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"ᴵ ᶜᵃⁿ'ᵗ ˢʰᵃᵏᵉ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵉᵉˡⁱⁿᵍ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ᵗʰᵉˢᵉ ʷᵃᵗᵉʳˢ ᵗᵒᵘᶜʰ ᵃⁿᵒᵗʰᵉʳ ˢʰᵒʳᵉ ᴵ'ᵛᵉ ᵛⁱˢⁱᵗᵉᵈ." ࿐ ࿔*:･ﾟ

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Thinking about religious horror as a genre, and how it kind of had its heyday in the late 60s and 70s with movies like Rosemary's Baby (1968) and The Exorcist (1973) and The Wicker Man (1973) and The Omen (1976). And of course, religious horror never really went away, but I don't think that any of the movies in the genre since then have really had the cultural cachet of any of these ones. And I think that what it comes down to is that these movies came out right at the point where the overwhelming hegemony of Christianity in Anglo countries started to go into decline. Like, Rosemary's Baby explicitly tied its horror into Time Magazine's infamous 1966 "IS GOD DEAD?" cover:

In The Wicker Man, Lord Summerisle explicitly says that the island reverted to Paganism because the Christian God had his shot and blew it. It's not subtle. And I think that the problem with the religious horror produced since then is that it, by and large, isn't really responding to a widespread cultural anxiety so much as it's just reshuffling tropes from the 70s. "Exorcism is scary, right? Throw in an exorcism! Ooh, spooky Nuns!" You can get some scares out of it but not the same cultural reach.

Anyway, I think that if you wanted to make horror that responded to contemporary religious anxieties, you'd almost be better off with premise that God isn't dead.

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when a powerful figure is reduced to kneeling. when the lord is forced to bow. when the exile stumbles into an unwelcoming bar. when the “beast” is chained by their horns. when a god is dragged behind their enemy’s chariot, a captive and trophy. when the loyal “guard dog” character is muzzled and the silver-tongued thief falls silent in horror.

that’s the shit

it’s about the contrapasso. the reversal of roles and the sudden, plunging terror of being unable to hide.

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how i sleep at night knowing i’ll never go cave diving

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It seems like the older I get, the more irrationally angry casual censorship makes me. And it isn't just the "unalive" "grape" alleged filter-dodging vernacular, but the way normal words will be peppered with asterisks, or screenshots will have words like "gay" "hell" "fuck" etc either partially or entirely blurred. Who is this helping? What is the purpose of it, except to reinforce shame and elevate a flimsy perception of purity and safety, however those things manifest. It's so tiresome and I'm sick of it.

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why the fuck should it matter to me if a national identity was created in 19th or 20th century if people are being killed for it right now. is everyone okay

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Jerking off is incest

Sometimes I feel like you guys say things because you're bored

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Do not think for a moment that this admin is only going after trans folks. They are ultimately going after the whole LGBTQ community. They start small, like getting rid of a hotline option, then go BIG.

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somewhere out there right now is a kid with curly hair being raised by people who have wavy hair at best and those people are giving them 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner and telling them to dry brush it. and that kid is gonna spend all of middle school and high school hating their hair and moping over the flat iron. they're being told right now that if they don't dry-brush their curl pattern into oblivion every morning it means they're unkempt and gross even though they naturally have the kind of ringlets that a thousand bridezillas would commit horrible murders for every june. it's happening right now it's an absolute epidemic and a tragedy every time

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lol she doesnt even know that the body is a loan or that earth is the true flesh

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*if you know/have confirmed from multiple sources, pick the first one you experienced

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Another thing fandom needs to start doing more of is projecting on tops.

There are delicious amounts of psychological distress you can inflict on that guy once you get into his head. The brainworms of forcing agency and initiative on someone who genuinely is Not Fucking Ready For It are exquisite.

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saying ao3 needs to censor certain content is like saying a museum can't have still life art that includes strawberries because you don't like them.

these are not real strawberries. you do not have to, and in fact cannot, eat them. no one with a strawberry allergy will be harmed by looking at them. no migrant workers were exploited in the picking of these strawberries. there were no questionable farming practices or negative environmental impacts from growing or transporting them.

because - and i cannot stress this enough - they are not real strawberries.

if you don't like strawberries, you don't have to look at the paintings. in fact, you can get a map of the museum that lists what works are in what rooms and just. not go in there. if you see one by mistake, you can look away. just keep walking. there's plenty of other stuff to see.

yes, real strawberries can cause real quantifiable harm to real people.

but again. these are not real strawberries.

you may have whatever feelings you like about strawberries, and so can i. you can draw and write about whatever fruit floats your boat, and so can i, even if that happens to be strawberries. and we can hang our art side by side in the same gallery, provided you understand that my strawberries are not about you (and your kumquats are, shocker, not about me) and that - and this is true - neither are real.

and when the fascists break down the doors and grab all the strawberry paintings and heap them in the street and set them on fire, please know that they are coming for your kumquats next.

so if you want a place where you can show off your beautiful kumquat art safely, you're gonna have to tolerate having some strawberries in the next room.

and that's okay. because the strawberries aren't real.

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the oceangate rabbithole is un-fucking-paralleled. what do you mean they left that thing outside in the snow in canada for the entire fucking winter. of course it imploded literally the next time they put it in the water. holy shit.

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damn people rly hate type 2 diabetics don't they