Rewatching Treehouse Of Horror and I always forget how sweet Marge and Homer were. Specifically the episode (5x05) where Homer can't lose his soul to the Devil because it showed he'd already pledged his soul to Marge
"Dear Marge, you have given me your hand in marriage. All I can give you in return is my soul, which I pledge to you forever." If it ain't like this, I don't want it.
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"Treehouse of Horror IV", ep.5(86) of S5 (October 28, 1993).
Happy Halloween!
THOHIV may be my favorite THOH of all, if only for artistic direction (artistic direction of all of first 5 seasons is gorgeous, of course). And not just THOHs back then were on point in parodying horror tropes (and some of absurdity of it), the stories also feel conceivable as something the characters would concoct on their own. Well, maybe, Bart has made up all of it alone, but he appears to be observant about his family’s psychologic aspects. Naturally, Homer is going to imagine his flawless, religious neighborino as the Devil himself, and his frightening boss as a bloodsucker. And the road to school for Bart definitely would feel like the path to some impending doom about to dawn on him.
"The Devil and Homer Simpson" is my favorite short segment of THOH, probably. Not just the story unexpectedly concludes with heartwarming sentiment of Homer’s soul being permanently owned by Marge (aww), it doesn’t end here, but offers not one, but three gags to cap the thing on: Homer’s punishment of being turned into donut creature, him apparently having learned nothing from it and processing to consume his own self (in his defense, it may be hard to learn any lesson when your head is filled with dough), and the house being besieged by police force under premise of simply craving some donut… creature, the end here. (I guess, there is some moral about rationality of law and order in the human and underworld, but maybe there’s not.)
Anyway, I think, it’s appropriate to put Donut Homer together with all these feisty monsters, for his gluttony is, perhaps, scariest thing of all. And I assume, it’s what Bart would do too.
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starting a book tag game ^-^
Favorite books: Dhalgren by Samuel R Delany, Sisters of Dorley by Alyson Greaves, American Gods by Neil Gaiman, Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, House of Leaves, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, anything by Kurt Vonnegut
Favorite authors: Kurt Vonnegut, Stephen King, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, William S Burroughs, Hunter S Thompson, Alyson Greaves
Favorite genres: Postmodernism, beat generation, road stories, horror, forcefem
Book(s) you're currently reading: Sisters of Dorley by Alyson Greaves, Going Postal by Terry Pratchett, Pet Sematary by Stephen King, Post Office by Charles Bukowski, I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes, End of Watch by Stephen King, and Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts are all in my rotation right now, especially I Am Pilgrim. It's a shitty little thriller that I picked up just to get a feel for the genre after enjoying Billy Summers by Stephen King!
Books on your to read list: Gravity's Rainbow, Infinite Jest, Ham on Rye, We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, Lord of the Rings
Books you loved as a child: Magic Treehouse, Percy Jackson, Charlie Bone, Captain Underpants, Warriors, A to Z Mysteries. realizing i was incredibly into book serieses rather than one off books wow
Preferred book length: considering about 100k-120k as an average length book i think i really like when a book is longer than 200k words. really give me a whole big world to explore, yknow.
Books you couldn't finish: 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami is like the only book in recent memory that ive had to just stop reading. the way he writes characters thoughts is so stilted and unnatural sounding i just hated it. which sucks because i really loved the story a whole lot, especially with the cult storyline.
Fiction or nonfiction: in general i heart fiction but i also really like reading books like the electric acid kool acid test, suspected hippie in transit, on the road, and queer and junky by william burroughs. books about real life people's Adventures
Buy, borrow from library, or read online: Unfortunately i am a buycel i love the feeling of reading a physical book but i take too long to read books to borrow them from a library
Author you've read the most of, but DON'T recommend: Stephen King (has read 40+ of his books, which as an aside is insane to think about)
Favorite book character: Eliot Rosewater from funny kurt vonnegut!!!!!! or piranesi from piranesi. im a big fan of the dreamish lover type characters
If you at some point stopped reading but then started again, what book/books got you into reading again: i read a lot in elementary school but then read barely any in middle school and freshman year of high school and what finally got me back into reading was stephen king :)
tagging ANYONE WHO WANTS TO!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE! and please tag me in the post :)
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get to know me 🩵
do you make your bed? - nah i just leave it be and then make another mess when i go to sleep
what's your favourite number? - currently 7, 222
what is your job? - i dont have a job im on a disability check
If you could go back to school would you? - yeah a lot of things passed me by and i was a very different person then i wish i could go to school again knowing everything i know now
can you parallel park? - fuxk no
a job you had that would surprise people? - never had one
do you think aliens are real? - hell yeah but they wont come to earth after what happened in Roswell that one time i bet
can you drive a manual car? - nah i cant drive
what's your guilty pleasure? - annoying people as my love language
tattoos? - i want tattoos in the future but i have uhhhh like two or three piercings and i want more too
favourite colour? - baby blue and baby yellow
favourite type of music? - noisy, kpop, mostly stray kids but some of bts rap songs too, my little space playlist, russian indie? ig
do you like puzzles? - i fuckin love puzzles especially in little space i wish i had more
any phobias? - trypophobia, im also scared of men :p
favourite childhood sport? - floorball
do you talk to yourself? - yes, outloud too, i mostly just remember some stuff rapidly and have to talk about it outloud
what movie(s) do you adore? - venom, i literally have nothing to watch tho cus i hate romantic or sexual stuff in movies but i also hate angst and shitty comedy so i can only watch horrors so uhhh ig friday 13th out of nostalgia
coffee or tea? - i like both but lately ive been drinking more coffee
first thing you wanted to be growing up - a veterinarian i dont even know why
tag list! its short but if you want you can do it!
@chervbily @mysticaiwitchery @aspens-treehouse @wizardthesai @lesserbeans
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