brunneraleo

charlie || 21 || any pronouns || butch lesbian 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 || horror enthusiast || artist || comms open ||

[prince-frederic]

in light of events in belfast rn, im gonna post this fundraiser

Support people and groups impacted by racist attacks

We are raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised in racist attacks in Belfast.

if youre able to donate, itd mean a lot to everyone whos been affected by this

[mumblesplash]

[staggering to my feet and wiping a single perfect drip of blood from my mouth] i have to get back on my bullshit. no matter the cost

[brunneraleo]

[oc] BEFORE I FORGET. MERMAY ART

Cara and Azriel once again. haven't drawn them in a while but I still got it

[denalis]

hey btw if ur transphobic don’t interact with my blog. we support trans people here

[t4timekeeper]

“we shouldn’t be holding indie creators to the same standards as bigger media“ i agree on principle but like this only seems to ever come up when the indie creator in question is being racist for some mysterious reason. So

[t4timekeeper]

idgaf if youre transgender stop saying the n word

[amphibianshaped]

the most perfect organism 🖤

[oddarette]

Yep, I made a frutiger aero soft soap alien… 💧🐠🤍🫧🧼

[genderfluid-and-confuzled]

thought one: yummy yummy

thought two: orange juice in my tummy

[gingik]

[tera-of-the-dragons]

grossed is such a weird way to describe how much a movie makes. how much did this movie yucky

[mewwon]

the vivid sensory-memory of sucking water out of a washcloth as a child

[edibleteef]

Fabric painting appreciation post

[integratedcane]

Based on the design made by @googoogaga733!

[indigosfindings]

relatedly: probably no one has made greater contributions to Posting than dr roberta bobby

[indigosfindings]

with complete sincerity: this might be the best post ever made

[petrow1tch]

some of my faves from personal dr roberta bobby preservation efforts archive:

[barnaclebess]

Silly little doodle of Sua and @brunneraleo's character, Nico! Lets go lesbians

[leftbooblover]

Doodling Gideon in random Pinterest outfits as a warmup for today ☀️

[brunneraleo]

horror media gets reduced often down to something purely violent and exploitative and it drives me NUTS because that's such an outsiders view on it. it reeks of someone whos never tried to meaningfully engage with the media. i think it's Extremely likely you're just parroting some random opinion you heard or are basing your opinion off a select few mediocre slashers that make up a FRACTION of the horror genre.

putting aside the fact that sometimes fear can be purely unserious and for fun and that's Fine (rollercoasters and drop towers?? for example????) it completely ignores the vast amount of horror media made to explore themes that impact the creator in some way. horror genre isn't some robot churning out mid teenager slasher cabin films. it's full of creators writing about and portraying something that Matters to them and writing the whole genre off based on some examples that are a little stupid and "meaningless" is Ridiculous.

i will not argue that horror does not have films or creators that do focus on being exploitative and discriminatory to minorities but so does Every Genre and so writing off horror based on this idea is Also stupid.

even if you look at slashers, you cannot watch Scream and miss it's discussion of misogyny and the villification of women unless you go in Wanting to ignore it. alternatively in other horror genres, look at Sinners and what it says about racism and cultural appropriation. On the flip side it also highlights the importance of community and joy in hostile environments. 28 days later is about surviving through the absolute worst case scenario and the joy in that film is ALSO extremely important. 28 years later on the other hand explores grief. Silent Hill 2 is about guilt, Silent Hill f is about the roles women in society have placed on them. Alien is about violation, isolation, and being considered disposable by authority figures (same with both versions of Iron Lung). I Saw The TV Glow is about queerness and transness. Train to Busan is about family, and those are just a select few examples of Fairly popular, well known pieces of horror media that depict topics that clearly Mean Something to the creators.

Horror is a Setting or Scenario used to explore or work with a specific theme. It's not definable by teens doing stupid things in a mansion or forest or whatever. (Not to mention if you bothered actually watching slashers you'd realise a large portion fully Are Not That but whatever)

its about survival, it's about mental illness and trauma, it's about joy and what it means to keep going, it's about the real world horror of what it's like to be villified and treated as lesser, it's about exploring these topics in a way that's safe and engaging.

You cannot write off a whole genre as one thing. and you should not villify a genre because it makes you feel something negative. In that case we're not allowed dystopias or sad movies either. like congrats you've banned The Hunger Games because it's sad and horrific.

anyway, this would hold more weight if i actually posted my own story concepts more often but as someone who Does use horror themes to explore topics that are central to my life PLEASE kindly stop generalising the whole genre especially without trying to meaningfully engage with it. and maybe learn to be a little more comfortable with negative topics.