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notmuchtoconceal · 3 months

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Hellbound: Hellraiser 2 -- through a series of cast drop-outs and hasty script changes -- reformed itself from an artless cash grab which terminates in a soft Hollywood reset into the story of a young woman confronting the trauma which destroyed her family; a slow-build which erupted in a conflagration that destroyed her home overnight (though by the second, left the house standing so it contents could pour out.)

When you read Peter Atkin's original script, there is a stunning amount of additional detail which paints a fuller picture of the crude cardboard world of the film where trick photography and montage turns a collection of hallways and matte paintings into a sprawling cthonian maze.

Yet by the end, all catharsis is forfeit -- the father is revived, the evil vanquished, the damage undone. When you read the events depicted in the original script as a dream language which constitutes the organic regeneration of a myth, the fact that Frank and Larry are literally conjoined in their burning attic hell -- the topmost story of the home which didn't burn down -- and his confronting and absorbing his brother, the parasitic twin, is what ultimately allows him to get so pissed he punches the Freshly Cenobitten Gaslighting Head of the Asylum Who Traps Autistic Girls in Repetitive Puzzle Cubes After He Vivisects and Gases Their Mothers in the face before the snake-worm buzz-saw phallus which bores into his skull (not from an omniscient Platonic solid in this version, but a fleshy amorphous mass :-- no worship of the tetrahedron) turns him into his kinky brainwashed leather sex puppet and dangles him around his own hospital cracking Freddy Krueger one-liners as he murders his own crippled and infirm.

Figuratively, this is simply an expression of the Ba'al cycle in miniature (the Pagan origin of Christianity which is nature worship; cycles within cycles; seasonal, annual, generational, epochal, which through self-determined individual will can be overcome to build civilizations, histories, myths of higher-order artistry and expression) -- for Larry, as Clive Barker himself points out, is something of a soft-boy dominated by his wife who gets really into boxing because he's so timid.

Watch the original again. His wife who's fucking his brother who literally regenerated from his blood sacrifice (his hand nailed -- a Christic reference, though through the back of the palm -- as he moves the marriage bed, literally complicit in his own cuckoldry) arouses him in his state of television-induced blood lust to distract him from the corpse in the attic by appealing to his desire to protect her. She's stringing him along, he starts to fuck her, and while she's horny, she kinda realizes ... aw, fuck. I actually love my husband. I love my pussy husband who I also have contempt for. Holy Shit. Why am I fucking a blood-eating monster? Is my home life really that insipid? Could I get more attention in better ways, or do I really just live for the havoc I cause?

Larry has issues with his masculinity cause he's the good boy. Frank's corrupted his soul cause he's the bad boy. Julia's fucking them both. The love triangle is a the most stable shape in human psychology, as the triangle is the most stable shape in nature. Truthfully, I think everyone wants a third and you only earn one when you overcome base human passions, otherwise you're consumed and end up in hell.

The sequel, told from his daughter's perspective, dispenses with this baggage entirely. Here, in the original draft, Larry overcomes Frank, who from Kirsty's perspective is a dark perversion of her father; an incestuous reflection who in the final film poses as him simply to lure her into hell and trap her with him in a Holocaust-style cremation-oven fuckbed of which he has several in the vast mausoleal chamber where he keeps his candle-lit fuckshrine to himself, presumably with his own lipstick on his photos as he's tortured by apparitions of bitches who tease him.

In other words, to show Frank and Larry conjoined literalizes what is left figurative in the final film, where he is the apparition of a delusion which functions as a lure; an embodiment of her guilt, shame, complicity, which she must recognize the falsity of to free herself. Only this self-insight gives her the courage she needs to navigate the maze of hell and overcome institutional gaslighting to rescue her mute Autistic other half from the asylum and begin their new life of lesbian sisterhood, which was so obvious it didn't need to be confirmed in the DVD commentary.

In the original draft, therefore -- we see a father figuratively revived, but presented in a literal way. It reframes the events of the previous film as such that Frank was only ever reborn to be overcome and destroyed. It reframes a family tragedy as a hero myth. Due to his daughter's tireless love, Larry becomes complete, and Kirsty seems to disregard Tiffany entirely with a crack about opening a game store.

Perhaps, to depict this myth so literally is repulsive, for it is too revealing.

