#CANDYMAN HIVE

[pocfiction]

Candyman ain't a he; Candyman's the whole damn hive. CANDYMAN (2021) dir. Nia DaCosta

[jaimeshanice]

"The legend first appeared in 1890. Candyman was the son of a slave. His father had amassed a considerable fortune from designing a device for the mass producing of shoes after the Civil War. Candyman had been sent to all the best schools and had grown up in polite society. He had a prodigious talent as an artist and was much sought after when it came to the documenting of one's wealth and position in society in a portrait. Well, it was in this latter capacity, that he was commissioned by a wealthy landowner to capture his daughter's virginal beauty. Well, of course, they fell deeply in love and she became pregnant. Hmm... poor Candyman. Her father executed a terrible revenge. He paid a pack of brutal hooligans to do the deed. They chased Candyman through the town to Cabrini Green, where they proceeded to saw off his right hand with a rusty blade. And no one came to his aid. For this was just the beginning of his ordeal. Nearby there was an apiary. Dozens of hives, filled with hungry bees. They smashed the hive and stole the honeycomb and smeared it over his prone, naked body. Candyman was stung to death by the bees. They burned his body on a giant pyre and then scattered his ashes over Cabrini Green."

Candyman (1992) dir. Bernard Rose

[dizzybevvie]

when ur hyperfixated and ur like consuming this isnt enough i need it to build a hive in my ribcage like the candyman

[brokehorrorfan]

Fright-Rags has released a Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh solitaire game. Priced at $15, it includes 60 bee cards, three mirror cards, and five Candyman cards.

This is an edge-matching solitaire game where you try to assemble a giant beehive before you say Candyman's name five times. If you can complete your hive before then, you live. But if you can't… you are Candyman's next victim!

[ringleaderising]

Questions I ask myself when designing monsters for other people to adopt: "Surely, a dragon who is an infested hive completely populated by bugs and insects isn't too far? this is very normal?" and then I look at the Candyman poster in my room and remember that yeah, actually it's not normal I'm just a freak.

The censer smoke kids are proving more difficult than the piglets.

[delightfulkingtyphoon]

"Candyman ain't a He. Candyman's the whole damn hive."

🫵🤨?

[black-is-beautiful18]

✨SPOILERS AHEAD✨

Watched Candyman (2021) for the first time and it’s honestly a good commentary on cycles and how they keep repeating themselves. Not just cycles though. Stories and legends. William, I’m pretty sure that’s his name, says that Candyman isn’t just Sherman. It’s a list of Black men, and even boys, who were wrongfully killed at the hands of oppressors. It’s a hive. Literally. This also shows in how Anthony names his art exhibit “Say My Name”. It’s not just for Sherman. It’s for every single person who makes up the hive. Who makes up Candyman. He even tells Brianna at the end to tell everybody. In so many different cultures all around the globe, this is how stories, legends, and even history continue to be spread. You have to tell them and speak their names. This is how we remember those who were wrongfully and unjustly taken from this world due to racism and prejudice as well. We have to keep talking about them to keep them alive, or else they may be forgotten. Yeah….it’s a 10/10 for me.

[alephnaughts-n-taucrosses]

I was thinking of my Black Hole design (who is essentially just Morgante from Cassette Beasts but S P A C E Y) and my Marble Rally designs (essentially majority of the Hermitcraft fanart I've seen) how I could apply it to the rest of the Marble League coaches. Essentially, get ready for some ML Coaches (plus extras) except they are fantasy: (Note that this is only their outworld appearance, although its possible they actually do have otherworldly abilities.) 1a. Balls of Chaos - Harmony Harmony looks like a regular human, just with some musical connotation to her design. Except... its pretty clear she isn't, or least she is simply too much of a serene human being. Like she refers to herself in ways not many people normally refer to themselves, and she is way too calm about things even though its sorta inappropriate to be. Furthermore, everything about her seems to bend towards her will, and she essentially "controls" the environment a bit too well. People have been theorizing what she even is, although according to Snarl, she is apparently a puppet of a marble god, though nobody believes him. I kinda headcanon that Harmony actually is a normal being, she just gotten into a trance when she's with the BoC since Hunluenese marbles are Like That. 1b. BoC - Yuan Rong Similar to Harmony, except she is more or less a physical god herself. More specifically, more on how a marble can ascend marblehood to become a greater being. She's essentially enlightened, meaning that she can do what she does. While her "abilities" and appearance seem lackluster, its really more of the lack of chaos around her that is really uncanny. Again, like Harmony, everything bends to her will, but its more the environment wills around her, as opposed to Harmony controlling it. 2. Black Jacks - King Another Cassette Beast Archangel is my inspiration here, but this time its Alice. More specifically, King looks like her, card-suit face, card-like design, Madoka witch-looking body, and all the uncanny stuff about them. The difference is that King simply Looks Like That and is otherwise cordial and friendly and not ego-filled or grief-ridden. 3a. Bumblebees - Queen I like to believe that Queen actually has bee-like qualities to her, being fuzzy, having a double pair of arms, having bug-eyes, and having wings. While I'm simply doing this for fun, I think her looking a bit more "regal" makes sense since she quite literally is from the royal family. (TW: Trypophobia, don't read this segment!)

