Bouquet De Nerfs

( Sleeping beauty has called off negotiations. ) F, pan, older than you.

[xenonsreturn]

[alphacrone]

writers and artists everywhere all the time

[boghermit]

Happy May the Fourth to this tweet specifically

[konohahater]

car is a sentient beast that eats dollars and can tell when you have money in your bank account

[konohahater]

🎯

[artbyblastweave]

The old world is dying. The new world had that thing happen where the umbilical cord gets caught around the neck as it's coming out, yuuuurk, no new world either. So it's basically just gonna be monsters forever

[artbyblastweave]

And for the last time, you can't fuck the monsters. They aren't the kind of monsters you can fuck

[toastedicarus]

Had it with all this bullshit grimdark worldbuilding just for the sake of edginess with nothing to actually say. I'm going to fuck the monsters.

[artbyblastweave]

Listen, buddy, I get it when it's monstrosity-as-a-marker-of-marginalization or it's a, a commentary on arbitrary constructions of beauty standards or whatever. That's one type of monster, that's fine. Very fuckable type of monster. But we're talking about, like, the metaphysical worldly manifestations of imperialist warmongering and rapacious depletion of the environment and systemic racism and shit like that. And I mean it's obviously not conceptually impossible to eroticize all that, you see people doing it, but it's fraught, right? It's fraught. Thin Ice. And if you're gonna go there you can't be flippant about what you're doing, man. This shit affects people's lives in real, non-metaphorical ways. When I was at CVS I just saw three or four anthromorphic personifications of the concept of medical debt pulling a little old lady apart like a wishbone

[isuggestlandback]

If you ever wondered why they call tattoos and piercings "unprofessional" and "unsophisticated"

Source: Lainey Molnar

[lateleviathan]

how about that Godzilla: Minus Zero teaser huh?

[lunegrimm]

[2020] Hypericum perforatum (Sonnwendkraut/ St.John’s wort) “As long as your Sun does not Shine with infamy upon your brothers, she will fill you with divine joy ”

[tina-snow]

GODZILLA MINUS ZERO | First Look Teaser

[munchflower]

LOOK AT THIS ABSOLUTE UNIT!!!

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

"Abort third drop! Repeat, abort third drop!"

GODZILLA MINUS ZERO (2026), DIR. TAKASHI YAMAZAKI

[munchflower]

I am shitting myself in anticipation over this.

[rdehed24]

[moarf13]

commission

[shutyourmoustache]

[demonicae]

Jurch

[foldingfittedsheets]

I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything more incredible. Fifteen hundred hours of love to create this masterpiece. Humans are wonderful actually.

[munchflower]

this is INCREDIBLE and I WANT it.

[kingcatnine]

they should make 5 hour calm its like 5 hour energy but you get calm. sold unregulated in gas stations please

[onlytiktoks]

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[feministfandomforever]

Can't help but giggle is my favorite genre

[reggiemess]

Sometimes people think they're dealing with a Torment Nexus but what they actually have is a Jumanji. And sometimes people think something's a Jumanji but oops it's a Torment Nexus.

[reggiemess]

Now. Sometimes you have a third thing- you'll have yourself a Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. And buddy, I can't help you there.

[reggiemess]

So a Torment Nexus is something that is either a metaphor for a larger societal problem (e.g. The Platform, The Long Walk) or a social issue/trend taken to an exaggerated extreme (e.g. The Purge), with a lot of shades of grey in between (e.g. Squid Game). If it isn't about a larger societal issue/trend/structure it isn't a Torment Nexus.

A Jumanji can be dangerous and high-stakes (to the characters), but it doesn't need to have a metaphor or lesson, it can easily just be a "Would this be fucked up or what?" situation (e.g. a lotta Goosebumps stories). If there IS a lesson/metaphor, it will be on a smaller scale like psychological issues (e.g. Magnus Archives), family/relationship issues (e.g. Zathura), or about a specific topic (e.g. Magic School Bus). Large-scale social issues may be present (after all, Everything Is Political), but they take a definite backseat.

Now. A Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory is a trap based around morality and vices. These can be cultural, religious, or bonkers bullshit like "children shouldn't chew gum." There is generally not discussion or criticism of this morality system. Regardless of the morality system used, if it's not a trap, it's not a Chocolate Factory.

[pingintech]

examples of a willy wonkas chocolate factory include:

saw

the cabin in the woods

labrynth (1986)

and

[arieswizard]

[image description: A GIF of Sam Reich on the Game Changer set, triumphantly striking a pose then kicking. Three unimpressed contestants look on. Confetti falls. End description]