#or whatever genre this is

[im-goin-mad]

what business did like 12 y/o me have reading a kinky alice in wonderland au

[collgeruledzebra]

the thing about trying to recommend fiction podcasts to someone who isn't familiar with them is that not only are so so many genres represented but also the level of production can fall anywhere from "basically an audiobook" to "major motion picture minus the pictures"

[mettywiththenotes]

Something about Ochako and Izuku being seconds away from injury/death yet standing their ground. How the villains are depicted as monstrous. How, after these panels, the villains are already crying and spilling their feelings. It's like Izuku and Ochako knew that and so they stay and let them get it out

"You really could kill me but you're not going to. You're just sad and I understand that."

I don't know if they are to the exact same degree, but they do feel similar

[lyykaia]

there is time to live again

[crocrubies]

Persona 5 pathetic old men my beloved 🫶🫶

[wormpool]

I love The Substance's undying dedication to grossness as an aesthetic. It's not just that it's body horror, it's the kind of body horror that lingers on needles being pushed into skin and then supernaturally enhances the length of the needle and the scabbiness of the entry point just to milk your reaction. I love that that body horror exaggeration effect is present in mundane things too, like endless shrimp or a trashed apartment or old person skin. It's just part of the gaze that the movie forces you to take on, and I think it's both good at that aesthetic and smart with that aesthetic. It uses the emotional strength of that gut feeling to tug at your self hatred, or to make you hate the asshole TV producer, or even to simulate a bad relationship with food.

This is a harder point to articulate, but I feel like the substance understood something about what I like about horror movies: that there is this catharsis aspect to the grossness which you can only really properly reach the heights of by exaggerating it to the point of ridiculousness. I like the ending not just because it's crazy but because it knows what I'm looking for in crazy. It's a movie for people who love grossness and a movie that shows you how to love grossness.

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres: mythological

[oxygen-stealer]

Grab the bull by the horns

[mudsychronicles]

"I'm a boy" "I'm a girl" okay? under the smiles? under the fun? im public enemy number one?

[junglejim4322]

Some people online have the same puritanical view of media consumption as the steven universe bluey types they’re constantly making fun of but they have no self awareness so they have no idea and it’s kind of incredible to watch people who think they’re the edgiest people in the world shit and piss themselves when somebody likes a movie that violates their very specific metric of acceptability in content shown. Horror is great until it doesn’t look like the inside of a spirit Halloween store apparently

[febuwhump]

this is a me question. i have this question for people. when you write whump. are you also writing it as like. a slash fic? like, ahh this character has been impaled but also by the end of these 2,000 words they're gonna kiss their crush?? or are you just writing them getting impaled and that's the deal. because i have written four febuwhump fics so far. and each time, out of no where, the main character is in love and now i gotta deal with that as well as being trapped under a building. you know?

[vinestaff]

i stay for all that aches

[jugsjules]

To everyone trying to milkshake duck the alleged shooter (who was at my place the whole time btw, officers):

stop doing the cops’ work for them.

It does not matter if he tweeted something wrong or cringe or weird as much as it mattered that he took our collective anger and fired it in a bullet at an objectively guilty murderer. He is not an enemy, he is an imperfect ally. The enemy is the fuckin CEOs and the police state that lets the rich further profiteer off our suffering.

[slateblueflowers]

Warren Kepler Wrapped

This year, you

threw 849 rocks at Warren Kepler

riddled him with 1,104 bullets

locked him in 352 timeloops

stuck 12 pins in Warren Kepler to fix him to a board to study him like a butterfly

rotated him in your mind 7,391 times

paced the floor for 3,470 hours wondering why the fuck this asshole has such an intense grip on your psyche

[hawkeinthecitadel]

Just an observation

[dracoj]

challengers 🤝 whiplash: movies about the intersection of achievement, potential, and desire. about the absolutely intimacy of being seen for what you are, being wanted. the magic of performing at the top of your game, shining and beautiful and powerful, knowing it was only possible because you were painstakingly molded into the shape you are now. heavy breathing and sweat and blood. fucking awesome