#A very horrifying reality
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It's kinda fun, and all of that make jokes about how Van Helsing is probably shitting himself out of fear while Mina watches him without blinking a single time, but considering the whole picture between the two... Van Helsing is in a deeply fucked up situation straight up from a more horror like narrative than a gothic one.
Yes, there is a really good difference between the Gothic and Horror as literary genres. The Gothic genre uses amplified emotions such as terror as a response plot device to give commentary on any socio-political-cultural anxieties that were happening in the real time period which the plot is centered. More times than once it is also hand in hand with a personification of these anxieties in the form of the Monster or the Villain of the story. However, in the Horror genre this terror shapes itself in the front and center of the narrative as a way to explore the extreme of the darkness that lays within the human condition through emotions like disgust or the emotionally disturbing. By putting the characters in unsettling conditions, and against the inevitable grotesque, the Horror makes the readers have a reaction to its situation, and questions about said reactions as humans beings.
And what else to call this if not Horror? How does the character of Van Helsing, a man who thrived in the Gothic setting as the role of the foreign man of science with rational and cultural knowledge on his side, can defend himself against this change when the literary Horror declares that he can shifted from protagonist to victim whenever the narrative decides to inflict a new emotion to the reader?
Well, this sudden shift leaves Van Helsing utterly afraid.
She make no entry into her little diary, she who write so faithful at every pause. Something whisper to me that all is not well. However, to-night she is more vif.
There is nobody else but him, and Mina in this isolated mountain as winter falls down on the ground, absolutely nobody to turn for help.
At sunset I try to hypnotise her, but alas! with no effect; the power has grown less and less with each day, and to-night it fail me altogether. Well, God's will be doneâwhatever it may be, and whithersoever it may lead!
As Mina changes the closer she gets to Dracula's castle, it was never like this and never so unnervingly quickly.
I go to help her; but she smile, and tell me that she have eat alreadyâthat she was so hungry that she would not wait. I like it not, and I have grave doubts; but I fear to affright her, and so I am silent of it.Â
With only his journal as a listening ear for his very justified worries, because Van Helsing fears that the questioning would finally break the very thin liminal feeling that is protecting him right now.
Madam still sleep, and she look in her sleep more healthy and more redder than before. And I like it not. And I am afraid, afraid, afraid!âI am afraid of all thingsâeven to think but I must go on my way. The stake we play for is life and death, or more than these, and we must not flinch.
Right now Van Helsing is holding in his hands the promise that he made to both Mina and Jonathan before departing, he is holding onto that little ray of hope that tells him to ignore all of the warning signs all over Mina that any other character except Jonathan wouldn't have just ignored. All of these days Van Helsing is taking care of Mina while praying that she doesn't kill him if her transformation becomes complete before ever teaching their revenge, he has to write his "last" letter now before he can't ever write again.
#Van Helsing is not only doing man vs nature but man vs reality#A very horrifying reality#dracula daily#dracula#abraham van helsing#mina harker#mina murray
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When the 212th collaborates with the 501st, chaos is sure to follow in their footsteps. This has been largely true of every engagement since the start of the war, in Codyâs experience. Had he even an ounce more of a rebellious streak, he might question why and whether the success rate is worth the feral instinct for mayhem his battalion and Rexâ awaken in each other - as it is, he simply fills out the after action reports and then screams into his pillow, which is hard as durasteel and doesnât warrant the name.
Or, on some days, he steps into the training rooms to work off some nervous jitters only for his foot to catch on someoneâs armoured shoulder and faceplant straight into what looks like the entirety of both battalions piled together in a massive cuddle pile.
âWhatâ, he manages between gritted teeth, heaving himself up with one hand supported on Crysâ arm and the other planted in places that make Boil jackknife up with a strangled yelp, âthe kriff is this?!â
âWeâre watching the Corrie Reality Special, sirâ, his own voice calls from somewhere across the room. âThe 91st is passing by, so we have satellite access to the Coruscant Broadcast network for a few hours, and we couldnât settle on a specific show -â
â- so we decided to watch them allâ, Rex finishes, sheepishly, where heâs fought his way through wiggling piles, hoots and badly imitated monkey lizard noises. The thought that he shares DNA with these degenerates is enough to drive Cody to the brink of a nervous breakdown some days. âSpopcorn?â
Ah. The Corrie Reality Circuit. When Cody first heard of it, heâd thought it was a prank. Then, they were deployed to the middle of bumkriff nowhere on the edges of Midrim space edging on Outer Rim, with a connection so spotty even classified military intel only got through about half the time, and the whole idea got shelved in favour of clankers and keeping his Generalâs lightsaber in his Generalâs hand where it belonged.
