#to dnf. BUT THE FUCKING PARALLELS.

[demonstars]

Hadestown au with toosh orpheus/ eurydice and dnf hades/ persephone

i am going to run into the ocean to neverrr be seen again

[flyingwea]

REWATCHED YOI AFTER SEVEN YEARS AND OHHH GOD OH LORD MY BRAIN COULDN'T FUCKING STOP MAKING PARALLELS WITH DNF THEIR RINGS ARE LIKE DNF'S CHAINS FUCKKKKKKKK

[eulchu]

I came to this fandom after dsmp ended, i have only a vague idea of what the c!dnf story was, could you do a brief summary of it? if it's not too much effort, and if you happen to remember the timeline and how it parallels real life? thanks 🙂

so basically towards the begining it was c!dteam having fun, until c!tommy joined the server and started griefing and killing george repeatedly for fun (both were against the server rules) so that made c!dream really mad and he started messing with c!tommy back. c!george and c!sap joined him and a rivalry was born.

fast forward some betrayals and a war, c!dream pronounces c!george king of the server, and promises loyalty to him. it's epic and awesome fast forward some time rumors stirr that there's a riot waiting to happen to dethrone c!george. that makes c!dream paranoid and he dethrones him first, which feels like the absolute betrayal for c!george, who had been promised only good and big things. shit hits the fan shortly after and c!dream loses his mind HEAVILY whilst c!george finds a deeper alliance in the fiances.

c!dream gets locked up for being insane and c!george tries to get him out by mining the obsidian with his fists. you'd imagine he doesn't get very far. after that c!dream is in prison while c!george is off to sleep all the time to the point where he can't differenciate between awakeland and being asleep. he sees a man who looks like dream in those dreams, which turns out to be the god of the server, dreamxd. he befriends him because he reminds him of dream and also does things for him. it's unclear why xd fixates on c!george the way he does - maybe because he likes to fuck with c!dream (there's a whole story arc there). probably because his favorite kind of people were the ones who suffered awful nightmares, and c!george had a lot of those.

that situation kind of stays like that until the end of the server. c!dream stays crazy, people using c!george against him because it's the only thing that gets through him, and c!george stays sad and in dreamland, plagued by weird dreams and nightmares about c!dream betraying him and pandora.

- in terms of their story resembling real life, id say a lot of it comes from the xd narrative. dream creates that character during a george stream because everyone was in the server and his character was canonically in prison, so he creates xd to be able to play with them. most of it though, comes from george. it's george who makes his character look for c!dream everywhere without quite reaching him. it's c!george who always wakes up with a gasp before he can really turn his dream from a nightmare to something nice. it's c!george who always looks at the prison from afar and who never dares visit c!dream because "i was told you didn't want me to see you", but really, he was just scared that he couldn't take dream back with him.

there's a dream that c!george has, one of the only nice ones he ever had, where c!dream shows up on top of the prime path, and they're running towards each other, saying how much they've missed each other. and then c!george wakes up.

c!dnf (dnfxd) was a lot of dream twisting the server's narrative so that he could spend irl time with george during lore (even when they were already spending 24/7 together), and a lot of george making one of his character's traits long for c!dream to the point where he went fucking ballistic and destroyed the entire server because c!dream chose someone else over him (which, quite frankly... that's just cc!george)

[readingtoinfinity]

Creatures Commandos episodes 1 and 2

God, I love monsters, especially those who retain some of their humanity. And Creature Commandos seemed right up my alley, so I was really looking forward to it.

The results are slightly mixed, but on the whole I'm positive towards it. Both first episodes dropped on the same day, which makes sense because episode 1 is a rough start.

The premise: after the events of The Suicide Squad (not to be confused with Suicide Squad) Amanda Waller is no longer allowed to use human subjects for Task Force X. Never one to let a loophole slip her by, she instead recruits a fully non-human team of soldiers under command of Rick Flagg Sr.

Episode 1 is rough. The pacing is fast, rushed at times, as it attempts to get you on-board with the premise. The first quarter of the episode or so is just exposition, Amanda Waller giving military expospeak to give you the low-down on the threat the squad will be facing. I want to call out this in particular with Viola Davis' acting in episode 1, because the rushed acting means her stoic demeanor doesn't have quite the time to sink in, and it just sounds like she's bored.

