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thatswhatsushesaid · 9 months

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Okay, but what do ✨YOU✨ think JGY would think about LXC’s flute solo trait? 🤣

I'm experiencing deja vu, anon, because I feel like I have for sure answered an ask about this once before!! but I can't find it, woe etc.

anyway, jgy will patiently sit through as many flute solos as his er-ge feels compelled to perform, both because it is always a joy and a delight for him to listen to lxc play, and also because it's not like anyone else in lxc's life is granting him the space to express his feelings in whatever way makes him feel the most at ease!

like in all seriousness, lxc spends so much of his time and energy across all adaptations of the canon taking care of everyone else around him, and there is exactly one person in his life who makes space to provide him with support (emotional and material), both before and after he actually has the power to do so.

jgy's love language in the text consistently manifests through gift-giving (e.g., fairy for jin ling, all the presents he gives to huaisang which are tailored specifically to his interests) and acts of service (e.g., protecting and sheltering lan xichen during the war, using his newly acquired influence to secure the funds to rebuild the cloud recesses, as well as [iirc] preventing lwj from facing too much political blowback after wwx's death; literally dropping everything in the middle of hosting a banquet to help huaisang with yet another problem, etc).

so basically, imo, if what lxc needs every so often is to exorcise his own emotional demons through impromptu flute solos, there is no one in his life better equipped to understand why than jgy.

#with the obvious caveat that probably a lot of those solos in cql are just there for censorship reasons. but #since fandom has taken this and run with it #here are my thoughts #tho they are probably a little disorganized since it is late and i'm about to go to bed #asks answered #xiyao #mdzs meta #editing this to add that obviously jgy and lxc also talk!! a lot!! and obviously those conversations are central to their intimacy #I don't mean to say that he doens't also grant lxc words of affirmation too lol #but he knows that talk is cheap #he's good at talking a big game when he does not intend to follow through #(gestures @ the whole thing about xy's head)#I think it is very important to jgy to distinguish his relationship with lxc #from the relationships he has with everyone else in his life where his sincerity is uh #let us say 'forced'#he wants to be someone lxc knows he can rely on

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notfye · 1 month

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another day another being the only decemberists fan willing to defend i’ll be your girl. best album ever? no. okayishly mid? yes. sorry you guys were not raised on 80s synth the same way i was. open ur third eye.

#this is in jest. mostly.#here are my thoughts #(not that anyone asked)#good: cutting stone starwatcher severed tripping along suckers prayer rusulka & ill be your girl #MIDDDD: your ghost & we all die young #so so so bad: once in my life and everything is awful #traveling on ep still has my heart it was the first thing that came out that i was a fan for <3 #molly's musings #the decemberists #i’ll be your girl

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bottomlessabyssposts · 1 year

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hello fellow former mlb victim fan

I’m so curious now on what your thoughts on the show are. Like, just in general and also how the romance was handled. If you wanna share 👀

LISTEN. Way too many things and I will end up making this post too long but... I have some pent up frustration so let's just go by seasons (+ some other stuff) THIS IS VERY LONG SO HAVE A NICE READ

S1 : I think s1 was fine overall, though I was absolutely creeped out by Mari's behavior like ??? She's very likable and honestly I enjoy her character most of the time but it's just. Why would you make this 14 years old obsessive ?? As a middle aged man ?? AS A GAG ???? anyways. I think s1 was the only season where I don't have many things to say because 1) it wasn't that bad 2) i don't remember much

S2 : The beginning of my doom, CN is dumbed down more and more by the writers in favor of LB and this is so weird. Adrien isn't dumb, what he is oblivious and unaware of social norms. He spent his life homeschooled. (ALSO may I ask why is his life presented as going down hill when his mom disappeared when he's always been hidden from the world ?? Why is his mom shown as good when he couldn't even go to school and didn't have any friends except Chloé ??? How is she a good mother ??? How did his father change exactly ?? Did he just become colder or ??)

I think the swap kwami episode was in s2 and this is one of my LEAST favorite episodes ; CN's job is perceived as easy compared to LB but i'm sorry can Mari sacrifice herself so easily without any guarantee to come back ?? The heavy burden of the power of destruction and the knowledge that she could KILL someone doesn't bother her ??? This episode just served the purpose to show how LB is just. Much more important than CN and I am SICK of it.