The rational framework of psychological self-overcoming and self-integration might function as something of a gauze by which we may preserve the self-flattery of our pretensions to civilization.

Perhaps, to depict Kirsty as rescuing her father from hell (plot reasons where additionally cited for the removal of Larry; he spends much of act three unconscious after being rescued, so the feeling was Kirsty's story was over and Tiffany's was superfluous -- forgetting the incidental details of Kirsty needing to literally step-into her stepmother's skin, oh yes... becoming like the woman who fucked both her father and brother to help the new girl) in such a direct way reveals too uncomfortable a subtext.

If Kirsty becomes like Julia and Larry becomes like Frank, then now Father and Daughter are Truly One with Rebel and Whore.

The base contradiction at the heart of the Christian worldview is exposed. Beneath all our rational striving is a dark wonderland of flayed men and dancing incest and techno-bacchanalian revelry and deep stoic meditation in leather while highly aestheticized art objects are probed and fondled in the dark as our mechanical nature is subtly unfurled.

Dick itches just thinkin bout it, bro.

Best then we accept that daddy's dead and he's never coming back. Best we then accept that gay sex is a perfectly healthy expression of self-love which only toxic dumbasses could fuck up. Where now is the contradiction in our worldview? What do you suppose we're running from? A uterus is the source of all life, and in it is constant division. A uterus is a microcosm of the void of space as the dick is a microcosm of a shooting star or the sunbeam you yearn to strut across.

Birth is a form of death, as death is simply a form of metamorphosis.

The older I get, the more it makes sense that Clive Barker resents Hellraiser's success. It's a classic, and it's all most will ever know him for, when he's a contemporary renaissance man who is primarily a novelist, though also a painter -- he's really up there with Stephen King in terms of sheer output, and really... his horror phase was comparatively short, he mostly writing gay bizarre fantasy epics which would probably look great on screen, but I think Mr. Barker stopped making movies after three because he found them exhausting. Socially. Bureaucratically. Financially. Meanwhile, on the page, his imagination remains unrestrained and the only limit is the speed at which his fingers can clack and no man could ever tell him he needs an editor or that his work is indulgent.

Clive Barker's like chocolate mousse.

You crave the indulgence.

When he pares himself down to fit neatly into the Christian worldview, you absolutely feel it and know a tremendous loss, the same as you would see in a tree mutilated limbless by an overzealous surgeon.

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Event Flyer Roll Call

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Good People Doing Good Things -- In The Aftermath Of Ian

Good People Doing Good Things — In The Aftermath Of Ian

Last week, Hurricane Ian struck the state of Florida, wrecking homes, businesses, and taking over 100 lives in its path of devastation. Some of our own friends — Horty & MJ, Scottie & Ron, Mary, Larry and others — were directly affected and our heart goes out to them. Just as with any natural disaster, people dig down and find their good side, putting pettiness aside to help those in need. …

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leclerc-s · 3 months

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paint the town red - part ten

THE GREAT ADMIN WAR

series masterlist

HUNGARY 2024

charles leclerc i'm sorry seb! you can't be mad at me.

sebastian vettel charles, you told the internet i had a crush on mark

charles leclerc but you did?

carlos sainz and you told them about his almost make-out with max.

ollie bearman we all saw that coming. i was around for mexico last year.

tony stark are you sleeping with the enemy leclerc?

charles leclerc no.

harley keener oh boy wait until this guy finds out who he is sleeping with

charles leclerc shut your fucking mouth keener!

tony stark i promised pepper i would stop being annoying

arthur leclerc WAIT- IS HE- OH MY GOD!

tony stark WHAT THE HELL DID YOU GET FROM THAT?

ollie bearman OH MY GOD! HOW IS HE THE GENIUS?

bianca stark-potts oh you have got to be fucking kidding me.

