#loved this one it was very suspenseful
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Cam and I have been watching some real bangers lately
#Sudden Fear#Joan Crawford#Jack Palance#Gloria Grahame#loved this one it was very suspenseful#movie poster
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if i can be honest here this is really one of my least favourite parts of the way the romances are written. the idea that you can only really fall in love once (and both the related ideas that, if this love is real, then every other relationship you've had must not have really been love and that, if you have been in love before, your previous love somehow cheapens the current love) is so completely juvenile. it's the kind of line of thought you'd expect to see in a young adult novel marketed exclusively to 12- to 16-year-olds for whom every emotion feels like the most intense, ultimate feeling they could ever have, and who do not yet have the life experiences to understand (or appreciate) the complexities of love. "i've only ever loved this one person this way, every other feeling i've thought was love has just been a poor imitation" is a pretty thought but is ultimately a fantasy (and one that i, personally, find incredibly disrespectful towards people who have been in love and then fall in love again).
it would be one thing if this idea was espoused by only one of the characters. if only n (just as an example) bought into the idea that only one love can be your true love, then that would say something about n's character, their romantic and life history, the way they view and interpret the world, etc. but instead all of the ros seem to follow this line of thought - they've all never been in real love before, if they and the detective broke up they'd never experience this kind of love again, they're all soulmates, etc. and in that way this idea is not a characterization choice for particular characters, but an idea perpetuated by the work as a whole. and in my (biased and personal) opinion, it's a childish and unrealistic idea.
#i have many many personal little bones to pick with wayhaven. my own hills to privately die on. and this is one of them#except i'm doing it publicly#and to be clear: there's nothing universally wrong with young adult novels for 12-16 year olds. some of them are very good#but if you know the kind of book i mean then You Know#'your vampire romance is unrealistic? fork found in kitchen' yea well this requires more suspension of disbelief than the vampirism#and is representative of an ideology that is personally repellant to me 💕#if this doesn't make sense it's because it was written quickly and barely edited. peace and love on planet post xoxo
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My desire to support a Biblical sitcom done in a respectful way vs. my hatred of the mockumentary style, FIGHT!
#it's a great thing i queued that post about 'the promised land'#because it did remind me to watch it#as a mashup of exodus and the office it's pretty brilliantly done#starting it in exactly the right place to set up the 'coworkers trying to keep this thing running' format#unfortunately it matched the style so well that it reminded me of all the reasons i hate 'the office'#it managed to overcome my suspension of disbelief in a way this style usually doesn't#because of course the israelites didn't have cameras so the documentary crew sits nicely in the realm of absurdity#but everything else about the office is not my sense of humor at all#the seven seconds of awkward silence after every single joke#the deadened soundscape that sucks the very life out of your soul#the way everyone speaks with the same inflections and tone in a very narrow emotional band#and everything is so understated as to erase almost all personality#no one is clever or witty#there is no banter no frenzy no outsized personalities#just everyone existing in this narrow band of faint absurdity#and the thing is i do like these characters!#joshua is adorable!#zipporah is darling#miriam is...kind of off-putting but i'll go with it#the egyptian is a brilliant concept#the moments of earnestness made me really feel for these people#but the question is if my interest in them can overcome my distate for this style#but great news: if you love the office this will be great for you
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Reading a fic that's so well written I wish I could close my eyes and just let the descriptions and atmosphere wash over me, but the dilemma with closing my eyes is, well, I then would not be able to continue reading this fic, now would I.
