#frightened city

[vibrantboredom]

I'm relistening to I am in Eskew at the same time as the Silt Verses come out and it's so fun seeing ideas introduced in Eskew resurface in TSV, like I just finished ep. 24 and the way the History Society works is so much like our new scary war saint!!! Obsessed

#i love you authors with frightening ideas coming at them from multiple angles #eskew productions you have my whole heart #both shows are obviously very different from each other but i absolutely love the wet gross meatiness of the horror in both #they're also both quite lonely shows imo #different types of lonely- David (saddest wettest little meow meow ever) is alone in a way Carpenter isn't #but Carpenter is so phenomenally lonely in a way that only seems to ho away when she is by herself #Falkner and Riyo are also pretty lonely people but to me it doesn't run as harsh as David and Carpenter #all this to say I adore these strange worlds and their stranger people and the gorgeous prose they're written in #another David/Carpenter parallel- being so deeply loved by a thing that loves wrongly #I'm trying to remember something i heard in a Jacob Geller video about the way houses love their people but they were not designed to love #and so they are haunted instead #anyway that's Eskew and the Trawllerman #also obsessed with the way Faulkner is fratricidally desperate for the Trawllerman to love him as well #and the way Riyo dismisses Eskew out of hand like she simply does not care for the City bc even though David hates Eskew #he cannot help it- he needs to be a part of Eskew he cannot let it go until the end #I'm insane. anyway #i am in eskew #the silt verses #tsv #i don't think there's an acronym for eskew

[inevitablemoment]

Top 3 Most Underrated Michael J. Fox Performances

3. Max Eriksson, Casualties of War

I just want to know how did he not win an Oscar for this performance? I mean, he demonstrated that he was more than the smart-aleck short know-it-all in this film. The desperation, the pain, the empathy that he felt for Oanh.

Part of what appeals to me about this performance is how Eriksson enlisted in the Army because he truly thought that the Vietnam War would do good, much like how a lot of soldiers enlisted in Iraq because they were told that it was the right thing to do. He went in, thinking that he would be helping people, and came out having witnessed the horrible truth of it. And Michael was able to portray that so beautifully. It wasn't that he gave the character depth; he was able to show the depth of the character, and not tell. Just look at the GIF above!

I reiterate-- he deserved an Oscar for this film.

2. Frank Bannister, The Frighteners

This movie... oh, God this movie...

I may be a little biased because of how fucking feral this movie makes me for him (and Trini Alvarado), but... God, he's brilliant in this.

Even when Frank was in asshole-mode, you liked him. You kinda wanted him to succeed in conning the whole town. That is some Robert Preston-level shit. Yet, when you see how much of an asshole he can be, rather than hating him, you want him to rise above it and fix his issues.

Michael's chemistry with Trini is just unbelievable. From the minute they first share a scene, you can feel that spark. You root for them as a couple, and as individuals.

And the interrogation room scene and the holding cell scene... in my opinion, they're probably some of his best work. You can feel everything that Frank is feeling right in your gut, and you can sense him as he is forced to confront his grief and his guilt.

Just... I have a lot of thoughts that I have trouble putting down now.

1. Jamie Conway, Bright Lights Big City

I curse every critic that gave a negative review to this movie and said that Michael was miscast. In my opinion, he was absolutely perfect.

I think the fact that he had such a wholesome reputation helped with the point of the story, of how anyone can get lost in addiction and various vices. It's especially poignant, considering his real-life struggles with alcoholism.

I will admit, this may have beat out Frighteners for number one because this movie was the final push for him and Tracy to get together. Even though their scenes were so few, they had so much chemistry that you were left wanting more of Jamie and Vicky.

My personal favorite was the phone call scene near the end; just his portrayal of grief and pain after a year of trying to suppress it with addiction makes your heart go out to him, and his realization that he needs help really rocks you to your core.

#Michael J. Fox #Casualties of War #The Frighteners #Bright Lights Big City #Max Eriksson #Frank Bannister #Jamie Conway #Meta

[literary-lesbian]

happy transfer window everyone 😭🥳

#woso #arsenal wfc #if kyra goes anywhere near spurs i'll cry #wsl #woso community #scared frightened terrified and afraid #also ellie please leave city. please.

[pathetichimbos]

It's quite funny seeing the difference of having car problems in my current place vs my hometown

One big difference being that I can't call my dad to come help me 💀

But others are when I was sitting in the Walmart parking lot with my little brother (in my hometown), we had someone stop and ask if we needed help and when we said no he moved right on and my dad came and towed us back to his house with his truck.