Now, a gaudy, glittery monstrosity of a logo announcing a Coruscant Rotational special appears on a rigged up screen, which means one of two things: either Fox is pulling the Galaxyâs greatest long con on all of them, or heâs been murdered and replaced with an evil clone (ha!), because there are no circumstances in which he would agree to star on Coruscant Reality TV.
Cody tilts his head consideringly. Rex smiles at him sheepishly. Tilts the spopcorn bowl at him, invitingly.
âOh, dank farrik, sit your shebs down!â, someone (Fives, probably) yells out, fed-upâŚly.
Cody sits his shebs down.
âGood morning and welcome all of Coruscant to the Great Coruscant Rotational Special: Our Boys in Red Edition!â, a bright red Twiâleki man announces on the screen amidst cheerful jizz music and loud hooting from the training room. âMy name is Braham Horton, and I will be your exalted host for this fine, fine late night cycle!â
��And now, gentlebeings of the metropolis, I present to you the images that have driven us all to laughter, joy, and even tears at times over these past few weeks - whodathunkit, that the CSF media project would enthrall a whole Galaxy of viewers and cause the largest recorded peaceful civil protest of all time?!â
âThe sorry what nowâ, says Cody, suddenly thinking back to the urgent meeting General Kenobi was currently in with Generals Windu and Yoda - passing by on the Venator in orbit. âUhmâ, says Rex. Braham Horton, unfazed by the commotion heâs causing lightyears away, chatters on.
â- many hours, so weâve compiled an introductory little best-of for you, exalted viewers! And what better best of to start off on than the hottest entry of the most explosive bombshell into the villa - please give it up for Commander Thorn and how he stole all of our hearts on Love Island!â
A garish, club-tech jingle Cody has so far only heard buzz through the walls of establishments that generally didnât allow clones thrums through the training room, followed by what can only be described as the sort of noises spiced up banthas might make. Thorn appears on screen, more oiled up and half-naked than Cody remembers, though just as bleach-blond, hair slightly longer than regulation and smile blindingly perfect.
âIâm Commander Thorn, baseline twenty-four years humanoid - during daytime I might be the scourge of Coruscantâs criminal underworld, but at night I donât mind playing good cop for you!â He punctuates it woth a sleazy wink and fingerblasters that have Rex honest-to-god gagging, and Cody seeing his life flash before his eyes. If Alpha-17 finds out about thisâŚ
Suddenly, Thornâs smile drops in favour of what might almost be called a scowl on even his handsome face, and the music cuts out. âThere, got your soundbyte. Can I go back now? Iâm supposed to be on shift.â Indistinct, off-screen chatter and a captioned oopsie⌠appear in a shower of glitter. Thornâs face does something complicated. âFor HOW MANY MONTHS?!â
Cut to a montage of what Cody can only describe as beaches, oil and abs galore, Braham Horton narrates and extremely close-up shot of what Cody tries very hard not to identify as Thornâs crotch. His own crotch, in a way. Oh no, thatâs weird, stop that train of thought immediately-
âAlthough our favourite bombshellâs entry into the villa wasnât without its hitches and hurdles-â, emphasized by a zoom-in on Thornâs form in a speedo huddled away from a partying crowd of softcore-kriffing contestants on a yacht, â- as well as all know, he would soon find his place in the villa - or places, rather!â
Two crying humanoid women appear on screen, with eyeliner smudges down to their knees. A hoot goes through the room. Cody watches with a sense of impeding doom. âYou slept with her after I chose to match up with you instead of Chad?! How could you!â
Thorn, still oiled up with both blasters out for the world to see, winces. âI didnât me-â
A hysterical gasp, a camera swerve. Three more people stand by the doorway, all clutching their chests with wide eyes. A broad, green Twiâleki man raises a finger to point accusingly. âYou were sleeping with them too?! I thought I was the only one!â
âDear Forceâ, Cody murmurs, unable to look away from the building speeder wreck on screen. Braham Horton laughs good-naturedly at his misery. âAh, good times! And who could forget the all-out brawl of the following matching night, where a record number of every single other contestant attempted to physically fight the others for the right to match up with Commander Thorn! Including a somehow returned Chad, who nearly won thanks to the element of surprise. I wish we could show the footage, but then weâd have to slap several warnings on it and probably still get taken off the air.â
âI didnât know Corries kriffed like that!â, someone (Fives, letâs be honest, it was definitely Fives) calls out into the room, receiving snickers and a well-aimed pillow to the throat for his trouble. He goes down with a choking scream.
âSomeone who was less impressed by the hotân bothered beach weather was Commander Thire, who found himself Less than Impressed by his co-contestants inability to keep it in their pants on Too Hot To Handle!â
Thireâs face, identical to Thornâs in every way except the ones that matter, appears on screen. His black hair is cut in a cropped mohawk, arms folded over a button-up heâs carefully pieced together with⌠safety pins? Where are the buttons on it?
