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screamingeyepress · 2 months ago

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Ever felt the pull of a shadowy city street? Noir fiction wraps readers in mystery and moral complexity. Check out this piece to learn why these tales still captivate:

Unmasking the Secrets of Noir and Hardboiled Fiction

By Lothar Tuppan

It’s Noirvember! Time to enjoy all things Film Noir, Roman Noir, Chocolat Noir, and Pinot Noir. Silly as that last sentence was, it does make plain that the French word “noir” just translates into English as “black.” So what exactly is “noir” in relation to cinematic (“Film Noir”) and literary (“Roman Noir”) fiction? What is its relationship with the, often associated, term “Hardboiled,” and what is its connections and relationship to Existentialism, Nihilism, and Philosophical Pessimism? This short essay is just a very brief introduction to a, surprisingly, complex topic. Whole books have been written on the subject (see bibliography below for some examples) and I encourage those who find the topic as fascinating as I do to pick them up.

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themintman · 5 months ago

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Cracking open a cold one with the boys before we hit the sea temple

#Dunno who that shadowy figure behind that tree is. Oh well. It's prolly nothing #minecraft story mode #mcsm #mcsm nurm #mcsm jack #Mcsm Vos #Mcsm Sammy #nurm mcsm #jack mcsm #vos mcsm #sammy mcsm #Is this the last supper?

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jarofworms · 1 year ago

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check your halloween candy this year!!!!! someone tried to hide VOIDMARROW in this candy bar!

#a writhing pile of shadowy essence. it gives you an uneasy feeling #cattails #cattails game #cattails wildwood #cattails wildwood story

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rexbalistidae · 5 months ago

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I love ghost stories dub 🙏

Joan looking through an old box she found in the attic..

Sigh obligatory tags @lesbiansupavillain ur fault @autistic-haven ur fault

#clone high #candide sampson #leslie bosf #joan of arc #tophabe slander #shadowy board yuri #candslie #there are so many ghost stories dub clips I can use…#ghost stories dub ruined my life bc i will never remember Leslie’s actual voice and it’s just that girl talking in the audio

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crowlore · 1 year ago

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i remember it used to be a bit of a fandom pet peeve of mine that some people would forget that the gung ho guns and eye of michael were two separate groups with some membership overlap but then stampede came along and made the eom into a project of conrad’s backed by knives. another example of how the reboot feels like bad fanfiction.

#the eom worked best as a predominantly shadowy unknown group most closely tied to wolfwood and LR’s stories #i LIKED that we didn’t know who ran it or what their broader goals were outside of what contact they had with knives/the ghg #extradiagetically nightow just didn’t need to explore the eom in detail. they served their narrative purpose.#but i also find stories that try too hard to ask you bonus questions with overexplained answers to be very lame #so while prestampede it was kinda annoying but ultimately excusable to see ghg/eom used interchangeably #the new show cemented it them as interlinked in a way that actually made the story structure much weaker in an attempt to get ahead of you #this is all very much a critique of mine from the perspective of a writer not just a viewer btw #bad writing isn’t always enough to kill something yk. but plot holes are harder to excuse when your themes and structure are lacking #the manga’s Foundations were just much stronger than the reboot’s if you will #you can turn your brain off with this show and just watch the pretty colors if you want. absolutely no shame in that. we need that stuff #i guess i just struggle to accept a no brainer show like this as being another core leg of the story in the way trimax/98 are bc of it #pretentious of me i know.#stampede critical #for my followers that filter it

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froggychair05 · 1 year ago

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More screenshot re-draws! Possible Bee and Puppycat spoilers:

Originals:

#minecraft story mode #mcsm reuben #mcsm petra #mcsm jesse #mcsm lukas #bee and puppycat au #I tried to make the shadowy hands purple like with Witherstorm #I’m proud of the backgrounds on the last two

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potatochip-oc-dump · 1 year ago

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what if we were both lonely

#oc #marolyne castelle #princess mom #moonlight #moonmary #can i. make up canon ship names for my ocs. can i do it for fun. please #what if we were both lonely and i was a woman and you were an infinetly expanding shadowy mass; an eldritch being #i cant believe theyre a thing but theu are. in some sense. not only because its incredibly fun concept but also because #it also works really well for the story. and it just hapoened to work out thag way #im giving mary a lot more love in these new plot ideas im having ...#shes more nuanced. less “evil queen neglectful parent”#ill talk about my new ideas sometime when i get the chance #ive been rewriting gidget too... ive realized i think her character was going in a direction i dodmt want it to #ill tell you all about it sometimes #*sometime

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clegfly · 5 months ago

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Small thing I’m cooking for idksomethingclever99’s fic MITPP!! For some reason I’m having trouble tagging them but here’s the fic!!

This seemed fun to do… probably won’t get more done than this page though…

#omori #omori au #omori mari #omori sunny #I’m ALSO trying to do this with my mutual lynx’s fic is it a bird #because I originally wanted to do one big piece for it but I’ve been STRUGGLING and demotivated #plus I’d LOVE to do an adaptation of one of their chapters #ANYWAYS #detail I really loved in retrospect of chapter 12 is how this fic keeps the detail of the bedlam’s clothes changing to foreshadow her true-#-form as time goes on #or in this case aliquid #since he’s more of this shadowy creature than anything #being covered in an all black suit was a fantastic choice so I’m trying to add something elements throughout #namely the tie… but I’m going to try squeeze it in elsewhere #also not sure what Maris wearing here so I improvised… it probably says somewhere so I’ll go back and check #I thought her picnic sweater outfit would suffice as it’s pretty similar to what coraline’s wearinv at this point in the story!!#not sure how I feel about all the heromari I’m going to be able to draw…#on one hand it’s heromari but in the other hand it’s fucking Henry #he CREEPS me out god I hate him but I live him because I know that’s the whole point of him #get AWAY omg #anyway yes this is the Button Eye scene! so end of chapter 10 to start of chapter 11 #I might do the drawing room too because I really want to draw it but that’s a bit of a stretch #honestly though coraline is a very visually interesting film and that’s part of the point and experience of it #and I feel like this fic deserves the same #especially with the amount of effort and detail and beauty idk puts into their settings… eg drawing room scene #anyway. rambling again. take art have fun #coraline

