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just thought you should know that I still not recovered from hearing “you should’ve been there, should’ve burst through the door with that ‘baby i’m right here’ smile”—> “I heard your key turn in the door down the hallway, is that your key in the door? is it okay? is it you?” in person. ok thanks bye

Thinking of Vox tracking down a chubby gal he used to want to wed in life and desperately trying to get her to hook up with him in hell

When you’ve been cooking for long enough, you stop making recipes and start making “shit in a skillet” and “whatever soup”

my record player is cheap as shit and the needle keeps skipping so i put a tiny pig on it as an arm weight

it’s lighter than a coin and working perfectly so i’m just gonna. not bother the pig

It’s that time of the year again

WARNING 18+

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Because @staff is too cowardly…

changes and trends in horror-genre films are linked to the anxieties of the culture in its time and place. Vampires are the manifestation of grappling with sexuality; aliens, of foreign influence. Horror from the Cold War is about apathy and annihilation; classic Japanese horror is characterised by “nature’s revenge”; psychological horror plays with anxieties that absorbed its audience, like pregnancy/abortion, mental illness, femininity. Some horror presses on the bruise of being trapped in a situation with upsetting tasks to complete, especially ones that compromise you as a person - reflecting the horrors and anxieties of capitalism etc etc etc. Cosmic horror is slightly out of fashion because our culture is more comfortable with, even wistful for, “the unknown.” Monster horror now has to be aware of itself, as a contingent of people now live in the freedom and comfort of saying “I would willingly, gladly, even preferentially fuck that monster.” But I don’t know much about films or genres: that ground has been covered by cleverer people.

I don’t actually like horror or movies. What interests me at the moment is how horror of the 2020s has an element of perception and paying attention.

Multiple movies in one year discussed monsters that killed you if you perceived them. There are monsters you can’t look at; monsters that kill you instantly if you get their attention. Monsters where you have to be silent, look down, hold still: pray that they pass over you. M Zombies have changed from a hand-waved virus that covers extras in splashy gore, to insidious spores. A disaster film is called Don’t Look Up, a horror film is called Nope. Even trashy nun horror sets up strange premises of keeping your eyes fixed on something as the devil GETS you.

No idea if this is anything. (I haven’t seen any of these things because, unfortunately, I hate them.) Someone who understands better than me could say something clever here, and I hope they do.

But the thing I’m thinking about is what this will look like to the future, as the Victorian sex vampires and Cold War anxieties look to us. I think they’ll have a little sympathy, but they probably won’t. You poor little prey animals, the kids will say, you were awfully afraid of facing up to things, weren’t you?

did you know? if you do your laundry you can get your clothes back

hey if there’s any doctors on tumblr, i just wanna say that i’ve had abdominal pain for around 2 months now (coupled with weakness, fatigue, perpetual nauseous-feeling, can’t sleep/get rested at night etc) and it’s starting to severely affect my daily life because i’m just so fucking tired and weak all the time.

so yah if anyone has any sort of remedy or anything at all really, it would be nice ! thanks :)

I spent like three hours making this

every ghibli movie is better with some guys in it

Honestly the cliche advice is true. If you fill your life w things you’re passionate about, if you challenge yourself every day, if you give your own opinion of yourself more weight than you do other people’s opinions of you, you will actually thrive. Like no one can tell u anything

Guessbwho projectile vomited six times

I get to stay home today :}

are you guys ready to admit that ofmd, good omens, and what we do in the shadows have Extreme SuperWhoLock energies or do I need to wait another year to post this take