âThese people are pathological and pathetic and I will spend not a second longer on this farce of an attempt at âentertainment showââ, says Thire, air-quotes so sharp they could cut stone. His scowl might be permanently etched into his face, Cody canât tell. âUnlike literally everyone else, I have an actual job to do. Now move.â
A brief pause, in which cheerful jizz music plays over what is obviously a producer begging off-camera, followed by an eyeroll so hard it hurts Codyâs brain to watch. Thire throws his hands into the air in defeat, marching off into the sea behind him still fully clothed.
âWhen they didnât find him until the last episode, Iâll admit, I thought heâd died too!â, Braham Horton cuts in cheerfully. âBut would you look at his little lonely island lair - now thatâs a fulfilled man, and too many coconuts for my taste! Weâve had to blur his hands out as he discovered the cameras just moments before these holos were taken, unfortunately. And, dear viewer, who could forget this exit-interview for the ages!â
A considerably more clothed Thire appears on screen, eyeing a microphone like heâs about to use it to stab out his own eyes. The reporter clears their throat in audible anxiety. âC-commander, how would you describe your reality experience in one word?â
âDemeaningâ, says Thire, blandly.
Silence.
âUm, o-okayâ, squeaks the reporter.
âWould you like some more words?â, asks a dead-eyed Thire.
âNo, um, I think - I think weâre alright.â
âBecause I have many words. Mostly for whoever the *bleep* thought this was a *bleep* good idea, and *bleeeeeeee-*â
âWeâve had to censor most of the Commanderâs on-screen appearance, dear viewer, for your sensibilitiesâ, says Braham Horton, eternally and painfully cheerful. âAnd speaking of sensibilities, who could forget Commander Stone honouring his name in several challenges on âIâm A Holostar - Get Me Out Of Here!ââ
Soulful violin music fills the gym, overlaid with images of a bald vod Cody surmises must be Stone. Stone stares stonily into the void, glass of bright green something raised to his lips and already half-empty.
âMemorably, he downed a pint of acklay urine within seconds-â
Horrified screams are followed by an image of Stone chewing, yet another thousand-klick stare.
â- or when he ate Tauntaun anus -â
Rex doubles over gagging, and Cody slowly puts his handful of Spopcorn back down.
â- of course the ten minute worm-bath challenge cannot go unmentioned -â
âFORCE PLEASE NO!â, screams someone (Echo) tearfully. Commander Stone, buried to the chin in wiggling orange worms, looks less impressed.
â - and who could forget his encounter with a horde of ginntho spiders and nests of vexis snakes!â
A remote goes sailing past the screen, missing by a mile, as images of Stone with his whole arm stuck in various boxes fly past. Someone is retching. It might be Cody.
âWe would show the infamous butchery challenge wherein the Commander found himself drenched in nexu guts and sandworm brains, but once again, this is family friendly programming and we are not allowed. Nevertheless, a win well-deserved. And now, please welcome the one, the only, the awe-inspiring, the unbelievable: Marshall Commander Fox!â
Another Force-awful jingle, big, blocky letters, and Cody chokes on his own spit when Foxâs scowling face appears on screen. Heâs thinner, greyer and angrier than the last time they saw eachother in person. Only the last one is really a surprise.
âI am neither naked nor afraidâ, says Fox, arms crossed firmly, foot tapping impatiently on the ground. âI am, however, quickly losing my patience. Explain to me again the point of spending my valuable time undressing in the middle of bum-*bleep* nowhere on the Midrim instead of doing my job as the head of planetary security in the middle of a Galaxy-wide war?â
Several beats of silence follow. Fox grows less impressed with each. Cody knows that look well. Usually, it precedes handcuffs and a cold sonic blast to the face.
âUm⌠you signed a contract?â, says a producerâs voice uncertainly off-screen. Fox barks out a harsh laugh. âIâm legally classified as military property, my signature holds less weight than if Iâd had one of the Guardâs massiffs shit on that contract for me.â
âOuch!â, calls Crys.
âGettim!â, adds Longshot.
âBut⌠donât you sign off military documents all the time for the Senate?â, sputters the producer.
Fox smiles with far to many teeth. Itâs also a look Cody knows far too well, and even lightyears away it has a shudder going down his spine.
âReally makes you think about the technicalities of that definitely-not-slave-army, doesnât it?â, he says, dryly.
âAlthough considerably less naked and afraid than all other contestants, Commander Fox left us with many memorable moments - such as when he saved the entire crew from an angry Acklay!â
Most of the next holovid is blurred out, though Cody can (unfortunately) guess at the why and how. So can most everyone else, judging by the collective groan.