It's not all bad, however; the animation is gorgeous, stylized, and for all that we meet the characters in a hurry they are strongly personalized and each seem to have their own arc going on. I deeply sympathize with G.I. Robot who desperately wants to kill Nazis and hasn't been allowed to for some time. And of course, Alan Tudyk charms as the conniving, evil, sarcastic Doctor Phosphorus. I need to see what happens next with Princess Ilana, however, because for the moment she seems two-dimensional. I suspect she has something very sinister going on, but we shall see.

Episode 2 is where things really pick up, and The Bride gets focus as we learn her backstory and she interacts with NIna about it. I don't quite like what the show is doing with Frankenstein's Monster (his name is Eric? What the fuck?!) but it seems thematically-related with Circe and the incel-adjacent antagonists, so I'm withholding judgement until I see what happens with it.

But the character work on The Bride? Phenomenal. I barely got to see her in the comics and she's become such a delightful bitch of a character. Not that it's unjustified, mind you, but she reminds me a lot of Kira from Deep Space Nine, someone with a long past of dubious actions, or Vex from Legend of Vox Machina, someone thorny and jaded. Weirdly I get a lot of parallels to Vox Machina in episode 2; Victor Frankenstein feels a lot like Percy, in design and mannerisms.

For those of you who enjoyed Legend of Vox Machina, with its fantasy worlds, brutal violence and likeable bastards of a cast, this show seems for you. It's got an edge but suggests a heart that's still to come.

I'm not going to post an episode-by-episode breakdown of the whole series; instead, I'm going to keep watching this show until it dips in quality so much I bail (in which case there will be a DNF notice) or I finish it and review the whole thing. I don't imagine I'll stop watching it, but worse things have happened...

[dnfao3tags]

do we have fem!dnf recs by chance?

there are actually so many good fem!dnf fics right now, i've been meaning to make like a masterpost of them or something so here it is:

rule 63 / fem!dnf

— you open like a flower by tippysleeps (expl. | comp. | 5k)

Dream takes off her shirt and George feels her brain white out. To see Dream in this context, all coy and expectant, with freckles and acne scars on her shoulders, makes her feel like the first person to discover desire.

— triple dog dare by tippysleeps (expl. | comp. | 12k)

It’s hard then, to determine exactly when this thing between them grows legs and darts, jackrabbiting from George’s heart. It’s not like it’s sudden. It’s not like one day George wakes, looks out her window, and realises the sky is different. It’s not like the rain falls any lighter because she is in love. It’s not like the world notices.

— unbreakable heaven by furculaed (teen | comp. | 5k)

“I didn’t mean for it to get so messy,” she breathes, “I thought we could, I don’t know, just do whatever and we’d be okay. I can live with just this, I promise. I can do with nothing, even. I don’t know. Just don’t ask me to stop.” Dream’s breath stops right at her chest. “Stop what, George?” “You know,” she whispers. George looks at Dream, beautiful and breaking at the seams. “Don’t make me say it, Dream. You know,” George begs.

— what a fucked up reality show by brokenlikeastitch (teen | comp. | 13k)

George giggles, pushing a loose strand of hair back behind her ear as she does. The giggle makes Dream feel a little faint, and she sits down in the offered seat just to make sure she doesn’t accidentally actually fall out in the library in front of everyone.

— my one and only, my lifeline by lodestones (teen | comp. | 4k)

They’re more than friends, and that should be enough. George knows specific labels don’t matter—Dream is hers, and George is Dream’s, and that should be all she needs to feel reassured about where they stand. And yet, Dream has never kissed her in front of Sapnap.

— parallel lines (stars all aligned) by ourwaterfalls (riversofgold) (teen | comp. | 3k)

“Should see you more in the sun, then,” George’s fingers are still on her face, so soft and barely there, but Dream feels it so strongly that it’s difficult to function. “Someone should kiss them under the sun.” Dream tastes acid on her tongue, laughing despite the strong urge to scream her lungs out. “Anyone in mind?” “Dunno,” George shrugs, and she drops her hand back down, pink spreading on the apex of her cheeks. “Maybe.”

— i want you in the picture by cryystal_m00n (gen | comp. | 2k)

5 times Georgia wishes she were dating Dream, and one time she realizes they were already dating.

