#Syfy original

[thenightling]

Okay, I'm done watching Asylum's Monster Mash and... I liked it. It's really, really, corny, but I liked it. I thought it would be a mockbister of Abigail but it's actually also a mockbuster of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

If Asylum makes a film series of the classic monsters as a hero team ...Yeah, I'll keep watching. This is fun. I think Asylum just pulled off the Monsters shared universe that Universal couldn't.

[koolestofbeanz]

oops dam i cant believe he said what we all are thinking X-X

okay oopsers, you caught me i wasnt here for um twelve days yes, my bad. not gona lie its hard to make a lot of these so i needed to cook up more qualty beanz posts and i got to imaging hot nummy beanz so strong in my head and forgot to write all it down!!

dont worry i am not making up excuses because as yoga said once - "just do it!" hes so inspiretional and i will make it up to everone tommorow (that is decembeanz 22 this year) i pinkie promise!!

[dovesndecay]

i have a special love for ships that can best be described as "drift compatible" regardless of sexual or romantic components one might add

examples include but are not limited to Palamedes and Camilla [The Locked Tomb], Riza Hawkeye and Roy Mustang [Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood], or Johnny Jaqobis and Yalena 'Dutch' Yardeen [Killjoys].

[talesofthemilkmen]

Grerky prep!!!

[renthony]

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(Drop a 🏳️‍🌈 in my inbox and I’ll respond with a queer media recommendation!)

You're my best friend and I've already given you all my best recommendations, so I'll take this opportunity to recommend your favorite show to everyone else!

Killjoys is an adult science fiction series created by Michelle Lovretta, starring Hannah John-Kamen, Aaron Ashmore, and Luke Macfarlane.

It aired on SyFy from 2015 to 2019, and follows a trio of bounty hunters trying to navigate a brewing interplanetary war. The series starts with a mystery that balloons into a way bigger conflict involving an alien hivemind parasite, and there are a lot of turns that I didn't see coming. It kept me on my toes, but it was tons of fun. The tension is balanced with some excellent humor and genuine emotion, and the aesthetic is utterly gorgeous. The set design, costuming, and effects were a real treat as someone who pays a lot of attention to that kind of thing.

There are multiple queer characters, including multiple queer characters of color, an extremely non-conventional blended family, a phenomenal queerplatonic relationship between two of the main characters (though that word isn't specifically used), and even though everyone goes through total hell, the main cast gets their much-deserved happy endings.

Also, if you want hot morally-fucky women? Killjoys has hot morally-fucky women. Who are gay. For each other.

Here's the trailer for season one:

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[spockvarietyhour]

Excluding specifically Stargate SG1/Atlantis/Universe/, BSG, and Farscape (we'll get back to those and yes Farscape started in the 90s and SG1 had the first five seasons on another network in the 90s )

[the-starry-seas]

It’s my goal to finish some monthly prompt lists and I decided to let people request the characters I write about! comfy-vember is platonic hurt-comfort with an emphasis on comfort, fanovember is literary themes, and fluffcember is all fluff. Links lead to the prompt lists. Plain text prompts are below the cut and I’ll cross out prompts as they’re requested.

Rules:

You don’t have to be following me

Only three requests per person

Send an ask instead of a DM/reply/reblog, and one request per ask

Name the event you’re requesting for

Request two or three prompts in order of preference, in case somebody else already requested your first choice

Open to all characters and ships but SFW only

Use character names instead of ship names, and specify platonic or romantic for fanovember and fluffcember prompts

Fandoms I’m writing for:

Alien franchise excluding Romulus

AVP

Fallout (show)

Jurassic Park and Jurassic World

Killjoys

Leverage

Pacific Rim

Star Wars (any of the movies, BOBF, Bad Batch, or The Mandalorian)

The Murderbot Diaries

Titanfall 2

TMNT (Bayverse or Rise)

Transformers (Bayverse, Bumblebee, Rise of the Beasts, or TFOne)

