#mix more genres

[terrietont]

This is coming from someone who enjoys horror/thriller/gore/spooky stuff (you get the idea) as a genre but does anyone else just get sick of it after a while? I feel like horror only works the best when there’s more than a single genre put into it. Mixing horror/thriller with tragedy, comedy, family, action is way more investing than just “spooky dark story about death and monsters”

It gets real old real quick for me tbh. That’s why I love it when people make satire horror stuff or wholesome stuff out of horror, because it gives you something different after a while when you’ve been seeing the same ‘dread, death, blood, evil cults, mental torture’ with little to no chance of a happy or even bittersweet ending.

Or the weird doomsday reaction to anything that’s in their favorite genre as something that “Saved” the genre or something that “ruined” the genre…

A huge example of this is the Liminal space vs Backrooms debate. I’m more 50/50 on it, but I personally think putting horror into something that’s already unsettling doesn’t really add anything to it, but at the same time, it’s also fun to do so and I can get behind the interest of it.

There’s no right and wrong with this stuff, I just wish people wouldn’t gatekeep about their favourite genres and more open to lots of different mixed stories and writing, instead of trying to keep everything “pure” all the time.

Horror and Comedy work so god damn well together too in my honest opinion.

[hydrangeyes]

*desperately wanting more anime/manga based around food. Like ACTUALLY about food - if there's a plot, I'll love it. But really, it's a bonus in comparison*

[delicioustarong]

u draw jd so spiky i love it

OMG THANKS! I really appreciate that 🥹

There is actually a reason why I draw him so spikey! I wanted him to look like his Dad while also resembling his mom a bit as well. I eventually decided to made all the brothers have bits of resemblance of their parents because of genes LOL

Here's my notes about it! :3

[chaoticgoodcaptain]

today, i've heard "best friend" by juice wrld and it makes me so happy that patrick stump sounds so happy on that song like i know he loves music but before the fob tour he sounded professional yet there was just this slight hint of apathy, now i swear he's living his best life truly enjoying his work

[steveharrington]

i love your taste in movies, do you have any recommendations for scary movies that are on streaming right now? i just moved and i'm planning to get a library card this weekend but until then i need something to tide me over :)

oh thank you!!! yes! this is just from taking a look around at some of the horror streaming guides i’ve seen online so hopefully these are accurate to which service they’re said to be on!

on netflix:

•train to busan (2016) is an all timer for me that i really think is just a masterpiece. even if you’re a little burned out on zombie media, i still say give train to busan a chance because it does zombies in a way that felt really refreshing and different. the characters in this movie are so well done and it makes me genuinely emotional every time i watch <3

•as above, so below (2014) is such a fun movie like omg….i simply was having the time of my life watching it. really leans into as many scares as it can possibly think of, doesn’t take itself or its subject matter too seriously, genuinely gives me sweaty palms sometimes with the claustrophobia of the paris catacombs. also has the rlly cute guy from cloverfield/super store who i have a big crush on

•some honorable mentions: zombieland (2009) is forever a comfort movie for me, scary stories to tell in the dark (2019) did a genuinely great job imo of adapting the book series, and pearl (2022) is just a great time

on HBO max:

•poltergeist (1982) is an underrated fav of mine <3 weirdly i think of it as like a family friendly horror movie? like i think you could sit down kids in front of poltergeist and they’d generally be okay, which i love and find so compelling in movies that genuinely are scary but also kinda work with younger viewers. feat. the iconic zelda rubinstein

•trick r treat (2007): THEEE halloween movie. its literally a movie ABOUT halloween and about the love of the holiday and the season. genuinely makes me feel so emotional about halloween and the beautiful lovely meaningful holiday it is for so many of us. just a fun campy time, everything ties together in such a clever way, and sam is a little baby. what more could you want?

•honorable mentions: of course the scream franchise (1-4) are classics and so worthy of rewatching, and i’ll recommend open water (2003) because to me it is absolutely terrifying and i find myself thinking about it very often

on hulu:

•the omen (1976) always hits for me. i love this movie and find it so effective in its horror. i LOVE a creepy kid. a bit of the omen trivia: in the final shot, damien wasn’t originally intended to be smiling. he was supposed to look dead ahead at the camera. but the actor was told to be serious and look stern, which made him giggle, so the smile at the end is genuine in that he was trying to suppress a laugh. they kept it because it came across so sinister and tonally perfect in the context of the movie :)

