#below meme is from Monster in Paris

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My hatter too! I think he's in his core a scrungly little man

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EXTENSIVE HORROR PLOT WISHLIST.

in no particular order, specific muses listed where relevant. some taken from this meme. let me know what takes your fancy! (pls)

30 days of night: our muses live in alaska, which experiences a month of solid darkness every year. they are 2 of the few residents that stay behind during this time. this year their town is targeted by a group of vampires. ideal for: alisha, beatrix, dean, faith, jesse, lucas, malia, mike, dutch, geralt, deacon, richie.

as above so below: our muses are exploring the catacombs of paris, a tunnel collapse preventing them from going back. they encounter horrors such as cultists and spirits of dead loved ones as they descend. they come to realise they are travelling through the levels of hell. ideal for: bellamy, dean, faith, lucas, mike, deacon, richie.

cloverfield: a giant monster attacks new york city, our muses are trying to flee the city. along the way they have to fight off smaller creatures that continue to attack them. ideal for: beatrix, faith, jesse, amélie, genji, hana, mike, deacon, alec, richie, lisbeth.

ghost ship: our muses are part of a salvage crew that come across an abandoned passenger ship. once on the ship they discover it is haunted by the deceased guests and crew along with a demonic entity responsible for their deaths. ideal for: dean, faith, jesse, lucas, mike, dutch, deacon, richie.

pitch black: a deep space transporter crash lands on a desolate planet. our muses are the only survivors: they find out the planet suffers a total eclipse every 22 years, which is when the hibernating flesh-eating inhabitants awake and hunt, and the eclipse is about to begin. ideal for: bellamy, dean, amélie, genji, hana, vanasha.

the purge: our muses are trapped away from their home on the night of the purge, where all crime (including murder) is legal for 12 hours. they must try and survive the night. ideal for: beatrix, bellamy, faith, jesse, lucas, deacon, richie, lisbeth.

the ritual: our muses are on a hike through the wilderness, a wrong turn gets them lost in the forest where they begin to encounter strange phenomena: dead animals hanging from branches, symbols carved in trees, nightmares and blackouts. they realise they are being stalked by an ancient evil. ideal for: bellamy, jesse, lucas, malia, mike, vanasha, dutch, yennefer, geralt, alec, richie.

halloween: the idea of evil taking form / manifesting as a physical entity, whether in one of our muses or a being they need to combat! a slow madness that can't be abated, until the person possessed by it is no longer recognisable. ideal for: dean, elizabeth, faith, lucas, amélie, genji, mike, geralt, yennefer.

gravity falls: cryptic vibes all around, maybe replicating the style of found footage but in a thread. gaps in our muses' memory, getting mixed up, reversed, rewinded. seeing things in fleeting glimpses, lots of the unexplained. ideal for: bellamy, dean, faith, lucas, malia, mike, richie.

frankenstein: the idea of man vs. monster and what it means to be / make a monster. either one of our muses is a monster or makes the other into one, what does that dynamic look like in the end? do they take on the world together or become bitter enemies? ideal for: alisha, bellamy, dean, elizabeth, faith, jesse, lucas, malia, amélie, genji, mike, vanasha, geralt, yennefer, deacon, alec, richie.

other movie plot inspired wishlists: blair witch project, the conjuring, it follows, the crazies, the descent as detailed in this meme.

some generic ones for most of my muses!!!

findin a book they most definitely shouldn’t read out loud but :~)

lookin back at a video of a fun group event except something menacing shows up on the film...

one character is presumed dead, comes back out of nowhere with no memory of anything but something seems off...

you know that myth of swallowing apple seeds? yeah what if it had some weight to it

woodsy horror, bodies strung on antlers, trees that seem to inch closer, eyes watching and branches snapping and they can’t find their way out

a shooting star / meteorite lands in town but brings something with it

road trip to a foggy silent hill esque town that swallows them whole

vibes from this meme (detailed below):

tips for walking in an abandoned graveyard

if it’s dark, don’t shine your flashlight into the trees.

if a child approaches and asks you a question, don’t tell the truth.

you may find some harrowing artifacts (i found a ribbon on a tree and some bible pages) pick these up and keep them. they belong to you.

if you walk down a long, straight pathway, you will feel someone behind you. don’t look

you may see people in your peripheral vision; these are the spirits. they won’t hurt you.

if you wish to communicate with the spirits, do not do it alone. cast a protection circle. only ask polite questions.

you will feel bursts of dread and terror. ignore them.

don’t read too much into what the graves say. some things are best left unsolved.

