#I know it was an analogy but still

[wolfssixshadows]

Flashback to that time Inej basically called Kaz hot.

#I know it was an analogy but still #I'm cackling #save shadow and bone #renew shadow and bone #six of crows #Six of crows reread #wolf reads six of crows #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #kaz x inej #nina zenik

[kind-of-human1]

I may be late to this, but I feel like it says a lot about how analog horror is covered at least on Youtube when Angel Hare, which is one of the most hopeful and wholesome analog "horror" series' I've seen, has videos talking about it that look like this:

Like, yeah it has dark elements, but it's not this horrifying dark show that corrupts children. Jonah wasn't manipulated into becoming a serial killer by Gabby, that's a fandom AU not what actually happens.

I may just be overreacting over something minor, but it annoys me that a genuinely fresh and kind take on the "dark children's show" trope where a guardian angel protects a child from their abusive father and comforts them through a TV show is treated almost exactly the same as Generic Spooky Face Jumpscare Tapes #57. It's all about the dark elements that accompany the story, and not the story itself.

Angel Hare actually tells a coherent and complete story about children's entertainment and escapism, which just so happens to have dark elements to it while still being a comforting series. At least acknowledge the story being told, not just the disturbing elements of it for the love of Angel Gabby.

#angel hare #analog horror #I know most people are aware of this #but it still bugs me #monument mythos #also kind of falls into this #since that series is inherently political #yet all of that is ignored to pay attention to the eldritch horrors #without considering what those horrors represent

[beepmeowiskarkat]

kisses

#sanders sides #thomas sanders #virgil sanders #logan sanders #digital art #analogical #mlp au #im obsessed with them actually #sorry for the heated post last night btw i was pissed and loopy. i still stand by it wholeheartedly but damn i swore a lot lol #very happy to see how many ppl reblogged and some of the tags were so fucking real #it makes me so happy knowing at least a portion of the fandom is as pissed at zionists as i am #i made it because it was like 3 am and spiralling because some dumbass Israeli sanders sides blog followed my art blog?? #anyways yeah my blog is not safe for “fanders” who support genocide #also if you dont draw them kissing like weird little kittens do you even ship analogical?? /j

[loganslowdown4]

Virgil: *searching for something*

Roman: What are you looking for?

Virgil: My will to live.

Logan: *walks in*

Virgil: There he is!

#logan: you know my name is Logan not will #Virgil: and you still only take what I say literally #you’re lucky I love you #Logan: oh I know I am #thomas sanders #sanders sides #roman sanders #logan sanders #ts roman #incorrect sanders sides #ts logan #virgil sanders #analogical #ts analogical

[turochamp]

my au where theyre open season because i thought about it and liked it

#dungeon meshi #open season #kabru #laios touden #side note: did you know elliot is probs a whitetail deer and the rest of the deer in open season are most likely mule deer #here ive made laios a mule deer and kabru is obvi a blackbear like kermode bear maybe. he doesnt have the same boog backstory #but they would both have analogous backstories like laios gets kicked out for being a lyra heartstrings humanfanboy or something #oh also shaw is the winged lion and he still hits laios-deer with a truck even tho hes a bigass muledeer bc he has a bigger truck #in this i do think kabru is much more reluctant than boog to return but laios is way enthused for it #like the elliot drinking coffee scene with more weight or smth idk imagine shaw is a beautiful but evil 'big game hunter'=poacher #shaw as the winged lion i mean you have to imagine the cartoonish villain style im thinking like the villain from the missing lynx #doodles #ENJOY ALL #labru #boog as marcille would also work but i adamantly believe in open season as a gay romcom so i will not be making her kiss laios #i just dont think thats true

[segretecose]

the english word pistachio is so funny they were like yeah we’ll borrow the entire word from italian but we draw the line at it having two Cs

#i know i know. consonant geminates etc etc #still funny #also if you’re going to pronounce it like that you could’ve just kept ‘pistace’ 😭 #analogy etc etc i know #languages are so funny man. ppl who think etymology is boring really don’t know what they’re talking about

[emeraldhazeart]

Listen.

