watching Nosferatu (2024) and Frankenstein (2025) back to back is so rewarding. Both are adaptations of gothic horror, but they have distinct styles and are opposites in tone. Yet, both stay true to the gothic horror genre all the same. Sit with me on this 🧵

Hope Butt Beach 🥹

I really love time-loop stories. Groundhog Day, Palm Springs. Even video games like the Hades series and Into the Breach. There's something very satisfying about seeing characters develop despite the repetition of their surroundings. It gives you hope that maybe you can break out of the loop, too.

Alternative xmas things to watch that aren’t Diehard- Tokyo Godfathers | Satoshi Kon is a legend. No one did it like him. No one will. Emmett Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas | A Jim Henson xmas special. Otter muppets. Perfect. Pee Wee Herman’s Xmas | the gayest xmas there ever was 🏳️‍🌈

tip-toeing down a flight of stairs in my bed robes and nightcap, holding a single candle aloft. "Hark! My rice crispy treats are ready!"

Part of this is well on its way 💜 thank you @roximonoxide.bsky.social for the website assistance. Aiming for a March release date. Will dump more info later

Two things I learned this year- Do not read comments : Some of my worst OCD spirals happened because of misinformation spread by reading comments on tiktok. Blocking and Muting : Self-explanatory. Even if that means having to mute friends for a bit. Have boundaries.

Hey, look at me. I survived this year. I still grew, enjoyed my friends, and had adventures despite all the shit. It's like I did a 5k run with both of my legs broken. I maintained my whimsy out of pure spite.

Okay its winter break from grad school. Finally playing Hades II. Its a miracle I have not been spoiled in any way

Something The Muppet's Christmas Carol has that other versions don't have. All of Scrooge's coworkers are played by muppets. He literally HAS to look down at them. He doesn't see them as human. This psychological look into Scrooge's mindset can only be achieved using fuzzy muppets.

about my book, a thread 🧵 ~ I wrote the first draft in 2022, right after quietly coming to terms with my NB identity after a decades-long journey of deconstruction, therapy, and diagnoses. I wanted to write something fun and full of things I loved. I was not setting out to write a personal story 🧵

my to-do list for 2026- Read more books Finally figure out how to post my book online for free Watch more indie animation and micro-budget films - I'm open to all suggestions on this front (seriously, I just want to upload my 🌈fantasy adventures story online for free how do I even start)

Every 5-10 months, I get a little treat. I get a little treat in the form of a gothic horror film with a big monster boy in it. I get this little treat at least twice a year. I need to keep getting these little treats for my morale. It's the carrot on the end of the stick.

Can Jessie Buckley be in a silly comedy or a Paddington movie, or something? I've never seen anyone suffer more on screen than Jessie Buckley. Ever since I first saw her in Chernobyl she's just been going through it. She had to watch Rory Kinnear give birth to himself.

I made a separate bluesky account on here for my *professional* work but I forgot my password and I can’t get into it 🫩 so I—- hhm

I bring up A Christmas Carol and my love of spooky victorian xmas and one of the youtubers I watch releases a Muppet's Christmas Carol retrospective. They knew.

I have *religious trauma*, so engaging with xmas-related things, even music, is not for me. However, I fucking love A Christmas Carol. I'd argue (and Charles Dickens would back me) that it's less about the jebus and more about pushing back against greed. With ghosts. And sometimes muppets.

Anyway, I think Love and Mercy is the best biopic out there. Extremely underrated. A unique look into the genius of Brian Wilson, thoughtfully played by the always excellent Paul Dano.

TCM has a lovely podcast called "The Plot Thickens". It's vintage, well-researched Hollywood T 🍵 🫖 about chaotic film shoots. The current industry has nothing on the level of chaos classic sets had oh my god

heya 👋 if I see an AI bro liking and sharing any of my posts, that's a block on sight. Fuck off, sir.

fyi the Moomin character in my pfp is Little My from Moomin. In the deep moomin-lore, she's a Mymble, which is also the name of her mother (????)

I don't celebrate thanksgiving, but I celebrate things I'm thankful for. A list - - My friends and family - My kitties (included with family, but I want to thank them twice - GDT releasing a physical copy of Frankenstein on dvd - Hoy-Hoy cockroach glue traps 🙏

1 more thing, and I'll shut up. There will always be punk rock. It'll just take different forms now. It'll take the form of handmade crafts. Of 4-panel mini-comics. In zines. Custom plush, indie games. Home-baked goods. Libraries. Be punk, make something for yourself, and go outside.