âDown, boyâ, says Fox, flatly, to a hissing Acklay twice his size. It rears its fanged head, and a shudder goes through the room. Fox simply crosses his arms and nails the beast with an unimpressed look. âYou are making a fool of both of us. Cut it out.â
Chastised, the Acklay blinks at him, slowly lowering itself back down with a confused hiss.
âNo kriffing wonder all the Corrie shinies are such hardassesâ, mutters Rex, whom Cody is hard pressed to agree with. âI came from a tube and that look gave me daddy issues.â
âYes, dear viewer, who could forget these heart-warming moments of good, quality television!â, sighs Braham Horton, dreamily. âNot Coruscant anytime soon, thatâs for sure! We are now entering the twentieth rotation of the sit-in protest of a petition to allow the Commanders of the Coruscant Guard to compete on Dancing With The Planets, Coruscant Rotationalâs epic dance competition!â
âDear bum-kriffing Forceâ, whispers Rex, wide-eyed and awe-struck. âDoes Fox know about this?!â
Cody, whoâs already dialing the krifferâs comm-code, wipes a singular tear from his eye. âNot a clue, but kriff, am I going to enjoy telling him.â
#sw tcw fic idea#spopcorn: space popcorn#commander cody#captain rex#commander fox#commander thorn#commander stone#commander thire#inspired by a quality month of quality destressing with quality tv#and the fact that i keep putting off booking therapy probably#corrie guard deserves better#they deserve trash reality tv in fact#braham horton the coruscant rotational host#he has his own chitter show which is the only one padme will agree to go on#sheâs a simple woman. let her get sloshed and talk shit fashion and radical leftism your honor#i wanted thire to have more fun but he didnât wanna#not shown but featured in my head: nuisance on geordie shore grids on love is blind and stabby on come dine with me#they shoot in the corrie mess hall and serve rations bcs thatâs the only thing they get#everyone is so horrified by the quality of said rations it kicks off half the protests at least#this is too long and too insane to truly unleash unto yall but have it anyways#no i have no excuse except i am not sleeping and the voices are telling me to write this#somehow this results in palpatine being lynched by an angry mob of reality tv fans#which both results in the galaxy being saved and fox fucking losing it because somehow thatâs worse than before#i didnât proofread any of this as you can very obviously tell
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I offer another clownbo au to the clownbo people again
God Evbo keeps restarting the timeline because something ends up happening to Void that ends up with him dying each time and it breaks Evbo every time it happens.
So he thinks that if he can restart the timeline again that heâll be able to fix it, that he can stop it before it happens so he does it and heâs back at square one as a noob but with the power of a god at his fingertips and he races back to the top and his first meeting with Void. Relief washes over him as he sees him and he ends up hugging a confused Void who has no idea whatâs going but assumes that Evbo is just happy that he didnât die in general.
Everything goes as it did in the original timeline and itâs great! Evbo even ends up solving things way quicker and getting it all done so much faster than beforehand! The only thing that really threw him off is when during when they went through the hidden level again that when he met the Parkour Villain it ended up with the guy looking at him for an uncomfortable amount of time before actually getting out of his prison and just saying:
âSo we meet again.â
Which confuses Evbo and he doesnât even notice that Seawatt ends up swiping his diamond boots again while he doesnât notice and giving them to the Villain.
But he ignores it and goes to find him again and defeat the villain.
And he wins.
Then everything is good and great for awhileâŚVoid is alive and breathing and smiling and-
And then he dies.
So evbo tries again.
Because he failed Void, so he needs to try again for him.
So he starts again and climbs his way to the top to see Void again and then continues on towards to meeting the Villain but this time no words are exchanged.
Everything proceeds as normal until the final parkour race between themâŚand the course has changed.
But Evbo pushes it back and defeats the Villain again.
And everything is good again.
But Void dies and he restarts the timeline to save him.
And again and again. A rinse and repeat cycle that always end with Void dying and begins with Evbo restarting as the villain, perhaps tiredly, stays silent the entire time as it goes through with the only variations being changes to the end parkour course.
Itâs a maddening cycle and Evbo feels his sanity slipping bit by bit.
Maybe in the 50th loop or so the villain finally snaps and grabs Evbo by the shoulders with such a rage that it surprises the god.
âIs this some divine punishment of yours that you crafted for me?â The villain would say as his fingers dig into the otherâs skin. âTo know that I will never win against youâŚthat no matter how hard I try to defeat you that it is just a laughable joke in the end!â
âW-what?â Evbo is justâŚsurprised even though it makes a lot more sense on why the villain changed over time or that the course he beats him in changes. âN-no! How?-â
âHow many times have I seen your face? How many times have I died by your handsâŚâ
And the villain just throws him onto the ground with barely hidden anger as Evbo scrambles toâŚapologies? He doesnât know.