That WIP isn't dead.

We've just put it out to pasture.

Yeah, we could tell it just wasn't feeling it's usual self this season, so we've decided to give it a rest to take the pressure off.

When will it be back? We don't know. Rest and recuperation takes time. It'll tell us when it's ready to return.

And hey, if it ends up having to retire, that's fine too. We've had a good run with this WIP. Would be a shame to work it into the ground if it's really not a doer. Not all WIPs are born to be winners, after all.

And there's always the possibility of producing a new WIP from it. Who knows, its offspring could just go on to be the next big thing.

#Writeblr #WIP #WIP as a horse analogy #I think I'm funny #Horse metaphor WIP #Work In Progress #Storyblr #Fanfiction #Writing #Stories are like horses #Sometimes you've got a field full of fluffy little oneshots that serve no other purpose than to be cute and cuddly #And sometimes you have your big chunky multichapter fics that do all the heavy lifting #Sometimes your multichapters are still growing and you don't yet know if they'll grow up to be big strong stories #Or low level eventers better suited for the home circuit #And that's fine too

[zenosanalytic]

Nations Symbols Theft

For reasons too nerdy to contemplate or explain(the Leagues of Votann, super-heavy warmachines, and the Imperium of Man), I found myself thinking about narratives where non-human fantasy-persons create some wondrously enchanted artifact only for some human/god(and sometimes Wizard) to steal it, and of course that led me to the awful way Rowling resolved the Griphook & the Sword of Gryffindor situation, and THAT led me to realizing something about the "magical races" in the Harry Potter books which makes said series even worse(tho: I havent read the books in ages so maybe Im misremembering).

What are Griphook's three main complaints to Harry?

Goblins, and ALL ~magical races~ for that matter, don't get a vote in the Wizengamot even tho they're subject to wizard-law

Wizards have no respect for Goblin ownership claims, and as a result are constantly stealing their shit

Goblins, and ALL ~magical races~ for that matter, are LEGALLY BARRED from owning, operating, being taught HOW to operate, or KNOWING how to operate, Wands, which drastically improve one's access to and use of magic(and thus are also symbols of membership in ~The Wizarding World~ which Goblins etc etc MUST live in or be summarily executed or imprisoned by Wizards)

As always, from the moment I first read the Griphook storyline and how Rowling "resolved" it to every time I've ever thought of it since, I was struck by how much this all Sucked Horrendously, but then it ALSO struck me that this is a BRITISH Book. That Rowling was and is Proudly British.

And then I thought, well, the Wizards in Harry Potter aren't even analogies for Brits they're just literally(according to English/British-chauvinists: the Irish, obvsl, disagree Quite Strongly on this issue) British, so who, in the real world, might the ~magical races~ -- always "complaining" about how the Wizards(British) stole their land, and stole their cultural artifacts, and won't give either back; enslaved them, forced them into certain jobs and certain places and certain ways of life no matter what THEY Themselves wanted or are qualified to do; are always being grossly, insultingly, self-satisfiedly, ignorantly condescending to them; hold them subject to Wizard(British) law but give them no say in how those laws are made, force them INTO Wizard(British) society but never ACCEPT them as fellow Wizards(British) -- analogize?

The Goblins in Harry Potter, and ALL the ~magical races~ for that matter, are the Colonized. Rowling wrote them as the Colonized, and Rowling Wrote Them siding with the Fucking Nazis.

