#Firework Run

[yahoo201027]

Day in Fandom History: January 14…

When Muscle Man accidentally sets off fireworks meant for a Fourth of July celebration at the park, he, Mordecai, Rigby, and Hi-Five Ghost must travel south of town to buy a powerful (and illegal) firework at a factory. “Firework Run” premiered on this day, 12 Years Ago.

[kropotkindersurprise]

March 5, 2023 - Hundreds of forest defenders chased away police from a security post in Weelaunee Forest at the construction site of Cop City. The activists burned security and construction equipment and destroyed infrastructure. Thirty-five people were arrested by police, you can donate to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund to help them out. [video]/[video]/[video]

[nordsea-horizons]

✨summer fun in the fireworks glow - august 2024✨

[wooldawn]

[kittykatinabag]

Gotta say I'm on Marques Jr's side in this whole making us play along with Opera and Scintilla's shenanigans. Like yeah sure maybe he was a bit harsh and eventually unlocked Whim abilities to become a stylist by the end of this whole event but holy shit Opera and Scintilla, why the fuck did you involve the local gangsters summoning a piece of the Dark instead of having a heart to heart conversation like a normal person?

I do love Marques Jr's new fit though, very princely.

[forbeswho]

Merlin didn't save Arthur from his destiny, but also didn't save himself from his own. He was destined to always be there for Arthur, even if it meant waiting for him to come back.

[vulcanette]

Like That from Denver; September 2023

🎥: FirstRowConcert

[see-arcane]

Oh bitter bitter irony

Bile below

I started out afraid that Eggers would over-Coppola his Nosferatu--he didn't! :D--only to run into a growing dual tide of fans who are either

A) actively trying to Coppola his Orlok and Ellen into lash-batting forbidden romance bodice ripper cliches ("He backhanded Knock for daring to suggest he steal Ellen! uwu He brought a plague and attacked her loved ones just to be with her! uwu She clearly wanted to be with Orlok all along, fuck Jonathan Thomas, the useless stuffy loser! uwu Orlok just doesn't want her to deny herself! uwu Every word he says should be 100% taken at face value, he would never use the Classic Abuser Playbook to victim-blame his target into compliance, just do murders and choke slam her for saying she doesn't like him, ignore the long-distance repeated psychic rape since she hit puberty, it's fine it's fine uwu")

or

B) going full pearl-clutch about the very concept of Orlok being an icky evil unpretty mustached corpse monster (with all the abuse and assaults being tacked on in the aftermath to Prove~ this is Not a Proper Ken Doll Dracula)

like

guys. we're sinking into the deep ends of two very different nuance-free pools here

Yes, there is a disturbing fucked up but Actually There connection between Ellen and Orlok. There is attraction, there is a core spiritual likeness that led Orlok to her as a girl. But that does not obliterate the fact that he is monstrous to her and to everyone she cares about. He is a rapist. He is a manipulator. He abuses her and the covenant connection--which he point blank tricked her into without any warnings to what she was agreeing to as a teenager--for years. And then, when she dares to fall in love with and wed someone else, he throws a murder-tantrum until she agrees by her own will* (*under duress) to be his. Not his equal in anything but suggestion, but his property. His owed Affliction. And it is meant to be horribly fucked up that Ellen has even a thread of positive feeling for him, regardless of what supposed matching darkness she has in her. Just like many victims in her position will feel for their own sexual and romantic abusers.

This is not Count Gary Oldmanacula and Winonmina Harkryder. This is not star-crossed tragique kissy kissy Francis fanfiction. It does not call for mental gymnastics to take the fangs and blood and violation out, to excuse the monstrosity Eggers harvested from the actual source story or--and I am putting my head through the wall about this--taking anything Count Orlok says at face value when his entire MO, from the first assault on Teen Ellen to the trick document he makes Thomas sign to sell her away to the full spread of mind game horseshit he says to Ellen's face or puts in her mouth to puppeteer a fight between the Hutters, IS TO MANIPULATE AND ABUSE EVERYONE AROUND HIM

Fuck, even Knock got ripped off via Orlok's bullshitting and he made a literal full Faustian willing contract with him

And on the flip side:

Stop stop stop stop STOP wringing your hands over the presence of gothic horror monstrosity being in the gothic horror monstrosity film.

