#IT'S KILLING ME THIS RELISTEN IT IS KILLING ME.

[see-arcane]

Relistening to the Re: Carmilla episode and trying to envision the scene with little Laura and Carmilla as it could be in a film. Not dreamy fairy tale gasp! shock! lightness, but like. Actual horror.

Shadows everywhere. A castle sunk in unbroken wilderness. No one around.

You are a child. You are alone in your bed.

You blink. You are not alone.

A woman is there. Pretty. Smiling. You don't know her, but at once you are comforted by her presence. She smiles for you and tucks herself into bed with you, hugging you close. She must be comforted by you too. Do you know each other? You must!

As the woman smiles, as she holds you, so small against her, she ducks her head to you, perhaps meaning to kiss.

And she bites into your chest.

There is not much chest to speak of there, of course. You are a child and so are cherub-petite. To sink her teeth in, she must bite deep.

Pain. Pain! Fear! Fear fear fear--

The woman retreats. Your blood is on her lips. As you watch, this woman does not climb out, does not walk away, but slips like a shadow over the edge of the covers and oozes under your bed. Waiting.

Is that where she came from? Has she always been down there? Where is anyone else? You are alone with her you are alone with her and if you put your foot down on the floor her hands will find you again and pull you under the bed skirt and she will bite through you again and oh O how long until she reaches your ribs, your heart..?

For all the sweet sinister sapphic goings-on and the chuckles about Laura's future (seeming) obliviousness, it's really worth exploring how to portray exactly how terrifying and traumatizing this first encounter with Carmilla was while Laura was still an actual child. A meeting so shaking it would stick with her for years afterward. It'd also help to play into the fact that Laura has always been a special case to Carmilla despite her hopping around chomping and killing through other fair maidens willy-nilly. She's been aware of Laura since she was a little girl and has been ticking off the years until she could fasten onto her once she was of age.

It makes me think of the subplot from The Hunger (1983) where one of the vampires involved was seemingly plotting to groom and turn a young girl once she grew old enough. The kid was killed off before she could try it, but still. Grim gothic shudder material right there.

[crimeronan]

everybody talks about and memes on the euphoria-and-tragedy of carpenter and faulkner becoming siblings when you forgot to consider that faulkner had killed his sibling before but ALSO. have any of you guys ever stopped and. just. thought about em.

thought about carpenter's brother giving himself up to the trawler-man body and soul. in a decision that made sense inasmuch as keeping his faith went, but was also wildly destructive and hurt people and more importantly, left his sister fully alone in the world. when she had already lost Everything else she held dear.... em's death as one of the things that most firmly shaped carpenter's tumultuous relationship with her own faith n the trawler-man, the miracles after he died and the helpless "you took everything from me" anger/grief combined.....

do you ever think about em as a man willing to give up everything for his god. including his sister. who loved him more than anything.

and then. DO YOU THINK ABOUT FAULKNER-

[glomofnit]

rereading Jingo and I feel like we don't talk enough about how eager Vetinari was for Vimes to handcuff him, like....

fellas.

[here-there-be-drag0ns]

Chip not having a gaping hole in his chest post-death is the hill i will die on, actually. I am on my hands and knees. Please I am begging yall. He does Not have a hole in his chest where his heart was thats Not how he died guys I'm begging yall (<- guy at the end of their rope /dramatic)

[anotherdragon]

sleep deprived rn so not sure how coherent these thoughts are but idk theres something to be said about how the suckening plays into power dynamics and abuse and celebrity culture and the way people are willing to turn a blind eye to the horrible things someone did if they're popular enough. and how throughout the campaign everyone always steps on others they deem as beneath them to get what they want with no regard to the other persons thoughts or feelings and autonomy. even the characters we're meant to consider 'good' do horrible things. the campaign is full of all the characters doing bad things and having bad things happen to them, spiraling and spiraling further down. also something about vampirism and being forced to take from and hurt others to keep yourself alive idk. and all of this from a ttrpg campaign called The Suckening run by four white male either current or former minecraft youtubers

[sluckythewizard]

THEY could give me the surgurey i need (inspired alot by evojellys designs for em. GREAT STUFF)

[orionis13]

Comics with a target audience of exactly 1 (me bc I can only think of mtg whenever they mention will being a planeswalker)

[curiositykilledtheradiostar]

HEY MECHS FANS!

do you like

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STORY HEAVY MUSIC

and

HAUNTING THE NARRATIVE?