Comfy-vember

Breaking bad habits — New day — Train ride

Favourite song — Holding hands — Walking and talking

Special breakfast — Spoon feeding — Forehead kiss

Bed rest — Mug of tea — Soft music

Saying their name — Hand on knee — Dressing fancy

Weak crying — Trusting — Slow hug

Eye of the storm — Sleeping on shoulder — First hug

Found — Thunder shower — Fresh fruit

Scars — Passing smile — Baking cookies

Overcoming fear — Sharing a bed — Lullaby

Verbal affirmation — Couch cuddles — Nose kiss

Hand on shoulder — Practical gift — Movie night

Relearning a skill — Surprise compliment — Fresh laundry

After nightmare — Day together — Random gift

Shopping trip — Storytelling — Laughing phone call

Carrying — Reading aloud — Loving gaze

Healing wounds — I love you text/note — Rain on the roof

Coming home — Kitchen dancing — Sleeping in

Putting on ointment — Thick blankets — Sunset

Desperate hug — Sharing food — Care for caregiver

Enthusiastic greeting — Late night laughter — Waking up together

Bail out — Car ride — Lamplight

Remembering medication — Art on fridge — Warm toast

Apology — Palm kiss — Campfire

Washing bloodstains — Hair brushing — Cheek kiss

Confession — Crying hug — Picnic

Promise keeping — Quick hug — Beach/waves

Cast taken off — Sleepy kiss — Hot chocolate

Showing up — Birthday gift — Bicycle

In dreams — Happy tears — Dancing in rain

Fanovember

Romance

Short story

Terror

Adventure

Art

Retelling

Historical

Journal

Theatre

Witchcraft

Religion

Fantasy

Astrology

Mythology

Poetics

Reality show

Press

Urban fantasy

Film/Movie

Family

Music

Epistolary

Sci-fi

Autobiography

Cuisine

Dance

Board games

Classic

Thriller

Flash-fiction

Fluffcember

Roasted Marshmallows

Winter Flu

Snowman

Christmas Sweater

Northern Lights

Gingerbread House

Condensed Breath

Sparkling Snow

Sugar Rush

Carols

Slippery

Skiing

Fire and Ice

Winter Soup

Naughty List

Chocolate

Snowed in

Mistletoe

Fondue

Fairy Tales

Cabin in the Snow

Winter Storm

Confessions

Christmas Tree

The Perfect Gift

Forgiveness

Family Gathering

Cold Turkey

Mint

Warming Up

Fireworks

[cloysterbell]

Someone whose face is a mask. — Michael Kinnucan, The Gods Show Up (insp)

[reasonandempathy]

I fucking love Farscape

[defectivegembrain]

Honestly I really think Abed would like Warehouse 13 too it's the perfect combination of cool scifi stuff and silliness and actually I think Annie would like the historical stuff that comes into it (as well as correcting that sometimes) and also she'd like Helena because well you know lesbiannie I'm not projecting on either of them at all btw

[kaminassss]

"eaglet" and "smoothie"

To say that both of them are complicated is an understatement!

These two are toxic as hell and they despise each other, they cut and come back, they cut and come back again and again But...

After finishing an "obstacle" together, the sparks are reborn, the heart beats strong again and love returns again and they both come together to hunt down Nick Sax

[thenightling]

Why I like Asylum's Monster Mash (a list)

I'm starting to feel that the Asylum mockbuster Monster Mash is my favorite movie of 2024 (So far) and might retain that status. This is odd since the movie is deliberate direct-to-streaming, low-budget Schlock from The Asylum film studio. I actually liked it more than Abigail.

So I have decided to analyze why I like this movie.

1. It doesn't try to be high art. It just tries to tell a fun, spooky, story. 2. The character portrayals are surprisingly likable, from making Dracula the lead protagonist, a monster Tony Stark, to the subtle indications that Dracula probably could have handled all of this himself but he's secretly lonely and liked the excuse of having the other monsters at his side. It's adorkable. I love hero-Dracula. 3. The many delicious nods to the classic Universal monster movies from naming the Frankenstein Monster Boris (which is also a possible nod to the Monster Mash Song that was referencing the Universal Monster movie actor Boris Karloff), Dracula's daughter being implied bisexual like she was in the 1936 Dracula's daughter movie, the one scene deliberately using the eye lighting effect from the original Bela Lugosi Dracula, and thanking the creators of the Universal Monster movies on the end credits. And there were other delightful tropes and plot points.

