#horror is a great genre

[hezekiahwakely]

OH NO MALEVOLENT IS SCARY AGAIN

#dont get me wrong s4 was great #but im glad we're in this specific genre of survival horror again #leaning more into fantasy #malevolent

[blinkpen]

it's taken me so long to consider making a dent in my "To Watch" list of anime specifically that i don't remember a SINGLE detail about 80% of the things on the list; not what prompted their inclusion to begin with, or even their logo or what it looks like, but rather than re-evaluate them i'll just leave the titles on the list and go in on them totally blind, when i do. which will be soon! i think!

i'll be pretty absent for june; my birthday is the 5th, and i've been planning for awhile now to go on a casual trip for a couple weeks as a treat to myself both bc i Need to make up for over a decade of self-neglect at this point. i don't want to fly in a plane, so i'll be riding a train, which means basically two days of travel to my destination while on said train, so i will binge some shows and movies bc like. not much else to do, huh!

i could be writing instead but i will ignore the shoulder entity that will be bringing that up constantly

#if you have recommendations for shows or movies feel free to leave them in the replies #not just anime but in general; though i prefer animation by a VAST margin & i typically need at least a little supernatural in a premise #(it's why i tend to gravitate towards scifi and horror when i Do bother with live action; those genres tend to have some weird by default) #the more... idk 'unique' qualities of a thing are how you pitch it to me. what can i see in it that i won't find commonly elsewhere? #and i don't mind dark edgy anime but i'm picky; i can only trust your judgement it handles its topics well even if its being edgy #or handles them Not So Great but has enough marrow-deep merit otherwise to be worth the Ugh moments #ie Berserk

[empty-blog-for-lurking]

So i finally listened to The Magnus Protocol and uhh holy shit, yall mind if i

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#the magnus protocol #tmagp #tmagp spoilers #In the tags #My favourite case has to be the 2nd one Daria girl you are so fucked up!!!! You are so fucked up girl get help!!!! #And i am loving the absolute toxic work environment it is hilarious all the characters are great!! #Alice Gwen and Lena have three way situation of snide backhanded remarks and office coworker hate going on #Colin hates everyone but especially the puter and is this close to murder #Sam is just trying to do whatever the fuck he is doing. He is new here. He is over qualified #Teddy my man saw his place workplace comedy swerving towards horror genre and immediately ditched ship good for him!!! #(Unless Lena brutal pipe murdered him in which case girl i am so sorry) #And just character in general. Like Alice is trying to vibe her way through life #while also saying some death flaggy 'oh this is def foreshadowing' shit every episode #Gwen has the same surname as the shows previous antag #but also just after Lena's job and just wants to be taken seriously and thinks everyone is against her #she also may or not have discovered that her boss is murderer but oh well #Sam is like this sweet nice guy who is also so fucking nosy and the only one actually curious about fucked up shit cases magnus institue #And everyone is telling him to stop Girl! Turn away girl!! You are gonna get fucked up girl!! Look away!! #Colin is just so fucking angry and feral but also IT is just like that. He is crawling on the floors. He is growling at people #Lena is so fucking tired with all these bitches in her office Head Bitch incharge of all these Bitches #And i am 80% sure she murdered that guy Klaus #Anyway love all of this. Cant wait to hear them get killed in brutal tragic ways

[wulfhalls]

https://x.com/westerosies/status/1753505100528484462?s=20

https://x.com/westerosies/status/1754621457303253497?s=20

https://x.com/westerosies/status/1754620874383032476?s=20

what do we think about this?

not them taking naomi watts milfing it up as a lannister away from us before we ever even had it 😭😭 u just know she cunted up the scenery so bad they had to shut production down on account of the sheer cuntamination its the only reasonable explanation

#asks #asoiaf #this is so vile why would they do this #my fav sub genre of naomi watts staring roles is remakes of austrian horror films. queen of bad hollywood remakes of great austrian films

[rongzhi]

What are some censorship rules that you feel you could most comfortably poke fun at without feeling like you could get in some kind of trouble or ending up on some watchlist for doing?

I guess the FOSTA/SESTA censorship law is a pretty miserable piece of legislation that has had a net negative impact on society since day 1. If I could find something funny about it, I'd definitely go for that one.

Although, you can make fun of it directly without being put on some watchlist, though keep in mind this is the law that laid groundwork for online surveillance/suppression of sex workers, and is basically the blueprint for some anti-abortion legislation proposals that would make it illegal to discuss obtaining abortions online. so if some people have their way, someday you COULD get put on a list for giving tips and info online to those seeking abortions. but i digress.