— sweetness (heart's content) by heartinhands (expl | comp. | 3k)

Dream is incredibly weak for her girlfriend in an oversized hoodie. And her girlfriend's tits. Her girlfriend's everything really. Georgie wants her just as much though.

part 2 of around your soft neck (garlands)

— fall into me by havocrat (teen | comp. | 7k)

Handing the tube back, Georgina smacks her lips together, and they make a little pop sound. It’s a weird feeling, a little sticky, but she kind of likes it. She wonders if it’s anything like kissing Dream for real. “Nice chapstick,” she says, and her voice comes out a little hoarse. Dream’s throat bobs, and she wets her lips again. “Yeah?” “Yeah. Tastes good, too.” She’s aware she sounds like an idiot, but this is the only coherent thought in her head right now, the only thought that isn’t about Dream’s lips and Dream’s mouth and indirect kisses and direct kisses and– God.

— like lemongrass and sleep by findingahome (teen | comp. | 1k)

Georgie asks Dream to do her makeup.

[asiogie]

I'm still thinking about how hey there delilah has so many dnf parallels and now dream can sing it while looking george in the eye it makes my heart happy

if i think about this too much ill fucking sob my eyes out

[hertwood]

dts s5 e9-10: THE FINAL POST

e9: -have not been looking forward to the christian horner episode i must say -GOD listening to everyone talk abt how dominant of a year this was for max knowing whats to come 🙃🙃🙃🙃 -this whole "well we didnt do it on purpose so its not cheating" is SO SILLY like imagine if i went to the irs like sowwy i didnt pay my taxes correctly i didnt know 🥺🥺 doesnt matter ur still getting fined lol -i have always felt that christian's whining here is Extra Obnoxious like he didnt spend YEARS going after every lil thing mercedes might've stepped wrong on. if there was a rumor that mercedes went even $100 over cost cap you KNOW he wouldn't shut up about it but when the tables turned he's such a victim -max is going to be deaf by 40 istg. insert huh cat meme that is him always. (affecionate) -"these people talk shit through the media but'll never say it to my face" have u considered its not bc theyre scared to say it to you but bc you're a rancid person they'd like to avoid interacting with. food for thought -"maybe you feel guilty, i dunno" binotto ate with that one i mean IF THE SHOE FITS -I THINK. as it was in 2020 w/ the pink mercedes. (and in 2007 with mclaren!) the penalty for the cost cap breach should've been a dock in constructors championship points. it wouldn't affect the final standings of 2021 (mercedes beat them anyway, there was a big gap to ferrari in 3rd). it would be a great way to set a strict precedent that would easily motivate teams to be very careful with the budget cap WITHOUT changing any results. FIA hire me -say what u like abt will buxton they will never make me hate you will buxton. the way he is with words explaining drama he is the caesar flickerman of f1 and if you cant appreciate it thats a you issue -showing the singapore grand prix and all i can think abt is iconic post race dando interview. yeah i'm sure the race was cool too i guess -I FUCKING FORGOT HE PULLED THE MENTAL HEALTH CARD bro is seriously like dont talk about the cheating we did think of our poor mental health 🥺🥺🥺 anyway i'm gonna go fire nyck devries midseason brb -WOMP WOMP -once again if the roles were reversed christian would be spearheading a campaign to get a mercedes title stripped be so fucking forreal -more max/gp fics. their dynamic is immaculate chefs kiss -god if lewis won this race it wouldve been so iconic. sad

e10: -ad22 top 10 daniel outfits ever. btw -um lando norris neurodivergent agenda the way he's talking about food here? something going on in that brain. when he ordered 13 spring rolls as a meal in that iconic nortrell stream? that is not a way a neurotypical person eats i swear on god -them asking charles how his season was then immediately cutting to the france crash is so mean. good narrative storytelling, but mean nonetheless -how cathartic it must be for nando to benefit from ferrari blunders lol -pre this season coming out, i remember hoping they'd have a proper focus on carlos' austria dnf. it did get a lil moment but it was, for me, the most shocking mechanical dnf of the season and i was looking forward to seeing more of the inner details of it all. oh well -cinematic parallels between merc & ferrari fighting for 2nd in 2022 AND 2023 -brazil must have some typa rule abt not having netflix there bc they always miss out on the most bangers of races. sad. i love u brazil 22 :') -"they told me i can do whatever i want. when i see carlos, put him in the wall" max i am. i am kissing u. on the mouth. mwah mwah mwah -i DO wish. the focused more on the charles v checo battle. that was simply more important. but i guess that didnt work well with the happy ending they gave checo in e7 so -"omtar might get the last laugh this time around" :)))))) for the last time babey hell yeah -FUCK hate how awkward this dando moment they chose to feature is. they're so much more than that. dts only watchers they're in love and doing the nasty on the reg i PROMISE -this daniel comp is so goofy silly now that hes coming back lmao. i do love him he is so important for the reach of f1 and drive to survive and he deserves all the love he gets -HI LOGAN SO EXCITED TO SEE MORE OF U IN THE NEW SEASON MWAH

