Pinkajou

I love dragons and animation and am currently weirdly obsessed with: [ Insert current interest here ]

[desk-drawerr]

he brought friends

[desk-drawerr]

he is walking

[markerofthemidnight]

hazbin and tadc fans how do we feel about unicorn avatar lute

[daughter-of-sapph0]

come hither, my loyal knight

a little closer

perfect

*baps you baps you baps you baps you baps you baps you baps you baps you baps you baps you baps you baps you baps you baps you baps you*

[hail-the-villainess]

*clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang*

[pangopup-poopyface]

Charlotte Sheeply. She’s a sheep

[caats]

[happilyshanghaied]

[a-depressed-mouse]

[prokopetz]

I love practical effects as much as the next nerd, but sometimes I watch a making-of feature about a movie from the 1980s that's like "this rig could only be operated by a puppeteer with congenital dwarfism standing on their head, and they had to do each scene in one take because if they wore it for more than 25 minutes they had to call an ambulance", and I think, you know, maybe CGI has its place after all.

[teaboot]

I'm going to start a game show where I play songs the contestants have never heard before in a huge room with bad acoustics and they have to guess what the lyrics are

[teaboot]

Mall Cafeteria: Yoonotugudubegowin Hobububuduhabusah / Gubudubudubugee Guddubagudduhgoin / Im done hidinow I'm shinin like a bubaubee / Peecesobidah ! / I'm so bryduh / ba du wannuh / reeEEEEEEEEEEE

Me, sobbing: please just tell me what you want

[teaboot]

Intercom: Sonubuhuguduhbawheeeeenin Sonny gonnabe beezin / tonight [...] Pubugusweenin,,, tonight [...] Never felt this way before withaynyone / Baby /Guzzabunawuningadada fEEwan / tunnite

Me: ...Harry Styles?

Intetcom: TUNNITE

[teaboot]

Intercom: AYEboduh,BRYgoduh,WHYdumunuhRAYbee GUYbroduh,DIEbroguh,,FIEfuguhPAYbee AYEbpridufunubuhaguhduhRAYFWEEEEEEEEEE

Me: Ariana baby I know that's you in there. Give me your hand. I can get you out

[teaboot]

The kind of posts you make about media when you regularly forget you have Autism and ADHD and Auditory Processing Disorder and Photophobia and Visual Snow and Aura Migraines and and and and and

[teaboot]

I'm going to start a game show where I play songs the contestants have never heard before in a huge room with bad acoustics and they have to guess what the lyrics are

[teaboot]

Mall Cafeteria: Yoonotugudubegowin Hobububuduhabusah / Gubudubudubugee Guddubagudduhgoin / Im done hidinow I'm shinin like a bubaubee / Peecesobidah ! / I'm so bryduh / ba du wannuh / reeEEEEEEEEEEE

Me, sobbing: please just tell me what you want

[teaboot]

Intercom: Sonubuhuguduhbawheeeeenin Sonny gonnabe beezin / tonight [...] Pubugusweenin,,, tonight [...] Never felt this way before withaynyone / Baby /Guzzabunawuningadada fEEwan / tunnite

Me: ...Harry Styles?

Intetcom: TUNNITE

[teaboot]

Intercom: AYEboduh,BRYgoduh,WHYdumunuhRAYbee GUYbroduh,DIEbroguh,,FIEfuguhPAYbee AYEbpridufunubuhaguhduhRAYFWEEEEEEEEEE

Me: Ariana baby I know that's you in there. Give me your hand. I can get you out

[dateamonster]

i wish it was like acceptable for a horror game to just be a kids horror game because i feel like the sorta cultural presence of a lot of mascot horror would be less annoying if they would just come out and say yeah this is a game intended for kids and if you as an adult enjoy it thats cool but children are the intended audience and you have to understand it within that context. but doing that would probably make it so it raised a few eyebrows when the game in question has merch ads everywhere so.

[dateamonster]

ive been thinking abt this again and like more broadly about what i would consider to be kids horror in a time when media aimed towards young people is being more aggressively censored and theres a lot of buzz about middle grade media (media intended for audiences who are not young children but not yet in the teen/ya demographic, roughly ages 8-12) being phased out entirely.

like obviously the actual answer is that intended audience is a marketing category and so definitionally kids horror is any horror that can be successfully marketed towards a youth demographic, but what ive been thinking is like. what characteristics do i think sets apart good kids horror fiction from horror a kid just happens to stumble upon and enjoy? are these vaguely child-marketed mascot horror games bad or are they just not for my age demographic? does a distinction like this even maintain merit outside the context of consumer categories?

a couple folks in the notes have brought up the original five nights at freddys game, which stands out as a game not necessarily intended for children but which owes a large chunk of its overall success to its reception by young audiences and its decision to lean more and more heavily on its youth appeal as the series progressed. looking back on it i maintain that it is not a good example kids horror, in spite of its success with that demographic, not because its especially adult in its storytelling or contents but because i think that would be giving it too much credit.

