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if you’re arrested in Florida for protesting the killing of Breonna Taylor, you’ll receive a mandatory minimum of 6 months and be charged with a felony (therefore rending it almost impossible to get a job during the worst unemployment crisis since the 30s)

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?

hematite2

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.

petrichormeraki

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.

ninenine-brooklyn

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it’s my sixth sense (x)

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punkspacecowboy

Can you imagine being fuckin being lost in the desert for a couple days and out of nowhere hearing Africa by Toto?? I would lose my fuckin shit that would be the moment id be like damn im actually losing it and gonna die out here, what a banger tho.

awed-frog

adults pretending to be teens in us shows

adults pretending to be teens in european shows

rushman2-0

Via @prettyaveragewhiteshark

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heartshapedbasil

your man doesn’t have the mental strength to caramelize onions

maplebungus-deactivated20221118

your man thinks it takes 5-10 minutes to caramelize onions

dadbodbobby

Who’s fucking carmelizing onions?

Have you sociopaths forgotten that apples exist?

fuckdamn

do you think caramelizing onions is putting caramel on onions

whitepeopletwitter

mattressblowoutsale

Itd be funny as fuck if the world operated like how people with social anxiety think it does. Like what if you got on a bus and everyone was like wow look at that piece of shit loser. Get off the bus you ugly bastard

feanor-the-dragon

Serious Safety PSA

If yall are in Texas, Louisiana, or southern arkansas... or anywhere else that's about to get hammered:

Leave if you can, if not, button up, hunker down, and stay safe. It's gonna get bad. If you're in south Arkansas, this is your first rodeo, and you have not seen winds like you're about to see. Not sustained, at least.

If you want to keep it, take it inside. Trashcans and lawn ornaments will blow away, or worse, cause damage to vehicles and structures. Bring them into a garage or shed if possible.

If you have time, check the trees around your house for limbs that are dead or look likely to fall. As a person who has lived where strong gusts are a thing I can tell you that tree limbs will travel a lot farther than you think in a sustained gale. A lot farther. Find them and, if you have time, pull/cut them down.

Tornadoes are expected. Even without them, winds this high are dangerous. Keep children and pets indoors. Stay indoors yourself. The worst of the winds will be around the eye of the storm, so be extremely wary of sudden calm, as it will be very, very temporary.

Assume that you will lose power. Have flashlights, portae power banks, and candles handy. Have a portable radio on hand for weather broadcasts. Have water stashed away.

If your area has a flash flood warning, move electronics away from the floor, even if you live on a hill.

This is gonna be a bad one. Stay safe, you guys. I mean it.

thatsmoderatelyraven

walkingbomb

reminder to:

straighten your back

go pee goddAMN IT STOP HOLDING IT

go take your meds if you need to

drink some water

go get a snack if you havent eaten in a while

maybe wander around the house/stretch a little if you’ve been sat at the computer a while (artists especially: sTRETCH THOSE WRISTS)

reply to that text/message from earlier you’d forgotten about

maybe send a nice lil message to someone having a bad day?

mouthfullofsxnd

I just would like to thank everyone who ever reblogs this so that it somehow ends up back on my dash because I usually need the reminder (especially the drinking water one)