#the-devil-in-the-details-666

[angst-is-love-angst-is-life]

📚🤭 and 🎶 for the ask game?

Thanks for asking! :D

Ask game

📚 Would you ever want to turn writing into a career?: That is the goal.

🤭Do you have a favorite tag to use when posting your works?: Barry whump or Barry Allen needs a hug. But if we’re going not character-specific; then kidnapping.

🎶 Do you listen to music while you write? What song have you been playing on loop lately?: Working on sitwlylram and listening to Remember Them from Epic: The Cyclops Saga rn, it’s one of my favorites (this specific song’s not really this fic’s vibe but the entire playlist is on loop so)

[siren-of-the-ocean-tumbls]

Now that I have a Tumblr, I can finally reveal!

@the-devil-in-the-details-666

Look what I made years ago for Dragon Drabbles!

Inspired by the grey dragon dress Jason and Damian make Tim. I couldn't find any place to do silkscreen printing so I took it upon myself to make a hoodie dress

[negative-speedforce]

Earth-2022 for the WIP asks game?

Earth-2022, also colloquially known as the "Siv Mafia AU", revolves around an alternate universe version of my OC cast, where everyone's a bit more morally grey, or downright evil. For instance, E-2022's version of Sivonne, known as Onnie on their world, works directly for Eobard as a speedster hitman/assassin, and the Jesse Wells of that earth, a pop star known as Jessi Juno, uses her hypnotic voice and sonic powers to run an underground criminal ring, and to coerce her fake publicity boyfriend, the K-Pop idol Moon Hyun-Ki to stay with her.

Overall it's quite a bit darker than the other fics featuring my Arrowverse OCs, most of which take place on Earth-2002, and has a different tone and overall themes.

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

req'd by @the-devil-in-the-details-666

welp good luck buddy

text: Alas, it wasn't a plot bunny, but rather a plot rabbit hole. Send help

[angst-is-love-angst-is-life]

It seems I am not immune to pfp boops today >:D

YOU’VE BEEN SPOOKY BOOPED !!!

Revenge!!

[lime-bloods]

I honestly didn't ever expect that I'd be in the position where I'd be using this blog not just to analyse what has come before in Homestuck, but to look toward the comic's future and do some real old-fashioned theorycrafting. but the time has come. so here goes; lime-bloods' Beyond Canon theories as of the July 6th 2024 update:

Vriska's Going to Hell

were all gonna help you! / whether you like it or not

a select few eagle-eyed readers already noticed that the sound used in last month's (Vriska: Figure shit out yourself.) is called "hell_tierwav". while it was easy to dismiss this as irrelevant composer shenanigans at the time, it's now become clear exactly what this was foreshadowing. whether it would be more apt to call this "Hell" or "Purrgatory" is probably up for debate - but whatever you call it, Vriska's been placed in a dimension seemingly tailored specifically for her personal torment.

while Vriska characteristically interprets the recreation of her childhood home as a symbol of how badass she was, the ghosts of her past - both literal, as the shades of the trolls she killed as Mindfang, and figurative, in the form of sprites wearing the faces of her dead friends - show us in no uncertain terms that Vriska's childhood home is the stage where traumas play out.

Erisolsprite puts it succinctly with his welcome to hell, but pay close attention to what exactly we're being welcomed to: this update ends on page 665. so as of this next update, we'll be starting on page 666.

Does Homestuck Have Hell?

the exact bubble of reality Vriska's currently found herself in seems to be an entirely new construction of the likes we've not yet seen in Homestuck - but that doesn't mean this kind of cosmic torment is without precedent. because while 666 is a number with Satanic connotations in the broader cultural context, it also has a very particular meaning of its own within the world of Homestuck. indeed, the latter half of the comic almost revolves around it, culminating in a climax in Act 6 Act 6 Act 6.

specifically, this repetition of a single digit is emblematic of recursive storytelling. to summarise what you can already read about in detail in my essay The World / The Wheel: when Caliborn is 'gifted' the Act 6 Act 6 supercartridge, which he is told is an "expansion" of Homestuck, it's a trick. there is no "expansion"; he's going to be trapped in a story that never ends because it keeps dividing into smaller and smaller versions of itself forever. the only way to truly beat the devil who trapped the heroes within a story is to trap him in his own story.

