#classic horror trope

[falcondoingdoodles]

I think an underrated part of murder drones are the parts where you get classic monster lore mixed in with the sci-fi horror stuff

The Disassembly drones are similar to vampires, intelligent but needing to feed and weak to the sun, Uzi has whats basically a werewolf transformation in episode 4 that she gets broken out of because she hurt someone she cared about, the scientists use a pentagram and crucifix while trying to stop the solver from destroying everything, possession by an evil force is depicted multiple times

Its just cool

[finalgirlsamwinchester]

today's thoughts before passing out: the demon blood plot reading as a metaphoric fear of miscegenation, a result of classic Western tropes told through a Horror framework.

demon blood is a boundary crossing substance, invasive and transformative. Sam violated in the crib functions on one level as a rape metaphor, but its done so through demonic blood coming in to dilute his human blood. the violation then, comes in as a literal theft of identity. his body becomes the literal battleground between two forces - the domestic world of his family vs. the invading, monstrous outsider. Azazel snatches and preys on civilised children from the crib as a means of recruiting them to his tribe army, literally corrupting them on a bodily level, claiming them from their blood families as his own. and the more demon blood Sam drinks, the less 'human' he becomes (the less of his family's blood in him). Dean's anger over Ruby also ties into Sam's sexual relationship with her, of which the blood drinking is a component. the blood drinking is especially transgressive because it echoes deep-rooted settler colonial anxieties, expressed through the language of pop culture - fears over losing one's blood, family, and identity to a savage Other.

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(4.21)

what got me started on this line of thinking was a recent rewatch of John Ford's The Searchers (1956), a movie so ingrained in the modern American cultural mythos that nearly every first year cinema studies course makes it required viewing lmao. it's a subversive Western, concerned with exploring the porous boundary dividing white settler communities from Native American communities, the defining line between the 'civilised'/'uncivilised', the colonial subject and the savage. it was released during an era when America was grappling with undoing laws around racial segregation, and reflects those anxieties through classic American mythology.

so. Sam is a modern interpretation of Martin and Debbie from that movie, and Dean is a modern variant on its leading anti-hero, Ethan Edwards (rather John is our initial Ethan figure, but we spend most of the show with Dean, who takes on his mantle). just to emphasise the connection between the show and this movie - Star Wars heavily references it, and Kripke's always been explicit about this show's two leads as Luke Skywalker and Han Solo. well, i'd argue this show definitely owes more to The Searchers than Star Wars does!

Martin is Ethan's adoptive nephew of partial Cherokee descent, made an outsider to his family, by his uncle, at the film's outset due to his blood. he joins his uncle on his revenge mission after a Comanche tribe destroys their home and steals his adoptive sister - Debbie. this mission becomes his coming-of-age journey into rugged frontier manhood, as much as it is his path towards integration into white, 'civilised' society.

the protagonist of the film is Ethan, a soldier who gets consumed by his seven year long, bloody, vengeance-fuelled quest to recover his niece. when he finds Debbie, however, to his dismay he discovers she's no longer the 'pure' innocent he remembers. upon finding out that she's married to the tribe's chief - he literally disowns her as his blood kin, and at one point, even tries to kill her. Martin becomes the one to save her from his uncle's shot and the one to convince her to return home. he later convinces Ethan to recommit to rescuing her, and he ends up doing so.

(15.17 - Sam over s4 functions as a Debbie figure, but Jack also takes up her role. Dean disowns him as Ethan disowns his niece)

over the movie, we see Ethan descend into ever increasing violence and 'wildness', grown closer to his enemy after years spent on the frontier, hunting them down. Martin gets to go home, his civilising mission completed as he marries into a white family. Ethan though, stands at the threshold in the iconic concluding shot below. he's been transformed by frontier violence to the point he no longer belongs to the domestic, civilised world. he wanders back out into the desert, alone.

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anyways. Supernatural owes so much of its dna to the classic Western, and to this movie in particular. what The Searchers was to collective white American anxieties over desegregation in the late 50s, this show was to collective white American anxieties over multiculturalism at the new millenium, in the wake of 9/11. Sam's demon blood is a critical defining line between him and his brother, as Martin's mixed race status is the defining line between him and his uncle. 'monstrosity' on this show metaphorically stands in for savagery; one brother gets thrown out onto the frontier, a journey towards 'taming' his own nature. and another brother drifts further and further away from civilised society the longer he spends fighting at the frontier, protecting civilisation from its monsters. 'blood don't end with family' comes to a screeching halt when it addresses the prospect of monstrosity. what is demon blood standing in for on this show? what does a monster represent, truly? who gets to step over the threshold into civilised society, and what is the price of that acceptance?

[muzzlemouths]

I just read the entirety of Don’t Fear The Reaper and I have to say it’s one of the most intricate and most unique character writings I’ve seen in a long time! Can’t wait to read more and hope you feel better!

OOGHKDJFGH THAT'S SO SWEET. THANK YOU!!!! 💕

[swan2swan]

Keep your eyes on the road at all times.