Here, I can be elbow deep in engine grease, either struggling or not, and everyone (mostly men) will simply stare at me, like it's incomprehensible. Maybe it's because I'm fem-presenting, maybe it's because they always take their cars to the shop. I don't know. I've had a man come onto his balconey with his friends and watch me. Still not sure if that was their entire reason for being outside or if it was a coincidence.

I have had a few times where men will come up and ask if I need help, stare for a minute or two, and then leave, but I've had on more than one occasional, men come up and simply try to do the work for me, which is very frustrating because while I may not be an expert, I don't appreciate someone simply walking up to my car and start doing things of their own volition. Like, at least ask first. I'll let you know if I could use an extra set of hands.

I don't know. Just something I noticed.

#i see a lot of differences now that im living in the city #people act a lot different #and they dont know how to do a lot of things people consider normal in my town #for example #i never really understood why horror movies surrounding being lost in the woods was frightening #until i moved out here #and i realized most of these people probably wouldnt survive #but #it is what it is

[mwolf0epsilon]

Three things happen on the day Kix finally gets the clearance he needs to scan Tup:

Tup has a terrible migraine that sparks some kind of "episode" (disorientation, bouts of memory loss, mood swings, the same stuff he would have experienced on Ringo Vida) that ends with him under heavy supervision.

There's a full moon, so the Were-eel is out and about and in need of being kept away from Tup so it doesn't interfere with the medics currently working on figuring out what's happened to the poor kid.

Everyone is so busy either watching Tup, keeping the natborn officers and Jedi away from the barracks, or overall trying to help find answers to Tup's peculiar condition, that no one remembers to lock the barracks doors.

The Were-eel knows how to open unlocked doors, and it is very curious as to what's outside the space it's become acquainted with...

#star wars #the clone wars #eel side of the moon au #were eel fives #arc trooper fives #clone trooper tup #the good news is Kix finds the activated chip and manages to save Tup's life! #the bad news is the Were-eel is loose on Coruscant and the city planet is a lot to take in #it's pretty frightening for a creature that is more comfortable in hidden quiet corners

[radio-sepia]

god's bravest bravest boy managed to go out to the town alone and run his errands 🫡🫡

#why is this shit so scary #also i visited the pasmanteria and the seamstress doesn't allow consultations at all :-((( #does that mean i'll have to figure out how to fix my pants by myself.... #i need to move to a bigger city where i can go on a proper course i swear to god i cannot take it anymore... #txt #everything seems scary and alone when i live on my own but. we're doing better than before. this is better for us and we'll manage!! #even if it's frightening!!

[leo-and-me]

hi everyone! i recently wrote up a thesis(?) with research regarding leo & me, as well as links to clips, resources, and other relevant information on the topic .

featuring a gif (made by me) of BRENT CARVER (IN A WIG!!!!) AND MICHAEL J FOX IN LEO AND ME. THIS IS WHAT YOU GUYS ARE MISSING OUT ON.

#70s #canadian broadcasting corporation #cbc #leo and me #lost media #michael j fox #brent carver #jamie romano #leo & me #lost shows #bttf #back to the future #spin city #bright lights big city #doc hollywood #the frighteners #family ties #somebody sign the petition #please #i’m being so serious #please make a change #make it stop #help us #1970s history #vancouver history #canadian history #merv campone

[nomorefstogive]

Nightingale and Cinnabar Deserve A Vacation

Hello my fellow Chiefs of Minos, I am posting this to remind you all that there are exactly two individuals who qualify as having even a modicum of sanity within the walls of Minos and we are not one of them.

So please remember to show your support to the pair of individuals responsible for keeping Minos from descending into the pits of utmost primordial chaos and dragging all of Dis down with it in an orgy of madness and chaos. 

Because, let us all be honest with ourselves for a moment here, without Nightingale being the hyper competent and dutiful Adjutant she is, and Cinnabar being the security expert and loyal guard she is, Minos would have become something straight out of an asylum workers worst nightmares. 

So let us all agree these two deserve a chance to take a vacation and relax and not have to worry about coming back home to find Minos either in ruins or having declared succession from dis and began a campaign of world conquest while the chief sits and vibes with some of the other sinners. 

With that said, let us offer our gratitude towards these two brave souls who shoulder the weight of being the dams that hold back the flood of madness that is the antics of Minos and offer them a toast to their health and sanity.

Because if they ever lose either then all of Dis is going to descend headfirst into the hell it claims to have risen above. 

Is this a crack post? Maybe.

Or perhaps a glimpse into a future idea for here or ao3...only time will tell.

Till next time.