research the history of the graveyard beforehand. you need to know what you might encounter.

some beings may not want you to leave. should you come into contact with one of these beings, leave immediately.

don’t read the hidden graves.

if you find a headless angel statue, don’t look for her head.

if you find a tipped over angel statue, leave her be. she’s only resting.

don’t listen to music. this will distract you from them.

don’t look in the bushes. you will find something that you weren’t supposed to.

gothic vibes as per this meme (detailed below):

southern gothic: abandoned churches, cryptic gospel signs, don’t go near the marshes, elusive and overly religious people that are probably up to something but everyone is too afraid to ask what.

midwestern gothic: something lives in the corn, broken down trucks, gravel roads that lead nowhere, empty gas stations placed between tiny towns with only one attendant who makes too much eye contact but never speaks.

southwestern gothic: animal skulls hung from posts, shacks miles into the barren desert that still look lived in but nobody is ever seen around, they watch from the mountains, shapeshifting creatures hiding in the brush.

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Summer 2021 Anime - Week 1

The summer season has already started so let's get right into it! The first episode has been released for a few shows so I'll touch on those and potentially continue them from now on based on whether it clicks or not. Sorry if this post ends up being long - I intend to check out most of what's coming out now. - First 3 are what I expect to be the top of the series and under the cut is the rest. (I'll likely get around to all of them eventually throughout the summer season)

Peach Boy Riverside Summary - In a world of ogres and demons, what if Momotaro wasn't the only ogre killing child that came floating along the river? Holy shit - right off the bat with a killer series 100% this will be one of the top shows of the season. It's an excellent and thrilling adaptation of the traditional Japanese Momotaro story and because of that, the world that they all live in is super neat. The protagonists are awesome so far and the enemies/monsters are also well designed. Really looking forward to this one. Side note - I really like that Frau is adapted from japanese folklore of the rabbit on the moon beating mochi.

The Detective is Already Dead Summary- Main character attracts back luck and a master detective recruits him to help solve the cases he brings in but she's already dead from the beginning. Yet another one that will be one of the top shows. Honestly had me hooked within 5 minutes of the storyline. Side note for Genshin ppl - Koumori/Bat is Xiao's Voice Actor The duo is excellent and the hook at the end of the episode - expected but still great. Guess the creators were confident enough about the show's potential that they sacrificed the pilot as a 45 minute episode so I think there's a lot in store for this season.

Vanitas no Carte Summary - A cursed blue vampire uses his mythical book to heal red vampire illnesses in old Paris. omfg T_T I'm going to be so obsessed with this show. The Art The Style The Character Design The Era The Memes The Cat I no longer care about any show but this one and this one only. (gives me howl vibes but also dazai - I haven't watched past season 1 of Bungou Stray Dogs but this feels like the same creator/animation studio - I'll need to check in on that) The rest of the Summer Season Shows are below the cut--

Shinigami Bocchan to Kuro Maid Summary - he's cursed to kill everything he touches - she likes teasing him. the art in this show is really pretty - idk if it's actual paintings or just animation on a canvas background but it's nice either way. Idk if i'll ever get used to cgi - this one is rough for me since it's the primary animation method and it still just feels to smooth. Plus I have no interest in the sexual harassment aspect of the show. Unsure if I'll keep watching.

How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom Summary - a uni student is summoned as a hero in another world and decides to reform the kingdom using realistic plans and administrative duties. Yet another issekai. Low-key the animations look really bad in anything other than the main characters. The idea seems really boring and it seems a lot of character designs and concept are straight up copies from other shows but I kinda like it for some reason? Either way - will likely be a super mid tier show.

Re-Main Summary - Water polo anime but this champ has been in a coma for 6 months and doesn't remember his last 3 years as a top water polo player. Damn - they don't need to go this hard on every sports anime. Right off the bat with something new - the accident and the animations are solid as all sports shows are for some reason. The different take on it alone has me interested but I like the mc, so I think this'll be a good one for this season. I ran out of time today so this'll be part 1 Part 2 will feature: Scarlet Nexus -Episodes 1 & 2 Bokutachi no Remake - 50 min pilot episode Seirei Gensouki - Spirit Chronicles Slime Season 2 Part 2 Episode 1

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Reading Meme

Tagged by @theticklishpear! Thank you for the opportunity to ramble about books!

1: Which book has been on your shelves the longest?

I've got a few books I've had my whole life, so I'm not sure, but I think it's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, which if I'm remembering right my dad had in his childhood, so those are some pretty old books. (And I still haven't read Through the Looking Glass.)

More below the cut!

2: What is your current read, your last read, and the book you'll read next?