that's what Caliborn's "Hell" is, and that's also exactly what the Alternate Calliope achieved in Act 7 by creating the black hole which Vriska knocked Lord English into, ending Homestuck's story - something that Calliope even hints at in this very update, when she refers to the black hole as "containment"; not an accident, but a deliberately crafted prison. black holes are a symbol of recursion and regression; being sucked into one means being forced to live out your whole life over and over again, forever. so really, this is all we ever could have expected to happen when Vriska stepped into a black hole within a black hole! the presentation of the narrative even subtly hints at this; events in Beyond Canon that take place in the black hole are enclosed (in brackets), and now events that take place in a black hole-within-a-black-hole are contained within {curly brackets}, because you should always use a different kind of brackets to differentiate nested parenthesis from each other!

it is absolutely no coincidence that when Caliborn closes the curtains on his appearances in Homestuck, thinking he's won when really he's been condemned to a hell of his own making forever more, it's with a tribute to this exact same Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff strip.

IF YOU REMEMBER JUST ONE THING I SAY, OF SO MANY GREAT THINGS SAID BY ME, THEN PLEASE REMEMBER THIS. I WANTED TO PLAY A GAME.

So What Does That Mean?

one of Beyond Canon's central missions is expanding upon Homestuck's exploration of the relationships between author, text, and audience. as discussed above, a large part of Homestuck's thesis is the evil of forcing characters to live the same lives and the same stories over and over without the chance to grow or move on, and Beyond Canon picks up on this by placing Dirk in the position of trying to keep Homestuck going forever purely to appease its fans, while the Alternate Calliope continues to oppose this ideology. and while the alpha Calliope outwardly seems not to have taken a hard position on where she stands in this cosmic battle, the question posed by her device seems to be an entirely new one: can it actually be a good thing to regress, to return to ground that the story has already covered? can this path lead to something new, rather than merely stagnation?

it's so relevant that Vriska is being confronted with the crimes of her past, not only in the form of all the trolls she was personally responsible for killing but also in the form of the exact same punishment she condemned Lord English to with her heroism - complete with the herd of horses that are always present at Caliborn's demise! but where being condemned to an eternal cycle was fitting punishment for Caliborn, someone who refuses to break free of cycles of abuse and instead chooses to enact that same abuse on the world around him... if Vriska is someone who can break free of these cycles, who can change and become a better person despite what happened to her, will this punishment have the same effect? or, as Davepeta seems to believe, is forcing Vriska to reckon with her own past and traumas exactly what will allow her to break free of that cycle?

DAVE: [...] ill just be over here in the hyper gravity chamber training to beat lord english KARKAT: WE HAVE A HYPER GRAVITY CHAMBER???

it's hard not to be struck by the parallels in design and purpose between the Plot Point and Dragon Ball's Hyperbolic Time Chamber, and not just because of the Dragon Ball enthusiasts present on Beyond Canon's writing and art teams: albeit in typically Strider-bastardised form, the Time Chamber got a shoutout in Andrew Hussie's own Homestuck (see quote above), in a reference that was even picked up on by prolific theorist bladekindeyewear at the time. for the uninitiated: the Hyperbolic Time Chamber allowed its users to train for extended stretches of time, sometimes even spanning years, while a significantly smaller time period passed in the world outside - something that is actually true of real-life black holes! and with the Plot Point's own emphasis on time, represented by the hourglass included among its mechanisms, it seems to me that an essential part of making the 16-year-old Vriska ready for the trials ahead will be giving her the time to undergo the same growth her adult friends have experienced.

considering that Beyond Canon is already playing in the Ultimate Self space, where there are levels of power beyond merely the "god tiers", it also doesn't seem too farfetched to speculate that Vriska, forced to reckon with the fact that becoming a powerful Thief of Light isn't the be-all and end-all of personal growth, will take another leaf out of Dragon Ball's book here and ascend "beyond Super Saiyan". perhaps this is even the "hell tier" so cheekily alluded to in the Plot Point flash? certainly this kind of evolution would be the perfect way to challenge Dirk's belief that the Ultimate Self is the only logical final step for a character's development.

whatever the case, I believe we can take Davepeta at their word here. I don't think it's just a joke that by the end of this ordeal Vriska Serket is going to be fucking RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIPPPPPPPPPED!