[froggyrights]

Happy Valentine's Day!

I've been gone for a while because I ran out of ideas for questions, but I wanted to say hi again and encourage everyone to spread some love in the fandom, as always. This is your invitation to gush about a friend, a fanart or fanfic you love, a content creator or a particular video/post/stream.

I love you <3

-🐝

BEE ANOGIEEE HIII 🫶🫶 I hope you've been doing well :D

I am taking this oppurtunity to rec sappy @sappymix1 's beautiful magical au dnf fanfic called "WARNING: no lifeguard on duty. swim at your own risk" because I forgot to leave a comment on it and it literally fawking HAUNTS me everytime I see her on the dash or anywhere online im hitting myself on the head like fuck I need to leave a comment on this because it's literally such a beautiful fic that I loved so much because I'm so obsessed with mermaids and especially dnf as mermaids & this fic has dream as a witch who meets George who is a siren stuck in a swimming pool because he was cursed to he unable to breathe on land and together they try and figure out a way for him to break the curse and escape. And obviously they fall in love during this time but it's also written sort of as a parallel to their pre meetup time and story and the descriptions are so gorgeous and also the dream team and sapnap interactions are just soo fun and so them and it's just so good it's like everything I want out of a fic please read it. Okay thank you that was all im gonna play stardew valley now ^_^

[mavcancees]

mia wallace and vincent should have fucked anyways the dnf parallelisms never end just look away at basically the entire rest of the movie

[gladiolidiaries]

the parallels between larry and dnf are fucking insane to me like what do you mean dreams song might be about george but also could be about his sister THIS IS LITERALLY SWEET CREATURE THE SEQUEL FUCK ME

omg i was thinking about this yesterday! 😭 stupid green and blue curse

[weedlovingweed]

i didn't do many things consistently this year but i DID read a lot... discovered audiobooks and went from 5 books read last year to 30+ this year! so i thought i'd make a little post about them.

my favorites:

the secret history by donna tartt

one of my favs of the year. perhaps a new fav of all time. made me realize how much i love books that tell you what happens right at the beginning and then lead you there...

piranesi by susanna clarke

just finished this one and it snuck in as a favorite for the year... wonderful amazing everything i could have wanted from it... perfect fantasy perfect Book About A House perfect ending...

o caledonia by elspeth barker

god i loved this book. it's bleak for sure but has absolutely everything i'd want in a book: death at the very start that the story leads up to (like secret history), girl who is overly smart & hateful of other people (especially for her time period), really really reminded me of the women in shirley jackson's books and that was exactly what i wanted...

circe by madeline miller

might be one of my favorite retelling / greek myth inspired books i've read!!!

a day of fallen night by samantha shannon

i loved priory but day of fallen night was way more well put together, the protags stories aligned so so well, miserable and wonderful, grand scope realized, desperately want more roots of chaos books. also the audiobook is AMAZING and priory's was... not great

leech by hiron ennes

ohh this book is so so good. so much of the reasons it's good are spoilers, but it's such a cool sci-fi fantasy horror meshed story, the protag being a hivemind parasite doctor is so cool... wonderful book

least favs:

the goldfinch by donna tartt

DNF, got like 3/4 through and could not stand it any longer... i HATE not finishing books, but i listened to literally 30 hours of this book and it was pissing me off enough i had to drop it.

