#and the feeling hasn't faded yet because I just keep going lmao

[spotaus]

Dang, that redraw hits hard in 2024 🙏

Below are the old versions! (The left is my very very literally first drawing of Ichor! The others followed a few months/years later-)

Some design breakdowns under the cut!

Okay, okay-

^this guy!! I drew him on my janky old laptop with a tiny lil drawing pad right after my Mlp phase in middleschool. He was one of my first designs and I'll confidently say the first utmv oc who made it onto a drawing format. At the time I refused to draw hands correctly and drew claws instead- Ichor here still had his name "Ichor" and was supposed to be a combo between Reaper and Red. He had his chains because he was a fickle God of death who needed to be held back by his fellow gods lest he wreak havoc on the surface. I love this design to death, mostly because I always think back on it to see how far I've come and how Ichor's been here forever! (Note that here he doesn't have his iconic gold tooth or purple arm. His clawed hands inspired me for the purple arm though, and the one spiked white tooth eventually became his gold tooth!)

^ This is post iPad acquisition thanks to my school getting some new funding. I don't think I drew this on procreate but I can't remember the name of the app smh. This version of Ichor was similar to the old one. Less bent on destruction, more just a trickster. (This one and the other one always fell into 'Teenage' vibes). Now he has shoes, the gold tooth, and the arm! Though he still has both eyelights and the 'crack' in his socket is still a gold scar instead. This *is* where I gave him his gray pants, but the slash on his jacket... uhh... swapped directions?? Idk about that one- But fun fact! The spot on his jacket is a mark of how he'd be killed one day if that came to pass! He doesn't know, no one does, but it's true! Old prophecy locked up somewhere in the Ruins. (Actually, Toriel might be aware.) His arm here is super desaturated because I wanted to keep it a minor detail. That changes very quickly 👀

^ He's lanky af!!! I always go through a phase of drawing things too short, then too tall. Welcome to Ichor's Way Too Tall phase! I wanted him to be big and chunky but uhh. That 'silhouette' talk got to me. Here the biggest differences? The hand is out of the pocket and includes his sword! (Which is Canon still) The scarf is here too! At first the scarf was a gift from Reward, then it was from Reward being killed, then it was just a bold fashion choice?(I settled on it being a gift from Reward again, to help him cover the collar) His socket is finally empty, the crack is there too. His teeth are all straight besides the one gold tooth, and the hand is very purple this time. The lore I wanna mention in this bit is the soul! It's constantly been a pale yellow, but here it has a hole in it! This isn't something that stocks, but the idea of it does. Ichir's chains prevent him from healing with his godly magic, so he's stuck on 1 hp. The god's souls are naturally gold, abd here, Ichor's soul was wounded when he was captured, so he's slowly been fighting off death. (In the final version his soul is white with fading gold, showing how his magic is restricted)

^Honorable mention jumpscare because this is actually a sticker I made about 2 years ago? Not exactly the same pose but it was definitely inspired and it shows how certain elements have stuck around since the last doodle. (This sticker is currently on a sketchbook at my house lmao-)

^And then current! I used to be allergic to using the same colors twice, so he used to have different shades of yellow abd gold everywhere. Now the yellow/gold is all the same! His eyebags (which started in the Lanky era) are more pronounced, he's more classic-shaped than he's ever been, and as per usual I don't think I drew his purple hand right. But! He's my boy, and that's what matters! Side note: His chains aren't visible here, but that's because I've decided that he prefers to hide them. His sleeves are puffy so he can tuck them away, his scarf covers the length of the chain on his collar, etc. It just doesn't make narrative sense that he'd leave them exposed like that. He's also in his old man era finally! Been trying to draw him like this fir years!!!

[always-andromeda]

perhaps cherry jubilee and pierre ( i think he deserves a little something when he wakes up ifyaknowwhatimsayin)

– 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐘𝐨𝐮

𝐏𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐳𝐮𝐤𝐡𝐨𝐯 𝐱 𝐅𝐞𝐦!𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫

𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞: okay, this one is dedicated to @everblossomtrails because she is the birthday girl for toward and I thought I’d gift her some smut…ya know…as one does on holidays…anyhoo, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, STRAWBERRY ❤️🍰🍓 (and lmao, I think I do know what you're saying, anon!! *wink wonk*)

𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬: smut (MDNI), slight somnophilia, slight dub-con, handjob, pet names (dear, darling), praise kink, overall very sickly sweet but smutty, nothing else I can think of!

