#she’s a fucking doll

[pcktknife]

All draculaura do is look cute like her design can not be ruined if you tried

[colorful-horses]

Hasbro heard about Monster High making a comeback and they came out mad as FUCK with these dolls

[s4pphoiduser]

time loop plots are always good. you die everyday. everyone you love keeps dying. you can't stop it. what's triggering your resurrection? what's triggering your death. every time you die you want to live a little more. every time you come back to life you learn another thing that absolutely shatters you when you all die again. every time you wake up they're alive again. every time you get more desperate to not die

[numbmontezuma]

I actually want Nayuta to be this completely normal but just a bit weird kid and denji’s just being paranoid that the makima girlboss genes are awakening in her everytime she asks for like chocky milk or something. 

[spacejellyfish3]

iconic behavior on my part with this one

she’s really cool and I would die for her now that I have her

@cometcrystal @deluxesoap @actiontoongorlz @spookberry for the doll girlies to enjoy

[hweism]

if you see me out in public, you don't know me keep it silent

[cherieprincess]

we love a woman who swears to take revenge

(fay mcalistair, the dolls of new albion)

[akiizayoi4869]

I just found out a while ago that people seem to believe that Azula abused Ursa. To that I have one thing to say:

The girl was literally 8 or 9 years old when her mother left. A fucking CHILD. How are you going to say that she abused her MOTHER??? Shouldn't it be the other way around? I swear this has to be the most dumbest take about Azula that I've ever heard.

[veronicathegoddess]

pretty bimbo femmes whose heads are never filled with anything besides thoughts of getting fucked are the absolute cutest. wearing the shortest, skimpiest skirts and dresses just so she can tease you in public and then innocently look up at you with those doe eyes and act like she doesn't know what she does to you. walking around in barely there lingerie and bending over in front of you until you snap and pin her to the bed. watching her act surprised like she wasn't asking for me to fuck her dumb little brain out of that pretty head and fill it with only thoughts of being a good little bimbo for me

[xxrat-punkxx]

I haven’t even started the dlc yet and here we are designing charms-

[murphycooper]

the reason “m3gan” worked so well is because their budget was extremely low and 90% of it was practical effects and the child actress playing m3gan, when will producers understand that practical effects almost always give a better result than cgi?

[sapphic-woes]

Ambessa’s cure for having a bad day? Fucking your brain’s out until the only thing you can remember is her name. Afterward, she’ll spoil you with a nice hot bath where she’ll probably lure another orgasm from you.

However, I think she likes how tiny and fragile you feel in her embrace so there will be lots of hugs to cheer you up.

Omgomgomg anon you are so right.

God imagine crying and her immediately wrapping you up in her big arms, kissing you until your panting to breath. Lots of cooing whispers of "I know baby I know, I'm right here." She doesn't want you to shed a single tear that isn't becuase of her. She loves to see you cry...but only when it's because she's turned you into a mess. Only when you're sobbing over her strap ruining you, yk?

And like, shes so determined to absolutely wreck you that night. Much more than usual. Most times she takes her time, and it's never rushed–Ambessa doesn't rush. But seeing you cry? She hates it. She wants to destroy all those memories, make you forget you even got up that day. Hell, when she's done with you, you'll be lucky if you even remember how to walk.

The frustration on her face as she fucks you... repeatedly asking you questions and speaking until you simply can't answer her again? Till you're nothing but whining sounds pleading with her to let you go before she really does break you? Dying dying dead!!!!

Can imagine the aftercare is so sweet. You're fucking drained lmao, and she is so in love seeing how marked up your body is. Def pleasures you more then too, seeing you covered in pretty reds and pinks roles her up like nothing else. Ehehe I imagine she likes having you sit in her lap in the bathes, watching you squirm under her touch;;;

[scorpiosapphic]

[see-arcane]

I might have pitied this deformed woman

With all due respect ACD why is everyone calling someone with a limp deformed... Also to be honest I would have felt more horror from the story if Gilroy found her attractive and/or charming and enjoyed her company and work relationship but also did not love her for whatever (non-physical) reason, because then there could have been a potential inner conflict and guilt, instead of ''this is out of my hands she is icky-looking and a crone (Gilroy you are 35) so I have no self-doubts about being in love involved on top of it all yay''. Having him vehemently dislike her all the time minus during hypnosis removes those layers.

It isn't 'everyone' in the story who calls her deformed, though. It's just Gilroy. No one else is mentioned deriding her for her disability or her looks or anything else beyond Penelosa's talent.

Considering ACD's comparatively progressive track record with the Sherlock Holmes stories--a series notable for how often it takes the side of oppressed parties, including abused or preyed-upon women--I can't see Gilroy's ageist and ableist views as anything but an intentional setup for the narrative payoff of his disgust as well as his anger and fear.

The story does feel slightly karmic at the start and, to give ACD the benefit of the doubt, I agree with you that having Penelosa not be an attractive hypno-dominatrix likely played a part in Gilroy's initial revulsion at her controlling him into playing paramour. I think this was intentional for the character's buildup, but also for the audience's. Even in the present day, there's no ignoring that there are demographics out there who are Highly Interested in the erotic implications of hypnosis. BDSM for the brain, puppet master kinks, et cetera.

