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[thatweirddolldude]

Cuntry cowboy Edgar is now real and he will brand his bf with a sharpie

Inspired by a @pinkelotjeart post

[that-hippie-user]

the other day i told my BF that the SpongeBob Season 1 episode "Squeaky Boots" is loosely inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's "Tell Tale Heart."

and man, getting to say that and be 100% correct is so fun, his reaction was golden.

he immediately pulled up the nearest streaming service and re-watched the episode.

:3 it was fun, and honestly, recognizing literary references in odd places is so entertaining.

[theboarsbride]

Name 5 movies/book/songs/etc that inspired each of your stories!

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OOO!!! So sorry this took too long to get around, but thank you so, so much for sending this ask in!! 🥺💛

The Monster and the Butterfly🥀🦋

Crimson Peak - and Guillermo del Toro's whole filmography, tbh, but Crimson Peak especially. And also other ghost movies/shows, such as The Orphanage, The Others, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Mama, Paranormal Activity, The Conjuring I & II.

Panna a Netvor/Beauty and the Beast (1979), as well as Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bete.

Various dark fantasy movies and books from the 1980s/90s like The Dark Crystal, Legend, The Company of Wolves, etc. and Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber.

Shelley Duvall's Fairytale Theater "Beauty and the Beast" episode (literally why Susan Sarandon - who plays Beauty - is Sophie's fc)... and honestly, on that same note, Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy because the fucking music is so good, and Brad Dourif as Grima Wormtongue is the whole reason why the modern version of Edgar exists (and is his fc) lmao.

A Taste for Monsters by Matthew Kirby - and to add onto this, KIND OF?? Is that a lot of inspiration for TMATB came from the hate I feel towards some modern BATB retellings (i.e.- Sarah J Maas' A Court of Thorns and Roses series especially) that feature conventionally attractive 'Beasts' who are only beasts in the sense that they're awful, toxic, cruel people who, to me, don't deserve redemption or romance - or even friendship - as well as female protagonists who are just so, so unlikeable in their bitterness, idiocy, and Mary Sue-ness??? I wanted to write a romance that featured love interests that were unconventional in appearance, flawed but still likeable, and having a relationship that is healthy/consensual!

Cheating and adding a 6th one, but the works of Abigail J. Harding's Parliament of Rooks portfolio! GOTHIC BIRD MONSTER BELOVED!

Those Red Nights🌕🐺

Using Bob Odenkirk as a fc for a werewolf character - literally that's the whole reason why this story exists lmfao. So you bet I was watching the hell out of Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad for inspo (and simp material)!

Silence of the Lambs, the movie especially! But there is also Thomas Harris' Red Dragon novel (and the movie starring Ed Norton and Anthony Hopkins, and the movie Manhunter) that was a source of inspiration!

David Fincher's Se7en - I wanted to write a neo-Noir story for a hot minute, especially ones with psychological horror elements!

Nightmare by Tuesday Knight - this just helped me develop the idea of TRN being a psychological horror, and writing about the themes surrounding nightmares, the haunting effects of guilt, etc.

Werewolf movies like Bad Moon and Silver Bullet

Temperance & Mr. Wyrm 🐍⚕️- I don't talk about this WIP much but I still think about it regularly!

Wanting to do a retelling of the fairytale "The Lindworm Prince" and also wanting to explore writing a weird body horror romance!

The Shape of Water - again, del Toro out here inspiring goofy fucking monster romances!

David Cronenberg's The Fly - tragic body horror romance goodness, my beloved!

General 1980s media and pop culture - a lot of this was kind of inspired by reading My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix! It's a book set in the 80s and utilizes the 80s nostalgia, but it also doesn't shy away from how ugly the 80s were in terms of social stigmas for people who weren't straight white men. In TAMW especially what I'd be alluding to is the stigma surrounding AIDS, and other blood-borne illnesses.

And, lowkey, wanting to have Gwendoline Christie as a fc for a character?? Like, idk, with who Temperance is as a character within the novella, Christie seems to fit her super well! Also the tall gf x short bf is a ship dynamic I ADORE! (also the character of Jack, the titular 'Mr. Wyrm,' is another character where I use Brad Dourif as a fc for but shhhhh i know I'm cringe, don't remind me)

These are the main WIPs I still work on!! There is also The Faeries and the Lark but that's more on the backburner for now, but that story was inspired by wanting to do a genderbent retelling of Sleeping Beauty but has now turned into a Gothic/dark fantasy Sapphic romance that's a funky blend between Sleeping Beauty and East of the Sun, West of the Moon that's inspired by Scandinavian folklore and seeing images of women in armor lmao.

But if there are any WIPs you'd wanna learn about, give me a shout and I'm more than willing to scream about these goofy, silly little stories!!

