#american horror story: nyc

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Matthew William Bishop as "Big Daddy" American Horror Story: NYC 11.09 "Requiem 1981/1987: Part 1"

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I love you AHS:NYC I love you Gino I love you Sam I love you Patrick I love you Theo I love you Henry I love you leather scene I love you Hans I love you Adam I love you random street cats I love you gay bars I love you Dr. Hannah I love you Kathy Pizazz I love you Alana I love you tarot cards I love you queer speech Gino wrote I love you angel of death I love you deer I love you Sam death scene I love you redemption I love you "Well done." I love you Patrick death scene I love you Radioactivity by Kraftwerk I cry for you Gino I ache for those lost I love you symbolism I love you cinematography I love you activism I love you queer cast I love you I love you I love you AHS:NYC

[afaimscorner]

AHS: NYC

Franky the most interesting thing about “American Horror Story: NYC” is the way people react to it. It���s a fact that the way a season of “American Horror Story” resonates with you says more about you than about the show itself, but with “NYC” we have reached the peek of this. Of course there is the thin veiled homophobia of those who hated it, but it is also interesting to see how many people generally did not get it. I mean, yes, there is room for criticism of course. Someone did point out righty so that the last two episodes feel very divorced from the rest of the the season, and of course they would, the serial killer plot ended with Episode 8 and the pandemic-plot had been on the back burner so long that no one really thought they would spend two whole episodes with pretty much everyone dying from AIDS in a very poetic way. I also think that many viewers honestly did not get that it was AIDS all along and generally thought it would turn out to be something else. And of course the issue with Big Daddy is that he is a metaphor for Death in general which did confuse some viewers because some characters that were killed by “him” did clearly die not from AIDS and some of those deathts never got resvoled, so yes, there were some - so to speak - plotholes and the last two episodes had no answers, not really. And I think many people also did not not want it to be AIDS, they wanted a Fantasy or Horror Version of it instead.

But this is the point of the season. “NYC” is the first really grounded season of the show. There is no real supernatural stuff going on, it’s magicial realism instead, and of course this would throw a portion of the audience. And of course some of them would get defensive about other people calling it the best season or even a good season, because in their eyes this does demean the Horror Genre and the rest of the show like: “How can death by AIDS be considered better than ghosts, witches, vampires etc.? Well of course you would say that because you look down on me for my taste because I do watch anything else but crime procedurals and soaps!” But there is literally no reason to get defensive. This is fucking Season 11! And with “American Horror Stories” now going on as well, we have literally had everything you can do with Horror done in the shows. “Apocalypse” was the big crossover season and should have been the end of the show, however they discovered they had not done a slasher season yet, so we got “1984″, but after that there was nothing left to tell.

So we got the weird “Doube Feature”, which was one of those Covid-Seasons, and the show still continued on, so it reinvented itself. It reinvented itself by doing a season of Real Life Horror. See, this season was very much a social commentary. And yes, after Covid, everyone and their father did a Pandemic Story, but Ryan Murphy decided to to a story about the other pandemic of our lifetime, the one no one is talking about anymore. And he did not to that because he wanted to educate Gen Z on the recent history of the world, he did it because this pandemic was something his community lived through and it was the scariest thing that ever happened to that community ever probably, because in case you did not know that: people were dropping dead like flies for no appearant reason for like a decade! “You think lockdowns and having to get a bad bad horrible vaccination were bad? Try being a gay man between 1980 and 1990!” is the message. And to make it even sacrier everything else was put in there too: a serial killer that targets the community, the hate crimes, the ignorance, and lack of BDSM protocol etc. This season, if you did like it or not, was the ultimate Horror Story because it was actual real life horror taken from the recent past.

I remember back when I watched “Apocaplyse” (which was in the winter right before Covid hit when something was in the air already) I was triggered really badly by the beginning of the season. This was the first and only time the show really did a number on me and the sacriest thing before that, the scene that haunted me the most, was way back in “Asylum” when Quinto did Conversion Theraphy on Sara Paulson. Why did those moments stand out to me? Because they were Real Life Horror Moments. I can deal with jump scares, gore, slashing, ghosts, vampires, aliens and all those things, but give me Real Life Horror and I am gone. And many many people out there are like me, if they want to admit it or not, they do not want Horror to deal with actual real life issues because that would scare them on a deeper and more personal level than any Torture Porn could.

