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August 22: Jennifer's Body (2009)
Oh, what to say about this one. I first saw it a couple of years ago and loved it, but this is only the second time I've watched it. The reason I didn't post this last night was that I had too much to say and was too tired to say it, so here goes now.
Jennifer's Body was directed by Karyn Kusama but written by Diablo Cody. An earlier film for which she is well-known, Juno, was taken as some kind of pro-life manifesto because the titular character briefly considers having an abortion but chooses to carry the pregnancy to term instead. Cody is pro-choice. Like Jennifer's Body, Juno focuses on a teenage girl coming to terms with her sexuality and the complexities that result, but the central relationships in that story are between Juno and her baby's father, her own father, and the woman who wants to adopt the baby. It's a very good movie from what I remember, but you can see how conservatives might twist it to support their agenda regardless of Cody's intentions.
She made sure that would not happen again!
Jennifer's Body is reviled by people who loved Juno for two reasons. The first is protagonist Needy's (Amanda Seyfried) queer, polyamorous desires for both her boyfriend Chip (Johnny Simmons) and the titular Jennifer (Megan Fox). While she loves Chip, her complex friendship with Jennifer both predates and certainly threatens their relationship. The other reason is that Jennifer's body is one that consumes males rather than existing for male consumption. The scene that struck me the hardest on this rewatch comes after Jennifer's first onscreen kill when she takes a swim in the lake, leaving all her clothes on the dock. It is so similar to a scene in Ti West's X that I wonder if it played some role in inspiring it. However, when Maxine Minx takes her nude dip in the lake, there is an alligator pursuing her, and when Jennifer takes hers, the only beast in the water is her.
There's something very appealing about a character it is no real stretch to call a rape survivor becoming so formidable. I have to wonder if Jennifer's name isn't an homage to Jennifer Hills, the protagonist of the 1978 rape revenge thriller I Spit on Your Grave. Although this Jennifer is not avenging her own rape, she certainly uses her sexuality to lure boys to a fate that benefits her but has very little to do with sex. Megan Fox is perfect in this role. I've seen her acting criticized a lot, but you can't write a character as "the hot girl" and be surprised when the actress doesn't turn in an Ingrid Bergman performance. She is a hot girl, but here she gets to be hilarious and powerful too. People hate to see a woman have fun!
Finally, even though Needy does kill Jennifer in the end, it's not just about avenging her slain boyfriend. She also sets her sights on avenging what was done to Jennifer to set all this tragedy off. In the end, it is a rape revenge narrative, it just takes a very wild ride to get there!
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ken & shinjiro
#persona 3#p3#ken amada#shinjiro aragaki#i have barely had time to draw since august because i've been studying…. sorry. hehe#and when i've had free time i've just been playing p3fes#anyway i love these two. people experiencing the Mental Horror on a daily basis#nemesis#castor#ALSO I'M NEMESIS' BIGGEST FAN
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I want pumpkin spice, and cool breezes, and sweaters, and spooky movies, and chilly nights, and thunderstorms, and hot coffee, and reeses pumpkins, and crunchy leaves, and bare trees, and pumpkin patches, and hayrides, and
#fall#autumn#halloween#personal#fall blog#spooky season#horror#all hallows eve#august#fall vibes#autumn aesthetic#autumncore#halloween 2024#halloween season#halloweencore#fallcore#psl#pumpkin spice
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this project is gonna be the death of me it is never ending but I’m locking in we ball
#long awaited update#hit a rough ass patch in recovery from my Many Things#feeling good for the first time since August tho#fingers crossed i AM recovering fr but time will tell in several months when it’s time to face the unspeakable terrors again#ah well worst come to worse I’ll have another wild tale to accompany the next batch of brain damage I get dealt by god#cosplay#soulsborne#bloodborne#ludwig the accursed#fromsoftware#ludwig the holy blade#horror#monster#fromsoft#dark souls#bloodborne cosplay#puppetry#practical effects
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A Cure for Barbarity
The grand old manor of Northcrest provided more luxurious accommodations than most in the rag-tag group of soldiers in the company of the Rising Dawn were accustomed to - if they ignored the peeling wallpaper, smell of mold and the manor's creeping, foul-tempered owner. Unfortunately, Alex couldn't do the latter. She needed to wrangle their prisoner-turned-annoyance wizard Hyden into doing any work at all, and that meant negotiating with his self-appointed apprentice and biggest fan, their host with the least, Baron Theopolis North. Now she had two egotistical, unstable mages to deal with, which was two more than she ever wanted.
