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ghnosis · 3 months

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"Queer even challenges 'the Platonic parameters of Being - the borders of life and death.' Queer suggests death over life by focusing on non-procreative sexual behaviors, making it especially suited to a genre that takes sex and death as central thematic concerns."

from "The Monster and the Homosexual," by Harry M. Benshoff in The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film ed. Barry Keith Grant 2015

#dissrelated #the dread of difference #queer monsters

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literarysiren · 2 years

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Seven of my favorite books that helped me get through the beginning of COVID and quarantining.

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sunatsubu · 3 months

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Not pictured, Ezra ready to physically cut that UST with his lightsaber just so they can finish the damn mission already

#entire ghost crew dreading encountering fulcrum kallus on missions now #for completely different reasons than before #zeb get your head together stop getting distracted #uhhh realized too late kallus is too short #imagine him being so weak in the knees he's in like an awkward semi-crouch lolll #myart sw #kalluzeb #garazeb orrelios #alexsandr kallus

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lineffability · 5 months

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my personal taxonomy of "he would not fucking say that" is

1 "he would not fucking say that normally but under these specific circumstances he might and isn't that interesting"

2 "he would not fucking say that but it's fun to imagine actually"

3 "he would not fucking say that and I do not understand where you even got the faintest notion from that he might, but I remain puzzledly neutral"

4 "he would not fucking say that and I am gritting my teeth and seething inwardly but I can ignore this without receiving too much psychic damage"

5 "he would not fucking say that and the only thing stopping me from inviting you to a duel in the town square tomorrow at noon is my working brain, which I have, opposed to you apparently, but I would still like to sacrifice you to the nearest volcano and delete my short term memory just so I don't have to be aware that I live in a world where people have so little grasp on a character and no apparent media literacy whatsoever, excuse me while I go count some flowers and scream from the nearest hilltop"

#somewhere in there there's an interim category that goes #“he would not fucking say that but it is CLEARLY a joke and op i aware of it so maybe don't get so worked up take a deep breath and relax”#but that category IS different from 6 where op is very much unaware of their dreadful misinterpretation

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weirdozjunkary · 1 year

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@smallpwbbles you say that I can’t keep getting away with this, when YOU are the reason that I make this shit

#art #fanart #sonic the hedgehog #sonic prime #prism sonic #tails nine #knuckles the dread #renegade rouge #thorn rose #eyestrain #please his ‘new’ friends having to be the ones to jog HIS memory this time #also him and shadow dukeing it out but for a different reason #hell bring everything together by force if he has to

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moomoorare · 1 month

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click for better quality? tumblr loves to compress images worse than dudes repressing gay urges

Art I made for my second work in the Scales of Fate au (Blood In The Wine) featuring The Ocean Queen and her new knights Dame Gem, Lady Pearl and Earl Cleo 🌊💗

#scales of fate #sofau #ldshadowlady #geminitay #pearlescentmoon #zombiecleo #each design is picked from a few series. different from each other.also just my mind #my inspi for gem was actually a lot of her series but generally i really like drawing her with birch antlers #she's a fawn and tree nymph #cleo is inspired by hc 9 and witchcraft smp and last life #pearl is inspired by double life by design shes a wolf :3 character wise empires #lizzie is empires and the life series but also other series #with likr a punch of existential dread and anxiety and angt^_^#this right after the Accolade of the knights and welcome into lizzies kingdom #more works coming soon :D #empires smp #hermitcraft #rare sketchbook

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layla-carstairs · 1 month

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it haunts me so much that while everyone knew Livvy wanted to be Parabatai with Ty, nobody but Kit is aware that Ty said yes

#he changed his mind right before she died CC was insanely sick and twisted for that #they were probably going to tell everyone after the trial and (hopefully) helen going home :(#Ty and his 27 different bombshells he's going to drop on his unsuspecting siblings in twp #I'm excited while also dreading it #bella talks #tsc #the shadowhunter chronicles #ty blackthorn #livvy blackthorn #kit herondale #the wicked powers #twp #the dark artifices #tda #the last hours #lord of shadows

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jerswayman · 2 months

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i think we all know it's you who never wants to leave brando

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bonkalore · 2 months

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On the list of relationships that Jayce has fucked up bc of the Dread.🙃

Have a bit in the Bleeding Magic AU where Shak got into a private area he had for a power crystal that was helping him sustain the Dread for as long as he had, but it had already started to become fragile at this point as it drained and her checking it out had part of it crumble off, which only gave him a surge of the Dread's power over him unfortunately...

Being siblings, this kind of stuff is pretty commonplace... but he would normally never react this badly over it to her. She was searching around for clues, trying to find ways she could help his condition, and She ends up running away and he only realizes after he's able to cool down a bit and panics. Contacts everyone he knows to help get a search party together and is desperate and his form is all over the place and he can hardly care to bother hiding it, even when searching on NYC streets. This raises concern from everyone else and what happened in general.

They eventually find Shak and Jayce is full of regret for scaring her off like that and doesn't want to be that kind of person. This is only one of the earlier steps of his descent...