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me & bae

for context, this is what he sent me at 7:30 in the morning.

carol danvers added one person

wanda maximoff so he's bae now?

bianca stark-potts no? yelena belova she loooves him

kamala khan oh my god this is the best day of my life.

yelena belova that is a child.

carol danvers kamala is not a child.

queen shuri how old is she?

kamala khan i'm 16!

riri williams by the way, who's bianca seeing?

queen shuri charles

riri williams HER DRIVER?

natasha romanoff now that i think about he is exactly her type.

pepper potts goofy? michelle jones will most likely blush when she calls him a pet name? wanda maximoff flirts with his childhood rival? queen shuri green eyes? natasha romanoff exactly.

bianca stark-potts when have i ever dated someone like him?

yelena belova SO YOU ARE DATING?!

bianca stark-potts NO STOP IT!

kamala khan but she likes him!

bianca stark-potts WHO LET THE CHILD IN HERE?

carol danvers i have never been this interested in someone's love life before.

kamala khan that's because you were in space for the longest time and are now dating an asgardian. carol danvers KAMALA! kamala khan i'm getting the feeling that no one knew that.

natasha romanoff WHAT? WHO?

bianca stark-potts 10 bucks it's valkyrie

carlos danvers 10 bucks bianca's dating charles but won't admit it because she's afraid that natasha and wanda will do what they did last time.

wanda maximoff it was something perfectly normal to do.

bianca stark-potts YOU BROKE INTO HIS HOUSE! natasha romanoff and he ended up cheating on you so really, no regrets.

michelle jones does charles know that harry was the one who gave you the dog? the same dog who loves charles very much and that charles adores?

kate bishop OSBORN?

bianca stark-potts not my brightest moment

kate bishop EVERYONE KNOWS OSBORN IS THE BIGGEST DICKHEAD AROUND!!

bianca stark-potts HE WASN'T A DICKHEAD WHEN WE FIRST STARTED DATING!!

kate bishop HE'S ALWAYS BEEN A DICKHEAD! HE JUST TRICKED YOU!

peter parker heeyy, guess what i just found out talking to red bull's media admin.

isaiah atkins peter if this another genius idea to wage war against the other teams i will tie you against our hospitality.

peter parker that is aggressive. but no bianca's going to hate this.

harley keener oh this is gonna be good.

peter parker guess who red bull invited to the next gp.

tony stark oh no. bianca stark-potts i knew this was going to bite me in the ass when carol brought him up.

charles leclerc what are we talking about?

harley keener oh boy, i can't wait to see how this one will go down.

bianca stark-potts HARLEY SHUT THE FUCK UP!

tony stark seriously hungary of all places? why not miami or monaco? hell texas or vegas would be a better place.

tony stark can't believe the dickhead said yes.

sebastian vettel what the hell is he upset about now?

peter parker oh it's great, bianca's ex boyfriend is attending the hungarian grand prix with red bull. peter parker the same one who gave her the dog we all know and love

bianca stark-potts PETER!!

ollie bearman i thought you said a friend gave you that?

harley keener oh it gets better. he asked her out with the dog as a gift.

charles leclerc oh.

charles leclerc would you look at that i suddenly have something to do with my brother.

arthur leclerc we do? charles leclerc yes we do

tony stark what's wrong with him?

sebastian vettel how do you not get it?

peter parker i'm also confused.

ollie bearman you're both hopeless.

ex-boyfriend huh?

harry and i dated but i never brought him up because he cheated on me. it's just- it's not important

he gave you a dog when he asked you to be his girlfriend.

i asked you out using a lightning mcqueen meme that you posted on your story.

and it was very adorable charles. i wouldn't change it for the world.

i'm not asking for you to do extravagant things like harry did. usually when he did them it meant he was cheating on me again.

a dog is not extravagant.

and what do you mean again?

it happened like four or five times each time with the same girl. the only reason i found out was because nat and wanda broke into his apartment.

they won’t do that to me right?

they might?

my apartment is a mess! they can’t break in with it like that!

glad to know those are your priorities.

are you kidding me, it’s black widow and the scarlet witch, they can’t see my messy apartment!

charles, it'll be fine. i doubt they'll break into your apartment.

but if they do?

they won't.

what if they do?

i'll talk to them.

bianca stark-potts

kamala khan that's so adorable.

michelle jones and they call this man a terror?

yelena belova he was a terror. i've seen the videos

natasha romanoff now i want to break into his apartment to see how messy it is.

wanda maximoff this is all the confirmation i needed to know that they are dating.

maria hill she warned him about you two breaking into his apartment. they're dating.

queen shuri i can't wait to see tony lose his shit over this.

