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Knives Out (2019 dir.Rian Johnson)

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TFW your boyfriend is a 17th Century Catholic vampire who is NOT OVER™ the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

lunarebane

Ok i was expecting red flags and shit but I’m not sure what color this flag is but there’s a flag and I’m confused.

ceremonial

Robert Pattinson in Bel Ami (2012) / The Lighthouse (2019)

spencersbitch

Robert Pattinson in Twilight (2008)

itscolossal

Archaeologists Excavate a Stunning Roman Mosaic That’s Untarnished From an Italian Vineyard

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slowheart

unfortunately i listened to a lot of bastille in high school so i will be like this forever

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?

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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.

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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.

space-trash-princess

This website can be toxic at times, but the fact that people can just tag Neil Gaiman to get his input, like a sorcerer invoking a benevolent spirit, is definitely a bright spot.

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1918, Spanish Flu. “Wear a mask or go to jail”

armandyke

Smash that mf reblog button if you’re loving and supporting trans lesbians on this day

wastelandfaery

a gifset wouldn’t do this justice

deep-dark-fears

CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS

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lololovescheese

@kedreeva isn’t this bad and dangerous for the bird?

kedreeva

The answer is sometimes and it highly depends on the bird.

Peafowl are ground birds built for flight that basically starts by launching themselves straight up into the air as fast and hard as they can. You would never want to put a leash on a pea, especially not one that attaches on the top, because they have such a powerful flush that they’ll break something if they hit the end of a tether. They are also real dumb wild animals, and if they don’t understand what’s going on and think they’re being restrained, they will flip their shit and hurt themselves struggling, if they don’t just shock out.

Geese and other water fowl aren’t flushing birds- they’re built for low and slow horizontal takeoff from water and “slow” sustained flight. The farm ones like the one in the first vid are also generally pretty chill and/or bossy animals that have been domesticated to be cool with people; restraining them is probably annoying, but not generally cause for enough panic to stress-shock them. Because of all this, they’re extremely unlikely to injure themselves on a leash, which is why you can see plenty of videos of folks walking their geese or ducks around. Additionally, you can see the guy in the 1st vid, he’s basically holding the bird up, the harness looks like it as a wide base under the bird’s breast; the bird isn’t actually powering that flight at all, it’s just flapping its wings along with being carried (and he’s probably carrying the bird at that point to get across the street quickly, because afterward he is letting the bird set the waddle pace), and begins waddling calmly along as soon as its feet are back on the ground. So, it’s probably done this before and seems to be fine with it.

Most psittacines just plain old don’t really have the power to hurt themselves on a leash. They don’t have the weight, and they generally take off from branches so they don’t even need the takeoff power waterfowl have, because they’re usually starting from the air. They’re also smart enough to understand leashes and harnesses as devices, the way cats and dogs learn to recognize Outside Time is coming when you bring those things out. So there’s a good chance that those macaws have been trained to do what they are doing, and aren’t freaked out by it happening. The fact that they are flying together in a straight line rather than trying to go in separate directions or up says they’ve probably also decided they’re ok with this.

So yeah! These two instances, to me, seem like they’re probably safe enough.

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she’s gonna pass her classes and she’s gonna graduate

ablogofnature

Who

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the girl reading this

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muchymozzarella

I’d like to take this moment to remember with fondness how Mad Max Fury Road was a feminist anti-establishment anti-capitalist anti-war film that criticised the toxic world in which boys are bred as short-lived canon fodder for selfish bloated old men who hoard resources

while women who dream of a softer, kinder world but are able to fight for it are the key to a better future with better leadership so long as they kill the old, abusive authorities along the way, and distribute resources fairly instead of selling lies about its limits as set by said selfish bloated resource hoarding old men

marvelsmostwanted

Why do 6th graders think that I’m not going to notice when they copy and paste their answers

marvelsmostwanted

Average student response: igneous rocks form from lava

My best student’s response: Igneous rocks form when magma turns into lava and cools to form rocks.

This kid’s response: When most people think about igneous rocks they envision a volcano erupting pumice and lava. The term igneous comes to us from the Latin word “Ignis” which means fire. Igneous rocks are produced this way but most igneous rocks are produced deep underground by the cooling and hardening of magma. Magma is molten (melted) rock under the surface of the Earth. It is produced in the upper reaches of the mantle or in the lowest areas of the crust usually at a depth of 50 to 200 kilometers.

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lorkhansdick

fixed it

rooteatingwyrm

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, ‘It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.’ It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: ‘if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?’ There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register.

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.

–Kurt Vonnegut, from Slaughterhouse-Five