#walking home after dark

[thes-hitoverlord]

The creators of "Hilda" are working on an animated horror anthology series "Don’t Walk Home Alone After Dark"

[diodellet]

cw: unbeta'd rambling once more, all mistakes are mine. vague references to true crime content, nothing graphic. just thinking of what would discomfort the charas, im basically throwing darts 🥴

i hc'd that kalim doesnt really get scared by ghosts and urban legends and to add onto that: i think kalim would be icked out by people with an interest in true crime.

like, the content hits uncomfortably close to his own encounters and some people frankly take a bit too much pleasure in going through all the gory details - wait, you're telling him there are people who fall asleep while listening to true crime podcasts?! on that note, some psychological thrillers (especially the 'adapted from true events' kind, compared to the 'dystopic social commentary' ones) would also fit into this category - just being plain uncomfortable to sit through, a movie/podcast/tv experience making him sick to his stomach.

i just think that kalim doesn't get the appeal at all, no matter the explanation. if someone tried to show him a few cases, he'd just be sitting in uncomfy silence.

(on the flipside, i think jamil hates horror movies with an abundance of jumpscares compared to slashers. he has an uncanny sense foretelling when they're gonna happen, but he still flinches during the actual jumpscare. bonus points if a fakeout is good, u get to see his soul jump out of his body twice.

on the topic of true crime, jamil just doesn't vibe with it, especially when it's not well-researched and/or poorly handled in its delivery. and like, he's already gotten the fearmongering-type of warnings* from the adults in his life plenty of times. he doesn't want to see it packaged in a spooky, edgy, internet detective-way, but he's more rational? understanding? of its appeal to others.)

[eskawrites]

October has been intensifying lately it’s time to dig out the charmed au

[calamitoustide]

once again thinking about James and Reg going backpacking to run from their problems alone and then they meet each other on the fourth day and just keep walking with each other because they’re going the same pace so why not (James’ idea) and they end up talking through everything and heal together in a way they couldn’t do alone

[terrortriplets]

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[dnangelic]

i want to go back to it with a better mindset for memorization and study at some point but junko's dark forever drives me insaaaane. the gist of the first wink CD is daisuke's school is prepping for a sleeping beauty play, and at one point the fact dai's even exactly the 19th (tamer of) dark is even touched on by the (continuous) allusion of him to the princess, but towards the ending of it all dark butts in during the play itself and calls himself a bug(? i'm pretty sure it was "mushi") from the forest that had "cast a spell on the princess and stolen the time of the castle," (re: daisuke and the niwa family's,) compounding hiwatari's extremely early analysis of sleeping beauty's brambles as a form of 'self-barriers' whereas the prince is meant to represent a form of penetrating conversation. (you have to be able to talk with someone to let them into your heart! dark and daisuke's [shared] doors to their heart are canonically immensely heavy!)

anyways the point that's getting away from me is the way that dark's always introduced at least early in as the black swan, maleficent, evil step-sis type usurper-character who gradually DOES turn, assimilate, outright into a part of daisuke and takes the position of daisuke's best friend as the snow queen's kai, or their primary beauty and the beast functionality (like dark sincerely, desperately wanted!) makes me bite and chew... daisuke's always meant to be the purer, classic victorian-gothic ingenue, but i feel like there's not a ton ever explored with what dark represents as the focus because he, and his character alone, is meant to be sympathetic in a role that's typically a shallow malice. the classic fairy tale in the public majority's thoughts doesn't typically explore sleeping beauty's sorceress's bitterness at being the only one not invited to the party, nor does cinderella ever divulge the deeper innerworkings of the stepsisters, and yet it's always dark who serves as all these roles, compelled to do what he does (in the sense of any maliciousness, re: his continuous, oppressive and terrifying goading of his tamers to merge with him, his playboy attitude, his lying and cheating and conning,) because he has no other way to get what he wants; a flaw considered universal amongst the artworks and likewise the emotional hole they need to fill to make them something truly more human.

likewise, daisuke loves storybook knights, he loves the fantasy of being able to save someone or someone coming from out of nowhere and somehow, miraculously taking him away and spontaneously liking him, thereby "saving him," but it's problematic when you yourself are partly an evil dragon; you set into the beast's gloom, you start to believe that it'll never happen, and even when it does, that it might get ruined or that you don't deserve it (and the word deserve is ever-present and immensely weighty in so many conversations.) dark's thoughts are always 1:1 with daisuke on all of this, even if he never says any of it. villains don't get princes, they're supposed to get slain by the prince. but he still wants what he wants, and what he wants is to keep dreaming; to convince himself, and daisuke, daisuke at him, that they're still worthy of being someone (if not something) of being loved.

[moinsbienquekaworu]

Housemate is letting one of her rabbits walk around at night again :/

[olreid]

i cant believe my pain doesnt care that im bored of it. i cant believe i might feel like this forever and there's no point to it at all

[natcat5]

I like when you’re driving on a highway at night and the left lane is wide open because everyone has just decided they don’t have the energy to Go Fast and are just content to do the speed limit in the middle and right lanes. Of course, this may be a scenario specific to highways with the topography of a roller coaster. Shout out to the Don Valley Parkway.

[kitaava]

ahahahahaha my mom is actually delusional and im losing my mind

[pink-spaceturtle5]

In a fucking glorious turn of events, my weed pen is working again

[amazingmsme]

Y’all not gonna lie, I’m having a rough night. What should I watch to cheer up?

[wekillitwithfire]

life is so good when it's a little bit silly

[r0bee]

"Yeah I'll just go borrow the DVDs and come straight home." is the most obvious trap ever set. And yet I have fallen into it again.

[merrymorningofmay]

when the crazy kids in a book do sports 8 hrs/day and you think "wow just like me fr" as you head out for your 1.5/3 hours a week that, too, is "how to look at art" by lynda barry