#Bleeding Magic AU #Daniel Spellbound #Jayce Chinda #Shakila Chinda #demon #size difference #giant tiny #G/t #angst #I wanted his face to very briefly be more like how it looks at the end when he's full Dread when he yells at her then #he's just... a mess #I'd say this was the first step to the end but there was stuff before this lol #my art

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minty364 · 3 months

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DPXDC Prompt #142 Part 1

It had been a few days since his birthday, his parents forgot again but that was how things went in his family. At least his sister, Jazz knew how to throw something together quickly so he at least got to spend it with her and his friends. Speaking of his friends, they were hanging out in the park together. They had gotten close over the summer. Trips to the Nasty Burger, followed by trips to the mall and then late night sleepovers were the normal weekend pattern for the trio especially the later in the summer it got.

They’d talk about all sorts of things while swinging or chilling around the slide. Currently their conversation had drifted towards which superpower would you like if you had the meta gene. Strangely the whole town seemed to be meta free. Not that anyone in the town hated metas just that no one possessed the gene.

“I think I’d like to be able to control Technology with my mind.” Tucker said, pointing toward his forehead in emphasis, “ I’d never have to set poor Lucy down again!!” He hugged his current PDA tightly.

Sam and Danny shared a look while Sam rolled her eyes. “I think I’d like to control plants like Poison Ivy. I wonder if she’d be up for a goth side-kick” Sam said, punching the air in front of her with her fist. “What about you Danny?”

Danny took a few minutes to mull over the question before answering, “I think I’d like to fly. Even if I don’t get into the college I want I’d be able to fly up there anyways.”

“Pfft, bring me back a piece of a meteorite when you do,” Sam chuckled. They all knew their dreams of getting powers would never come true. Not without the meta-gene anyways.

“Sure,” Danny shrugged, “Oh, by the way since my parents are out of town I’m going to check out the portal to see if I can get it running for them. Want to see it?”

“Dude, that’s sick! Unfortunately my parent’s cousin is flying in tomorrow and I’ll need to help prep stuff” Tucker said sadly.

“I don’t know about that Danny, your parents are great but I don’t know if I trust this portal” Sam said, raising an eyebrow at him.

“I wouldn’t worry it’s not likely to actually work or anything,” Danny shrugged.

Soon the trio had to get back to their respective homes. Well Sam and Tucker did. Danny’s parents were out of town at some convention.

They had left Danny and Jazz home alone and they gave instructions for Danny and Jazz to take turns cleaning the lab and making sure the portal didn’t suddenly turn on while they were gone. They had tried before heading out for their trip but unfortunately nothing happened when they turned it on.

Danny wanted to check it out for them when he was done cleaning. He also figured if he could help his parents with their science it would be easier for him to get into the college he wanted to achieve his dreams.

He quickly finished cleaning, and then put on his hazmat suit. Sam had once made fun of the Jack Fenton sticker placed on the front and fortunately it was easy enough for Danny to remove. Then he took a calming breath and stood in front of the portal. As it stood at the moment, it was a dark hole in the wall that seemed to suck all the light out of the room. The hairs on the back of his neck stood up as he suddenly got the urge to run out, maybe he could come back with Sam and Tucker? Unfortunately he knew his parents were back tomorrow so if he wanted to help he needed to do it now.

Stealing his nerves he took a step forward and then another. Into the tunnel he went. It was then he realized he made an error when he found something caught on his foot. He flailed as he tried to catch himself and his hand pushed some kind of button on the wall.

A flash of white light and he felt an eternity of agony. It felt unbearably hot as Danny could feel himself being melted and then put back together. Soon he lost consciousness as everything went dark.

He wasn’t sure how long he was out but he definitely wasn’t at home anymore. He seemed to be in the hospital, the usual medical supplies seemed to be all around as well as a few things he couldn’t identify. He didn’t seem to be attached to any monitoring equipment which seemed a little off but the fact he weirdly didn’t seem to have any burn marks on him. He was sure the portal should have killed him and the fact that he was somehow completely unscathed made him a little worried. Maybe he did die?

His thoughts were interrupted as someone walked into the room. They had messy blond hair, blue eyes, and wore a trench coat. He looked relieved when he saw Danny was awake.

“Took you long enough, kid you were out for a whole week!” The newcomer exclaimed.

A week.

The thought swirled around in Danny’s head. That meant his Family thought he was missing. Sam and Tucker knew he was missing. That also meant he missed the first week of school. That probably wouldn’t look well on an application.

He could tell his thoughts were spiraling a little but he couldn’t help it. He didn’t even know what exactly caused him to be out for that long.

He thought about what could’ve happened to end him up in a hospital and then the thought occurred to him.

The portal.

“What about my parents' portal?” Danny asked the guy.