#fanfiction#fanfic#reading#i don't read longform fic very often but this one is so good wow i'm in awe and clicking next chapter next chapter#the movie it's for I'm not even a particular major fan of itself but I am a fan of the character and the ideas and oh my god#they perfect it to a tee in every way even better than the movie could and yet keep their characterization spot on in line with the og#it's amazing the way they balance the humour and banter with the suspense/tension and drama/horror#and their descriptions are gorgeous/pick out just the right details#their follow-up is more canonical to me as a sequel than the actual official sequel which is wrong in so many ways#and I am in love with their writing style so much my god#i'll say the fic if asked probably will honestly make a rec post for it when I'm done just because wow but here i'm just vague posting#i mean it's 10 yrs old and I've been reading fic for 8-9 yrs and it is truly one of the best I've read in all of that#from all my tags I mean you can labour a guess for the fandom or fic and if you were to guess it wow good job I'd be impressed#but anyway !!! love finding masterpieces I hope this person decided to become an author in those 10 yrs almost *sobs*#I'm gonna say the fic anyway whatever it's From Out the Ocean Risen by Bluestar god it's good (for p/acific r/im)
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Watching original Kamen Rider and there is something so just like innately charming about all of it. Like you could make the argument that yeah a lot in terms of creative aspects like choreography or cinematography or special effects is outdated or of poor quality but I honestly think that the way they go about using what they had at the time is really impressive. There’s a lot of genuinely really neat costuming and camera shots and use of lighting or specific effects and it lends itself to a very enjoyable experience in my eyes. Also I like Hongo's actor a lot
#kamen rider#kamen rider extravaganza hour#dinu yells into the void#dinu yells in the void#im not watching all 98 episodes in one sitting ive picked out like. 40 episodes or so i thought sounded the funniest and im watching those#idk how much ill liveblog it all because ive been genuinely so fucked up mentally during june#watching kr is literally just a like. im having fun! (: type of experience in an otherwise Very Bad month#i know ppl make fun of a lot old superhero properties or at least i always saw ppl make fun of old superhero properties but again#i tnink their efforts to make something out of the i assume limited budget and time they had is very endearing#theres a lot of really cool shots and like. yeah i can Tell when something is just a shot reused to be more technically impressive#but like. it is technically impressive. if you let yourself have love in your heart its fun.#remember your suspension of belief…..#believe in whimsy….
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You’re gonna die if you keep that up (Patreon)
#Doodles#SCII#Damned#ZEX#Kayako#And Teisel's there technically#*Die again - he's sticking with his track record lol at least he's consistent#Ghost/Curse GF arc!! I enjoy seeing ZEX happy but I am Concerned for him lol#ZEX be attracted to something/one that won't brutally murder him challenge - difficulty impossible#His affection for the grotesque and monstrous - I mean while it's admirable he does regularly put himself in dangerous situations!#Runs solely on the Suspension Bridge Effect lol - attraction and fear so conflated in his mind <3#I keep thinking of his human instincts as specifically Max's instincts since it's his body - Max's self-preservation and fear and hunger#Which ZEX dutifully ignores lol Max's body tells him to bolt and privately replies like ''Yes yes in a moment'' haha#His fascination wins out! To his own detriment haha#Although I say all that as though I don't relate in my own way - I have maybe just a few too many notes relating to ZEX lol#It's always been hard for me to get into horror in the way it's intended to spook and scare because I tend to get sad :')#So many monsters and ghosts and creatures are victims of circumstance! Like Kayako! As she is here she's not even malicious just dangerous#I've never seen the Grudge so it's only speculation but it seems very sad that she was tethered as a Curse rather than a malignant spirit#Like a battery moreso than an individual - what a terrible after-existence! It makes me sad to consider!#ZEX reaching out to her in his own way is very sweet <3 He's so biased towards his darlings hehe#In a way being human does suit him - we'll packbond with anything that Might have even the slightest inclination to not maim us lol#And the way he personifies her! (VUXonifies her?) Reading intention or emotion into her actions with no proof and no understanding!#The way he ''tries to read her face'' as if he hasn't been struggling with that this entire time - with other humans who can tell him so ♪#His pride is so delicious <3 He is so easily blinded to his own shortcomings in the face of pleasure and the potential for connection!#It's no wonder DAX worries about him so much hehe ♥#It also always makes me so happy to have something fit together so perfectly like those last two hehe <3#That vine didn't exist when this happened! But there it is!! I love newer memes on older media hehehe ♪♫
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i find it veryyyy very funny when ppl hate on theatre. and especially musical theatre. thats where all ur favs came from......