Also uh can we talk real quick about Master Fu ? Dude thought "training" (that apparently happened off screen which is just bad writing) a CHILD to become the next guardian was a good idea ? Mari is a kid with dreams and passions and chaining her down to this duty is just outright cruel. In later seasons we don't even see her make anything ? She is supposed to want to become a fashion designer and now she's stuck stressing over kwamis and a way too complicated task where if she messes up, the world as they know it ends.

ALSO. Just my opinion but. The guardian shouldn't have been Mari. Or Adrien. It should've been a third party, completely unrelated, so no power imbalance would be created between CN and LB. I'm sorry but this is such a huge thing about the show, that has been hammered into our heads, that "destruction and creation must be balanced" and they do that ?? (plus it led to the season i hate the most, s4) The show had the opportunity to introduce another character, or make use of an already introduced one (i.e Luka) and make them a guardian ! Or something ??

s3 was fine, I liked Chat Blanc for the most part (Mari's tresspassing, her sniffing Adrien's pillow... ugh.) and thought it was very very heartbreaking to see Adrien like that, my poor boy cannot catch a break. Also Chloé redemption !! She deserved it, with her abusive mother and all, too bad they decided to burn everything by making her a caricature of herself and introducing the most bland replacement for her ! (A half sister whose existence made NO SENSE ? I thought Chloé's mom didn't like kids ? Plus why would she bother taking her other kid to Paris, and risking her reputation with cheating rumors ???)

Now... Now let's talk about s4... So much happened in this god forsaken season and i'm so, so, so tired and shed so many tears of RAGE. Chat Noir became a sidekick, plain and simple. Not even "just" a sidekick the protagonist would respect, like Robin, but a simple fill-in, a "partner like any other" as LB so amicably put it in Kuro Neko. I feel like the writers wanted to write conflict and all but... it's so badly written and only served to make people hate CN.

Chat's trust was abused so many times (Ephemeral, when he and LB were supposed to show the other their identity but what he didn't know was that Viperion was to know too, instead of just... explaining the situation ?), he was kept in the dark many, many times, not only by LadyBug, but also by his Father (interesting parallels) and Fu, all which, somehow, have a position of power over him. He felt replaced, which is entirely valid, because as much as he didn't communicate this, he offered LB his help so many times, and tried to open up, and all these have been either ignored or rejected. (now I'll talk about Mari's side after, but just know that i absolutely do not blame her for being stressed ! I am just critizing her actions which hurt her supposed best friend and partner very deeply) Not to mention Scarabella, whom he never knew the existence of, and could've killed. Chat probably doesn't care much that someone knows her identity, but she never told him, or even considered telling him to find someone to tell, too. I'm sorry but LB has been so strict on these rules but now she doesn't follow them, yet expects Chat to. (also, i'm mad they stripped Chloé of her miraculous because apparently "Hawkmoth knows who she is". Well, Hawkmoth knows who Ryuko is too, as well as Rena, or Viperion. Yet they still have theirs ?)

Chat has no support !! no circle to support him whereas Mari has Alya, even the Kwamis, her parents, and her friends ! Adrien's parents are off the list, Nathalie is way too close to his Father, the Gorille isn't much help, and it's not like he's actually close to anyone if not Nino (their only memorable interaction is in Rocketear in s4). Then, he loses his miraculous and is actually blamed for getting hurt by LB's behavior and reacting harshly (he should yes apologize however) LB has provided NO apologies, instead making Chat feel guilty ?? I remember this episode SO well because I was HOPING for a sweet Ladynoir scene, but NOOOOOOOO. Also this showed how shallow Mari's love for Adrien was -- she's basically in love with his mask, not very different from Kagami "Stop acting like a clown" Tsurugi

I think, however, that showing why Adrigami and Lukanette wouldn't work is a great idea ! Was it greatly handled ? Not really, but it could've been great ! I love Kagami and Luka and I wish for them to be in good hands (mine)

One last thing about Chat, then we'll talk about Mari's side ; I HATE HATE HATE how they ignore his struggles or act as if they do not exist. The creator himself calls Adrien "perfect" and act as if Adrien is totally fine, when the situations the boy is in SHOW how distressing his situation is. Adrien is CANONICALLY shown to : accept death and die, more than once, try to cataclysm himself, eat very little, have weak boundaries and doesn't know how to say 'no', isn't really aware of others' boundaries as well, shut down as soon as his father raises his voice, been hit by his Father (both in normal and Hawkmoth form), still hasn't been able to properly grieve his mother. ALL of this, and none of it has been explored, because the focus is not on him if Mari isn't there. The writers HATE abused kids and I'm not afraid to say it, because s5 spoilers showed how they're (Adrien, Chloé and Kagami) treated and considered by the writers.