In his first marriage, Pierre Bezukhov never expected to be woken up with hands all over him. After their first night together, it was rare for him to even share a bed with that woman. Which is partially why he immediately found himself gasping for breath when he felt a hand on his stomach, slowly creeping downwards.

He instinctively rose and began to feel around for his glasses on the bedside table.

"Pierre!" he heard you whisper with a start.

Immediately, his defenses began to fade as he realized that the gentle pressure on his body was you. "Oh, sorry," he breathed before tipping his head back against the ornate headboard. No matter how many times he woke up in his second marital bed, he always wondered if he'd ever be able to shake the feeling of being alone; of being unwanted.

"It's fine," you laughed airily. "Lie back down. Let me feel you."

With his brow beginning to knit up in confusion, Pierre did what he was told. And now, Pierre got a better idea of what you were trying to do to him.

You found yourself giggling a bit more at his apparent hesitance. "You act like you've never been touched before."

Pierre could hardly meet your eyes when he replied, "Not like...this."

"What? By your wife? When the sun hasn't had a chance to peek through the curtains yet? When it's so quiet that anyone could hear you if they were right outside the door?" you smiled cheekily as your thumb brushed over his reddened, sensitive tip. Pierre reacted immediately, bucking into your hand almost involuntarily.

"Careful...careful..." he breathed shallowly.

You noticed how he tried so hard to keep his gaze fixed on the ceiling and elected to rectify it. Using your other hand, you tilted his chin down until it touched his chest.

Blinking rapidly, his eyes darted between the sight before him and the wicked expression you wore. "Oh, darling, I just want you to look at yourself. Look at how good you're doing," you praised.

Pierre swallowed hard and peered down. He could feel how gentle you were caressing him, keeping your grip so loose that it just began to hit the threshold on what qualified as pleasure for him. It was kind and simultaneously sort of cruel; just enough but not even close to enough all at once. His twitching cock was practically begging for more.

Greedily, he bucked his hips again, only to be met with your other hand falling firmly on his thigh. It managed to keep him from trembling any further.

"Please," he whimpered pitifully.

You tugged once before keeping your hand still.

"Once you understand," you cooed deceptively with a voice like honey. "That I'm doing this for my own benefit...then I'll give you what you want."

"Ah," he exclaimed as you began to pump slowly. "How exactly does this benefit you, dear?" he asked.

"That look on your face is one," you replied.

"What look?"

"Your eyes get this cloudy look in them and your eyelids get all fluttery. Almost like you're about to fall asleep. But I bet you this is better than any dream you could have, hmm?" Pierre finally melted into your words. As a reward, your hand went taut around him and your movements became more concentrated on making his brows tangle up even more.

"G-go on..." he stuttered.

You observed his expression and added, "And your lip quivers. Your lip quivers as you try to bite back how wonderful it feels. You try to stay so quiet sometimes and I don't get it–"

The knot in his abdomen began to fray and unfurl as he interjected, "Why? Why don't you get it?"

"Because I think that's one of the prettiest things about you, Pierre." The breath caught in his chest at your bluntness. "You make so many beautiful sounds. And it's a shame that you won't let me hear them."

Then you asked the dreaded question, "You want to be good for me, don't you?"

Pierre nodded and whined. Between your voice, the slick sound of your hand wrapped around him, and the pressure on his poor cock, he knew he wouldn't last much longer.

"Then let me hear those sounds. Show me how beautiful you can be for me, darling."

Pierre screwed his eyes shut, still nodding so fast that he might as well have been trembling like his thighs as he matched you with his own thrusts. As soon as that knot pulled apart, his mouth fell open, finally allowing him to let out a long and unabashed groan that he would normally be ashamed of.

Underneath that, he hears you, talking him through the whole high in a hushed tone. Oh, wonderful job, darling. You did so well for me. You never let me down. If Pierre could make those words echo through his head for the rest of his life, he would. But for now he'd have to settle with you coaxing every last drop of his spend from his cock over his stomach as it rose and fell.

"Very good...very, very good," you continued to praise as you settled down beside him again. Wrist tired and now satisfied with the result of your impulsiveness, you were ready to fall back asleep.

