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Thinking about a vampire dude bro who won't drink girl blood- because he's afraid it will estroginise him soy products style- getting trapped in a mental cage when he learns vampire dude who only bites other dudes reads as gay

dateamonster

look i WISH more horror movies were just the directors thinly disguised fetish. instead we got all these horror movies that are just undisguised reflections of culturally hegemonic values and anxieties. like if we got some weird fetishes up in here it would probably add some variety thats all im saying.

spam-monster

Iron Lung and Project Hail Mary as "men who persevere against impossible odds and find courage in the depths of despair"

Versus Obsession and Backrooms "men will willingly stay in a literal horror movie situation over confronting their mistakes and taking responsibility for their actions"

wishful-seeker

Ive never liked horror movies because of the excessive use of the same tropes over and over, and the main characters getting into bad situations because they are stupid with no survival instinct.

What made obsession and backrooms my favorite horror movies immediately, is that the main characters don't suffer because they are stupid. They suffer because they are bad and selfish people. Also really love the idea that the horror is a punishment to the main character for their arrogance.

#obsession #backrooms

gimmielovemp3

on my second viewing of obsession, i had the realization that nikki’s story at the party wasn’t the movie using incest as an easy shorthand for making the audience uncomfortable or creating a general “things are off” vibe but was another way the real nikki was crying out—a metaphor for the fact that nikki, like gretel, is being made to fuck her “little brother” (bear) under duress, at the behest of an external magic (the witch’s spell in her story; obviously, bear’s wish)

#holy shit #i put together that the story was supposed to represent them but #i didnt clock that the story was saying that gretel was under a spell too #so its a direct reflection #thats so cool #obsession

shouts-into-the-void

One thing about Obsession (2026) that I enjoyed was that it almost asks you to feel empathy for the entity possessing Nikki as well as the real one. Like, obviously the things she's doing are horrific and fucked up, but I think the scene where Bear is asking her to "just be Nikki!" and she eventually just desperatly screams "I can't be Nikki!" does a really good job of showcasing the entity's inner feelings. She's been created with the sole purpose of loving this guy more than anyone else but no matter how perfect it is or how much he claims to love her, its not her that he loves, its Nikki. And any time she stops pretending to be Nikki, he reacts (albeit rightfully) with disgust and horror. She can't be Nikki because Nikki would never love Bear, and so Bear will never love her.

#obsession

pull-the-thren

I think "what if we molded ourselves to each other perfectly" has legs as a kink dynamic if we could ever get anyone to take off their compulsive "understand any kink dynamic through dominance and submission" glasses

pull-the-thren

The best part about it genuinely is your movements get scary synced. Put all your energy into mirroring and learning and being suitable to each other and suddenly you get bored and miss them and they message that they were just thinking about you. Suddenly a cup of water appears in your hand when you're thirsty. It's weird and a little bit magical.

It takes time to set up. But it's super achievable and you can definitely start with like. Basic mimicry and hypnosis to get your feet wet. Later you start discussing your every boundary and value, nothing kept sacred, full agreement almost always the goal. This isn't exactly SSC but like. Per that other post neither is heavy obedience training. I think that's actually the hard part - society says it's fucked up to spend all your time devoted to someone, and a lot of people don't know how to reconcile wanting that without painting the person they're devoted to as evil and saying it's ok because it's consensual and the fact that it's evil is hot. You do not have to think this is evil. You can just staple your identity and sense of reality to someone and have them do the same back and watch your life get weirder. Make strange paracosms together. Lose track of who did what and whose tongue is whose. Join me in knowing the feeling of "I would answer that but I store that information in my other body."

I need more of you to become inseparable and borderline interchangeable. It's way too messy to be realistic for most but it's way too fun and achievable to be as underrepresented as it is.