#when ppl were like Spongebob is pinnicle of art#and then decided it was cringe bc of the musical when the ariana/ethan thing came out#also literally like mainstream musicals. ppl have ZERO whimsy#when ppl r like Welllll i just dont get why they start singing out of nowhere#USE UR BRAINNNNNN!!!!!!!! ITS PART OF THE MEDIUM#ppl love old disney movies (musicals) but think the new ones (musicals) are cringe#we dont talk abt bruno was so popular it was on radios. but once ppl realised they technically liked a musical it was cringe#wwhaaattever.#btw i love jukebox musicals too. personally i prefer jukebox for movies and traditional for theatre#fav jukeboxes icludeee every despme movie.. happy feet.. alvin n chipmunks... rio.. sing. gnomeo and juliet#lol well. mostly kids movies. but its fun#also a very sweeping statement i do actually rlly love trad musicials when they r like. ANIMATED!!!!!!!!! ANIMATED.#it lends itself to more suspension of disbelief#old disney i rlly love.... Lion kinggggggg.#controversially maybe i liked the greatest showman.... i felt it worked well enough.#everyone knows cats was bad. COULD have been saved if it was animated w cartoon actual cats#aristocats style. lion king style.#les mis i havent seen but have no real interest LOL. that style i feel RLLY needs to stay on stage
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i think something moonage daydream was really good at doing was capturing a vibe
#sir.txt#the thing it was second best at was painting a picture... that movie is a watercolor rendition of a galaxy to me#i feel like the linear progression of bowie's life in the movie never being marked by any specific dates not even years... it gives it that#not cut and dry feeling. none of these events exist solely in one day of one year they are something that will span longer than ourselves#one day- a couple of hours- stretched into infinity simply by the fact that they were not confined within a date#i think that's something worthy of bowie. to be immortalized not through the medium itself but by how the medium refuses to cage him within#any set parameters that would be too extreme and unsatisfying for him would he be there to choose#instead letting him trespass all those barriers and just be and transcend#my boyfriend says the film is like bowies superstar cosmic journal well i say the film is like bowies watercolor rendition of a galaxy in#formation- and all the stars are still forming and the watercolor still hasn't dried as another layer is added so shades melt within-into-#each other#like how bowie refused to keep himself caged within one style one look one identity he surpassed all of those boundaries and transformed#into something else... it is only fair that the film capture it in a similar way... all of the flashy colors and editing is just a#projection of bowies spirit itself in all its vibrancy and extravagance without being supercilious#this movie was touching but also fun for the sake of fun and eccentric for the sake of eccentricity. it's a must watch for whoever loves#bowie at his most raw and unrestrained and undefined... i felt like falling through the screen to bw held by him at several moments#BECAUSE that's what the movie is it's the galaxy wrapping its arms around the unknowing astronaut#and welcoming them into itself because nobody in this reality is actually an outsider of life- nobody passively observes the universe-#that's something that i found very moving in the film was how bowie surpassed that feeling of all-encompassing loneliness that was#what propeled him to create art... and found acceptance and loving and understood he wasn't alien to all of it.#it's very moving again like i said. but specially movingfor someone like me who struggles so hard not to simply idly observe things and let#life reject me. I can't keep letting these things write themselves into existence over and over and maybe just maybe#that film helped me snap back into a higher sense of lucidity where i realise i have to take control of my life#but like. anyway.#bowies life is very mythologised but in part it is very much a self constructed myth which he himself took the time to skillfully architect#and its such that myth ceases to be only in suspension and untangible: bowie being extraterrestrial.#he.... he integrates so much into the planet he does become an energy traversing through earth. he becomes life itself but in the least self#important way this sentiment could be expressed.#there will never be another bowie- as there will never be another dylan or reed or lennon. there will never be circumstances which will come#but to quote the movie. his life hasnt ended. only changed. thats beautiful. anyways my tags are up
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so obviously on a meta level beholders and beholderkin only roll for random eyebeam attacks for game balance reasons, because 'and the beholder has a disintigration beam!! watch out!!' is dangerous in a way that's fun and exciting but 'and the boholder systematically disintigrates each of you, game over' is not, but this mechanic is very funny to me in the specific context of being able to have a gazer as a familiar which is bonded with and theoretically obedient to a player character
all day long he's telekinetically pushing things off your desk over and over like an asshole cat, using fear on passing children, sniping birds out of a flock overhead with frost rays. you get into combat. you tell him to only focus on attacking with frost rays, a thing you absolutely know he is fully capable of doing, and he just simply does not. actually he's gonna go ahead and do whatever he feels like, thanks
#I also like 'gazers have 3 int and get too excitable in combat and just start firing at random'#but 'gazers are dickheads and are gonna be annoying on purpose' is funnier to me#I say this with love I love melliwyk's wretched awful gazer so much#anyway it's obviously on a different level but having to roll for player-controlled gazerbeams is also necessary for game balance#'yeah you just get a gun that shoots 3d10 twice per round for free forever' isn't exactly balanced lmao#but ALSO obviously 'beholders use disintigration and telekinesis to build their lairs--'#'--but they can't actually choose what ray they are using and they can't use any one ray twice in a row' cannot possibly be in-world true#to be honest I am Bothered by beholders because it's hard to justify in-world why they wouldn't just focus fire sometimes#but also meta-wise they Cannot and I would very much not want to change that :') but also I DO like beholders in theory#one of the bits of dnd where the dissonance between game mechanics and in-world reasonings really strain my suspension of disbelief#fortunately as a player all I have to worry about is one gazer and fortunately gazers are stupid and also dickheads 😌#my OCs#melliwyk
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Can I just say that the scariest thing about a scary movie is people screaming.