Pierre blinked and looked down once more, finally back in his body once more and cognizant of the sticky substance on his belly. "Darling, shouldn't we–"

"Let me rest my eyes, Pierre. It's the least you could do," you grumbled.

He chuckled softly, wrapping his arm around you and pulling the sheet back over your body. "Anything for you, dear," he answered, not at all surprised when he heard you snoring once more within a few minutes.

[having-conniptions]

Love In The Air episode 11 live reaction under the cut (long post)

We're gonna get a kiss in this episode aaaaaaaa

Hahaha the way he gently rejected her

Namtan is so underrated lol she's an icon

"I'll tell you what I wanna eat if you can fly to Beijing to buy it today" listen Sky I appreciate you going full sugar baby princess mode but it's not good for the environment

Prapai is so whipped we love to see it

Hahaha what an entrance Rain

The good old paper roll bonk, Sky you mean to tell us you don't have siblings but do the most sibling thing ever?

Pai being questionable again... telling Joy that he and Sky are a couple and asking her for a key card to Sky's room...

Sleepy baby Sky too sleepy to be tsundere

"It's fading. What do I do?" PLEASE WHY IS HE SO CUTE that's like sooooo close to a confessio

THE WAY I GASPED WHEN THEY FINALLY KISSED yeah if I was Prapai I wouldn't have been able to hold back in that moment either omg the softness of it all

WHAAAAAT WTF THAT WAS JUST IN PAI'S HEAD?? boy I feel u

Also that kiss was exquisite lemme rewind

But yeah Sky is way too sleepy rn

The hand kiss aaaaaaa

The cheek kiss AAAAAA

...huh? Sky calling Prapai and telling him to come over?

HAHAHAHA HE CALLED HIM TO ASK HIM FOR HELP WITH HIS HOMEWORK boyyyy we both know you just wanted an excuse to see him

SKY'S SHIRT SAYS "MORE THAN FRIENDS LESS THAN LOVERS" boiiii u ain't subtle

THE WAY HE JUST KISSED HIM AND PAI MANAGED TO STAY MAD??? bruh u should have melted like a normal person

Whaaaaat why is Sky being so cute he's not even trying to be a tsundere anymore

He has literally given in this was him basically going "actually I do want to kiss you" this is everything Pai wanted... yet Pai can't accept it bc he's gotta sulk a little more xD

Now that Prapai is being cold Sky is absolutely falling over himself

Very smooth of Pai to just go to sleep in Sky's bed and fall asleep before Sky can kick him out... but he still looks mad even while sleeping

Homoerotic bike sharing ftw

I absolutely LOVE Pai's surprised face when Sky kisses him it's too good

Awwwwww Rain's gushing about Phayu and Sky is thinking about Prapai... <3

HAHAHAHA "P'Phayu is not the only one who's cool and handsome and the best" OH YEAH SKY WHO ELSE? CARE TO SHARE WITH THE CLASS?

"This is bad." Oh no babyyy he's still scared to get hurt (because obviously falling in love doesn't miraculously undo trauma)

Pai in that gray tanktop? Yes please.

Lmao he's deleting numbers of old hookups

Omg it's a wind pin that's so cute

"Go clean the bathroom" HAHAHA HE IS AWARE OF THE POWER HE HOLDS OVER PAI AND HE HAS NONPROBLEM USING IT

Wait is he doing this so he has an excuse to kiss him again as "payment" because while it does sound kinda cute I think he needs to stop viewing intimacy as a currency

Ok maybe he's doing it as a test or to drive him away

The way I GASPED bc Sky has gone back to his old "he's only doing all this because he wants to fuck me" way of thinking nooo babyyy

"I sound like a dick" congrats Pai you finally realized hahahaha

HUH???? Welcome to another round of "does Sky actually want this or is he doing what he thinks is expected of him?"

Idk all of this strikes me as so utterly unromantic and I'm so confused that I can't even enjoy it... "please get bored of me soon" HUH???

The kiss that Prapai imagined gave me 100x more butterflies than this...