#yes i know anon was prob asking about china but i don't have an answer to that as i'm not at risk of ending up on any chinese watchlists #and i don't have a direct line to the NRTA to find out what gets you on any watchlists anyway，surprise surprise #You probably wouldn't get put on a list anyway #you'd probably just get perma banned from whatever platform you were posting on if you kept breaking their rules about what you can mention #the most basic of censorship rules for most sites i don't think anyone would have a problem with anyway bc most ppl in china agree w them #[these rules usually include no nazi flags or imperial japanese (rising sun) flag depictions， adhering to 1 china policy in discussions #not spreading superstition #or promoting belief in the superstitious] #I see netizens openly complain about topics being suppressed from search trends all the time it's probably (i'm guessing) not as sensitive #as you think #like you'd have to really be causing a scene to get taken note of #anyway sometimes i get what are essentially like. idk. essay prompts. in my inbox #and i just need you all to know i'm dumb as bricks and i don't keep up with international politics in any significant way #answered ask #text #...I guess to actually answer the question I think you could probably make fun of censorship of ghosts and witches a lot #the film censor bureau really shoots itself in the foot with the censorship laws. the chinese film horror genre is a fucking joke #and i see chinese netizens complaining that the domestic movie censorship has gone too far all the time #It's really a shame bc it's stifling some great story telling and everyone knows it

[tariah23]

Noooo…… first it’s Yuuta and Shoko, now they’re yo-yoing back around to Megumi.

#no they’re bashing megumi even more than ever now…. sometimes some characters aren’t built for all of THIS AND ITS OKAY #he’s forever traumatized bro he just lost his sister in front of his eyes and his body was the one that killed her #same situation with Gojo who took care of his sister and he from when they was toddlers and up #megumi doesn’t want to live anymore and yuuji has already tried getting through to him he’s completely broken and even if he’s saved megumi #might not ever be the same #I feel like fans keep on forgetting that these are kids going through all of this stuff that even some of the hardest adults wouldn’t be #able to handle #they bash him but a lot of these same ppl forget what happened to getou and love him unconditionally #they’d say “’well other characters have lost a lot as well and they’re still trying!’ and I just have to #restate that again; simply not every character is built like some hard boiled shounen badass jjk is not the usual shounen that a lot of #fans still refuse to see tbh like it’s kind of built different 🗿 #it’s core genres are literally horror/psychological horror like no one if gonna be bouncing back like Naruto bro #and in Naruto’s case he never got to see anyone precious to him die in front of him #who knows what Naruto would’ve went through if sasuke was killed in front of him #but then again #Naruto was already a crazy ass #he vowed to kill sasuke and die with him so nvm #but megumi ISNT crazy like that that’s the difference ajsjsjsj #he’s always been one of the more rational characters amongst his peers #he’s so normal!!! everyone else is fucked up or got larger personalities than he does #maybe ppl are pissed off at the fact that megumi simply isn’t fighting back… it’s frustrating but he’s in pain bro #I don’t see him making it out alive at all either if I’m being real #Yuuji might be one of the only characters to survive at this rate I doubt Yuuta is even going to pull through after the techniques 5 min #are up either… #rambling #the point it…… as sad as it may sound all of the characters fighting so hard now are doing so because they simply have to #Sukuna is literally a calamity and these are the only characters left who will even stand any chance against such a great entity #they don’t have much of a choice man #Gojo tried to prepare his students for the future so that they’ll be strong enough to fight back anything together. not alone #Everyone is doing what they can now

[fortunaestalta]

#artists on tumblr #ai artwork #alternative #dark fantasy #cultists #“It's A Great Club!” #“Representatives of the Fear-Horror Genre”

[puck1919]

"What is food if never on is fed, when with strange disposals, even death lies dead?"

Mr. Mulligan, I know you considered Call of Cthulhu for "Mice & Murder"-- Lovecraft season when???

#the ravening war spoilers #the ravening war #brennan lee mulligan #dimension 20 #dropout tv #yes I know that Neverafter was a horror season #Lovecraft/eldritch horror is a different flavor entirely #like technically Fantasy High and Unsleeping City are both urban fantasy #and both have *very* different tones #for reference what Brennan said there has strong parallels with a quote from 'The Nameless City' one of the first Cthulhu stories #'That is not dead which can eternal lie and with strange aeons even death may die' #so yeah I think BLeeM would run a great Cthulhu campaign #especially since American Gothic (which is the supergenre of Lovecraft) touches on all of his favorite go-tos #in terms of the rot that pervades the societies that the genres set up #obligatory 'fuck HP Lovecraft' at the end here

[alchemocha]

Consider with me… stobotnik 80s thriller / slasher au. So much potential for goodies

#might draw this #stobotnik #dr robotnik #ivo robotnik #agent stone #I just really like the aesthetic of those movies and games #but even like #comedic horror would be great with them #happy death day? the babysitter? freaky? there’s so many of that genre I adore

[dotthings]

“I would stay there for as long as they’ll let me. There’s just something in that genre space that I’ve always been attracted to. I’ve always found myself in it. There’s not a lot of work in my career that hasn’t been kind of in that ‘genre’ space. It’s a place I feel comfortable. It’s a place I love to explore. The characters are so rich, and we’re not really bound by reality by any means. We can bend those rules in our favor, and I like that. I appreciate those slice-of-life films and television shows that are a conversation about what we deal with in reality, but I enjoy the escapism that the entertainment industry provides. If I can be a part of that and help tell those stories, then that’s a space I would still like to be in.”

