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Unknown / Marguerite Duras / Blanca Varela / Ramona Ausubel / Anne Carson / Heather Havrilesky / Michael Cunningham / Lisel Mueller / Richard Siken x Dungeon Meshi by Ryoko Kui

so i wouldn't put it in stone or anything but i think it's fascinating that in Hill House it is so clearly the house that is haunted and in Bly Manor it's so obviously the people that are haunted

it's in the way that no one was explicitly haunted until they got to Hill House, the lingering shots of the house itself, the way the lights turn on to welcome you inside but go dark the second you're in in that one chilling shot, it's the literal rot in the walls and the way we never get a good picture of the layout because it's meant to be a maze, one turning in on itself, spiraling towards the red door, the house isn't haunted it's haunting and it's hungry and the goal is to get out

in Bly Manor half the characters are haunted before they even get there, Henry and Dani (and arguably Hannah) are literally haunting themselves because they can't let the past go, it's not even the house that traps people it's the grounds, Henry and Dani are haunted by a literal manifestation of their own guilt, the kids are manipulated by the thought of being together with their parents again, Rebecca is manipulated at the thought of being with Peter again, poor Hannah is [redacted for serious spoilers], Peter is trapped by his own past, no one is letting go of their dead and so the dead are not letting go of them, the house and grounds are just a stage for the people tearing themselves apart

both series deal heavily in trauma, recovering, coping, and very much not coping, with it but the different approaches to who and what is being haunted makes the them feel very distinct from each other, which is pretty cool and makes me wonder what's gonna happen in the the fall of house usher

[ID: a Neopet message that reads, "wow this place is a freakshow. i dont respect literally any of you people" -end ID]

I’ve never been a real star wars fan but the phantom menace came out when I was 6 and my older brother was 8 so we were absolutely among the target audience and we had toy light sabers & we spent a lot of time playing star wars but my brothers were anakin and obi wan etc. and my best friend was padmé which meant i had to come up with a star wars oc and since my brother was anakin i decided okay. i would be anakin’s sister.

i made up a backstory that i was his twin sister who also lived on tatooine and i also had latent force potential but qui gon and obi wan didn’t even try to meet me even when anakin mentioned me and they left me behind.

this was an utter betrayal to me obviously, like my brother got rescued and i got abandoned and i could have been him and i should have been him. i should’ve been at his side. i should have gotten training and all else. i should have been a jedi too.

but they didn’t even care to meet me. so i had this intense grudge against the jedi and i ended up developing my skills myself and then i grew up and got myself off tattooine and set out on a mission as a rogue force user to kill obi wan.

and 6 year old me really embodied that role. she felt that. so when I was like 25 & rewatched the original star wars trilogy for the first time since childhood, when obi wan came on I was like ugh. I hate that guy. and my friend was like “WHY?”

and I thought about it and realized it wasn’t actually his character. I was remembering my childhood self insert oc beef.

Like, sorry you wouldn’t get it but obi wan and I have history.

“the problem is its never gonna be what all the fans want” imo the problem is the majority of fans have bad fucking taste like. if you write a story with the intent to keep editing it in line with what fans want you’re gonna end up with a shitty story. obviously you can take in criticism from early access but once you publish the thing you shouldn’t constantly be retconning characterization wtf. good god

HC that the average life expectancy in Gotham is actually four years higher than the national average because they collectively just keep refusing to die

she was just a little silly

Enid: Wednesday, go apologize to Thing or I won't help you.

Wednesday:

Enid:

Wednesday: Yes, querida.

Enid: Wednesday, I made a black cat costume for you.

Wednesday:

Enid:

Wednesday: Yes, querida.

Enid: Wednesday, I made us matching snoods!

Wednesday:

Enid:

Wednesday: Yes, querida.

Enid: Wednesday, please get rid of your creepy crime board.

Wednesday:

Enid:

Wednesday: Yes, querida.

Enid: Wednesday, please hold me in your-

Wednesday: Yes, querida.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JENNA COLEMAN (April 27, 1986)

A shout out to all the writers out there who don’t make the rec lists or have all the buzz or get all the traffic and attention or kudos. Your work is still valuable and appreciated and loved, and without you and your fics, fandom would be so much poorer.

Keep on writing and creating and sharing your works. You have an audience who loves you.

"I could be really brash and really loud and really dressed however I wanted to and almost made [Chappell] on purpose a drag version of myself so I can be whatever I want. It allows me to feel really safe exploring those aspects of myself. I’d never be able to do that if I took myself super seriously with pop. I think that the project has allowed me to be a part of the queer community in a deeper way because I'm not observing from the outside anymore. I feel like I'm in it. I am the queer community–it's allowed me to just feel queer, feel like a queer person and feel freedom in that."

[ID: The first photo is of a Tweet by @/Noorthevirgo that says, "No I don't want your man. I'm not even sure why you want your man." The second photo is a screenshot of a tag that says, "#jolene leaving a message". -end ID]

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i love dungeon meshi and the way it views people in a way i grew to think no one else ever would. the way it frames bodies and nudity without it needing to be inherently sexual, and any fanservice or sexualization there is only feels very honest rather than perverse. the neutral way things like the harpies or humanoid monsters have exposed boobs and nipples. or the farcille bath scene being fanservice in a way but feeling intimate in an entirely different way than that to me. it feels so removed from the weight of the way others view people with beauty standards and other imposed characteristics—yet it paints people as beautiful around its own definition based on the way people actually are. the way it frames human beings as a whole, as living like any animal does with universal and inescapable needs. no matter how we see ourselves we still get hungry, we still get hurt, we still get sleepy, we still get thirsty. the characters have magic and anime fighting strength but remain as fragile as any living thing, being able to be killed in one shot. and every shape the different characters take with their diverse bodies is drawn with equal appreciation for their form. there are many things dungeon meshi feels passionate about, such as how clearly invested ryoko kui had to be in zoology and stuff for a lot of worldbuilding, but that wouldnt be complete without this touch too. i just love how much this series was clearly created by someone deeply in love with and invested in human beings.