#intergenerational horrors

[yuri-for-businesswomen]

we need more feminist horror

[opheliasam]

realising that dean Resents sam . while also deeply loving his baby brother Is crazy bc it’s bc of this that the audience also resents sam . Except for when he’s sammy.. helpless and quiet and resigned and never questioning dean’s decisions… girl they r chugging down the pro abuse rhetoric used for justifying the sustenance of the patriarchal familial structure repackaged as Family ❤️ koolaid over here . there’s poison in ur silly drink btw

[winepresswrath]

also the way these writers go for "my sister was my daughter" they are salivating over lestat/gabrielle they are so. excited. if we get next season i'm going to be watching through my fingers.

[pochapal]

this study scene is actually a fantasy illusion by beatrice to get the reader to hate every member of the family so much that they will not be as upset when she kills them all.

[briarmae]

I don't think my GRANDPA wants to watch SENSE8 with me, Netflix! So yes, when I visit him, I WANT HIM TO HAVE HIS OWN PROFILE AND ALGORITHM. And it's none of your business!

[kresnikcest]

We all know that drama cd isn’t canon but I derive so much joy out of Elle recounting Bisley hitting on fem!Ludger and Julius and Victor being like 😐 and then Elle mentions that Fractured Ludger also found fem!Ludger attractive and Victor is like 😑

[houseofwomn]

cannibalism as a metaphor for intergenerational trauma

[aceredshirt13]

finally started reading Poirot. I’m about 6 chapters into The Mysterious Affair at Styles. And I just want to point out that if Poirot is like retirement age (60sish?) and Hastings is 30, then when Hastings is having doubts about Poirot’s current methods while talking about how Poirot was a great detective “in his day”, “his day” would have been, what? Under the age of forty-five, at the very least? And Hastings speaks of it as if he was personally familiar with Poirot’s methods at the time.

This would mean Hastings was like thirteen or fourteen years old. Absolutely Tintining it up. And the fact that I am not yet aware of any adaptation where fortysomething Poirot is investigating crime scenes while tailed by his fourteen-year-old self-proclaimed apprentice from England is an immense tragedy.

[sophiegoose]

The immediate emotional whiplash of finally watching Akira today at a friend's place then coming home and finally watching Turning Red

[communistkenobi]

I think the psychology of Jeremy Renner is very funny, like not as an individual but as a specific location within society. I’m thinking about what Parkins (and Engels and etc) said about the petit-bourgeoisie being marked by a deep abiding terror over the instability of their own fortunes, that unlike the aristocracy there is not the same institutional guarantee of intergenerational class reproduction, and so the middle classes are terrified of every shadow on the wall for fear it could ruin them financially. So strong is this terror that this is a subjectivity inhabited by successful and unsuccessful people alike. And I’m also thinking about that Indigo F video essay about the gaylor phenomenon where they talk about how people who like extremely popular things (like the MCU) feel a deep insecurity over their own mainstream tastes and want to position themselves as being cool in the culture (thus a potential explanation for the gaylor phenomenon as a post-hoc justification for liking the most popular musician on the planet).

And so combining these two things together, to be an actor in something so dominant as the MCU, there also needs to be a similar bourgeois terror/hegemonic insecurity right ? We all heard what Martin Scorsese said about those movies. But at least if you’re Robert Downey Jr you’re something approaching a real actor on top of being one of the A-list stars in said hegemony, so there’s a certain level of security there. But Jeremy Renner is Hawkeye. You are marginal gentry in the McMansion kingdom, but you don’t even get the security of being gentry, you’re just bourgeois. So you create an app themed after yourself. The Jeremy Renner app. That is an articulation of a deep unshakeable terror at your own existence. Every time he appears on camera you can see the horror in his eyes no matter how well he tries to mask it

[wolfythoughts]

Book Review: The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro

Alejandra, deep in the throes of postpartum depression, starts to see the specter of the Mexican folk demon La Llorona. Summary:Alejandra no longer knows who she is. To her husband, she is a wife, and to her children, a mother. To her own adoptive mother, she is a daughter. But they cannot see who Alejandra has become: a woman struggling with a darkness that threatens to consume her. Nor can…

[kaesaaurelia]

soooo I just finished watching that star wars hotel video and oh my god the fire safety what the fuckkkk

BUT ALSO if you are some kind of weirdo who watched this (or the evermore video) and was like "man I wish that thing existed but was good," I... can't help you specifically with Star Wars (or generic high fantasy settings) but if you are an adult or a family with teens (who are okay with some mild references to sexuality in a coming-of-age context -- which honestly would go over the heads of most kids too young to deal with them?), don't have issues with darkness, flashing lights, or potential immune issues due to touching touchscreens, and enjoy a little light cosmic and/or implied body horror I highly highly suggest going to Omega Mart next time you are in Las Vegas. It is surreal and fun and while I definitely ran into some issues there with 1. going down the story path I didn't mean to go down and 2. LOSING MY EMPLOYEE ID CARD (to be clear I did not work there, in the fiction of the game all guests are Omega Mart employees), there were helpful (actual) employees there to jump in and help me without breaking immersion at all. They were great.

