i was arguing with someone in the saw fandom about camp

and my basic take was endless escalation means you end up in camp, you can’t not, you might sneak an entry through here and there but the franchise = camp, but also that this is true of any franchise

its not unique to horror [see Fast X],

and they were adamant that this did not apply especially to the saw franchise because camp should be unintentional, and I wanted to respond “do you think they plan it?” because I don’t think any film maker except john walters [maybe rob zombie for the monsters] aims for camp successfully [tim burton has a catalog of swings and misses]

but here’s the questoin

why is it a bad thing for your film franchise to turn into camp

some of the greatest horrors ever made are high camp - see the hammer studio and roger corman’s time with vincent price

if you think that the saw franchise has more meaning and depth than “Masque of the Red Death (1964)” which adds to the themes of the story and makes prosper a well rounded character and looks like the colour test card for suspiria you are completely underestimating everything you’ve labelled as camp

camp can often be a delight and I’ve watched Dog Soldiers way more times than I’ve watched the Descent, same writer and director just one ends up embracing camp and the other one - which arguably a better movie - doesn’t fill the same fun window

and if you think the saw franchise avoids camp you have to admit you’re watching it for the splatter and not the narrative - and that’s okay?

do you think people watch Zombie [Dir Lucio Fulci] for the plot or the eye gouging scene - because no one remembers the plot for that, but the eye gouging we all remember in clinical detail

embrace the camp, laugh when Jason punches off a boxer’s head like in rock em sock em robots, don’t question why spraying someone with fine mists of liquid nitrogen doesn’t just burn the victim, wait for them to shatter, don’t question why that trap wouldn’t work to spring open Dina Meyers rib cage [it absolutely would not] just enjoy the silliness and splatter - after all it’s why you’re there

thebaconsandwichofregret:

twofifthsofmaria:

Hundreds of thousands of people came out today in London to March for a Free Palestine. Hundreds of thousands of people disagreeing with the current government stance on the war. Don’t let the media fool you, people in the UK stand with Palestine.

Reports are saying that nearly half a million people marched in this protest. That’s roughly equivalent to 1 in every 16 people who live in Greater London.

I’ve personally not seen anything on this scale since the Iraq war protests.

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writesterek:

For @sterekfests fall theme Sweater Weather

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lgbtlunaverse:

Nothing will dispell the “the curtains were just blue” myth faster than writing something yourself, because the amount of pretentious symbolism i am putting in my silly little fanfics is ridiculous. I mean SO much with these words, literally every single one of them. This fic has twenty five typos and zero correct uses of punctuation but if there’s curtains you bet your ass I put thought into what colour they were.

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buriedknight:

the dead and the saints

[oc]

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wongbal:

the Federation itself as a concept is so funny because the founding members are

• the Vulcans, who have been friends with humanity for years but don’t seem to actually like them all that much, instead regarding them with a sort of perverse fascination usually reserved for virology labs
• the Andorians, who were fighting the Vulcans for like a hundred years
• the Tellarites, who don’t like any of these people and whose cultural trait is arguing, and
• humans, whom nobody knew existed until last century when they shot themselves into space on a heavily modified nuke, invented world peace and won a fight with the nearest imperial superpower

like imagine you’re the Romulan Empire and these weird monkeys who’ve barely figured out interstellar travel show up on your doorstep in the equivalent of a shipping container with missiles strapped to it, kick your ass in front of everybody, and then start a friendship club with 3 of your neighbours who all hated each others’ guts until like a year ago. now I understand why every Romulan on the show is so angry

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herbert-best:

Hey so I know Black Sails was a while ago and I’m late to the pirate party but I desperately need your attention for a moment because I’m losing my MIND.

Obviously the show is a fantastic no-holds-barred blend of history and fiction, but there’s one historical connection that I thought was half my imagination at first, but every second I look at this shit I’m sliding downhill into acceptance.

The Hamiltons and their complicated and scandalous relationship with a Naval officer…..

…are based on the Hamiltons and their complicated and scandalous relationship with a Naval officer?

Yes, that’s a picture of Horatio Nelson on the end. I know, and I’m sorry. Please give me a chance to explain myself.

We have, right to left, Admiral Nelson, Sir William Hamilton, and Sir William’s wife, Emma Hamilton, mostly remembered for her extraordinarily blatant and scandalous affair with Nelson. It was a hell of a thing.  There were contemporary rude cartoons about William Hamilton being so scholarly and oblivious that he didn’t know his wife was openly carrying on with Nelson. There’s even a movie about it starring Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier, for whatever that’s worth.

But it’s a little ridiculous, the extent to which their torrid affair is remembered for having happened under William Hamilton’s nose. Nelson lived with the both of them for extended periods, traveled across Europe with them, wrote incessantly to them. In fact, they referred to themselves fondly as the Tria juncta in uno– that is to say, three joined in one.

Look me in the eyes right now.

 Letter from Sir William Hamilton to Lady Emma Hamilton
Burford, Eighty Miles from London.
Saturday Night, [July 27th, 1801.]

Here we are, my Dear Emma, after a pleasant day’s journey! No extraordinary occurrence. Our chaise is good, and would have held the famous “Tria juncta in Uno,” very well: but, we must submit to the circumstances of the times.
…
Amuse yourself as well as you can; and you may be assured, that I shall return as soon as possible, and you shall hear from me often.

Ever your’s, my dear Emma, with the truest affection,

 Wm. HAMILTON.

My kindest love to my Lord, if he is not gone.

I’m sorry but I don’t know what else to tell you.

Excerpt, letter from Sir William Hamilton to Admiral Horatio Nelson
Palermo, May 26th, 1799

Above all, take care of your health; that is the first of blessings. May God ever protect you! We miss you heavily: but, a short time must clear up the business; and, we hope, bring you back to those who love and esteem you to the very bottom of their souls.