[harmcomforts]

this rlly took me all damn day so i know like 90% of people are asleep but here’s my SPOOKY THREAD PLOTTING/STARTER CALL. i have some new spooky muses and some of my usual ones, plus canons and ones with new verses i’d love to try out. i also have a list of verses to give us some ideas/options. like this and i’ll come to you!

characters available for threads

dahlia dread, 23, witch, mia goth fc / witch who sells goods to those who ask and raises the dead for a hefty price, occasionally. generally a lot nicer than she looks. 

desmond gouley, 33, straight, adam driver fc / lives on and helps to maintain a graveyard. a spooky guy looking for his soulmate in life. 

edgar huang, age unknown, straight, lewis tan fc / a vampire who was once cruel who was experimented on by humans and developed an aversion to feeding on them.

carolyn newman, 23 forever, bi, alice englert fc / ghost from the 1950s, nurse, killed by a male patient and now she haunts the hospital and occasionally murders evil men.

heather hamilton, 19, bi, sarah michelle gellar fc / fights for control over her body with the demon that also inhabits her. is usually pretty chill, but the demon is pretty murderous and/or h*rny. (character is only played in 90s verse and with gifs of sarah from btvs)

atlas james, age unknown, straight, tommy martinez fc / cult member/recruiter, seeking out a soulmate to join him in the children of james, will assist in murdering a bf or two to do so. 

allison ‘allie’ flynn, 18-38, lesbian, kiersey clemons/tessa thompson fc / inspired by richie tozier - can be played in a verse where she and her friends are currently dealing with the demon in their town or 20 years later when they come back to deal with it for good. dumbass gay but in the closet comedian. 

holden pritchett, 32, straight, robert pattinson fc / half-demon conman preacher. there’s a lot to it, he knows. spends his time moving around the bible belt robbing people of their money. 

characters with au verses

minty thornwood, lili reinhart fc / not your usual final girl, mostly because she orchestrated the whole thing herself. can be played in the midst of her plan to basically murder a bunch of her friends (probably with a partner) or after the fact in college. 

gael espinoza, david castañeda fc / ghost hunter who... kinda doesn’t believe in ghosts, will take your money to figure out what it actually is but what if he’s wrong for once?

canon characters

billy loomis, 18, lesbian, olivia cooke fc / scream universe canon character, set during scream. charming and beautiful, but harbouring some dark tendencies.

kirby reed, 18, bi, kathryn newton fc / scream universe canon character, set prior to scream 4. spunky, sarcastic, secret horror movie buff with a tendency to speed. 

sidney prescott, 19, bi, kaylee bryant fc / scream universe canon character, set during scream 2. university student trying to escape her past and start fresh.

carrie white, 19, bi, eliza scanlen fc / telekinetic teenager currently on the run after murdering a whole bunch of her classmates and her awful religious fanatic mother. 

available verses

from dusk till dawn: from criminals to culebas to the underworld, the expanse of texas and mexico is sprawling with danger. careful not to make yourself into someone’s dinner. (set in the television show universe, pre s1 to post s3.)

woodsboro: woodsboro is a small town in the state of california known for the two brutal massacres both referred to as the ‘woodsboro massacre’ and the ‘second woodsboro massacre’ respectively. (this verse unless stated otherwise includes the content of all four scream films.

until dawn: set in the universe of the game or inspired by it. more tba.

camp grizzly: a once familiar and friendly camp changes locations one summer and finds themselves victim to a crazed killer stalking the woods, looking to murder the young camp counsellors in a vendetta for things done to them long ago. (can be supernatural or otherwise. threat/monster can also change.)

zombie apocalypse: depends on verse, can take inspiration from multiple pieces of media. other apocalypse verses also available.

halfway, oregon: what used to be a bustling small town seems to have been slowly losing its population since the seventies… whether by choice or other dubious means. people leave big, empty houses and buildings that the more brave of the teens in town explore. the only problem is, they also have a habit of finding weird places they’ve never seen before where strange things happen and that they can never seem to find after the fact. not to mention the unusually large population of goats across town that sometimes seem to know something the townsfolk don’t.

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Afterthoughts about 🍌 🐟

So I finished watching banana fish and I will save this spot to write some personal reviews and opinions.

「時の中に閉じたバラは枯れずに咲き続ける　愛のひとひらは 胸の奥にしまっておこう　永遠の時に閉じて」

I first heard about this work on Tumblr when someone was talking about the so-called “holy gay trinity”, which includes YOI, BF and Jeweler Richard, so I kind of like “well it sounds like nothing to do during this summer break on the way to graduate program plus quarantine why not start some new stuff to get into”. Long story short I first know about YOI in 2016 but I stopped watching it in the middle of airing I didn’t know why. I picked it up and finished watching it. It was a great show and it is literally making history throughout the time. Then I started watching Jeweler Richard and that was very good too. Put in one word or icon to summarize those I would use the the art style of female directors at Takarazuka, for YOI I will take it as 小柳奈穂子-ish and for Jeweler Richard I will say it is very 植田景子-ish. I would probably talk about them in the new posts. Those are just very personal view and if you don’t know about Takarazuka and those female theater directors you will have no idea what I am talking about.

