#touchingandtouched

[edsonlnoe]

What's your favorite horror movie?

What movie caused you the most anxiety?

What's your favorite B-rated horror movie?

🔪 The Others (2001) Among the most dearest to me. Ghosts stories got me and this is an exceptional one. 🔪 Hereditary (2018) Me squirming on my seat in a nearly empty theatre. I went knowing nothing except miniatures, Toni Collette, A24. Oh boy. The somber, grounded drama of the familiar grief grip me real bad. Then that night happened. Her cry, his dread. I was in pain. I stopped thinking and just went along with them feeling it all and it was awful. Awful. Things started to escalate and I did not know where we were going and I was scared for real — to add context, I don't get scared with horror movies. Now I rewatch it and have fun but that first time was a certified anxiety ridden watch. 🔪 Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) I don't watch many B movies. This was the immediate one in my mind. I do like the classic monsters and the Creature is a weirdo overdue of horny jail time. I enjoy the setting, the mood, the lore, and the vibe of it all. The underwater scenes in black and white are as eerie as pretty.

[feels-for-the-fictional]

@touchingandtouched BRUH this is such a good point

I like Strange New Worlds but boy is their Spock behavior strange.

"taking out" the Vulcan in Spock should make his body feel off but ffs he's still Spock. I don't think they intended it this way but the way they wrote this whole scenario is like having an AfroLatina character "lose" their Latina side and suddenly not be able to make a tortilla or speak their native spanish. I mean. What?

Their whole narrative on him being human and Vulcan and showing "human" as like the fun/passionate side he's denying himself is starting to feel very anti-Vulcan, which in its own way feels super white centrist. We can go all in on the bacon scene but I'm not Jewish so more knowledgable Jewish people about the cultural *disaster* that choice was can cover the mess that is but... Yikes.

They've even done mixed race struggles better with other characters. B'Elanna in Voyager has a great arc reconciling her Klingon and human sides throughout multiple episodes and none of them imply weird shit like this. They all encourage her to accept herself where's she's at, no matter how much Klingon or human "percentage" that means. It just means both.

And in all fairness, B'Elanna's portrayal is in no way perfect but its better than *this*.

Someone on Twitter said this would've been a much more impactful episode if Spock spent all of it fearing he'd lose all connection to his Vulcan side, only to realize that (like his human adopted sister!!) He is still a child of Vulcan regardless of his geneology/biological makeup. But nah. This. *Bacon*.

After such a strong story about hope, augments, refugees, and prejudice a few episodes ago we get this? Shenanigans.

[williamprattz]

some additional notes for @touchingandtouched because brain rot is strong—

so basically in certain cults of ancient Greece persephone and Zeus had a relationship with each other -> similar to dru and angelus, especially since persephone’s father is Zeus so it goes along with dru calling angelus ‘daddy’

ೃ⁀➷ Buffyverse Women as Greek Goddess

Buffy // Athene

ATHENE (Athena) was the Olympian goddess of wisdom and good counsel, war, the defence of towns, heroic endeavour, weaving, pottery and various other crafts.

Dawn // Iris

IRIS was the goddess of the rainbow and the messenger of the Olympian gods.

Willow // Hekate

HEKATE (Hecate) was the goddess of magic, witchcraft, the night, moon, ghosts and necromancy.

Tara // Demeter

DEMETER was the Olympian goddess of agriculture, grain and bread who sustained mankind with the earth's rich bounty.

Drusilla // Persephone

PERSEPHONE was the goddess queen of the underworld, wife of the god Haides (Hades).

Darla // Hera

HERA was the Olympian queen of the gods, and the goddess of marriage, women, the sky and the stars of heaven.

Faith // Artemis

ARTEMIS was the Olympian goddess of hunting, the wilderness and wild animals. She was also a goddess of childbirth, and the protectress of the girl child up to the age of marriage.

Anya // Nemesis

NEMESIS was the goddess of indignation against, and retribution for, evil deeds and undeserved good fortune.

Cordelia // Aphrodite

APHRODITE was the Olympian goddess of love, beauty, pleasure and procreation.

Fred // Hestia

HESTIA was the virgin goddess of the hearth (both private and municipal) and the home.