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[jenroses]

I... I was not prepared. 

[weirdness-is-good]

[whunt]

me on days when i’m in the lab doing gruesome medical experiments on human subjects

[jacob-the-gun]

Today is the only day you can reblog this.

[vioyume]

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Various audio snippets of my childhood that I've collected.

[dashaibo]

[beardedmrbean]

NES, SNES, and N64 didn't have startup sounds, Sega Master System may have had that little worm game that was in the firmware of the console you could play.

[youseethenew]

[improbablecarny]

people who don’t watch horror movies are SO confident that they know everything there is to know about the genre. like it’s okay to not know things. it’s okay if you don’t like friday the 13th or whatever. i promise you don’t need to make an ass out of yourself on the internet about it

[improbablecarny]

horror is an incredibly diverse genre, because there is potential horror in everything. it’s in nature, it’s in architecture and technology, it’s in human relationships, it’s in folklore, the past, the future, the mundane. there are horror movies from all over the world. it is straight up anti-intellectual to pretend that the handful of B slashers you’ve vaguely heard about comprise the totality of what horror has to offer. If you’re just not interested in horror, or if you dislike certain subgenres of horror, then that’s fine, you’re not obligated to like anything at all. but smugly announcing that you don’t like horror because you dislike a handful of VERY specific non-universal tropes is just as stupid as saying that you hate comedy because you don’t like adam sandler movies.

[improbablecarny]

this is what I mean by anti-intellectualism btw

[chaoticreation]

@sonofawinchester

I'm disabled and on a low income. Please help me save my feathered daughter. Linktree in bio #foryou #cockatiel #help #vetbill #emergency #birddad

♬ original sound - sonofawinchester

Commissions are open, but I’m slow. My responsibilities are piling up and I’ve even been neglecting myself. I haven’t been to doctors, and my health is getting worse. My priorities were the twins, and with Taz gone, I have to focus on Syd. But I have zero credit left on my care credit card, so if she needs more tests or emergency care, I can’t do anything about it. I have all of $14 on my usual credit card. 

Bills are piling up. I need $900 for fuel, or we won’t have heat or hot water, and the leaves are already changing here. It’s getting colder.

I need to pay taxes in October and December. Between the two, it’s close to $6,000. If I don’t, I can lose my home.

So I’m begging. I don’t want to lose my baby girl, too. Losing my boy is already destroying me. Please help me save Syd. She’s a good girl. A sweet girl. Her birthday is September 18th! Let’s make sure she has plenty more of them.

[chaoticreation]

Her birthday is just 9 days away! Please! I am literally begging. I do not have a family that will help. I don’t have a very large friend base. I’m not particularly popular. I’m pretty much invisible, tbh. So PLEASE HELP ME. Please signal boost this! I NEED YOU TO MAKE THIS VIRAL. I CAN’T DO IT ALONE!

[chaoticreation]

@sonofawinchester

I'm disabled and on a low income. Please help me save my feathered daughter. Linktree in bio #foryou #cockatiel #help #vetbill #emergency #birddad

♬ original sound - sonofawinchester

Commissions are open, but I’m slow. My responsibilities are piling up and I’ve even been neglecting myself. I haven’t been to doctors, and my health is getting worse. My priorities were the twins, and with Taz gone, I have to focus on Syd. But I have zero credit left on my care credit card, so if she needs more tests or emergency care, I can’t do anything about it. I have all of $14 on my usual credit card. 

Bills are piling up. I need $900 for fuel, or we won’t have heat or hot water, and the leaves are already changing here. It’s getting colder.

I need to pay taxes in October and December. Between the two, it’s close to $6,000. If I don’t, I can lose my home.

So I’m begging. I don’t want to lose my baby girl, too. Losing my boy is already destroying me. Please help me save Syd. She’s a good girl. A sweet girl. Her birthday is September 18th! Let’s make sure she has plenty more of them.