the library at mount char by scott hawkins

i saw someone say that this author is clearly inspired by neil gaiman in the worst way and i completely agree. reminds me of the parts of american gods i forced myself through. (i never finished that one because it fucking sucked. couldn't get past the first chap or so of dead wife bullshit) i really liked caroline and really didn't give a fuck about the two men

the very secret sex lives of medieval women by rosalie gilbert

thought this would be interesting but instead it's full of TERRIBLE jokes

(other books i read under the cut)

the witchcraft of salem village by shirley jackson 3.5/5 (nonfiction) gideon the ninth by tamsyn muir 4.5/5 harrow the ninth by tamsyn muir 4/5 nona the ninth by tamsyn muir 5/5 (nona was my fav) i'm glad my mom died by jennette mccurdy 4/5 (tough read) the priory of the orange tree by samantha shannon 5/5 the jasmine throne by tasha suri 5/5 the oleander sword by tasha suri 5/5 (fav of the series) the lotus empire by tasha suri 4.5/5 bitterthorn by kat dunn 4/5 (fairytale lesbians) the luminous dead by caitlin starling 4/5 (sci-fi horror) the haunting of hill house by shirley jackson (re-read twice) 5/5 we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson (re-read) 5/5 our wives under the sea by julia armfield 4.5/5 (so unsettling and sad) salt slow by julia armfield 5/5 braiding sweetgrass by robin wall kimmerer 5/5 (aligned so well with my myth class!) gentlest of wild things by sarah underwood 3.5/5 the witch of colchis by rosie hewlett 4/5 (i love medea she did nothing wrong) rules for vanishing by kate alice marshall 4.5/5 (very like the left right game) grey dog by elliott gish 4/5 (mad woman book. yippie!) parallel myths by j.f. bierlein (read for class) norse mythology by neil gaiman (read for class)

in total i read only books by women (and one? nb person) except the two for school and my most hated book/last book of the year (mt char), and 16 books about lesbians/bi women (if i don't count my hill house rereads. which, i DO consider it to be a gay women book).

my goal was 15 books and i more than doubled it! for 2025 i am gonna set the goal at 20, but hopefully exceed that by a good bit too! also i really like reading books by and about women <3 and by and about lesbians <3 wahoo

[demonstars]

the issue is that i'm reading klance fics for the first time in fucking ages and i'm reading stuff that has at least some canon setting because i miss them being actually them yknow and there are some random references to canons stuff and then i'm like "whoa klance thing happened" and then my brain does that zoom thing like when the ratatouille guy eats the ratatouille and it zooms in his brain and there is a flashback but that flashback is dnf and then dnf and klance parallels and then i come back to reality, stare at my plate of ratatouille, then open tumblr dot com to update on the otherworldly experience i just had

Like I understand you so fuckign much I'm experiencing insanities the levels I have not seen since I was in the fandom I feel rabifd

[jack-manifold]

every day i go a little bit crazier about the dnf/phan parallels . girl what is WRONG with me i may have grown but did i change? no .

anyways seeing ppl truth (PARTICULARLY the ones that say “x is so in love but y wants nothing to do with him :(((“) is continuing to take me back and just. huh. fandom is still very much fandom and a large chunk of these guys r too young to learn from the mistakes of the phandom

only difference is i think this time instead of pushing two people further into the closet they’re both gonna win a game of gay chicken eventually. if you catch my drift. . i’m saying they’re gonna kiss one day i’m not even truthing they’ve just made like a shit ton of kissing jokes within like the first week of being in person like at this point it’s inevitable that neither of them will cut off the bit in time and then . love wins i guess. sorry did i mention i’m going fucking insane tommy i promise i’m not a truther this is scientific hypothesis based on previous knowledge you gotta believe me

[rata-novus]

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🎃 Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugi (10/7-x) overall, not what i expected, but not bad. only got thru half the series in spooky month, will finish eventually.

ep1 (10/7): kinda slow, but not boring. the final shot of the woman in the doorway gave me goosebumps.

ep2 (10/10): first third/half SUPER effective for me, esp the whole part where ichikawa's flashlight would turn off at the same point in the room. creepy. but then the last part was genuinely ?????? super intriguing but idk really what happened? the metaphysical/scifi aspects weren't ~scary~ to me but i keep thinking abt the episode so

ep3 (10/10): monster horror isnt my thing so eh, but the revelation at the end that those 2 characters are slowly turning into kappa like its an infection was neat.

ep4 (10/11): favorite so far, loved the spatial/time manipulation. but the scene of them time traveling. lol. lmao even.

ep5 (10/11): really liking how each episode is its own thing but clearly pointing to something bigger connecting everything. real curious abt what kudo "sees" since his coma incident.

ep6 - 10: DNF. didn't grip me compared to other stuff i wanted to watch, will finish at my own pace eventually.

