#fake animal death

[sunny-possum-pal]

Memento Mori

[ocean-stuck]

i hate to disappoint you further prev but ppl are still falling for this in 2024

this dog walked on stage during a biden rally and joe had his campaign team bury and seal the dog underground with bricks. this is SO fucked up, are some of you really voting for this ‘nice guy���?

[snibii]

TECHNOBLADE POTATO FARMING SIMULATOR!!!

fake game screenshot made by me :D

[tomato-bird-art]

“What shall we hang? The holly or each other?”

Made a last minute print inspired by my favorite Toxic Christmas Movie, The Lion in Winter (1968). I always love doing a detailed piece like this! I’ll be selling prints at EBABZ tomorrow, but feel free to pick up a copy on my storenvy as well <3

[almaadst]

My favorite boys from Jujutsu Kaisen (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ) Just to let you know I am a big villain fan - they are my precious babies (✿◡‿◡) I'm aware Choso will change the side eventually but he was introduced as a villain that's why he's here And new icons are available in my shop! This time Kenjaku and Toji pack! You can find them HERE. Here's a little sneak peek:

Other: Commission info Mahito sketches JJK fanfiction cover art

PLEASE DO NOT REPOST WITHOUT MY PERMISSION!

[the-flying-robins]

why are you all fantasising about killing a puppy? like genuinely is that not weird to you at all lol

Oh boy. Hmm. Look, first of all, Haley is a fictional dog in a fictional universe, and many people the world over have fantasized about many different characters dying for many different reasons in many different universes. This one just happens to be a dog. It's the same idea as someone wishing Deathstroke or the Joker was dead (Haley isn't human or a villain, but the main concept? It's still the same).

Attempt at explaining why, however, is under the cut.

I'm not sure if I'm the person to explain this, but I'll do my best. It's not so much about the dog herself as much as it is about how and why the dog came about and what the dog represents. Haley was created by Tom Taylor and came about seemingly out of nowhere. Dick hadn't expressed any desires to have a pet and has never had one previously (I'm not counting Ace who would have been a family pet and not his sole responsibility) this dog was introduced seemingly out of left field and was one of the first things Taylor did. It was an attempt to make Dick look responsible and to have a dog function as a stand-in or trial kid for the Dickbabs relationship Taylor was bringing back. By giving Dick a dog, he was implying that Dick was reaching the point of being ready to settle down and start building a family. Once again a concept that didn't seem to be fully formed or realized before being introduced.

One of the biggest criticisms people have for Taylor's run is just how out of character everyone seems. Dick has always been a character on the move. Even when settled in Bludhaven longterm (NW 96), he was constantly seen on the move, no one could get him to slow down and talk. Which became one of the main reasons he and Babs broke up during that run. A lack of communication coupled with Babs' insecurities made for a foreshadowed ending to their relationship. But instead of any foreshadowing, Taylor gave Dick a dog in his first issue (already a major change) and also brought Babs back as the second main character in an attempt to show that Dick was ready to settle down and settle down with Babs specifically. A move that lacked any of the "show" portions in the show don't tell writing theory.

In addition to all of that, Haley is very WFA-esque, too cute and happy for main universe DC. Haley's whole existence is built around looking cute and showing that Dick is ready for a "serious" relationship, she has no other purpose. The main reason people complain about TT's run being WFA like? Lack of personal conflicts and Haley.

Haley is a symptom of the problem, but also in a lot of ways a core building block of the problem. Get rid of the dog and the house of cards: ooc writing, too happy characters, lack of real stakes; it all falls down. The stakes are higher again, the relationship is less stable (and also less confirmed in our face endgame), and the environment is less WFA more DC.

I've said it a million times and I'll say it again:

It's not about the dog. It's about what the dog represents.

[denkies]

Sooo... how did everyone like episode 3

[cipheramnesia]

The "movie about a movie that kills you" is a surprisingly robust genre of horror. There's a wide range of approaches, but one key factor is the question of how good the deadly film in a film is, on its own. Some approaches are keeping the faux film entirely unseen, use brief clips, or make it real short.

Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made goes in for a high risk approach and delivers a complete finished film, ostensibly made in the 70s and never released, framed by brief opening and closing info bites to set the stage of it.

Somehow this thing was completely off my radar, which means I was taken fully off guard as an ominous warning about the content in white text on black appeared on screen, giving a thirty second count down to leave if I wanted.