And now he's thinking "please don't get bored of me" ? I'm so confused

"I slept with you so you'd stop pestering me" uh... for real or is he just being a tsundere again? Bc I feel like he hasn't fully admitted to himself that he actually likes Prapai (even though he secretly knows he does) which makes all of this rather uncomfortable to watch

Ok he's teasing but still idk what to make of all of this

Oh no not Pai asking about the piercing

Oh no his ex actually did the piercing wtf

I still feel like Sky is trying to keep his distance emotionally

But he's also smelling and cuddling Pai's shirt awwwwww

Hahaha Rain's braincell is working so hard it's got smoke coming out of it

Bonus scene: bro don't tear out the whole page that's wasteful af

[daryfromthefuture]

BTTF AU MASTERPOST

*takes a deep breath*

okay, i want to bring some order into my aus. thus i am making a post about every au that i feel is worth mentioning (some of these are very recent, some of them not lmao). some of them also have like zero content BUT i love them a lot and they're good for brainstorming.

warning. this is a lot

that being said, feel free to send me questions about any of the aus! i'll be only too happy to answer :D

STUCK IN 1885 AU/"UNTIL I GET HOME"-VERSE

as the title suggests, this is an au where doc and marty end up getting stuck in 1885 instead of going home to 1985 post bttf 3. it's obviously not a concept that i myself came up with, but rather my own version of it.

you can read my fic (titled "until i get home", thus the name for this au lol) for it here. i don't want to elaborate on the au further since i don't want to spoil the fic for those who may have interest in reading it. but yeah, that's the idea :)

SOULMATE AU

okay, basic idea: there are two kinds of soulmates - romantic and platonic. you and your romantic soulmate share a mark (almost tattoo-like) on your right wrist, and you and your platonic one share one on your left wrist, romantic soulmarks are usually red-pinkish, and platonic ones are blue. they're in the form of a symbol that stands for your relationship (e.g. doc and clara would have a star because of their shared interest in space/astronomy).

when you haven't met your soulmate yet, your mark is grey. if your soulmate isn't born yet, it only has grey outlines. it turns fully colored as soon as you meet them. when your soulmate dies, your mark turns grey again and slowly starts disappearing. there's the possibility that you ruin your relationship to the point that the mark fades away without your soulmate being dead. if that happens, you have lost that person forever and your relationship cannot be restored (like, if a fight happened or something and you break up/quit your friendship).

doc and marty have a soulmark in the form of a flux capacitor. also its pretty wild for doc who meets his platonic soulmate possibly as early as in 1931, then marty leaves and the soulmark's outlines turn grey (because marty hasn't been born yet). he also believed that he didn't have a romantic soulmate because he didn't have a mark lol. he gets one as soon as he arrives in 1885 because clara was alive back then.

another perk is that the soulmates can feel each other's pain/emotions, so throughout the trilogy doc knows exactly how marty is feeling and where to find him because another thing is that the soulmates can communicate via thoughts.

okay i think that pretty much covers it-

"THE FRIGHTENERS" - AU

the lovely @jayisnotdrawing and i came up with this back in january after watching the mjf film "the frighteners". the au is basically the plot of the movie but with bttf characters.(so. spoilers ahead)

marty is frank bannister, the guy who lives alone in an isolated house, talking to three ghosts - his bandmates who had mysteriously died a few years back. he has given up on music and became a paranormal investigator instead, as these weird death cases keep happening. he's also very upset because his best friend, doc, has died in a car crash due to marty not driving carefully enough (doc has not died because of the car crash but because of the myterious heart attack that also killed marty's bandmates). marty can't see doc's ghost, however. i dont remember why but i think it was bc marty's bandmates were kinda stuck between heaven and earth and thus had a part-life on earth idk

ALSO marty is the only one who can see ghosts because he basically witnessed doc being killed and was almost taken away himself.

he meets jennifer, who had just lost her roommate lucy to that heart attack. toegther, they team up to find out what's going on. turns out it's the ghost of the murderer kid tannen, who had died in a murder trial, and continues killing people by "squeezing" their hearts as a ghost. edna is still alive and helps him, and jennifer and marty have to stop them - and marty is their only hope because he's the one seeing ghosts.

he also ends up getting doc back by the way

THIS was a rant and i hope it makes sense-

DRAGON DOC AU

this is my version of a bttf fairytale lmao

marty is the prince of the mcfly kingdom. however, he doesn't want to be a prince and his parents are getting fed up with him. so they send him on a quest to kill the "dangerous" dragon who has been hiding in a cave forever to get rid of him so he can prove himself as a knight/prince. marty leaves the castle, desperate for adventure, and reaches the cave.