3b. Hornets - Swarm Another monster is my inspiration here, but this time its Shimi-O from Death Mark. Essentially a ghost that controls bees and maybe a hive itself. That's not gonna cut it here, obviously, so, I kinda did a more "kid-friendly" approach for Swarm. While he still has bug-like qualities, its not as pronounced as Queen, but the striking thing about him is that one of his eyes is replaced by an actual Hornet's nest. Fortunately, there are no actual bugs in there. They like to scare the rest of the Bumblebees team with that, however.

(/TW) 4. Chocolatiers - Truffle A bit more on the cookie side, Truffle is essentially a candyman turned alive, with a focus on chocolate stuff. They have whipped cream for hair, and their face is... just a face, although it's highly decorative. The thing about being a cookie-man is that their face does not technically exist, meaning they have to draw their face every time they have to express something. They don't have to, but they do anyway.

5. Crazy Cat's Eyes - White Eye This one is a little more complicated, as I already have a concept for CCE the Rally Racer, but not White Eye the coach of Team CCE. Of course, while I did make Rally!CCE an actual mummified catperson, White Eye is pretty much still alive, but I don't want to just make him a white catboy. Instead, I decided that they have eyes all over his body, specifically on the arms he insists he shows. And make him a catboy. 6. Gliding Glaciers - Glide Welp. One complication of having an already-existing athlete actually compete is the logistics of this specific headcanon. Fortunately, I made it clear that this headcanon of marbsonas are essentially shape-shifters, some of which (most of the MR peeps) having minor superpowers. Anyway, Glide now has ice for feet, ice for half his face, and an ardent passionate fanperson for her personality. 7. Green Ducks - Bombay Another complication solved by the shapeshifting phenomenon is that if the coach is explicitly related to an active member of the team, who I usually peg as regular people just to avoid cheating. After all, how fucked up would it be if your opponent just can burn you alive while all you have is a wooden shield? Anyway, Bombay usually shifts to a more ducky look whenever he's on stage, with feathers instead of hair for a beard, and generally having more feathers and even duck feet. Of course, he's stated that he's really uncomfortable but he feels that some coaches who explicitly are those forms would feel insecure with him. 8a. Hazers/Kobalts - Smokey I kinda interpreted the Hazers and specifically them to be a bit more liberal when it comes to shifting, meaning that their foggy forms extend to even the members, even if its just the hair. That being said, Smokey is practically a cloud that happens to look like a human. Also wearing a blue variant of their jersey. At least, when they were the Hazers coach. As a Kobalt coach, however, as they are still trying to fit in the culture of Zuro, they still stand out to especially the Kobalts members, who have a nostalgic lens for their old coach, at least they think they do. That's sorta why they try to make themselves have a similar look to a star sapphire, all while looking like themselves but more "grounded" if that makes sense. They currently are stuck between a whirlwind and a hard place, however, as they either risk looking like they are actively mocking the Kobalts or look like a stranger to them. 8b. Hazers - Hazy Again, Hazers are sorta already mid-fantasy, so naturally an old member would be adept to this sort of custom. Of course, its when their emotions get more and more prominent that their cloudiness also gets obvious, almost as if their judgment gets... clouded by emotions.

[finalsurvivorgrp]

Tiffany Lyle. Candyman. Open to all.

“There’s just bees everywhere lately,” Tiffany complained, carefully catching the bumblebee that had managed to slip into the restaurant during the off hours. She got a cup on top of it and slid one of the menus underneath, moving to the door and using her hip to keep it open so that she could release it. “With my luck I’ll find a hive where everyone goes out to smoke.”

[kaylahak]

Blog Post #6

Throughout the class I have enjoyed many works that we have encountered. One of my recent favorites we discussed a little while back was Candyman, the newer version. Watching this film I truly got chills up and down my spine at each instance throughout the film. It takes me back to when I was little and there were stories going about similar to the plot of this one. Such as the boogie man and if you say his name enough he will show up or like the popular film and musical Beetlejuice and saying his name three times he will appear. This film at the start confused me in the fact I did not understand why the main character was so drawn to Candyman as if he was being reincarnated into him at one point. The first sight of Candyman in the film did not seem like he could be a harmful man until that hand appeared and my viewpoint on him changed dramatically. Throughout this class it has helped me discover how to be able to deeper analyze films and understand the racial standpoint behind some of these films. Deeper understanding of the changes with the films and the older and newer versions were so incredibly eye opening to me. Seeing the way that there was little to no change or great change with the films and the meanings behind them. Being able to decipher and see what the messages and intents of the works are was something I could have never done before but after watching the films such as Candyman and understanding the intentions behind them was so fascinating. I would have never guessed that racial inequality was a part of this film and in some ways police issues with the film towards African American people before. Seeing as how Candyman was able to keep his legacy alive and be able to continue to live on through the job of killing was something thrill catching in the movie that I enjoyed and the name attached with him was something that I haven’t really seen put together with each other before. The interesting thing I observed with the film was the fact that he would  bring the spirits of people to the hive creating bees with their spirits. I found this film to be one of my favorites throughout the class. 

