#Egg Monsters From Mars

[danielstalter]

Egg Monsters from Mars was a refreshingly weird Goosebumps book. It had a good balance of the ridiculous and the grotesque. The pacing was solid and Stine avoided his most familiar tropes. The weakest point was its characters. Dana was a fine protagonist, but the plot relied on a villain with extremely questionable logic. I could also point out a few questionable choices made by Dana’s parents. There was a good steady build-up to the climax, even with the villain logic severely lacking. I was left wanting to know more about what the egg monsters were and what their true intent was. That said, I was also happy that there wasn’t a final-chapter infodump to try and over-explain everything. Stine’s tendency to infodump can really kill the magic; Say Cheese and Die is probably the most egregious example of this. Even though it left me wanting more, it was nice to see Egg Monsters from Mars avoid falling into that trap. I’ve said it before and I will keep saying it so long as I write these reviews: the best Goosebumps books are the ones that aren’t afraid to get weird. Egg Monsters not only embraced the weird, but it also delivered what might be the most disturbing ending I’ve come across in this series. I can’t say more without major spoilers, but you can rest assured that I have some thoughts to share below the jump.

Score: 3.5

My full review with memes, snark, and spoilers can be found here: https://www.danstalter.com/egg-monsters-from-mars/

[j4gm]

SPOILERS!!! REFERENCES AND EASTER EGGS IN F&C ep. 8: JERRY

The last of four posts for today.

This episode has a very dark setting. This is the universe where The Lich wished for the extinction of all life. There is nothing here. This establishing shot features the Squirrel's apple cart, from a few episodes ago, but he is long dead and it is long abandoned.

We are introduced to a new cosmic entity, Orbo, who is Scarab's boss but is not to be mistaken for Prismo's boss, whose identity remains a mystery.

Simon name drops a whole bunch of magical items from the original Adventure Time series; the Armour of Zeldron from Blood Under the Skin, the Wand of Dispersement from Sons of Mars, the Porcelain Lamb from Beyond This Earthly Realm, and the magic beans from The Pods.

This episode suggests that the nature of Simon and Betty's relationship was initially quite unhealthy. He was one of her lecturers, and she had an infatuation with him from first sight.

This illustration features the ancient wizards who sealed Coconteppi beneath Wizard City in the Distant Lands episode of the same name.

Simon's expedition to find the Enchiridion was first mentioned in the newspaper clipping in I Remember You, and was mentioned again in Temple of Mars.

BMO apparently survived The Lich's wish because he isn't technically alive. I wonder where Neptr and the other MOs are. Cannibalised for batteries, perhaps. Also, that BRB note is very sad and is identical to the one Finn wrote in Blenanas.

There are various familiar items in the thawed out remains of the Ice Kingdom; ninja paraphernalia from The Chamber of Frozen Blades, Ice King's diary from The Empress Eyes, and of course the tape collection from Holly Jolly Secrets.

Here's a deep cut: That machine in the background to the right of Simon is the machine that held the lightning power that Finn went to steal in What is Life, so that he could power up Neptr. The Demonic Wishing Eye is also in this shot.

For a single frame, Ice King and Gunter can be seen reduced to skeletons. Presumably this was the exact moment that the Lich's wish took effect. Everyone died instantly, in less than a frame.

When I watched this episode for the first time I was confused about where Fionna got the working crown. But you can just about see it inside the drum in this shot, where Ice King mentioned he had put it in his tape.

This is the exact moment the photograph was taken for the newspaper clipping seen in I Remember You.

We first heard the story about how Simon met Betty after they tried to check out the same library book in Broke His Crown. It's cool to see it playing out for real.

Simon throws a pebble at the window and accidentally hits Babette in the face, exactly like Finn and Jake did to Kim Kil Whan in the episode Ocarina.

This is the second time Simon caused Betty to miss this research trip to Australia. She says in Temple of Mars that she never got the opportunity to go, and resolves that her life might not have been so messed up if she'd followed her own dreams instead of following Simon's.

The song in this scene, the motif of which has been heard throughout the series, is by Half Shy, who also wrote "Monster" for Obsidian.

BMO is buried with a paper flower because there are no real ones left alive. His death seemed pointlessly cruel.

THE LICH! He is in his half-disguised Billy form, confirming that this is his wish-altered reality. Like in his other appearances, the first line he speaks is a single word command. This time, the command is "Cease." But with nothing left to do he has become depressed, and he doesn't bother killing our protagonists.

And finally, we are left on this cliffhanger. Fionna and Cake have returned to their world. Scarab has convinced the boss that Simon must be destroyed. And GOLBetty is here to claim them both while the Lich watches on.

This episode's dream features a pair of Lich skulls either side an effigy of GOLB.

[evolutionsvoid]

Life in these lands was not always so harsh. Before the war broke out and the world tipped into madness, folks went about their days in relative peace and comfort. The battles of religious fervor were fought elsewhere, and the monsters that tormented folk could only be found in wild corners and campfire stories. There was danger in the world, and some folk certainly had harder times than others, but life always seemed to find a balance. But such balance can be so easily upset, and the war that shattered the Church quickly plunged every corner of this continent into chaos. Old enemies and ancient monstrosities returned in great numbers, but that wasn't all the people would have to suffer. As comforts of the Church and stable society crumbled away, inconveniences of the past soon became the present's woe. And creatures that were once kept in check now ran free...

The barnacle goose, to an outsider, is an innocuous thing. A bird of hardened shell and pale flesh that can be found on the coast. The adults themselves seem simple, feeding upon vegetation, small critters and humor scum that grows upon the surface of stagnant fluids. However, when one looks into their life cycle, then they begin to see the weird. The barnacle goose does not lay eggs like other creatures that look like them. There is no nest to build, no eggs to sit upon. The goose does indeed seek out trees when it comes time to lay its young, but it does not want a simple perch. Instead, the barnacle goose possesses a corkscrew-like member that pierces the bark and burrows into the host tree. Their tiny eggs are injected into the wood, and there they take root. Feeding off the plant, these parasitic young will grow into scaly pods of hard shell and hungry beak, eventually erupting from the tree's surface. Their barnacle young remain in this immobile state, sucking nutrients from their host while also feeding upon passing insects. Their caring parents bring food to them, excreting it into their waiting maws. In time, the branches and limbs of this tree will weaken, and the young will break free. Just in time for them to emerge from their shells and become a fully formed goose.

While this life cycle is certainly odd, the barnacle goose was typically seen as a curiosity or a meal. Their tough shells protected tender pale flesh, which was excellent and juicy when roasted. Even the young were harvested from trees, where they would be steamed and cracked open. To farmers who kept trees for their fruits and flesh, the barnacle goose was a pest, marring their beloved plants. It was a simple creature in a simple time, yet it would not remain innocent for long.

