there are some natures too lofty to bend

meeks • she/her • screenwriter

[rorykillmore]

blows a kiss to katran myst. i used to rp her and i never really did a lot with her but i always circle back to the idea because she is so cool. and her lore is so cool. i had to nerf her "can literally write her way into other worlds" abilities for the purposes of the like sandbox i had her in but i also didn't want to get rid of that entirely and take away her Whole Thing, so i came up with a fun limited version of it that i rly should have done more with

[redwoodrroad]

more Katran because i guess i'm just in moth mode right now 🌙

[cparti-mkiki]

[dragon-in-a-fez]

there's a fine line between being wary of manipulation and becoming completely paranoid because you get very close to the realisation that pretty much all human interaction involves doing things we hope will lead to a result we like

[dragon-in-a-fez]

this post is about a lot of things. it's about my ex saying it was manipulative to talk to them in a cute voice because that influenced their emotions. it's also about someone on this webbed site saying being funny is "engagement farming". like yeah every single conversation you have is going to be "manipulative" if your standard for that is "did something with the goal of eliciting a response". if that bothers you go live in a hut in the forest and speak only to the trees. I'll be over here manipulating my friends into being happy by giving them compliments

[pom-pom-cherry]

Any ship can be problematic if you just give me a second-

[magpie-trove]

So anyways thinking about this episode of Joan of Arcadia where Joan is asked to not let her friend’s statue be in an art show. And Joan goes oh I’m supposed to break it? Steal it? That feels wrong though. Why would God ask me to do that? And then she asks a rabbi and a priest if God would ask her to do something wrong and they are like yeah no he wouldn’t so like. You should do the right thing. So she’s like cool ok I’ll leave it in the art show so my friend can succeed. And then her friend succeeding makes him think he can drop out of school and live off the $500 he made off his art (bad idea). So she’s like shoot I guess I should have listened even if it was wrong and she goes and smashes the statue and ruins her friendship and gets in trouble and then is like ??? what the heck I don’t know what else I was supposed to do? And they say well. There were a lot of options other than smashing or stealing the thing. You weren’t *asked* to do a bad thing, you were asked to do a good thing that you could only imagine bad ways of doing because they were easy. It was a failure of imagination.

The subplot this episode is her dad the police chief is investigating a case where one guy killed another guy who was breaking into his house. Motive: protect his family! But it’s unclear whether killing him was necessary. So yeah. There’s a lot of nuance going on there and I’m intrigued.

[frongfriend]

I wish to return

[rorykillmore]

mike flanagan haters are so funny. he's such a random guy to get legitimately angry at considering his worst crime is, like, doing very loose adaptations of source material that no one on god's green earth is forcing you to watch

[ma-ar]

AW characters as major arcana

[rorykillmore]

her toxic trait is that she's always going to choose the bay ending of life is strange because without it the story is stripped of its deeper meaning about letting go and being unable to get back lost time (not crucial to everyone's read of the game but very crucial to her's)

[takofukkatsumi]

Reblog this and tell me what was your biggest crying over a piece of fiction. You can be vague if you don't want to spoil.

[rorykillmore]

for those tracking my ahs rewatch i also finished asylum and i was going to start making a ranked list, but at this point, like. if you know me, it's very obvious that asylum clears murder house. but i was impressed at how much of it felt like it held up. truly some of the best writing and acting ahs ever showcased, even if it still had that classic meandering syndrome. rly made me realize how much sincerity and tenderness the show has lost over time.

[rorykillmore]

u know what. i had a genuinely wonderful day today

[yourrottingwife]

SIMPLE GUIDE:

Body Horror: Things that cannot happen in real life. EX: The Thing, stomach mouths, eyes on hands, etc

Gore: Fresh injuries, often severe. EX: Severed leg, gutspill, deep gashes, etc

NEITHER: Healed injuries and burns, congenital differences, missing appendages, etc. If I could theoretically go to the store and see that character browsing the isles- It isn't body horror or gore. That's just a person. *AND the amount of people that tag, not just fictional characters, but real human beings as body horror is staggering. Its not solely a fandom issue, ableism and bigotry against anyone that looks sufficiently "different" is prevalent in real life and has devastating consequences.

(Modified) from my comment left on this post.

[rorykillmore]

'i am anne frank pt. 2' is still, like, a defining episode of television, i think. we do need to give american horror story this.

[rneliflua]

"shipping and blorbofication are not inherently at odds with understanding a story's deep themes" and "some people can't grasp the themes of a story because they never learned how to engage with stories outside of the lens of shipping and blorbofication" are two statements that can coexist

[rneliflua]

blorbofication to me is when you love a character in such a laser focus way that you somewhat detach them from the narrative from which they are inserted and treat them in a way roughly similar to how you'd treat an oc for which you still have no story and just like to put them in situations just for fun. which there's nothing wrong with btw, it's just that it can easily lead to people forgetting the character engine in a narrative and not just a barbie doll

[squibo]