[afrognamedfizzarolli]

Helluva Boss observations and easter eggs you may not have noticed!: Pilot

The pilot is both a great place and weird place to start, as it is our introduction to the cast and world, but also no longer considered canon. Many of the events and details we learn/see are later confirmed in the series itself, but there were quite a few changes.

I want to start off with some design changes!

With Millie, she used to have white roots visible, this actually kept up for a few of the early episodes. As we know now it seems imps have two noticeable instances of sexual dimorphism: females have black horns with thin white stripes and naturally black hair, and males have evenly sized black and white stripes on their horns and naturally black hair. We see many trans or otherly gender queer imps that dye their hair with visible roots. I assume Millie's design was changed when that was established to be a gender difference in imps.

Her heart tattoo is also much smaller, and switches sides (an animation error almost certainly) When the pilot first came out I actually thought she had a heart on both shoulders.

Some stuff with Stolas!

We see his hand outlined with a red glow at one point, presumably representing his magic. While in the series his magic is represented by blue. This is most likely due to the change of his character as he was originally planned to be a villain.

Not a design change, but I find it funny that Stolas' name in Blitzø's phone is "Creepy Mouth (aka one night stand bird dick)". Surprisingly all being spelled correctly.

Stolas' Grimore! I actually only noticed this on this last watch. It was a darker blue(purple? red? It changes in different scenes) and instead of the moon design it has a different insignia of his that we still see throughout the series in various places (notably on his bed) it also has no design on the back.

Little details!

I didn't realize before either that the woman who Moxxie is trying to shoot before Eddie gets in the way, is Eddie's mom. I'm sure this is something many others picked up on immediately though.

Speaking of which, the human news anchor shown at the end bares a striking resemblance to a character of Brandons: a news anchor named Flint Dicker.

A poster of "THE AMAZING IMP SIBLINGS" is on the wall of the conference room. Showing Blitzø, Barbie Wire, and another character labeled "Tilla". This was changed in the series to just being Blitzø and Barbie, Tilla's design being slightly altered and then used for their mom.

Hazbin easter eggs! Oh boy is there a lot of them.

In the commercial sequence we see in the room of one of the targets a framed drawing of Sir Pentious

In the background of when Blitzø is interviewing a previous client, there is a billboard for 666 News ft. A photo of Katie Killjoy, I especially love this one as Brandon ended up voicing her!

In Blitzø's office he had a vision board labeled "BOSS GOALS" with 5 drawings, in the center is Blitzø labeled "ME!" Top left we have Katie again, top right is a duck with a top hat and two $'s, this assumably referencing Lucifer, bottom left is Rosie, an arrow pointing to her hat labeled so eloquently "HAT" and lastly in the bottom right there is a more detailed drawing that looks to be Carmilla Carmine labeled "Moxxie drew not as good" this tracking later as in 1.05 "The Harvest Moon Festival" Moxxie talks about Carmine angelic weaponry, showing a great interest in her business.

Next is a dumpster in an alley with various graffiti. Notably, a face that looks to be Nifty, "ALWAYS CHASING RAINBOWS" and "HAPPY HOTEL". There is also a sinister face labeled "DEVIL". Im not sure if this is a specific refrence to anything though.

Lastly, one that I'm sure almost everyone noticed but feel the need to include, is we can see Loona watching Charlie's performance of "Inside of Every Demon is a Rainbow"

Funny observations:

When the crew teleports into the church, we see maany people with some pretty detailed designs, I do not know if or what they may be referencing, but I have a strong suspicion it is something, my guess is that they are caricatures of some people who worked on the pilot. One person in specifically is wearing a jacket with a patch reading "WHEN YOU SEE IT" with a 👌

Signs! In the hospital we see a sign saying "WE SAVE LIVES" in faded text it reads between we and save "try to" and after lives another line is visible starting with "but" I cannot make out the rest.