Before the war broke out, a new breed of barnacle goose began to appear. Debate continues on why they came to be, and no solid answers have been given. Many like to say that the time of plenty and harvest began to deplete the trees they depended on, and thus they needed new hosts. Others, more dramatic types, preferred to claim that the evils and sins of this world began to corrupt the local wildlife, so that they could torment the guilty and fallen. Regardless, the new type of barnacle goose that showed up ignored trees when it came to laying its young. Instead, its horrible member sought more mobile and meaty hosts. These barnacle geese attacked animals and humans alike, cutting them with razor wings, while vomiting or excreting vile fluids. Wounds, at first, would appear superficial but painful. Nothing a little healing Phlegm can't fix. But what wasn't discovered til later was that these geese carried a potent disease that spread through these injuries and liquids, and soon would consume the body.

The disease would gain the name of "Nymphosis" and its progression in a victim was quite horrific. The sickness would cause the skin to harden and for gnarled growths to develop. It would bear similarity to "Dendermis," a skin infection that would cause the tissue to break out into scaly, bark-like growths. However, this infection was a simple irritating thing, easily solved by Phlegm baths or liniment snails, while this version carried by the barnacle geese was far more potent and much faster. Within the course of days, the victim's whole body would harden and warp, leaving their limbs slow and their energy low. In this state, they would not have the strength to fight off a barnacle goose and its horrible burrowing member. When they are reduced to creaking, shambling meat-trees, the parent goose will come to inject its young. Those who are violated in such a terrible way will soon find their bodies hijacked by the parasitic youth. Not only do they form their barnacle shells, but invasive tendrils also wrap around the nervous system and leech nutrients from the host. With this, they suck victims dry as they grow, creating the shriveled emaciated look. But they also take control of the body, forcing their host to move as they please. With full control, the victim cannot fight back or do anything to prevent the young barnacles from erupting from their stomach. And when their head turns to mush and the skull softens, there is nothing left of the previous soul to stop the adult from removing the useless appendage and settling down on the gaping stump.

The end result of this horrible parasitization is a shambling tree-like husk that has a goose resting on its neck stump and a hungry bunch of barnacles nestled in its withered guts. There is no mind, no will. They will slowly lurch about, moving to areas that please its horrid parasites. When threats approach, it will even swat at them with gnarled limbs, trying to protect the very eggs that doomed them. The parent will stand guard, honking at approaching foes and fighting if they dare upset the nest. They will also feed their eager young, excreting food through the open throat hole so it may slip down to the gnashing beaks below. Eventually, they will hatch and emerge as fully formed barnacle geese. What they leave behind will be a fully petrified corpse, now immobile and perfectly tree-like. Death will finally take the wasted body, but its flesh may still not find peace, as other geese may use them as second hand nesting material.

This awful fate has certainly disgusted many folk and created countless horror stories, but infections were thankfully few and far between. With proper research and experimentation, the healers of the Church and the Apothecaries of the Academy each created their own medicines to cure the poor souls. These holy ointments or powerful drugs could be used after the victim contracted the disease, but before the eggs were laid in their flesh. It could stop the petrifying bark and hardening skin, which would make them improper hosts for the geese. With quick application and folks killing the offending birds, one could be spared the fate of becoming a mindless tree. This caused the barnacle goose menace to be more a pest and cautionary tale, inflicted on others so you could remind yourself not to make the same mistakes. But such comforts vanished when the war broke out.

While the disease can be cured in early stages, it can only be done so with the proper medicine. Not just any Phlegm will do, and common curatives only slow the process. Victims need the stuff made specially, but such a resource is now very scarce in this time of war. The healers of the Church have been called to the front lines, and the traveling Apothecaries have been ordered to cease their efforts and return to the Academy. Even though a good amount of Apothecaries ignored these commands and remain to help, their own supplies dwindle and make this medicine hard to craft. Thus, more folk succumb to this terrible fate, which results in more infectious birds being born. What was once a simple scary story is now a plague in some areas, with folks fending off flocks of these disease laden geese. When breeding season begins, they descend upon towns and inflict untold misery to its occupants. Even if war does not touch some villages, the gnarled husks left behind can show that death is still rampant in this world. If you are to find these abandoned shells, or the mindless drones that carry the vile young, grant them mercy and burn them away. Let them return to the Great Cycle, and may they be reborn in a kinder time...

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"Barnacle Goose"

The barnacle goose situation felt like a fitting addition to FOI. But how to implement it? Hmmmmmm. How about the most horrible way possible?

[astra-ravana]

Working With Medusa

The Queen Of Snakes

Colors: Green, silver, red, gold

Herbs: Vanilla, black snake root, frankincense, myyrh, dragon's blood, alkanet, amber, belladonna, juniper berries, clove, datura, black pepper, wormwood, rue, sulpher, henbane, agrimony, parsley

Crystals: Red coral, serpentine, malachite, petrified wood, snake skin jasper, lodestone, hematite, aquamarine, black moonstone, mother of pearl, bronzite, bloodstone, ruby, garnet

Element: Water

Planet: Moon/Mars/Pluto

Zodiac: Scorpio

Metal: Silver, bronze

Tarot: Death, Justice, Queen of Swords

Day: Wednesday

Animals: Snakes, jellyfish, lions

Domains: Feminine strength, perseverance, wisdom, serpents, sexuality, the blood of women, retribution/justice for victims, protection of girls and women, bodily autonomy, self defense, the truth, punishment of abusers, rapists and murderers, the evil eye, kundalini awakening, "kind monsters", beauty, divination, shadow work and healing from trauma, banishing

Offerings: Snake-themed items and figures, snake skin, water, wine, seafood, whole eggs, egg shells, apples, honey, beach sand, cave dirt, fossils, shells, candles in her colors, evil eye or eyeball charms, sea water/salt, driftwood, blood (especially menstrual blood), speaking your truth, participation in women's rights and victim advocacy movements

Symbols: Snakes (particularly two intertwined), eyes (evil eye), the Aegis (image of Medusa's head adorning Athena's shield), Gorgon eyes- or "divine eyes"- sometimes drawn as concentric circles or spirals, her astrological symbol-

[thebibliomancer]

Earth X #X

What the hell does #X mean??

Well, it means the end. The end of Earth… X. There’s two sequel series after this.

Mar-Vell gets the cover to the last issue. And thank goodness for lens flares because I’m fairly sure he’s very casual Friday.

Earth X. It’s hard to summarize the previous 13 (because #0) issues.

Long story short, the Earth is an egg. All superpowers and mutation are because the Celestials manipulated human evolution to make them guardians of the egg.

The mass mutation of Earth’s population has kicked off 200 years early because Black Bolt set off a terrigen bomb.

