#silly horror tropes

[williamvapespeare]

“Mate, seriously. Every time you say something like that it makes me more sure that you’ll love it! Just watch one with me? Friday the 13th, it’s a classic!” Of course, they’ve circled back to this. Edwin bites back a sigh. “You’ve determined I will enjoy this film because I ask you to be careful?” “Yes!” Charles grins, unchecked and a touch cheeky. “You love getting on people for ‘impetuous behaviour’ and that, don’t you? That’s like, the whole point of horror!” Privately, Edwin isn’t certain that is the logical take away. “I simply do not understand the appeal,” he says, again. “Surely, we have seen enough horror in our line of work. I can’t imagine I would find any of them particularly scary, after Hell.” “It’s not like that,” Charles turns around to address Edwin straight on as he walks, cheerfully and infuriatingly, straight through a large rock in the middle of the corridor. “You’re not supposed to be scared for real. It’s just for fun, gives you adrenaline!” “We do not have adrenaline.” Edwin sniffs. “We are dead.” The boys have a horror marathon that's a bit more full on than intended. Happy Halloween! This is a collab with the INCREDIBLE @ouchmyghostskin who did THIS absolutely STUNNING cover art <3 A SACRIFICIAL SLAB!!!

[gayphoenixforce]

I hate the dog-ification of werewolves >:( I by making them happy dumbos it misses the best part of transformative monstrosity: repression. If you aren't afraid of the beast within what's the fucking point. It's the big bad wolf lurking on moonlit nights it's not your golden retriever in the park at noon. Justice for repression!! Justice for the beast within!! Justice for the fear of who you could be if you really let loose! Is the monster your true self? Does the thrill of the wild outweigh the guilt that comes in the light of day, when there's mud on your feet and blood on your hands? What does it mean that you crave that which disgusts you, that the wolf isn't just something you become, it's something you always were

[cybertron-after-dark]

Being constantly surrounded by the presence of a loving God sounds great until you realize you never know when his freaky fuckin eyes are gonna show up to check on you.

And man. They do it a LOT.

[articskele]

I'm so tempted to friend f/o Micolash he's so funny to me

[bijoumikhawal]

also re: transfemmes and gay men draw a sharp delineation between each other, i didn't mention this last night but it means a lot of like. Nonbinary people who are exploring gender as effeminacy are treated REALLY badly by both specifically if they can't ultimately be put in one group or the other, on top of usual effemiphobia. I've seen multiple nonbinary people get subject to brutal public harassment over this, including one person who publicly was like "i might be transfem, i might want to use she/her, I don't know yet, but being treated so badly by other trans people for existing where im at now isn't fucking helping me figure that out". Part of this isn't just about this particular community divide, it's also about how many LGBT people have the idea that someone's lived experiences can themselves be offensive, and that that person therefore harms the community by existing. With trans people in general, there are a lot of people uncomfortable with ambiguity in gender because of worries about how cis people perceive us. There is, again, a particular disgust applied to effeminacy on this front.

[ghostblogging]

the thing abt gay ppl is for inexplicable reasons we love summer camps (it's basically the only time you see gay ppl really display that same high school era nostalgia so prominent amgst straight ppl)

but bc we're gay really all the summer camps we have experience with are religious troubled child/conversion therapy camps which means you get a billion kajillion first love in a conversion camp coming-of-age stories which I think provide a very skewed perception of what conversion therapy is like

[marklikely]

on further reflection maybe it isn't out of character that i liked the kens over the barbies when a lot of the joke is how the barbies are all blandly nice and hypercompetent which as you may know is like my single most uninterested gender dynamic for fictional characters

[zlobonessa]

throwing my re zero ship tier list here because i have Opinions and i need to inflict them on more people

also here the link because i keep losing it

[roystory4]

@thediffidence THATS THEIR MAN!!!!!!!! its true though.

[maxtothemax]

i wanna make a lil book cover or something for notlc soo bad but alas, graphic design is Not my passion and i have no ideas orz

[gacktical]

some sheets from a silly horror trope parody dating sim last year

you can play it here

[worrywrite]

I feel like most people actually know how bad they could be. Or if they hadn't thought about it, all they really need to do is take a couple minutes and think about it.

The harm of an evil clone is that they are actually they bad.

You get angry and you think about saying or doing something awful to someone you love or acting out some road rage or hurting yourself or any number of other things. But you can hold yourself back. You've grown and lived in this world long enough to realize on some level that any harm you do to someone else will be paid back to you and it will hurt everyone and no one really deserves that.

The evil clone isn't even angry. It was cloned, it doesn't have that life experience. But it also looks and sounds and even acts (for the most part) just like you. And so when someone meets that evil clone they see you. They see you, and your clone does what you stop yourself from doing when you're angry. And the clone does it with a smile. And no one else sees the clone. They just see you. The version of you on your worst day in your worst moment doing every dark thing that's ever crept into your mind. It breaks every social code and throws away every kindness and lashes out in every choice it makes. And it does it for the whole world to see.