Now, onto Mari ! You're heard everything I complained about, now let's hear something else ; I loved seeing her under the pressure and how it affected her, though I find it cruel, it was interesting to see since she learned a lot about herself and other people. Too bad the writers refuse to make characters change, huh. Also, nice that she tries to move on from Adrien ! Still not over the statue thing, but it's refreshing to see her move on, if only for like, three episodes. I wish we could've seen genuinely learn how to treat her partner better, how to not take him for granted. Maybe her resenting Master Fu for putting such a heavy burden on her shoulders ? She's the class president, a full time middle schooler, guardian and super hero, and that's it. She cannot indulge in her hobbies anymore and that sucks, because she deserves to be a kid. The writers obviously want her to be the most important character by pushing every single thing and events on her, even when her presence is not even necessary.

Since Mari is pushed to be the centre of everything, where she shouldn't even be, it means she gets both privilege by the writers, and also pain. It was nice though to have a character I could empathize with and also critisize, though the writers want to make her as lovely as possible.

As for the romance between Mari and Adrien... I stopped wanting them to be together in s4, because truth be told, they're incompatible, and the Universe obviously doesn't like them together either lol. It was so weirdly put in s5, and I stopped watching the show since then, so I don't know much, except for big, big spoilers which make me want to barge in the writers' room and strangle them one by one.

The ship is no longer something I enjoy, for many reasons, and I think they should've ended up with someone else (Adrien realizing he's gay and Marinette kissing Kagami on the lips for example)

Okay and for s5 just know that I hate it.

-> Marinette, of all people, learning who Hawkmoth is and then CHOOSING not to tell Adrien, as well as offering Gabriel to die as a hero, is just horrible. The conscious choice of taking away his agency, ONCE AGAIN, hiding secrets from him, hiding from him the fact that his father, his abuser, is HAWKMOTH is horrible. I wanted the confrontation between him and his father, but NOTHING. Mari got the spotlight and Adrien is nothing more than a bird in a cage I hate the writers.

-> Chloé got disowned by her (incompetent) dad and forced to leave with her Mother. What a way to get rid of the bully ! Giving her to her abusive mother ! Who doesn't know her name, doesn't care about ! As if Chloé didn't cry "why don't you love me, mom ?" ! God.

-> the senti reveal. I hate the senti theory i hate that it's real. They can't fight back, otherwise they can just be erased of existence, and even taking back the amok is useless because what if it breaks ? what if you lost it ? someone steals it ? I hate it so, so, so much, and making abused kids sentihumans is the worst thing ever.

#this is very long #nico asks #not gonna tag it from the source because i don't want them to perceive me but #here are my thoughts #my many many many thoughts

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jeysuso · 10 months

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i haven't seen it yet but all i know for certain is jey uso looked fucking fine as hell and also he's done nothing wrong ever

#jey uso #i'll be watching in like. two hours???? so #here are my thoughts

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annarts05 · 2 years

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Writing Talkative/Outgoing Characters

When I’m happy and in a good mood, I’m really talkative. Like...really talkative. You have no idea how many jokes are cracked at my expense haha.

Of course, every character is different, just like people. But these are some things I wanted to discuss based on my personal experience with being a very outgoing and talkative person.

This is going to be long, but hopefully it gives some of y’all insight into a brain kind of like mine?

We still get tired of talking to people and do need time alone.

It’s just easier for me to talk for *literal hours* (sometimes, this definitely isn’t for everyone) to friends, especially with caffeine or sugar. I find that the longer I talk to a person, the more talkative I get and the less awkward I am.

I have introverted siblings who are drained socially after a couple hours, and that’s fine. There’s nothing wrong with being introverted. It’s not a character flaw. It’s part of who a person is. Extroverted people simply have an easier time with extended social interaction.

I get tired after a day of socializing, okay? I want to be alone in my room and draw or read a good book instead of hanging out with people. That’s fine.

Depending on the person/people, it’s really easy to be talkative. And sometimes...it’s really, really hard to find anything to say.

With my best friend, it’s easy to move past small talk after just a couple minutes of being together. With her, I could have a deep conversation and talk for an hour with her about the same topic. Lots of words, laughter, etc. Very comfortable atmosphere, because we get each other.