#me and you know who #we joke abt mind melding but this could be us #shed be too afraid to lose herself though #and she values our seperate personalities more #however #i think wed be great as one

soottea

Commander Taqtasa Blas, or, whats left of him

#hoooly shit this fucks severely #the tainted cup

alcyoneusgalaxy

right after the fight at the mill

strovi: yeah and then din killed two guys and knocked out one more. I had no idea he was that skilled at combat miljin: hm. you think you could take him, though? strovi: yeah. miljin: strovi: oh you meant in a fight

#the tainted cup

imjustheretomooch

One of the best things of reading the tainted cup is slowly realizing just how batshit Din seems to everyone else. Like he thinks he’s a normal, upstanding engraver, if a bit green and uncertain of himself, but to everyone else he’s almost as bad as Ana once he gets going

#the tainted cup

endlesslyabyssed

i do want to draw some shadow of the leviathan fanart eventually but for now, this meme

#the tainted cup

capricciosso

din: fuck how am i supposed to hide my dyslexia now....i'm the most shameful pathetic useless worm in the entire world [creep.mp3]

best detective in the empire, gently letting her assistant keep his very obvious secret: great work as always sweetheart. well done. carry on, now.

#the tainted cup #a shame so great it made him blow chunks in the first chapter #i love you din please keep going through the horrors for my entertainment #and the betterment of the empire i guess

abigailspinach

in case you missed it yesterday, we have released the cover for book 3 of the ANA AND DIN MYSTERIES, which is A TRADE OF BLOOD

#vibrating in my seat #the tainted cup #im so ready

alcyoneusgalaxy

absolutely obsessed with the thai translation cover art for the tainted cup

#WHAT THE FUCK I WANT IT #no hate to the standard book covers but #theyre so ugly #limited editio coppies are way better too #but THIS WOWOWOWOW #the tainted cup

hes so annoying... all i ask is that u dont yell and throw shit around my cat. you don't have to go on a tirade about how annoying she is and how much u have to suffer sooooo much more than me and "you care about her more than i do so youre not gonna tell me i have to coddle her" (bc shes MY cat when shes pissing you off right?) and make mocking cooing noises at me in between yelling at ME too.

which btw. nobody is telling you youre not allowed to get upset if she puts scratches into your shoes or if shes overly clingy while shes in heat but im asking youto control yourself and not SCREAM AT HER about it.

ive seen him get down yell as loudly as he can in her ears to scare her. ive seen him throw things around the room and make loud noises to get her to run away.

i have to deal with her too and unlike him, i cant just close my door to be away from her. i have to keep my door open bc her litter box is in here, so when shes in heat nothing is stopping her from coming in while im alseep or distracted to piss in something. ive had to do constant laundry and buy enzyme cleaners so my room doesnt smell like piss. i had throw out at least 2 pairs of shoes and clean out my whole closet and barricade it so it doesnt happen again.

are all these things inconveniences to me? do i get pissed off at her sometimes? would i like to yell and scream and throw things around like a child too? yes. of course. but i recognize it wouldnt accomplish anything towards stopping the behavior. it might make me feel better briefly, but id probably just make myself angrier. most importantly, it would stress my fucking cat out and potentially lead to more unsavory behaviors that id have to deal with as well. so even when she fucking pissed on my pillow while my head was still on said pillow... i sat up, grabbed her, and put her out of the room while i cleaned things up and talked shit under my breath until i calmed down enough to go on with my morning. bc like i said. YELLING AND SCREAMING AND THROWNING SHIT DOESNT ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING. YES I WAS PISSED, I DESERVED TO BE PISSED! BUT IM NOT GOING TO TAKE IT OUT ON THE FUCKING ANIMAL THAT LIVES IN MY HOUSE.

not that i even give a shit about ranking whos suffering more. it wasnt even relevant. i just asked him to not yell and throw stuff around when he gets mad. but the man lacks fucking listening comprehension and cant take any sort of feedback without trying to deflect by making a jab or complaining abt something else. im tired of dealing with him reacting like this all the time.

#rambles #the guy is making me want to punch him