4. The sense that the story is set in some surreal fairy-tale like, timeless, otherworld from Dracula's mid-nineteenth century fashion, to Elizabeta's slave girls wearing modern-ish evening gowns, to the medieval peasant girl costumes in the tavern, to The Invisible Man wearing 1930s black goggles, and a 20th century turtleneck shirt. 5. You have a desert cave, a Louisiana style swamp house (Home of the werewolf, who has a Southern-American accent), snarky Invisible Man who talks like Larry from Doom Patrol, and mentions of Turkey and Highgate cemetery and Candlewood Village all sounding weirdly close to each other. It's a bit disorientating until you think of it like it's own other world like Castlevania, or a Hammer horror movie, or The Enchanted Forest from Once Upon a Time. 6. I think of it as an alternate Universe version of Earth, on a continent (Europe-like despite the many American accents) where all the classic Gothic stories are true and co-exist. 7. The lack of specific time period and implied different cultures being in relative close proximity to each other amuses me.

8. The slightly off-putting but comical pause near the end to warn us that the scary part is coming, right before the really fake looking monster fight.

9. The strange contrast of the Dracula actor apparently giving it his all while the Dr. Frankenstein actor is barely acting and apparently phoning it in. The Asylum doesn't deserve this Dracula. He's too good for them. 10. For an asylum mockbuster it has a surprisingly diverse cast of characters and actors. Dracula, his daughter, a witch, a zombie, a mummy (played by a man actually from North Africa), werewolf, and The Invisible Man. I kind of hope the sequel (if it gets a sequel) is set on the high seas to allow for pirate ghosts (another fun trope) and The Creature from the Black Lagoon equivalent character. 11. Because Asylum is known as schlock I sometimes think a lot of the continuity errors and minor mistakes are deliberate (i.e. the misspelling of Nightmare on the trailer) which can be annoying but I found the movie charming enough to over look the apparent "deliberate" badness. 12. I could easily come up with joking call lines for this thing even though it's no Rocky Horror. (For starters it's not a musical.) 13. There's a surprisingly catchy theme song from the woman who plays Dracula's daughter. 13. I strongly feel this is the direction they should have gone with the Universal Studios Dark Universe.

[flayedsheep]

just a kitty :3

[dovesndecay]

I like to think that, after Khlyen and Yalena the First reunite, and he catches her up on the events of the previous centuries they've been separated, Yalena is the one that gives The Lady a name, and takes her under her wing. Like, "Khlyen, I love you, but you fucked up the same daughter twice in ways I cannot begin to explain to a normal person; this one is mine now."

[thekimspoblog]

On Season 3 of "Chucky" now. Season 1 was good, but the writers clearly had no idea what to do with Devon and Jake's relationship once they got together. So now they just alternate between lame flirting and contrived bickering, which I'm not saying is unrealistic for high-schoolers, but it still sounds like what a straight person's idea of gay teen dialogue sounds like. But let's be charitable, maybe the writers are gay and just really bad at writing romances, in which case... oof.

Lexi is probably my favorite character, but she's still just kind of mediocre, and I wouldn't mind if she died. This show is only fun if it has the balls to kill off the main cast.

I'm still watching for 2 main reasons:

1, it's really refreshing that all the special effects are done with puppetry instead of CGI.

And 2, I just want to see how dumb this can get. The show clearly wants to be Riverdale (at least based on my understanding of "Riverdale" through cultural osmosis) but besides Nica getting her limbs amputated, not enough plot points have been have been shockingly insane enough.

I do appreciate how the series isn't even pretending like it's going to be the final word on this franchise, but if the 2 ft tall insult comic with the knife is just going to keep springing back like a weed, that means there's really only two ways to end this story: either the kids die, or the writers just keep treading water until the executives decide to pull the plug. And I'd be ok with either, but somebody really needs to start thinking ahead with this. If there's an endgame in mind, start working towards it. And if not, they should be taking bigger risks with the characters.

[renthony]

My bar for representation of QPRs in media is Dutch and Johnny from Michelle Lovretta's SyFy show Killjoys. It is made so clear that they are not romantic or sexual partners, but they are partners in every other possible way. They are a team, they are a family.