#ptn #ptn nightingale #ptn cinnabar #path to nowhere #path to nowhere cinnabar #path to nowhere nightingale #These two are the only somewhat sane people in the whole damn prison and that is both hilarious and frightening lol #And they have to keep the madness that is locked away in the prison from enveloping the city #Cinnabar and Nightingale are the MVPs of Minos and Dis #The chief is every bit as chaotic and wild as the sinners and I stand on that hill with pride #Nightingale loves the chief but she also wants to smother them in their sleep or throttle them half the time lol #Cinnabar is wondering how the hell the prison is still standing #Cinnabar and Nightingale are drinking buddies #They are the parents of the merry band of maniacs that call Minos home

[oflgtfol]

i love new york so much. separated by hundreds and hundreds of miles, no matter where i go, i can always be guaranteed to see a random "I ❤️ NY" decal on the side of a major highway

#brot posts #made the trek back to the island today after spending most of the week upstate with my grandparents #several hundred miles between their house and mine and i saw no fewer than 3 'I ❤️ NY' decals #and i know of a few on long island itself as well #and you know what? they're right. i do love new york #i feel zero patriotism for the United States as the nation i live in but by god am i such a rabid New Yorker #especially long islander #the pure relief i felt . several hours into my trip back home. going through the outskirts of nyc #and about merge onto the long island expressway. seeing the road sign with the giant arrow labeled 'LONG ISLAND' was so like #so utterly relieving i was just like :DDD LONG ISLAND !!! MY HOMMEEEE #i hate this place but also i love it . i cant ever leave. i most likely will have to bc its so fucking expensive but like #i will forever mourn leaving and a part of me will always belong here #i enjoyed the trip upstate and it definitely endeared me even more to ny state as a whole; but like #the pure relief of going to scattered suburbs around tiny 'cities' #suburbs that looked almost like those from home.. except for the fact they puttered out to pure rural communities within like 5 miles #going from THAT to the nyc area... having a /real/ city in the distance.. and having the surrounding suburbs stretch #for as wide as you could see... horizon to horizon.... and knowing the entire island is just one giant suburb #like yknow its annoying and kinda terrible that this place is so homogenous #but also . its relieving. like its my home. i live here. its what im used to #having a normal suburb that disappears to a void with population 5 within a 3 minute drive is so frightening. where is everyone.... #and how do you call this thing a 'city' if there's only like five buildings with more than seven stories.......... #sorry . im so nyc metro area pilled. i cant consider anything a city unless its steel skyscrapers with 100+ stories and busy traffic #and thousands of pedestrians rushing about at any given time #and how do you call this thing a suburb if there's only ten houses on a single street. why are your yards so big. where are the fences

[infantisimo]

"Thus, the new hostile designs would not cause surprise among those they are targeting, nor, definitely, anger among the educated. The latter never question why some people need to take shelter in the open; we just accept the situation as normal and natural, that the poor deserve no better, and that public facilities are ours alone. When the society is itself hostile to the weakest, hostile architecture seems – not monstrous – but the perfect solution.

India is not likely to see such protests, nor even such a great psychological impact. Because we hardly have any concept of really public spaces anyway, and never had. There were no public spaces, open to all, till the Europeans arrived. The nationalists like to blame European rule for all India’s problems, but it was under their rule that the growing cities were provided the first designed public open spaces, and also the consciousness that these are important for public health. But the Indian governments that have followed have been uncomfortable with such things. Because caste society doesn’t believe in equal access to anything. Hierarchy is the norm here, and public spaces don’t go well with hierarchy. Thus, even pavements (which are used by all, but more by the poor) are seen as a waste here. And Bombay, India’s richest city, which ranks very low in per capita public open space among the world’s cities, and whose streets are full of people sleeping rough in the dead of the night, figures in lists of the world’s most hostile architecture.

The public that is considered worthy of having public facilities here is just the so-called ‘middle class’, which cannot afford the private recreation spaces of the super-elites, but is not much less elite itself, belonging as it does to the top 10-15% of the population in wealth and privilege. That’s why bus stops will have pipes as seating, but not airports – the ‘public’ in the two kinds of public transport is different. That’s also why public open spaces in Indian cities are so few, with none at all in villages – they are aimed at just this 10-15%. And it is this urban educated ‘middle class’ which demands that public spaces charge for entry, and unashamedly asserts that only this will keep unwanted/dirty/rowdy people out."

#amita kanekar #goa #hostile architecture #have some really angry feelings about what they've done to a lot of places in dilli #can give you example of azeem bagh (called sundar nursery by the city posh scum) and i worry for many other places #honestly the speed with which they do this is frightening

[necro-hamster]

living in california is scary because that's where night city is. what if i see johnny silverware ...