A psychic kid called the Skull rose as a Celestial failsafe to control the aggressive and unruly mutated population but Captain America killed him.

So the Celestials landed on Earth to wipe out all life before it threatens the egg but Black Bolt sacrifices himself to shout really loudly into space for Galactus.

Celestials vs Galactus.

Kind of a lose/lose situation for humanity.

The Earth X X issue is double sized. There’s a lot to cover but the subplots have mostly dried up.

Here’s one I’ll get out of the way early.

Reed Richards suddenly remembers that he promised Medusa that he’d help find her missing son.

God. I had completely forgotten about that. It was almost an inciting subplot that got the Inhumans bumping into Reed. But anyway, since Reed got Black Bolt killed, he feels obligated to duck out mid-plot resolution and reunite Medusa and her son.

Who was the new Black Knight all along.

Cool to wrap that up.

But back to the headlining fight.

According to New Watcher Aaron Stack, Galactus is tougher than one Celestial but might get overwhelmed by a Host of them.

And he keeps tinkering with his Galactus machines instead of punching giant space gods.

Luckily, Galactus gets some backup.

Namor toots as he pleases to summon sea monsters to attack the Celestials in the name of ancient-er Atlantis and for the dinosaurs.

He gets smacked aside.

Silver Surfers Norrin Radd and Shalla-Bal attack the Celestials to buy some time. And Shalla-Bal gets blowed up. Dangit, she’d only just been introduced last issue.

Loki brings an army from Hel, after convincing them that death is fake and that their entire identity was imposed on them.

(That’s why he shanked himself last time.)

They buy some time until the Celestials convince them death is real and they drop dead from it.

And during this, Galactus makes some big moves of his own.

I can practically HEAR this panel.

Like a static-y reverbish BWOOOOOOOOM!

Anyway, the Celestials eventually decide “fuck this actually” or however space gods would phrase it. They fuck off back into space.

Which just leaves the problem that now Galactus hunters and there’s a tasty planet right here.

Or whoever new Galactus this is.

Reed Richards turned Galactus into a star. The running narration implied that someone else has filled the vacated role.

Which has all to do with the tiers of mutation discussed in the previous issue.

Tier 1 - everyone has different powers. Ex: Earth right now.

Tier 2 - homogenization of powers into shapeshifting. Ex: the Skrulls or Reed Richards

And revealed this issue Tier 3 - completely malleable in body, mind, and will. Incredibly powerful but constrained by how observers identify them. Ex: the Asgardians.

This Galactus has become Galactus because he believes he’s Galactus and is believed to be Galactus.

But originally his name was

Franklin Richards.

Franklin who has connections to Galactus and has been said to be destined to be the last survivor of this universe the way Galactus was of the previous.

(I don’t know whether all that stuff predates Earth X or was inspired by it. Possible tally marks.)

And Franklin whose name Black Bolt shouted into space, which drew Galactus to Earth to his confusion.

Reed can’t acknowledge Galactus is Franklin, not without leaving the universe without it’s counter to Celestials over-population. But he does suggest that Galactus is known for relocating the populations of the planets he eats. And since Franklactus is influenced by how he is viewed, the universe has a kinder Galactus now.

There’s no planet to relocate Inhumanity to so Galactus just slurps the Celestial embryo right out of Earth and flies off into space with it.

So the day is saved but damn that’s a sad and lonely existence for Franklin.

He doesn’t even get some Radd company because the Silver Surfer is staying on Earth.

Back on the Moon, Aaron Stack gets tired of Uatu’s blah blah blah.

He finds where the old Watcher is hiding, since he has only appeared on a screen. He throws Uatu’s prior dismissal of good and evil and says that evil is “to do nothing in the face of need.”

Then he unplugs Uatu from the observation equipment so that on top of being blind, he also can’t hear anything from Earth. A Watcher with nothing to observe.

“He doesn’t have the right to watch. He took my face.”

Aaron really held that grudge.

So now we get into the epilogues and sequel hooks for Universe X.

Now that he knows that the terrigen mist caused the mass mutation of humanity, Reed has some ideas on how to fix it.

But he’s getting some pushback. There are people who want to keep their cool new superpowers. And T’Challa thinks the mass mutation gave the animal spirits of Wakanda anthro bodies and he won’t endorse a plan that could reverse that.

Peter and May have repaired their relationship. May has been helping Peter get back in shape.

Cop Luke Cage is still after Peter to join the police but Peter laughs off the idea of becoming a cop.

The circus guys that became the new X-Men are going to stick around as X-Men.

I cannot fathom why these guys were given so much focus for the minimal impact they had on the plot. I could not tell you what their personalities or even powers are.

I also don’t understand why Circus Daredevil got so much attention.

Earth X still has its mysteries.

After being given some massive foreshadowing that he’d play a role, Mar-Vell finally shows up when the plot is done!

He assures Reed he’ll be huge in the sequel.

“There’s a lot that’s about to happen, Reed. I’m coming back. I’m coming back to save everyone. And they’re not going to like it.”

????

Reed asks him to clarify but Mar-Vell refuses.

He does find the time to imply he’s going to be born from Perfect Humans Adam Warlock and Her though.

Why? God knows.

Mar-Vell also suggests that the dream he kept giving Bruce was a big brain move to indirectly get Loki aware that the Asgardians are fiction so he’d shank himself, go to Hel, and recruit the inhabitants to help fight the Celestials.

That’s… either very big brain or a complete asspull.

Captain America is still sad he had to murder a child.

Aaron Stack decides he’s going to be the Watchman instead of the Watcher. Sounds like more of an active role and I dunno maybe he likes Alan Moore.

Luna finishes her transformation into a beautiful butterfly lady so she’s ready for her arranged marriage to Black Knight/the Prince. But he has no interest in her.

Oof, that’s rough.

And Reed finishes converting his old vibranium beacon towers into giant devices to siphon and burn the terrigen out of the atmosphere so things can eventually be normal.

He calls them Human Torches because even Reed Richards has his sentimental side.

So that’s Earth X.

I don’t love everything it does but it makes a decent stab at tying everything in Marvel up in a big Celestial-shaped bow. I can appreciate how fleshed out the setting is, how there’s still stuff going on that we don’t know, and how it’s tightly plotted so that a lot of what seems to be random weirdness plays into the resolution.

I like how many prominent heroes go from depressed and beaten down by the past to getting their groove back. Reed Richards, Tony Stark, Peter Parker all start in a bad place and find their heroism again.

The creative team must have been very confident it would succeed since there are SO MANY sequel hooks in the ending.

And it can’t be overstated how much of an impact Earth X had on the rest of Marvel. I tried to call out the times when something from Earth X inspired another Marvel book. And I probably missed a lot because the ideas have become common enough that I didn’t realize they originated here.

