howl [he/him]

fully and completely insane current hyperfixation: john wick

[iamalivenow]

i simply think that if you liked skinamarink but have not played anatomy or read house of leaves you should play anatomy and read house of leaves

[dragimal]

the great (horrifying) thing about supernatural horror involving little kids is the underlying thread of helplessness that isn't really present with adult characters/stories

like with Skinamarink, we could debate whether the happenings of the film are physically "happening" or whether they're a metaphor for something more realistic (like child abuse/neglect), but at the end of the day the result is the same: these kids are 100% completely powerless

to a kid, an omnipotent god-entity is at the same level of confusing and powerful as a particularly cruel adult. without any way to call for help (or any way to get adults to listen to them), they're fucked either way. this is especially true if the kid is too young to have really internalized "rules of reality" yet-- they don't know how the world is "supposed" to work yet, so they prolly won't pick up on subtle spacial/metaphysical fuckery. they just know that they're scared and hurt and confused, and no one is around to help them

it rly puts into perspective the kinda world kids are forced to navigate, esp when we don't take the time to meet them at their level or care to listen to them. and, alternately, I think it also serves as an interesting way to view cosmic horror-- entities that often overlook the gaps in our perspectives and don't (or maybe can't) properly explain their motives or actions, and have the power to wreak devastating trauma on us if they have the inclination

[melancholicwriteaholic]

I am so fucking strong, Skinamarink entity barely even wants to spawn anymore no matter how many layers of child abuse metaphors I'm on

[howlsblogs]

some of y’all are not the kind of people who can understand skinamarink and that’s ok.

just shut the fuck up about it, it wasn’t for you!

[jessaerys]

rewatched skinamarink today at the movie theater and this time around it was less scary and so so unbelievably sadder. the abuse metaphor is very straightforward. it's 90 mins of very early childhood abuse simulator. you know the kind that you don't really remember except in your body, the dreamlike derealization of being born into sustained trauma. the ephemeral organic intangible unreliable nature of memory. how it feels like to be so young and new to being alive that your reality is whatever someone else makes for you. the helplessness of being small and under the care of something that wants to hurt you, and yet the vulnerable animal instinct that a child has to still try to bond with it. can we watch something happy. go to sleep. what is your name. what is your name

[peerless-cucumber]

inflicting yall with the anxiety and dread this sound now produces in me

[howlsblogs]

who’s your celebrity nemesis

chris pratt