I think it's time we move on from the Final Girl in horror. And START talking about the First Girl (aka, the girl that dies first in horror movies)! From bimbos, bitches, and butches, let's deconstruct the dead girls of horror and just kill the final girl already

video essays i’ve loved a lot recently!

the history of dieting is crazier than you think - a history of diet culture, its phases, faces, and diet culture media by mina le

When Hollywood Speaks Chinese, I Cringe - short essay about the cringey racist way Chinese language is portrayed in Hollywood

Good LGBT Representation is Boring (and why that’s a problem) - essay that dives into the double edge sword of “unproblematic” lgbt rep

The Decline of History Channel - a history of the history channel and how it lost almost all credibility. 

The Black Right Wing - fascinating essay on Black Americans who support Donald Trump, right wing politics and why that is. 

Can We Kill the Final Girl Trope Already? - one of my favourite essays ever about the first girl who dies in horror films.

Exploring The “Gender Critical” Radicalization Pipeline - tw: major transphobia, an essay about how TERF ideology online radicalises people to the right

A Buffet of Black Food History - do not watch this on an empty stomach! essay about the history of Black American food, culture and the success of Black cooks/chefs

No, Superhero Movies are NOT Like Westerns - excellent breakdown of all the reasons why the current proliferation of superhero films is not comparable culturally, economically or artistically to Westerns.

Maybe you should stay in the closet?…Coming Out re-examined - personal vlog/video essay about the history of “coming out” as lgbt and the culture around doing so has changed

The Matrix Resurrections Is Absolutely Beautiful - an analysis/review of the beautifully executed trans-ness of latest matrix films

make more characters bi, you cowards: why (not) romance? - analysis on the current state of bisexual representation in pop culture 

Heterofatalism: WHY straight women aren’t okay. - absolutely wild essay on the complex cultural attitudes that encourages straight women to hate themselves for loving men

The Pandemic Onscreen - How Film & TV Do Covid - analysis of the different ways fictional media is acknowledging the pandemic

can y'all reccomend some good video essays abt internet drama or subcultures or stuff like that? i've gotten rly into them lately and they're nice 2 listen to at work

I think the biggest reason why I'm so bummed about PT/Silent Hills getting cancelled is bc it was the last ever legit videogame to have secrets. Like, I remember the actual rumors of bigfoot in San Andreas or the secret museum in ratchet and clank and back then it was magical. This was the age of the single computer being shared with the whole family and having to write down cheat codes on a piece of notebook paper. No one really data mined games to suck the discovery out of them just yet, and if they did you would have to watch a 480p windows movie maker youtube vid on machinima if you're lucky. Like I know in hindsight shit like "if you shoot all the heads off the mannequins in nuke town Paul McCartney starts playing" was leaked purposefully by devs, it was still fun. And PT was the closest to that kind of feeling of discovery. To this day people still don't know how that fucking game works. No one knows why the flashlights can be different colors. No one knows the exact name you're supposed to say into the microphone. We still don't have models of the hallway or the exterior of the house, just fan recreations. That shit was magic, and I know the final release would never live up to the mystery surrounding it, but PT made me feel like a kid again

I saw Korra on a list of queerbaited characters and I know you people don’t learn your history but goddamn 2014 wasn’t that fucking long ago.

Korra is not queerbait. Korra is the opposite of queerbait. Korra was the creators pushing every damn boundary they could, before gay marriage was even legal, when all cartoon characters were assumed to be closeted by default and it was explicit policy that no queer relationships could be shown. Bryan Konietzko even mentioned that they pushed as hard as they possibly could go to make it clear that Korra was bi and she and Asami were in romantic love. He went to tumblr the exact same day to make sure there was no confusion. The instant they could, they had a comic about Korra and Asami’s first date and first kiss.

Korra and Asami holding hands is a thousand times more radical and queer than any of the craven tokens we’ve been getting these past few years and I will not hear different. There is a vast gulf of difference between creators who could goddamn well make something queer just constantly teasing it because they think it’s funny but would never actually go for it, and creators who actually cannot publish queer content doing everything they can to make it happen. The entire history of queerness is about sneaking past society’s norms and rules, writing our stories in subtext and allegory, and denying those stories their importance in getting us where we are today is foolish and cruel.

No, Mr. Horse, don’t worry, I certainly don’t have a Plinko down here! What I do have is this lovely cask of wine, specifically for horses, Amontillado in fact! Exquisite vintage.

I know you’re not supposed to be in this hospital, but if you’ll just follow me down this corridor—no, that’s not blood on the floor, it’s color theory, I’ll explain it later—I can bring you to this cask of wine that is certainly NOT a plinko machine—

i want to experience life the same way people who have never watched supernatural do

DO IT FOR PLINKO HORSE

blocking someone bc they’re personally annoying to you is always morally correct

why do y’all wanna fuck this robot so badly he looks like he wouldn’t wash his ass

people keep telling me they want to fuck that alligator from fnaf and i no longer wish to participate in society

every time someone says the internet is healing my immediate reaction is to put something out to make it worse

“the internet is healing”

yeah well here’s a 2k word essay about voltron eat dry wall