—Jensen Ackles about working in the superhero and other genre stories [x]

#Jensen Ackles #I love that he’s so committed to doing genre #and he’d be great in all of it horror sf fantasy superheroes

[tyrefire]

i can say definitively the interview with the vampire has shown the intricacies of being a black queer man (the multiple hats line, keeping up a hypermasculine performance even to your family) in such a way that I honestly havent seen since Moonlight and P Valley

#yeah the i know the true you i love you and i know you love me moment got me good #horror + some great amazing glimpses into black culture and being black and queer #society if jordan peele wasnt straight we would have gotten more of this by now #black queers belong in all genres! #iwtv #interview with the vampire

[upwardsdescensum]

damn didn't know the horrors were cosmic like that

#i finally watched #annihilation #what a great time #aesthetically perfect to be honest #thematically uncanny #i'm just saying words bc i'm a little drunk but I have to get into cosmic horror more #i just hope everyone i ask for recs would stop saying “lovecraft” #i told y'all I can't stand the man I get it he is important to the genre GIVE ME SOMETHING NEW #lovecraft was insanely racist“he was a man of his time” I hear you say #even for a man of his time he was extra racist but whatevr #this tags are getting out of control bye

[lucifer-kane]

I know I've said this time and time again in the last year or so, but it's still something that I hope falters off in this new year. But I really hope the thing of putting any audio drama, no matter the genre, in the horror category. Unless a show is specifically stated as being in the horror genre, it should not be put on lists reccing horror podcasts or anything like that. Sure, there can be horrific elements in an audio drama (Thinking of things like Wolf 359 and Red Valley here, since those two I consistently see named in the horror genre when they're very much not, and stated as such) but that doesn't mean it fits in that genre. I can't speak for all creators out there, but if I was making a non-horror AD and someone called it an AD, I'd kinda hate/dislike it.

And if this is because most of these individuals who say these things only listen to horror audio dramas or adjacent, please if you do anything this year, please listen to some things outside of horror. There are phenomenal audio dramas that deserve the listens that aren't under that banner, a few of them are up there with my favorite.

But please, 2024, make sure the horror audio drama you're reccing is, you know. Actually a horror audio drama.

#audio drama #critical #mostly fandom based but all in a very 'im not mad im disappointed' voice #and also tags from littleacebee from a post reblogged from me that i really agreed with (not 100% relevant for this post but somewhat) #saying: also all the post that say 'horror podcasts' when post could easily be just about fiction podcasts. / #horror is not the only genre here' #is also a great point i feel like the audio drama community is so focused only on horror and it's tiring sometimes #im all for ppl having their enjoyment of things but. damn. it's a lot!

[galacsin]

The steam edition of Dwarf Fortress is dropping on 6th of December. I haven't been excited for a release for a very long time, and this is a game I have been playing since at least 2016.

I have been abstaining for a long log time, in wait for this event.

It will make great Saint Nicolaus day present for myself .

#dwarf Fortress #it looks great I cant wait #if i understood it right there will be workshop integration if not on release then soon after #and many more things to come #genre defining game few people play #it is tagged as psychological horror

[nat-20s]

God I just fucking. LOVE science fiction so much

#sorry horror and fantasy you are great seasonings to the best genre: sci-fi #ooooo i wish there was more of a sci-fi movie and books and TV shows community so so bad

[mariocki]

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

"Jane, did you ever stop to think that... if anything happened to me, I mean anything bad, there wouldn't be any money for you? I wouldn't be here to sign the checks. You wouldn't even have pocket money. Did you ever think of that?"

"Yeah, I've thought about that."

#what ever happened to baby jane? #american cinema #robert aldrich #1962 #joan crawford #bette davis #lukas heller #henry farrell #victor buono #wesley addy #bert freed #maidie norman #anna lee #marjorie bennett #anne barton #dave willock #robert cornthwaite #barbara merrill #julie allred #gina gillespie #frank de vol #revisiting after a long long time. watching this as a teen (too many moons ago) it was Joan that bewitched me; i was deeply taken by her‚ #fell a little in love even. coming back to it now and I'm baffled how i slept on Bette's performance‚ arguably the showier and more #rewarding (from an actors pov). she's ott and grotesque but there's real depth to the role too‚ she delivers with nuance and there's levels #to the character‚ tragedy too (the completely unexpected way she says the line 'You mean all this time we could have been friends?' is #beautiful). also Buono?? I'd honestly kind of forgotten that there was anyone else in this film but Bette and Joan but my god‚ in his first #major film role‚ he's amazing! and funny! easy to forget just how funny this film is‚ in amongst the horror and the sadness and the waste #of it all. beautiful little film‚ i know it has its followers and is appreciated as a high camp classic‚ but it's honestly so much more #than just that too. Aldrich (truly one of The great genre directors) does wonders with sharp‚ unforgiving black and white photography #(beautifully contrasted with the soft warmer footage of younger J and B from their hollywood heyday). masterfully constructed too