[chaoticreation]

Her birthday is just 9 days away! Please! I am literally begging. I do not have a family that will help. I don’t have a very large friend base. I’m not particularly popular. I’m pretty much invisible, tbh. So PLEASE HELP ME. Please signal boost this! I NEED YOU TO MAKE THIS VIRAL. I CAN’T DO IT ALONE!

[autistic-af]

One of my favourite pop culture useless pieces of information that I know is the fact that trends in horror movies can tell you about the general fears of the world at any given time in cinematic history.

[autistic-af]

Sorta!

1940s - You have people still alive that remember Jack the Ripper, you have the Axeman of New Orleans and two world wars. The classics are being made for shock escapism and dark stalkers are also popular (usually trusting people turning out to be the enemy).

1950s - post-nuclear bomb. Giant monsters, or unknown blobs are the trend.

1970s/1980s - modern era begins, and serial killers are becoming known and prominent. Slasher films are the trend. The Cold War also drives the fear of invasion, so a few alien films come out in this time.

1990s - a horror movie lull, and lull in wars and disturbances.

2000s - fear of invasions and biological warfare. Zombie movies become the trend.

[autistic-af]

Here you go! It’s just a random article, but it’s a fun starting point. It outlines the ideas better than what I did above. Fears, politics etc all play a role.

Film has always been a reflection of our society. When world events occur or certain beliefs become widespread, they naturally shape our per

[boogerwookiesugarcookie]

I literally did a 100k PhD thesis on this. I can recommend you a different scholarly book for every decade of American horror.

[milf-zone]

So I totally agree that horror movies are a reflection of global fears and traumas (that thesis ^ is actually really interesting) but this post is so wrong about the 90s.

In the 90s, Japan alone, gave us Ringu, Midori, Cure, and Audition

The 90s also gave us Cube, IT, Blair Witch, Army of Darkness, Jacob’s Ladder, SCREAM, Candyman, Misery, The Silence of the Lambs and SOOOO much more.

[utopians]

that crunchy vibe that 70s/80s movies have that modern movies simply cannot capture... that kind of quiet empty vibe to em that can be played for either bleakness or a peaceful energy... why do all modern movies (even the great and pretty ones) feel overproduced after watching an older film. what is it I can't put my finger on it but it's there I can feel it

[iheartvelma]

Shot on film

No digital colour grading (today’s films are horribly over processed)

No in-the-computer composite layered scenes with virtual sets etc.

practical sets and effects

hand painted mattes / hand animated vfx

You used the light you had instead of endlessly tweaking it

Sociologically, people stopped going to movies as much in the late 1960s / early 70s because television had really taken off, the era of the ‘tv movie’ started, so studios greenlit a lot of low budget auteur films that had to focus on meaning & relationships instead of spectacle.

[traegorn]

8. Pacing.

This is the biggest thing, and it's not even something most people will even realize they're noticing. Movies became more uniform in their structure, as hollywood found the "formula" for a hit movie. It means you lose quiet, peaceful scenes that don't fit into the pattern. That uniformity has done more to hurt the emotional tone of films than any visual effects tricks.

[elfwreck]

Why Does Every Movie Released These Days Feel Exactly the Same? This Book.

If you’ve gone to the movies recently, you may have felt a strangely familiar feeling: You’ve seen this movie before. Not this exact movie,

In 2005, Blake Snyder released a book: Save the Cat! It discussed movie "beats" and and gave an outline for movie pacing.

That outline has been followed like it's religious dogma for the majority of Hollywood movies ever since. It's enough that you can literally count the minutes in movies and say "ok, here comes the antagonist's big move."

[volturialice]

it’s not just pacing but also average shot length (sometimes shortened to “ASL,” but not to be confused with american sign language.) a movie that only cuts every 12 seconds is gonna feel drastically different from a movie that cuts every 2.5 seconds.

[achesspiece]

i hope you have a very vampiric and homosexual pride month

[no-longer-another-bondi-blonde]

A May Day Riddle

I washed my face in water

That had neither rained nor run,

And I dried it on a towel

That was neither woven nor spun.