#kris.txt #if night city was real it would only be a few hours away from me. #frightening.

[the-busy-ghost]

Edinburgh is a great place to set a crime/murder mystery, however I can only suspend my disbelief so far and frankly I cannot accept that a mysterious car parked on a double yellow in the middle of the old town for more than five minutes would go unnoticed by the traffic wardens, no matter how late it was

#Edinburgh #Not naming names; just because I didn't vibe with the particular series doesn't mean it wasn't good #But Edinburgh traffic wardens have a sixth sense #They are not like the traffic wardens you may know from other cities they appear out of thin air often in twos or threes #On Sundays; late at night; no matter the time they'll be there; they're more visible than the police #I personally can't complain I don't much like cars and illegal parking baffles me but even as a pedestrian they frighten me a bit #I don't read a lot of Scottish crime because it bores me and I understand that the story needed a mysterious car #But a parking violation like that and the detective hero wouldn't have to do his job; the traffic wardens would solve the case for him #I already wasn't really that into the tv series but at that point I had to stop as it was just too unrealistic #Auld Reekie

[littlegalerion]

Everyone loving the thiramin post-

You ever heard of lythari?

My initial intention back in 2021 was, when I got BG3, to roll a lythari hidden as a moon elf or drow, who would fall in love with Halsin as her thiramin, and him vice versa.

Lythari are true lycanthropes, blessed by Selune. They transform into true wolves, and their nature is bestowed only on willing elves through a mysterious ritual that leaves the elf with bite marks. A lythari can only reproduce with another lythari. Furthermore, lythari are very rare, and very shy.

How interesting to roll a lythari kidnapped and infected, forced to walk among more civilized paths, probably terrified, only to find her thiramin.

Plus, to find the perfect place to settle down- Thaniel's domain- and form a pack which would teach the other inhabitants how to flourish in nature?

#happily ever after #to rp a lythari i would: #silver skin and white streaked hair #lyathri are described as being more beautiful than even moon elves so keep that in mind during creation #roll a druid #only shapeshift into a wolf #no other aninals allowed for the rp #when enetering large cities or towns you have to become a wolf #and allow a companion or lover to speak for you #cities and towns frighten you too much #useless forced to speak of course #but yeah i might still do that but who knows #halsin #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #dnd lythari #im going based off old lore

[banghwa]

i’m rly happy i get to work with gaytrans kids n teens and 99% of the time it’s nothing but a beautiful and affirming experience but on the other hand . that 1% of fear is rly rough …..

#we’re taking the teens to pride and this is the first time as far as i know #tht we’ve had to have a special meeting among staff to go over a proper emergency plan in case the event becomes unsafe #and i’m getting emails from really supportive parents who want their kid to go but they’re just scared for them #bcs some of these kids have been harassed/hate crimes before and it’s just so so so sad and scary #i work in a pretty well-off part of a pretty liberal city so it’s like. #i know things are worse elsewhere but it doesn’t stop this from being scary #i don’t want this to have to be frightening for them.… #i don’t wanna have to feel frightened to just. go about either. #dl

[thatgeekwiththeclipons]

Happy 62nd Birthday to 5x Emmy Winning, 4x Golden Globe Winning, 2x SAG Award Winning, Grammy Winning actor Michael J. Fox! ^__^

#geek #film #blog #happy birthday #actor #tv #michael j fox #emmy winner #family ties #spin city #rescue me #back to the future #marty mcfly #teen wolf #the frighteners #stuart little #atlantis the lost empire #casualties of war #1980s tv #1980s film #pop culture icon #geek with clip ons #i review stuff #irs #doc hollywood #curb your enthusiasm #mars attacks #homeward bound

[clericfication]

currently on a work trip and finally had the time to go to a few of the goth and metal stores in the area i’m visiting and. boy. let me tell you. i am not immune to getting called “sweetheart” by goth ladies and “darling” by metalheads in casual, respectfully flirty conversations

#may have almost sweat myself to death trekking around the city in my all black clothing in 90+ degrees on top of autonomic dysfunction but. #worth it lol #@ the basic dudes in my job industry at this conference who attempted to flirt with me and got absolutely nowhere: git gud i guess #y’know that one post where op likens themselves to a frightened horse #because they were approached by a beautiful person and it made them nervous? #that was me a few times this afternoon #bc i’m very not used to being flirted with in situations where there is some kind of mutual interest #anyways. slowly proving my hypothesis of i have to leave my state of residence to be considered attractive by the people around me #catch me coming back home feeling like hot shit only to have what small ego i’ve gained crash and burn #personal