in my opinion, kids horror should definitionally be horror that connects with its audience because it takes seriously childrens experiences with fear. it should respect and reflect those experiences in some aspect of its storytelling even if they dont necessarily take center stage. when i think about like goosebumps for example, those stories were about kids, and though the source of the horror was pretty much always something paranormal, they were also always undergirded with things like anxieties about school, failures to fit in with peers, conflicts with friends or bullies or siblings, desires for greater independence. maybe these subjects arent exclusive or inherent to childhood, but they are pretty common parts of it and, like many aspects of childhood, most adult media doesnt really reflect or appreciate the gravity of it as it is experienced in that specific context.

the presence of children and childhood in those stories was not incidental or a way of making the stories marketable, and the stories themselves didnt tend to be like light or bloodless or without the threat of deadly consequence. they didnt always wrap up neatly or pleasantly. i think theres a temptation to define the idea of kids horror by some absence of what we consider to be serious horror, and granted there are subjects that you can reasonably bet wont be touched upon, but like, shouldnt they be? if there were more stories that competently talked about the darkness- that kids are already not exempt from in real life btw- in a form that takes into account who is engaging with it and meets them where theyre at, wouldnt that be a good thing?

and like more to my original point, i think looking at it this way might help audiences to be more critical about the ways the wishy washy totally-not-for-kids-except-its-whole-audience-is-kids horror media content mill falls short and start to ask for more from it. whether you personally think fnaf or garten of banban or whatever else should be considered kids horror, by this rubric i think we can at least acknowledge its not good kids horror. and thats genuinely a shame.

[mollybeenoel]

Tiny friends

Photographed by Miles Herbert

[kosmogrl]

Dont blame yourself for not having known a lesson only time could teach

[importantcatpics]

[longstoryshort-143]

the horrors persist but so do books, art, hot chocolate, winter nights, the moon, the sea, the stars, sunsets, literature, libraries, cats, flowers, stories, love and the wistful feeling you get when you finally return home

[worldsworstfemale]

i don’t care about the world cup what about me

[nothing-an-iratze-cant-fix]

It’s ok, it’s all over now, you’re safe.

[lara-cherriinie]

i like the idea of the fun gang getting new outfits each chapter to match the theme :]

[pangur-and-grim]

Queer Books and Authors are at a Breaking Point

Authors, agents, publishers: every part of the industry is seeing the strain of five years of escalating anti-LGBTQ censorship.

[pangur-and-grim]

if you'd like to show support, here are some upcoming queer books:

When Life Gives You Corpses is a brilliant YA about a cursed praying mantis who falls for a young witch. Yield Under Great Persuasion is a raunchy, but surprisingly sweet story about two men repairing their relationship. Fabulous Bodies is a horror story about a queer rockstar rising from the dead.

This is Where the Future Bleeds is a fantasy set in a vividly imagined land, where two women (who happen to kiss) are the key to healing the broken sky. You're No Better is a story about a teen struggling in the shadow of his murderous parent. Oil on Canvas is about a woman who finds disturbing paintings in the home of her dead mother.

and then here's a list of 26 queer books by Black authors set to publish this year, and a 10 upcoming books by trans authors. if you want to fight back against queer censorship, use your wallet! or (if that's not an option) you can contact your local library and ask them to stock a copy.

[penelopepennington]

In addition: looking for indie publishers and queer bookshops is a great way to find and support queer authors and stories of so many infinite varieties! (The following suggestions are based on my UK-centric knowledge)

(Some) Queer Presses:

Lurid Editions are "a publishing project committed to intentional and conscientious acts of archival repair". They are "attentive to how marginalised histories are forgotten and remembered, [and] hungry to rediscover overlooked queer books". They've just received funding from Arts Council England to engage queer readers in a project to contribute to the archive!

Cipher Press "We’re really keen on the idea that queer and minority stories are for everybody, and we want to make our books – and the stories they tell - accessible to all" (what an amazing mission statement!)

Anamot Press "Anamot [Անամոթ] means shameless in Armenian. ⁣⁣Anamot Press publishes poetry and prose on intersecting experiences of gender, sexuality, race, migration, class, belonging and loss - with no shame."

(Some) Queer Bookshops

Queer Lit Oh man, I remember when this was just a tiny little shop, and now they're the biggest LGBT+ bookshop in Europe! They do amazing work in donating books about being trans to schools and parliament! They have a pay-it-forward board that will make you sob with its notes of love and support. (You can tell I wish I still lived nearby)

Lighthouse For Scottish friends - "a queer-owned and woman led independent community bookshop. We are an unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space"

Gay's The Word The OG Queer bookshop in the UK. One day I will make my pilgrimage!!

This really is just a tiny snapshot of all the amazing work of celebration and resistance that's being done for Queer literature at the moment. We live in frightening times, but I promise there is still lots of love and joy and hope out there in spaces like these. Support them in whatever way you can!!