#my horseshit

[ylva-syverson]

So I’m likely to be offline for awhile due to fucking Hurricane season. Let’s see how it goes lol. Hopefully it’ll be fine.

[phallicide]

Being a good ally means not cringe-shaming transfems. like I get it. she's wearing cheap clothes from Amazon. she's posting the stereotypical reddit memes about programmer socks and blåhaj and monster energy. Whatever. It's fucking second puberty. You were awkward at your first. She's exploring her gender later in life than a cis girl would. It's being a teenager again but everyone shames you even worse for not being grown up already, because you've passed the arbitrary gate of "adult", as if your own actualized personhood can be acquired that fast. Convincing and shaming her like she's the problem for being "cringe" or "reddit" or "stereotypical" doesn't help her actualize that self at all. It's the same shame society forces on teenage girls except it's "justified" either for reasons of pure transmisogyny or because she "should be acting like an adult", as if our childhoods, our girl's experiences, our girlhood, are not routinely and cruelly denied. What sense does it make to stifle someone who was not allowed to grow previously? Who does that help? Notice this behavior in yourself and others and correct it.

[brittandbiscuits]

There he is, the tiredest man in the galaxy.

[thesovietonion77]

Sorrow.

[secretarysong]

unrelated to the art but i think Zuke isn't necessarily a singer or an all-out karaoke person HOWEVER. In his head there's a very small list of really specific songs he'd cause a scene over of his own volition & his favorite is Perpetual Fool by Spacehog

[voidpacifist]

I can feel it deep in my delusional soul that a jinx and viktor collab is on the horizon this season

[ylva-syverson]

15 questions & 15 Mutuals 🌸

I was tagged by: @cardierreh15

Were you named after anyone?

No.

When was the last time you cried?

Probably not too long ago. But I don’t remember exactly when.

Do you have kids?

Nope.

Do you use sarcasm a lot?

All the damn time. I’m considered to be dry as sandpaper by people.

What’s the first thing you notice about people?

It’s usually a combination of things I pick up because I’m fairly observant. But usually it’s the mood they’re throwing off. Or rather I notice their vibes I guess.

What’s your eye color?

Green 💚

Scary movie or Happy Endings?

It really depends because I love horror movies but I also love a good happy ending too. So let’s go with both.

Any special talents?

I can really sing. I also am very good at taking care of others.

Where were you born?

New Jersey. But I was raised by two New Englanders so that is more culturally relevant to me. And now I live in the South.

What are your hobbies?

I used to do all the artistic stuff! I used to sketch (draw), paint, sculpt, write (both stories and poetry), digital art (not ai), sing, dance, etc. I haven’t much time for them but I’d like to eventually do more when I can.

Have any pets?

Yes! A tuxedo cat who’s part Siamese, he’s an absolute furry goblin but I love him with all my heart. He earned his name too, it’s Loki.

What spots do you/ have you played?

Lacrosse (casually because we didn’t have a team), Gymnastics, Ballet, Martial Arts (Wing Chun, Animal Styles and Capoeira), and Yoga. I need to get back into Yoga actually, it helps quite a lot actually.

How tall are you?

5ft, 7” or 170cm; is that considered tallish?

Favorite subject in school?

English, Art and History.

Dream Job?

I don’t really have one honestly. The closest I get to that is professional artist of some type or multiple types.

Tagging: @mrs-solo-walker, @raccoon-eyed-rebel, @geralts-yenn, @ladykardasi and @identity2212

15 questions and 15 mutuals

I was tagged by @mexicangela @boobiebaguettebouquet @hart-kinsella & @movrings 💖

Were you named after anyone?

I was almost named after someone but it changed because the name 'sounded too old'. I was almost an 80 year old baby 😂

When was the last time you cried?

Full-on cried? Probably months ago. I got a little teary watching Black Panther: Wakanda Forever recently though.

Do you have kids?

No, but I'd like to one day. But that's a whole other complicated issue.

Do you use sarcasm a lot?

Yep. If I ever stop being sassy, assume I'm dead.

What's the first thing you notice about people?

Physically? Their eyes. Personality-wise, their sense of humor and the way they laugh.

What's your eye color?

Blue.

Scary movies or happy endings?

Both. Both is good. I like being scared, but I also hate being scared...and I think I speak for everyone when I say you can't beat a good rom-com!!!

Any special talents?

Hmmm, apparently I can throw my voice and it freaks people out - that's my theater training in action babyyy!!! 😂

Where were you born?

In the words of Bruce Springsteen, I was born in the USA (sorry).

What are your hobbies?

I hate this question so much because I always have this moment of staring wistfully into the middle distance like 'what is a hobby?' lmao BUT I guess I'd have to say writing, playing the piano, video games (just finished Resident Evil: Village and about to get onto the DLC)

Have any pets?

Three chaotic dogs - one of them has emotional problems so fireworks are his arch enemy (but so are trucks, the doorbell, wine corks, balloons, the vacuum....I could go on)

What sports do you play/have you played?