•sea fever (2020) listen no one EVER talks about this movie but i was blown away by it. ocean horror is one of my moms fav subgenres so if we can find a horror movie about the ocean you better believe we will be watching. i thought the concept of this movie and its monster (? if you can call it that) were so fresh and original. compared to its predecessors like leviathan or deep star six, i honestly think sea fever is more effective in its scares

•honorable mentions: hulu has so many good choices! alien (1979) and the fly (1986) are obviously beloved classics for a reason. also if you’re looking for a series, castle rock is near and dear to my heart and is very well done

on prime:

•hell house llc (2015) is another one of those classic Halloween movies to me like it truly is a love letter to the holiday…mwah. found footage is my fav subgenre and this movie does it very well. it has one of the most effective scares that truly took my breath away upon first watch and stuck with me ever since

•10 cloverfield lane (2016): ohhh the cloververse my beloved….i often speak highly of cloverfield (2008) because it’s one of my absolute favorite movies of all time, but i don’t as often talk about 10 cloverfield. not sure why tbh because i love it as well! holy FUCK john goodman is scary in this. it truly sets up a horrifying situation, does so much with a small limited environment, and again john goodman has me shakin in my boots. you don’t have to have seen cloverfield to watch this one! you can watch em out of order no problem

•honorable mentions: of course the thing (1982) is immaculate and gets me every single time. just getting reports right now that lisa frankenstein (2024) is already on prime, HIGHLY recommend, wish i could go back in time to the day i watched this in theaters alone in a new windbreaker i had just thrifted and felt so at peace

honorable streaming service mention: shudder is worth a subscription if you’re wanting to go all in on horror this halloween season. it’s got such a fun eclectic collection and amazing movies like late night with the devil (2024) and series like history of horror

[dont-hug-me-its-yuri]

Colin is frutiger Aero and Electracey is frutiger Metro

[go-go-devil]

Oh you're a queer kid? what's your fav music artist? and don't say...

gong

steve hillage

renaissance

Van der graaf generator

herbie hancock

premiata forneria marconi

spirogyra

laurie anderson

osibisa

carlos santana

supertramp

eloy

captain beefheart

haruomi hosono

weather report

fm

caravan

egg

national health

hatfield and the north

camel

laurie spiegal

jethro tull

hyakkei

billy cobham

neu!

return to forever

utopia

soft machine

jean-jacques perry

pink floyd

josé cid

can

the shaggs

traffic

penguin cafe orchestra

midori takada

goblin

henry cow

ruth white

mahavishnu orchestra

brand x

sun ra

allan holdsworth

piero umiliani

happy the man

mother superior

white heaven

jan dukes de grey

pauline anna strom

quadrophenia (yeah ik it's a musical)

rock & rule (yeah ik it's a musical x2)

jeff wayne's musical version of the war of the worlds (YEAH IK ITS A MUSICAL x3)

crack the sky

ghost (the japanese psychedelic band not the swedish metal one)

peter gabriel

alice coltrane

twin peaks soundtrack

bloodborne soundtrack

hylics soundtrack

or the hylics 2 soundtrack

edit: just to make clear that i don't know every queer band on existence

[good-beanswrites]

Any thoughts about your Hello Es AU?🎤

Thank you ooh -- this was so fun to think about! (I did some art earlier here :)) Spoiler warning for all three episodes of Hello Charlotte 🧸👁️🩸

So, out there in the real world somewhere, there exists “real Es”, (the Charles of the story) who has created Es as his perfect protagonist/ideal identity. Real Es ends up killing someone, and undergoing some kind of psychotic break that creates The House (now known as The Prison). Various people from his life appear there, each with their own murder, reflecting Real Es’ complex feelings about their own crime.

Es/Charlotte – A puppet at the whims of the audience. They have many forms along with conflicting thoughts and motivations. As lax as they may get about their own safety, they always take their duty to the tenets very seriously. They have a little Magalope pet :3 I know in canon the characters are separate, but I’m still picturing them as some combination of Q84 and Ep1/2 Charlotte. 

Fuuta/Felix – The fiery friend who's all bark and no bite. He’s the most openly aggressive out of everyone, but still ends up trying to help people around him. Through his attempts to do something helpful, his recklessness, and need to be treated as an adult, he can find himself in pretty significant danger.

Kazui/Aiden – Calm and quiet, but you get a sense he's very observant to the current situation in his silence. Just because he prefers to do his tailoring/piano hobbies doesn't mean he doesn’t have that underlying demon strength. The most parental over Es, even if they're not always receptive.

