you'd let him strip you down one day.

Pervert! Thirteen who likes seeing you caught up in her traps and beg for rescue. You look so adorable pouting and huffing like that, struggling to escape as she runs an idle finger over your clothes, being a little tease.