Tennis, badminton, lacrosse, hockey, but not anymore! I'm more of a yoga/pilates gal these days.

How tall are you?

5 ft 2. SMOL.

Favorite subject in school?

English & Drama.

Dream job?

Writer for TV & Film, although I have a few novels left in me yet - although I do think about getting into interior design staging every now and then. Either way it comes down to something creative & flexible (like me 😏)

I'm tagging (if you feel like it!): @existential-labrador @biscuitboxpink @stephaniejuhnay @angelofmusings @targaryenvampireslayer @babyjakes @winter2112rose @cardierreh15 @whiskeyncoke-redux @iguessweallcrazyithinktho @sarcastic-coffeedrinker @thelastsock @sillyrabbit81 @inlovewithhisblueeyes @gyllenhaalstories

[sleepnoises]

i hung out with my dad yesterday and today and both times he used the term "boomers" (not inaccurately). today i said dad I've never heard you say that before, did you learn it recently? and he said yes he learned it from his brother who has been complaining about boomers. my dad was born '54 and his brother was born '57. i think this lens of analysis is not serving them

[ylva-syverson]

Gotta love when tumblr glitches like an absolute asshole.

[legionofpotatoes]

I know the discourse well is poisoned and no one hates bioware games more than bioware fans, but I am just 🫠 having so much fun with veilguard it's unreal. It is selfishly the dragon age game I always wanted. with less emphasis on cRPG, a more focused story, curated mission based design that spotlights the high fantasy stuff, slowburn structure with companions, significantly less sidequest bloat, and a fully real-time action-oriented combat system that isn't riddled with the growing pains of previous titles. when I first played origins I imagined something almost exactly like this as my ideal version of a sequel; and it was one of those dirty, selfish thoughts that I knew was disrespectful to the then-established DNA of the thing, but I can't help but feel giddy about having it here and now. like down to the shift away from the childishly dark tone and to something more inherently flexible with a baseline aspirational quality. I hate aesthetically depressing games so much. am I not alive right here and right now already

When I say "aesthetically" there though I do mean it. I'm fully on the opposite side when it comes to tone and positions expressed in the story itself. I am just not including that in my analysis because I am not done yet - so please no spoilers! I think I am where most people consider to be the second act, and I definitely have my gripes with the narrative framework and some of the optics, but I won't put the cart before the horse and will see how it wraps things up first. Above that level, in terms of how it presents itself, of how it plays, of how it balances its core pillars - it is such a bioware-ass game and I could not be any cozier in it. So grateful it exists

[ylva-syverson]

Last Song:

Last Show: The Rebel Princess (Monarch Industry) it’s a C-Drama

Last Movie: I rewatched Mission Impossible Fallout

Currently Watching: The Witcher and Outlander( that one can be really rough to watch at times)

Currently reading: Rereading ETS by @just-chirpin and As Sweet As Honey by @angryschnauzer because I need something comforting and Captain Syverson just exudes that. That and it just makes me happy.

Current Obsession: it’s a three way tie between

The Cranky Teddybears!

Honorable Mentions:

I’m looking at you @geralts-yenn you are responsible for converting me to the Mikey love team.

I tag literally anyone who’d like to do this, no pressure!

Rule: tag 9 people you want to get to know better

I got tagged by @deandoesthingstome and @mayloma

Thank you so much for thinking of me, ladies! 😍

Last song:

Last show: The Last of Us

Last movie: The Sea Beast (movie night with the kids, somehow got reminded of @raccoon-eyed-rebel 😁)

Currently watching: Daisy Jones and the Six

Currently reading: re-reading Eyes that see by @just-chirpin before I can read the new chapter

Currently obsessing over: some cocky bastard without a first name

No-pressure-tags: @ellethespaceunicorn @evansabove1981 @peachyvulpixie @keanureevesisbae @ylva-stark @catierambles @dedicated-to-mr-cavill @peyton-warren @cavill83

[b1adie]

does anyone else feel like its been a long time since we last got a companion mission….

edit oh yeah yunli. But like. we only got one for penacony didnt we

[see-arcane]

Oh bitter bitter irony

Bile below

I started out afraid that Eggers would over-Coppola his Nosferatu--he didn't! :D--only to run into a growing dual tide of fans who are either

A) actively trying to Coppola his Orlok and Ellen into lash-batting forbidden romance bodice ripper cliches ("He backhanded Knock for daring to suggest he steal Ellen! uwu He brought a plague and attacked her loved ones just to be with her! uwu She clearly wanted to be with Orlok all along, fuck Jonathan Thomas, the useless stuffy loser! uwu Orlok just doesn't want her to deny herself! uwu Every word he says should be 100% taken at face value, he would never use the Classic Abuser Playbook to victim-blame his target into compliance, just do murders and choke slam her for saying she doesn't like him, ignore the long-distance repeated psychic rape since she hit puberty, it's fine it's fine uwu")

or

B) going full pearl-clutch about the very concept of Orlok being an icky evil unpretty mustached corpse monster (with all the abuse and assaults being tacked on in the aftermath to Prove~ this is Not a Proper Ken Doll Dracula)

like

guys. we're sinking into the deep ends of two very different nuance-free pools here