The horror isn't that the clone does it. It's that everyone else thinks that you did.

people always talk about evil clones like oooh a dark mirror oohh what if you saw what a cruel person you were/are capable of becoming. and well yes but what if you were the evil clone. what if you looked in the mirror and what you saw was so bright it blinded you. what if you had to know exactly how good you could have been.

[pigeon-mermaid]

Woke up sad from a fuckass dream and thought of being comforted into a hug but with me being too shit at emotional stuff of this sorta thing sometimes well... (... i'm better at it i think, i used to be much worse) So naturally the obvious alternative was to think of being comforted by myself, which lead me to think of clone tropes, of course.

This in turn, lead me to think of how it would all work out, how they could do all the things i'm too much of a coward to do... except they probably wouldn't since they are me, so. Also they couldn't alter too much about themselves cause it would negate the point of being a clone? and then we'd get caught being two persons and what? do i introduce them as a long lost twin or?? (ALSO on the technically side of things they have no papers & ID & shit fuck... let's just forgor about those for a sec). They'd obviously have to hang with the same friends cause i know i'd be sad as fuck if i didn't. They'd have to create an internet handle too fucking I'd have to explain we are actually two persons now to my friends server so i can invite them QZSJHGNK What if they are better than me though and people like them better... Who truly is the real one if one of them allow themselves to live to the fullest... But knowing myself, i'd also feel so bad knowing my other self feels sad, whether i'm the clone or the original

Anyway i dont know where i was going with this but... we would just probably hang like 🧍🧍 but at least i could hug them whenever, probably, if they'd let me (also i probably should allow myself to be a bit bolder & kinder to myself)

[wickershells]

Was soooo excited for longlegs & I know reading the plot is in no way a substitute for experiencing it, considering art is first and foremost visceral but still. Little disappointed that it relies as heavily as it does on that specific brand of paranormal occultism which already feels oversaturated in religious horror, and I'm unsure if it executes or subverts them in any real interesting way, which okay it doesn't have to, but is still disappointing because I guess I was expecting it to

[angeltism]

Aqua fact time did you know dgr was a sp/in of mine for years and I had like a kajillion ocs for it. In general, media with aspects of killing games tends to pique my interest more than other things and I enjoy reading about it even if I don't have the guts to handle actual gore or other things associated with that. (mentioning this for media such as sa.w, nyat so much for dgr since. it's. animated. pepto bismol ass blood. etc etc)

[strawberry-miiiiiiiiiiiilk]

sitting in my room for a half hour thinking about how if we lived in a better world Ada Wong would be the Ilsa Faust of Resident Evil (primarily in how she's introduced in Rogue Nation), with a dynamic to leon not unlike Fujiko Mine's and Lupin's in which they are both extremely competent and in situations in which they may have to work against and occasionally with each other on a mission, but ultimately are forced to stay apart and while they may be apart and even have different love interests from each other, ultimately still care deeply for one another. They are compelled to go after each other in part because it's so difficult and they are so often in circumstances in which they can't be with each other. The thrill of the chase and all that.

Ada being only tangentially related to the other character's stories because the world is simply larger than them and she has her own concerns and problems to deal with, and to have that be given any care or weight in a story, let alone focus. That she can be cunning and even manipulative but because she needs to and will still choose not to when the chips are down because she is genuinely caring--which I know none of that is new ground for her but I wish it was done in a more interesting way and *without leon at all*. She chooses to show mercy in a key point not because she's in love with that other character.

And also that she has more personality. I dig the subdued nature of her in 4r and her subtle sarcasm but it's just crumbs. I want her to be silly on occasion and say dumb jokes because she's alone like in 2r. I want her to shed a bit of that seriousness when she's on the clock because she's confident in herself as a professional and again has no one to put up a façade to.

It's honestly kinda embarrassing reading this back as I realize most of what I'm writing is not only already present in the games but incredibly tropey in and of itself, and wouldn't improve the character much. Dear god I think too much of my view of the character has been marred by shallow fanworks depicting her. I think if anything it's a sign that:

I'm a shit writer and need to do way more than watch movies and gesture vaguely at them to come up w a decent story or character (that being said as much as I prefer Fallout as a film, I stand by my earlier statement of Ilsa Faust being the ideal spy woman as she's depicted in Rogue Nation as she has a distinct set of goals and needs that are complex and developed largely tangentially to the protagonist's, at least initially).

It's going to take a completely new approach to her character to get something remotely interesting and that takes advantage of her potential.

For as mired in tropes as she and every other character and story in Resident Evil is, Ada could be far more memorable and enjoyable if only there was more care and effort to giver at least some interests and goals (perhaps even...characterization) on her own other than being a sexy love interest and potentially traitorous (as so many femme fatales already are).