Wonderful showmanship and canny filmmaking that got me right in the mood to enjoy what followed. While I wouldn't call it a scary movie, I found it almost delightful in the atmospheric dread and devotion to its aesthetic of low budget 70s films. Nothing in it feels like a curse on its own, but it does feel like the sort of movie that could easily prompt psychological distress for anyone under psychotropic influences, pre-existing emotional vulnerability, or prone to delusional states. Not through anything supernatural, more because it works hard to keep the viewer in constant doubt over what is and is not real for the characters in the film. Combined with the framing device of it being a movie somehow able to influence the real world of the viewer, and the use of fractionally visible flashes of occult symbols on the screen, it generates an intense feeling of unreality which for me was an almost drug-like high and an immersive pleasure.

The premise of Antrum is simply a brother and sister decide to dig a hole to hell, and the movie plays out around this event by surrounding it with disturbing sounds and imagery, as well as real world dangers that weave the protagonists between the supernatural and mundane while keeping them in a state of terror and madness that grows until it becomes unrelenting.

In a certain sense it also feels cursed, like the kind of film where there are elements that feel very transgressive - in particular the opening scene which to my mind evoked Un Chien Andalou - not the infamous eyeball slicing scene, but the use of rotting animals. The few and very basic visual effects remind me as well of the early Survival Research Laboratory devices engineered by Mark Pauline.

However, the core question for me is also always what is the movie about besides the plot. If I had to identify some rough themes, I would say it's trying to explore the idea of understanding death and violence through the eyes of children who do not yet have the psychological tools for processing such matters, but who have been left on their own to do so regardless.

Many of the unusual elements in the movie can relate to death rituals poorly understood, starting from the very premise of digging a hole into the earth. And the same act is surrounded by strange rituals unclear in their origin, ideas which might be logical drawn from watching words recited over a grave without having a connection of purpose. Their encounters with other people are fully without possibility of communication as none of them speak the same language, and these mundane threats feel at times akin to a satanic Alice in Wonderland, rituals and violence whose meaning cannot be understood by the protagonists.

Likewise the supernatural is full of unprocessed images of death. Demons with black skin who look like mummified corpses. River crossings and empty chains dragging through leaves. It's as if death itself has manifested through the ambient world, surrounding the two children and refusing to let them leave its circle.

In combination with the intriguing use of sigils inscribed throughout, it creates a movie that is for me a joy to watch. An absolutely perfect Halloween spook for next year, but your mileage may vary between finding it full of pretentious nonsense or maybe the scariest film you'll ever watch. It can really come off either way, and I'm honestly not quite sure why my reaction was actual joy in the watching. Not to undercut the severity of the subject matter, but I just can't stop thinking about how happy I was to watch the movie at work mechanically, to enjoy the well oiled pieces fitting together, and then all topped off with the delicious extra treat of the framing device. Surely worth 90 minutes of your life.

[lizardsfromspace]

What did Nickelodeon mean by this

[littlebigmouse]

One worldbuilding detail Soul Eater really had going for it was the way they explained everyone having weird, unique and horror-movie inspired names such as Soul Eater, Black*Star, Franken Stein.

The school all these kids attend allows them to sign up with any name they want and to change their names once every six months.

You better believe if I were a thirteen year old with the ability to turn into a scythe and eat monster souls I'd call myself Soul Eater too. "But isn't his original name 'Soul Evans'? That's already a weird first name." He's from a family of musicians. He probably has a cousin called R'n'B.

It also made for the very nice touches in charaterisation where you'd see a character calling himself "Ox Ford" and knew immediately which brand of arrogant, insufferable child-prodigy this guy represented and you'd be absolutely right. Why is there a girl who can turn into a lantern who's name is "Jackie O'Lantern"? Because she's the funniest teenager on the squad.

Shoutout to Maka Albarn for taking her education so seriously she decided to not get herself a fun name, and to Justin Law, who let's say, subverted expectations.

It also just makes total sense for their wacky and non-conforming headmaster to not give a shit about names, or birth names, or gender norms. Death said trans rights, yo.

[lynxfrost13]

kinda fucked up that there's not more pictures of the bleeding toad tbh

[merevide]

Nahum 3:6: I will cast abominable filth upon you, make you vile, and make you a spectacle. (Intro to Nope (2022)) / Interview with The Vampire (2022-): I Could Not Prevent It (2x07)

[moeblob]

OC !

[megofwands]

“Virtue Will Not Save You”

mixed media

[defnotkanyewest]

This shit is so beautiful bro

Even after everything Yuji still sympathizes with Sukuna and despite that Sukuna stays insistent on disregarding his humanity

[neonhellscape]

new rt everyone shes a freak whos pretty sure shes been been given the role of rogue trader as an act of divine intervention to eventually replace the godemperor and bring new glory to the imperium which she thinks is dull and stagnant. dont worry about why she keeps marazhai caged in her trophy room like he's bait its not important and completely irrelevant to the fact ive joke nicknamed her simon thresh. has anyone noticed a lot of slaaneshi demons during warp jumps lately