for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal
before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"
and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"
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Something I’ve been thinking about lately is that small moment in “Air Turtle” where immediately after the Daves lose yet another game, Leo says how sorry he is and how he’s doing his best as the mascot. This moment is so short but it’s honestly jam-packed with a whole heap of characterization.
His need to apologize for things clearly not his fault - especially when it feels like he messes up the job he was given despite doing the best he can (the phrase “it’s not about you” takes a new meaning when this is one of the lessons to be learned from that - that he is not always solely responsible for things going wrong), his need to save face and make a connection with an older adult man in his life (something he consistently does throughout the series - he’s got a few daddy issues, always collecting potential father figures, it’s no wonder he jumps at the bit to keep rapport), and the way he sounds and looks and the words he chooses really pushes how he is just a kid (“Mr. the Dunk, I’m so sorry”).
Like I know it’s a one off moment that doesn’t truly mean much, but when put against the rest of the series it works really well with the rest of Leo’s established character and helps in solidifying later concepts as well.
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October is finally here!!
Which means Halloween...which means Vincent Price, of course!
Some gifs of The King of Horror/Master of Menace doing what he does best. Scare the shit out of you!
The Haunted Palace (1963)
Fall of the House of Usher (1960)
The Bat intro (1959)
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
The Raven (1963)
The Last Man On Earth (1964)
The House on Haunted Hill (1959)
The Comedy of Terrors (1964)
The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
The Monster Club (1981)
The House of Long Shadows (1984)
The Tingler (1959)
Witchfinder General (1968)
Twice-Told Tales (1963)
Tales of Terror (1962)
Madhouse (1974)
Invisible Man Returns (1940)
Diary of a Madman (1963)
The Pit And The Pendulum (1961)
House of wax (1953)
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the movie Martyrs (2008) and the game Blasphemous (2019) are such good companion pieces on the concept of the devout being willing to put someone through intense torture to see the face of their God but failing to ask themselves why a God demanding that level of suffering should be seen at all
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2017 version of the little vampire was really boring but i enjoyed these two scenes, at least. yes those are direct redraws, the first scene really went like this, and they still had the gall to say those boys aren’t gay. sure...
do not erase the caption, use or rePOST my art (reblog ok)
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SUMMARY: The lone survivor of a suicide cult wakes from a thirteen-year coma in a psychiatric ward, where other patients suddenly start dying under mysterious and gruesome circumstances.
Mod Sus: Dan the manfail malewife from Re-animator???
mod L: Bruce "Dan the manfail malewife" Abbott had one niche, and that niche was "doctors with terrible boundaries."
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Jotaro travel in time with Casey
Oh, dude. This was a journey. Now, I know this is hella late. But I had a lot of ideas for this one. Wasn't even able of draw all of them or even do a proper lineart for all of it.
Here you go! Some Jotaro form the future content for your soul.
Data: older than Casey, his chosen weapon is a Naginata. His favorite dessert is the leaf cake Mikey used to made for his birthday. A great engineer; he was once the right hand of Donatello. He aimed to be a warrior alchemist like Draxum and make his family proud.
Now some comics:
千 - Pt. 2
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By the way, if anyone has any questions regarding Gegege no Kitaro/any of Shigeru Mizuki's work, let me know. I've been archiving GGGnK media for nearly 4 years at this point, and it's one of the main reasons I started learning Japanese. I've seen a lot of renewed interest in the series thanks to the new film, but I understand there's quite a bit of difficulty trying to find information due to the language barrier. Some of my favorite little pieces of trivia that don't often get talked about:
The 2007 anime series was cancelled EXTREMELY abruptly, to the point where it was basically left unfinished. The movie sort of works as a series finale, but there's still a lot of loose threads (won't go into spoilers, but there's a major antagonist just. at the bottom of the ocean.) The staff was originally aiming for 200 episodes, then approx 150ish, then 120ish before it got cancelled at Episode 100.
A lot of yokai folklore has been established thanks to Shigeru Mizuki. One of the most noteworthy examples: You'll often see Nurarihyon cited as either "The Supreme Commander" of all Yokai (or some other grand title like that) or as an old man who sneaks into others homes and drinks their tea. The latter comes from Shigeru Mizuki. The former comes from the 1980s Gegege no Kitaro anime series, lol
Speaking of Nurarihyon: Nurarihyon and Shu-no-Bon were quite literally supposed to die after the "Yokai King" arc in the 1996 anime series. But guest writer for the series and Yokai scholar Natsuhiko Kyogoku wrote his script for Episode 101 without the prior knowledge that they were dead, and since it was too late to change anything at that point, they were rewritten back into the anime.
Joka... where do I even begin...
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