But the book never explains what the X in Earth X means so 0 out of 5 stars, bad comic.

[xaghiofneon]

Me and my partners watched the first three episodes of classic tokusatsu series Ultra Q, and I figured I can't sleep so I'm posting my thoughts, the equivalent of screaming into the void since my blog here has nobody who reads it.

If you don't know, Ultra Q is a Japanese show made by Tsuburaya Productions and aired in 1966, and was one of the earliest examples of Toho style kaiju on the small screen. It began the Ultraman franchise, but there's no Ultraman here. Each episode focuses on a different kaiju, alien, or weird event, kind of like Twilight Zone or Outer Limits. It's also notable for using old suits from Toho kaiju films since Tsuburaya was able to get them from Toho. The main protagonists are two pilots and a reporter lady, who always investigate the strange events, and they're okay protags, they don't get much depth but the show isn't really about them, more the monsters and paranormal stuff that happens. Speaking of, let's talk about the episodes we watched and my thoughts. I'm not giving the episodes any score, I'm just gonna ramble.

Episode 1 - "Defeat Gomess!"

'Run! It's Godzilla!' 'It looks like Godzilla, but due to copyright laws, it's not.' 'Still, we should run like it is Godzilla!' 'Though it isn't. AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!'

The first episode actually has two kaiju. Gomess, pictured above, a prehistoric creature made from pieces of old Godzilla suits, and Litra, a bird creature made from old Rodan props. Both of them are dug up by miners, and are mortal enemies. Litra is still an egg when its found, but Gomess is fully grown and causes a cave in while the main pilot and reporter are in the mine it was found in. The comic relief pilot and a kid who works at the mine find an ancient legend about how they're destined to fight, and the kid wakes Litra up with heat. The fight is short and not impressive by today's standards but it's not boring to look at. Litra jabs Gomess in the eye and shoots acid at him which kills him, but then Litra dies herself, because of the acid? I think? They don't explain why, they just end the episode, since these are the episodes are the usual TV length, about 20 minutes. Gomess is a decent kaiju design, Litra is a little more derpy looking, but it just adds to the charm for me. Overall, it's a solid start to the series. For the time, seeing movie level special effects was mind blowing, and while it's in black and white and not as impressive as modern effects or CG, it's very fun and charming now, especially since CG is so prevalent, seeing suits lumbering around is fun.

Episode 2 - "Goro and Goroh"

'Mmm... Monkey...'

This one is very simple, and I liked it quite a bit. A monkey near a research facility consumed a bunch of walnuts laced with a chemical that made him grow giant. He then befriended the facility's custodian Goro, a deaf and mute man who took food from nearby farms and stores to feed him. Also milk. Goroh the Monkey loves milk. When Goro gets arrested for stealing, Goroh gets mad and goes on a rampage, and they have Goro feed him milk laced with sleeping pills to make him fall asleep. The reporter had just got back from an island also with large monkeys as well, and they decide to take him there, and Goro is sad. Goroh the Monkey was brought to life with a modified King Kong suit, and I just like monkeys. Simple, nice, monke.

Episode 3 - "The Gift From Space"

'Now, I'm not saying it was aliens... but it was aliens.'

The last episode we watched, and the first alien kaiju, a giant slug named Namegon. The protags find a UFO, which turns out to be a Mars probe thought destroyed, containing two tiny gold marbles. They're kept in a vault, but stolen by bank robbers, who wants to sell it. When one of the bank robbers tries to force the comic relief pilot to take him to a meet up on an island, he drops the second gold marble in a fight. Comic relief pilot then finds it and makes it into a necklace for the reporter. The bank robber, having found a different way to the island, drops the gold marble into hot water, and the marble expands into an egg, revealing Namegon. Namegon itself looks fine, it's just a big slug that shoots lasers. It's weakness is a little lame, though. When the protags and the police go to the island, Namegon chases them, falls into the ocean, and melts because of the saltwater. The second egg, still around the reporters neck, accidentally gets woken up too at the end, after a discussion of why the aliens who sent the probe back sent monster eggs with them, and the episode ends as they prepare the saltwater. The episode also introduces an old professor who hangs out with the protags and exposits. Not a bad episode, the weakness of Namegon isn't too disappointing, and we never see the aliens who sent the probe back, so our brains can fill in the gap.

Ultra Q is pretty fun so far. We're trying to watch at least three episodes a week, and I got my partners to agree to watch the Ultra Series with me. Give it a watch yourself if you haven't, it's fun kaiju stuff.

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

Stats from Movies 701-800

Top 10 Movies - Highest Number of Votes

Ringu (1998) had the most votes with 1,327 votes. Chillerama (2011) had the least votes with 360 votes.

The 10 Most Watched Films by Percentage

Beetlejuice (1988) was the most watched film with 80.9% of voters out of 780 saying they had seen it. Demonic Christmas Tree (2022) had the least "Yes" votes with 0.4% of voters out of 491.

The 10 Least Watched Films by Percentage

The Nun 2 (2023) was the least watched film with 70.6% of voters out of 633 saying they hadn’t seen it. Demonic Christmas Tree (2022) had the least "No" votes with 9.2% of voters out of 491.

The 10 Most Known Films by Percentage

Beetlejuice (1988) was the best known film, only 0.4% of voters out of 780 saying they’d never heard of it.

The 10 Least Known Films by Percentage

Demonic Christmas Tree (2022) was the least known film, 90,4% of voters out of 491 saying they’d never heard of it.

The movies part of the statistic count and their polls below the cut.

The Uninvited (1944) The Crazies (1973) Witchfinder General (1968) The Conspiracy (2012) When a Stranger Calls (1979) The Evictors (1979) The Birds (1963) Ice Spiders (2007) Rubber (2010) Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)

Daughters of Darkness (1971) Akira (1988) The End of Evangelion (1997) The Woman in Black (2012) Milfs vs. Zombies (2015) Knife + Heart (2018) It's a Wonderful Knife (2023) Attachment (2022) Gothic (1986) Jakob's Wife (2021)

Stranger by the Lake (2013) The Fog (2005) The Greasy Strangler (2016) Angel Heart (1987) Tumbbad (2018) The Snow Woman (1968) Sugar Hill (1974) Saloum (2021) WNUF Halloween Special (2013)

Sound of Violence (2021) Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) The Haunting of Molly Hartley (2008) Death Laid an Egg (1968) Baskin (2015) The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh (2012) The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) The Haunting of Julia (1977) The House That Dripped Blood (1971) Megan Is Missing (2011)

Ringu (1998) Three... Extremes (2004) Trench 11 (2017) Out There Halloween Mega Tape (2022) Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) The Driller Killer (1979) Berberian Sound Studio (2012) One Cut of the Dead (2017) Demonic Christmas Tree (2022) Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1981)

Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005) Motel Hell (1980) Shallow Ground (2004) Annabelle: Creation (2017) Annabelle Comes Home (2019) The Conjuring 2 (2016) The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021) Morgan (2016) Sputnik (2020) Devil's Pass (2013)

Dracula's Daughter (1936) Dagon (2001) We Are Still Here (2015) We Are What We Are (2013) Somos lo que hay (2010) The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) Midori (1992) The Believers (1987) Troll 2 (1990) Chillerama (2011)

The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976) The Mortuary Collection (2019) The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976) The Pit and the Pendulum (1991) House (1985) Flatliners (1990) The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014) Crimson Peak (2015) Frailty (2001) Hell Night (1981)

Eyes of Fire (1983) Sister Death (2023) Tonight She Comes (2016) Bad Dreams (1988) Dead Snow (2009) Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (2014) Veronica (2017) The Nun II (2023) Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) Maniac (1980)

Man's Best Friend (1993) M.O.M. Mothers of Monsters (2020) The Reptile (1966) She Creature (2001) Beetlejuice (1988) The Incredible Melting Man (1977) Kandisha (2020) So Vam (2021) Bit (2019) Death Proof (2007)

[calebs-hangout-corner]

Tell me about Horrortown

Goosebumps: Horrortown is an absolutely fantastic city builder game set in a Goosebumps universe. Curly the Skeleton guides you through the game as its narrator, or at least he tries, Slappy likes to butt in with his own commentary occasionally. They are besties (There is one event that has different narrators who are actually based on two pretty cool horrortown YouTubers). It has multiple stories you can play through with the many different characters that are in this universe and live in this town.

It's also really funny because at the start of the game everyone is still new to monsters and such and freak out when they have to deal with them but the more the story progresses the more they're just "hey how much do you wanna bet our new neighbor is a monster?" and "man, another monster attack? This is the third time this week!" and not to forget "what? ANOTHER meteor crashed in town? Are we a magnet for this stuff or something?" They just become desensitized to the whole monster situation it's great. Sometimes the og characters from the books are here and I always love how they are integrated: Sometimes they are just here and will go through their stories (like Carly Beth Caldwell of Haunted Mask fame), sometimes they already went through what happened in their books (like Lizzie Morris, who comes to Horrortown to warn everyone of the Horrorland theme park), sometimes they went through their book with a different outcome (such as Dana from Egg Monsters from Mars, who died in the Horrortown timeline instead of surviving and his skeleton is visible in the freezer he was trapped in in the book, or Nat and Pat, whose sister Ginger, the protagonist of Beast From The East, is suspiciously missing from their life), and sometimes they're just adults and somewhere else (see: Zeke Matthews, who studies at College in Woods Mill and comes to visit, or Lucy and Randy Dark, who study abroad and are frequently mentioned)

The characters and their interpersonal relationships really make this game, idk how they did it but I absolutely adore playing through the different storylines and getting to know the characters!!! I also love some of the implications of the game that they never outright confirm but it feels really nice when you end up connecting the dots.

Example: Mrs. Dark, Randy and Lucy's mother, moved to Horrortown and sent her children to study far away because their father, her husband, was most likely killed by a monster hunter.

Example No. 2: Brooke Buchenberg's father is implied to be a hermit wizard that lives in the snowy mountains and abondened her when she was too young to remember him and she has untapped magical abilities because of it.

Example No. 3: Pat is trans, as she is a girl in the game but was a boy in the books and Nat and Pat are identical twins.

Example No. 4: Emile from Phantom of the Auditorium is probably a ghost in this timeline.

The game also still updates with events from time to time and I just AAAAAAA I love this game so much. I have literally so many ideas for it because the world just lends itself to so many different stories you could tell.

[vtgbooks]

R L STINE Egg Monsters From Mars Goosebumps 42 1996 Vintage Horror Outer Space

[thetentaclecommander]

Thanks for the tag @goth-automaton Rules: list the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there's a pattern! Lol I post at the pace of a snail but sure :) ... Calmness in a Human Sea I sniff your skin, smell your scent, and can feel the thin movement of hair…strange and nearly invisible along such pale pigmented flesh. Not Today, Satan A flurry of tentacles snapped forward, trying to get at her previously occupied blank space. Eggs. Just Eggs. (No, Not Like THAT!) A new popup eatery that launched days before Easter (almost tactically so) had opened its doors along the main street of a nondescript town USA.

There Is Always Another Time Sun-kissed white sands marred by passersby-made lines spread out for miles, glittering with a warm haze noticeable to the naked eye. The Prince of My Dreams The balcony hovers over a grand gala filled with rich tapestries, lighting, and all the opulence corporate money could buy. Fires and Ashes It was as if fire was under her feet as Jill nearly instinctively shoved herself to the far corner of the narrow hall. a gosling only seeks the warmth of his mother The rain hits the window hard in its aggression. On a Devil's Wings

It's hot…

Father

Why is it

So hot? Nemesis and Jill Go to Horny Jail The bedsheets muffled Jill’s lips as she gasps and murmurs along them, long soiled by the absent drool that ungracefully trailed from her. Domesticity The kitchen's screen door was open; the room was warm and filled with the activities of chopping, peeling, mixing, and creating from scratch today’s dinner. ... Hmm aside from a few starting off with one of the monster boys' thoughts, most tend to either start with a 'this is the setting like in a movie' opener, or right in middle of the action especially with the porn lol. I guess I just hate letting people wait forever to get to the good stuff I guess. I also just am a sensualist at heart. I want ya to feel that beach with the white sands, that fire on the mad boy's face or that Jill is definitely having a great time lawl ... All my writer mutes (tagged and untagged), have at! @the-bar-sinister @damadisangue @naerwenia @coiled-dragon @s-dei @lmshady @azulas-daddy-kink @depraveddove @unchartedperils @sweet7simple @katophoenix

[blazedrawsstuff]

Sunny Benedict! Daughter of the Egg Monsters from Mars!

Sunny Benedict

Daughter of The Egg Monsters

Parent

Egg Monsters from Mars

Age

16

Killer Style

I just adore bright, sunny clothing. Clothing that tells the world I’m ready to seize the day!

Freaky Flaw

I am practically a mother to my classmates both in good ways and bad ways. And by bad ways, I mean smothering ways.

Pet

Quiche! He’s a little chick I found one day. Isn’t he just the cutest?!

Favorite Activity

I love to “crack” jokes with my friends, especially egg puns. Some may say they’re overdone, but I think they’re “eggcellent”!

Pet Peeve

I’m an early bird at heart and I prefer to keep it that way. So don’t force me to stay up or I’ll flip! Really, I don’t like sudden routine changes in general.