I'm currently towards the end of rereading allof the Riordanverse books (I've got like a book and a quarter left) so I'm going to count that all as one to stop this answer from being boring. Currently currently I'm about three quarters of the way through Sword of Summer and concurrently reading Riders of the Purple Sage (since I couldn't bring my Kindle to summer camp), which has turned out to be pretty boring so I probably won't finish. The last book I read before my whole Riordan sprint I think was Ella Minnow Pea or possibly If on a winter's night a traveller; I can't remember which of those I read first. (Both good books, the latter being really surreal and vaguely disturbing.) Next I'm planning to read either the Iliad or Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, which from what little I've gathered I think is either about a gay kid navigating his social life or time travel or both, and I don't want to find out which until I read the book.

3: Which book does everyone like and you hated?

I'm gonna give a two-part answer to this question: the super-popular book I thought was pretty eh is Divergent (though I did read the whole trilogy), and a book I've seen a few people go "yeah it was good!" that I couldn't stand is It's Kind of a Funny Story. (It was mostly okay but the way they treated it treated the trans girl was an absolute deal breaker.)

4: Which book do you keep telling yourself you'll read, but you probably won't?

Huckleberry Finn, honestly. I own a copy that sits on my bookshelf gathering dust to eternity.

5: Which book are you saving for "retirement"?

Is that a thing people do??

6: Last page: read it first or wait for the end?

Again: there's people who read the last page first? Why would you do that

7: Acknowledgements: waste of ink and paper or interesting aside?

I don't usually read the acknowledgements, but I definitely don't think they're a waste. I think it's important to acknowledge how many people help with the creation of a book, and when I'm really interested in a particular book or it's author, I do like reading the acknowledgements. It's sometimes interesting to get a peek into how the author thinks of help and who's given it, if that makes sense.

8: Which book character would you switch places with?

I honestly don't think I would. Most book characters have a pretty bad time of it which makes for good reading but less good experiencing.

9: Do you have a book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place, a time)?

The Lightning Thief reminds me of the friend who introduced me to the Percy Jackson books by talking about nothing else for several weeks after The Last Olympian came out until I figured hey I am not going to be able to communicate with one of my best friends until I read these books. I haven't spoken to that friend since we were eleven, but she made a pretty huge impact on my interests.

10: Name a book you acquired in some interesting way.

My grandparents at some point had really nice copies of a lot of classic books made, with gilded covers and leather spines and all that fanciness, and then they haven't read any of them, so I've been borrowing a few of those at a time so these beautiful, beautiful books can serve their intended purpose. Right now I've got the Iliad, a collection of Shakespeare plays, and the aforementioned copy of Huckleberry Finn that at some point I should admit I'm not gonna read and return.

For a different kind of interesting, I borrowed the first Game of Thrones book from my freshman English teacher, which was an experience when I found out how incredibly full of violence and sex and violent sex that book was.

11: Have you ever given away a book for a special reason to a special person?

I know this is a boring answer, but I can't say I have.

12: Which book has been with you to the most places?

It's gotta be The Little Prince (technically Le Petit Prince, actually), not because I've taken it on a lot of trips, but because I borrowed a copy (in French) from my French teacher to read during a trip she took me and some classmates on to France, where we went to several parts of France along the Côte d'Azure, Paris, and at in one day to Italy and Monaco, so that book has technically been to a whole heckton of places with me.

13: Any "required reading" you hated in high school that wasn't so bad ten years later?

I'm still in high school, so we'll have to see. I might like The Stranger better when I'm 25 as opposed to 15.

14: What is the strangest item you've ever found in a book?

The only thing other than bookmarks I've found in a book was a chunk of unidentified something hard and sticky, which is more gross than strange.

15: Used or brand new?

Honestly, no preference. I love the worn feeling of used books and the knowledge that the physical book itself has a story to accompany the ones the words tell, and I love the smell of a new book and the feeling of opening it for the first time and starting something entirely new. I just really love books

16: Stephen King: literary genius or opiate of the masses?

I've actually never read a Stephen King novel, so I can't really say, but I did read bits of his writing advice book, which annoyed me because he seemed very absolute that his way was the Right Way to Write and his way was very different than my way and didn't work for me and I didn't appreciate being made to feel that my way of writing was wrong (specifically, he said not to write anything down until you've thought about it a lot because writing down half-baked musings solidifies bad ideas, whereas I think by writing down every single thought that comes into my head and then reading them back and picking out the good ones)

17: Have you ever seen a movie you liked better than the book?