#JK Rowling #Potterverse #Potterverse Themes #Potterverse Symbolism #Analogy #Magical Peoples #Racism #Fantasy Racism #Politics #zA Analysis #zA Rants #Our Staff #zA Writes #I guess I should forgive myself for not realizing this when I was younger but I still feel like a fucking tool for not GETTING It #when Harry didn't do the OBVIOUS and TROPHICALLY HEROIC THING when confronted by Griphook #and give him the sword + a speech about how Wizards had Done Goblins Wrong in the Past but the Future doesn't Need to Be That Way #he wouldnt even really be GIVING him the sword since he knows it's enchanted to return to any Gryff member who asks for it #but of course Rowling writes him as forgetting this thing that's been repeatedly plot relevant AND repeatedly told to him by Everyone #minitagrants

[pirateknight]

okay my college classics teacher was right btvs is kinda good

#he was lowkey tumblr level fixated on that show every lesson when he needed to give an analogy he'd be like 'you know that bit in buffy-' #and i had to be like no sir i still havent seen buffy. and then he'd make us watch the musical episode #anyway i'm only on season 2 but i kinda get it now. shoutout to you Mr G o7 #chatter #does it have a few problematic plots yeah but its not as bad as i was expecting and tbh if it was it's worth it for giles

[chaoticfandomgirly]

Going from wattpad to ao3 is such an experience. At first you kinda hate the interface. But then you find that the fics are wayy better. Then you start exploring; learn to read tags after clicking on numerous traumatizing stuff, learn to use filters and discover just how much you have at your disposal. After getting addicted to ao3, you feel physically ill even opening wattpad.

It's like going from eating cup noodles, to eating spaghetti in an Italian restaurant.

#ao3 #wattpad #fanfiction #i know my analogy is weird #but the point still stands!

[petr1kov]

zootopia would have never truly been able to work like it was meant to because using the prey vs predator dynamic as an allegory for racial prejudice is fundamentally flawed at an unfixable level, BUT if they had decided to go through with the shock collar concept all the way instead of turning it into a cop bootlicking party it would've at least been cool and interesting for a disney movie

#as far as i know it would focus more on nick having this underground amusement park where predators could get rid of their collars #and from what we know of the early drafts it's very unlikely that the end to his arc would've been to become a cop lmao #also like. at the very least this version would have had a very clear distinction of who the oppressed and the oppressors were #instead of both sides-ing it into a confusing mess like the final movie did #definitely not a perfect analogy but still way less muddled at least

[commsroom]

doug eiffel is a radio guy in every sense. eiffel still listens to music on the radio and he complains about what they play, but no matter how many times people tell him he can just listen to his own music instead, he wants to listen to the radio and complain about it, so he won’t stop. eiffel thinks it’s sacrilege when classic rock stations play anything more recent than the 80s.

#wolf 359 #w359 #doug eiffel #i know this is true i feel it in my heart #he's an analog man #and he loves a good radio show. or a bad radio show. whatever #i feel like people underestimate how nostalgia brained eiffel is tbh #he likes some newer stuff but it's mostly very mainstream #he's a pop culture guy but a pop culture guy of another era and his attachment to the technology associated with that era of pop culture #is unshakable #he likes stuff he can take apart and fix by himself with whatever's lying around. he made his own walkie talkies. etc #type of guy who still has his blockbuster card in his wallet #type of guy who watches movies on tv even though he has them on dvd #and he worked in surveillance there's noo way he trusts streamlined modern technology with 'smart' features or the equivalent #i was watching a video the other day about local radio/tv repair places that went out of business because nothing is built #to be repaired anymore and products are designed so they can only be repaired/replaced by the companies that made them #and i think eiffel would have a lot to say about that. and he would be right.

[skittikyu]

after receiving some feedback from those whose opinions i value and trust, i've made some changes to carnival!stiltikyu's design, namely the colour of her monitors for better visual clarity!

