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horror-aesthete · 1 year

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Dead Ringers, 1988, dir. David Cronenberg

#Horror Movies #horror aesthetic #dead ringers #as someone with #to put it lightly #vagina problems #this movie was both horrifing and weirdly cathartic for me

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beescake · 4 months

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yea i very much agree with ur take on sollux in his relation to older technology, u get it

please id love if youd share some more of ur analysis on his character (as well as ur art bc that shit is 👌👌👌)

either way, thanks for feeding my brain worms

im glad it resonated!! :') always happy to explore his character, he contains multitudes!!!

i think i may be out of sollux analysis for now, in the sense where i don't have anything new to add that hasn't already been covered in these posts? (please add if there's more...)

why i like sollux (lackadaisicallexicon, 2014)

comprehensive sollux status guide (syblatortue, 2016)

bioware machine (lime-bloods, 2016)

fridgestuck (LaureledEevees, 2017)

mary sue (3d-gla22e2, 2019)

favorite sollux trait (3d-gla22e2, 2020)

doom-bound static (gendertrickster, 2023)

however i will say there's another thing i really like abt him:

his Range!

he has a v flexible face.. even with his neutral expression, you cant help but read a tinge of melancholy/pensiveness to it.

he deters people from getting too comfortable with him by acting crude, but no matter how unapproachable he looks you can't help but wonder if he's ok. seems like he's never content with himself.

just like karkat, anger gives him purpose = something to care about & react to. without it he can appear aimless/uncertain.

it's especially interesting when you compare him to aradia, who despite having endured a lot of shit, ends up enjoying the freedom of expanding her worldview, riding the unpredictable tide of the narrative and observing the changes. sollux... doesn't.

he doesn't like watching major things progress in a way he can't predict. the lack of certainty actually overwhelms him.

and it's pretty clear why; imagine the only reassurance you get after unknowingly killing ur gf is that "it needed to happen". the only way to appease that sort of emotional turmoil is by intellectualizing those events as inevitable and out of your control.

(hs, A6I5)

when you’re just a tool for the author, trying to sit out is just feeble self-preservation until you’re needed again. if you’re not called on stage to help/assist in some way, it feels like your presence spells doom (either you or someone else will get hurt). so you avoid Events as best you can.

#ask #anon #homestuck #sollux captor #2023 #vioart #i love expressive characters eheh my fave emotions to draw are actually anger and incredulity. vry cathartic for me #im also super relieved the prev analysis was received well ngl it was like. splitting my chest open it was . very personal #largely bcs my appreciation of him is weirdly abstract? seems as if i had to come up w sm conceptual meaning just to say i like his vibe #but rlly i was just working backwards frm that conclusion like wow this character looks cool lemme think harder abt why i like it #i may have sounded a bit callous too.. but truly he is 1 of my top 3 faves alongside karkat & aradia. i brain them regularly in rotation

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queenlucythevaliant · 10 days

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Okay, here we go. Rating literary allusions in Taylor Swift songs:

The Outside: "I tried to take the road less traveled by /but nothing seems to work the first few times/am I right?"--Starting off pretty well! She tried to take the road less traveled by, but it didn't make any difference. 8/10

Love Story: Whole song allusion to Romeo and Juliet-- All those 2008 jokes about Taylor not having read R&J weren't funny then and they aren't funny now. It's a fun, satisfying subversion. However, I am going to dock points for the fact that Romeo and Juliet aren't a prince and princess, just rich. 7/10

Love Story: "You were Romeo/I was a scarlet letter"--Is the Juliet character in "Love Story" being publicly shamed? Did she do something scandalous? There are zero other lines in this song to suggest that she did, and a fair amount of evidence that she didn't. This allusion confuses rather than clarifies and tbh this is the one people should've made fun of in 2008. 2/10

New Romantics: "We show off our different scarlet letters/ trust me, mine is better" --Hooray! She figured out what the book is about! This is a beautifully executed allusion, where "scarlet letters" represents a mark of something shameful which, in a fun subversion, is being shown off with pride. Fits the song really well. Most improved award, 11/10

Getaway Car: "It was the best of times, the worst of crimes" (A Tale of Two Cities) -- Goes in the category of "fun wordplay, but doesn't really mean anything deeper" 5/10

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: "Feeling so Gatsby for that whole year" --This is a perfectly serviceable allusion, but not a super interesting one. Sub "Gatsby" out with "nostalgic" and the song wouldn't change at all. She could've done a lot more with the reference, given the subject matter of the song. 6/10

cardigan: "I knew you/tried to change the ending/Peter losing Wendy" -- This works! You get a sense of Betty losing her innocence and choosing to leave James and of it being inevitable somehow. Plus, it imbues the song with a lovely fairy tale quality. 10/10

illicit affairs: "take the road less traveled by/tell yourself you can always stop" -- To take the road less traveled by is to do something risky, unpopular, or unfamiliar, not just to take a route through town where you won't run into people. Not totally egregious, but the regression from Debut is disappointing. 4/10