If Miss Penelosa had been hot, or even just pretty, I wouldn't have been surprised if the horror story ACD was trying to put together would lose much of its punch in his era's audience. Sure, it's still icky that Gilroy's a man being Controlled By a Woman (!!!), but having her be attractive would 'soften' it for them. Still, all this is only in play if ACD was really truly adamant about selling the horror of 'A Stranger Now Owns My Free Will and Is Planning to Violate My Life in Intimate Ways.'

It could also have just been intended as an eerie scientific*** what-if adventure applied to a then-popular (and wildly overestimated) practice of the time. Or maybe he meant it as a straight-up supernatural escapade in the vein of vampiric mesmerism from a psychic monster. I don't know, I can't ask him.

All of that said, the horror is soured a bit by Gilroy being a haughty skeptic snob who had some comeuppance heading his way in the first place. Similar setups are common in horror flicks today, where we get to cheer at least once in a movie when the Big Villain takes down a more commonplace bad guy. There's no scare there, just vindication.

And me being me, that's not enough. Because I am all about two things.

One, adding more horror to everything, always, forever.

Two, making life harder for Jonathan Harker.

Jonathan 'Holiest Love means I Will Walk Backwards into Hell to Protect/Stay with My Wife Whether She's Mortal or a Literal Monster' Harker is not about to shit on anyone for a bad leg or some crow's feet.

More importantly, we've already seen his reaction to sexy sexy undead ladies trying to hypnotize him into compliance so they can take certain bloody/eternally conscripting liberties with him.

To judge by the 1000+ Dracula adaptations that show the directors' fetishes in full view, Jonathan being preyed on by the hot vampire Brides is seen by many people as...you know. Hot. Enough to rewrite and bastardize his character every time to make him seem like he was genuinely tempted by them.

But He Was Not.

He was being hypnotized into artificial attraction and paralysis so the ladies could take their turns with him without his fighting back or trying to run. Which he does later! More than once! Every time this voluptuous trio tries to hypnotize or corner him again, Jonathan catches on and sprints in the other direction. He is not into that shit no matter how pretty you are, ladies.

Specifically because, as I and Bramothy Stoker cannot stress enough, Jonathan Harker is strictly Minasexual. All Mina all the time. 24/7 Mina lockdown 365 days of the year. Mina, Mina, Mina. Mina? Mina. (I personally headcanon him as demisexual with shades of biromanticism and ace, but that's beside the point.)

The point is, even if Penelosa was a knockout, Jonathan wouldn't notice. He wouldn't care. Just as his love would not have been stopped by Mina turning into an actual monster; he would rather be damned and in love than slay her and be holy. You can bet your ass if Mina suddenly had a handicap he'd still be enraptured with her to the point of blasphemy. You know he's going to still be heart-eyed as they grow older. Jonathan Harker is made of unconditional and extremely focused love. It is all-encompassing and yet it belongs to a single person. It's the kind of love we all wish we had for ourselves.

It's the kind of love that someone like Penelosa--who latched onto a random handsome prick of a professor after she had known him LESS THAN AN HOUR and started plotting to groom him into her personal Ken doll--would do anything to have for herself; Jonathan Harker, the true Prince Charming, the gallant beloved, the guileless charmer who holds the One He Loves above himself, above God and Devil and the world itself...being wasted on some pretty young thing who hardly needs such a treasure.

It isn't fair. Mrs. Harker will never appreciate dear Jonathan like other, more deserving women would. Not like her. She would show him. Help him through the motions until he learned better; learned to love in the right direction.

Her direction.

Only if given the opportunity, of course.

(👁)

In short, yeah, Gilroy was not the best option for a sympathetic horror story protagonist who we could feel real fear and empathy for. We only really get a glimpse of that toward the end, when Penelosa escalates enough to start injuring innocents and tries to make Gilroy throw acid in his fiancée's face. A big scary leap, but also too late in the game for a proper punch. Especially with the abrupt copout of the ending. Bleh.

I think we can do better than that. Say, with a protagonist who can balance on the pro-and-con line of keeping the supernatural puppet master of their life happy enough to not act rashly, who knows the value of dancing on eggshells in a tight spot, who could tug the heartstrings of villain and audience just enough to let fuller and far more frightening machinations come to light as time goes by.

Especially with certain other powers lurking in the shadows, which might make a trifle like death a far less permanent end to their ~romance~ than it ought to be.

Don't you agree, Mr. Harker? ❤

P.S. Gilroy's still absolutely getting his ass handed to him in this take, don't you worry. He's been demoted from crush to chew toy to minion. RIP sir, but you're not off the hook just because Jonathan's distracting her with his dreaminess. Get to work.

[caroldanversenthusiast]

Emmy Winner Annie Murphy let me talk to youuuuuuu👁👄👁

[riso-wizo]