Had a mini movie party and we were watching Before I Wake, and it was just me my husband and 6 friends. And it really wasn’t that scary. But every time something freaky happened they were all screaming and one specific friend was literally bouncing off my walls. She never sat down, she was always either pacing around or she was sitting like a frog so she could start running when something creepy happened. Girl ran into a door at one point, and then another time she literally bellyflopped onto the floor, and then there was quite a while before another “scary” scene, and she literally jumped so high and flopped onto me, my husband, and her fiancé and started screaming.
I was doing fine like it wasn’t that bad at all but when she was running around being a little monster because she doesn’t do very well with creepy movies, she makes everyone else freak out, and then I feel stupid for laughing at them because I’m supposed to be screaming and crying too because it’s a sad and creepy movie, but I’m not because I think it’s hilarious when they’re all screaming because of the one friend who can’t hold still.
I have to throw scary movie parties more often because I haven’t been this entertained in a long time 🤣
#no offense to the one friend#i love you with all my heart#I just think it’s very funny#before i wake#scary movies#scary#scary stuff#halloween#horror movie#horror#thriller#suspense#canker man#cancer man#everybody dies in their nightmares#nightmare
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Just saw Godzilla Minus One last night, having an Extremely Normal One about it. Art isn't dead after all
#go see it guys if you can I swear to god#tho there are a couple scenes which if you have severe thalasophobia Mayne....maybe don't or at least take a bathroom break then#Because for me thats never been an issue but FUCK I was biting my own hand in the theater#bouncing in my seat I was so tense because the suspense was AWFUL it was so good#it is. Not what I expected because I knew literally nothing about it besides 'its a godzilla movie' and my friend said it was good. I went#to see it because I'm a monster movie fan and wanted to meet up with a friend over movies and dinner and nothing else I give even one rats#ass about besides the color purple is out rn#so it shot the MOON over my expectations which were...me going in totally blind#the score is haunting the cast is goddamn incredible so is the cinematography and it has SO much to say allegorically#not just about the roots of the franchise aka the horrors of nuclear power#but about the effects of war and mental health stigma and the power of love and community and its a very humanizing film#unlike some other monster/disaster movies and. Ahhh#you will care so much about the humans in this movie
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I would ramble about Deviser rn but I can’t describe how it makes me feel so uhh listen to Deviser <3
#camera talks#episode 7 my beloved#deviser#deviser podcast#also if you do listen to it I recommend looking at the more advanced content warnings if you need those#it does spoil some things and lessen the suspense but the content is Very Very dark in deviser so#anyways the devil song (end theme episode 2) is such a fun song I love that one#and the stories Dad recounts for Son during the episodes gods I love it so much#I love looking into it too much but also the right amount to be Normal about this#hmm I love deviser and malevolent do much#*so#Harlan is an amazing story creator and voice actor#don’t know why I’m posting about it now lol. this is like my 4th relisten
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NGL all this suspense feels unsustainable. People are going to make the darkest, edgiest theories possible in their head; even if it goes beyond all reason; and then it's just gonna turn out that Emmet got swapped with a Warden AU version of himself.
people certainly seem to be thinking that it's something that 'simple'.*
but, uh. once again. i guess we'll see what happens!
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#answered#not art#placeholder au#i apologize for the overuse of the shruggy emoticon but it truly is verrrrrry useful#*simple as in like. a lot of people are guessing multiple aus swapping#also reusing that one anon because it's funny and i love it#(if it helps... might get some reprieve from the suspense Real Soon. (then again it could very well make someone More confused.))
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Honestly, bit of a weird choice to go with Lucifer as the guy to help with stopping Amara. Like Michael's still in the cage, right? And they don't even bring it up as an option.
Michael's older, stronger, and loyal to God. He also helped seal Amara away and has a better reputation with Heaven. Also, that would have fit quite well with Sam's vision of John.