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🎃 milk and serial (10/12) liked. flew by, didn't feel like an hour+. mc was super creepy & unhinged. acting felt real & natural. liked the twists. i think naomi & link finding milk's box w/ address to his torture shack was by his design. sequel maybe?

🎃 the void (10/12) liked. FANTASTIC practical effects, wowzers. kinda okay story, more aesthetics than plot but w/e. BIG silent hill vibes though a cult facilitating a "god" to be born, resurrection/reincarnation, physical manifestations of guilt and grief, etc. but like.... spacey/cosmic horror. v different from most mid-2010s or even modern day horror and i appreciate that.

🎃 the empty man (10/13) idk. intriguing but i really dont get the whole part about the people committing suicide. i feel like this is one of those movies i need to deep dive ppls meta analysis to really ~get it~. bc i don't really. honestly my favorite part was the very beginning w the freaky skeleton. what is he transmitting............

🎃 noroi: the curse (10/13) eh. kinda slow. unclear on certain plot points: what was the significance of kana being psychic and drawing that symbol/face/mask? what's up with the boy - another medium? hori was v distracting and borderline exploitative. liked how the seemingly disjointed segments started to connect together, but unfortunately didnt go all the way (see ? above) and too much unresolved. seen better japanese horror and found footage horror tbh sorry

🎃 late night with the devil (10/14) first off -1000000 for using genAI fuck that. second, god the beginning was as boring & cringey as a real late night talk show. which like, yeah ofc but also. i dont want to watch that so no ty. but lilly's appearance at the end was v cool, split head, coursing electrical energy. really liked that a lot. overall better than i thought it was gonna be, but just to the side of okay.

🎃 lake mungo (10/19) quite sad. being haunted by your future death reminds me of nell from haunting of hill house. alice meeting with the psychic and seeing from the perspective of her ghost in the future, paralleled with her mother in the future doing the same and not sensing alice anymore.... big sad. :( some of the spooky stuff did get to me. the recording of alice seeing her future dead body and the reveal that the neighbor was lurking in the house in one of the recordings especially. wtf grossssssss. overall more sad than scary, but i liked it. more effective for me than i thought it would be after reading reddit posts hating it. i feel like i need to be a defender of it now lmao

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🎃 midnight mass overall: forgive me father for i have sinned 🫦 -- dunno if it unseats hill house as my favorite flanagan show but damn it was fantastic.

ep1 (10/19): interesting. if i didnt already know it was abt vampires id be scratching my head rn. the final shot of the cats on the beach was laughable, and thats coming from a sensitive bitch who cant stand animal deaths in horor & frequently uses doesthedogdie lmao ....... rahul kohli can absolutely get it tho

ep2 (10/20): ok first off that whole bit about "pregnant people" was weird af and completely unnecessary. coulda just normalized inclusive language but instead we gotta draw attention to "umm actually ☝️🤓 its usually pregnant women". w/e. -- i think the cats were killed as sustenance (neck wounds), but idk abt the dog being poisoned? the vamp(s) just trying to get rid of the animals on the island so they dont act odd/pick up on the vamps? or smth specifically targeting that one guy, by the nun lady? hmm. -- was the (i presume) vamp stalking the pregnant lady from her house to the clinic bc it could sense her breakthru bleeding??? uew. -- the mimic of the voice near the end was a banger omg so creepy, and i love the reflective eyes v v v good. -- re leeza walking, something in the wine???

ep3 (10/20): is monsignor pruitt this new father paul????? fountain of youth ayoooo. but is he the vampire? nah hes the renfield aint he. what was with the trunk of dirt? ohhh ancestral soil ofc -- theory: the sheriff is gonna be the one to cotton on to smth being wrong bc he doesnt go to the church/drink the wine -- the scene between leeza & joe was so powerful, wow..... -- was father paul poisoned like the dog? kinda bummed if hes dead for good i thought for sure he was gonna be one of the (the only?) antagonists nvm lol, immortal? -- also comparing a vampire to an angel, esp in this context, is sick as hell, love that -- honestly getting big salems lot vibes which i do NOT hate at all tbh, also a bit of exorcist thrown in with the middle east and ruins and smth ~evil~ there

ep4 (10/21): ohhh is monsignor turning into a vampire? sun sensitivity.... -- noooo poor joe :( -- what is up with erin's "miscarriage"/never having been pregnant and her blood reacting to the sun when afair she never drank the wine? -- and riley too damn........