And after I finishing these two I started watching BF, which is my favorite among the three and I will give it totally 上田久美子-ish.

There is an important thing I want to say that episode 24 of BF was in air somehow around Dec. 21st and that is also the day of F. Scott Fitzgerald ‘s death. People won’t take this seriously but it really means something for me that 月組 also revived the show The Last Party - S. Fitzgerald's Last Day. It was played by 月城かなと as Fitzgerald, 海乃美月 as Zelda and 暁千星 as Hemingway. They mentioned 楽園のこちら側 (This Side of Paradise), 美しく呪われし者 (The Beautiful and Damned) and 夜はやさし (Tender in the Night) in the play, but regrettably no ワルツは私と (Save Me the Waltz). I will talk more about this work later.

You know there are many literature references regarding the works by Hemingway and Fitzgerald in the plot and the ending cards of each episode, and the day of the double-shoot is just a ... mental suffering.

It also reminds me of Sisi, the Empress of Austria, but I would like to call her エリザベート. This vibe starts with a realization that the way Ash and Sisi died somehow shares something in common as they are both stabbed by someone else (although Lao is intentionally but Lucheni was not). It is sad and very torturing for me think about this because Sisi is my favorite historical figure and a character in Musicals, no exceptions. Thinking about two favorite characters died in same way is a terrible but blessed experience, no matter how you understand it. In Sisi’s “I-want” song Ich Gehör Nur Mir there is line saying she wants to be a bird and fly to the sea, and you know that Eiji jumped over that wall in EP1 like a bird, so...there is nothing left for me to say.

I also want to add that I found 七海ひろき probably is a great fan of BF (and I am not surprised that she is) because in some photos of her 入待ち/出待ち she was taking a Tasche with contents related to BF on it or it is just an official goods but I don’t know. 壮一帆 also mentioned in her radio program when ポーの一族 was on stage performed by 花組 in 2018 that she see this work as her “bible”, and she also agrees that it would be fascinating if River Phoenix would be able to perform Ash in a real person adaptation of BF.

I did start to rewatch ポーの一族 as well as はいからさんが通る to get a little bit more sense of so-called 少女漫画. I found that together with BF these three are all categorized as 少女漫画, the differences between them are too much to list. Like many other people I questioned a lot why BF is also categorized in it because there are many things in it you won’t be able to see in other works in the same genre. But during my second watching of BF I somehow could get a glimpse that it is truly a 少女漫画. And I think the main issue is with the logic in the plot. Sometimes you don’t need a very sophisticated logics in the plot as you need in Desinated Survivor or Into the Night (yes they are my two favorite Netflix shows) . Thinking about はいからさんが通る, do we need so much reasons for 少尉 doing whatever he can to get 紅緒 out of trouble? So the twist is the same at here, although the relationship between Ash and Eiji is not simple as it between 少尉 and 紅緒, but might be as complicated (in a good way and needs effort to interpret) as Edgar and Alan? I put my words here because when Yut-Long wants Ash to give him the research materials about banana fish and go back to Golzine otherwise he will kill Eiji, Ash then go to Max and asked for the files (with his gun aiming at Max). Max almost doesn’t say nothing and gives it to him but he points out that Ash is doing this for Eiji. I think this part is kind of out of the logic because Max would not be so willing to give the files to him, and Ash did all those things only because of the threat that If he doesn’t do this Eiji will be killed by Yut-Long and Blanca. This is a completely 少女漫画 thing I would say, and it is not bad.

My favorite episode is definitely EP9 “Save Me the Waltz”, Save Me The Waltz is a novel written by Zelda, and this is the only literature work that has been mentioned in the ending cards that written by female writer. This is one reason and feminists like me love those small detailes that can inspire a lot of interpretations. Ash’s appearance in this episode is fabulous, and it is a classic actualization of カリスマ, as you might see in the 中詰 of EXICTER!! The moment when Arthur loosing the chain and Ash reaching for gun looks like an angel is forced falling to the ground, it is beautiful.

The discussion in episode 17 when Ash and Eiji heading to Long Island on the Ferry was amazing. I keep thinging of the song 彼女はエメラルド by DaizyStripper. I strongly recommend you to check it out. I would also want you to go over the album Born To Die by Lana Del Rey, especially Dark Paradise and Summertime Sadness. You may also want to try Old Money and Young And Beautiful. It is better for you to do this after finishing the whole season, but it’s completely up to you.

I also love how eng subtitles translate THAT line as “I am going prostituting”, which is much better than the Simplified Chinese version. 

