ilioneus

The last, Ilioneus, stretched out his arms in prayer, a useless gesture; he implored: "Oh, spare me, all you gods" - he did not know that he need not beseech them all. Apollo was moved - but mercy came too late. The arrow had left the bow already. Yet that son died from a wound less harsh; it struck his heart - but not too deeply. - Ovid, The Metamorphoses

[madeline-kahn]

WHEN SHALL WE THREE MEET AGAIN? IN THUNDER, LIGHTNING OR IN RAIN?

Macbeth (1948) dir. Orson Welles The Witches of Eastwick (1987) dir. George Miller Stardust (2007) dir. Matthew Vaughn The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018 - 2020) The Pale Horse (2020) dir. Leonora Lonsdale Hercules (1997) dir. John Musker, Ron Clements Sleeping Beauty (1959) dir. Clyde Geronimi The Black Cauldron (1985) dir. Richard Rich, Ted Berman Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996 - 2003) Halloweentown (1998) dir. Duwayne Dunham A Wrinkle in Time (2018) dir. Ava DuVernay The Craft (1996) dir. Andrew Fleming Charmed (1998 - 2006) Hocus Pocus (1993) dir. Kenny Ortega

[musicalfan94]

Scene pictures of the german version of the Hunchback of the Notre Dame

[lockhvrts]

DISHONORED II ➢ The Royal Conservatory [2/?]

[fernacular]

I colored it!

(And added dragons cuz i forgot to the first time)

[makaeru]

[oldmanyellsatcloud]

Man, and even Star Trek says they only got there after (and possibly due TO) the Post-Atomic Horror, so...

[fripperiesandfobs]

Bridal dress by Guo Pei

From Sotheby’s

[ilioneus]

Seibel style

[bogleech]

Here’s the thing about Halloween: all year long if you live in America you’re under a steady assault by this right-wing traditional faux-wholesome pseudo-Christian nuclear patriot family atmosphere, and then all the sudden as the weather cools and the days shorten the country loses its marbles decking everything out in bloody corpses, demon faces, witchcraft and giant rubber bugs. Half the country thinks they’re the Addams Family for 1-3 months while a small chunk of weiners get angry that it’s “pagan” or something.

I don’t know if anyone in any other cultural environment can really understand how that feels. It’s the antithesis of the “love jesus and eagles or GIT OUT” under(over)tone American culture is usually about.

And even though it generates billions of dollars, there’s no pressure, shaming or guilting to spend money on it like there is for certain other holidays. We spend that much on Halloween just because it’s fun and we want to, rather than some unspoken (usually unspoken) rule that you must buy extravagant gifts or you’re a heathen scrooge and you don’t love your family.

[yamneko]

and it’s when everything is themed with black and it’s totally acceptable 

[copperbadge]

This is actually one of the original purposes of Halloween.

Halloween, like Mardi Gras, descends from the inversion festival. Inversion festivals were a necessary part of most highly regimented and class-divided ancient cultures, such as Rome. You spent all year keeping rigidly to your class and policing others to do the same, living a life of very public behaviors, worshipping very specifically and obeying societal laws you may not agree with and which may not be to your benefit.

But ah, then the festival time came. The rules were thrown out. Sometimes the classes were literally inverted and the nobility were forced to serve. Nothing was taboo. The macabre, the ugly, the things that violated all laws of polite society were glorified. For a period of time – often longer in proportion to how regimented your society was – you were free to do and be exactly what you wanted. You could wear a costume. You could hide from the world behind a mask. You could make all the noise you wanted and nobody would stop you because it was driving out the evil in the community (the evil often being the stress of living in a very outward-facing, regimented society). 

And America, whatever anyone says, is an incredibly regimented and class-oriented society. So our lead-in to Halloween is two months long. 

Halloween is one of America’s only true inversion festivals. Christmas has terribly rigid expectations and heaps of stress, Thanksgiving makes you want to kill your whole family, the fourth of July it’s too fuckin’ hot, St. Patrick’s Day is too short and it’s filled with douchebags. Memorial Day is for mourning, Labor Day you’re about to start school again. Mardi Gras is a great, very historic inversion festival, but it’s also fairly localized. Pride comes close, and is a very badly needed form of inversion festival for its participants, but it’s not universal and it also involves aspects of activism and protest which use inversion but are not part of inversion. 