Bela Lugosi and Gary Oldman? They looked impressive. They looked charming and elegant and polished and, obviously, iconic. The legion of pressed and bleached and chiseled Dracula Lites after them, less so. But they are pretty!

And none of them have looked like the Count who Bram Stoker made or what his inspirations would ever have recognized as a vampire or a boyar. Robert 'If I do not personally graft the actual time period of this movie into place with my own two hands I Will Die' Eggers actually did his research in putting his Orlok together and, being a Horror Film Writer and Director, actually remembered to put the horror into the famous vampire horror story.

Attraction, sensuality, romance, and assault all have their place in it too--it is Nosferatu: "Dracula, But the Focus is On a Dracula Trying to Make the World's Worst Nightmare Threesome Happen"

And, shock of shocks, in Murnau's film, as in Stoker's book, the main couple--Harkers, Hutters--have the loving couple intimately preyed on by the same monster. While Mina/Ellen ostensibly 'allow' themselves to be preyed on, in both scenes it's done out of a desire to protect Jonathan/Thomas from the Count.

Mina keeps silent and allows Dracula to feed on her and force-feed her his blood to kick off a magical enslavement-undeath, lest Dracula follow through on his threat to bash Jonathan's skull in

Ellen sends Thomas away and offers herself as bloodbag and bride to Orlok specifically to keep him from killing Thomas and finishing off all of Wisborg

Would these magically have become 'better' setups if only Count Dracula/Orlok were hunky clean-shaven bishounen sexyboi doms there to ~liberate xoxo~ the already-married already-fucking already-skirting the lines of propriety gender role-bending young woman?

Because if that's the case in your eyes, click here. Scroll on through almost 130 years' worth of film and TV and plays and books and a thousand other spinoffs where Dracula is perpetually sandblasted into your cape-swishing hickey-nibbling knockoffs of choice. All yours.

But for fuck's sake.

Let the gothic horror be gothic horror. Up to and including the monster being monstrous. Up to and including, yes, a deranged connection and magnetism between Pretty Girl and Actually Freaky-looking Undead Rat Man. Up to and including, yes, the Human Lover not being the starched and stuffy blandman there to be thrown in a ditch to let Girl and Sexy Monsterman who truly understands her~*~* get together, and instead be a genuine romantic partner who is as adamant in endangering himself to protect his beloved as she is for him.

tl;dr:

Stop trying to retroactively Coppola this movie and using 'haha but I'm a monsterfucker' to side step the fact that the villain here is a villain and is using the rule book of actual abusive relationships to gaslight his victim(s) in a very human, very gruesome way

Stop wailing that your personal diet vampire fetish is being sullied via the presence of a mustache, maggoty corpse pecs and the horror of the Count not being a GQ model

Just stop

[mag200]

rip gandalf you wouldve loved poppers. hes ten thousand years old he should be at the clubb

[akkivee]

read a tweet that pointed out that jyushi usually talks of blood and tears in songs, but in shinjiru chikara, not only does he not mention tears, he’s also lowkey dissing blood bonds (y’know like the bb bond) and jyushi’s the one out for blood in this song y’all LOL

[yahoo201027]

Day in Fandom History: January 14…

When Muscle Man accidentally sets off fireworks meant for a Fourth of July celebration at the park, he, Mordecai, Rigby and Hi-Five Ghost must travel south of town to buy a powerful (and illegal) firework at a factory. “Firework Run” premiered on this day, 11 Years Ago.

[kropotkindersurprise]

June 27/28, 2023 - Angry rioters across France battled police, after cops executed 17-year old Naël M. during a traffic stop in Nanterre, shooting him in his car point blank as he tried to drive away, when the cops pulled a gun on him and told him they were going to kill him. The cops tried to say that he tried ramming them, but video showed this to be a complete lie. [video]/[video]/[video]

[vertigoartgore]

2018's Silver Surfer & Dawn Greenwood Cosmic Fireworks Painting by artist Mike Allred (with the omnibus of this excellent run in front of it).

[bladerunnerfanatic]

Here's to 10 more years!!! (Unless Tumblr gets shut down in the intervening years. Or I decided to quit.)

[sylveonkawaii289]

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025!!✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️🥂

Featuring my sona, Sylvie. Including comfort characters from fandoms I love!^^

Verosika Mayday

Cream Soda Cookie

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[fungus-no69]

I title this one the weird ass clown guy i found under my shoe

They a bit (a lot) unhinged