This is an old Irish riddle that relates to the tradition of collecting the dew from flower petals, leaves and grasses early on Beltane (May Day) morning. The dew is used to bathe the face, then, facing the Sun, allowed to dry in the fresh morning air and golden sunbeams.

[Image: Queen Guinevere's Maying (1909) by British painter and writer John Collier (1850-1934).]

The Smart Witch by Elizabeth

[joinxthexcoven]

Rob, testing out wardrobe with an impromptu photo shoot. More to come.

[systlin]

If any of y’all didn’t know, there’s a free online library, aka

https://openlibrary.org/

and I found like, twelve ebooks I’ve been wanting to read on there, and blasted through like three of them during the course of a boring-ass shift.

[skaldish]

Guy there are books on magic on there.

[systlin]

There’s books on EVERYTHING there!

[eudevie]

Wouldn’t this be bad for authors though? or is this like a normal library where they get /some/ money?

[systlin]

It’s like a normal library. Libraries can upload ebooks there and let people check them out through openlibrary if you have an openlibrary account, or it can point you to nearby libraries that have physical copies of the book for you to go and check out. If you check out books via openlibrary it counts towards the count of books checked out from the library that uploaded the ebook, and they can use it in their reporting and funding and stuff.

There’s like 150 libraries partnered with openlibrary so far.

They also have copies that you can check out if you are print-disabled.

[systlin]

You can also ‘sponsor a book’, which means you pay the cost of the ebook you want openlibrary to acquire, and then they can add it to their collection and let people check it out.

[systlin]

https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL26576A/Tamora_Pierce

I sure did!

And click on a title even if it says ‘no ebook available’ and scroll down, ‘cause sometimes that just means “all of the copies of ebooks are checked out right now but you can get on the waitlist when it’s back in”

[kayliemalinza]

This is part of the Internet Archive! I’ve posted about this before. Please go, it’s amazing. 

[deehellcat]

signal boosting because BOOKS

[wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva]

Oh!

[joinxthexcoven]

CASTING CALL IN & AROUND MIDDLETOWN, NY:

ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED. Please do NOT apply if you are not LOCAL (within 1hr) to MIDDLETOWN, NY!

Auditions for a film. Looking for actors, crew & hair/makeup artist. Please see the details below.

Plot: Two half siblings, descendants of a coven of witches-turned-vampires, embark on a road trip in search of their father, who they believe to be abducted. Raised in completely different worlds, the two must work together despite differences, in order to survive and save the world from an unknown impending threat.

Rate:

UNPAID. Directors are disabled, with an extremely small budget.

We cannot provide transportation. Food will be provided, and credit (on movie, and on IMDb) will be given.

When applying, please include current head & bodyshots, your name, age, and role you are interested in auditioning for with “AUDITIONS - NAME - ROLE” as the subject.

CAST WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

DAD: 50 - 65yrs. Caucasian. Light eyes & hair a plus, but not required. Rough around the edges, but kind of eccentric. Knowledgeable on the occult and a little distant and paranoid. 

MONSTERS: Background extras. 2 monsters require a large enough build for a large adult mask. You may need to wear latex and/or fake blood on your skin.

CUTE (GAY) GUY AT BAR: 35-55yrs. Background extra needed to flirt with main character. We'd prefer it if actor is actually LGBTQ+, but not required.

BACKGROUND EXTRAS!

**You may need to wear latex, paint, and/or fake blood on your skin. Please remember that your clothing cannot have visible labels or brands. Please do not wear something expensive/irreplaceable, as FX liquids may stain.

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CREW WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

Camera Crew: We need another camera person. Please have your own equipment, as you know it better. We are working with a Nikon DSLR, GoPro, and camcorder currently.

Sound Crew: Please have your own equipment. We need you on set to record audio.

Hair/Makeup/FX Makeup: We need you on set. We have the basics, fake blood, & latex, but if you need anything else, please have your own.