however, upon getting go know the dragon, he realizes that he's quite nice. marty doesn't want to kill the dragon anymore and instead "moves in" with him, being sick of his life as a prince. he affectionately nicknames the dragon "doc" because the creature has a lot of science/alchemy equipment stashed in his cave.

marty's parents send for him and take him back home, disappointed that he didn't kill the dragon, and ground him. however, marty sneaks out and convinces doc to hide him from his parents. marty is very happy with his new dragon dad and actually feels respected for the firsf time in forever, but then gets kidnapped by evil wizard biff.

doc has to save him but gets wounded in a fight, and marty is convinced that he lost doc. it turns out that marty actually saved doc, who had been turned into a dragon by biff decades ago with the condition that only true loyalty to his dragon form would ever turn him back into a human. marty's friendship with the dragon and the way he cared for him when he was hurt allowed doc to become a human again. also doc is a wizard as well, a very powerful one at that, and he can finally turn biff to dust.

@fiddlstyx drew a very cute piece based on this, and you can find it here!

1940s AUs

stuck in the 40s au

au in which marty, on a road trip with doc, takes the delorean to explore los alamos in 1945. getting lost, he hides the delorean in a cave far away from the town and manages to catch a ride back. he finds him in the middle of the manhattan project, and sneaks in after finding doc there. however, he is suspected to be a spy and is not permitted to leave the base.

the first time he leaves is with doc, who had already accepted him in his life, to get the time machine back before the trinity test. well, who knew that the car was in the explosion range - and due to a delay marty and doc arrive five minutes before "the gadget" goes off...

(i wrote a 12k word story for this which is coming to ao3 soon, be a little patient please kdfgks)

famous scientist doc au

(working title for the au lol. i literally came up with this today)

the delorean malfunctions, and since this is the car from the animated series, it crashlands marty in new mexico instead of hill valley, where he actually wanted to be to get some answers concerning his family tree. again, marty meets doc in los alamos, who tells him he'd been offered a higher position at the manhattan project but considers turning it down. marty talks him into accepting it, wanting his friend to earn at least some respect.

back in 1985, marty finds out that due to his interference, doc had been made director of his project and had become world famous. he had been pressured into contributing to the hydrogen bomb, getting fed up to the point where he faked his death and moved into a village under a false name, isolating himself from society. marty has to convince doc to fix the delorean after crashlanding in said village so he can go back in time to fix things.

OKAY IM DONE. i think. yeah.

if anyone has made it until here - congrats. im proud of you.

i don't know what content i'm going to make for any of these aus, but i don't want them to get lost - so here they are, for y'all to read and enjoy!

thanks for reading jkdgfs

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

saw the movie a second time. had more thoughts.

still a Miguel hater til I die but the intro shot of his fangs when he nearly bites the Vulture is SO cool. also my wife's boyfriend expressed that he was momentarily afraid Miguel was going to straight up EAT the Vulture which is. SO funny.

god the fucking college planning lady trying to force a stereotypical narrative onto Miles based on what a presumed white audience will expect of him... that's like the thesis right there! THAT ties everything together! it's a movie about growing up AND all the other Spider-Men hating you AND being a Black comic book character inheriting a white character's legacy AND being a brilliant Black boy finding his way in a world that's so so hostile to Black boys. and she sums all of that up so nearly by telling him to just. be what people expect Black boys to be instead. get fucked!!

sobbed like a fucking baby again when Rio gives Miles her speech about making sure her little boys knows he's loved 🥺🥺🥺

it's very cute that Gwen can share Hobie's shoes despite him being twice her size but I'm assuming that he has freakishly tiny little feet until proven otherwise

I goofed about Pavitr not going back to 2099 with the other spiders when Jess said everyone was supposed to go back, but this time I realized that even though he's familiar with Gwen and Hobie he probably hasn't been fully inducted yet because judging by his incredibly sunny outlook, he doesn't seem to have had any major spider-trauma yet.