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Jasper, the KING of haunting the narrative

Hubris of man. SO so much hubris

Necromancy! In the name of love! Twice! (but its a lil bit more fucked up the second time around)

Voodoopunk, which is an absolutely BANGER of a concept and boy does it ever deliver

Lore. So much lore. The world building in this album is amazing it all just feels so real without being imposing or clunky

Incredible use of recurring musical themes and motifs that can and will break your heart and blow your mind

Two sequels, its first in the New Albion trilogy! (Not to mention the extensive discography this guy has how he wrote so much I'll never know)

Please listen to Dolls Of New Albion I need to see it get more attention I've been progressively losing my mind over this thing and have no one to talk to about it there's no one in the tag

[koruga]

it's so wild that the ithaca saga is just one song, bold artistic choice to just have the challenge five times for your final album.

[citruscore]

don't mind the blood (it's not theirs)

[fallentofable]

If anyone is currently looking for a series to fall in love with, I cannot recommend The Silt Verses highly enough! It is a character-driven folk horror podcast about two people, Carpenter and Faulkner, who are disciples of the Parish of Tide and Flesh. They are from an outlawed faith, on run from the law, traveling up and down the white gull River, hoping to find signs of their God among the reeds. The story is constantly jumping at you with the most phenomenal twists and moments, and you will find yourself falling in love with each of the characters. Each and every moment of the story is rewarding, and the episodes often left me shouting out loud for just how awesome or vile or downright disturbing each second was.

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[art-o-gant]

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[mikeystrawberry]

ep31 work doodle

[officer-achilles]

Back to relistening to Wolf 359 ad nauseum (got temporarily distracted by starting The Magnus Archives) and GRAAAAAAAAAAHHH I am the #1 Keppler hater of all time methinks. Get that man away! Get him outta here! He is literally emotionally abusing all these poor fools he's in charge of. Like when Jacobi mentions Keppler will go from praising you to berating you and making you feel like shit... OHHHHH I SAW RED. Sorry Kepcobi fans but Kepcobi only works in my mind as a tragic romance where Jacobi eventually has to heal and reconcile that his relationship with Keppler was horrible for him.

GAAAAAH KEPPLER WHEN I CATCH YOUR ASS

[cream-and-tea]

okay it’s been like basically two days i think i’ve fully processed the finale i think i’ve gotten over it you guys– (<- remembers faulkners immediate panic when he realized carpenter was hurt) (<- remembers paige’s immediate panic when she realized hayward was at the grace) (<- curls into a ball and begins to whimper like a wounded beast)

[devilemon]

outis hc/analysis things!!!!

note: i am aware outis 99.99999999% likely won't have a wife. idc /lh

so we already know that Outis is a woman who wasn't unwilling to throw others under the bus to further her own goals - not unlike odysseus + she's like. probably a war criminal

based off her current vibes ALONE she's likely already lost men under her command (due to her own mistakes) (I'm bringing up the cyclops incident) (she's in a constant state of regret but the last thing she'd do is admit that) and then purposefully sacrificed those under her command during the smoke war to continue pushing forward (to get to her wife + kid) (she's losing her shit the longer she's away from them) (project moon she has a wife and kid you can't take this away from me)

Odysseus's entire goal after like. yk. casually starting a war. and killing off a child that he was told was gonna grow up and kill him and all of his family despite his desire to NOT do that, specifically pushed by the gods was getting back to his wife and child no matter the consequence

so part of me wonders if Outis had a very similar arc in her young adult life but w/ higher ups (which you could equate to the gods) where she HAD to make difficult choices she didn't want, but when she went against her higher-ups (COUGH COUGH POSEIDON IS THAT YOU DROWNING MOST OF ODYSSEUS'S MEN??? BC HE ONLY BLINDED YOUR SON??????) that resulted in consequence

if we go by the Odyssey's logic, then what we're gonna be looking at is basically the "oh shit it's Circe" arc and beyond + I also wonder if Dante will act as Outis's Athena in a way, giving her what she needs to keep pushing forward

can't wait for the woman to kick down the door and run back to her wife and son only for it to end in some sort of tragedy 🫶🫶🫶