He didnât know that someone elseâŚhe didnât know. He doesnât know what to say.
So he just restarts the timeline and runs away from it as guilt crawls its way to his heart.
But he doesnât stop it. Heâs already gone to far and itâs fineâŚitâs just a fluke right?
It canât happen again.
But the next time the villain sees him and, the minute he gets down from his prison, he jumps on top of him and goes to punch him before Evbo restarts the timeline with the realisation that noâŚit wasnât a fluke. That it definitely did happen and it now makes everything so much more worse.
It makes him want to vomit.
#parkour civilization#clownbo#Evbo and the consequences of his actions as god#the villain is suffering very much from âI have no mouth and I must screamâ type of scenario for him#I love time loop scenario where another character is aware of everything happening as well and itâs something horrifying for them#Parkour Villain seeâs this as some Divine punishment from Evbo when in reality Evboâs own selfishness comes into play as he tries to save#save his own friend#evbo#evboâs master friend#parkour villain#Evbo having a very bad time#the villain hating this situation completely#they do fall in love eventually but thatâs a long while so right now#itâs onsite for#Evbo every time the villain sees him#Evbo: hi- villain: die#I call emf void because Iâm uncreative lol#parkour civilisation
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i donât know if iâm ever gonna write the fic but iâve been thinking abt like. the eternal stockade. the implications. lup, a lich who was trapped in a dark featureless cell for a decade completely isolated with nothing to keep her sanity but her own mind. she has to put people in the eternal stockade. how many liches does she see herself in. how many liches started out just like her. how many liches are truly too far gone. and the only liches we ever see other than her and barry are edward and lydia. theyâre certainly evil, but mad? they seem pretty sane. theyâre not, like, tattered echoes of souls, theyâre definitely still people. even as much of a grudge as lup surely has against them, wouldnât they remind her incredibly strongly of herself? do they deserve to be trapped just like she was? for eternity? isnât eternity what turned john to existential despair in the first place?
#mine#taz balance#taz lup#lup#like idk i think lupâs down to kick necromancer ass but when it comes to being like. WARDENS of a PRISON. would that not be uncomfortable??#but like taking the job is the only way to avoid HER being thrown in prison??#idk the raven queen being a cool & chill goddess boss is definitely fun but when you actually think abt it#i donât think iâd agree with her. i think if i lived in that world iâd think she were sort of evil#which like also to get into the hunger vs authority its not very explored because its not at all the point#the hunger is meant to be nihilism and despair and dissatisfaction its at its core an emotional story about joy & love#but like john starts out rebelling against laws. laws of the universe; except that it turns out a being wrote those laws (jeffandrew)#so the hunger is also sort of a force of rebelling against unjust constraints in the pursuit of freedom?#and the heroes end up preserving the status quo and saying you just have to find joy within those unjust limitations#which again. like. the point is that life is unfair and you can find joy and meaning despite it. which is true to real life.#iâm not saying the hunger was right or that despair is the only way or w/e like#yk like taz balance is not a story about society its more about. philosophy i guess#the point is that lifeâs really hard and you find meaning anyway and thatâs preferable to despair and death#thematically for the audience we understand these are standins for ways of viewing reality#and in the real world reality is what it is. its just the world. thereâs no authority that writes the laws of nature#like its not a âman vs authorityâ story its a âman vs natureâ story#but IN UNIVERSE nature IS an authority. jeffandrew and the gods. regardless of how much joy you can find in an unjust world#if i lived in it iâd want to make it more just! but anyway like yeah barry & lup working for the raven queen#is kinda an extension on that idea of preserving the status quo#although i guess you could say gods are just forces of nature. theyre not PEOPLE theyre just personifications of existent natural laws#and it ties in w istus and fate as well#although fate is like a comforting guiding force rather than restricting & horrifying#^ pay no attention to any of this i donât think it really means anything iâm just like. writing thoughts as i have them#not like a hard stance iâm taking just exploring some ideas#any ways#THERES A TAG LIMIT??
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I've been thinking about the tragedy of Elizabeth Woodville living to see the end of her family name.
I don't mean her family with her husband, which lived on through her daughter and grandson. I mean her own.
Her sisters died, one by one, many of them after 1485. When Elizabeth died, only Katherine was left, and she would die before the turn of the century as well.
All her brothers died, too. Lewis died in childhood. John was executed. Anthony was murdered. Lionel died suddenly in the peak of Richard's reign, unable to see his niece become queen. Edward perished at war. Richard died in grieving peace. For all the violence and judgement the family endured, it was "an accident of biology" that ended their line: none of the brothers left heirs, and the Woodville name was extinguished. We know the family was aware of this. We know they mourned it, too:
âBuy a bell to be a tenor at Grafton to the bells now there, for a remembrance of the last of my blood.â
Elizabeth lived through the deposition and death of her young sons, and lived to see the end of her own family name. It must have been such a haunting loss, on both sides.