Others show that they are in ward 13, the next room over labeled as 667, implying the room that Eddie was in is 666

A note is taped to the side of the fridge of the break room reading "LOONA DONT EAT MY LUNCH -MOXXIE"

Another thing I only noticed recently is when Blitzø sneaks out at the Goetia palace, he is naked except for his jacket, with the grimore serving as some creative censorship. (+Stella's beta design. I personally love her current design, but this one wasn't bad)

When Blitzø makes the comment about making Moxxie the employee of the month he holds up a small plaque as an example, a larger version of this same plaque, is visible on a wall in the commercial sequence.

While in their hazmat suits(idk if that's what these actually are), you can see the shape of Moxxie's bowtie under it

... and just Blitzø holding some targets panties, cause why not

There are a handful of other details, but I'm going to hold onto those as later on we see call backs to them. Also, I've spent a lot more on this than Id planned already, I have at least 3 hours on this one alone.

Please bare with me, I promise these will get more interesting the further we go in the series!

[jo-harrington]

Corroded Coffin Fest Halloween - And To All A Good Fright

Summary: Halloween is over...but there's still a little fright in store.

Word Count: 666

Rating: T

Warnings/Themes: Friendship, humor, angst, disagreement, supernatural encounters, friendship

Note: Surprise! There was one more post for today. Originally I planned for it to be tomorrow but I'm about to put my head down and be in my hole recovering for the next 24 hours and I don't trust the schedule option. Check Out the Main Post for @corrodedcoffinfest here and all of the entries. I still have some to catch up on but they've all been wonderful. Thanks again @thisapplepielife for a great event.

Tagging @the-unforgivenn @1lostsoul0fishbowl upon request.

You can find my masterlist here.

Please do not interact if you are not 18+.

Enjoy!

Friday, November 1st 1985

Unfortunately, Halloween week was over before they knew it.

The faculty at Hawkins High were quick to shift from spooky decorations to harvest ones ahead of Thanksgiving. With little sprinklings of Christmas alluded to in the details. It was like the best holiday of the year wasn’t even worth keeping up for even one extra day. A Friday of all days too.

Of course, for the Hellfire Club, they had more than enough candy to last them til the end of the year.

And enough lessons learned over the course of the week to last them a lifetime.

“Who knew we’d have this much candy?” Dave muttered as he picked through the sweets he’d brought along to eat with lunch. “I don’t know if I can look at another piece of candy after that stomach ache I had on Wednesday. Least I didn’t puke like Eddie.”

He snickered good-naturedly but Gareth wasn’t amused.

“You know what Dave, you had it easy. I’d take a stomach ache over—” Gareth paused his grumbling as the freshmen took their seats at the table. “—over you know what.”

“You’re never gonna live that down man,” Jeff snickered as he swirled his sport through his mashed potatoes.

“Live what down?” Mike questioned innocently.

Eddie chose that moment to fall into his seat at the head of the table. As he threw open his lunch box, Gareth snarked his response directly at him.

“Nothing, we were just grumpy about the curse Eddie put on us last week.”

“Gare,” Eddie rolled his eyes. “You only have yourself to blame for your predicament. I don’t want to hear any excuses.”

“No wait,” Jeff cut in, “you did put a curse on us last week. When you were telling us about the seven deadly sins.”

Eddie stared at him like he’d grown a second head.

“What the hell are you talking about?”

“What do you mean ‘what are we talking about.’ The sins. The deadly sins! You said they’d sneak up on us when we’d least expect it.”

The rest of the boys started making sounds of agreement, recalling the whole conversation and Eddie had to shout to get them to shut up.

“When was this?” Eddie questioned, his eyes narrowed in suspicion.

“Last week!” A few voices shouted in tandem.

“Thursday,” Dustin clarified. “I asked what these sins were and you explained it. You were dressed like the Devil. Shitty costume horns and all.”

“Impossible,” Eddie scoffed. “I ditched last Thursday.”

“BULLSHIT!” Dave shouted. “You sat right there, you dunked your cape in my lunch. Then you cursed us.”

“You called it a blight and everything!”

All of the boys got into it again, chattering back and forth about his costume and theatricality and how he’d come and sat right down at the table and explained all of the deadly sins. And Eddie insisted that it wasn’t true.