Favorite Subject

Home Ick. My favorite parts are cooking for the Creepateria and sewing blankets!

Least Favorite Subject

Volcanology. I can’t take the heat, I’ll melt...or worse; cooked alive!

Favorite Colors

Yellow, Orange, White, and Pale Green

Favorite Food

Bacon and ham! And all kinds of breakfast food really! Except for eggs, no way would I eat my own kind!

Friends

Terra Firma (OC) Clara Shipman (OC) Roberta Krueger (OC) Edd Goldberg (EW MH AU Only)

Skillset

Cooking

Sunny is good at cooking, especially breakfast foods like bacon and pancakes.

Sewing Sunny knows how to sew, her favorite thing to sew being blankets

Personality

As her name would suggest, Sunny is a ray of, well, sunshine! She’s an optimist who always tries to look on the bright side. She can also be described as a   “mom friend” among the students who cares a lot for the safety and wellbeing of her peers. She also has a sense of humor, as she's fond of egg-based puns. Sunny is, however, a stickler for routine, and will often get upset if something or someone throws a wrench in it. She can also be a bit overprotective and smothering towards those she’s fond of.

Trivia/Additional Information

Sunny’s name comes from egg dishes. The first name from Sunny-Side-Up Eggs and the last name from Eggs Benedict.

Sunny’s pet is also named after an egg dish, that being a quiche.

Her birthday is April 12th. The month comes from when “Egg Monsters from Mars” was released, while the day comes from the fact there are a dozen eggs in a carton. This makes her an Aries.

Her headcanon voice actress is Erika Harlacher who voiced Ami Kawashima from Toradora.

[brandwhorestarscream]

On the Megatron as a Queen Mother with the (humane) breeding of cybertronians and eventually expanding to the colony mechs to be ome the Cybermorph All Mother.

I LOVE IT!

It also makes for intersting potentials as the Cybermorphs expand and eventually run into standard Xenomorphs.

How would that even go?

I can see a potential where the Deceptacon/Cybermorphs go to earth for energon and show up during a Xenomorph out break. And they wipe out the rival hive(s). Because fuck that competition. Accidentally winning the gratitude and service of what's left of humanity in the process. More interestingly actually finding out what the other half of the Cybermorph CNA lineage comes from. Nana Galvatron certainly wants to know.

And runing into the Predators/Yautja, what would that even look like? Their whole social standing is based on hunting worthy prey. And they consider Xenomorphs from humans as the most valuable/highest status prey to hunt. If they fuck around with Megatron, they will find out!

Oooh. That's an interesting one. The cybermorphs have long since begun to spread by the time they make it to earth: they're easily marked as the universe's dominant species. They can dispatch typical xenomorphs with ease: they're everything they are, after all, but better. Bigger, stronger, faster, with the added edge of being incomprehensibly intelligent. As scary as the xenomorphs are, at the end of the day, they are just animals. The cybermorphs wouldn't have any issue with them.

Though part of me thinks the cybermorphs might find them cute. They'd be like distant, primitive relatives, like humans vs. lemurs or other small primates and mammals. Go back far enough snd they share ancestry, and the little ones are purely instinctual. Some cybermorphs may keep them as exotic pets XD

But yes, the humans are very grateful. They're of course very unsure about the cybermorphs: they're the same monsters but much larger and more dangerous. Their being sentient doesn't do anything to soothe those fears. But the humans aren't in any real danger, inherently: they're far too small to be used as proper incubators (unless we decide to make minicon morphs, in which case yeah, maybe). And earth can't exactly make them leave: the xenomorph outbreak has decimated their weaponry, their government, pretty much everything: they're not organized enough to chase them away even if they did have the means to do so. While cybermorphs are techno-organic and can digest carbon-based fuel, they much prefer energon as a whole. Which can be synthesized by harnessing the earth's sun, so their fuel needs likely won't push them to hunt humanity, either. Whichever queen has landed on earth decides to take over the subterranean sections of the planet, leaving the humans to their own devices and promising protection from the xenos--after all, no competition can be allowed. This planet is squishy and warm and perfect for laying eggs; so long as the humans don't try to get in the way, they can keep the surface.

The rest of the solar system is probably being used too. Imagine a hive setting up in Jupiter's frozen oceans, or on the sunbaked red plains of Mars. They also probably import the incubator livestock and set up farms, though maybe not on earth itself. They've learned through trial and error that letting self-aware creatures know of other self-aware creatures being kept in such a manner oft leads to ruffled feathers.

As for the Predators... idk if they'd view cybermorphs as proper prey, because they're not fully organic. As naturally occurring cyborgs, would they be considered something worth hunting? Or would their brains basically being computers put them off? Idk anything about them and probably never will, so  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but, if they do try to hunt cybermorphs, they're very much going to be curb stomped and eaten. They fucked around and found out and paid the ultimate price. You can't hunt something like a cybermorph. They always know where you are. They always know your next move. They will always find you. They will trap you, and they will eat you.

[loominggaia]

Mí propio monstruo:

Nombre: isla tortuga

clase: monstruo

PPL category: 0-infensivo

Forger: desconocido

Overview

La isla tortuga es un monstruo similar a una de grandes proporciones encontrada en el mar del este, en especial alrededor del este de evik.

Pasan la mayor parte del tiempo durmiendo en la superficie, hasta el punto de que pueden crecer plantas, con la peculiaridad de ser inmunes al agua salada.

Biologia

La isla tortuga es similar a una tortuga marina común, pero con 6 aletas y con un tamaño mucho mayor. Además, no necesita comer y se nutre de la luz solar, y posee una conexión mágica con las plantas.

Al sumergirse, la isla tortuga unas magia para hacer una burbuja de aire encima de su caparazón. Esto no parece tener un beneficio o algo que afecte a la tortuga, pero esto hace que las plantas de su espalda puedan sobrevivir bajo el agua.

Además, se sabe que no tienen problema con que los pueblos estén encima suyo, al menos que la lastimen, y en ese caso solo se sumerge.

Divino

No se sabe muy bien el que divino pudo crear a este monstruo, pero se sabe que debió ser uno muy antiguo, ya que se tienen registros de este monstruo desde los mediados de la primera era.

Ciclo de vida

La esperanza de vida de una isla tortuga es de unos 600-700 años, y pasan la mitad de esos años como crías.

Se reproducen por auto-fecundacion, y después pondrán huevos que estarán desarrollándose por unos 10 años, y luego serán crías por unos siglos, para luego volverse adultos.

Origen

Según hallazgos arqueológicos, las islas tortuga fueron veneradas por los pueblos de evik, pero la sorpresa es que eran los pueblos del evik occidental: los quagene y los boanningward.

Esto a hecho pensar que pudo las islas tortuga migraron a evik oriental por la industria sucia del imperio Zareen, y que su creador pudo ser un boanningward o un quagene.

