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why has no one ever tried to bite a zombie back just to see if it would like- Work in reverse?

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Wanted to share some more art from the curse of strahd game: this time- Deadra Tree lurk and Argyn, the lost soul and poltergiest of Silver dragon highschool

they became friends after being bullied for their own mutations. togather they started the Silver Dragon chess club, the argynvostholt high Junior Arcanotechnomancer league and more privetly with friends, their own series of comics with themselves and each other as the main villians.

Another thanks to @hareofhrair for the art! (wow, maybe you should like, check their adoptables and their commisions-)

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REMEMBER SKIP-IT FROM THE 90’S

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its like- So easy to just not read homestuck and still absolutely love homestuck.

[S] Join the party.

The Fruity Rumpus Asshole Factory (FRAF) is a collective of Homestuck fanworks and their creators, given a free license by Andrew Hussie to jointly monetize and promote their projects. Please visit us at www.fruityrumpus.com to learn more!

CREDITS

Animation: Audrey Capmics, @mansuta

Additional Animation: @joyfulldreams, @burningdownthehousecomic, "Kevin."

Additional Assets: @docscribblez, @mr-foods

Animation and assets used in collaboration with the FRAF Creators.

Fankids used with vague and ominous permission. Music by Thomas Ferkol and Toby Fox.

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yooo... lil mr. gamby...

[I] ==>

https://beyondcanon.com/story/774

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i feel like the blitzo and ramona perrallels should be made more often but i guess its because no one is ready to see the connection of stolas and scott pilgrim

"oh dox, why isnt blitzo scott-"

because stolas is the one that has the worst relationship to sex and useing it as a method of making himself feel better where as blitzo has a more """healthy""" connection to it but is very ready to shunt people to the side if he feels as though its To Serious or to Dangerous for their own constructed world.

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showing everyone ever the comm i got from the amazing CT21K 🍪

(pyrroh @ mine | jishen @kimquatz)

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Are you the one? Part 2.

the rules are simple. the poll below has two options. "I am the one" and "I am the rest".

i win if "i am the one" is above 10%

You win if its below.

it is encouraged to share with your reasoning on why the majority should vote for One or the Other.

there is no assigned morality to either answer, only the simple question:

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this is how the pharoh keeps beating seto by the way

i kiss you on the mouth and end my turn

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Are you the one? Part 2.

the rules are simple. the poll below has two options. "I am the one" and "I am the rest".

i win if "i am the one" is above 10%

You win if its below.

it is encouraged to share with your reasoning on why the majority should vote for One or the Other.

there is no assigned morality to either answer, only the simple question:

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Are you the one? Part 2.

the rules are simple. the poll below has two options. "I am the one" and "I am the rest".

i win if "i am the one" is above 10%

You win if its below.

it is encouraged to share with your reasoning on why the majority should vote for One or the Other.

there is no assigned morality to either answer, only the simple question:

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oh wait i actully have a legit one:

"sharecrop your aura farm" the act of knowing your not cool enough on your own so you have to pair up with someone that is Cool

new sayings: "dont jerk off with the devil" - dont do something awesome "Hand me a pail of horsewater" - I want to try the horsewater No other sayings were invented this year

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gamergirl horsewater: a horse that manages to game- wait that horse is gameing holy shit, their cranking 360s on tony hawk pro skater, holy shit they are really good... HOLY SHIT I DIDNT EVEN KNOW YOU COULD GET UP ONTO THAT BUILDING

new sayings: "dont jerk off with the devil" - dont do something awesome "Hand me a pail of horsewater" - I want to try the horsewater No other sayings were invented this year

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ok so we missed some time there on the cut scene skip but thats fine- the amnisa background still gives us a cool couple of seconds later in the run, now if we were doing 100 percent, we Would go for the ageless sword but we already have melee so we are just gonna-

*spams roll dash against the stone bound sword until i hit a pixel at a werid angle, sending the model through the floor and into liminal space until they drop into the last room of a scripted chase scene, nearly killing the model with fall damage.*

that just skips the level, we spam basic punches while evil crab dog is stuck trying to get to us at the start of the chase path and that's level one.

if she’s your girl then who am i? what year is it? why cant i remember anything…

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i really should have seen my obsession with strahd comeing now if im going to be honest-

I think a fundamental problem with a lot of vampire media is that a vampire is not supposed to be a zombie. it is supposed to be a human who surrendered to their own vices and flaws. the flaws of cowardice in the face of death and the vices of pleasure and gluttony.

which is why vampires can be made very versatile. As much as I don't really like Twilight, it is still a story of dealing with vices with creatures that fundamentally have allowed themselves to be dominated by them.

which is why i really like the movie Renfield.

THATS RIGHT YOU BITCH ASS MOTHERFUCKER YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO READ A SCATCHING BITCH AND MOAN SESSION ABOUT THE SATURATION OF SHITTY VAMPIRE MOVIES BUT NOW YOUR TRAPPED HERE READING MY THOUGHTS AND OPINIONS ON A NICK CAGE MOVIE, SIT DOWN SWEETHEART IM NOT GONNA BE DONE YAPPING FOR A FUCKING COUNTRY MINUTE

Renfield 2023 is a movie starring Nicholas Hoult, Nicolas Cage and Awkwafina.

Renfield if you do not know is the fanatical familiar from the original bram stokers dracula movie. the human who in exchange for aiding dracula in their dark dealings would perhaps gift him with the same dark curse, making renfield a fellow child of the night.

