#minimaniacs

[veramitar]

Minimaniacs Artboard 1 | 2 | 3

#art #illustration #hazbin hotel #hazbin alastor #hazbin rosie #hazbin vox #young overlords au #minimaniacs

[neatfrog]

Kid version of Vox? Like minimaniac Alastor

(the minimaniacs design is by @veramitar !)

#hazbin hotel #hazbin vox #fanart #ask #my art #hazbin fanart #hazbin hotel fanart #kitchie beszél

[cipheramnesia]

hello i am giving u an excuse to talk about the chucky TV series because i generally don't like horror but i watched it and it was great

My friend... this goes so much deeper than the TV series.

DATELINE 1988! The horror movie slasher genre is THRIVING in the boom of video and cheap rental stores. Jason. Freddy. Michael. Already household names, nay! Heroes! Enter one Don Mancini, young and queer and ready to share some fear with a little idea knocking around in his head about a killer doll. With little more than a dream and few friends he tackled the enormous task of crafting the next horror legend. On the advice of a lawyer friend, he loaded Chucky up with distinct, trademarked features and made sure copyright on the titular killer doll was his and HIS ALONE.

Child's Play, the original Chucky movie, debuted to instant classic status. To modern eyes it may seem strange that a concept as silly as a killer doll could ascend to the heights of the holy triumvirate, but SIMULTANEOUS to Chucky we found such properties as Cabbage Patch Kids and My Buddy dolls - a virtual BUFFET of saccharine toys just begging for a counterpart with edge, and Chucky edged hard. The My Buddy doll never recovered as millions of children globally cowered from the mere TRAILER of Chucky and his slimeball snarl voice broadcast it's way to hearts and minds. But this wasn't all, no, for you see Chucky had a most peculiar gift, the gift of a soulful heart.

While many other slasher movies focused on a test of wills between survivor girl and unstoppable monster, Child's Play was first and foremost the coming of age story for Andy Barclay and his, Karen. In particular credit must be given to actor Catherine Hicks who never wanted to be in a horror movie, and made the conscious decision to play Karen as a straight dramatic role about a single mother and her son. In a sea of peculiarly good choices, it perhaps was hers more than any other that granted Child's Play a quasi-Spielberg-esque movie magic to transcend the genre stereotypes and absurd premise, to create something unique.

While she would not return for Child's Play 2, the die was cast with Alex Vincent as Andy and Brad Dourif as Chucky. We saw the introduction of street smart older stepsister played by Christine Elise. With a bigger budget, nastier deaths, and a truly grotesque version of Chucky, Child's Play 2 is likely considered the best in the series, as it predates the series' later campiness and had the delightfully rubbery 80s practical effects. Not me though, I love them all except of course Child's Play 3, the military academy one, which rounds out the first arc of Chucky. For a little while.

In 1998, just in time for a ten year anniversary, Chucky would RISE AGAIN, in Bride of Chucky. You see, while Don Mancini no longer had the rights to the Child's Play name, he still owned Chucky. Would this new chapter in the knife wielding minimaniac mean the previous continuity was dispensed with? NO, for this series was and still is violent killer baby of ONE MAN and his found film family. Instead, Bride of Chucky would introduce a new member of the family, Tiffany Valentine, played by the inimitable Jennifer Tilly. In this chapter of Chucky's tale, he and Tiffany took center stage, with no consistent protagonist, and a greater focus on absurd humor. Bride of Chucky and Seed of Chucky are both movies which give the sense of perhaps Mancini himself being more comfortable with his sexuality, more open and free. It was also the turning point where Chucky would go from a by the numbers slasher to a metatexual interrogation of the horror genre itself.

Besides playing with self referential comedy and genre references, Don Mancini introduced an in-universe awareness of Chucky's prior crimes, both as a human and as a doll, including the set of an in-universe movie (Chucky Goes Psycho) starring actress Jennifer Tilly. Hang onto your butts, because we're going in hot. If Bride of Chucky felt like it was going to weird places by having two dolls fucking and working on their romantic matters, Seed of Chucky abandoned all pretense, enjoying the presence of stuntcasting like John Waters and Redman (as himself) in roles specifically for gruesome deaths. But Jennifer Tilly was the central meta tornado.

Try and follow this. Real actress Jennifer Tilly plays Tiffany Valentine, who gets her soul transferred into a doll which is also voiced by Jennifer Tilly. Subsequently Jennifer Tilly also plays fictional actress Jennifer Tilly (who is otherwise identical to real world Jennifer Tilly), cast to play Tiffany Valentine in fictional fictionalized account of the fictional world real events of Child's Play 1 & 2, and also to voice the fictional Tiffany Valentine doll along with fictional Brad Dourif voicing the fictional Chucky doll, both dolls created for the fictional movie Chucky gets lucky. However, the fictional dolls get possessed by the real fictional characters Chucky and Tiffany, still voiced by real actors Brad Dourif and Jennifer Tilly. Eventually, Tiffany is able to transfer her soul into fictional Jennifer Tilly.

