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Jules | 29 | Oregon | They/Them

[istascha-deactivated20260222]

my body is a machine that turns normal situations into psychological horror

[fairycosmos]

if something fundamental in me wasn’t missing i would be so fun to be around

[redstonedust]

watching sinners with an inflation calculator open in a second tab so i can understand just what kinda money the smokestack twins are throwing around. nerdiest possible movie experience i think.

[tbqtalks]

Okay coming out of lurking for this because among the many great features of Sinners is you don't actually have to go outside of the movie to understand what kind of money they're throwing around. The movie tells you itself.

In the scene where Smoke teaches the young girl how to negotiate, they're standing in front of of a cafe. The shot of them negotiating is framed so that you see a sign in the cafe window advertising a Ham and Eggs breakfast - in other words, a full meal - for 25 cents. The editing makes sure to put that sign back into frame whenever the question of the value of money arises in their discussion.

Smoke offers her 10 cents a minute and asks if that works for her. She says yes. He says no, it does not and tells her to negotiate higher. The 25 cent sign is framed in the shot when he tells her no, reminding us *why* it's not a good value.

She comes back with 50 cents - which the sign has informed us is the cost of *two* meals. Smoke tells her that's too much and counters with 20, which is just under a full meal but we now know that's a fairly respectable price because we just got the high/low contrast of 10 being too little and 50 being too much.

The negotiation ends with her getting 20 cents per minute and we now know 1) 25 cents is the cost of a filling meal in this environment 2) This girl only needs to do five minutes of work to be able to feed herself for a over day (20 cents per minute times five is a dollar, which is four meals) 3) Smoke has the kind of money to throw around that over a day's worth of food for someone can be to him - as it is to our modern eyes - mere pocket change and 4) Smoke's the kind of person who can both be a violent gangster but also care about teaching this girl how to look out for herself so that one day maybe she too can throw over a day's worth of food around like pocket change.

Combined with 5) you can now use that 25 cents = a meal to do the math every other time money gets mentioned in the movie to understand just how much cash the Smoke Stack boys are dealing with.

And that's just ONE detail which, thanks to props (Hannah Beachler), editing (Michael P Shawver), and cinematography (Autumn Durald Arkapaw), told you almost everything you needed to know about how finances work in this environment. This movie is unfair to all other films in how fucking good it is.

[and-fishing-equipment]

in 2026 DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD

instead ask:

is it SINCERE

was it CATHARTIC

was it FUN TO MAKE

is it MADE BY ME

and don't forget to stay silly

[freakoutgirl]

sorry for being annoying [remembers that practicing gratitude instead of shame is better for my mental health and my relationships] thank you for letting me be annoying with you

[kilgarraara]

I LOVE MY TEAM

[bodhrancomedy]

Look, it’s a weird hill to die on, especially when I don’t really explain, but children deserve to experience fear, disgust, and discomfort in safe scenarios where they can process those sensations.

Media for children used to be scary and that’s important.

[infinitybreak]

On December 9th, the doors of Waterfalls at Dawn will open for a once in a lifetime showcase of the raw creative talent of illusive artist Maurice Clayborn. Only the paranormal investigators Saint Garcia Flores and Agent Alister McAndrews will have the opportunity to see what he has in store. Introducing Self Portrait No. 13, the next chapter of ParaScience, Infinity Break's horror tabletop podcast. Experimental artist Maurice Clayborn has dropped contact with his employer and retreated to his home studio complex in the Texas Hills. After receiving a series of threatening messages from the artist and losing a few staff to the gates of Waterfalls at Dawn, the museum director recruits Saint and Alister to track down the artist and get his creative spree to stop.

What exactly has the artist been working on?

December 9th. Wherever you get your podcasts.

ParaScience - An Otherworldly Podcast

A glimpse into a world unknown — at the intersection of the supernatural and the quantifiable. A horror ttrpg podcast told in the Fate syste

ParaScience is an actual play audio fiction podcast about the crossroads between the paranormal and the scientific and the frightening grey are in between. We've been compared to the X-Files, Mothman Prophecies and Twin Peaks. It's been an ominous and haunted winter for atheist exorcist Saint Garcia-Flores and mysterious man-in-black Alister McAndrews.

[greelin]

people will do/say the kindest thing you’ve ever witnessed then be like Sorry if that’s weird :(

[thedisasterbi]

happy valentines day

[papayajuan2019]

the world is running out of glassblowers and yet you want to become a fucking doctor

[sniperserpent]

One of the most jarring moments of my university education was in a physics class when I was given a device that measures gravity and was told “this cost the university sixteen thousand dollars, but the only glass blower in the world who could make the glass springs inside it died so it’s literally irreplaceable. If you drop it those springs will shatter. Go fuck around with it for a day and take some measurements”

[bluebandedagate-reblogs]

[lieutenant-sarcastic]

Fuck moon’s taking poison damage

[bluef00t]

Tobey Maguire Spider-Man "it's a hard knock life" fancam hours

[boastmalone]

How does it feel to have conceptualized the perfect Spider-Man trailer op

[oracleocelot]

[teathattast]

[teathattast]

I see the neurodivergent girlies are enjoying this

[shiftythrifting]

My Little Pony book with a death spell inside. Yes, it most definitely came home with me

[anexperimentallife]

See also, "We're in a drought; conserve water!" Meanwhile, bottled water companies and golf courses for rich folk empty the aquifers.

[tlirsgender]

Stress having physical effects is so stupid your body's just like "you've been having a real shit time and I'm about to make it worse" I hope you die I hope we both die