There are some pathways (physical pathways) that require an ability to climb stairs but there are ALWAYS multiple paths between two points so while you might not be able to crawl through the tunnel and then climb the rope from [spoiler place] to [other spoiler place] or do the slides, you can still physically get to the plot-important places and I think at most people who can't do stairs miss... some kind of pointless music machines? (Which I had fun with ngl but I fucked around with them for like 10 minutes more because I was in the area looking for my lost ID badge and asking if people had found it.) I haven't been to the other Meow Wolf installations but I would love to go given the chance.

And if you really want a themed hotel... well, you can't find an eldritch dimension-hopping supermarket-themed hotel, no, but if you stay on the strip there's going to be a lot of neon and trying to sell you things, and also optionally a theme, so like. That's not dissimilar.

Fire safety both at these Vegas hotels and at Omega Mart will be better than crawling into a small closet with 4 of your closest friends and hoping to not die, also. And a substantial amount of the story of Omega Mart is "wow corporate greed does ruin everything," so if you liked the video you probably will also like this.

[Edit: also to be clear I don't really think Omega Mart is small-child-friendly, but mostly because it's a lot of reading, and the bulk of it is either corporate memos or a teenage girl's diaries. A lot of the stuff I found most engaging was exploring the strained intergenerational family dynamic between the girl, her mom, and her grandfather, something that small children would find either boring or upsetting or both. It's not the sexuality that's the issue, it's some offscreen implied character death-but-not-really (that not-really doesn't make it better!) and just plain bad parenting, plus the broader theme of a greedy grocery chain turning ancient mystery and natural wonder into queasy reality-breaking horror.]

[thelittlestspider]

i also think people who are queasy about writing horror would also like gothic because it's not as focused on being scary. gothic is more about like talking about social issues with horror as a backdrop, and it's more about the atmosphere being eerie and uneasy than being scary. it's really about the dread.

i feel like some of the people who like elevated horror really just want gothic films and don't even realize it.

[whoopsitswincest]

i keep seeing posts in the wincest tag like, "if you ship them there is something wrong with you that is disgusting THEY ARE BROTHERS"

So...in case you're new, allow me to echo what so many others before me have said:

1. Yeah, we know they're brothers. That's kinda...the whole point.

2. They're fictional.

3. Shipping has no bearing on real-world morals.

4. It is kinda disgusting, yeah. That's all part of it.

5. Whether we ship it or not doesn't change the fact that it's there.

6. Supernatural is a horror show and one of the central themes is the horror of isolation, enmeshment and intergenerational trauma. Incest is part of that.

7. Just...watch the show. You'll see it.

And when you do, we will welcome you with open arms!

[romanceyourdemons]

bones (2001) fully deserves its status as a cult classic. campy, clever, and not only enjoyable but effective, the film’s acting and practical effects are both rightfully praised. for the acting, snoop dogg and pam grier absolutely carry the film with their chemistry and electric screen presence; for the effects, the film shifts between gritty present, dreamy past, and the grotesque supernatural with striking ease. through all this, the film’s argument is not particularly difficult to glean. foregoing the subtler presentation of films like eve’s bayou (1997), this film follows its contemporary tales from the hood (1995) in using extremely clear symbols to state what they mean. the characters are haunted, quite literally, by the ghost of 1970s black culture and the cultural (and literal) violence with which crack hit the streets in the 80s. this transition, the film clearly shows, divides peoples’ perception of black neighborhoods into three factions: those who wish to stay with the neighborhoods and uplift them; those who wish to flee the neighborhoods and disavow them; and those who wish to exploit the neighborhoods and profit off of them. at the point of culture-rending violence that forms the bleeding wound at the heart of the film, the third (white-led) faction turns the other two (black-led) factions against one another—sparking a cycle of destruction and intergenerational violence that no amount of prayer and simple forgiveness can resolve. straightforward though this narrative is, its presentation is both narratively and visually beautiful, rendering bones (2001) a film that is not only a very good, very fun, frightening and incisive watch, but also one that connects with a larger horror beyond the protection of incantations or daylight

[talesfromthebandgeekmafia]

…Turns out Burrow’s End was not about cute magic stoats trying to find a new home, but SCIENCE FICTION HORROR that asks the question:

“What if the rats of Nimh just brutally murdered the humans and took over their lab?”

And the answer to that question is an Animal Farm dystopia featuring horrifying mutated creatures but really the story is a heartwrenching drama about a family trying to survive in the post-apocalypse and how they deal with their new reality and the traumas they’ve endured and it’s about what it means to be a parent and a child and an individual person within a family group and how the random horrors we endure by virtue of living lives as small insignificant creatures in our random universe can fuck us up and lead to intergenerational hurt and how it’s up to us to be more open and compassionate towards eachother if we ever want to make things better and heal those wounds but also everyone is a stoat