She’s a little less rowdy, so it’s a good balance and we can carry a strong conversation.

Now...there are people I’m not as close to, find harder to talk to, or outright dislike. And it can even be hard for me to find small talk when I’m approached by them or I have to speak to them for some reason. Mind just goes blank. So...not very talkative in those cases.

Depression is different for everybody, including talkative and outgoing people.

When I get depressed or feel low, I talk less and do less. Those are very common symptoms for extroverted or more outgoing people, and it’s really noticeable. I get a lot of people asking if I’m okay because I’m not talking, even if I’m not actually feeling down and am just thinking.

Motivation to go and see people? Nah.

Desire to talk to people, even family?

But not everybody experiences those things. Some characters could get really quiet, others could get even louder when they get depressed or stressed. It’s different for everyone.

Rambling, rambling, rambling.

Again, not everyone does this. But I definitely do. I get stuck on a topic, and bam. I’m gone.

Rambling about any little facet of the subject, packing so many unneeded details into the hilarious story that it isn’t even funny anymore? Hey, that book I read last week and love so much but have no one else to talk to? Guess who’s getting all the details...haha...

That’s me.

You mess words up a lot.

Hahaha...this one’s funny in real life situations.

When you say a lot of words, you tend to mess them up. Sentences run into each other, you call that one person by approximately ten names before you get the right one, you end up gasping for breath to finish a sentence.

All things I experience on a regular basis ^^^.

Fun facts, anyone?

Random fun facts for everybody at any time of day! *Throws them at people like confetti*

A desire for knowledge and learning coupled with a desire and need to share facts and feelings means...people get the facts I learn! Usually people won’t particularly care about them, but they’re nice enough to listen.

It’s not all talking.

I sing. I laugh to myself and with others. I hang out in others’ company sometimes in mostly-silence (which I will admit feels weird).

It can be simply sitting there and fidgeting, or maybe reading. I just need to do something...even if it’s not talking. Something needs to fill the space of silence or inactivity.

Silence feels like it needs to be filled.

Silence is hard. People talk about quiet moments with friends, only enjoying each others’ company, and I’m just like...wha?

It sounds so nice...but I don’t know how to do it.

Even with my immediate family, whom I live with, silence feels awkward. And sometimes, all I can think during pauses is “awkward, weird, strange.”

It feels to me like I need to fill it with something, or if I’m uncomfortable, someone else do it for me!

Passion projects.

When you talk a lot or have a lot to say, people don’t always want to listen. Sometimes, you don’t want to talk to people. That’s okay. It gets to be a lot, and that’s totally justified. So you need to get feelings and thoughts out somehow.

That’s where things like journals, writing stories, singing, art, and music come into play. You direct emotions into them.

Emotions are often easier to reveal to people.

I’m actually a little bit of an over-sharer, and it would probably benefit me to keep a couple things in particular to myself.

Feelings are easier to give to people. Open communication. It feels easier for me than I’m sure it does for a lot of people out there.

Personality changes things a lot.

I feel like...extroversion...has become a personality in and of itself to some people? Characters who are loud and talkative...and that’s it. Chances are, they’re the comedic relief.

You can have talkative people who are secretive, cheerful, grumpy, constantly confused, all over the place with their ideas and disorganized, scrupulously organized, nosy, and so on.

Being talkative and outgoing is only one part of a personality.

Introversion isn’t bad. Being quiet isn’t bad. Needing time alone isn’t bad.

I know people who are quiet, more withdrawn, and I know people who are extremely outgoing...

Both sides have positives. Both have negatives.

Quiet people are often easier to talk to. My sister is really quiet, and she’ll listen to me ramble about my latest story idea for an hour before she asks if she can leave. Not joking here. It’s happened multiple times.

I love quiet people. They listen. They’re not all up in your face. They have good ideas, just need a little encouragement to show them. At least in my experience.

So there’s nothing wrong with having an introverted character, or an extroverted character, or a combination. It’s not a character flaw, like I said. It’s part of who people are.