[emiisturnz]

The candy man

A/N: The candy man is an urban legend that tells the scary story of a murdered slave who returns from the dead in search of revenge if you say his name 5 times. A horror movie was made about him in 1992 about the legend followed by two sequels starring tony todd as candy man. read down below if you wanna find out how to play the candy man challenge.

DISCLAIMER: THIS  STORY IS NOT MINE AND I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING IN THE  STORY

According to the legend if you say his name 5 times in front of a mirror and he will appear behind you and kill you with his hook. For you see, the candy man is a vicious killer with a bloody hook for a hand. He appears in the mirror covered with blood and bees with only one thing on his mind ...... Murder

They say that many years ago the candy man was a real man. Back in the days of slavery, candy man was a black slave named  Daniel  Robitaille, who worked on a plantation in New Orleans. He was a talented painter and was chosen by the plantation owner to paint a portrait of his daughter

But daniel fell in love with the white plantation owner's daughter. When the racist plantation owner found out that daniel and his daughter were in love, he raised an angry mob and chased Daniel out of town.

Armed with pitchforks and dogs they chased the poor slave across fields and streams. Finally, they caught up with the exhausted slave near an old barn. The evil men seized Daniel and cut off his right hand with a rusty saw. Then they covered him in honey and threw him in a bee hive.

The unfortunate candyman died from his injuries, but not before he cursed the men who killed him and vowed to return and exact his revenge.They say his spirit would never sleep, and now his ghost walks the earth and appears only when his name is called 5 times

So remember you can say his name 1 time 2 times 3 times and 4 times but never 5 times

A/N  so that was a little bit of a short post i hope you enjoyed it.

[notmuchtoconceal]

The legend first appeared in 1890. Candyman was the son of a slave.

His father had amassed a considerable fortune from designing a device ... for the mass-production of shoes after the civil war. Candyman had been sent to all the best schools and had grown up in polite society. He had a prodigious talent as an artist and was much sought after for the documenting of one's wealth and position in society in a portrait. Why, it was in this latter capacity that he was commissioned by a wealthy landowner to capture his daughter's Virginal Beauty.

Well, of course, they ... fell deeply in love and she became pregnant.

Poor Candyman.

Father executed a terrible revenge. He paid a pack of brutal hooligans to do the deed. They chased Candyman through the town to Cabrini Green, where they proceeded to ... saw off his hand with a rusty blade.

None came to his aid.

But this was just the beginning of his ordeal. Nearby there was an apiary. Dozens of hives. Filled with hangry bees. They smashed the hives and stole the honeycomb. And smeared it over his Prone Naked Body.

Candyman was stung to death by the bees. They burnt his body on a giant pyre and then scattered the ashes over Cabrini Green.

[youn8ss-2]

makes no sense to try to make candyman a folkhero when he is the embodiment of one’s man pain, rage and thirst for vengeance, its like if they made kayako/the grudge a mantle like a title that a ghost would adopt once they die linked to that entity. It depersonalizes the story and just make it general and bland. Those entities are never meant to be anti heroes but figures of tragedy who found strength in death an avenue to exert their suffering thru hate and becoming a monster themselves to the point the grudge or the candyman go beyond the embodiment of person they exist thru. Mind you they did that in the grudge but it was used to describe that those were part of the curse now but they didn’t become kayako as a title they were just trapped to relive their death and never move on but it wasn’t the point of the movie. Here the subtlety is nowhere to be found and it becomes a pop preachy movie. If only they focused more on anthony as a person than a message it wouldve been so good cus when you think about it his story is heartbreaking. Claimed as a baby by an entity, saved last minute by a stranger who sacrificed herself, your mother lying to you and your own people willing to sacrifice you to avoid their turf getting occupied by people like you (hypsterish ‘well off’ artists) cus they don’t have anywhere to go to and you have to pay for others sins as you’re trying to build a life of your own. Thats so tragic in itself.

they were trying to do a nightmare on elm street 2 but less obvious so it became more convoluted. Although the hive thing is stupid cus helen’s situation was an anomaly she became a ghost because of her circumstances and her personal situation she wasn’t some chosen one.

let me see if the candyman ‘reboot’ is worth a damn.

[themadvigilantist]

just a thought...

anyway candyman (2021) being a continuation of the candyman films is so wonderfully done and the fact that daniel becomes this hive mind entity (literally) for - just - i - listen, im so happy!

And the reference to the book?? Where he smelled like cotton candy because he used to make candy! And then he gave free candy to kids that needed the most and it's just. AND IT CORRELATES WITH ONE THE HISTORICAL PPL TOO ABOUT THE CANDY Daniel having a hive of victims of police/white brutality.

no, i just - a slasher vigilante is my jam. DANIEL CAN BE ANYONE YALL IM

It was the Tony Awards and we were awarded with Tony Todd reprising as Daniel Robitaille, as he should!

[teratocore]

Babygurl you are a full of bees.