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Dean & Cas ⇢ 5x18 “Point of No Return”

corgiaddict

linseymorris

therepublicofletters

Symphony No. 1, “Winter Daydreams” by P. Tchaikovsky.

iamgandalfandgandalfmeansme

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Something happened here. You hope it’s a miracle, but probably not. -j.m.

glossynympheteyes

this movie is so fucking creepy jesus fuck

dumpster-king

It’s by Tim Burton, what did you honestly expect?

porcelainandgold

Actually, it’s Henry Selick, who was the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas. The book was written by Neil Gaiman, though, and is far…far….worse.

whatpunkin

Sorry, I’m about to geek the hell out.

The movie is captivating, but the book is twenty kinds of terrifying, even now, ten years after I first read it. As disturbing as the movie may have been to some, the things Selick added really serve to cushion just how horrific the story really is.

First of all, the character of Wybie does not exist in the book. Coraline is facing all of this nearly alone, with her only help coming from the sly comments of the cat, a warning from the circus mice, and the stone given to her by her neighbor, presented with no comment but that it “makes the unseen seen.”

Second, the Other Parents are never quite as warm (and, dare I say, normal) as they are in the gifs above. They’re described as having paper-white skin and the Other Mother’s hair is said to move on its own, and her long, red, claw-like nails don’t ease any uncertainty that she is absolutely, positively up to no good. The first time Coraline meets them, they (and the rest of the Others) seem to be playing roles (for whatever reason, Coraline does not seem to pick up on this), like they all know what to say and what to do and are simply waiting for Coraline to make her move in their terrifying play world. This is shown to be partly true when the Other Parents tell her they know she’ll be back soon after she refuses the buttons - this time, to stay.

Third, the Other Mother commits atrocities that really should not have been in a book for anyone not fully grown up. She physically deforms the world around Coraline to slow her progress in their game beyond any mild traps the movie portrays, and, instead of turning the Other Father into the wandering pumpkin-thing seen in the film, she simply ceases to use him and throws his body away in the cellar, leaving him to rot with whatever bit of sentience he has left. She begins to lose her touch, as Coraline gains the upper hand. Her world doesn’t just become a nightmare - it falls apart completely. No creepy but oddly cool bug furniture here, just the house that now appears to be a child’s drawing. Whatever the Other Mother is (a beldame, but something tells me she’s much more ancient and powerful than that), she does not give half a hump about what she has to do to ensnare Coraline. Destroy the supporting characters of her twisted creation? Done. Allow herself to be dismembered to ruin Coraline’s life in the normal world? Not even gonna bat an eyelash.

On a final, personal note, imagine eight year-old me, ignored by my parents, absorbed in the story and identifying with Coraline from the start. Imagine me finishing this bloodcurdling book and immediately thinking of my basement, where there is still a locked door that my grandmother swears up and down is nothing more than a storage room, but has not once in my (or my mother’s) lifetime unlocked.

Can you see why this book still scares me?

hematite2

Fun fact I learned from seeing neil gaiman speak: when he first wanted the book published, his editor said it was too scary. He suggested she read it to her young daughter, and then decide. So she did, and her daughter wasn’t afraid, and it was published. Years later, Gaiman was sitting next to that daughter at an event and told her this story, and she said “oh I was terrified I just didn’t want to tell my mom”.

Coraline WAS too scary to be published, but exists anyway because a girl lied to her mother.

petrichormeraki

feyariel

@neil-gaiman, is this true about the publisher’s daughter?

neil-gaiman

It was my literary agent, Merrilee Heifetz who read it and said “you can’t seriously expect this to be published as a children’s book.” So I suggested she read it to her daughters. And she called me back a week later and said “They love it and they weren’t scared at all. I’ll take it to Harper Children’s.”

A decade later, at the Opening Night of the Coraline musical, I was sitting next to Morgan, Merilee’s youngest daughter, and told her how her not being scared had made the book happen. And she said “I was terrified. But I needed to find out what happened next. So nobody knew.”

So, yes.

trashmouthkid

This is my alternate universe and I make the rules and I say that Richie Tozier calls Ben “Ben Handsome” because its sweet and makes me happy :)

trashmouthkid

like a week into joining the group, after Richie says something like “toss me the remote, would ya, handsome?” for the tenth time, Ben finally leans into Eddie and is like “does he know it’s Hanscom?” and Eddie’s like “oh yeah, no worries, that just means he likes you”

jewul

he’s president of the trashmouth fanclub!

(inspired by this fic)

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mike wheeler “ fuck blue lives ” moodboard

romancedawg

here to remind y’all that eddie kaspbrak was a hypochondriac (which is an illness anxiety disorder) as well as the victim of munchausen by proxy (a condition where a caregiver creates the appearance of health problems in their child).

you see, eddie did not have asthma but he did have intense anxiety. hypochondriacs often aren’t aware that depression and anxiety produce their own physical symptoms, and mistake these symptoms for manifestations of another mental or physical disorder or disease. so what he thought were asthma attacks were really panic attacks (a good thing the inhaler worked as a placebo to calm him tbh). what is worse is that he was coerced into taking medication he didn’t need for illnesses he didn’t have, while being robbed of the medication he really needed for the illness he did have. making him worse and worse by the day.

and so, as an adult, we see that eddie kept playing the sick role in front of people since he was taught that he was more likely to receive the positive maternal attention he craved… but hypochondriasis can cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning, making it even harder for him. the chance that he also developed psychological disorders such as clinical depression, panic disorder, separation anxiety and ocd is very high.

eddie kaspbrak was physically, mentally and socially abused as a child, and it resulted in severe consequences for him as an adult. eddie kaspbrak lived alongside demons of anxiety, fear and dejection his entire life…

but he died a hero fighting these demons.

trashcaninspotlight-deactivated

Missing Walkers shoes rn.

backpackgrayson

Gif credit: @itsbillhader

These gifs aren’t just him screaming out for him, this is him saying “look at me, look at me and you’ll be fine”. It’s like the scene in the first movie where in their final moments Richie makes sure Eddie’s looking at him and not at the scary clown.

Even in life and death situations Richie’s first instinct is to make sure that Eddie’s okay, that he won’t be scared, to make sure Eddie knows that Richie’s there.

#me: 🥺🥰#!!! <3 #reddie