As far as movies based on books, I've never seen one I liked better, but The Princess Bride was as good. If we're counting books based on movies, the Monsters vs. Aliens book was Bad

18: Conversely, what book should never have been introduced to celluloid?

I know it's been said before but do not get me started on The Lightning Thief, one of the best books I've ever read and a mediocre-at-best movie that mangled nearly everything I love about the books

19: Have you ever read a book that's made you hungry, cookbooks being excluded from this question?

No, because I don't really...like food? Not in an unhealthy way or anything, eating is just a thing I do because otherwise I'd die and I don't get much out of it, so descriptions of food don't do anything for me either :P

20: Who is the person whose book advice you'll always take?

As a general policy I don't have sources whose advice I'll always take regarding anything, but the closest book-wise is my English teacher from last year, who reads so much it's insane and has introduced me to a few great books I'd never have heard of, let alone read otherwise (such as If on a winter's night a traveller)

I tag: @winterspirit-13, @zeuscaboose, @guilelessbees, and whoever else wants to do this! (Especially camp friends, since I don't know which of you all like to do these kinds of things yet!)

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7 queer celebrity dating rumors that we desperately wish were true

All conspiracy theories are trash — unless you're talking about celebrity queer relationship conspiracy theories, which are 100% good and accurate.

Or so we hope. There are so many conspiracy theories in this genre that, if proven true, would bring infinite joy to queer people worldwide. The LGBTQ community has few celebrity queer relationships they can count on for gossip — a Kristen Stewart and Stella Maxwell here, a RuPaul and Georges LeBar there. By and large, however, these relationships are stable. They are healthy. They are far below the requisite drama standard for gossip. 

We need more. 

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Below are a few of the most legendary conspiracy theories about queer relationships, composed entirely by the teenage professors of Tumblr and Twitter. Theorists in this arena are known as "shippers." It's worth mentioning that none of these theories has yet to be proven even remotely true, and some of these actors have explicitly stated that they're heterosexual.

Yeah, yeah, whatever. If there's one thing we're entitled to in this great nation of ours, it's our baseless, purely projective, borderline offensive relationship fantasies.

Here are the very best. 

1. Demi Lovato and Lauren Abedini

This is one conspiracy theory that actually has some chance of being true. Lovato broke up with her longtime boo, Wilmer Valderrama, in June 2016. Around that time, Lovato revealed that she was open to dating both men and women (!!!) because "that's how she's always felt." Fast forward to a year later, when the gossip blogs captured Lovato hand-in-hand with DJ Lauren Abedini at the gayest place on earth, Disneyland. Just last week, Lovato insiders spotted this key detail:

Demi commented on Lauren Abedini’s Instagram post: https://t.co/Zg65I4Q5Cm pic.twitter.com/ygxOgRQIOb

— Demi Lovato News (@justcatchmedemi) January 9, 2018

Is there enough evidence to pronounce this conspiracy theory as fact? No, there is not. But don't you dare let that affect your detective work on Instagram, where queer conspiracy theorists are sorely underrepresented.

2. Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss

In the conspiracy theory community, those of us  who believe that Taylor Swift is secretly dating fashion model Karlie Kloss identify as Kaylor Shippers.

Most critics assume that Swift's latest album, Reputation, is about her rumored ding dong of a boyfriend, Joe Alwyn. But those of us in the know — experts in the field, really — believe that her song "Gorgeous" is about a woman (Swift) dating a man (Alwyn) while secretly being in love with a woman (Kloss). From Jezebel's Bobby Finger:

After 3 listens, I’ve decided “Gorgeous” is about Taylor lusting after a woman while dating a man, and feeling guilt/shame because of it.

— bobby finger (@bobbyfinger) October 20, 2017

The rumor of their affair first gained speed after a series of grainy photos, allegedly showing Kloss and Swift making out at a 1975 concert, emerged. Swift quickly shut down "Kissgate" — and, in her defense, it's impossible to precisely identify what's happening in the photo. Still, that didn't stop Klossers' from keepin' on believin', especially when the two aren't afraid to express their (supposedly entirely platonic) affection on Instagram.

Happy happy birthday @taylorswift13! 💫 pic.twitter.com/ihruw3BipU

— Karlie Kloss (@karliekloss) December 13, 2017

YES YES WE ARE. Source: elitedaily #karlieelizabethkloss #klossy #kaylor #taylorswift #taylorswift13 #tayloralisonswift13 #kaylorisreal #kaylorismarried

A post shared by Karlie Kloss /Taylor Swift (@kaylorklosswift) on Dec 13, 2017 at 4:17pm PST

  3. Oprah and Gayle King

Oprah and Gayle, bffs 4 lyfe.