riri williams i can should've seen this coming. he's exactly her type. america chavez you've been around less than me HOW DO YOU KNOW HER TYPE? riri williams i read the groupchat america!

hope van dyne i was in a meeting what did i miss?

hope van dyne OH MY GOD!! SCOTT OWES ME SO MUCH MONEY!!

bianca stark-potts YOU BET ON ME?

hope van dyne we bet that you would end up with a driver and we were right! scott thought it would be logan or lando. my money was on verstappen or charles.

alex albon all those in favor of max releasing the mad dutchman on this osborn guy

max verstappen why would i do that?

lando norris isn't it obvious? because she's dating the platonic love of your life

pierre gasly he's the platonic love of my life! yuki tsunoda do i mean nothing to you? pierre gasly yuki, no, it's not what it looks like!

george russell max just do as we ask! take him out!

oscar piastri as a date or murder? lando norris either works.

lando norris notice how he didn't argue that charles is the platonic love of his life.

max verstappen charles is not the platonic love of my life. it's daniel.

daniel ricciardo i'll take him out. i'll do it for vegas 2019!

charles leclerc NO! NO ONE TAKE HIM OUT!

charles leclerc WHAT'S THE FASTEST WAY TO CLEAN A MESSY APARTMENT?

pierre gasly WE'RE IN HUNGARY YOU IDIOT!

charles leclerc I AM IN DANGER OF IT GETTING BROKEN IN BY BLACK WIDOW AND THE SCARLET WITCH!! SOS!!

george russell WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT?

carlos sainz according to harley it's ritual to do with all of bianca's boyfriends.

max verstappen wait what does that have to do with harry?

charles leclerc oh so he's harry now? max verstappen christian said i have to be nice to him. something about him being some good investor but i couldn't care less charles leclerc take him out. max verstappen and why should i do that charles? charles leclerc ARE YOU KIDDING ME VERSTAPPEN!! HE- YOU KNOW- HE CHEATED ON BIANCA!! max verstappen and why is that important charlie? charles leclerc THAT'S MY GIRLFRIEND YOU IDIOT! THAT'S WHY!

max verstappen BOOM! I WIN! PAY UP LOSERS!

pierre gasly NO YOU CALLED HIM CHARLIE! YOU CHEATED!

max verstappen I TOLD YOU LOSERS I COULD GET HIM TO CONFIRM THAT THEY WERE DATING!

charles leclerc YOU MADE A BET ON ME?

carlos sainz it's not fair, they didn't let me participate because i'm your teammate

oscar piastri can i let it be known that i didn't want anything to do with this?

logan sargeant LIAR! YOU WERE THE BOOKIE!

charles leclerc I TRUSTED YOU OSCAR!

oscar piastri it was either bookie or they were going to make me flirt with peter and figure out if he knew something.

daniel ricciardo i'm back what did i miss?

daniel ricciardo OH COME ON MAX GOT HIM TO SPILL THE BEANS BEFORE ME??

alex albon there is no getting in the way of lestappen daniel. it's time we accepted that. bianca should too if she's going to date charles.

charles sat in his room, frowning down at his phone nothing was worse than a 'we need to talk text.' his stomach currently felt like there were a million bees buzzing around in there. the knock at his door startled him and he rushed to open it, being met with the sight of of bianca. she smiled brightly at him, causing the bees to subside a bit.

"you wanted to talk?" charles asked. bianca noticed the scared expression on charles' face and her eyes widened, quickly understanding what charles thought there talk was going to about.

“no! this isn’t that kind of talk, i swear,” bianca quickly said.

“then what is it about?” charles questioned.

“can i come in?” charles nodded, stepping out of the doorway and opening the door wider, allowing her in. bianca gave him a slight smile, before moving to sit on the couch in his room. she sighed, “i owe you an explanation about harry.”

“no, you don’t,” charles said, as he sat next to her. bianca laid her head on his shoulder. charles intertwined their hands, “i do, and it’s the least i can do. besides, if i learned anything from that relationship it’s that honesty is always the way right thing to do.”

“okay,” charles whispered. bianca sighed again, “i met him at some charity event my dad was holding, when i was a little girl, before he was iron man. os corp was stark industries biggest rival, it still is. but somehow we were friends growing up.”