“I wasn’t here on Thursday. I wasn’t wearing a cape. I don’t even have a Devil costume!” Eddie stared at them all like they’d lost their minds, and they shot the same look his way.

“Well if it wasn’t you, then who was it?” Mike asked. “The real devil?”

The younger boy let out a snort, but he froze as the fluorescent lights about their table began to flicker.

They all glanced up, then at each other, and then Eddie cleared his throat.

“Sure, that was me,” he said nervously, obviously lying. “I was here dressed as the Devil. And we don’t need to talk about that anymore. Or tell anyone. Sounds good?”

“Yep.”

“Yes.”

“Sounds perfect.”

The all ducked their heads and focused intensely on their lunches.

Dustin let out a snort.

“He got it wrong though.” Several questioning looks were sent his way. “It shouldn’t have been blight. The Devil…er…Eddie…should’ve said ‘Happy Halloween to all. And to all a good fright.’”

He glanced at them expectantly, only to receive blank stares in return.

“Get it? Come on! You guys suck!”

[seattlesea]

Every Copia Antichrist Theory Detail (That I Know Of)- Part One

So there's a theory going around that Papa Emeritus IV/Copia is going to become the Antichrist and have an 'evil' era after the Re-Imperatour is over, and honestly, I believe at the least that Copia is going to become the Antichrist. Here's every detail I've found and complied so far-

1. 666. In some of the stained glass windows that depict Copia, he has a 666 tattoo on his chest. This number also appears on his blue Papa robe and in the Call Me Little Sunshine music video. Normally, 666 is simply a number to represent evil, but in the Bible it's actually used to represent the upcoming Antichrist. This is probably the most solid piece of proof that Copia is going to become the Antichrist and what got me hooked on this theory in the first place. While 666 is stereotypically an 'evil' number, judging by how precise and knowledgable Tobias is, it's highly unlikely he added this number three times to Copia's character just for the aesthetic but none of the other Papas.

2. The Unholy Trinity. The 'Unholy Trinity' are the opposites of the Holy Trinity- the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Unholy Trinity consists of Satan, the Beast aka the Antichrist, and the False Prophet. I and many others believe that Jim DeFroque of Jesus He Knows Me is the False Prophet giving his entire character is about giving people false hope and turning his back on what he preaches. So Satan is himself, Jim is the False Prophet, and Copia the Antichrist.

3. A Pale Horse. Copia is often depicted on a pale white horse. Especially in the Rats video, this is very obviously a reference to one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse- Death. Copia isn't just seen on a white horse in the Rats video but also on official Ghost merch as well. To top this off, the first three albums depict the birth, rise, and reign of the Antichrist. Opus Eponymous is about his birth, Infestissumam is about the presence of the Devil and the Antichrist, and Meliora is about the absence of God and the reign of the Antichrist. Then we get to Copia's first album Prequelle and it's about the Black Plague and death, aka the first horseman of the apocalypse. Then his second album Impera which is about the rise and fall of empires which takes place in modern day. So all the previous albums were about the birth and rise of the Antichrist, then we get to Copia's albums and it's about death and the rise and fall of empires, not centering about the Antichrist. Most likely because Copia, being the upcoming Antichrist, isn't writing and singing songs about himself.

4. White eyes. Everyone knows that the Emeritus family have one white eye and one green eye- a genetically inherited trait from Nihil. White eyes are symbolically used to represent power, heaven, supremacy, wealth, and leadership, and what's interesting about this is there are many hints pointing to Copia gaining two white eyes. First, the promotional artwork for the Imperatour and Re-Imperatour. The France, Europe, official Re-Imperatour, and the Kia Forum artwork all show one white and one green eye as normal. But then you get to the South America promotional artwork and his white eye is on the wrong side. It's on his right rather than his left as usual. Is this an artist's mistake- which, if it was, why would Tobias use it as often as he did on Instagram and not fix it- or is it showing two white eyes rather than one, considering you can't see the left side of his face in it? Second, Phantomime. The Phantomime cover shows Copia in a corpse-like pose with two glowing white eyes. This could again just be an artistic take, but it seems like an odd change nonetheless. And third, the Escape the Ministry game seems trivial and just like fun, but it actually holds many clues (more I'll go over later). For this point, the ending has a 'Thank you for celebrating Phantomime with us' note with a drawing of Papa IV in which he has two white eyes yet again. Once is an artist mistake, twice is a coincidence, but three times? Three different times Papa IV is shown with two white eyes instead of one? Very very odd. And why is this so important? Well, in the Infestissumam cover, the baby that represents the Antichrist has two white eyes.