Shidou/Huxley – A doctor/scientist with a desire to help save the most (alien) lives that he can, even if it means living on the run as a criminal, as well as an odd coolness when it comes to unethical medical procedures.

Mikoto and John/Bennett – when he’s high on soap, he’s as cheery as always :) Just a normal working guy, you probably won’t even remember his face under the hazmat suit, very normal :) When the effects wear off and the stress gets to him, though, John fronts and isn't afraid to defend himself from any perceived threat.

Yuno/Florence – Puts up a cheery front and is happy to work when she's having fun. After a bit of prodding, she reveals a much more serious and jaded side. She gets along with everyone, but isn't afraid to tell her real feelings to Es when the time is right.

Haruka and Muu /Anri – I’m kind of splitting Anri to make two characters, still capturing her fluctuating status in school and attitude of give-and-receive in friendships. They're caring but clingy, they can be protective but also aggressive. Both of them go back and forth between the personalities we see from her in all three episodes. 

Amane/Frei – (I know in canon Frei is another Charlotte, so I think that works well given how close they are in age and stubbornness.) She sees things through a view of gods/religion, even if not everyone sees the situation that way. She's a bit at odds with Es, trying to persuade them to join in her mindset, but genuinely cares for their well-being while doing it.

Mahiru/Vincent – The new friend with some strange delusions of a perfect “heavenly” world, a hobby of literature, and suicidal intentions. Es takes pity on her after she receives serious injuries from people who reject her. Real Es developed some kind of attachment to her real counterpart (like Charles' idolization of Vincent), and this manifests into Mahiru crazy about relationships and love.

Kotoko/Scarlett – Has a close mindset to Es (close enough to stem more directly from them) but her intensity and drive for perfection/justice turn them into enemies in some timelines. She gets the closest look at the “real” situation compared to the others, seeing behind the scenes and criticizing Es and the Prison as a whole. She's determined she could do better herself, and Es takes her up on that…

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I’m not going to make a whole post, but for a reverse au I think it’d be fun to see The House tenants featured in Charles’ milgram mv – as the focal character, the audience/Warden would probably assume Charlotte was his victim. Only later would they realize that Charlotte is the stand-in for himself, and that truly he feels responsible for not stopping Vincent’s suicide. 

[halfbaked00q]

aaand here are the ficbits I started coalescing based on my previous concept post -- as a reminder: 00Q are together, Q takes Bond for granted/accidentally hurts his feelings slash breaks his heart by being unintentionally hurtful and also unthinkingly dismissive of the thing they have going on between them. there is more to it but these are the parts that coalesced

(as it says in the tin these are more so like the... vibes-based pre-alpha demo drafts of a fic, as opposed to anything so respectable as an actual drabble or ficlet. and, as such, some parts may perhaps be a bit overworked, tenses are all over the place probably, punctuation is more abt the vibes than actual grammar tbh- but anyway please enjoy our featured program, hot off my notes app presses-)

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They're walking and talking, and then suddenly, it's just him walking and them not talking. Too late, he realizes that the growing silence from beyond his elbow had gone quite still rather than companionable. Too late, he glances back around, just barely catching the tail end of…

…..

The thing is, even in hindsight, he’d be hard pressed to pinpoint what exactly he saw cross Bond's face… only that he was suddenly left feeling rather as if a door he hadn't even known was there had unceremoniously and quite ignominiously shuttered sharply in his face. /// [[only that he was suddenly rather left feeling as if he'd blithely walked into a door that materialized just to shutter quite ignominiously in his face.]?]

As it stands — and unfortunately far too late— as he desperately rolls back the last few moments to try to find- as it slowly, far to slowly, begins to dawn on him-

“007- Bond- wait, I,” was about all he managed to stammer out before Bond somehow manages to evaporate from sight, leaving him blinking at the afterimage of crisp suiting and unbreachable impassiveness.

Oh. Oh shit.

—

Eve took one look at him and immediately swept herself up from her desk and him away to - he paused to gather his bearings - what appeared to be an empty conference room.

“Well,” she said without preamble. “Out with it then.”

Q wrung his hands. “It's Bond,” he finally manages to get out. When is it not.

(maybe sth about a moment too long passed, then another, then another- and he admits. It's me, really, but it is also to do with Bond. / Eve is either not surprised or is waiting him out- no visible reactions one way or another yet)

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I think he must have said something about anniversaries, and I joked back- or thought I was joking back- something about how he surely wouldn't be expected to keep track of all of his anniversaries like this, or else his rolodex would be fit to bursting. And then when I saw the expression on his face I hastened to reassure him that I certainly had no expectations on that front, ta very much. But it was entirely the wrong thing to say.

