#squick

[meo-eiru]

Oh wow I missed your drawings! I'm so glad your updating now I can obsess your new and old ocs.

Does that octo hair twink have a tentacle thingy???👀👀

octo hair twink😭

yes, here's a very quick sketch to show his tentacles

[polyamorousmisanthrope]

Squick

Squick is a noble word. It recognizes and honors your own personal taste while recognizing and honoring that your personal taste does not dictate morality.

I wish we used it more.

[hotdoghottakes]

I love that Satan's face just screams "the fuck did this guy say about his sister?"

[teaboot]

[feastofchildermass]

I hate being ‘old man yells at cloud’ on this webbed site. But I seriously wish people tagged their fics better. If I’ve ever missed a necessary tag on one of my fics please feel free to let me know.

Twice in the past hour I’ve been reading with a really good fic that had a massive squick right in the middle of it. Which made me have to immediately nope out.

Tags exist for a reason. I want to bookmark and review and enthuse about your fic with you, but now I can’t because I refuse to comment something negative on a fic unbidden.

[lorekeeper-backset]

TIL that starving is just your stomach eating itself (stomach acid dissolving stomach lining).

[tawneybel]

2023 Movie Ranking

Note: Completely forgot this was in my drafts lol.

Again, highly subjective. Part of me wants to go back to posting in depth movie reviews lol. With, like, proper criticism and everything. Completely forgot this was in my drafts lol.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: Has the most effort put into it out of the other movies I’ve seen this year. I’m not a fan of every single Spider-Person, but I love, love all the animation styles. Also, back in 2020, I totally called the fact that Miguel is a stud. Totally called it.

Saw X: John and Amanda as villain protagonists? Yess. This franchise’s industrial horror vibe is unparalleled, as usual. 

Barbie: Great litmus test.

Scream VI: To no one’s surprise. *currently wearing a Ghostface tee* 

Totally Killer

The Last Voyage of the Demeter: Seriously underrated. It contains some of the most heart-staking death scenes in any Dracula media I’ve seen.  

Thanksgiving: It’s about time! The trailer came out in 2007. XD 

A Haunting in Venice

The Conference: I’ve been meaning to get back into Nordic noir, but this is the first Nordic slasher I’ve seen. 

The Super Mario Bros. Movie: Pretty much the only time I played video games growing up was at the dentist office. So I always felt much less knowledgeable than, well, everyone on Mario. We can all agree Jack Black as Bowser was exquisite though, right? 

Consecration: While I think religious horror should try something besides Catholicism, it’s worth a watch.

Five Nights at Freddy’s

Renfield: Fun horror comedy. Hopefully got at least some people to realize they’re in codependent relationships and seek help. 

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: So I’m not generally big on the MCU. GOTG however has the kind of ragtag bunch of misfits I like watching. Maybe not over and over again, however. The third installment was okay. 

Evil Dead Rise: I liked Evil Dead 2013 better than the original because of its rancid vibes. Rise also pretty much feels grungy, if you’re into that. 

The Boogeyman: Night Shift may have been one of the first King collections I read. (Just After Sunset was the second book I read by him.) The short story was great. The title monster’s reveal at the end? Not in the film. :(

Insidious: The Red Door: So I watched this without knowing they’d made a fourth Insidious. So I couldn’t compare it to The Last Key. Anyway, it had some odd scenes revolving around Nick. To the point where I wondered if someone in production just wanted to see frat boys in diapers. 

Knock at the Cabin: First horror movie of 2023 I watched. Figured it would not be the best and it wasn’t. I’m not sure if reading the book would have made a difference. I just didn’t care for the plot.

[the-bar-sinister]

I have SUCH a stomach churning personal aversion to child rearing fan fiction.

[meo-eiru]

The way I read squick as squip like from "be more chill" just me and my yandere nanocomputer in my brain

Lmao I've never seen that but I'll say Squick is the opposite of chill

(sorry I only have this old pencil sketch atm)

He's basically this octapus/squid/weird sea creature mix hybrid guy who quite literally cries 24/7 (his tears physically won't stop)

He has quite a bit of lore and I even thought of how is anatomy and biology would work but those are for another day

[neryscrossoverparty]

I Know what he's doing here

Mudsy, if you can't prove that you are still worthy of the toilet (IE Doing it properly, not peeing over the stall and into the next one like a weirdo) then you're gonna have to spend some time in Dips, Y'know what i mean!

Capiche?

[leam1983]

Squick

I just don't get disgust at horror or gore movies, personally. Horror really gets to me when the situation being depicted is harrowing, but if I signed up to see someone boink a resurrected corpse crawling with maggots or to watch a woman give birth to a sexier version of herself from her spine, then you'd have to assume I'm expecting a fair amount of physical trauma to be shown onscreen.