(Translated via Google Translate)

"My own monster:

Name: Turtle Island

class: monster

PPL category: 0-harmless

Forger: unknown

Overview

Turtle Island is a monster similar to one of large proportions found in the Eastern Sea, especially around eastern Evik. They spend most of their time sleeping on the surface, to the point that they can grow plants, with the peculiarity of being immune to salt water.

Biology

The island turtle is similar to a common sea turtle, but with 6 fins and much larger in size. In addition, it does not need to eat and is nourished by sunlight, and has a magical connection with plants. When submerged, the island turtle uses magic to make an air bubble on top of its shell. This doesn't seem to have a benefit or anything that affects the turtle, but this makes the plants on its back able to survive underwater.

Furthermore, it is known that they have no problem with people being on top of them, unless they hurt them, and in that case they just submerge.

Divine

It is not very well known who divinely could have created this monster, but it is known that it must have been a very ancient one, since there have been records of this monster since the middle of the first era.

Lifecycle

The life expectancy of an island turtle is about 600-700 years, and they spend half of those years as hatchlings. They reproduce by self-fertilization, and then they will lay eggs that will develop for about 10 years, and then they will be offspring for a few centuries, and then they will become adults.

Origin

According to archaeological findings, the Turtle Islands were venerated by the Evik peoples, but the surprise is that they were the Western Evik peoples: the Quagene and the Boanningward. This has led to the belief that the Turtle Islands may have migrated to eastern Evik through the dirty industry of the Zareen empire, and that their creator may have been a boanningward or a quagene."

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This is such a cool idea, I love it! I especially love the bit about the turtles migrating away from Zareenite pollution, it makes so much sense. I would love to chill on the backs of one of these things. They sound awesome and they fit right in with the world! Excellent concept!

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[legion1227]

Doom Eternal: A review.

A challenging shooter, but one that is incredibly technically sound.

Released on March 20th, 2020, Doom Eternal is the sequel to the Doom reboot from 2016. Developed by id Software and published by Bethesda Softworks, this game takes everything that worked for its predecessor great and improves upon it by delivering an adrenaline-fueled, action-packed experience to satisfy newcomers, like myself, and long-time fans of the franchise. As someone who played Doom 2016 a few years ago and enjoyed it immensely, I was looking forward to trying this game for quite some time. It took quite a while for me to come around and try the game finally, but I can finally see firsthand why this was a worthwhile experience.

Doom Eternal picks up where Doom 2016 leaves off. In Doom 2016, you play as Doomguy and are tasked with slaughtering the vast amounts of demons let out of hell and running amok on Mars. The forces of Hell make their way to Earth and bring forth an apocalypse. In Doom Eternal, you're back on Earth to once again rip and tear your way through waves of demonic entities. You're thrown into the thick of the action, and the game rarely leaves you time to breathe. The game's level design is a testament to the developers' commitment to delivering relentless, intense combat. Every level is meticulous, filled with intricate details, secrets to discover, easter eggs from previous games, and hordes of demons waiting to be obliterated. The sense of verticality and movement in these environments allows for more dynamic and acrobatic combat encounters. Traversing around each area while expertly trying to navigate and switch through weapons to carve out these annoying little fuckbags is extravagant.

The combat mechanics in Doom Eternal are overwhelmingly layered. Eternal adds the "Flame Belch" and "Ice Bomb" as secondary abilities to contribute depth to the combat, forcing players to think strategically about which tools to use in different situations alongside weapons galore. Between the wheel of eight rotating weapons, each with two different firing modes and attachments, glory kills, a chainsaw, and a sword, there are tons of ways to dismantle the demons that it feels almost overwhelming. It felt hard to keep track of it all, but I appreciate the numerous options for how I can slaughter enemies. It's incredibly satisfying to be zooming around a small enclosure while tactically ripping apart monsters while a heavy metal soundtrack plays. Its intense guitar riffs pair finely with the mayhem seen on screen, contributing more to an adrenaline boost. Props to Mick Gordon for composing a soundtrack befitting of a game such as this.

As for the story of Doom Eternal, it dives deeper into the lore and world of the Doom Slayer. There is an attempt, and I don't mind attempting to exposition dump bits of lore about Doomguy or the demons or anything else, but it didn't do much for me. I didn't find the story to be particularly engaging, but I didn't need it to be necessarily. It wasn't bad, but it did nothing for me. I spent more time watching other shows or enjoying the soundtrack while I played the game.

In terms of graphics and performance, Doom Eternal is a stellar piece of work. From the gruesome, highly detailed demon designs to the intricacies of the game world, the game was incredibly polished on release, it still is three years later, and it most likely still will be more years down the road.

This game is also hard as hell. I died multiple times over playing this, but if it weren't for the multitude of extra lives I picked up along every level, I would've had to repeat the game many times over. In conclusion, there's a lot that works about this game, and it's mostly just a solid improvement over 2016. For personal preferences, I'm gonna say that this is not my favorite game or the best game I played this year, as I prefer other genres of games over this specific shooter, but it's still incredibly sound. It's a great game that has immense replay value and is worth a play if you somehow have not played yet by this point. 4/5.

[doom-nerdo-666]

If you recall my "Deconstructing the Dark Lord" post, you probably recall a bit saying "imagine if Doom's Devil was even bigger and scarier than the Icon of Sin".

But at the same time: Why can't Doom's Devil also be the Icon itself?

In classic Doom, it was technically the biggest demon at the time (Whose size was hinted in the end text as if it was really huge).

Then there's the manuals for Final Doom using names like Baphomet and Gatekeeper.

(And of course, there's the Romero head easter egg and maybe how Romero wouldn't do another Doom after 2)

D2RPG also gave it a different immobile design but still gave it dialogue like a character talking to the player and commanding demons, while you also fight it personally as the Virtual Icon of Sin.

Whereas Eternal has the IOS using Maykr armor, as a tool under Maykrs and even carrying the soul of Valen's son.

The IOS does get a body and more attacks/expanded moveset but doesn't have the antagonistic role it had in D2RPG.

Because one could also wonder if the IOS could have different bodies/forms.

The name "Icon of Sin" also feels like it could hint something special about the monster, as if it really imbodies sin as part of its existence or represents something more than just a big mean goat.

But on the subject of forms:

This one is from the "meytr" Rentry post: Its body is like that of Kronos from DRPG, a floating upper half with 4 arms but some are cybernetic and others aren’t, while under the body is a hybrid of a black hole and a tornado (It can suck you up if you fall); Its chest also has that heart thing Davoth has; Its stage is a series of platforms and hazards around him, while the background hints of the fight taking place in some creepy/weird section of Hell; He can summon like 5 demons at the same time by shooting the spawn cubes from his forehead; Has some of his attacks from Eternal (Rain of meteors, laser beam, flamethrowers, fast projectiles, stomping with hands) and a black hole projectile, that can pull the player in some vacuum-like way.