[i-drop-level-one-loot]

Omg you love slashers too?? What do you think about Billy Lenz in Black Christmas or Thomas Hewitt from Texas Chainsaw Massacre??

Rat Man and Giant Teddy Bear

Instead of going into how much I love Black Christmas, let's talk about these dirty, dirty men.

I love scrawny rat men. Will he molest me? Will he stab me? Who knows, and frankly, who cares. If I can get a squeeze of his tiny little ass in before I'm sent to hell, it will have been worth it. I'm no masochist (debatable) but men who act like they'll peel off my skin just because they think I'm pretty make me want to be locked in a tiny cage. And if you have a dehumanizing kink, even better, because Billy will call you a piggy and a whore but probably never by your name ❤️

Stalk me, harass me, threaten to eat me out, masturbate into my pillows, and then after all that foreplay, rip me open and play with my guts? Sounds like a date.

And Thomas..

Yeah, he's a cannibal, but he can eat this ass

He's a giant of a man, and I don't understand how that could ever be an insult. I want him to sit on my lap so I can hold him like a giant stuffed animal, I do not care if he hurts my legs. He has the filth of a rat man, with his luscious locks that need to be washed and blood stains that will never come out, but the air of a man who'd be scared of pushing your boundaries (like a gentleman). And imagine getting your back snapped in half by him, both sexually and not. Sure, his life style feels like Christian based, trad wife, barefoot in the kitchen with a baby on your back, making human stew, you're never leaving this house, kind of life, but would it be worth it? Maybe. Even without a uterus, even if you were the more dominant in the bedroom, I feel like you would be delegated to house spouse duties, simply because Thomas would love you too much for you to get blood on your hands.

Thomas brings out my "I can save him" side, where as Billy makes me want to be broken down like the pig that I am.

Oink oink.

[jamiragondrawstuff]

All the Tenth Planet Cybermen gifs I have on file from the old days. I hope these save as Gifs and not Webpages. If they don't, I know a place where you can fix them (at least for now): https://ezgif.com/webp-to-gif Is this not what Tumblr is for? I've been away a while. Did I miss anything?

Next I'll do the World Enough and Time ones. They're okay.

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Twice his gaze darts toward that skull, too round, sans muzzle.

Help I don't get what this meant. Is the skeleton actually not a cat's?

There aren't many mammals with round skulls :) and no muzzles :) but there is one :)

The AU in question.

[ghostblogging]

the thing abt gay ppl is for inexplicable reasons we love summer camps (it's basically the only time you see gay ppl really display that same high school era nostalgia so prominent amgst straight ppl)

but bc we're gay really all the summer camps we have experience with are religious troubled child/conversion therapy camps which means you get a billion kajillion first love in a conversion camp coming-of-age stories which I think provide a very skewed perception of what conversion therapy is like

[endeavvor]

this is not for you.

HOUSE OF LEAVES STARTERS / PROMPTS

Fear is the obvious word that comes to mind when taking in his surroundings. It bleeds across his tongue like acid. There is an uptick in his breathing, the slight flair of nostrils, and the rise and fall of his chest.

The shape of the gun in his hand that is hanging uselessly at his side in a numbed hand. His finger poised over the trigger, but the barrel tilted towards the ground. An old hunting rifle that had been kept by the back door for as long as he can remember. It had been grabbed out of habit when he heard the noise out back and had barely managed to tug on a pair of boots let alone second guess the course of action as he worked his way through the corn fields.

The sound of frozen, hard packed dirt beneath those worn soles. They'd seen better days as he trudges through tall, green stalks. Free hand raised to bat leaves from his face until there's nothing but an inhumanly made clearing. It should be the cold he's suffering from, but instead, it is the heat from fires that caress his skin. It is almost unbearable, yet he's rooted to the spot.

It is smoke and the iron tang of blood that are thick in the air, choking him as he squints against the lights cutting through the dark and blinding him.

This is not for you. But it is his home. His land. His planet.

You will die here. It is not his voice inside his own mind, nor is it a new warning that cracks through his skull like a bolt of lighting. It tells him to run as he steps forward. To turn back as he steps over the shredded remains of a body. To think logically as his curiosity has the better of him.

A collective and frustrated sigh from instinct, and one final plea: don't say anything stupid.

"You can't park that thing here."

[someone-s-echoing]

my favorite slasher movie trope by far is the protagonists beating the absolute shit out of the killer

[dykeferatu]

watched bones and all last night and was kinda disappointed ngl

[jujutsutrash]

Happy the anime onlys getting introduced to Kenjaku just in time for October. He is a funky little brain villain with a wild personality piloting a body like an EVA.

Oh, me? Wanting to write something with a body snatchers theme for October? Well...

[wawek]

Girl no wtf.

[mushroom-creacher]

I've never watched a single Black Christmas remake and I don't really ever plan to because I don't think they will ever fill me with the same sense of fear and terror as the original did

[dilfsisko]

Michael Myers’s Big Naturals

[bumpscosity]

I really have to sit down and watch the first saw movie you guys make it sound like its the best thing since sliced bread