#dp x dc prompt #dp x dc #dc x dp #danny fenton #danny phantom #poor danny #The Portal #Danny dies temporarily #Danny’s going to have some deep existential dread in a bit #He’s going to wind up living at the watchtower I think #Constantine saves Danny #Danny’s going to be bonding with different hero’s in this one #He realizes he’s not human anymore in the next chapter #He’s also going to realize he’s in SPACE!!#my asks are open #all my prompts are free to use

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ieropilled · 2 years

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frank. i quite literally cannot do this right now

#my brother in hell i was already in tears over 3839495 different things and trying to disctract myself by #stalking your twitter likes.#DID NOT WORK #DO NOT RECOMMEND #well to be honest it kind of did actually. immediately felt warmer inside and got distracted by tumblr and just stopped crying and feeling #all that dread. THEY HEAL ME

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verflares · 2 months

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i miss her so bad (botw/totk zelda)

#she was the world she was the moment everything and ever. nintendo will probably never hit it out of the park that good again #she is your self-sacrificial metaphor. she is how you will think about how you could've done things differently. you miss the past #you dread the future. she is how you realise how you look like your father. she is how you realise that you act like your mother #she is your abuse recovery metaphor. she is how love and opening your heart was ALWAYS and always HAS been the answer #and she is also about how yuri is forever and tgirl swag and women in stem ofc #like i said. we will never win this hard again #loz #personal.txt

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normalbrothers · 3 months

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TOMMY: The stag is to remember him. We eat and then we forget him.

No need to forgive him. Agreed?

#peaky blinders #tvedit #peakyblindersgifs #remade this post from a million blogs and a million years ago but Worse this time #has there ever been a more haunting and chilling episode than s03ep04?#there's so much going on in his face the gifs don't even capture half of it #the stag is a much more dignified creature than their father ever was which adds to this ... ambivalence of longing and dread #'we needed you ten years ago' he said in s1 while looking at him with trepidation #so different than arthur's wilfull faith that he had finally changed #both heartbreaking in different ways #(setting The Subtext aside)

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bicheetopuff · 11 days

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Why do I feel like this new final arc is gonna end up being like 50 chapters…?

#bakudeku #I’m gonna eat up every minute of it #I’ve been dreading this manga ending #so many things are left unanswered #I feel like deku has a whole grief arc he has to go through #and I want him to finally explode and express all of his bottled up emotions #this manga can’t end without Izuku addressing like 20 different things #10 of those things pertaining to Katsuki #8 pertaining to his thoughts on Tenko #and 2 questioning the values of All Might and hero society as a whole #bnha

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iknowwhereyousnoozeatnight · 2 months

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couple of mello + near doodles

#death note #mello #mihael keehl #near #nate river #meronia #bright colors #eyestrain #been having fun w colors recently :3 #these are the product of me really really really not wanting to do some discussion boards #like i don’t even hate discussion boards but something about them has been filling me with dread i’d rather just do exams tbh #i'm like dragging myself through the rest of this semester but it's different from last semester last semester i was losing my mind #this semester i've been able to sleep more than 4 hours a night and go outside bc it's not freezing but also i'm just so fucking done #with school i've been here too long i'm tired but i'm always tired and will always be tired it's tragic honestly i think i'd be more cool #with school if i weren't living how i am rn w my family but eh i don't have the money to move out so it's whatever and it doesn't really #help that i know i'll have to get at least a master's to really do anything in my field and the though of doing more of this makes #me so tired i think i might take a gap year after i get my bachelors this fall idk #anyways enjoy my doodles or don't if you don't want to i'm not the boss of you

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fennelrabbit · 8 months

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Simon, what the hell are you talking about?

You didn't mean to find the crown, neither did you know what was gonna happen when you put in on 😨😑 this isn't some weird karmic punishment from the universe, it was completely out of your control. Do you tell someone who got into a car crash that if they were "just a little less selfish" they wouldn't have gotten into that car and have that RANDOM TRUCK CRASH INTO THEM because somebody else was drink driving????? Why talk about pointless what-ifs when you're talking about unalterable life events?

This is just so bizarre. Ignoring the fact that 'selfishness' is not a flaw Simon Petrikov has, why not choose to demonstrate "selfishness" with like, Simon actually making a selfish choice? Maybe Betty becomes sad from a heavy life event, and Simon experiences a smaller sadness like being laughed at by his coworkers, and Simon asks Betty to comfort him, and then Simon forgets to ask Betty about her day?

I mean, I wouldn't write this anyway because "selfishness" is not a flaw Simon needs to overcome, but anything would've been better than "Simon only had two choices, ask Betty to stay with him, or forget about her so she could go on the bus trip". There's options???? They can stay in touch and write to each other? Besides, it would only be inconvenient to Betty if Simon just invited himself on her trip with no tickets and no luggage.

Geezalou... 🙈

#Simon petrikov #adventure time #ice king #simon petrikov #betty grof #Fionna and cake #AT #AT critical #Adventure time criticism #AT salt #Adventure time critical #What a bizarre and unhealthy message to give to your audience #Yes keep obsessing and punishing yourself for not making a different choice and avoiding the dreaded butterfly effect #It's totally your fault for tripping over and destroying the universe

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