#this might be an unpopular opinion in the fandom but i very much do not understand the show's love affair with lucifer#he was a great villain in season 5 but i've hated pretty much every second he's been on screen since#this plot would have been a good opportunity to explore michael more#and while i have many questions comments and concerns re cas saying yes to lucifer#i'd buy him saying yes to michael in a heartbeat given the situation#(if cas has to be possessed for some reason - the writers really were at a loss with him at this point eh?)#any of them seriously considering setting lucifer free is a bit beyond the scope of my suspension of disbelief#but michael?#i could see them contemplating rolling the dice on that one#of course that would also require sam and dean to remember and give half a shit about the brother who is still locked in a cage in hell#which they'd rather die than do#spn#spn s11
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please read Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint
a comic about fix-it fanfics
#your life rewritten by someone who loves you#orv’s plot is literally a self insert fix it fic where KDJ make it so YJH has a happy ending#but also#the essence of orv itself is HSY denying KDJ’s own self fulfilling tragedy ripping it apart with her hands and making ridiculous demands of#the story which ends up working because hsy is a genius author and the best liar in the world#sometimes a lie becomes real because you need it to be real#a story is as real as it’s impact on you#and sometimes that impact is to make you believe that a better happier ending can exist and is realistic#and you can have it if you reach for it#even 1863 reinforces this as a timeline where HSY acted as a good writer should and killed her darlings for the sake of the ‘perfect story’#the only reason KDJ opposed her was a very childish one#‘just once isn’t he allowed to be happy?’#even if it doesn’t make sense#even if it’s not good for the story#a fix it fic is something that allows you as a reader to witness a world where that could happen#it suspends your suspension of disbelief#lies until those lies become real#it’s a miracle! the common kind of miracle that happens everywhere and all the time. it’s love babyyy
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hello gamers minor life update I have been doing Real bad lately so I will likely continue to be very inactive, but hey on the bright side I have been fleshing out some eternal gales lore I reworked a while back and I can happily say that Dodie no longer completely contradicts the very nature of reality in eternal gales and the fog tower™ officially has a real reason to exist again so hell yeah to that
#rat rambles#eternal gales#oc posting#this is a piece of lore I technically updated a while ago but I mostly just relocated dodie home to a different piece of worldbuilding#but now Im fleshing things out a bit more and Im so glad that I set myself up such an easy way to jump ship on the old stuff#it also makes my life easier because it means that I have an actual reason for mase to be the first person dodie encounters in person#also an actual reason to trap him at first sorry dude it adds to the suspense#longggggg story short dodie lives in the universe's core of sorts#its where all the other characters are transported to at the beginning of the story due to other stuff#I already had it as a thing that the core attempts to replicate the casts home and food and such to help maintain them#but the fog tower™ had its core echo in place since forever basically#mostly because the narrator wanted to get dodie a home set up in the core instead of having to find a way to house her in notmal society#now the tower wasnt exactly meant to be found but it still had to be real enough to actually get echoed so it was real enough to be found#hense why mase's family lives in the lower half of it#the top half is fully reserved for setting up stuff to be echoed to dodie's tower#this is mostly handled my cup aka dodie's long distance mom figure#but most of that stuff was done before dodie was properly created and as such cup had to fight for their life to figure out how to best get#this child growing up in fucked up situations as happy and stable as they could with limited budget and time#they were also dealing with doing a lot of this behind the backs of mase's parents as the two wanted them to provide just the bare basics#despite this cup managed to sneak in a shit ton more video tapes than they were supposed to and attempted to cover as much as possible#ofc dodie still ended up incredibly unstable and fucked up anways but she still loves her long distance video mom dearly#up til she was like 12 or so those tapes were the only way she could see and hear another person#but yeah in the echoed version the lower half of the tower is mostly consumed by plantlife and the such#hense why dodie avoids the area like the plague she has hashtag issues regarding plants#oh yeah Ive also been thinking abt fydd a lot lately#I have been slowly developing a bit of a side plot for him in my head that Im not 100% sure Im going to commit to but Im mivrowaving it#basically I was thinking abt each of the human casts sort of quote unquote domains are#by that I mean the whole reason they get drawn to the universe core is because theyre all sorta connected to universe functions#fydd is one of the weird ones because his place in the system is the basic software ig would be the best way to put it?#hes connected to the very base of the system that the rest of the functions are built into
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