What he didn't - couldn't - confess to Eve was the way Bond had — oh, earnestly, seriously — brought up the subject of their upcoming anniversary, and how — yes, unintentional though it might have been, but nonetheless— absurdedly callous his casual dismissive burst of laughter must have been.

//

“…and speaking of, our anniversary is coming up too, you know.”

That accursed involuntary, misplaced, mocking peal of mirth. Then, worse- carelessly, unthinkingly- “Oh don't injure yourself on my account, I'm hardly expecting you to keep track of all of your little anniversaries from your various escapades, let alone ‘ours.’ Goodness, your little black book would be fit to bursting - well, even more so than it is now - if we're expecting you to note down anniversaries and nonesuch as well now.”

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“Q,” Eve called after him. He paused and turned, saw her regarding him. “Be careful with him,” she finally said.

“You're the one who warned me off him in the first place!”

“Be that as it may, but., well. clearly James Bond deserves for you to take some care with him.” with his heart, goes unspoken, but certainly not unsaid

[telesodalite]

I need to be weirder about the scavengers and cannibalism...

[mygreatadventurehasbegun]

Books read in 2024

Claude Rains: An Actor's Voice by David J. Skaal

The Collector by John Fowles

One Perfect Couple by Ruth Ware

In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware (re-read)

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

The Hollow Ones by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan

End of Story by AJ Finn

The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix

Kill for Me Kill for You by Steve Cavenaugh

Carrie by Stephen King

The Broken Girls by Simone St. James

Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay

The Invited by Jennifer McMahon

The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon (currently reading)

I was really trying to read more this year, as I admittedly lost time for it the past couple of years...and as you have probably noticed, the books I read have a bit of a theme. They are all horror/thriller/mystery stories (with the exception of Claude Rains' biography...though he is a horror icon, so it still sort of fits).

Now, this was not an intentional choice at the beginning of the year...I didn't even realize I was doing it until about August...and since I was already reading a horror story and I think had Carrie next in "my queue" (I had purchased a couple books at B&N), I decide to just continue this for the rest of the year!

If I had to pick my favorites from the year, I'd pick The Collector and Carrie. It's no real surprise, since I'm a big fan of both of their movie adaptations, but it was nice to finally check out the source material, and to read my first Stephen King novel! And I will say that I enjoy Jennifer McMahon's writing...someone recommended The Drowning Kind to me, and when I went to B&N to check it out, I discovered that she has written maybe seven books, all horror related. I ended up reading The Invited first, because the premise seemed really interesting...but after finishing, I went back and picked up The Drowning Kind to give that one a try, since I liked the way she presented her stories.

The Final Girl Support Group is a really fun read for someone who loves horror movies! Lots of references and easter eggs to classic horror from the 70's, 80's and 90's.

I'd recommend the Claude Rains' biography to anyone who loves old Hollywood, and of course, if you're a fan of Rains' work.

And finally, I didn't know until this year that Guillermo del Toro wrote fiction for the page, not just create icon horror for the screen!

[radcats]

i love stede bonnet with my whole heart and mind

AND

if i met stede bonnet irl i would punt him immediately due to my inability to respond to his bullshit, whimsy, and impracticality without screaming

are two sentences that Can coexist

[ravenkings]

the degree to which differing opinions on nosferatu 2024 seem to be falling along gender lines is utterly fascinating to me

[zenruu]

alistair baby please call me, i would treat you so right. i would take you to olive garden for unlimited soup salad and breadsticks and i won't even complain when you want to listen to nothing but hoobastank for the entire drive there and back.

[taintedcigs]

one thing about eddie that always has my interest is his taste in music. like do u guys think he’d love the punk rock popularity in 90s and pop punk popularity in early 00s?? would he be a mcr girlie???? would he listen to paramore??? fob? good charlotte??? bowling for soup??? switchfoot? all time low? blink 182? patd? green day? sum 41? simple plan? or would he listen to more screamo?? ptv?? bvb??? sws?? flyleaf??? also would he like nu metal??? i need to know soo bad.

[subbykittyboythoughts]

yeah sorry im not gonna be active for like. a few days. music grabbed on and won't let go. someone bought me a dj deck and i'm planning a short set to practice. i will do nothing but do neurofunk double drops in my free time