#writing #writing tips #characters #talkative characters #writing characters #writing talkative characters #writing side of tumblr #writing tips and tricks #writing advice #writing reference #writing references #writing chaos #writing ref #here are my thoughts #i hope you like them #because they are how i feel #so yea

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sugar-plump-gal · 2 years

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This isn’t even horny tbh but it’s 4 am and nobody’s awake for me to ramble at so hey here’s some headcanons about Earth C’s founding and creation and stuff

Skipping an entire 5000 years is stupid and a good way to come back to nobody speaking your language anymore so lets just say they only skipped ahead like 50 before settling down, popping in and out to check in and help set things up as needed

Literally just creating civilization is a big ask and they JUST got done creating the universe in the first place so instead of just cloning babies and repopulating themselves they kinda just brought over their various Lands and Prospit/Derse. The carapacians’ different iterations just kinda got squished together, so now there’s a single WQ with several sets of slightly different memories, for example.

Once all of them were out of the Medium, WV and PM basically campaigned to get volunteers to help set up infrastructure and stuff down on Earth C. They set up their own stuff on the poles, the Prospitians living on whichever end had more sunlight, the Dersites on the darker pole, and then just fucking transportalizing and switching the entire cityscape whenever the seasons changed. It’s like daylight savings except you literally move to a different timezone instead of changing the clocks.

Semi-related, you know how the consorts were generally a lot goofier and seemingly not as smart as the carapacians? That’s not because of anything innate, basically everything sentient has the same level of intelligence, but consorts and carapacians start off on different footing when a session is created. Basically all of them just pop into existence the moment the Medium is created, fully formed and complete with backstories even though they’re technically only a few seconds old. It’s like how Athena was already a full adult when she stabbed her way out of Zeus’ head, you know? All of them had basically JUST been born, but the average carapacian started off with more knowledge than the average consort since their purpose in the game was more complex. Consorts just have to have towns and quests to offer, but Prospit has to have an entire mail service and shit.

Anyways all of that’s just to say that after they have some time to get used to existing the salamanders and crocodiles and stuff are pretty much just normal people. Short, adorable people with a tendency to glub or nak in excitement, but still! Either way not many of them were very well versed in architecture or urban planning so that stuff mostly got handled by carapacians. Most of the consorts just enjoyed their de-monstered Lands and the fact they now had like two dozen planets to explore.

But even if you have them, where did the humans and trolls come from by the time the players return after those 50 years? They couldn’t have repopulated the fucking planet THAT fast; Even Jane can only get so pregnant! Not to mention none of them know anything about parenthood and can’t really raise kids if they’re popping in and out of the timeline.

Once again, it’s mostly thanks to the consorts and carapacians! They kinda just got volunteers who were willing to be adoptive parents, paradox cloned a buncha babies for em, and got as many books about taking care of kids as they could find. There were a fair few mistakes on the way, but nobody ate any infants so it was broadly considered a total success!! As for trolls, the first few generations were paradox cloned without using the matriorb and raised by similarly-cloned lusii.

On top of that, however, a bit of god-tier shenanigans and retconning also let them just. Y’know. Bring over everyone who was originally killed by the Reckoning. Sure, it was kinda hard to move tens of billions of people from one universe to another, but meteors are a good motivator! There wasn’t really a time limit either since, y’know, time travel, so it was just a matter of swooping in, teleporting people over, and making sure the resulting chaos didn’t escalate further than widespread confusion and such. Obviously things aren’t CALM but like, what’s anyone going to do? Riot about not getting hit by a meteor? Declare war on the teleporting ice cap aliens? Be athiest at the gods that are literally floating around fixing things? June didn’t bring any of the military bullshit with everything else so they can’t exactly nuke each other about it.

Ultimately, between the massive shakeup of society, the sudden lack of weapons more advanced than spears, suddenly being post scarcity thanks to alchemy, and the immortal deities going around keeping things from escalating too far, the humans were pretty much able to just redo their entire civilization from the ground up. Still wasn’t perfect, but hey, there’s infinite food, world peace, and global democracy! MAJOR step up from how it’d been on the old Earth.

As for the trolls, saving everyone was both easier and harder in some respects. Beforus’ trolls were fine, things were generally chill enough that it wasn’t too hard to move them onto a second, not-Alternia copy of Beforus, but the trolls in the Alternian Empire were uh. A bit trickier to deal with.

And by ‘a bit’ I mean practically impossible. It was an interstellar empire that was one part murder and two parts pro-murder propoganda. Instead of just having a planet of people to save, there were millions of different starships scattered through existence with no way to find them in the brief period between the Reckoning’s beginning and Gl'bgolyb killing everyone at the same time.

So, instead, they kinda just. Let them all die. Then, using Aradia-shenanigans to divert ghosts through infinite alternate timeline Janes to get resurrected, they just brought back to life instead of saving them outright. Sure, not the best course of action to let them all die, but it worked! Better than spending millenia tracking down everyone.