What especially annoys me is when a react streamer has a specific phobia, confronts it through Cinema - and never rationalizes their experience after the fact. I can understand phobias being disabling in the moment, as that is what phobias do; but going through snippets of The Substance with someone yelling "EWWWWWW!" at the barest sight of a needle is a particular experience I don't quite care to repeat, if I'm honest. You'd figure the fait accompli of a movie watched and a theatre room now well-lit would be enough to remind the viewer that this particular Squick had meaning.

As for Nosferatu; I've more or less been witness to two very different reactions to the flick. One was with an American expat of a colleague, who tends to reinforce my growing impression that Yanks are lightweight as fuck - with disgust writ large across their features at the mere sight of Orlok's maggot-ridden coil - and then another one with Sarah and Walt.

Half of my time spent with Steve the Expat Yank, whilst watching Nosferatu, was spent reassuring him that Eggers had made Orlok revolting on purpose. Orlok is Ellen's darkest corners of her Id, made manifest. He's her shadow self, the part of her that confers great power, but requires immense sacrifice and dedication. Some psychologists have even suggested that romancing the Id is a natural part of growing up. Ellen, in effect, is both finding her strength and taming a second strength - that of a monster who insisted he be called Lord. Once they're in bed, however, Ellen clearly lords over Orlok, as opposed to his desired opposite approach.

Steve didn't catch any of that. He got stuck on the Count's dry-humping of Hutter's inert body. He got stuck on the maggots, Orlok having a Slavic forelock and a droopy 'stache, and on his not being, y'know, Dracula. The sexy kind.

Compare and contrast with Walt and Sarah, where we so needed to break the movie down together that we paid for our own tickets, went and watched it together, then went back home and used our VPN and basic Torrenting to pirate ourselves a shitty bootleg of it - so we could pause it in parts and discuss.

Zero squick. Zero shame. Oh, yes, we can conceptualize of Orlok being disgusting by design - but we can frame those choices in ways that make sense. I mentioned Steve's reaction to Walt, and the big guy reminded me of Steve's reaction to the Paris Olympics' opening ceremony, with his best American twang:

It was just too French for me, y'know? That blue guy with the fruits and all? Ew.

I laughed. Philippe Katherine - said blue guy - is probably the tamest Art House French Guy you could ever run into. More hardcore acts like Olivier de Sagazan end up in Top Ten compilations of the "most disturbing videos found online" - and you're again left with the impression that a growing mass of consumers are so white-bread in their aesthetic ethos it's almost sad.

You guys need to find and witness more edgy art - not as bragging rights, but to broaden your ability to process art projects on the whole.

[anakinspraisekink]

So baby bratty Anakin, hmmm I have IDEAS for the babe. Idea A: a cock cage. I'd love Ani in a tight little cock cage and panties because Obi-Wan wants to be *sure* Anakin won't misbehave on some mission or something and when Anakin gets back Obi-Wan just pulls his panties to the side and fucks him until he dribbles out of the cage (bonus points from some humiliation, feminization (i.e. teasing Anakin for "squirting" and threatening to make him walk around with his mess on his panties), but could also just press a vibe to the cage until he just dribbles come

ermmmmm this is too long so I'll follow up with Idea B.

I'm very sorry it's taken so long to fulfill these asks (even though they've been in my head ever since omg), and that's it's been so long in general since I've posted much at all!! I tried to combine elements of both prompts, and while I'm not sure I did these amazing ideas justice or did what you wanted, I have to say,,,,,the result is still pretty fuckin hot. Thanks for sticking around, and more is coming!! 🫶🫶

[the-bar-sinister]

really wanted to reblog that art dump of the ship I love but one of the images prominently included a major squick. 😩😭

[meo-eiru]

can I suck the tentacles of the octo hair twink

yes but I'll just say there's something in the middle of them you'd like sucking more

[oliversrarebooks]

what are some no goes for reading for you?

Mine really just is graphic non con and pregnancy

TW: mentions of niche kinks and common squick topics

I'm also not a fan of pregnancy or fics about raising kids. I don't have that kid-raising instinct.

Non-con isn't completely a no-go but I strongly prefer dubcon type scenarios.

Pedophilia and parental incest are no-gos.

Excessive bodily fluids particularly in smut are nah, particularly scat.

Hyper specific, but a lot of stories about hypnosis either involve "you're a dumb bimbo slut" or "I'm a big strong man making you into a tradwife" and both are squick to me personally. It's a bit of a fine line because "hypnotized into a mindless doll or maid" is okay! I think it's the strict, conservative gender role enforcement that creeps me out.

For romance and smut, I usually read and write queer material. Straight stuff definitely isn't a no-go by any means but I tend to bounce easier because it's not my cup of tea.

Bigotry, homophobia, transphobia that are endorsed by the narrative will probably cause me to check out.

I'm pretty open minded about what I read (when I have time), I think. I don't like to put something down just because it makes me uncomfortable if it's otherwise interesting.

[squickymaus]

me and my malewife @beaniemace 💕forgot to post this art