#that movie made me sad

[theworstcreature]

I love when a fictional character is just like a cat that was left out in a thunderstorm

Like the big sad eyes, looking positively bedraggled, maybe a little bit scared, and just having an awful fucking time right now please give them a hug and a warm cozy place to rest

[skltart]

their version of having a cuddle

[sforzesco]

something. about. the horror of being sent on an impossible (death) quest and obligations and hospitality politics. the trauma of not having a home, and then the trauma of being in a house that becomes actively hostile to you, one that would swallow you whole and spit out your bones if you step out of line. all of this is conditional, your existence continues to be something men want gone.

it's about going back as far as I can with the perseus narrative because there's always a version of a myth that exists behind the one that survives. the missing pieces are clearly defined, but the oldest recorded version of it isn't there! and there's probably something older before that!! but it's doomed to forever be an unfilled space, clearly defined by an outline of something that was there and continues to be there in it's absence.

and love. it's also about love. even when you had nothing, you had love.

on the opposite side of the spectrum, this is Not About Ovid Or Roman-Renaissance Reception, Depictions And Discourses On The Perseus Narrative.

edit: to add to the above, while it's not about Ovid, because I'm specifically trying to peel things back to the oldest version of this story, Ovid is fine. alterations on the Perseus myth that give more attention Medusa predate Ovid by several centuries. this comic is also not about those, either! there are many versions of this story from the ancient world. there is not one singular True or Better version, they're all saying something.

Perseus, Daniel Ogden

Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation, edited & translated by Stephen M Trzaskoma, R. Scott Smith, Stephen Brunet

[mayhasopinions]

this line fucking hit. but it's true.

queer people for years, centuries, have been oppressed for being their most authentic selves, by the people who call themselves heroes and us the monsters, even nowadays with the most recent law for allowing discrimination against queer people in America. They call themselves the good guys, the saviours, the ones completely in the right and justified for hating against people just trying to live their lives. And apparently we're supposed to be the bad guys in this story.

i'm so glad that this movie came out when it did, the world really needs it.

[sometimes-online]

I've been playing this again and I've become a little obsessed with it lol

I made stickers of these guys! You can find it on my Etsy account! Heres the link if interested! <3

[tragicvampireromanceisland]

halloween themed joyness doodles i made earlier this month...figured now is as good of a time as ever to share them!! 💛💙

PLUS, these quick sillies i did today because i couldn't stop thinking about them dressing up as each other 🤭

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price as Waldo Trumbull --

The Comedy of Terrors (1963)

[smileyobrien]

STAR TREK V: the final frontier (1989)

[kitamars]

enmi gintoki…………… orz

[tangledinink]

[galoosreblogger]

I finally watched The Thing the other week and it was fantastic, of course. But now I'm kind of wishing yet again that they remade the 2002 The Thing game. I never played through the whole game but I remember it having some cool features like... Trust system that determined whether your teammates trusted you or suspected your infection, and that affected their choice to follow your orders. Fear system that determined how scared they were which impacted their ability to successfully execute their jobs and follow commands. Infection system which gave everyone who came in contact with the Thing a random chance to become infected.

That's sounds like such a fun mechanic! Having to go through the research stations full of horrors while constantly trying to keep morale up, sharing ammo with your people so they don't feel powerless all the while you're all watching each other from the corner of your eyes because who knows if one of you is already infected...

The one thing I'd enjoy a modern adaptation/remake of is this game and it's not happening.

[psychicsolanum]

watched I Saw the TV Glow and it was repulsive and it hurt so bad and it made me want to rip out my insides and pour them over my parents and force them to love whatever came out.

[sometimes-online]

Heres how I feel the characters/friends would react to Jesse's puppy eyes

From scale to most likely to work on to not likely I think it would be Lukas, Olivia, Axel, Petra, Ivor

I remember in the game he was mentioned to have big eyes- I think its funny to imagine him using them against his friends lol

[the-toulouser]

i feel like having a heart attack every time i rewatch the saltburn ending. i get why people don’t like it but fuck. the last twenty minutes is like heroin to me, i’ve never felt this way about any piece of media before. it just feels so gut wrenching and i genuinely feel like *I’VE* lost something i’ll never get back. HOW?? WHAT IS THIS WITCHCRAFT???

[yippee-optimistically]

ive seen like 2 actual episodes of the loud house but i watched no time to spy last night. they kind of cooked i cant lie

[einaudis]

LA SOCIEDAD DE LA NIEVE | SOCIETY OF THE SNOW (2023) dir. J. A. BAYONA