ep5 (10/21): oh hey well guess thats where the title comes from lol -- not, like, super duper crazy with the loooooong chunks of monologue tbh. sometimes it hits like with riley & monsignors back and forth over guilt but other times ehhhh -- speaking of, anyone else down bad for the priest or just me? ok nvm -- so far it seems the og vamp only ate from the stray cats, bowl (bill) and riley so far (maybe the mayor & wife but unclear), and it seems like its been a couple weeks since it arrived so the hunger must not be THAT insatiable, for like 99% of the town population to remain (relatively) unharmed? like, if everyone or even just MOST of them are turned, who they gonna eat? -- on the one hand riley being greeted in death by the uninjured form of the girl he killed in a car crash is beautiful. oh the other hand subjecting the love of your life to watching you burn to fucking death and now shes gonna row back to land with ur smoldering corpse is like. supremely fucked up riley. like i get that erin has to ~see to believe~ but what the hell man. the credits rolling and listening to her screams..... D:

ep6 (10/31): so it's not just the consumption of a vampires blood that makes one a vampire, but death as a catalyst for resurrection. holy shit i love that, flanagan you mad man. -- oh shiiiiit mildred shooting former lover priest in the head damn bitch okay -- bev you pussy ass bitch wont even drink the poison smh my head

ep7 (10/31): "it never felt like a sin, you never felt like a sin and our daughter was never a sin" aoughhhh this got me cryin -- was really rooting for the sheriff to make it out alive :( -- never been religious and have 0 religious trauma but god damn this show got me good, weeping all thru the end

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🎃 rosemary's baby (10/22) regrettably by roman polanski, but 🏴‍☠️ so eh. overall i really liked it. i had seen bits and pieces and i feel this is one of those medias that you kind of know through osmosis, but it was still an enjoyable watch, if not disturbing at times. tho minnis voice and mannerisms reminds me of vic's nana from very important people lmaoooo i cant unsee/hear it

🎃 event horizon (10/22) so far INCREDIBLE visuals, giving big hellraiser vibes with the disfigured/cut up bodies & the elaborate incomprehensible yet decorative engine brings to mind a mix of the lament configuration and biblically accurate angels. incredible. -- why only trauma hallucinations from a few of the crew? the rest were just peachy keen? not a smidge of trauma? bummer tbh -- hot damn the gore visuals are blink and u miss it but sick as hell -- but what happened with justin? rescue crew said he was alive but like.... mentally???? -- pacing felt just a titch off, like shtf so close to the end i feel like the descent could have been smoother, but otherwise i really loved this one

🎃 the exorcist (book) (10/1 - 10/23) liked WAY more than i thought i would. gonna be 4 stars for reference. 2 things i disliked: chris' internal monologues were annoying and shes more than a bit of a yuppie (the point i guess), AND the fact that psychokinesis is just a FACT in this world (ie possession can't be concluded by moving objects / mind reading bc those are observable in clinical settings in ppl with mental issues) bothered me so much!!! like..... if a DEMON can read your mind, move objects, as established w regan, you can't just chalk it up to NO WAY being possession. wtf???? anyway, everything else was great. really liked the reveals (regan's paint found at the church desecration, regan speaking backwards & mentioning merrin before he's even seen on page). the foreshadowing of karras' demise. very disturbing scenes iykyk, and even the detective parts were fun in the end. dunno if i'll read the sequel (legion) but i've heard the show is v good? 👀