#skittikyu speaks #this isn't to say people i don't know well can't give me feedback - just that the ones who did this time i can verify did so in good faith! #thank you guys again you know who you are <3 /p #i'll miss the LED screens but these new ones remind me of an old analog CD/clock screen or a tamagotchi which still works! #i was afraid changing the screen would affect the 80s/90s arcade aesthetic but if anything this enhances it

[the-acid-pear]

The thing about the painter analog that people don't get and makes them hate it is that at heart this isn't a serious horror story. This is pure gore not only for the sake of gore but for the sake of camp. Once I was talking of to my dad laughing at the guy who had his face sanded off and he was like yeah not new they did that in Jason already 🙄 which was later reinforced by UrbanSpook admitting this is inspired by those old 80s slasher which should tell you everything.

I'm saying this bc i saw a video pairing it with Playground and the incest game and while I don't know the second I watched a video on playground once and the difference is that that book is trying to tell a story and say something on top of the gore but the later makes it hard to care. Which is kind of the issue another "gone too far" piece of media my beloved A Serbian Film runs into where you cannot take yourself too seriously if you also want to show over the top violence or you'll lose the audience.

OF COURSE there are exceptions like Hostel, Saw and 😏 the human centipede ☺️ (cocksucker for that movie and it's more serious points, though it barely counts bc the gore is very tame save for in 2) and I couldn't exactly tell you what's the difference between what makes them work and what doesn't but still.

But I'm getting off topic I'm not here to say which media is good or not I'm here to point out the painter is not a serious story that asks you to care for the characters it's a over the top schlocky gore that asks you to go GROOOOSS or laugh at the over the top brutality it presents. Which is very standard in horror.

#luly talks #urbanspook #the painter analog horror #also yes actually I'll mention THC again bc that movie is deemed to go ''too far'' which is joked about often in its sequels #in 3 after the inmates at the prison watch the movie they echo the opinions of the public (calling the director sick saying he'd be jailed #etc except for my best friend who GETS IT and is laughing ILY BESTIE) and 2 is a direct response to the reaction of 1 #while 1 is an extremely fucking tame horror movie BY ALL FUCKING MEANS (1 surgery scene and its so clean. after that just a tad bit of blood #and some minor infection) they made a movie that ACTUALLY went too far #and i ironically enough hate it despite appreciating this bc it just isn't fun for me. because it's trying a bit too hard. #but in case you don't know. one of the links of the centipede is a pregnant woman. she escapes and gives birth in the car. baby falls on the #brakes. she steps on its head. #pointing it out since children seem to be the point ppl go THIS IS TOO FAR #i personally found the baby squishing the highlight of the movie. second to that is. the barbed wire rape #which i didn't like because i don't enjoy seeing women be raped in my movies but its like #so funny man. literally bro put barbed wire on his cock. like that's just iconic #what shit like this and the painter are trying to achieve is simple shock. and that's FUN. #if you dont find it fun that's literally okay it simply isn't your piece of cake but that doesn't mean its bad or it shouldn't exist. #like i still see ppl insult it like GROW UP... THIS KIND OF HORROR HAS EXISTED FOREVER STOP BEING SUCH A BABY MAN

[jtl07]

What are your thoughts on the OCS?

Sometimes it seems like a manipulative cult that recruits vulnerable girls. But, it's also this found family for many of them. Is it good or evil? Is it both?

oh buddy. i ... actually have been having thoughts about this for the past few days (what is it with y'all being on my brainwave? must be something in the universe idk) as in, i've been contemplating the parallels between the OCS and the military.

so for context, i'm coming at this as a person who was in the military, who is a female poc from a middle class immigrant asian family. i give this context because i see a lot of the military in the OCS (i've mentioned it in some of my write ups and a big part of why i ended up writing the top gun 2 au) - mostly because the OCS is presented as an organization with a methodology that is built on violence.

i tried my best to be coherent but there's likely some meandering - feel free to ask further questions or clarification.

tl;dr - imo, it's all of the above.

i'm going to start with my experience in the military before i talk about the OCS because there's something in me that's chafing at the word "vulnerable." it's not that i think it's the wrong word per se, but that there's context that's needed.