5. Sister Imperator. In Chapter 3: Back On The Road, the three Emeritus brothers are killed- ordered by Sister Imperator- because they were doing unsatisfactory and so Copia could become Papa. She wants Copia to become Papa obviously because he's her son, but then goes on to say that she 'can't' call him Papa because of Nihil (and in 'Tomb It May Concern' calls him C). Is it really because of Nihil, or is it because she doesn't want him to meet the same fate as the other Emeritus brothers? Would she try to make him or at least encourage him to become the Antichrist in order to save him and so the Ministry can't kill him? She is the one, after all, to proudly announce to him that he's performing at the Kia Forum in Chapter 16: Tax Season, the show many people believe Copia is going to die at because it's the last show of the Re-Imperatour, recording is not allowed, and the line 'When the summer dies, severing the ties/I'm with you always, always' from Darkness at the Heart of My Love (and September 11th is days before the Fall Solstice, signaling the end of summer). Why would Sister sound so proud and happy of this if her son was going to die? Wouldn't she be happy and proud if her son were to say gain more power or survive the Ministry's- especially Nihil's- attempts to off him? Also, there's a line in the song Witch Image (from Prequelle) that goes 'But like a mother would save her own child from digging a grave'. Sister Imperator is trying to save Copia, not kill him. Becoming the Antichrist would seal his immortality and save him from the Ministry.

6. Alternatively, Saltarian. In the same chapter Tax Season, Saltarian is grinning at Copia while pushing the glass coffin. Saltarian for the most part has acted kind of aloof and hostile to Copia, except for in Chapter 13: The Beach Life where he invites Copia to his beach house, has some laugh with him, and talks to him about his European Summer Tour. Then in next chapter Road Trip, he tells Copia he 'knows when his time is up' which is very odd considering no one really knows who the Saltarian is. All we know is he's in the Clergy and works close with Sister and Nihil (and his name derives from the Italian word 'jump/leap', Saltare). But what I really want to focus on is the game Copia is playing in Tax Season. He's playing a driving game called Driving Miss Daisy which isn't a real game but a movie. The description of said movie is: "Daisy Werthan, an elderly Jewish widow living in Atlanta, is determined to maintain her independence. However, when she crashes her car, her son, Boolie, arranges for her to have a chauffeur, an African-American driver named Hoke Colburn. Daisy and Hoke's relationship gets off to a rocky start, but they gradually form a close friendship over the years, one that transcends racial prejudices and social conventions." Sounds kinda like Copia and Saltarian. So did Saltarian smile at him sinisterly and knowingly or did he smile at him because he wants to help him (from who I don't know- could be the Clergy or Sister if she wants Copia dead for whatever reason).

More to come but this is getting too long :P

Part Two

[angst-is-love-angst-is-life]

If I were trying to summon you, I’d put Barry Allen, Eobard Thawne, Zoom, a selection of whumping tools, and a meta dampening collar in the summoning circle.

You summon me but the plot bunnies follow and immediately start buzzing around the room at mach 2 while multiplying like tribbles. Picture this but there’s thousands all of once

[vincent-sinclair-deserved-better]

meant to post this yesterday but then forgot cause late and tired

anyway, I started and finished this in one day which I am happy about

someone hand me a broom to hit that little part telling me that there weren't that many details and lines etc anyway so that made it easy

The horrors persist but so do I

to us people who persist despite the horrors @goldrose-star @devil-doll13 @rottent33th @myers-meadow @the-pinstriped-hood @house-of-slayterr @bluecoolr @visceravalentines @probably-a-plant-thing @frenziedslashers @ace-of-hearts-and-spades @darklylucid @callmecaspurr @soupbabe @cyanide-latte @coffeexafterxmidnight @fluffy-little-demon @mintgalaxia @shonkgobonk @spookyscaryslashy @queer-world-666 @brandnewhuman @doomh3ad