This movie takes place Years afterwards after a very serious battle with the last vampire hunters of the modern day and age. Dracula has suffered Severe damage from the fight and has Renfield aid him in taking refuge within the depths of an asylum while he recovers.

Here we get into the meat and potatoes of the movie, as much of a sin as it sounds, it does focus on nick cage as dracula but instead on nicholas holt as the aforementioned Stooge prime renfield. Renfield, between his random killings in order to sate the blood lust of his master, becomes more and more acquainted with the new modern world, undergoing the most harrowing journey of them all...

Therapy. 

Renfield over the years has lost his spark of mad fanaticism and is worried not only with his relationship with Dracula but his relationship with himself. Aiding at least one by attending an abusive partners support group to find victims. Mostly abusive partners and criminals.  

This is very notable because it's already setting up the original themes of vampires. Your cowardice and your vices. It sets up Renfield as a true coward whose vice is his love of dracula, or more exactly his desire to  Be Like dracula. Enough so that even though he wants to feel better about himself- to feel less like a monster- he still follows dracula's demands in killing people who he has decided to pass judgment on. 

Oh sorry i forgot a detail, renfield is a power ranger and his morpher is eating bugs. He gains some vampire powers everytime he eats a bug and does some john wick shit but thats not my deal, i dont care if renfield can do a sick back flip and punch a guy (complete fucking lie, the action scenes in this movie are so god damn rad sometimes, please watch this movie, please please please!!!)

The movie splits into a couple of different story lines. One being Renfield attempting to balance his burgeoning need to have a functioning moral compass and his romance with awkwafina character, rebecca the detective. Rebecca the detective attempting to balance both the rash of murder cases and a rash of mob related crimes in order to avenge her father, and the mob themselves attempting to figure out who is wiping out their foot soldiers. 

I'm not going to harp on the story for long so let's start talking about renfield. 

Renfield is a hypocrite, and it's made apparent throughout the film that he is a hypocrite. Despite wanting to be a good person he is still a murder. He has doomed multiple people to die across the world. He left his wife and child to be with dracula. He has done so much to cut himself off from his own humanity that it's almost insane that he wants to run back to it because Dracula has not yet answered renfields desire to be a true vampire. 

This all is blended into the idea of having dracula be a parallel to an abusive narcissistic partner in a relationship. Which in all accounts throughout the movie is true and we're going to bounce back and forth from that for a bit so buckle up bud. 

The main ire of the movie is that Renfield wants to push his problems that he has gained away onto Dracula without acknowledging his roles in them. Again we see that cowardice. Renfield cannot stand to see his own faults. He listens to Dracula both out of fear and admiration. At the start of the movie I mentioned that Dracula sustained heavy hits from the last vampire hunters. Well I forgot to mention how he survived. Lets go ahead and listen in Real Close to what he says 

The hunters had dracula dead to rights if you can dare to pardon my puns. Trapped in a binding circle, burning in holy flames and about to get skewered through his heart. The dialogue is specific, Dracula makes no specific promises but notes that Renfield is complicit and that regardless of whatever Dracula has done, he is still his greatest ally. We play on that cowardice and that vice. That desire to be near dracula or be like dracula contrasted with his fear of the repercussions of his actions. 

Snap back to reality and we see that Renfield is still struggling with this. He does not want to face the repercussions of his actions so he continues doing as instructed by Dracula while also indulging in his vices, his desire for escapism by delving into all of these new things. Vigilantism, pushing his problems onto dracula, pretending that he is at the moment capable of having a new life while still using dracula's powers to attain it. 

Ah but now we need to introduce the main concept of this film. That being the portrayal of Dracula as an abusive partner with narcissism. Dracula plays on renfields, and says it with me in class, Vices and Cowardice. He knows what to say to make Renfield back down. He knows all his fuck ups and exactly what renfield wants, that being to have a simple life with dracula, but not in a gay way of course, we still have to have a straight romance sub plot, i mean its insane to think that renfield wants to bone dracula its not like dracula promises to be his salvation while he is suspended in air in a soft whispery voice while renfield stares at him with all the gale of a oculerly enlarged puppy but hey what do i know? I unironiclly read isekais, my media literacy must be that of a brain dead lemur. 

We can see this played out in this scene here

Dracula knows how to keep the hook in renfield's mouth both taught and loose enough to keep him at the perfect level of knuckle dragging dejection to ensure that he runs back begging. In that while yes he is right that renfield at so many points gave in to his own desires and *coy eye to the audience as I listen to them scream “vices” at me.*. He has begun to make an earnest attempt to become a better person. Better late than never. 

Thus renfields true growth is him rejecting that which made him so close with dracula, the rejection of what makes a vampire and vampire. He embraces his cowardice by both admitting to what he is and now allowing himself to push his own crimes onto dracula, and then standing up to dracula, and then rejecting his vices when once again dracula makes him the same offer. To be that same shield towards himself and his own shortcomings rather than deal with a life without a master. Despite it being possible in the future coming with the promise of being a full vampire like himself. 

Look guys, let's not juggle bowling pins and call it arm wrestling, Watch Renfield. Its a good movie and nick cage is fucking awasome, thanks.

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damn, peak casting for kid that knows the yugioh meta better then you and Girl that will Haunt the narrative

HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT!!!!!

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ok, they didnt kiss but the knight did tackle the prince onto the ground while dramatic moon light fell over them- No kissing though- lots of werid whimpering noises but i am POSITIVE that no kissing was involved.

Can you guys watch my fairy tale prince with the lamb motif and my jaded knight who sees himself as nothing more than a starving and desperate wolf while I step out for a moment? And DON'T 🫵 let them kiss.