So, hang with me, in Chucky this means that fictional actress Jennifer Tilly (played by real Jennifer Tilly) is now possessed by fictional real murderer Tiffany Valentine (played by real Jennifer Tilly) who has to pretend to be fictional actress Jennifer Tilly (as played by Jennifer Tilly).

Beyond all this fuckery, Chucky and Tiff must cope with their new child who vacillates between Glen or Glenda, a kind of bigender or genderfluid character at a time when those ideas weren't very widespread, but which feels deeply informed both my Mancini's experience as a gay man, and also the long history of queers in Hollywood. At the conclusion of these two movies, it seemed like we were done with Chucky, with Tiffany living happily ever after as Tillyception and Glen/Glenda now living as two children, having their soul split into the twins fictional Tilly was pregnant with.

However, it seems that these five movies total instead were a kind of foundation for the next generation, when Chucky returned in Curse of Chucky and Cult of Chucky. Together these movies added a new layer of recursion, and might be called the Nica Pierce chapter. Both films featured less camp, and a more serious tone which, initially seemed to imply an intent to reboot the series. This was, of course, a fake out as Mancini not only revealed the new movies as a direct continuation, but also gave Chucky an illegitimate human daughter in the form of Nica Pierce, played by Fiona Dourif, the real world daughter of Brad Dourif. Not only that, but we would get the reintroduction of a long absent character, Andy Barclay, still played by Alex Vincent.

In the reprisal, Alex Vincent, an actor who was damaged and traumatized by being a child actor in movies like the original Child's Play, plays Andy as an adult damaged and traumatized by his experiences as a child in the original Child's Play.

Now, eventually Chucky gets control of Nica and Fiona Dourif does drag to play young Chucky and there's fucked up lesbians and gay kissing and a priest explodes, but all that happens in the TV series. What I'm really needing everyone to get at here is that from 1988 up to RIGHT NOW Don Mancini has kept continuity of plot AND ACTORS, with two seasons and an upcoming third which incorporates every single movie detail. A series which, while silly at times, always both respects its audience second, but FIRST is itself above all. Every single movie and episode has been something which set out to be its own thing, free from control or demands of conformity and it always has been, like it or not, love it or leave it. Somehow the killer doll movie has turned into a 35 year long and counting love affair, a found extended nuclear family both on screen and off.

And perhaps the best part is how much the queerness has been given a chance to flourish, going from a whisper of an influence in early films, to campy comedy later, to fully realized queer relationships in the series. Not only that, but it's always seemed to treat its atypical protagonists with a humanity and respect few other media properties manage. The young Andy works so well because he's an actual character, not just some kid, treated like a capable and thinking human. Tiff and Glen/Glenda are bizarre but never dehumanized, never treated as undeserving of human kindness. And Nica, a paraplegic, is amazing, with her disabilities informing the plot, but not innately treated as some definitive limit or inspiration porn. It's rare for so many disenfranchised characters to get such a human treatment, and frankly bizarre that the murder doll series is the one to do it. But that's kind of the real beauty of Chucky. Every character is human first, before anything else.

In fact, there is only one character who is genuinely human second, and it's Chucky himself. Now I'm not saying there's no room for complex antagonists, but in all Chucy movies, the one constant is this: Chucky is a total dick. Not evil, not a menace, just a pure all out asshole. Chucky is a piece of shit person first, murderer second, and that's GREAT. You will never be in a position where you hope the evil murder doll succeeds (Tiff excepted). You will never stop and wonder "Gosh maybe Chucky is secretly a good guy deep down." Chucky is always a gaslighting selfish prick who wants to live for ever and kill everyone, full stop. It's beautiful, it frees the mind to dwell on the humanity of other characters because you never once are getting asked to give the lying cheating manipulative little fucker the benefit of the doubt.

I don't know what it is, but Mancini just gets it. He gets the best and the worst of people and that's what makes this whole machine tick. It's huge and overwhelming to think of how many people and plotlines and stories are encompassed by Chucky and then like a falling air-conditioner it just slams into my head: "Oh yeah, this is about a killer doll."

#childs play #chucky #horror movies #queer horror #long post

[wildkardstudios]

Last Day…Let’s Finish Strong!👊🏻#monsterpalooza #pasadena #convention #show #wildkardstudios #tinyterrorsgallery #minimaniacs #horror #scifi #art #artist #merchandise #print #buttons #stickers #tshirts #tees #weekend #checkitout #fun (at MONSTERPALOOZA) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cebpfnyp7P7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[deathdealerca]

New item #minimaniacs #jaws #artasgifts #artforthem Christmas gifts. (at Frank & Son Collectible Show) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWRMpOkvFrE/?utm_medium=tumblr

#minimaniacs #jaws #artasgifts #artforthem

[miniphernalia]

Good Evening #ClassicMini #MiniManiacs @miniphernalia.co.uk (at Cowley, Oxfordshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/COBOblqDXx5/?igshid=1b2xc002xcsu2

#classicmini #minimaniacs

[talesfromthecrypts]

do you have a twitter by any chance, given the recent tumblr bullshit i'm trying to expand my options

The only other active social media account I have is letterbox (linked) if that counts.