Fight Choreographer

Production Assistants

We are also looking for filming locations in and around Middletown, NY!

Hotels/Motels

Bars/Restaurants/Diners

Houses/Gardens

Cemeteries

Bridges

Please submit current headshots and bodyshots, along with your name, age, and role you are interested in auditioning for to [email protected] with "Auditions - Name - Role" as the subject.

Any other applications (hair/makeup, music, location, etc,) volunteering, or inquiries can be sent to the same email, with the topic as the subject.

If you want to help in any other way, PLEASE SHARE THIS POST PUBLICLY! Print it out and post it in local places. You can also donate money to us, so that we can rent hotel rooms or other set locations for filming.

[joinxthexcoven]

We’re sorry about the giant watermark. We’re still shopping around for the right editing software, but here’s a little teaser anyway.

Footage & editing by R. Roche

[blackroseboundbooks]

are you an artist looking for a place to put your portfolio? an occultist perhaps, looking for your next grimoire? well, look no further!

I'm an artist and witch of 12+ years who makes handbound books to YOUR specifications. Want a specific fabric or design on the cover? Say no more. Want a custom-inspired binding pattern? Easy peasy. Something affixed to the cover? No problem. Get creative with it!!

For the occultists among you, I can and will accomodate "odd" requests such as putting your personally made sigils or other symbols of your craft under the covers, working magic into the knotwork of the binding, etc. so please don't hesitate to ask!!

As for artists, this is one way to step up your portfolio game- make your artbook its own work of art!!

check out my etsy shop, or DM me here on tumblr to discuss your particular needs and get a quote.

Thanks so much for reading, and have a great day!!

[joinxthexcoven]

CASTING CALL IN & AROUND MIDDLETOWN, NY:

UNPAID, but IMDb credit given. NON-UNION. We cannot provide transportation. Food will be provided. We’re disabled, and on an extremely small budget.

Plot:  Two half siblings, descendants of a coven of witches-turned-vampires, embark on a road trip in search of their father, who they believe to be abducted. Raised in completely different worlds, the two must work together despite differences, in order to survive and save the world from an unknown impending threat.

NOTE: We care more about how you carry the character than your appearance, but here are some general guidelines. Members of the LGBTQ+ community are a plus.

NO GENDER PREFERENCE MEANS: You will portray it the way you identify, or are comfortable identifying. If you are trans, it is your choice whether your character is trans or cis. We won’t out you, and we certainly won’t force you into a gender role based on “how well you pass.”

CAST WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

DAD: the father of a 32 year old, so you must look the part. Caucasian. Light eyes a plus, but not required. Same with hair. He’s a hunter, so he’s a bit rough around the edges, but kind of eccentric. He’s very knowledgeable on the occult and a little distant and paranoid. Fake blood may be involved.

GHOUL: No gender preference, any ethnicity and appearance. Featured background.

GHOSTS/MONSTERS: Ages 4-15, & one woman. Background Extras.

BACKGROUND EXTRAS!

**You may need to wear latex, paint, and/or fake blood on your skin. Please remember that your clothing cannot have visible labels or brands. Please do not wear something expensive/irreplaceable, as FX liquids may stain.

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CREW WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

Camera Crew

Sound Crew

Hair & Makeup

FX Makeup 

Fight Choreographer

Production Assistants

Musicians

 *Please have your own equipment.

We are also looking for filming locations in and around Middletown, NY!

Hotels/Motels

Bars/Restaurants/Diners

Houses/Gardens

Cemeteries

Bridges

Please submit current headshots and bodyshots, along with your name, age, and role you are interested in auditioning for to [email protected] with "Auditions - Name - Role" as the subject. 

Any other applications (hair/makeup, music, location, etc,) volunteering, or inquiries can be sent to the same email, with the topic as the subject.

If you want to help in any other way, PLEASE SHARE THIS POST PUBLICLY! Print it out and post it in local places. 

You can also donate money to us, so that we can rent hotel rooms or other set locations for filming.