[negative-speedforce]

tagged by: @angst-is-love-angst-is-life @shrinkthisviolet and @the-devil-in-the-details-666 (hot damn i'm popular)

RULES: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

In Too Deep (rewrite)

Wutrolani + Lakinda explicit

Too Far Gone (book 2)

Different Stars (Thalia)

Different Stars (Pyrrha)

Different Stars (Lailathena)

Different Stars (Reyna)

Duality

Angel-Verse

The Odyssey of Sohelia Yazdani

Stucky Time Travel AU

Thranto brainwashing AU

RF!Iris

Earth-2022

Star Trek: Requiem

Published Works backup folder

Avatar Meena (8x20 AU)

Wutrolani!!!!

Siv (Old Version)

DoP b1/b2

Rania side piece

Meredith side piece

tagging @goldheartedchaoticdisaster @practically-an-x-man @allysunny @ftl-faster-than-life @vexic929 and anyone else who wants to join!

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

req'd by @the-devil-in-the-details-666

oookay not familiar with THIS school of thought, @cryptotheism you have thoughts on this?????

text: Everyone knows magi is just an eldritch STD

[kitkatt0430]

RULES: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

tagged by @sophiainspace ^_^

So I... have a lot of WIPs, so I'm just going to do the first ten that I think someone else would find the most interesting to hear me ramble about a bit.

Eobarry fuzzy morals

In This House We Are Home

Arrow Redux - Episode 4

Recalculating

Flash - Dollhouse

Inner Chill

Poly Bingo B1 - Westhallen

Tales of the Old Republic

The Jedi in the Carbonite

Spirit of Hope

tagging @fezwearingjellybananas @avatarskywalker78 @shrinkthisviolet @the-devil-in-the-details-666 @alittleflashvibe @bottomoftheriverbed @strivia @terrie01 @negative-speedforce @angst-is-love-angst-is-life and anyone else who'd like to play ^_^

[itstypical]

Longlegs 6.5 / 10

I like to word vomit a lot about horror movies and I think the best place to put my thoughts and horror movie collections will be here for now.

Initially when I watched the movie it was a fresh 8 out of 10 coming out of the theater but now that I have time to let it sink in and revisit the imagery, symbolism, directors influences, etc. I've settled between a 7 and 6 making it a 6.5.

Things I did enjoy:

I enjoy a lot of analog/found footage type horror films. I think placing this (mainly) during the 90s for the "Satanic Panic" was a wonderful and appropriate time setting for this film. Not only that, but there is something about "older" horror movies do to the lack of "modern/fast" technology makes things more tense. We notice Lee Harker sometimes pulling out a phone during her investigations but obviously they weren't as reliable as they are now. When you're in a pinch you can't just whip that phone out and call fellow detectives or local authorities for backup as easily, you chose to fight or flee.

I know a lot of people hated the dead space scenes, I quite enjoyed them. The visuals were stunning, and I did like the open space to enjoy the beautiful wide shots of 70s to 90s American Gothic landscapes. It gave the viewer time to tense up, wonder, question, and sit in the anxiety the movie was meant to give you. I'm not a huge fan of cheap jump scares. Using a jump scare shouldn't be the basis of a good horror movie unless that's what you're 100% aiming for.

I'm also a big fan of the symbolism that it did show! There was a good nod to Glam Rock and how that tied into the Satanic Panic of the 80s-90s. Longlegs (according to the makeup artist) had remodeled their face via botched plastic surgeries of the 70s to impress the Devil. Longlegs wanted to stay youthful for the Devil. It very much gave me that impression. Initially I thought Longlegs did it to themself, as they are a doll maker, but I wasn't far off. Longlegs did give off a youthful energy, seemingly wanting to stay childish and innocent forever by the way they acted and tried to look. This is also referenced by Lee's mother (Ruth Harker), during the scene where she tries to get the truth out of her mother regarding her past birthday when she was younger.