#minimaniac #I had a Twitter for a bit a couple years ago… it’s not nice there

[jeantrade]

So good I had to share! Check out all the items I'm loving on @Poshmarkapp #poshmark #fashion #style #shopmycloset #carters #sperry #minimaniacs: https://bnc.lt/focc/C043IrQRxK

#poshmark #fashion #style #shopmycloset #carters #sperry #minimaniacs

[normal-horoscopes]

A NEW SOUL JOINS

WELCOME @minimaniac​

The hubris of passion. Tragedy and hubris. Metamorphosis.

A tragic hand. Both the spring lady and the drowned king speak of hubris. However, the seventh of winter deals with metamorphosis in the sense of the tarot Death. To me this hand speaks of a failure. A doomed initiative that bit off far more than it could chew. Something that was almost more difficult to clean up after than it was to fail at. But at the same time, failure is how we learn. From the ashes of this blunder, you will emerge a more effective, diligent person. In the meantime, try to be kind to yourself. Understand that the first step on the path of growth is acceptance of ones flaws.

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#A NEW SOUL JOINS #NORMAL TAROT #CARETAKER DECK

[redaktionelli-blog]

Super @michaelakatharina ! #gadyfamily #gadybewegt #MINIfam #ontheroadagain #countryman #cooperSD #gadymini #minilifestyle #newminicountryman #minicooper #minicountryman2017 #miniporn #minisofinstagram #minimaniacs #minisociety #minioftheday #roadtrip #urban #graz #steiermark #liezen #ennstal #stadtmeineslebens #famiglia @gadyfamily @miniaustria @mini @newminicountryman

#minilifestyle #steiermark #minimaniacs #gadybewegt #coopersd #minicountryman2017 #graz #gadymini #roadtrip #minifam #minicooper #ennstal #ontheroadagain #famiglia #stadtmeineslebens #newminicountryman #minioftheday #minisociety #gadyfamily #countryman #urban #miniporn #liezen #minisofinstagram

[griesly]

hey I hope you don't mind me going again but how about Foxglove by Murder by Death

couldn’t listen all the way through | not my thing | it’s okay | kinda catchy | ok i really like this | downloading immediately | already in my library

listen 🎶

➼ I know I’ve heard of this band, but I don’t think I have anything by them? This is neat, thanks!

#I dig it #audio #minimaniac #minimanic #ask box shenanigans

[veramitar]

Young overlords ready to paint the neighborhood red.

Minimaniacs Artboard 1 | 2

#art #illustration #hazbin hotel #hazbin alastor #hazbin rosie #alastor and rosie #Child Alastor loves hardware shopping AU #He and little Rosie discuss 'projects' over tea parties and sleepovers #This hazbin my floater for a month now #young overlords au #minimaniacs

[miniownersclub-blog]

Good Night! All the way from Germany 🇩🇪 Owner- @shitstormbuddy 📷 Love it👌 Share it 👇 Like it ✌ Thanks 👏 🚗Follow @justminicooper🚗 TAG Friends Below! & Double Tap! 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹 #mini #minicar #minigirl #miniclub #minicooper #minicoopers #miniclassic #minisofinstagram #minigirls #miniuk #miniusa #minijcw #minicooperjcw #minioftheday #miniadventures #minilife #minilove #classicmini #classicminis #globalmini #minimania #ukminis #minipeople #rovermini #jcw #justminicooper #oldmini #minimaniacs #austinmini https://www.instagram.com/p/BsMEa12gFD3/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1py3211p58qqs

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[wildkardstudios]

Not Bad For My 1st Attempt At Making A 2-Part Mold…Still Some Minor Flaws, But Practice Makes Perfect! #minimaniacs #art #artist #mold #cast #silicone #rubber #resin #2part #character #figure #attempt #flaws #original #sculpt #3d #work #process #progress #challenge #practice #perfect #worthit https://www.instagram.com/p/CUy021prEkU/?utm_medium=tumblr

#minimaniacs #art #artist #mold #cast #silicone #rubber #resin #2part #character #figure #attempt #flaws #original #sculpt #3d #work #process #progress #challenge #practice #perfect #worthit

[korshing]

Celebrations begin - Part 2, Cake cutting with My Super Saiyan Boys 👦🏻👨🏻👦🏻 Mini Cooper kena swapped 🤦🏻‍♀️ #naughtysupersaiyanboys #dowsefamily #birthdaycelebrations #minimaniac #coopersnatchedcooper #myloves #happymoment #bigthankyoutomysisters #classicmini #minicollection #minicooper

#minicooper #classicmini #birthdaycelebrations #dowsefamily #bigthankyoutomysisters #minimaniac #minicollection #happymoment #naughtysupersaiyanboys #coopersnatchedcooper #myloves

[miniphernalia]

#TGIF #MiniManiacs #ClassicMini #MorrisminiCooper @miniphernalia.co.uk (at Cowley, Oxfordshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKnwa8ujI-9/?igshid=3itqflyzv958

#tgif #minimaniacs #classicmini #morrisminicooper