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I'm as grateful for cellphones as the next person, but sometimes I think about how everyone having a phone on them at all times really did cause us to loose some things as a society. I mean - for example, kids these days will never experience their car breaking down and needing to find the nearest place with a phone they can use. They're never going to have the opportunity to tentatively approach a house only to discover that it's full of queer people having a party hosted by a transvestite to celebrate his creation of a sex homunculus, stay the night, and loose their virginity while unintentionally partaking in cannibalism. It's tragic, that kind of gay sexual awakening just doesn't happen these days because of cellphones.
#do i have actual legitimate thoughts on how cell phones have altered the fabric of society in both positive and negative ways?#yes.#am i making a dumb joke about rocky horror picture show instead of articulating the complex cultural changes wrought by their ubiquity?#also yes.#in which i say things
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"The shift from the Afro-Caribbean zombie to the U.S. zombie is clear: in Caribbean folklore, people are scared of becoming zombies, whereas in U.S. narratives people are scared of zombies. This shift is significant because it maps the movement from the zombie as victim (Caribbean) to the zombie as an aggressive and terrifying monster who consumes human flesh (U.S.). In Haitian folklore, for instance, zombies do not physically threaten people; rather, the threat comes from the voduon practice whereby the sorcerer (master) subjugates the individual by robbing the victim of free will, language and cognition. The zombie is enslaved."
— Justin D. Edwards, "Mapping Tropical Gothic in the Americas" in Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture.
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I do sort of wish western anime fans would analyze anime and manga from a framework of japanese historical and cultural context. Specifically a lot of works from the 90s being influenced by the general aimlessness and ennui that a lot of people were experiencing due to the burst in the bubble economy and the national trauma caused by the sarin terrorist attack. I think in interacting with media that’s not local to our sociocultural/sociopolitical sphere it’s easy to forget that it’s influenced and shaped by the same kinds of factors that influence media within our own cultural dome and there ends up being this baseline misalignment of perception between the causative elements of a narrative and viewer interpretation of those elements. It’s a form of death of the author that i think, in some measure, hinders our ability to fully understand/come to terms with creator intent and the full scope of a work’s merits
#exilley's diary#this is about utena btw like. yeah its feminist and a coming of age horror story but also#it was in part ikuhara’s response to the changes he observed in the corporate anime industry and an attempt to subvert those trends#it doesnt really help that i feel certain aspects of the show are filtered through translation and certain cultural emphasises are lost#like for instance. the blood type symbolism. or wakaba’s gestures with making packed lunches#theyre incredibly japanese expressions of conventional gender roles that non-japanese audiences might not fully resonate with
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Kate Bush as the Sound Monster in Experiment IV (1986)
#Kate bush#Halloween#horror#monster#music#Pop culture#music video#film#aesthetic#spooky#1980s#1986#80s#fashion#women in music#aes#costume#bts#behind the scenes
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When you were a kid - how did you picture the boogeyman?
HERE’S MINE !
1. (r/CreepyArt) 2. (IrenHorrors)
#the boogeyman#boogeyman#bogeyman#childhood fears#nostalgia#wendigo#monsters#monster#fears#childhood#question#horror#urban legends#culture#horror culture#scary
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#goth#gothic#gothcore#rural#aesthetic#appalachia#midwest#appalachian trail#appalachian culture#appalachian folklore#appalachian horror#rural photography#rural decay#rural america#rural life#ruralcore#southern#small town america#small town usa
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purity culture ruins people’s ability to engage with works that deal with serious issues and it’s disheartening to see people entirely miss the point of a work because they are guided by a knee jerk reaction towards disgust and I need to ramble
so, I’m reading a book called Jawbone by Monica Ojeda and it’s a very interesting horror novel that centers around puberty and teen girls and their relationships to their mothers. One of the bigger themes in the book is the idea of shame revolving around sexual development. One of the main characters is a young lesbian who is developing feelings for her best friend and has a mother who is incredibly homophobic and disapproving and in part of the book there’s a scene where this character talks about her mother catching her masturbating and the way that she is disgusted by her daughter and kind of this horror around being viewed as having lost your innocence from experiencing something that is common and should be mundane. sexual development is seen as a horrific and sinful action and that causes this character trauma through the rest of the book surrounding the way that her mother looks at her and how her mother is going to react when she finds out that she’s gay it’s a book that deals with a lot of topics around sexual shame. For example, another character is so terrified of the sin of masturbation that she keeps herself from masturbating by imagining being raped by men in her family who she cares about because it disgusts her and keeps her from achieving sexual arousal. the book itself shows that the action of the character masturbating when she’s six years old is an innocent action. It’s one that comes from curiousity and just what happens when you have a body. The book is very clear that the act is being sexualized by the adults around her and their reactions feel violating.
So it is infuriating to then go from reading this book to trying to read reviews of this book and finding that the first review on Goodreads is a one star review that just says “in this book a six-year-old masturbates 🤮” participating in the same disgust with the natural sexual development of young girls that the book itself tries to depict as a horrifying and violating way to view children and puberty
#purity culture#it’s a very unsettling horror novel#and I haven’t finished it yet but it’s very good so far
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Art by Inferior Amphibian
#art#artist#artblr#painting#art community#oil on canvas#oil painting#art gallery#dark academia#goth#gothic#dark art#macabre#horror#gothcore#artists#art blog#artists on tumblr#appalachian gothic#appalachian culture
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Die-cut cover art for My Sweet Audrina by V.C. Andrews
#my posts#web finds#goth#goth girl#goth subculture#goth culture#goth aesthetic#gothic#alternative#alt#mall goth#2000s goth#emo#spooky#vampire#horror#90s goth#baby bat#tradgoth#dark aesthetic#halloween#dark gothic#darkness#gothcore#alternative goth#horror books#horror art#gothic art#artwork
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#snake#snakes#skeleton#skeletons#science#goth#occult#eerie#horror#eeriecore#animals#midwest#regional gothic#dark academia#aesthetic#rural#rural decay#ruralcore#rural america#americana#appalachia#witch#witches#witchcraft#witchblr#appalachian mountains#witchcore#appalachian trail#small town usa#appalachian culture
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Bride of Frankenstein (1935) / Lisa Frankenstein (2024)
#bride of frankenstein#lisa frankenstein#frankenstein#horror#okay fair enough that this image of the bride isn’t well known in pop culture#but i saw some people confused that lisa was a mummy at the end of the movie#that’s okay!! she’s not though it’s another allusion to the bride of frankenstein!!
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I showed someone a photo of my room, and their response was “I thought this was a photo of a haunted house attraction at first”
I think. This is a success.
(This was the photo)
#context is we are making silly horror short films- and friend said we might need fake dead things for props#I said I have real dead things#I think they thought I was joking bc they went aaaah of course you just have a trove of dead things lying around???!?#and then I showed them the photo of my room#and explained… yes :3 I do ;3 and it’s all ethically procured by yours truly! straight from the forest floor!#vulture culture#bone collecting#bone collector#dead things
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Two sentence horror story (warning very scary 😰😱😨)
"I have a new hyperfixation!" I said happily.
(Three days later) sigh…pk;m new
#plural#system#actually plural#plural community#plural stuff#plural system#pluralgang#plurality#sysblr#system blog#system stuff#fictive heavy system#system community#system memes#system posting#system sillies#system things#sys stuff#sys blog#plural memes#plural things#plural culture is#two sentence horror
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