invisible string: "and isn't it just so pretty to think/ that all along there was some/ invisible string tying you to me."(The Sun Also Rises)--Ugggggh. Okay, so "Isn't it pretty to think so?" is this sad, tired, ironic note in The Sun Also Rises. Brett tells Jake, "We could have had a damned good time together" and Jake says "Isn't it pretty to think so?" because their whole situationship was never going to work. It's not a positive thing; it's pure, bitter Lost Generation irony. Completely out-of-place in a song about how two people we're supposed to believe will actually work as a couple. This one drives me nuts, and I don't even like Hemingway. 0/10

happiness: "I hope she'll be a beautiful fool/ who takes my spot next to you" (Gatsby)--Saying this about an ex's future SO is so... off. Like, the reason why Daisy hopes her daughter will be a beautiful fool is because it's easy. The two situations have nothing to do with one another, and not in an interesting way. 1/10

The Albatross: whole song allusion to "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," but most notably "She's the albatross/ she is here to destroy you"--The albatross in the Rime is a good omen. The Mariner shoots is for no reason, and the albatross's death is the ostensible source of bad fortune. I wrote a whole separate post on this here. That said, culturally "albatross=bad omen" is common enough, so whatever. 3/10

I Hate It Here: "I will go to secret gardens in my mind/ people need a key to get to/ the only one is mine" -- I like this one a lot. Exactly the right vibe for the song, trying to escape something miserable by going somewhere pleasant. The key is a nice touch. Poor Archibald. 10/10

The Prophecy: "I got cursed like Eve got bitten" --No Taylor, that's not what happened. Famously, Eve was the biter in that situation. 0/10

Cassandra: whole song allusion -- correct me if I'm wrong (I haven't actually read the Illiad), but my understanding is that Cassandra died fairly far into the Trojan war, and not by burning. 4/10

#this probably isn't exhausive lol #but it's what i've got off the top of my head #this was weirdly cathartic to write #you guys know i adore taylor swift but literary allusions have always been my biggest nitpick with her #i would just like to send her to an English class or gently help her out or something idk #tay tay #i'm aware that i'm not addressing Peter off ttpd but that song is such a nothingburger that i really can't be bothered #pontifications and creations #literature makes us more human

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retroautomaton · 2 years

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🦷🧪⚠️

#quick break between commishes #drawing cute and creepy versions of the same thing: my favorite genre #in a halloweeny mood #might do a bunch of these #it’s weirdly cathartic to draw very detailed I don’t get to do it too often #especially hatch shading I should do it more #Halloween #werewolf

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spacerangersam · 2 months

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I only just thought of it now, but isn't there literally an early season episode where someone wants to make the manor into a hotel and the ghosts actively try to get rid of her and stop it? And then they pull that ending???

#wild. just wild #ive been talking to my friend about it and it just hit me #as far as im aware they dont even reference that episode in the ending. its lile they forgot.#tbh talking to my friend has been weirdly cathartic. he just gets it you jnow?

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thejakeformerlyknownasprince · 7 months

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It cracks me up that you care so much about the meatsuits that even when writing an episode of A-town you make sure to show us Daisy instead of Zeptron

Thank you! Yeah, I have a weakness.

And I tried to make that episode stupid sitcom nonsense that Jake would find genuinely upsetting and Tom would find delightful — and they'd both kind of have a point. Tom would just be happy that the show remembers Daisy exists outside of Zeptron 420, and that the Yeerk Empire gets to be the butt of the joke. Jake would be rightfully offended that the show is conflating voluntary with involuntary hosts, implying that Daisy's a controller because she's a bimbo, and suggesting the Animorphs were only fighting yeerks because the yeerks inconvenienced people.

Tom's like "they used 'cycle' to mean both Kandrona cycle and menstrual cycle! AMAZING". Jake's like "Brandon accidentally colluded in his own sister getting kidnapped and enslaved, and you're asking us to LAUGH about it? What's wrong with you people?". And again, they're both kind of right.

#animorphs #a-town #is a-town horribly disrespectful? sure is.#is a-town weirdly cathartic for a lot of survivors to watch? that too.#both can be true

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khytal · 2 years

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I love driving

#khytal.ks #making memes about terrible and harrowing experiences is weirdly cathartic #ok I actually do enjoy driving I just get a little mean when people don’t follow the rules. you know how it is

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skyward-floored · 15 days

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I finally completed the Anju and Kafei quest 😭

#spoilers in tags no peeking if you don't want spoilers #rambles from the floor #majora's mask #peggy plays majora's mask #Peggy plays #anyways hhhwwwwwaaauugghghgh #took me forever to remember how to do the parts I'd already done I remembered only pieces #but i finally got to the last bit #I didn't know where Kafei was #I'd looked all over #but I found Anju #and she said she was going to wait for him #so I sat next to her and waited #because I didn't want her to be alone while the world was ending #and right as I was wondering if I should go look for Kafei again and running through what to try in the next cycle THE DOOR CLICKS #AND KAFEI WALKS IN #AND THEY HUG AND THEY DO THE THING AND THE MASK😭#and I hold off on crying because my siblings were watching but it was a very near thing #and I probably shouldn't be playing this game while I'm already sad/not doing great but #oh well #sniffle.#and anyway there's something weirdly comforting about mm #like it's dark and painful and terrifying #but it's cathartic #and I like that #idk

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flammedoudoune · 8 months

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Not me getting emotional while reading Cells at Work, when the immune cells all work together to defeat cancer.