🎃 hell house llc (10/25) 1 (10/25): love, it's a classic at this point, most of the scares dont get to me but surprisingly a few still do, solid ending 2 (10/25): kind of worse acting than the first but still liked, enjoy where the overarching plot is going re drawing people to the house 3 (10/25): definitely upped the production value, the scene of the actress in the basement with the clown is top tier but otherwise it was okay. first is still the best tbh, feels like they explained too much and im more of a fan of ambiguity. since the first 3 films take place in the same building, there's a weird feeling of familiarity & coziness lmao, i could see this series being a comfort rewatch fr origins (10/26): margot was definitely at the fair where tully/cult was kidnapping ppl for the abaddon hotel sacrifices, huh. -- did NO ONE think to check rebecca's cam w/ the body on the bed???? like they've seen other proof of the supernatural but cmon -- ohh that whole scene of rebecca screensharing w her boss and the pictures leading right up to her bedroom door grossssssss bleghhhh i love it -- overall liked this one a lot. still confused abt some stuff (where was the dad's body? why was patrick's arm better? his place in the cult, are the souls (patricks?) bound to the clown costumes etc), but super effective horror for me. sometimes i dont need all the qs answered u know?

🎃 the outwaters (10/26) ppl on reddit said they hated this as much as skinamarink & both are deathly boring but i LOVED skinamarink so lets gooooo -- 38 minutes in. is like...... no one going to aknowledge these sounds???? -- i get the bugs being creepy but are these donkeys supposed to be ominous? bc they just look like sweet cute babies 2 me -- these are the WORST flashlights in the entire world my GOD. -- suddenly, screaming flesh snakes. sure why not -- ooohh space time fuckery? is robbie the axe man? -- i literally cannot see what's happen 90% of the time, its like trying to watch a movie through a pinprick. like near the end he could have been pointing a flashlight at a bbq beef brisket for all i could tell. certainly a choice meant to invoke the claustrophobia and isolation and confusion of the pov, but missed the mark. by a lot. -- theres some neat ideas in here (time travel/time loop where robbie is the one killed and also the killer, with cosmic horror to boot), if i could see anything. loved skinamarink, super effective for me and though it was grainy at least you could SEE, this was. eh. i will say the sound design was great. would have loved to see literally any part of the entity near the end that's making it! the end itself was actually good imo, grotesque but better than seeing a 90% black screen tbh. potential.

🎃 lovely, dark, and deep (10/29) very interesting visuals, kinda cosmic horror in the woods. reminiscent of the "stairs in the woods" and "search and rescue" nosleep stories. also big PT vibes, especially in the scenes in the house, very cyclical/loop in nature but different traumatic events each go thru. love a horror movie that doesnt hold your and and leaves the interpretation up to the viewer. backrooms-esque liminal space? purgatory? mc processing her grief and trauma? dream sequence? hell? are the woods just real fucked up in this natl park? yes. (unfortunately?) it was kinda explained at the end, but i still really liked it. i dunno now the mc could keep working as a ranger, knowing that they just.... let this shit happen. and to perpetuate it....... i do wonder abt the ranger in the beginning, making the choice to get taken. what was his story?

🎃 a house at the bottom of a lake (10/29 - 10/31) 4.5 stars. idk what exactly happened, but i really loved it. great atmosphere (dark, under water, claustrophobic - frankly do not understand people who say this isnt horror lmao), easy to read in a day, perfect for halloween (when I read it). i interpret the ending as james and amelia still being under the obsession of the house, possibly still underwater. like the past 12-or-so days was a "test" of some sort. what finding the house in the real world means, i dont know, but i'm all for horror not holding my hand and it just being about ~the vibes~ which this one nailed for me. the scenes where the flashlights go off? and then house lights turn on? chilled. incredible what you can enjoy when u dont have a hater yappin in ur ear that it sucks <3 

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[ * = re ]

(series) • alien (alien*, aliens*, alien 3*, resurrection*, prometheus, covenant, romulus) • hell house llc (1*, 2, 3, origins) • midnight mass

(films) • nightmare on elm street • the thing* • the outwaters • noroi • the void • event horizon • rosemary's baby • lovely, dark, and deep

(youtube) • backrooms (kane pixels)* • gemini home entertainment*

(books) • the exorcist • uzumaki*

(next year, or b4 next halloween) • smile 2 • the substance • in a violent nature • horror in the high desert • leaving dc • i saw the tv glow

[hermithomebase]

I had an old peterick fic on wattpad I took down the concept of which is now a dnf fic on my ao3 😭😭 - 🪱

YOU ARE BREATHTAKING AS FUCK.. god i understand this so much me and brio have talked about the peterick / dnf parallels so often like this is the best bandom to minecraft rpf switch you could make

[literallynotfound]

i hate it here