#(the quote is by Richard Woodville in his deathbed will; he was the last of the Woodville brothers to die)#elizabeth woodville#woodvilles#my post#to be clear I am not arguing that the death of an English gentry family name is some kind of giant tragedy (it absolutely the fuck is not)#I'm trying to put it into perspective with regards to what Elizabeth may have felt because we know her family DID feel this way#writing this kinda reminded me of how I am just not fond at all about the way Elizabeth's experiences in 1483-85 are written about#and the way lots so many of the unprecedentedly horrifying aspects are overlooked or treated so casually:#the seizure and murder of two MINOR sons and the illegal execution of another;#her sheer vulnerability in every way compared to all her queenly predecessors; how she was harassed by 'dire threats' for months;#how she had 5 very young daughters with her to look after at the time (Bridget and Katherine were literally 3 and 4 years old);#how unprecedented Richard's treatment of her was: EW was the first queen of england to be officially declared an adulteress;#and the first and ONLY queen to be officially accused of witchcraft#(Joan of Navarre was accused of her treason; she was never explicitly accused of witchcraft on an official level like EW was)#the first crowned queen of england to have her marriage annulled; and the first queen to have her children officially bastardized#what former queens endured through rumors* were turned into horrifying realities for her.#(I'm not trying to downplay the nightmare of that but this was fundamentally on a different level altogether)#nor did Elizabeth get a trial or appeal to the church. like I cannot emphasize this enough: this was not normal for queens#and not normal for depositions. ultimately what Richard did *was* unprecedented#and of course let's not forget that Elizabeth had literally just been unexpectedly widowed like 20 days before everything happened#I really don't feel like any of this is emphasized as much as it should be?#apart from the horrifying death of her sons - but most modern books never call it murder they just write that they 'disappeared'#and emphasize that ACTUALLY we don't know what happened to them (this includes Arlene Okerlund)#rather than allowing her to have that grief (at the very least)#more time is spent dealing with accusations that she was a heartless bitch or inconsistent intriguer for making a deal with Richard instead#it also feels like a waste because there's a lot that can be analyzed about queenship and R3's usurpation if this is ever explored properly#anyway - it's kinda sad that even after Henry won and her daughter became queen EW didn't really get a break#her family kept dying one by one and the Woodville name was extinguished. and she lived to see it#it's kinda heartbreaking - it was such a dramatic rise and such a slow haunting fall#makes for a great story tho
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What if one of Jason's Red Hood revenge plans go off the rails, in Owl Song?
Off the rails as in, Dick gets caught in something that can kill even a talon - say, a big enough explosion... Jason left convinced Dick is dead and he is responsible for it...
If Jason is absolutely sure Dick is dead/beyond any chance of being revived either with electrum or other supernatural meansâŚ. Heâd completely shut down, turn himself into authorities, and plead for the death penalty.
#hello darkness my old friend#there might be a short time period where Jason goes completely unhinged and scours the planet for ways to bring Dick back#anything#anything at all#but the moment heâd start to accept the reality of having killed Dick heâd just give up#very horrifying scenario for sure#musings#talon dick grayson#went with the first thing that popped into my head for this one ngl#and frankly considering their codependency in this verse itâs not too far fetched I guess?#any thoughts on this???#jason todd#or because I also like the trope of Jason fighting to stay alive at any cost I propose to you:#Jason vanishing into the criminal underground and making it his lifeâs mission to take out the Court of Owls#every last member#heâs only allowed to rest when theyâre well and truly gone#as atonement or something
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I just realized I have VERY specific memories of what I was afraid of growing up as a wee little devil. So I need to see if others had a similar experience to my own.
(or if not just laugh at these dumb moments with me 'cuz I grew out of them eventually. some of them took me longer than the rest.)
