Sure, people love Ghost right now. So what happens when a bunch of scumbags start using Ghost? Do people genuinely believe any of these platforms can stay permanently ideologically pure? I don't trust any of the people who run ANY of these things. I've watched one after another suddenly go insane.

Reposting a common ethan W go listen to primitive man and vermin womb. the dude is a legend

thinking about this again in the wake of the great Payment Processor Apocalypse across Steam and itch. your heckin wholesome non-problematic content will be purged along with the rest of us pervs freaks and weirdos. there’s a saying i vaguely remember involving the cop in your head.

totally missed this earlier in the year but if you’re like me and are a mega-simp for Discordance Axis this is required reading

one value that i personally hold very dear to me is that media consumption is not inherently virtuous or villainous. engaging with and even enjoying the art of a bad person does not and will never make you a bad person by any transitive property.

can’t stop thinking about this ig comment since watching the season 17 premiere yesterday

a pet peeve of mine is when folks talk about transgressive art and have to constantly reaffirm that they like it the "right way" like i get where they're coming from but also i wish it didn't have to be this way. you can just like a thing, that's good enough i think

Instead of paying some jag off $1000 to spray poison around your house just release 20 wolf spiders in your apartment. Work smarter not harder.

Ginger Snaps and Spider-Man are basically the same thing.

Sunset Boulevard Gojira Eraserhead Night of the Living Dead Clerks honorable mentions to Bride of Frankenstein and Ed Wood which were both mentioned below.

christ, may i be even half the smokeshow at age 46 that Natasha Lyonne is

THREAD: i understand the kneejerk reaction is to believe they stole it, but to play devil’s advocate here: the idea of a codependent couple fusing together has been in the zeitgeist since the pandemic (see Haus of Decline’s graphic novel, also titled Together). further, there’s evidence that…

i did do this by the way and it rocks. that website might be designed and maintained by cretins and fools but it is the single most customizable and self-curated social media experience i’ve had in 10+ years.

i think, when it’s operating at peak capacity, thrash might have the highest Riff Potential of all genres. maybe that’s a bonkers take, idk, but when i close my eyes and try to think of the platonic ideal of The Riff, i hear a thrash riff.

i can’t wait till horror is uncool again

if you would like to donate to fight republicans, donate to charities that are working to protect the climate and abortion rights. and then find someone who is primarying a local democrat and give them money. every single democrat in office should be primaried, no exceptions

i feel like there is something i’m missing with Anora. first half was good but the second half felt like a sad man fantasy and although i thought Mikey Madison did incredible work with the material she was given, that Ani was a character who was not allowed interiority.

Evergreen reminder

strongly considering making a tumblr again. how’s the weather over there? any accounts i should be sure to follow? retro anime and low-poly horror aesthetics + discourse about vile repulsive extreme horror movies are a plus.

We have got to find a better way to deal with culturally important artists who hurt people than pretending their work doesn't exist and memory-holing it. Individual fans act like apprehending work by an artist who did bad things tarnishes their personal brand and it's weirdly sickening.

you know the national mood is getting pretty dark when even your extremely normie coworkers are openly talking about starting a co-op and preparing for imminent collapse

saw an early screening of COMPANION last night and it was an early contender for movie o’ the year imo. creative, exciting, exquisitely paced and landing right in the genre fiction sweet spot of pulpy and thought-provoking. Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid are treasures.

man… Resident Evil 6 is definitely not as bad as everyone tries to say it is

i’ve experienced so much horror media in my life, deliberately sought out the most upsetting, relished in trying to poke at my own fears. but NOTHING has given me the same sinking inevitable sense of dread and fear as the realization that, oh no, the video essay channel has characters and lore

there are some days where i think David Lynch is my favorite director of all time. but without exaggeration, i think about him, his work, or a feeling his films have left me with at least once every day. i know without a doubt i’ll continue to do so.

cannot express how wonderful it was to tear up a little bit upon hearing Pat the Bunny’s voice on something new. of course it’s just a lovely little piece of rickety folky pop genius.

People talk about representation in video games, but it was already perfected in Parasite Eve (Squaresoft, 1998) , where you fight the woman who loves you as she pleads to merge mitochondria while fighting on a carriage led by a horse on fire

You will never succeed at fighting right wing disinfo with facts. Right wingers believe the first thing they hear & they'll believe it for life. They'll fight to the death about some inconsequential bullshit they just heard 5 seconds ago. You beat them by calling them weird assholes & isolating them

almost forgot to share my favorite gift from the holidays, these beautiful Gamera box sets from Deanna. at least once a month for the last 3 years i’ve seen these at our Kinokuniya and hemmed & hawed over buying them. feels amazing to see them on my shelf.

this was initially framed in the context of “fandom spaces” but i think you can safely extend this to pretty much all forms of popular art. i think about things like this a lot particularly as a fan of transgressive art.

2024. a year of incremental changes, small transitions, getting in touch with my authentic self. my best friend and soulmate @deenuhhh.bsky.social was always by my side. no matter what i’ll say this every year: i can’t wait to spend my life with such a beautiful supportive witty passionate human.

I do not comment on sharks biting people. Any human death or injury is a tragedy. But there's a group of animals older than dinosaurs and trees which play critical ecological roles and are threatened with extinction, and you want to ask me about how sometimes they bite people? I'll pass.

after seeing it—we probably could have just watched it with my mom lol. enjoyed it, beautifully shot + composed, adored the feverish uncanny castle sequence, but it felt restrained, maybe even a bit hollow. we watched Bram Stoker’s Dracula afterwards and came away satisfied. hornier and bloodier.

keeping in mind i think “horror” is a broader label than pure survival horror: -Silent Hill 3 -I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream -Fatal Frame 3 -Doki Doki Literature Club! -Resident Evil 2 -The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask -Saya no Uta -Fran Bow -Slay the Princess -System Shock 2

started playing the Zero Escape games for the first time. i might just have low standards for VNs, but at least so far, both the nuts-and-bolts plotting and the prose of the localization are *superb.* some of the best non-Ace Attorney localization and tightest structure i’ve ever seen in a game.

this post convinced me to finally wishlist this game

we just narrowly managed to avoid seeing Nosferatu with my mother tonight. i cannot express how many bullets i feel like we just dodged.

idk man, i really like Peanuts as a franchise. there’s definitely a lot of whatever the cartoon equivalent of licensed shovelware is in there but at its best it really captures a specific sort of childhood existential dread and melancholy that especially connects with me around this time of year.

i am having a great time at the dungeon synth show/ghost story reading thanks for asking

i can’t believe this is the last edition of Black Market, one of the best and most unique spaces for writing about heavy music on the internet. obvs i’m stoked to see Brad Sanders taking over with a new column, but Ian Chainey’s bonkers intro pieces will be dearly missed.

not sure how i’m supposed to be expected to come up with my AOTY list when i am still working through my 2023 backlog, uh-oh

over the weekend D & I drove down to Lockhart to visit this horror-themed bookstore called Haunt Happy and it might just be one of the coolest/cutest places i’ve ever been in my life. here’s a thread with some pics—i may have written too much in the alt text lol.

this is some of the most distinctly joyous, delightful, and beautiful music i’ve heard all year. can’t express enough how effervescent this album feels and how many moments of melodic ingenuity induced euphoria in me.

I sometimes think about how amazing it must have felt, being Bill Watterson, and saying no to every request and proposal to expand the Calvin & Hobbes IP to tv, movies, merch, you-name-it. To be in that position, in need of nothing more, and to just say no thanks.

Wolves are essential.

What me and the mutuals are into