Sir William Hamilton ending a letter to his wife:
  Adieu, my dearest Emma! Your’s, with my whole soul,
      W.H.

Sir William Hamilton ending a letter to Nelson:
   Adieu, my dear Lord! Your Lordship’s truly affectionate, and eternally attached,
      Wm. Hamilton

This has been driving me completely bonkers wrt the attitudes of the historical accounts for a hot minute now, particularly since Emma became a social pariah for their highly-publicized presumed affair after Sir William, and then Nelson, predeceased her, but I honestly cannot, for a single eight-hundredth of a second, imagine that the concept of the Hamiltons and Lt. McGraw came about without some awareness of the self-proclaimed Tria of the actual married Hamiltons and their very dearly loved Naval hero.

And, for one final small item of infuriatingly minor but TOO CONVENIENT connection– Sir William Hamilton had been married once, prior to Emma, and was widowed by his first wife’s early death. His first wife, with whom he was eventually buried, was named Catherine Hamilton, née Barlow.

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pengychan:

Sometimes you watch a show, love it, join the fandom, and have a great time.

Sometimes you watch a show, love it, join the fandom, and have a okay time.

Sometimes you watch a show, love it, join the fandom, and have a bad time.

Sometimes you watch a show, love it, take a look at the fandom, and see the fandom equivalent of a nuclear mushroom cloud telling you in no uncertain terms that it’s best to keep enjoying the show well away from the fandom. And possibly upwind.

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newhologram:

newhologram:

It’s wild when you’re disabled and have adapted your entire life to be able to function even a little bit and people will still think you’ve “given up” or “let the illnesses win” because you allow yourself to rest. Grind mindset is garbage.

#op is it okay to tag this with mental illness/disorders? i know this is more directed at the physically disabled but this really resonates-#-with things that have been said to me about my ocd

Yes, of course! Mental illnesses/disorders are also disabilities that require rest and regulation.

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freyjawriter24:

queer-human-being:

aegipan-omnicorn:

tenitchyfingers:

“We chose the term “asexual” to describe ourselves because both “celibate” and “anti-sexual” have connotations we wished to avoid: the first implies that one has sacrificed sexuality for some higher good, the second that sexuality is degrading or somehow inherently bad. “Asexual”, as we use it, does not mean “without sex” but “relating sexually to no one”. This does not, of course, exclude masturbation but implies that if one has sexual feelings they do not require another person for their expression. Asexuality is, simply, self-contained sexuality.”

— The Asexual Manifesto, Lisa Orlando and Barbara Getz, 1972

Note the date, people:

That’s 1972

29 years before AVEN was started online,

and 47 years before the present.

And that’s only the date that Manifesto was written, so asexuals as members of a community must have existed at least some time before that.

So, no: we are not just Tumblr trenders. Get out of here with that.

supporting my asexual friends and foes by rebbloging this

It’s 50 years this month since the first version of the Asexual Manifesto was written. Aces have been writing about our experiences under this name for at least half a century. We are not an internet fad.

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ms-demeanor:

ms-demeanor:

hey, don’t cry. one cup heavy whipping cream, two tablespoons granulated sugar, three tablespoons cocoa powder and whisk until stiff peaks form for three ingredient chocolate mousse, okay?

i realized that i like the format because it’s the exact opposite of the recipe blogs with 1000 words before they get to an ingredient list.

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gresit:

A MOVIE A DAY KEEPS THE GHOULIES AWAY - DAY 26
↪ How do you know that the person you were one second ago, is the same person that you are right now?
PERFECT BLUE | パーフェクトブルー (1997) dir. Satoshi Kon

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sophsun1:

“It is quite unhealthy, but they are so feverishly, manically in love with each other. They can’t be away from each other and they can’t be near each other at the same time.” - Jacob Anderson

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durnesque-esque:

ordinarytalk:

redstonedust:

tbh shoutout to the over 40s on tumblr, sorry the internet acts like yall belong in the retirement home when ur literally just regular adults with hobbies

I was going to leave comments in the tags, but I decided this was important enough to put on main.

In college, my friend group collectively got into the SCA - Society for Creative Anachronism. They’re the people who get really into medieval reenactment, the fighting and crafts and cooking, they have kings and queens and knights and events and a good percentage of them (but not all!) work or have worked at Ren Faires.

I am forever grateful my friends dragged me into that, because it was my first introduction to fandom in older adults. Middle-aged dorks. Elderly nerds. Absolutely as intense and weird and hilarious and fun as any fan in their teens or 20s. I started getting into fandom already knowing there was a road ahead for me as I got older, full of handmade costumes and late night movies and shelves of pewter dragon goblets and mixed-aged road trips to meet ups and conventions.

And it kills me that so many people don’t know that sort of community even exists. On both sides, even! I went to Philcon a few years ago, which tends towards older fans, and an older woman I was talking to sadly told me that she thought fandom was dying out, because she never saw younger fans any more.

Over the past decade, there’s been a really toxic movement towards keeping different ages strictly separated, both in and outside of fandom. There’s this strong implication that if an older person wants to interact with a younger person, there is something inherently predatory about that.

Yeah, that attitude sucks. That drive towards separation and puritanism sucks. Declaring that younger people should have nothing to look forward to and that older people should stay separated and lonely sucks. It sucks and we are all worse for it.

Don’t fear age. Don’t put an age limit on having fun. Give yourself a damn future.

Beverly passed away in 2019, but she was one of many of my favorite, elder cosplayers that frequent DragonCon and remind all of us to keep playing as long as we can.

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nativenews:

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