Why do you think Steven King still is the undisputed King of Horror? Because he knows that it is essential to start out with Real Life Horror and then put a Supernatural Spin on it in order to get the catharsis the reader needs. And no one is better at this than he is. And for ten season “Amercian Horror Story” did exactly that and followed his example all eleven chapters of it at a time. But “NYC” did not do that. There was no Supernatural Spin, nothing you could fight in order to win, there was no catharsis, there was only death.

Does a story like this belong in an anthology show like “American Horror Story”? Maybe not. However this is not up to us to decide. It’s is up to Ryan Murphy, the writers, and Fox. They deemed it a good idea. Maybe it wasn’t. Maybe it was. Like I said, the show did essential end with “1984″, it will have to change if it continues, it has already changed. And it will continue to change.

It’s okay to say “NYC” did nothing for you, but it’s also okay to say it was the best season you ever saw on the show. Which is not okay is to attack someone for saying either of those things (unless the reasons for not likeing it are obvious homophobia). Like I said, the way you react to a season of this shows says more about you than that season.

My favorite season is “Roanoke” which says much about me but not anything about the season. Runners Up are “Murder House” and “Hotel”, which again does tell you what kind of Horror I like. Is “NYC” up there with the great ones for me? No, but it was both an important story to tell and a necessary developement in the history of the show. If changing the way the show works will not save it but rather end it, it still would have not been a mistake, just something they tried that did not end up saving the show from cancellation/ reaching its natural end point.

So yeah, that was my piece, I guess. Not that anyone will care, but I just wanted to put it out there.

(And, no, I am neither a gay man nor old enough to really remember the AIDS Panic, but I have that super power called empathy combinded with that superpower like backround called education by listening to other people, so yes, I will defend any story that obviously is something really personal to those who made it any time).

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New York Fashion Week

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American Horror Story (2011-Present)

[newwavesylviaplath]

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[live-laugh-love-lupone]

Okay. Did some sleuthing. Found a few interesting things which I've now turned into a headcanon for myself 😂 (AHS season 11 ep4/ AAA)

1. Patti's character in AHS is a singer/owner at/of a bathhouse, who we watch overview a tryout to cover for her some nights. (The tryout song is Anything Goes, which is just a fantastic Easter egg, iykyk)

2. AHS character is once again Sicilian, and comments on having "eyes behind her" referencing her divination skills(which I'm taking as a sign and not at all a coincidence)

3. Bathhouse is in New York, which is right above New Jersey, where her psychic shop in Eastview is. (Lets assume within driving distance, stay with me here)

4. Let's just all agree that Lilias singing is amazing in AAA, so to be paid to be a singer somewhere else would make sense.

This leads me to my final headcanon- Lilia works some nights at the bathhouse, which is why she still has money to own the shop. (Also it's her house, so she doesn't want to sell) She still practices some divination here and there, but because of her self doubts, she took the singing job to make ends meet. She hired the other singer to cover for her, as she felt that a change was coming (Agatha coming to get her to join her coven) and she was going to need some time away.

Also, outside of the headcanon. The AHS season dropped October 2022, AAA started filming January 2023. Which is just good timing IMO.

Let me know what yall think! I could be totally off my rocker here. But there's just alot of things that lined up for me not to make a headcanon of a character and actress that I'm absolutely obsessed with 😂😂

[the-last-hipopotamovolador]

I love ahs because it's like watching a theatre play on television. They just change a little bit the characterization of an actor/actress and you have to assume that what you are seeing now is a completely different character and immerse yourself in a universe where everyone lacks facial recognition memory and be like " who is that bitch?"

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evan peters so is adorable 🫶

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me trying to live my fucking life 🛋️🧾

[zanephillips]

Charlie Carver and Isaac Powell American Horror Story 11.05 "Bad Fortune"

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I feel like I'm the only person who loved this season but it meant so fucking much to me in this essay I will-

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New Blog!

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Evan “😈” Peters

New York Fashion Week 09.09.2024

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LOOK AT HIS TUMMY, IT’S CUTE

REMINDED ME PREVIOUS AHS TIMES