Image: dimitrios kambouris/wireimage/getty

Sorry, conservative moms, it wouldn't be a queer conspiracy theory listicle if it didn't include Oprah and her potentially queer, maybe not so platonic, relationship with her best friend, Gayle King. 

A few years ago, Oprah's stepmother, Barbara Winfrey, had a jaw-dropping interview with the always trustworthy, Daily Mail. In the interview, Winfrey insinuated that Oprah's relationship with her public partner, Stedman, was something of a front. Barbara Winfrey claimed that she never saw Stedman and Oprah hold hands or touch. Oprah's relationship with Gayle King was far more meaningful, Barbara Winfrey alleged, whatever that means.

"I can only say what I saw and observed over the years. Gayle was more present that Stedman," Winfrey told the Daily Mail.

Oprah, Gayle and Oprah's perfect dog.

Image: michael roman/FilmMagic

Fellow queers — is there anything we can do to make this hopeless speculation real life? Let's get to work.

4. Cara Delevingne and Paris Jackson

You don't have to look far into Delevingne or Jackson's Instagrams to conclude that the two could theoretically be dating. The pair seem to have spent the holidays together, which obviously means they're getting married. (An alternative explanation is that they're friends, which is boring and not really worth intellectual exploration).

NUEVO POST: Son hermosas Paris y Cara 🐡❤ Ellas han estado subiendo fotos juntas el mismo día cuando estuvieron en Italia 🇮🇹💛 @ParisJackson @Caradelevingne #ParisJackson #MichaelJackson #CaraDelevingne pic.twitter.com/0dG5GHKpiE

— Paris Jackson México (@PJacksonMexico) January 5, 2018

🌟🎄🕊 midnight stars, they sail the sky in silence. hearing all they see, are they hearing me? christmas star, you watch the world so wisely; at my journey's end, will you be my true friend

A post shared by Paris-Michael K. Jackalope (@parisjackson) on Dec 25, 2017 at 11:52am PST

Congratulations to the happy maybe couple!

5.  Carrie Brownstein and Abbi Jacobson

A little over a year ago, a largely evidence-free (and admittedly so) rumor began on queer site Autostraddle that Carrie Brownstein of Portlandia and Abbi Jacobson of Broad City were dating. The proof was slim but compelling: Abbi appears to have spent Carrie's birthday with her, potentially solo, on a romantic beach. They also both routinely like one another's Instagrams, which is evidence enough for all of us in the queer conspiracy community. 

Sea punks. #portlandia #season7

A post shared by Carrie Brownstein (@carrie_rachel) on Aug 30, 2016 at 3:07pm PDT

Happy Birthday to this brilliant adventurer, @carrie_rachel

A post shared by @ abbijacobson on Sep 27, 2016 at 9:09am PDT

Brilliant adventurer? No one uses that phrase unless they're copying and pasting from their Tinder profile.

Case. CLOSED.

6. Louis Tomlinson and Harry Styles, aka "Larry Stylinson"

Larry Stylinson shippers believe what I so deeply want to be truth — that the two One Directioners are in love. While in the band, the two had an undeniably close friendship, a friendship that many of us in the conspiracy community saw as romantic.

Sadly, Louis Tomlinson denied those rumors:

"It created this atmosphere between the two of us where everyone was looking into everything we did. It took away the vibe you get off anyone," Tomlinson told The Sun. "It made everything a little bit more unapproachable. I think [what's happened since] shows that it was never anything 'real,' if I can use that word."

Yeah yeah yeah, we get it. We just don't accept it. There are so few quality gay relationship theories out there, why can't we have this?

Give us this, Larry Stylinson! Even if it's a lie.

7. The Babadook and Pennywise

Of all the shipper theories, this is the one with the greatest chance of becoming true. Rumors of their relationship began last summer and went viral sometime around Halloween. Unfortunately, neither the Babadook or Pennywise are able to comment on the relationship because they're both fictional characters and queer meme culture has gone way too far.

Have you ever seen a more beautiful pair? 

Pennywise and his boyfriend, The Babadook are off on a date to get crepes and terrorize some kids. pic.twitter.com/eakshrfkN7

— ✨kumi ✨2018 (@kumivenarts) September 12, 2017

If we can't have "real" human celebrity couples — or if we're limited to secondhand gossip about Kristen Stewart's latest fling and Anderson Cooper's handsome boo —  at least we can have this. Two beautiful horrifying fictional monsters, blessed with both love and drama.

For that, I am grateful.

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