As a bonus, they didn’t stop at trolls who died in the reckoning- Pretty much everyone who still had a ghost floating around was brought back, so now they’ve even got the Sufferer hanging out.

Obviously, dismantling a deeply ingrained caste system wasn’t the sort of task that god tier powers were suited for, but again, suddenly losing access to their armada of ships and drones and such kept any former highbloods from getting ideas, and having the gods include everything from fuschia to mutant red and still be best friends made it hard not to question the caste system shit. Ultimately it took a LOT of effort, but trollkind was able to get to a place where death wasn’t constantly hanging over everyone’s heads! Granted, part of that was because the Empire’s more murderous or cull-happy members were, themselves, murdered by their own former victims, but still! Better than space fishism.

Anyway all of this is to say that everyone ever is fine except for Bro Strider, who is still in hell.

#This is a fuckin wall of text #There's not even any penis #It's not even 4 pm anymore its fucking 6 #But hey #Here are my thoughts #As good an end as I think could be reasonably managed #Originally just started as 'carapacians raised human babies' but #It just kept going

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washingtoncapricorns · 2 years

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I watch the WNBA for the plot.

The plot in question:

#here are my thoughts #myisha Hines-Allen should have punched maga Barbie into next year #Elena Delle-Donne and her wife need to adopt me ASAP #love my mystics #washington mystics

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spyglassrealms · 1 year

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had a fucking hilarious dream that tumblr replaced the "block" function with the far funnier "glock" function, which did the exact same thing except whenever anyone blocked you a random bullet hole, like a png of a bullet hole, would appear on your blog. discourse blogs were unreadable bc you'd go to the page and the sheer amount of bullet hole pngs stacked over the blogs obscured everything. I woke myself up laughing

#normally I don't chronicle my dreams here but fucking hell that one was funny #I think this would genuinely make tumblr better tbh #@ staff do this cowards #spy has thoughts #my life is a sitcom and i am my own laugh track #functional website #spy's smash hits #Glock function #edit for everyone in the notes saying 'everyone clapped'#I know I can't prove to you that it happened for real you're just gonna have to trust me on this #but I swear on my goddamn life I'm not making this up #I make so many conscious puns that sometimes my subconscious cooks up a real good one

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the-gayest-sky-kid · 4 months

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god i love my friends. shout out to people who love their friends. this is a post for friend lovers

#sorry i thought too hard about everything and got weirdly emotional like hgoly shit #i talk to people here every day and we know stuff about each other and shit and we exchange ideas and waaa #we're like all basically penpals but better #im realizing how revolutionary this is. like had we all been born earlier we never would have met #and even if we did we'd have to talk through letters with weeks if not months in between responses #can you imagine that #every day instead i literally wake up and my friends are there #insane #i love having friends

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catskullery · 4 months

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#posted on my uhhhh side art account on twitter and thought i should make it clear here too #since they've been coming out of the woodwork lately #carry on #the terfs are really in their feelings about this one <3 #really down in their hurt little ugly feefees <3 #my they pronoun scares them soooo bad too #awww it's okay little dumb dumb the pronoun can't hurt you here have a binkie

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nyttvera · 3 months

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# well I think it's safe to say it's mutual

PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS EP 1.05

bonus EPISODE 1.08

#percy jackon and the olympians #pjo tv show #pjo spoilers #pjo #percy jackson #percyjacksonedit #annabeth chase #annabethchaseedit #grover underwood #groverunderwoodedit #pjosource #pjoedit #*mine #*my gifs: pjo #i thought this was hilarious ghfjdkh #tuserhidden #tusersilence #here we go now it's complete <3

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elodieunderglass · 7 months

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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?

#this is the sort of observation I make here that people #go off and write their thesis about #so while I’m not expecting to be the first or cleverest person to say this #if you do use it as a springboard #tell me if you get a good grade ok?#I’ll be tremendously proud of you #like if you take a shitpost and use it to craft deep attentive thought on something important #I just think that’s probably the most noble use of a human brain #it makes me want to take off my hat and slam it to the ground in inexpressible emotion #it’s a cowboy hat btw #and I say something like GOLDURN IT THAT KID SURE HAS DELIVERED.#ok so don’t deny me this #especially if you correct me after a long research journey #GOLDURN IT THE KID IS RIGHT!

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