a rat is running this account

(it failed pe classes)

[greseadraws]

tadc and backrooms being in the theaters at the same time was too funny to me, banishing caine to the backrooms

[superbbirdofparadise]

The 21st century's Rocky Horror Picture Show theater experience was divided into The Minecraft Movie (people making a mess) and The Last Act (people dressing up in fun costumes).

[plumebeat]

An oldie of mine.

[xxlunawarriorxx]

sorry i didn't post for a year. it will probably happen again

[soup-thing]

morticia and gomez both having homoerotic relationships with their former roommates……alright. apple doesn’t fall far from the tree i see

[hadesisqueer]

I haven't watched Wednesday this season but I've seen the spoilers and honestly I get why Wenclairs are mad because if the writers kept pushing my favorite character to be with a guy who tried to kill her and literally put her in a coma and who isn't even really her type according to other media (she likes kind guys) when she has more chemistry with her female best friend who literally sacrificed her own humanity and accepted to be alone even if that's her worst fear just to save her and who are inevitably queer coded and then called the first thing love and the second thing a sisterly relationship then I would start swinging too

[yenvengerberg]

"Rotwood said we had to unravel the innermost secrets of the lives we stepped into." WEDNESDAY Season 2 Episode 6: Woe Thyself

[cherylblossom]

#the Wenclair body swap we didn't know we needed

[avasillva]

If I wolfed out and couldn't, you know, change back, would you come and find me? I have no problem hunting you down.

ENID SINCLAIR & WEDNESDAY ADDAMS Wednesday S02E07: Woe Me the Money

[thememedaddy]

[berylian]

[redstonedust]

the thing that bothers me with 7 deadly sin based characters is when they cant decide if they embody the sin by suffering from it or by drawing it out of others. ie. if your gluttony demon is a guy who loves eating then your lust demon should be a gooner sex pest. and if your lust demon is a seductive girlboss then your gluttony demon should be a 5 star chef. does this make sense.

[thestuffedalligator]

Okay I just wrapped up the annual Over the Garden Wall rewatch and it’s late and I don’t know how well I’ll be able to articulate these thoughts but:

The Beast knows it’s in a story

The Beast knows it’s in a story, and it knows how people react to stories, and that’s horrifying in a series based out of folklore and fairy tales and storytelling tradition. The Beast preys on people by knowing how they’ll react to stories. The Beast acts frustrated that Greg used a honey comb for a “golden comb” and a spiderweb on a stick for a “spool of golden thread,” but it’s baiting a trap - by exploiting that same fairytale logic, Greg is going to die of exposure in the cold while he waits for the sun to “set” in a cup

Because of course Greg will wait to see the sun set into the cup. Of course the Woodsman will keep the lantern lit. That’s how the story should go. The Beast is a parasite sucking blood out of a perfectly arranged Grimm fairy tale about the martyrdom of parenthood.

The only way to properly defeat it is to actively defy the story being set out ahead of you. Over the Garden Wall says, over and over again, that Wirt will sacrifice his life for Greg. “You are responsible for you and your brother’s actions,” the show says. The original pitch bible for the series said that Wirt would sacrifice himself for Greg, that he’d die to take responsibility for Greg-

And then Wirt stops and says “Wait. That’s dumb” and immediately shatters the story that’s been set up for him, and that’s how he defeats the Beast.

[less-lost-than-you-realize]

This is SUCH an interesting take on the show

[blueberry-bubbles130]

Saving this for later.

[knebellindemann]

[shadow-of-the-eclipse]

on my death note crusade, tried to tone their colours and reverse the lighting but it turns out lighting is hard

[hijinkiewinkies]

remisa but human rem 4 fun

[transgenderer]

the least modern thing in the odyssey is all the slavery, but also like...the ethics in general. homer (the abstract homer) understands that being enslaved is a very terrible thing to happen to you, but doesn't really seem to think *buying* or even really selling slaves is like, a bad thing to do. which i think is just a particular example of a general policy where homer doesn't seem to think like, harming people is bad. it's a weirdly amoral book. characters mostly just care about their own self-interest, or the interest of their loved ones, plus social consequences of harming people you dont care about. it emphasizes the guest right heavily, but this is explicitly framed as "if you break guest right, zeus will kill you". there doesn't seem to be an idea that something is wrong to do in itself. i wonder if plato was thinking of the odyssey and similar tales when he wrote thrasymachus...

[fandomsandfeminism]

The Odyssey, like many stories from older times, places a lot of moral weight on hierarchies.

Odysseus is a king and a warrior and beloved by Athena. So it is a great tragedy when he is betrayed by his men, losses his ships and loot and power, losses his autonomy and freedom to Calypso. He is brought low- until he is literally naked and shipwrecked, at the mercy of Princess Nausicaa's kindness. And it is good and right when he regains his power and authority when he returns to Ithaca and cleanses his palace with *soooo* much bloodshed.

It's fine if a swine herd is treated like a swine herd, but it is unjust and tragic for a KING to be treated as a begger. (So, yes. Odysseus and Penelope own slaves. And the story treats this as fine. Of course the king and queen would own slaves. That's the hierarchy. Which is wild for modern audiences.)

It's not that you can treat other people however you want, but that you should treat people according to their place in the social hierarchy. Guests have a specific place in that hierarchy, and guest/host obligations are HUGE in the story. But also the obligations between captain/crew, king/subject, god/mortal. (And man/woman. The gender politics, especially when you look at Circes switch from antagonist to ally, and Odysseus being forced into the wife role with Calypso are *intense*) (Also, slave/master. The reason that the slave girls are killed because they slept with and were friendly to the suitors is because by doing so they were disloyal to Penelope and Odysseus. Never mind our modern understanding of consent and coercion- their deaths are needed for Odysseus to reestablish his authority on Ithaca. It's the most brutal part of the Odyssey, and by far the most difficult for modern audiences to grapple with.)

We often talk about Hubris as being about arrogance, excessive pride, but it's more accurate to frame hubris as Pride which violates those hierarchies, excessive because it doesnt acknowledge ones proper place. Pride which makes the common man think he's better than a king, Pride which makes a king think he's better than a God.

Id argue that it isn't so much that the Odyssey is amoral, so much as its morals are very different from our own. We are very used to a moral worldview which holds that all people are equal, that how you treat others should be consistent and equitable, without regard for class or caste. And that's an incredibly *modern* worldview.

[cruelnemothesis]