I went to New York first time in my life in 2017, by that time I am not obsessed with anything related to this “greatest city in the world”. I also went to St. Petersburg and Moscow this year and that was my first time to visit Russia. My second visit to NYC was in 2018 when I was there for getting a visa to Germany. I went to Trinity Church for Alexander Hamilton, Elisabeth Schuyler and Angelica Schuyler (okay I know it is not a proper time to reveal this but I think lot about “everything is legal in New Jersey” for the episodes when Ash was in that psychiatric facility in NJ). In 2019 I was obsessed with another fandom which I choose not to tell at here but I want to visit Queens at least once in my life time.  Finally now in 2020 I am recalled back to this great city and observe more -- the lovely the disgusting things, as well as the summertime sadness.

From that Hamilton vibes I also want to say that Garden of Light makes me think of Who lives, Who dies, Who tells your story. It seems that BF brings in more ideas to the discussion about “what is legacy”, the question that never will be out of date. 

And...this is just a meme but how about THE PHANTOM OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY??? 

「私の真の愛を受け止めて　いつもあなたが　音楽で私の心　包むように」

The song that immediately came to my mind after the ending of EP24 was the last number of musical Don Juan in Act 2, which is called Don Juan Est Mort. In Japanese version directed by 生田大和 and played by 望海風斗 this number has a lyric like “愛に呪われて愛に散った男 忘れない”, which impacted my heart with the insurmountable sorrow and sadness. I never feel drastically sad when I watch the ending of Don Juan, but this time I feel more than anything I have came up with when I do it. 

Please let me to share something personal at here:

Aslan means “dawn”. Ibe’s niece has 曉 as her name. I also have 晓 in my name. My mother chose this character for me because I was born at 7am in the morning. When I was reading Garden of Light I think there are so much feelings that I couldn’t express perfectly in words. I know I am strongly related to this story and I am so happy I get to know this amazing work. This is a epic I will never forget. 

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[the-madame21]

B, C, F, H, R for fanfiction ask!

B: Any of your stories inspired by personal experience? I mean I guess all of them in one way or another. As much as I’d like to say they all spring from my lively imagination, most are real life things that I went bibbity bobbity boo to lmfao. The Aquarium scene in my omegaverse was actually a fun mashup to do. Iwa buys Oikawa a stuffed otter and I did that for my bf’s birthday once because he loves otters XD Also the whole science project thing Kuroo had to do (and his reason for knowing so much about turtles) was also influenced by my bf, who actually had to do said project. (I had to do mine on jellyfish, in case anyone was wondering)

C: What member do you identify with most? Uhhhh shit that’s a hard one. I guess…either Edgar or Eloise from Pyres. Probably more Eloise. Because she’s just so in love with love and she listens to her parents and is just completely oblivious when it comes to breaking the rules lmfao. She’s kind of a fucking idiot goody-two-shoes and I guess I was too for a super long time XD Or you know what Astrid is sort of like that too, except more of like an in-between version? She’s like the shift from the goody-two-shoes into the more mature type of person she was always meant to be. 

F: Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

“Why not begin a collection?“

She seemed to think about that, but quickly laughed again. "No,” she said a bit sadly, “Mother would never allow it. It’s silly after all. I’d have no time, what with chasing after Shu and everything else.”

Reiji scoffed.

“Why don’t you like him?” she said hesitantly.

“He’s a good for nothing.” He didn’t even bother to hide his irritation.

“You shouldn’t say such things.” She said seriously, “We’re the same, you and I. We will be his strong supporting army of two.” She smiled.

“Tch. I know well my duty to this family.”

She nodded sheepishly, worried she had overstepped her bounds. She quickly tried to change the topic. “Say, Reiji, why don’t you do it?”

“Do what?”

“Collect tableware.” Her cheeks reddened again, and he found it rather curious, considering she was generally able to control such things.

“You’re interested in perfection aren’t you? Wouldn’t you agree that these come close?” she held up the cup as evidence.

He hummed in amusement, “Yes, I suppose so.”

I was going to choose something from Pyres but DAMMIT WE’RE NOT AT THAT CHAPTER YET. *ahem* anyways, I was freaking so happy about this scene in Masks and no one ever touched upon it so I’ll squeal about it now. I mean like Reina’s the reason for the teacups. She’s why he starts collecting. *screams* did no one catch that??? But yeah. I loved this. I love adding my own flare into the already established canon. 

H: How would you describe your style? I was told once that I had a very “Salinger” kind of style. So I guess I’ll go with that lmao. People always compliment me on my flow so I guess my style is all flowy~~~? lmfao idk

R: Are there any writers (fanfic or otherwise) you consider an influence? Well Salinger I guess since apparently I take from his style XD E.T.A Hoffman, for sure, I like the way they write. It’s creepy but in the uncanny way more than the scary way. *gets goosebumps* I fucking love it.