Another "meytr" one: A second phase after the Icon of Sin but whether it's the same creature is unknown; A level that mixes puzzles and combat as you're essentially "fighting" a creature you're inside of; The level itself looks surreal and gameplay consists of weak points (Some shootable, others punchable and others are even meant to be jumpable) and avoiding hazards and traps to stay alive; The player may also find specific artifacts to make them closer to defeating the final boss; This idea still needs more development.

There's also this line from the same post: "the planet Jupiter has an Icon of Sin head growing out of it and you can see that (Reference to TNT Revilution and the next “Doomguy uses the BFG10K to shoot a hole in the face of Mars)."

But another idea is making the IOS as the equivalent to something like AM from "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream" like a giant tech thing with the IOS head and it uses dark magic to play tricks and challenge Doomguy, as if Earth became its personal playground.

Or even have the IOS' face show up on screens and dimensional holes/portals like Korax from Hexen.

ALSO, imagine this: VEGA vs VIOS, "God" vs "Devil" as ultradimensional "virtual" yet "real" beings using otherwordly powers against each other...

Yet another idea: If someone does a spriteset of the VIOS and want to add extra angles, maybe use the collectible doll of the IOS in Eternal as reference.

[sm0lcatfish]

what if i also talked about my animatic ideas. what then. stealing this idea from eyelessfog this is my boat now. heavy focus on mcyt since u guys probably don’t want to hear my oc / other ones. probably a long post bc i have alot of silly concepts but i’ll also keep them as short as i can

milk by jack stauber - shrub berry. probably heavy inspo from fazbean’s walten files pmv with same song bc i really like it

blame by air traffic controller - shrub berry. second half of the first chorus and second verse would have a focus on mother wolf. ‘vultures they r circling overhead they’re reminding me of choices from my past’ would be about mar’s death

run boy run by woodkid - also shrub berry. do u sense a pattern lmao- i have a big vision of the last part of the song showing shrub running anxiously through the nether, no idea how she got there only with the knowledge that xornoth might be behind him, and he might be next, but he has to make it for gnomekind. and then he runs off screen and after a beat the wolf spirit and the pack run in and repeat the path, just the opposite way

dreamland by glass animals - grand wizard gem. the main brain concepts i have is ‘you were ten years old holding hands in the classroom he had a gun on the first day of highschool’ fwhip and gem going to check on sausage, meanwhile he is ready to kill them in the name of xornoth. the entire next verse would be about the dragon fight and during the second set of ‘all round your head’s i think about gem jumping up to the egg alter and grabbing it before falling into the portal behind it, bc that is way cooler than just torching it. and then next part is about the mage sausage fight where she kills him to save him, and she asks him “what makes a man?”

camillo’s interlude - shrub berry. yes i know my music taste is everywhere don’t ask. i listened to the song the first time while in the middle of mildly brainrotting over depths of hell so. there’s obviously influence. first part of the song is shrub talking to mother wolf before cutting to katherine and tws in the nether at ‘speaking of my feet’. having a ‘gift like ur’s’ is rejected by katherine bc of how she left her kingdom

gabriel by alec benjamin - prince scott. a pmv showing his stress building, maybe in a symbolic way like ice increasing on his antlers. this concept is rougher than the rest but that’s probably cus i never brainrotted on his lore

the exit from razia’s shadow - this song is soooo xornoth and prince scott. trust me. for this pmv i feel like as xor kills their parents they r only half corrupted but during ‘it’s not me don’t you see it’s just my pedigree’ they become fully corrupted while looking down on the gnomes from above. and then cut to the future where xornoth is back and yelling at scott. and then maybe including the narration at the end about scott’s afterlife

hand of god by jack bellion - shrub berry again. first part is about shrub running through the nether, falling out, and meeting katherine. and then the next part is about xornoth, who he realized followed him to empires, and then ‘tears at a funeral’ being about mars. next bit is about the xornoth fight and then crystal. ‘just like the 80s films’ or ‘bring me down to brooklyn’ is the handoff of the crown, ‘push me down the hudson’ is a wide shot of the traveling with tws, ‘long island’s only smiling’ is both the other mother wolf and returning to empires, ‘i did everything for new york’ is probably lipsynced as shrub goes jn the nether

cemeteries of london by coldplay - princess/monster hunter katherine. this song is sooo her. first verse is about her hunting at night with all the ‘at night they’d go walking’ ‘the morning is for sleeping’. at the end would be a shot of the half corrupted castle before katherine running cus the song discusses going to break ur curses and talking to witches. great witch shelby time. maybe the next part is about the festival cus it mentions ‘my heart it wasn’t open’? but i’m kinda waiting for more heavy angst cus that part of the song is kinda intense? idk how to describe it

the moth by manchester orchestra - here’s the great witch shelby content. just her story . all the ‘forced myself to take a different name’ ‘throw the man u used to be away’ stuff from the first chorus is about her rejecting the letter, second verse is the pirate joe stuff with ‘you wanna feel it hurt u wanna feel it when he dies’ probably?

be nice to me by the front bottoms - i don’t have much of a solid idea but like. this song is so gw shelby ah

she wants me (to be loved) by the happy fits - throw out all of the angst cus this would be a pmv purely about gw shelby’s feelings for princess/mh katherine and how she grows to understand how while she doesn’t love her romantically she still wants her to be loved!!! just a silly upbeat sorta vibe

the scab by an unkindness - grand architect false!!!! there’d probably alot of inspiration to druid’s hollow’s WIP hollyleaf amv to the same song, especially with having ga false physically fall during the ‘i’m going down and down-‘ the first part of the second verse has a focus on hermit false. ‘wife’ would probably be a shot to poison jack cus it’s funny, ‘good book’ probably the signs, ‘mediocre car’ the car from the festival. and then back to a focus on ga false realizing the new tower and how she wants people to know her ‘entire life is one big fucking inside joke’ the bridge is a dream flashback to when she was in the lab before chorus -> post chorus -> outro is kinda the events of the recent episode, her waking up, questioning how long she was asleep for, and running to the portal to find the hermits, and her hermit, are gone

nightmare by give heart records/natewantstobattle - i literally wrote an entire script for this i am that invested. anyways this would be a great witch shelby covering her entire story and that sorta thing. second chorus and ‘all the ghosts from before’ from right before it would be about the dead shrooms and dead gnome portal (i think this is my only pmv concept with reference to that? huh). and then of course it ends with the spiraling breakdown of killing two people

this was. incredibly long. but if u read this far i hope u enjoyed my speal. also if u wear glasses go clean em