“romeo and juliet,” charles muttered. bianca laughed, “funny, my mom said the same thing. we- we didn’t start dating until we were 17, both of our dads were against it, but norman. norman saw it as an opportunity to show the public that he and my didn’t hate each other. i was a business opportunity to him.”

charles frowned, "that's not very nice of him."

"well he turned out to be a supervillain on another earth who hated peter. so fingers crossed he doesn't turn out like that here."

"what?"

"that's a wild story for another time," bianca explained, "but i loved harry. he was my first everything, except kiss. i lost that one in a game of truth or dare at a party when i was 13."

"hmm, i was kissed in front of a swing set when i was 9."

bianca laughed, "i loved him charlie, and he used it against me. the girl's name isn't important, although, she was very much aware that harry was in a relationship with me. the entire time we were together he was with her. 3 years of my life down the drain, wasted on someone who was never even worth it."

"i'm sorry chérie (dear) ," charles whispered as he hugged her, bianca burying her head in the crook of his neck, "you should've never gone through that with someone like him. maybe it was a good idea to convince max to take him out."

"like a date? or like murder?"

charles shrugged with one shoulder, "it doesn't matter, either works. although, i think kelly might be upset over the date one."

"and christian would upset when max ends up in prison for murder."

charles laughed and bianca giggled softly, "he's such a connard," charles said.

"i don't know what that means," bianca admitted.

"asshole. it means asshole."

"good," bianca said, "because he is one."

"we should- non c'est bête (no, it's stupid)," charles cut himself off. bianca pulled away from him, "no, what were you going to say?"

"it is dumb," charles said as he dismissed his own thoughts.

"it's not," bianca argued, "what is it?"

"we should- we should go somewhere over break. like as a couple. that is what we are no?"

bianca smiled widely at him, "yes we are, and we should. where are we going?"

"oh," charles said, surprised, "i did not think you would say yes. i have not thought that far ahead."

"it's okay. we can go anywhere. i don't mind."

"well i'm glad we are a couple because i accidentally told a few other drivers we were dating."

"charles, i called you bae, and wanda immediately caught on."

charles laughed and bianca smiled at him. she curled into him, laying her head on his chest. the stark-potts girl yawned, "can i take a nap?"

"yeah," charles whispered, "you can take a nap. i think i'll nap with you."

"i'd like that." bianca whispered as she closed her eyes.

SPA 2024

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scuderiaferrari it's a rainy one here in spa but we're glad to end the first half of the season on such a high note. it's another double podium for the ferrari boys. see y'all after the break! next stop: zandvoort!

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username this has literally been the best mid season ending ferrari has had in who knows how long.

username LET'S GO FERRARI!

username FORZA FERRARI SEMPRE!

harleykeener LET'S FUCKING GO!

↳ harleykeener is this what red bull felt like last year?

charles_leclerc that's caption is not written by peter and i know it.

↳ peterbparker ISAIAH GROUNDED ME AFTER THE INNOCENT WAR I WAGED!

↳ charles_leclerc at least he didn't tie you to the hospitality like he threatened.

redbullracing free peter! he did nothing wrong but have some fun!

mclaren free our boy! he did nothing wrong!

mercedesamgf1 free our fellow admin! we were having fun!

username isaiah let our boy out of prison!

biancastark_potts and we've got another amazing half to go!!

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↳ joaquintorres literally shut up samuel!

username this has been the highlight of the season besides charles winning monaco and carlos winning spain.

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¡leclerc-s speaks! okay, i needed to give bianca an ex but i could not be bothered to come up with a face claim or name for him so i just went with harry osborn. i know technically the osborn family doesn't exist in the main mcu universe but in my world they do. i also googled a fan cast for harry osborn and the most popular one was timothee so i went with him. please ignore any typos in this, i made this on no sleep because insomnia is a bitch.

¡disclaimer! this is in no way making assumptions about the people involved in this story, this is all fake. it is a fanfiction please don't take any of what is said seriously. this is all for entertainment purposes and as a creative outlet for me. enjoy!

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Results: A Michael Sheen bf/gf for a David Tennant character

I made a result post for the GO3 wishes. So here are the results for the Good Omens Extended Universe shipping polls as well. These are the results for David's characters. Here are the results for Michael's characters. It doesn't mean to be the end: I am still open for requests for other characters...

1. The Doctor -255 votes-