Miguel is playing SO HARD on all the spiders' trauma and guilt to convince them that pain and loss is something that connects them and makes them special and is therefore necessary to be a spider-man at all, to the point of not only being inactive in the face of further tragedies but being actively hostile to someone trying to break the pattern. Miguel is running cult tactics like fucking crazy here.

but he believes it all himself is the worst part. like he doesn't think he's manipulating anyone he sincerely thinks he's doing what's right and that his discernment is the only thing keeping the multiverse from crumbling even if he has to go bugfuck crazy to do it like!!! he's SUCH a brutal fighter he's a nightmare to watch

having said that him throwing a trashcan at Miles as soon as they meet is so funny he has absolutely zero chill EVER AT ALL

on a second watch, all of Hobie's behavior when he first shows up feels really deliberately over the top - trying to keep things light with some kids who he knows are in danger from a really bad influence while prodding them to question it and think for themselves. he's MUCH more quiet and openly hostile at Miguel's base, and no wonder - he knows how much danger everyone, especially Miles, is in.

it's also really telling to me that the only spiders he seems to be on good terms with are the teens (and Mayday lmao). Hobie isn't kidding when he says he's only there to look out for his drummer, he's trying to get those kids OUT.

he's just. such a cool big brother. I'm very emo about him letting Gwen crash at his place 🥺

the way the backgrounds just MELT away to blobs of color when Gwen is confronting/reconciling with her dad is so!!! it's about THEM, everything else literally fades into the background! and then likes and detail come back when they've reached a resolution I'm...

also the LOUD trans pride colors when Gwen is talking about how she lives two lives and can't be all the way herself with anyone HELLO!!! 🩷 🤍 🩵

Jessica Drew is. 700 months pregnant. and Miles throwing her at an oncoming car like that is soooo funny

which is not an excuse to be so mean to Gwen! she's so hard on her for no reason that's literally a homeless teen begging for an adult to care about her why are you treating her that way!!!

the brilliant little touch of having Miles look back at his family's party on the rooftop, a space that's bright and warm and represents his home before he takes off into the spiderverse, only for him to find that same space desolate, hostile, full of trash on Earth 42? delicious.

I am excited for "evil" Miles but honestly like. I hope we get to see that Prowler!Miles is a product of his circumstances as much as Aaron was in the last movie. he's a brilliant teenage boy with a struggling mom and a dead dad and no spider powers; he's doing the best he can with what he has in a hell city run by the sinister six!!!

related: literally all I want from the next movie is the Mileses fighting the sinister six together. PLEASE I want to see them so bad 🙏🙏🙏

Rio Morales animated milf of all time

okay okay rapid fire spider-verse thots fresh out of the theater, trying to minimize spoilers but jesus

da Vinci-looking Vulture... very cool

the art on Gwen's earth in general is SO cool

in general the animators were just SHAMELESSLY showing off with this one and it rules so hard

Rio Morales animated milf of all time

truly do not understand what all of you see in Miguel tbh that man suuuuuucks!! kill!!

Peter B is also on my shit list tbh. Gwen going along with this is understandable, she's literally a homeless teenager in a bad position to fight against adult spiders making decisions, but Peter... come on dude...

truly they HAD to leave Pav out of the middle of the movie because he would have sided with Miles (you think he would want Inspector Singh to die!! fuck no!!) and he's perfect so he would have just effortlessly swept the floor with every other spider-person

Gwen is flirtatiously trans coded and responds to Spider-Man at least once, congrats to her on the fun gender

Jessica's design is so cool but they made her such a cop... god I hope she's coming around in the next movie

cannot wait to see gifs of this movie slowing down every frame to point out every individual background spider-person

the fucking. the family of it all. Miles' parents afraid to let him grow up and Gwen's dad unable to accept the truth about his daughter and Miguel trying to raise a daughter who wasn't supposed to be his and Peter B's baby girl and Jessica Drew's visible baby bump and the spiders' collective miserable certainty that they are DEFINED by the trauma of losing someone they love.

something something Miles' parents and the spider society have the same problem - being afraid of change from what they thought was The Right Way To Do Things - but Miles' parents love and trust him to make the right choices beyond their understanding while Miguel and the other spiders are too hurt by their own traumas to imagine someone else thriving without it

also fuck all of them the boy's uncle died in front of him after trying to kill him HAS HE NOT SUFFERED ENOUGH

Hobie's soooo annoying (affectionate) but also right about, like, literally everything AND good with babies to boot

the whole ending is so ‼️‼️‼️‼️

the thing with Miles and Uncle Aaron at the end... you know the thing... DELICIOUS au right there tell me everything about that shit

the fucking end man

I've NEVER been in a theater where everyone collectively screamed @ the end of a movie fuck fuck fuck. there's cliffhangers and then there's THIS