Lastly, I thoroughly enjoyed Maika Monroe (Lee Harker), Blair Underwood (Agent Carter), and Longlegs (Nicolas Cage) performances. I love to see artists play roles that are different from their "normal". If you can take me out of your past roles and convince me that you are now a brand new character, I think you've done great. I will be fair though, Maika has done several horror films so this may not be "new" to her. However; her meek, monotone, and expressionless character gave me the chills especially when she did have moments of passion/expression (ex: Lee Harker screaming in the car on the way to Ruby Carter's birthday)

Now to the things I didn't care for / wish they expanded on:

There were several religious motifs that not all viewers understood (myself included). I did see nods to Dante's Inferno, Revelation 13:1, religious iconography such as the obvious "666" and snakes. However, if you're not fully religious (or practice a different religion entirely) perhaps the casual viewer wouldn't catch onto those pertinent details. They quoted several times a passage from The King James version of Revelation 13:1, which is from the Protestant branch of Christianity. I think the director failed to go into more detail in regards to that, so at least more casual viewers can understand. I did notice a huge discrepancy on ratings and how a religious viewer tended to enjoy the movie more BECAUSE they understood the religious symbolism, iconography, and passages...versus someone who did not.

This I felt more so-so. I noticed Longlegs was a huge fan of Glam Rock, specifically a lot of Lou Reed's album Transformer was plastered everywhere in Longlegs little basement home. I'm not sure how much the director wanted it to be known (that's why I feel so-so about this). I know some viewers questioned the sexuality and gender identity of Longlegs. They did use he/him pronouns for Longlegs. I did not personally believe that was supposed to be a focus of the movie. That's why I feel so mehhh about it. But I know the director did add that in due to his own personal life struggles of his own father living a double life. One as a married straight man with a wife and kids, and the secret life of his father being Bisexual / Homosexual. If you didn't already know, Anthony Perkin's is the directors (Oz Perkins) father. Since Anthony was in the legendary movie Psycho, during the 1960s being in his height of popularity, I could only imagine he chose not to come out due to homophobia during that era. Glam Rock had the tendency to reach that edge of Queer tropes though. (Which I do wish they expanded on more, because a lot of people missed that.) Glam Rock was seen as the Devils music because of its purposeful flamboyance. It had always teeter on the edge of femininity and gender non-conformity. I mean, Lou Reed's "Transformer" album was about the struggle of gender and sexuality....if it wasn't a hint enough from the song "Walk on the Wild Side", in some interviews Lou had mentioned being a "transvestite", Lou's muse (Rachel) was an out and open (at the time considered) transsexual female and Lou had surrounded himself with that community as well. I don't think Longlegs is meant to be transgender, but I do think Longlegs fucked with gender non-conformity(who really knows). I know some people might think it may have made the movie itself transphobic, but if we look at who the killers ARE. It's straight cis males who killed their wives and kids. So this one, I think I would have liked to know a little more, instead of piecing it together through tiny details. But also it begs to differ, maybe the fact that the gender and sexuality is UNKNOWN and will remain UNKNOWN, and in general the UNKNOWN is what scares people, and what makes others demonize it. (and yes I know they use he/him pronouns for Longlegs)

Final thoughts, If you're going to make a full new symbolic demonic alphabet and advertise that in your trailers for the movie....why not use it? I was SO excited to learn more about that, but they never once touched on that which was so disappointing to me. The name Longlegs, the imagery of actual long thin legs, and the demonic alphabet they made for the "movie" was essentially all for the trailer to get you hyped. Because NONE of that was explained or shown in the movie. Even the director noted they used the moniker Longlegs to evoke some cool 70s evil imagery, but it really did not mean anything in the long run.

Thanks for reading if anyone did. I just love to write my thoughts down, despite a reading or lack there of....BYE!!!!!

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BREAKING NEWS

raphael the cambion, son of the lord of hellfire mephistopheles and resident of avernus' own house of hope, REVEALED this hellish wednesday evening to have gotten hornoplasty extending his horns by over six baator inches within the past two or so millennia. perhaps that was the reason for his extended absence around the fall of netheril, rather than his transparent excuse of vying for power over karsus' follies. who came back more changed - the wizard who tried to become a god, or the vain devil with size issues?

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