#I just realized most of my fears were from music videos LMAO#yeah you can tell I was very much into music even back then. even when some music videos scared the shit out of me growing up#dia talks#poll#anyway this is a particular poll only catering to me and like... maybe 2 other people lol#i was a big freaking baby growing up i had no spine and could not differentiate the shit from reality so it was just all horrifying to me#anyway have fun with the poll and give Kid Dia a warm blanket and cookies
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The Deep Sky
scifi mystery thriller
on a deep space mission traveling from an environmentally devastated earth with hope to restart humanity elsewhere
when theyâre halfway, an explosion kills 3 crew and pushes them off course
the only witness is the Alternate who has no specific role, and she has to figure out who caused it & if they might continue to sabotage, while they're figuring out a way to get back on course with limited resources
flips between present and the past: of her childhood and training for the mission, her identity struggles, and relationship with her mother
questions the ethics of ârestartingâ humanity elsewhere vs putting resources into fixing earth
#the deep sky#yume kitasei#aroaessidhe 2023 reads#i really loved this!!!!!#very intense but also a lot of interesting character introspection#love the virtual reality AI aspect!!!! though I do feel like. in the end I was expecting it to go way further with it?#(basically like instead of seeing the inside of the ship all the time they can 'be' in forests or aquariums or whatever)#no romance#(thereâs side lesbians; and one flashback scene where she briefly wonders about kissing a random person; that's it)#emotional core about her mother and brother and best friend !!#i like that it gets into the flaws of 'humanity's last hope on another planet' bc like. yeah in real life things....don't work like that...#why is there zero acknowledgement that the concept of every one of them being expected to give birth being extremely fucked up?#like obviously everyone on board is there because they agreed with that but thereâs not a single flashback of#when they found out that information; or mention of someone questioning it...#(for example a character mentions that they hid their mental health/use of a therapy animal bc they wouldn't have been let in and the -#eugenics around that is iffy to say the least)#but to me. pregnancy is horrifying and nobody questioning that was weird.#also thereâs supposedly 80 people on board but we get to know less than 10 of them which felt a bit strange at points#Also! I love the cover. I canât find the designer (the book info only credits the internal lllustrator..)#also: bird facts!
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migraine has been bestowed upon me
#thumbs down emoji#it's literally sunnyyyyyyyy why must i be the bearer of the curse i could be doing ACTIVITIES!!!#anyway yesterday a family member knocked on my window concerned bc my curtains were closed when they left the house and#i was like *horrified shock* *how do i explain to them that i'm sick as hell but also just living my life regular style to me because this#is regular style to me* so i was like like 'no i'm fine (:'#bc like. idk how to explain it more than i've already explained it. i'm chronically ill and disabled for real u guys :')#it was nice that they checked on me. sucked as a reality check :P#anyway that's unrelated to migraine that's 'needs 10 hours of sleep a night or gets even more sick' type situation.#Please wish me a very 'drs investigate physical uhhh mechanisms of migraine' as i think i've found a contributing factor and i don't#feel like i can get anyone to believe me or investigate.#meeting a new dr in a couple of weeks yaaaaaaay#ANYWAY! it's literally sunny i did my chores i can ferment my brain in peace nbd i guess
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i think its so fun to see how when people are more or less used to horror media it has a vastly different effect on them.. for me personally im used enough to it that i dont get THAT scared of any horror anymore, though as a teen i was very sensitive to it, and tbh while ig id gain a deeper experience of the intended horror if i wasnt desensitized to it, i dont actually like being scared LOL so im fine where im at.
but the thing that i always remember is "the horla" by guy de maupassant, an 1887 horror short story about a guy who is being tormented at night by some sort of presence or being he calls 'the horla' and doubts his sanity as he tries to get proof of the things existence. when i was a kid, my mom would always bring up how she read the horla at 19 and was so completely horrified by it that she couldnt sleep in the dark for weeks. she always recounted just how absolutely terrifying this story was. so eventually as a young teen i read the horla, and i was like.. ok? and? thats it...? it had no effect on me at all, it was basically just a sort of lame ghost story to me.
but eventually i did get to understand that when my mom read the horla, that was the first horror story she had ever read. even after she immigrated to france, i think what she read and watched was still overseen by her parents, and this kind of literature wasnt the stuff she was supposed to read, so she just.. hadnt, presumably until at 19 she ran away and was free to do whatever. and the first time she read a scary story that stuff hit her HARD. its a little funny from my pov to imagine a 19yo being scared half to death by the horla of all things but considering the context its totally reasonable.
