#(I consulted doesthedogdie)

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Acid Witch - Elves

When there’s no more room in Hell, the ELVES will walk the Earth!

New Acid Witch single for the holiday season, fucking love it 🤘 their ig post ab it

[eggthew]

Oh my god I cannot wait for you to get to later seasons they are some of the best tv of all time but also it does get steadily more and more disturbing so be on the lookout for that

I've consulted doesthedogdie and also have syds posts rattling around in the back of my brain, so while I dont know exactly what happens I know what some of the fucked up things contained 👍 I'm LOVING it so far like I fucking hate walt but I loveee his character. and jesse. on my knees and head in my hands jesse baby I will get you out of there

[arwenkenobi48]

This is probably going to sound very strange, but I tend to approach media containing triggering content the same way I’d approach sex and consent. Allow me to elaborate:

Before I consume any kind of media, I consult this lifesaver of an app called DoesTheDogDie, which provides extensive trigger warnings for films/series/video games etc. Then I’ll make a judgement on whether or not I can handle watching that media based on what triggers are provided.

For example, last night I watched the horror movie Event Horizon. It contained subject matter which would have ordinarily been very triggering had I not done my research beforehand. Once I found out what kind of content was in the film, I told myself “You have the option to say no, Ezra. If you don’t want to watch the film, nobody will force you to. Only watch it if you want to, 100%.” And so I responded to that with “Yes, I want to watch this film.” So I watched it and found it absolutely incredible. I highly doubt that would have happened had I not been prepared and had I not made that agreement with myself.

Sometimes I can’t watch films with heavy or disturbing content and that’s ok. Some days I can and that’s ok too. It helps to build up that trust with myself as well. If I can trust myself to protect my well-being then I’ll be able to make more progress with my healing journey. And I hope that someone else reading this will be able to do the same.

[darthsuki]

So apparently a new Netflix original series came out a couple days ago by the name of The Witcher. Up until that point I only vaguely recognized that name as a game series (and also a book series?) but nonetheless my fiance had us watch it together--she’s a huge fan of the books and games both and apparently it was a big deal that it also got a series on Netflix. It’s 8 episodes long and almost an hour per episode, so it took us a couple days to binge together.

And it is fucking amazing. 

I know next to nothing about the source material, but the series was a fantastic watch. It’s filled with all sorts of humor, fantasy, action and twists, and there is an extraordinary amount of variety in the casting in terms of both ethnicity and gender--I honestly don’t think I’ve seen so many meaningful female characters in almost any other media.

If you’re a fan of the games or books, it’s apparently very close and respectful to the source material and translates wonderfully for the current and only season (though it’s already got a second one slated for early 2021). If you’re not a current fan of the other media (like me) you honestly don’t need to know anything going in to enjoy it all the same--the writing is wonderful and the characters have a fair amount of depth in them. If you’re looking for a new series to binge (and there’s 7-8 hours worth of said binging) then I definitely suggest looking into it.

However, please know going in that the series has a lot of violence, blood, gore, and heavy themes of death--I would consult the series’ doesthedogdie page for more details on what it has and the episodes they are shown in before you give it a watch.

And, now that I have to wait for the next season to come out, I have a new game series to play and beat.

[lilnasxvevo]

I’m a little calmer now because I think I see now that the OP of that post was just trying to warn people who had triggers and was going about it in a slightly misguided way. It sounded like they were blaming the new movie for having upsetting content and it certainly sounded like they were heavily implying that the movie shouldn’t contain that content at all, which really fucking grinds my gears. People being surprised that movies rated R for violence are in fact very violent is something that has happened on this website before and it certainly frustrates me a lot. But certainly people with the specific triggers named in the post might not expect to see those in the movie, even though I’d argue they’re all relatively common events in horror movies, so I think the post was just to help those people. It just made it sound like the OP felt the movie didn’t have the right to include those scenes, which really gets my hackles up as a writer. I initially read their “I don’t want anyone to boycott or anything” comment as implying that “I understand that my comments would make people want to boycott the film, but I don’t want you to do that,” further reinforcing my impression that the person was criticizing the movie for being violent and thought that a boycott, while unwanted, would be understandable.

I still stand by my assertion that things like reading why the MPAA gave it the rating it did, and consulting resources like doesthedogdie (which covers a WIDE variety of triggers and upsetting things) and even movie reviews/plot summaries if the MPAA rating doesn’t give you enough information, is the viewer’s responsibility if there are triggers or things that upset them. You can make posts on social media spreading the word about potential triggers, but not with an implication of “the movie just shouldn’t contain these things.” Like, honestly, I’m not gonna say that post did me a solid exactly because I had no intentions of seeing this movie, but it let me know that it has a suicide scene in it, and I know that suicide scenes put me in a bad place so I won’t be seeing it, while respecting that a horror movie has every right to portray suicide.

[kittenboom]

Same!!!!!!!!!!!! I tried explaining to my partner that Tumblr is still a site where I basically never have to worry about stuff like that. Not that it doesn't exist I'm sure, but I just feel like I have more *control? over my feed here - or something?

So triggered by animal abuse. I have studied criminology and growing up was super fascinated by serial killers & macabre content but not with animals.

As soon as I see an animal in a film (particularly horror/thriller/etc) I will always consult 'doesthedogdie(dot)com' to check if there is any onscreen harm.

My favourite movie as a child was Milo & Otis before I rewatched with friends as a teenager & we started questioning how that movie was shot without harming animals and it turns out... It wasn't. That movie harmed sooooo many animals that I don't think I'll ever watch it again.

@chickenkeeping sorry for the rant. I feel you deeply though. I have encountered horrible content on other platforms that are not only existing but are *popular* amongst some users 🤢🤢🤢

not to sound like a giant baby but every social media except maybe tumblr is traumatizing. I go on tiktok for like 2 seconds and im immediately met with a video of a rooster buried alive and then dug up like he's a vegetable for XD random humor I guess? and then I go on instagram and there's 13 videos of Ostrich egg being cracked open and newborn bunnies spill out everywhere™ it's so bizarre what goes viral why is borderline animal crush p*rn being recommend on a large scale and allowed to exist i dunno it makes me deeply uncomfortable seeing what people do to animals to go viral it really does. social media is a mistake.