She was common, he was the worst kind of arrogant old-blood nobility, she no-nonsense, he excessively prone to nonsense, she hated Hyden, he adored the man beyond all reason. It was inevitable that tensions between the rat and bat would boil over into conflict. True, Alex was a disciplined soldier who knew how to keep a cool head in times of stress, but the mad mage of Northcrest knew how to get under her skin... in more ways than one.
#comics#amaranthine#my draws#theo#and guest characters alex and ridge who belong to chocodile!#FINALLY done with this thing. it's been some form of WIP since last august...#was just meant as a simple quick (ha) comic to demonstrate how theo's “”“healing magic”“” works#and just how poorly he gets along with anyone who's not his mother or his idol#also some tags for the search engine#rat#bat#dark fantasy#blood magic#also maybe a body horror warning for... everything theo does
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#photographers on tumblr#dreamcore#digicam#digital camera#dark aesthetic#night#naturecore#trees#orbs#green#liminal#forest#night forest#grass#august#summer#branches#spooky#fujifilm finepix f40d#fuji finepix#green core#green aesthetic#wilderness#landscape#woods#aesthetic#night photography#original photographers#horror#weird
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Gakuen Mystery (学園ミステリー) / Akita Shoten (秋田書店) / Aug 1995 issue
#shojo manga#retro shojo#90s manga#horror manga#>100 notes#akita shoten#issue month: august#学園ミステリー#秋田書店
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Horace Vernet (1789-1863) - La Ballade de Lénore, 1839
scene from the Gottfried August Bürger's gothic ballad “Lenore”
#horace vernet#émile jean-horace vernet#le ballade de lénore#lenore#gottfried august bürger#gothic ballad#poem#19th century art#19th century#death#death in art#gothic romanticism#gothic horror#art#oil on canvas#oil painting#painting
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happy early halloween 🎃
#sorry mentally autumn starts in august for me so I've been going insane wanting to draw mttm shiny 🥺#i want shinee to do another campy horror concept so badly#illustration#shinee#lee taemin#taemin#onew#lee jinki#key#kim kibum#minho#choi minho#jonghyun#kim jonghyun#shinee fanart
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Aug 20th 1973 - Two investigating officers were killed by Thomas Hewitt (aka Leatherface) while doing a crime scene investigation of the Hewitt house.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (2003)
#august#texas chainsaw massacre#2003#leatherface#thomas hewitt#horror#black and white#movies#cinema#films#u
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August 10: The Wicker Man (1973)
Is this even a horror movie, though? A bigoted cop is entrapped by the pagan residents of a Scottish village, who fuck with him for several days before burning him alive in a wicker structure as a sacrifice to their god of the sun and goddess of the orchard.
Did it work, though? Did they have a good apple forest the next year? I need answers!
#august horror#the wicker man 1973#robin hardy#scot on scot violence#next up is midsommar of course!#put those grad students in pagan situations!
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Krang!
Haven’t you heard? Apparently the Technodrome has a new favorite pilot :) I'm sure he’ll be fine :)))))
original Rise August prompt list by @sariphantom :)
#rottmnt#rise of the tmnt#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#rise august 2024#rise august art challenge#rise august#rise donnie#rise donatello#rottmnt donnie#rottmnt donatello#hamato donatello#donatello hamato#save rottmnt#rottmnt fanart#krang#rottmnt krang#rottmnt kraang#art#my art#artists on tumblr#illustration#mint draws#save rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#save rise of the tmnt#unpause rottmnt#krangified donnie#doodles#eye strain#body horror#i had way too much fun with the krangified claws :)
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#King Diamond#Conspiracy#Sleepless Nights#Full-length#Release date:#August 21st#1989#Genre:#Heavy Metal#Themes:#Horror#Occultism#Death#Darkness#Literature#Tales#Denmark#my gif#gifs#my edit#gif#skulls#memento mori#details#detail#goth aesthetic#gothic aesthetic
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Auguste Leroux (1871-1954) "Les deux têtes" ("The Two Heads") (1898) Oil on canvas Located in the Maison de Victor Hugo, Paris, France
#paintings#art#artwork#painting#horror#auguste leroux#oil on canvas#fine art#maison de victor hugo#museum#french artist#gore#blood#halloween#october#death#dead#beheaded#1890s#late 1800s#late 19th century#a queue work of art
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Dracula Daily sketch for August 31st
In which Arthur sends a letter.
#We did it!#We got to the end of August!#Phew#Longest month so far#Jammed packed with that Good Gothic Drama#art#artists on tumblr#dracula#dracula daily#Dracula fanart#arthur holmwood#digital art#character design#cartoon#horror#gothic horror#gothic literature#book
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