so yeah whatever no point to this i was just thinking about le horla again.. and how scary everything was to me when i was a young teen as well
#97#when i was around 12 to 14 i was like....#made very very upset by horror that today i would consider very mild. even stuff that was more edgy than actually meant to horrify#i think my paranoia + dubious connection to reality + general gullibility played a role in that#see: i was genuinely triggered by the smile dog image for years lol. like id start hyperventilating and crying if i looked at it.#i still dont like seeing it tbf but today i just like.. close the tab and whatever.#i think part of it is after a couple years of it i forced myself to stare at it to stop getting super fucked up over it#bc i was a creepypasta kid so avoiding that image was quite difficult
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Tfw you look up images of pregnant women for a drawing but end up just weirded out and gives up the idea altogether
#they're mostly pretty pictures making the women look so beautiful and pure and all#(though i did stumble upon a few making the pregnant gal pose sexily for some reason)#so very far from reality wich can be so unpleasant and actually horrifying#but. man. pregnancy is weird and gross i'm sorry#even if everything goes well i just. i can't.#thought i could handle a few pictures for a drawing but no. definitely not. i really don't like it lmao#the concept of people actually wanting to become pregnant is so alien to me i don't get it#yeah yeah it's necessary for the survival of our specie and all i get the technical part of it#i'm not dumb#i'm just grossed out#anyway good on y'all who wants to have biological children#and experience pregnancy#(and sorry for those who really want it but literally can't)#but i will never understand you lmao
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I want to thank my Lord and savior Tom Cardy for posting a song that has the exact vibe I wanted for the relationship of ps8!Lance/ps8!Allura with an oc I have for this au
#empty thoughts#Post s8 au#That oc is multiverse. Iykyk#Anyway do listen to the song it's amazing!!!!#post s8 posting#I want to mention though both Lance and Allura would be much more horrified compared to the guy in the video#Eh they'll come around#I think the multiverse here is a bit like a benevolent bill cipher?#Kinda like Winged Lion but nicer but also equally as manipulative(who is a big inspo for their characterization)#The way I imagine is you know that Allura aurora we see at the end that is supposed to mean she is dead?#That's not Allura. It's kind of multiverse but an image of them#Also Honerva didn't destroy all realities but maybe very small portion of what is infinity no. of realities#(I don't know man I just personally think the entire was so stupid and clear indication that the writers had no idea what to do for finale#So they pulled out this bs right out of their asses and then killed off Allura to be all ~tragic)#Anyway multiverse was the one that fixed the realities. Which is how and why Allura is still alive#What Honerva and Allura did was kickstart the entire process#(I don't know man I am making it up as I go)#Anyway the multiverse loves Allura (for the entire magic thing at end) and Lance (for one of the first ones to talk to it)#But it's in the way a little girl loves a small creature. Cooing and playing with them while not understanding that it's stressing them out#Multiverse was like 'asleep' but that entire thing with Haggar 'woke' it up way earlier than it should have#This is all bound to change but oh well
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not enough people talk about missing the palace deadline end in third sem. i know it's because there's not a lot of meat to it compared to the "good end" and the "true end" but oughhoggug. it drives me insane in all the best ways. the cobwebs. akira giving in to apathy and going "i dont wanna think any more..." becoming just like the masses he so desperately sought to seperate himself from and save just a week or so prior. marukis ominous as fuck "...for as many days or weeks you have left." the fact that his reasonable choice of action in the face of akira being undecided is to put him asleep forever, as if that's somehow more moral than forcing him into marukis ideal reality
the phone thing! the fact that its implied akira has woken up multiple times and still succumbed to sleep! the blue butterfly attempting to reach out, but ultimately dying! akira is utterly alone and i doubt anyone even remembers him in this reality! its so fucked!!!!
#persona 5#and like. in the scenario where marukis reality collapses due to the fact that its... destined to from its very nature#does akira wake up? horrified he slept the years(?) away? do the others suddenly remember and rush to him? desperate to pick up the pieces?#once the spell is broken... would he even be alive? everyone rushing to leblanc only to see a dusty mummified corpse tucked into bed#decorated in silk and dirt#p5ram
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I think Iâm doing sooo well and then WHOOP random anxiety/ptsd/ocd attack
#Idiot but very horrifying reality tv game show YouTuber channel brining out visceral entrapment issues#Personal#delete later
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shannon also bringing up the "violent witch" narrative as well in much the same way that the other servants were doing so in the kitchen oh it's not looking good for her at all
#umineko liveblog#shannon's story forming the basis for what kanon tells battler later on#shannon planting the seed on the beach so that kanon's story gains more credence in the kitchen#thinking again about kanon and shannon's introductory scenes being the same mirrored narrative structure#thinking about kanon and shannon telling the same bits of the beatrice narrative in mirrored ways#coming to very horrifying and very despairing conclusions about all of this#only thing stopping me from losing my mind is that there are too many logistical problems for a shannon-kanon culprit x2 combo theory#namely that a lot of things make no sense if shannon was also scheming alongside kanon#ie all of shannon's behavior up until her death totally contradicts her being complicit#but it is seeming like shannon was the basis of at least a good chunk of the witch narrative#even if i can't find a way to say she had an active involvement#maybe to extend the mirrored narrative metaphor it's that shannon says it as fiction#and then kanon does it as reality#to hark back to my notion of shannon and kanon having an inverse relationship to the golden witch#beatrice is imposed on shannon. kanon imposes himself on beatrice#i think this explains it maybe. so shannon's not sus but kind of sus in that it's her story but it's not her fault
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started watching milf manor with my own mother. please someone tell me this is all for social science
#my mom horrified: this is so fucked up; me with my eyes gleaming: this is so fucked up#its not even very good but i do think it puts the question of reality tv going too far onto its hands and knees#a
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