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thinking more about authorial insecurity in fiction... it truly is frustrating to me when an author is clearly ashamed of their own premises, or is preemptively responding to imagined criticism. this is where you get a lot of unfunny humor about how stupid genre conventions are and how Unrealistic fantastical/speculative elements are. like ultimately the reason that authors undercut and overexplain their own works is because they're insecure about audience reaction and want to get ahead of the haters by proclaiming that they're Not Cringe. this will not work because I, the ultimate hater, will eventually find them and make one million posts about how much I despise irony poisoning

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Layers Upon Layers.

Muscle, Flesh.

Muscle, Flesh.

Muscle, Flesh.

I Can Survive Atmospheric Entry. OK?

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screenshotting because this person is correct and having fun so I don't want to harsh their mellow, but to me it Does Not Count if it's new guys playing them. I'm so sorry. if you make a high budget star trek where kirk and spock are played by dudes who are 2020s handsome then they simply will not be in love the same way. I don't think jim can literally glow at spock if he's not played by a 60s pulp novel cover looking guy who is perpetually sweaty, on actual film and under soft yet dramatic lighting. doesn't matter if he's a good actor. bill shatner isn't a good actor. that's not the point because he can do one thing, and that thing is look twitterpated and say shit like "why, mr. Spock! 😍😳🥰" And Yes You Can Hear The Emojis even though they hadn't been invented yet. no one is ever going to get spock right other than leonard nimoy. no one has his weird little stance and precise combination of warmth and creaturely vibes. no one else is going to wear basic purple eyeshadow with the unaffected confidence of a no-nonsense 70 year old woman who's been wearing her red lipstick and tasteful dash of mascara since she was 16 and just considers it part of getting dressed. where am I going with this. Oh yeah basically I don't care what 21st century reboots do with them because I Do Not Know Those Men

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BEST QUEER MEDIA TOURNAMENT FINAL ROUND!!!!!

[ propaganda masterpost]

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one time in college in my ‘history of european sexuality’ class this girl told the professor she really would’ve appreciated a trigger warning on our marquis de sade reading. i laughed out loud. nobody else did. afterwards the prof. pulled me under a stairwell in terror to ask me what a trigger warning even was.

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full offence but I do NOT watch movies so I can "turn my brain off" I take this shit so seriously

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Jo and Roach, girls for a wlw short story about vampires and legal disputes in south Paris

#OH MY #cylindric you have truly graced us on this day #O.o

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we should talk about water more often that shit is crazy

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SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

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leitmotifs never get old to me like holy shit dude there’s this melody that corresponds to this one guy and if you hear the melody it means the guy is there. holy shit. and sometimes it refers to ideas too not just guys. has anyone heard about this

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oh!

#i cant not reblog #one of my favourite moments

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About to do cast announcements for my new opera Monster's Made - so I painted each of the performers as their characters! I'm very, very pleased with how they all turned out.

#greek mythology #medusa #clytemnestra #traditional art #stone statue #medea #pandora #clotho #atropos #ariadne #lachesis #allecto #echo #daphne #modern opera #new opera #monsters made #monster's made #Tromroan #my art

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Just re-watched Danny Boyle's "Sunshine" from 2007, one of my fav movies, and was reminded of these illustrations I did years ago. Spoilers for Sunshine, as these are some of the fates of the poor crew members of the Icarus II. Definitely "old art" by now... but I'm still a fan of how these turned out, and the way they look all together!

#my art! #suicide #suicide tw

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General question to reblog and tell me in the tags;

You go into a used bookstore - what are the two sections you head to first?

#horror #literature/fiction