Halloween is it. It’s our national cut-loose party. And that’s not accidental. Halloween has been an inversion festival since before it had that name, since ancient people realized the harvest was over, the dark short days were coming, and everyone was gonna have to spend the next four months indoors trying not to murder one another. 

[sacetcendre]

https://www.patreon.com/demianasche

[iingezo]

thinkin’ ‘bout clerics and the eight minutes i tried to dark souls

[ilioneus]

Seibel feels.

[abandonedphotos-blog]

Abandoned church in Czech filled with ghost statues

[owlmylove]

excuse me filled with what

[glorianas]

This is actually a nice story, the church is a 14th century building that was decayed and had no money to fix it, and a reputation of being haunted no less, a sculptor made these ghosts to fill the church and was inspired by its folklore, which has now brought in lots of tourists to see them and they’ve raised enough money from donations to fix the roof and secure the building

It’s St. George’s church in Lukova Czech Republic if you wanna see it

[unicornempire]

If you’ve got it, haunt it.

For money.

(this is hilarious and brilliant and amazing all at once lol.)

[saccharinescorpion]

so this is an extremely cool resource

the JSTOR article by Catherine Halley

a list of series at Reveal Digital

[elosilla]

[ecchymosess]

UM EXCUSE ME THOS E ARE FUCKING PIXELS HOW

[street-trash]

Seize the Day was a calendar program made by in 1994 by Buena Vista software. It features graphics that at the time, were revolutionary because of the way they handled color cycling. These images were static bitmaps, but by changing color values, they appear animated. What is also impressive about these images is that they had full day night cycles built in, rendered also through color cycling. A few years ago, a html5 version was made. A copy was uncovered online and there is a way to use the program through DOSbox. As well, one of the original programmers for the project, Iam Gilman, has thought of the idea of remaking it, open sourced, for modern machines.

[xeppeli]

thanks for writing a more elaborate explanation. i’ve seen these pictures be spread like wildfire without mention of the technology behind it.

[catsbeaversandducks]

By @ZiziFothSi

[ilioneus]

Yep

[supervillainphd]

I’m at Leviosa, a Harry Potter convention and Sean Biggerstaff (Oliver Wood) is here. During the Q&A he was asked about Alan Rickman and he said that Alan had such an intense charisma that he could have shown you nothing but kindness for 20 years and you would still be terrified of him. He said that he had worked with Alan on a film before Harry Potter and that he thinks Alan May have put in a good word with the casting director for him. But the best take away was when he was describing the security in set to make sure that people didn’t steal any props but Alan was the only one who got away with it. He wouldn’t even hide what he was doing. He would give props to children who were visiting the set or just take things to give to charity auctions and that when one of the producers finally worked up the courage to tell him to stop Alan flat out said no. Sean said it was “benevolent thievery”

[thegreatsnapescape-deactivated2]

i think we could all stand to engage in some benevolent thievery

[musicalhell]

Alan Rickman: Chaotic Good

[teaboot]

I’ve been watching Good Omens for ’ll of about ten minutes and I have to say, I do like the poetry between hell’s most angelic demon and heaven’s most demonic angel coexisting

[teaboot]

Through watching the rest of the show I went from “worst demon and worst angel- a demon that is too kind and an angel that is too hedonistic”, to “best demon and best angel- a demon so rebellious he can’t even cooperate with the rebellion and an angel so angelic he was ordered to love humanity and now refuses to stop”, and having finished, now, I’ve found myself resting on “two beings who are in fact very very human and love each other very much”

[sesiondemadrugada]

Saitou Kazu.

[valtsv]

[neurotypical-karen]

Actually, it just boils down to how you naturally communicate. There was a study done on this specific social situation that showed that, while neurotypicals usually respond to a person telling an unfortunate story about themselves with something along the lines of “that’s awful” or “that must feel so X,” neurodivergent folks (specifically autistic, although in my personal experience it applies to cousin conditions like ADHD and BPD) were more likely to respond with a story of their own. To us, the first one feels hollow and token, where the second one actually shows that you know how they’re feeling, and that you’re truly sympathizing rather than putting on airs, but to a neurotypical person the second one usually feels like monopolizing the conversation, or even more drastically, getting into a pissing match over who had it worse.

It’s two drastically different neurotypes getting their wires crossed when trying to communicate with each other.

[lochnessblobster]

Hey what the fuck

[musicalhell]

You mean…there’s a reason why I have this impulse? And it’s not because I’m a terrible egocentric person?

I…I think I need to lie down for a bit…

[ilioneus]

This... explains a lot.