[james-stark-the-writer]

okay so i got a little distracted but anyway i'm watching again and i'm 1:13:00 in and this movie is really getting on my nerves tbh. i know you come to this series expecting the ableism but it really is so excessive here and it's so annoying, the lesbian woc veteran spending her last breaths comforting the white man bothers me so fucking much (would've been fun to have her like. idk have some PTSD so she would be the one having to be comforted. or, idk, don't have her make decisions where she ends up dying for the white dude and like ik they soften the blow with them dying together [although even then she gets the arrow first!] bc of her making an empathetic decision but it's still weird and racist and i hate it), the problem with this movie is that it felt like it knew what it was for the first 30 minutes and then they got less self-aware and tried to make an actually good movie but they have a dogshit script (and every decision every character makes is so manufactured and you can tell when the "and now we're going to humanize this character" moments are coming and also none of these characters feel lived in, like they're all exactly who you expect them to be and have absolutely zero surprises for you but are all also deeply underutilized) and it's all executed very boringly and it just becomes forgettable and mundane.

nothing in it is really special, even the kills are meh, you'll only remember them for a minute bc of the gore and then it'll just wash over you and fade away like truly, i wish they kept the reality tv gimmick up longer but also ik this is playing to their audience who came to see some inbred hillbillies carving up some unsuspecting morons and like. i wish it didn't play its hand so soon. i wish it didn't give us so much insight into these people without actually doing anything substantive with it bc like it genuinely hasn't done anything interesting yet after the first 30 minutes, everything in it is deeply predictable and if it has the potential to be interesting it's executed boringly. it's not even directed or shot that badly, the action scenes in here are genuinely more comprehensible than most in like. the mcu or any movie that cuts 500 times a second, like the action here is genuinely well done but it doesn't amount to anything bc they're not doing anything with it that's interesting. it all just feels so mechanical and that sucks because you can tell the people involved were actually trying to make something good. also the acting just keep getting worse with every scene, and i don't get how that's possible, it's like these guys aren't even trying. genuinely this movie really is just boring me at this point so here's to hoping something in these last 20 minutes is at least worth watching.

i said it was like if Halloween: Resurrection was better but. the Halloween: Resurrection comparison is actually not far off and weirdly i had more fun with that than i have with this so far. at least Busta Rhymes did something interesting for it. here, the army dude's shit being shot like a Serious War Movie is very funny but then it hasn't actually done anything worth watching with it yet so who knows how that's gonna resolve. ik he'll probably die for the white girl because this is that kind of movie but it would be nice if the Black dude made it and was our final person lmao. he's the only one i'm rooting for at this point.

anyway, this did have good ideas and clearly good intentions but it's just really not panning out well for it.

finally getting around to watching Wrong Turn 2 since i enjoyed the first Wrong Turn so much (go read all about it here: My ★★★★½ review of Wrong Turn on Letterboxd) and like, if you haven't seen the original, it is legitimately a really good low budget horror movie that, while it uses well-worn tropes and characters and settings, it really does them incredibly effectively like it is really fun and well made. but i am less than 8 minutes into the second movie and this franchise is already crashing and burning, how was every lesson they learned from the first movie so wrong, it's like the entire opposite of the appeal of the original, how is this already so bad, like the direction isn't horrible, it's actually kinda fun, but it's like leaning into the gore unlike the original and the first kill was like needlessly drawn out and for some reason they're doing a fucking Reality TV Survival Show thing to follow for the main cast like it's fucking Halloween: Resurrection and like that comparison i don't think is going to bode well for this movie.

so i'm not hoping that this is going to be any kind of good but let's see if it's the least going to be entertaining bc jesus fucking christ it's already fucking awful absolutely dogshit like comical levels of gore, like a character gets split in half in the first 7 minutes with an ax and this is not horizontal, it's vertical, from skull to pelvis. so yeah, like we are already doing some comical fucking shit so what the fuck is this movie going to be because the first movie was really lean, it was really scary, and it was very effective, and it took itself and it's premise seriously. it felt like a movie someone loved and wanted to make and genuinely cared about. and in the first 8 minutes this movie is comically over the top, not terribly directed, absurdly gory and just fucking schlocky. so if it's going to be schlocky, it better be some really good shlock.