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katiethedane12 · 6 months ago

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Random sketches that mean absolutely nothing and I have no clue in this world what they are (meaning I was bored)

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sh1-n0bu · 6 months ago

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managed to unlock intimacy lvl4 story of calcharo and brb i need to sob

#nobu.nobu.chat #like wdym??????#what the actual fuck do u mean??????????#so uhhh slight spoilers to his character story if u wanna unlock it urself and read them urself after this tag #purposefully filling up the tags soni wont accidentally spoil anyone #brrrfffffff #LIKE WHAT THE FUCK DO U MEAN HE WAS ONLY 12????#HE JUST FOUNDED THE UNDERDOGS WITH HIS FELLOW LITTLE KIDS #that evening was one of the only moments he knew tenderness #SHUT UP SHUT UP SHIT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP #MY BOY #the little boy looked like a ghost as he emerged. with shadowy thorns and phantoms surrounding him #MY LITTLE BOY #HE WAS JUST 12 #HE WAS ONLY 12 #HIS ONLY MOMENT OF TENDERNESS

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dndtreasury · 1 year ago

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Twilight Phantom (Set) by Dragons & Stories

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czolgosz · 9 months ago

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going from the laboratory in my beautiful main account where everything is a 74%+ chance to a name signed with a flourish in my evil side account where everything is a 56% chance maximum is so sad

#myn levels on this side account btw: 6 6 6 7 #funnily my shadowy (which the level 7 myn is for) is relatively low... either that story is a lot shorter or my luck was better #fallen london #anyway it does not feel like i've had this account for 24 days it feels like longer... or maybe shorter idk at all actually.

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age-of-moonknight · 4 months ago

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“The Once and Future Knight,” Phases of the Moon Knight (Vol. 1/2024), #1.

Writer: Erica Schultz; Penciler: Manuel García; Inker: Sean Parsons; Colorist: Ceci de la Cruz; Letterer: Cory Petit

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Marvel 616 #Phases of the Moon Knight #Moon Knight comics #latest release #Moon Knight #Max Coleridge #my posts and cropping do not do this story’s art justice #Mr. García’s layouts are next level and Ms. de la Cruz’s colors really just pop #as for what’s here though as I’m not as much of an expert on The Shroud as I am some other characters #I will admit I could have used this primer on Max a little earlier but oh well that's what the internet’s for hahaha #plus (I hate to be this person but) starting with the dead parents panel through training with a shadowy organization to hone one’s body #to perform extrajudicial justice I was unfortunately thinking about Batman #and then that last text box popped up and I felt like I was getting punked asldjkh

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carefulfears · 2 years ago

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thinking about mulder and scully on the run, traveling from motel to motel like they did for years, hiding instead of seeking. moving from place to place when there is nowhere that is free of haunting; there is nowhere that they haven’t been already, nowhere they haven’t suffered already, nowhere they haven’t almost died already. migrating through memories in reverse. a cemetery in oregon, a bench in pennsylvania, a ghost town in georgia; the country a constellation of lost time, of something they were building that ended in nothing.

#still reading kittenscully fanfic #this one is because of ‘held afloat’#i’m so crazy over them having traveled the world as excited curious adventurers #only to reach the end and do it all again as weary shadowy grievers #this story began and ended in a motel with the rain outside #only one of those moments they ran out into it laughing #how can they head west when they held her dying little girl in california #how can they move south when it smells like bonfire and flesh #what is there for them up north other than the darkroom where she closed her eyes to death #even a fake passport couldn’t absolve europe of ships traveling through time and non-existent crop circles #no wonder they ended up behind that gate in farrs corner #no more than 90 minutes from the place they met #txf.txt #on the run

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rexbalistidae · 3 months ago

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This is my worst creation by far

@lesbiansupavillain ur fault @autistic-haven ur fault I hate you both 🙏

#clone high #candide sampson #leslie bosf #skipper bosf #reagan bosf #tophabe slander #candslie #shadowy board yuri #sighhhhhh #I love ghost stories dub

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grimm-the-tiger · 1 month ago

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I'm feeling the overwhelming urge to make an animatic for "Take Me to War" about my Fallen London Shadowy alt.

#fallen london #the crane wives #tbh i mostly want to make it because my shadowy (umbra) and persuasive (the silverer) alts have a...complicated history #to put it lightly #and it sounds like something that'd be playing in umbra's head as she tries to shank the silverer for the third time that week #there's a lot of crane wives songs that'd match up with my fl ocs tbh #which is slightly concerning #ribs sounds like it'd be the theme for the determined sister (dangerous alt)#and the well for the melancholy correspondent (watchful alt)#safe ship harbored would probably work for the silverer #tongues and teeth is also probably be a good one for umbra too #the song i associate with my main is a different story though #because i'm torn between 'bitter water' by the oh hellos and either 'feed the machine' or 'good people' by poor man's poison for them #bitter water because it's a pretty good encapsulation of their perspective on the surface #they miss the sun and want to return but know that if it doesn't kill them first then their enemies will #feed the machine because they're just. kinda like that #and good people because they're probably the only one of my ocs that hasn't completely given up hope in humanity #and they're the one in the best position to actually help since they're the one i've been playing the longest #someone please ask me about my fl ocs #i have a lot of thoughts about them

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