#this is weirdly cathartic #currently reading #cells at work

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wanderingsorcerer · 16 days

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Okie Dokie

*precedes to decapitate someone

#the fallout show is weirdly cathartic

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cmdonovann · 21 days

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man. ive had this art in my drafts since like three dnd games ago (so, like, two months? lmao) and have been putting off finishing it because NOTHING i could draw could possibly express how fucked up this fight made me feel. immense shouts out to my DM for a) understanding my taste in symbolism and themes, and b) letting raz literally kill himself with no consequences

#well maybe a little consequences (the rest of the party was freaked out)#(we all gained some trauma from this boss battle it was dope)#anyway.#dungeons and dragons #dnd #raz #raz'elen serianni #i should really do like. a writeup of our campaign so far.#to put in the ao3 series collecting all the fic ive written for this campaign #because MY GOD this fight. this fight was so fucking cool.#(for just a little context: we fought a mimic-type monster that turned into mirror versions of all our characters)#(and we had to kill our doubles basically)#(it was... really weirdly cathartic. like genuinely.)#(i'll be thinking about that dnd fight for the rest of my damn life ngl)#(this was right after raz SHOT HIS MIRROR SELF IN THE FACE WITH A GUN)#(and the mirror shards reformed into the next spell mirror!raz cast)#(it was so fucking cool auggghhg)#(also raz killed his mirror self by using inflict wounds to re-open the scar on his throat. so that was sick as fuck.)

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kingycrow · 2 years

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#the magnus archives #the magnus archives fanart #tma #tma fanart #jane prentiss #Jane prentiss fanart #tw trypophobia #this was weirdly fun to draw #and kinda cathartic for some reason?#tw teeth #tma girlies

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viral-spirals · 7 months

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i know summer is almost over but…. hehe

#silly guy…#tbh partially was an excuse to project the scars i have onto niles since i relate to him so heavily #its weirdly cathartic and feels nice for body positivity #i dont want to be ashamed of them!#i think depictions of s/h scars (in a respectful way ofc duhh) should be normalized because people DO have those scars!!!#and we shouldnt feel the need to hide ourselves for the sake of others #like sorry if my scars bother you but thats my story and theyre part of me! i am not ashamed of them #trying not to be anyway! thats why i drew this #weirdly helps??#idk im so tired took a bendadryl and im so eeeppyyy’#smg4 #smg4 fanart #smg4 niles #my art

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magentagalaxies · 1 year

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i'm a woman but only in the way where sometimes a male musician from the late 90s/early 00s decides to write from a woman's perspective but that's not immediately clear until they say "i'm a woman" in the lyrics and you immediately google whether the musician is trans and the answer is no but you've already decided to relate to the song in a trans way anyway

#this post is about 2 songs: ''your woman'' by white town and ''fifty eight'' by the customers #obsessed with that second song lately tbh it unlocked secret emotions in me lmao #''some men do right / and some men do wrong / but i'm a woman and i'll do what i want''#''i've got some big ideas now / just like when i was young / i'm gonna find ya‚ kill ya‚ move on''#like. no idea if this was the song's actual intent but it resonates with me in the sense of allowing yourself to be angry on behalf of your #younger self who wasn't able to feel anger back then‚ and even more than that being angry enough that you're like ''i will destroy them''#but recognizing peace doesn't come from ''killing them'' it comes from moving on and not having to worry about them anymore #anyway i literally only found that song bc i'm making a playlist where ever song title is a number #and between this and ''29'' by demi lovato it's become a weirdly cathartic playlist regarding one specific person

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mortellanarts · 10 months

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One layer challenge except it wasn't a challenge I was just losing it

#oc tag #which I now have #the last one is Pure Nonsense I had no thoughts only vibes from the song I was hearing #blood cw #okay so the first two are connected I was listening to That's all and imagining them fighting #the third one's unrelated #my art #more loose sketches #I think I'll only sketch this way from here on though this was weirdly productive and cathartic #also weirdly aesthetically pleasing #It did in fact help me out with a full piece too I want to finish that one so so so bad but hmmm other assignments #sketch dump #oh! I didn't really talk about the ocs hm well I want to make something w the first two but the blue haired girl is like #the idea I had was of a timid little ghost getting haunted by an annoying immortal person somehow lol #but honestly she's just one of those ocs that are just..... there and then u use as a squeaky toy! ^^#one layer #original character

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conlainn · 19 days

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so i'm trying to figure out the digital safe system at my job....

#that furry tag #this is weirdly cathartic lol #again shoutout to angeltannis for the inspiration #calling him my worksona even tho hes literally just my fursona but at work #so thats just me baby!

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