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Here’s the final designs for the Mini Herbie preorder extras!

2” Holographic Finger puppy stickers for reaching 100 preorders!

2” Rufus acrylic phone charms for reaching 200 preorders!

Preorders close Friday, then production starts! Love you guys 💞

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get re-animated, nerd

from december 21st, 2023

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inspired by a sound on the app that shall not be named

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#reanimator #re animator #herbert #herbert west

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Elsa Lanchester as Mary Shelley / the Monster’s Bride BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935) dir. James Whale

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NEW PIN HEEEYAAH

This funky little guy gives me such gender envy, Jeffrey Combs really went all out. As much as I love trek, I think this is my favorite performance by him.

Anyway, if you want one of these pins for yourself, I'm selling them on my Etsy here:

https://skelerang.etsy.com/listing/1690781438

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got inspired from people genderbending these guys so i created my version of reani toxic yuri. also put them in this poor things type of worild in my head it works soooo good. you could call it danberth even

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favorite horror film you just recently discovered

(From this meme)

Uuuuuuuh yeah that's Re-Animator.

Writing tons of porn fic for it, watched it probably fifteen times in the last month, built a whole deck of Arkham Horror cards for it... the obsession is real

It hits a very specific, great spot for horror. It's zany and campy. The effects are bonkers in some places, but really goddamn good in others. The stuff that should be awful instead comes across as camp, because it watches as though everybody in this film really seriously believed in the projected and wanted it to succeed.

I know Combs gets a lot of deserved credit for how he refuses to turn in a lackluster performance, but I think everybody here does a great job. I love that David Gale had almost quit acting and then did this one "last" film that turned into a mini-career with people who loved him to the end of his life and beyond. I love Bruce Abbot's protagonist accent and utter sincerity. I love the rightfully-crowned scream queen of Barbara Crampton. And can I get a shoutout for Robert Sampson? He basically plays three characters throughout the whole fucking movie and nails every single one of them.

Most importantly, though, it does the Shaun of the Dead trick of balancing comedy and horror throughout the film--then, at the exact right moment, shifts all its gears towards horror. I unironically believe that everything that happens after Dr. Hill hisses "So... do... I..." in the morgue is some of the greatest horror action I've ever seen.

The makeup jobs on the reanimates? Amazing. The acting? Also amazing. There's maybe one or two tension-relieving jokes, but broadly, the silliness is traded for horror in a way that's astoundingly effective. The blocking, the fights, Dean Halsey trying to save his daughter, Dan trying to save Herbert, how every single element was subtly pre-established in earlier scenes so nothing feels like a cheat, that droning music that plays over the chaos in the emergency ward...

I'll make jokes about how gay Dan and Herbert are for each other along with everybody else, but I don't think we'd all feel this strongly about the movie unless there was there there. And there is. What a fun movie.

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Re-Animator/Arkham Horror Custom Game Content: The Allies

Previously: the Investigators and the Monsters.

In Arkham Horror, Allies are a separate deck from items. They are mini-characters--often humans, sometimes animals--who can augment your investigator's stats, give you items, and so forth.

Here they all are; descriptions and notes below!

Gloria: +1 Lore, +1 Will. Return to the box if the Bride enters play. Hans Grüber: Investigator can read Tomes without incurring Sanity damage. If Grüber is discarded by any investigator, West must report to Jail. Nurse Shelley: +1 Speed, +1 Will Rufus: [automatically is Meg's Ally] +1 Fight, +1 Luck. If discarded for any reason, add Dead Rufus to the monster cup. Dr. Harrod: +1 Lore. Return to the box to prevent any investigator from being devoured, unless it is during the final battle. Ernest: +1 Sneak, +1 Evade

"Discarding" and "returning to the box" mean different things in-game. A discarded card is returned to its deck; a card returned to the box is removed from play entirely. This is already disconcerting with important items being taken from you. It's worse with Allies, which are, after all, living beings.

The game has a "terror track" which shows the overall mood in Arkham. Every time the terror track is raised, you remove an Ally from the deck and return them to the box. This is supposed to imply that they're seeing how bad Arkham's getting and fleeing forever... but it's also possible to interpret it as the local eldritch cult sacrificing the Allies, if you're more cynical.

I generally view "discard" as meaning "in hiding" and "return to the box" as being "extremely dead".

Some of the wording on these cards will probably be tweaked before I do any printing, since Grüber and Rufus are definitely dead if they're discarded. That anybody can discard Grüber and get West sent to Jail is one of a couple of mechanics that allow for sniping/inter-investigator conflict. (Another is that you can control Dean Halsey and send him to attack another monster... or another investigator.)

Also, I couldn't find good shots of Grüber or Rufus, so their images did not come from either film.

Next up: new Items!

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unhinged Dan this, unhinged Dan that. Cool, i love it, but ever think about Meg Halsey not connected to the door frame

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[ "What is happening to me?" ]

4k bg texture by swzydzn on twitter

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Jeffrey Combs, Doc Haggis art doll~♡

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One of the few times Herbert and Dan were in agreement over something.

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i passed my college session and have every right to mentally unstable for them 🧪

(maybe the next i should draw danbert in all the doctor shows au. although, tbh, herbert as a dr house sounds scary)

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middle-aged men🥰

#old man danbert #my beloved

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Childhood movie