Yes, there is a disturbing fucked up but Actually There connection between Ellen and Orlok. There is attraction, there is a core spiritual likeness that led Orlok to her as a girl. But that does not obliterate the fact that he is monstrous to her and to everyone she cares about. He is a rapist. He is a manipulator. He abuses her and the covenant connection--which he point blank tricked her into without any warnings to what she was agreeing to as a teenager--for years. And then, when she dares to fall in love with and wed someone else, he throws a murder-tantrum until she agrees by her own will* (*under duress) to be his. Not his equal in anything but suggestion, but his property. His owed Affliction. And it is meant to be horribly fucked up that Ellen has even a thread of positive feeling for him, regardless of what supposed matching darkness she has in her. Just like many victims in her position will feel for their own sexual and romantic abusers.

This is not Count Gary Oldmanacula and Winonmina Harkryder. This is not star-crossed tragique kissy kissy Francis fanfiction. It does not call for mental gymnastics to take the fangs and blood and violation out, to excuse the monstrosity Eggers harvested from the actual source story or--and I am putting my head through the wall about this--taking anything Count Orlok says at face value when his entire MO, from the first assault on Teen Ellen to the trick document he makes Thomas sign to sell her away to the full spread of mind game horseshit he says to Ellen's face or puts in her mouth to puppeteer a fight between the Hutters, IS TO MANIPULATE AND ABUSE EVERYONE AROUND HIM

Fuck, even Knock got ripped off via Orlok's bullshitting and he made a literal full Faustian willing contract with him

And on the flip side:

Stop stop stop stop STOP wringing your hands over the presence of gothic horror monstrosity being in the gothic horror monstrosity film.

Bela Lugosi and Gary Oldman? They looked impressive. They looked charming and elegant and polished and, obviously, iconic. The legion of pressed and bleached and chiseled Dracula Lites after them, less so. But they are pretty!

And none of them have looked like the Count who Bram Stoker made or what his inspirations would ever have recognized as a vampire or a boyar. Robert 'If I do not personally graft the actual time period of this movie into place with my own two hands I Will Die' Eggers actually did his research in putting his Orlok together and, being a Horror Film Writer and Director, actually remembered to put the horror into the famous vampire horror story.

Attraction, sensuality, romance, and assault all have their place in it too--it is Nosferatu: "Dracula, But the Focus is On a Dracula Trying to Make the World's Worst Nightmare Threesome Happen"

And, shock of shocks, in Murnau's film, as in Stoker's book, the main couple--Harkers, Hutters--have the loving couple intimately preyed on by the same monster. While Mina/Ellen ostensibly 'allow' themselves to be preyed on, in both scenes it's done out of a desire to protect Jonathan/Thomas from the Count.

Mina keeps silent and allows Dracula to feed on her and force-feed her his blood to kick off a magical enslavement-undeath, lest Dracula follow through on his threat to bash Jonathan's skull in

Ellen sends Thomas away and offers herself as bloodbag and bride to Orlok specifically to keep him from killing Thomas and finishing off all of Wisborg

Would these magically have become 'better' setups if only Count Dracula/Orlok were hunky clean-shaven bishounen sexyboi doms there to ~liberate xoxo~ the already-married already-fucking already-skirting the lines of propriety gender role-bending young woman?

Because if that's the case in your eyes, click here. Scroll on through almost 130 years' worth of film and TV and plays and books and a thousand other spinoffs where Dracula is perpetually sandblasted into your cape-swishing hickey-nibbling knockoffs of choice. All yours.

But for fuck's sake.

Let the gothic horror be gothic horror. Up to and including the monster being monstrous. Up to and including, yes, a deranged connection and magnetism between Pretty Girl and Actually Freaky-looking Undead Rat Man. Up to and including, yes, the Human Lover not being the starched and stuffy blandman there to be thrown in a ditch to let Girl and Sexy Monsterman who truly understands her~*~* get together, and instead be a genuine romantic partner who is as adamant in endangering himself to protect his beloved as she is for him.

tl;dr:

Stop trying to retroactively Coppola this movie and using 'haha but I'm a monsterfucker' to side step the fact that the villain here is a villain and is using the rule book of actual abusive relationships to gaslight his victim(s) in a very human, very gruesome way

Stop wailing that your personal diet vampire fetish is being sullied via the presence of a mustache, maggoty corpse pecs and the horror of the Count not being a GQ model

Just stop

[eightyfours]

DANIEL LARUSSO

December 18th, 1966.

[space-candy]

- The handwriting is beautiful. Almost as good as mine.

- Guy. We both know it's better.

- Your opinion is noted.

[brittlebutch]

you have a safe food for over 20 years and then one day the company just decides to make it completely different. and you can’t do anything about it. brutal.