As overstuffed studios merge like giant icky blobs of goo and continue to pump out shitty, bland Content made from AI prompts, the only thing we can do is return to the campfire. Support indie creators. Seek out physical media. Make those OCs and share them with 4-5 of your friends.

2026 Met Gala theme is "art costume." I swear to god if I don't see any actual Art references, I'm going to personally drive over to the Met and give 'em a breezy 15-minute presentation on art history myself. Trust me, I know my shit. I'm 100k in debt as a fine art grad.

reddit doesn't understand the true nature of Michael Mann's homoerotic crime thriller

I approach book-to-movie adaptations like fanfic. I don't go to see them because I want accuracy. If I did, I would just read the book again. I want to see how an artist I enjoy responds to a story. I want those AUs, that canon divergence, the fix-its, the PWP Dead-Dove-Do-Not-Eat takes.

I'm very thankful for the appreciation my fanart has received. As a heads up, the work I made was between 2022-2023. I have not been in the ofmd fandom space since, and I won't be making any new art for it for the foreseeable future. 1/🧵

Gothic horror has always been a subversive genre because it took society's ideal of "a rich husband, big house, pure thoughts" and went, actually, what if your husband was trying to kill you, the house you live in is haunted, and you're h0rned up for the monster outside the door

listening to Rosalía's LUX album while painting is very dramatic of my ass but thats ok

bluesky, please make it so I can make my likes private thanks

look, its a taurus moon, I actually have positive things happening in my future, charli xcx is dropping more music, I saw frankenstein in 35mm and imax and I don’t feel like I’m slowly being sucked into oblivion for the first time in 12 months.

we are so close to a muppet renaissance

Nintendo only drops anything Animal Crossing related during times of stress. This is not a coincidence this is just fact. I’m sure they have board meetings revolving around this.

My favorite bts pictures are when an actor is only halfway dressed as the character they are playing, and they're holding a cup of coffee or something. Bonus points if the character is a monster/creature, so the actor is halfway done with silicone appliances. It's so silly. Acting is so silly.

been dodging Hades II spoilers like my life depends on it 😩 gimme a break please I can’t start playing atm

honestly the only real complaint I have about GDT’s Frankenstein is that I saw it too early and now I have to wait for fanart.

Feeling very blessed and refreshed after seeing Frankenstein in 35mm. Thank you gdt for daddy issues monster movie 🙏

6 years ago, ‘JOJO RABBIT’ released in theaters. Taika Waititi won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Got to see a really cool talk with Guillermo Del Toro. It was part of a fundraiser for libraries. What a great night, cried the whole time ✨ Support your local library!

Having a favorite director in the Bad Director Jail is the ultimate test of fan loyalty. I got nothing but respect for people who still love Damien Chazelle. You all are solid, he’s a good director, he’ll get outta there soon. Solidarity. ✊

I'm sorry about the person I will become when Pillion comes out.

Though I will always be morally against an american adaptation of Moomins, if there was anyone out there who could understand Tove Jansson's vision, it's Rebecca Sugar.

Apparently, the only way for me to actually sit and watch a commercial all the way through is if Matt Berry and Jemaine Clement narrate it. Which is really fair tbh www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbO1...

Anyway, support indie animation. Support indie artists, support your local Library, buy that zine, make that crochet beanie yourself, go to the local park and touch all the grass like your life depends on it.

There is a lot of art out there that criticizes d*sney. Most of it is very surface-level, glib commentary. Knights of Guinevere is the first one that feels like it's coming from a genuine place of hurt and anger. I hope Dana Terrace has a lovely day. I'm definitely going to keep watching 🔥

I’m not putting any stake in the Muppets revival until I see it with my own eyes. D*sney is stinky and doesn’t understand the muppets, or anything really.

Its technically the end of summer for me, but I won' t stop watching or writing about movies 🔥 Bee Summer Movie watch is forever baby

I trust a random person on letterboxd whose top movie is Barbie : Princess and the Pauper over any actual film critic. This sounds silly but I mean it.

nothing gives me more anxiety than sharing posts because my thumb is always one slip away from accidentally sending a thirst post to my grad professor