for me, i had several family members who were in the military: my dad for one, several uncles, and a handful of my older cousins. this means i grew up learning that the military was a) one of the most honorable, respectable, and coolest professions you could join, b) the only profession where you were judged solely on your performance (i.e. racism wasn't overt), c) great financially because the pay was transparent and the benefits (back in the day) were fantastic if you stayed til retirement.

i don't believe any of that anymore, but that's what i'd learned. this is what my family believed (still does, actually). this is what many other poc believed too. compared with the opaque, racist corporate world - and having the responsibility of taking care of one's parents, who'd immigrated from their home country to give you "a better life" - having something stable and honorable like the military seemed like the best choice. why would i choose something else? how could i even see anything else? the military was the only choice i knew.

i left the military over a decade ago, but there's still a part of me that thinks "i'll never top my time in the military; i'll never have an experience quite like that." and the larger part of me can acknowledge now that yes, that's true. because when you're in an organization like the military (and comparatively, like the OCS) it's exhilarating in a way, knowing that you're part of something that's larger than yourself, knowing that you were deemed worthy - that you proved that you were worthy - of being part of this elite, special organization that has this grand, noble, world-saving mission. and yes, you feel a bond with the folks you serve with - bound by a vow to serve and protect, bound by experiences only they will understand.

there's nothing quite like that.

and i never want to experience that again.

because yes, it's exhilarating and exciting, and it's addicting in a way - to do all these cool things that folks make movies about, to know you're doing your part in keeping the people you love safe, to build relationships where no matter what, they've got your back.

but it's blinding. it blinds you to the violence, the harm that you're inflicting in the name of the mission - on both others and your own self. it blinds you to other ways of living. it blinds you to other ways of being safe - on both a personal and national level. this kind of experience trains you constantly: "this is the only way; this is the only choice."

and you can probably see why Beatrice's backstory resonated with me. of course she chose the church, the OCS - this was the only choice she had, the only choice she could possibly make to prove herself, to make herself worthy. in the OCS, she found a community of folks who, like her, were committed to a mission and ready to give their lives because, like her, that was probably the only choice they thought they had. it was the best choice they had.

maybe that's why i chafe at the use of "vulnerable" - because at the time, choosing the military felt like my shot at redemption, at salvation. it wasn't a moment of weakness, but of strength.

at least, that's what i had been trained to believe. and there is, apparently, still a part of me that believes it. even though there's the larger part of me that can see now the ecosystem that forced my hand.

it's also why i love Ava as a protagonist - how she was determined to find another way, how desperate she was to live. because organizations that are built on violence, organizations like the military, like the OCS, it takes folks who believe they need to prove themselves and takes advantage of that need, forces them to carry more than any person ever should, then calls them noble, calls them honorable, calls them worthy - all the while training them, ultimately, to die.

does good sometimes result from that, grow out of that? yeah. but the cost is very, very high.

#idk anon this got really rambly #i just can't not see the military when i think of the ocs #and when i think of the military it still tugs at me #there was this one quora post a while back that explained how marine bootcamp is basically psychological retraining #bc like no one's first response is to run towards gunfire #and it takes a certain belief in one's self to sign up for that kind of thing #but it's a belief that is taught through culture and through the system #a belief that you get caught up in like a web and you don't even know it when you're in it #... why did i choose this analogy i hate spiders wtf self #anyway #anon i hope this is what you were looking for #but if not feel free to ask further questions #other folks can ask too it's cool #jt answers #jt rambles #warrior nun

[lapinparka]

I really want to make the joshua + shiki parallels post that's been sitting in my head for ages. But this involves collecting screenshots and putting things together and probably accidentally leaving out a bunch of the stuff I wanted to say.

#twewy #no one else has made it yet though so i need to. even if no one sees it #hey. did you know that uhhh. you have exactly what you always wanted... but it's still not enough is it #and that blue and green are analogous colours