a selfish book is always open

enthusiastic about goth lit, moths, weird things, crying all kinds of tears, and glitter

[skeletonpoett]

[r41nyd4ysworld]

I love Black vampires that’s it bye.

[shelterwoodpod]

YOU'RE A GHOST. WHERE ARE YOU HAUNTING?

Bedroom (closet, corner of the room, under the bed)

Hallway (creaking steps, moving shadows)

Living Room (T.V. static, rocking chair, family portait)

Attic (forbidden knowledge, hidden prisoners)

Cellar (cobwebs and rot, liquor and loam)

Kitchen (knives knives knives knives knives knives knives)

Remaining time: 16 hours 17 minutes

[nightyraven-art]

Wdym not bathroom??? Come on many potentials plot are missed???? "but thats too overused??" not if its used correctly

A ghost can be an allegory of many things. Come on, think for a moment!!

[shelterwoodpod]

My apologies to the bathroom ghost community for the glaring omission, your service in mirror apparitions, gross clogs and water antics, and makung silhouettes behind curtains is seen and appreciated

[hungry-hobbits]

i keep thinking about Is God Is and one thing i really love (and am heartbroken by) is the two stark and very real depictions of spousal response to domestic violence

angie, for all her faults, is a victim and i think we can all acknowledge that. but she's a victim that lived in comfort and extravagance (stark contrast to how the Twins were raised), she stayed until her boys were old enough to take care of themselves (seemingly unaffected by or unknowing of their fathers violence and abuse towards their mother). she saved money, made plans in advance, and timed everything to a T. and she would've probably gotten away if the Twins had not intervened

but she knew more than she admitted, not the full picture because obviously he left things out, but she knew ruby was also a victim. she just assumed that ruby was the "bad" kind of victim that stayed to be abused rather than leave. that she did everything right while ruby did everything wrong

what ruby did was everything she could. we have to assume she had no money to pack up and relocate, especially with two small children, because she was still in "his" house when he came back. she got a restraining order, tried to keep him away. but we all know the stories of men violating restraining orders to go back and kill their wives. they just don't work, plus factor in being a young black woman so how fast do you think the cops would come if she called? she admitted that she tried to just be complacent (probably with the idea that he would leave) and it still got her hurt

and the sad thing is that angie and the twins could've worked together to take him down, to stop his violence. because angie had to know that he would just do that to another woman (but considering her views, she probably would've blamed the woman). he ruined ruby's life, he ruined divine's life, he ruined her life to an extent, all he did was carve a path of violence, blood, and abandonment through the south. the only way it would stop would be for him to die. instead she was intimidated by being forced to acknowledge the parts of the story he lied about (that he said they died rather than admit that he didn't want the girls) and scared of them ruining her way out because she didn't want to end up like how she perceived their mom to have ended up.

i think that's another reason why the movie makes certain people so uncomfortable, they've never had to address the different narratives and reasons for why victims leave or stay or are killed. its easier to just blame the woman for doing everything "wrong" in a situation they've never had to navigate

[amwtntproductions]

[hungry-hobbits]

not to keep talking about Is God Is but when racine and anaia went to go visit their mom for the first time since the assault and anaia saw her name was spelled wrong on the sign but racine didn't really care and ruby gave racine so much more attention than anaia and then asked them to do something batshit for her when she waited until she was on hospice to reach out to them i was sooo mad on anaia's behalf like gtfo of there girl

[skeletonpoett]

Badflower - Johnny Wants To Fight

Listen to Johnny Wants To Fight on TIDAL

not to be a person on tumblr but

⏫ this is gay as hell⏫

[sawed-on-shotgun]

being a teenager is basically just half a decade of "ugh I hate myself I hate my life I hate my parents nothing is fair everyone is mean the world is cruel I'm tired of it!! but idk i guess every teenager has this phase and I'll probably grow out of it and understand when I'm older" and getting older and realizing you should have been even angrier and more violent. And then people forget this as soon as they have kids

[oh-good]

Young Cathy and Heathcliff find a half staved unconscious Jane Eyre on the moors and poked her with a stick to see if she's dead. She isn't roused by their proding and they don't care enough to try and help her so it isn't mentioned in either book.

[blackfilmmakers]

Gonna say something that might be controversial in regards to God herself

(Spoilers below the cut)

I hope she feels incredibly lonely in her dying moments 🤷🏾‍♀️

Yes that man just needed to die however way possible. But I'm not sending my babies out to murder someone as my dying wish after abandoning them all these years. I wish there was a diary of some sort she kept hidden, and the twins discover it, and make their own choice to go on this adventure. But nah, she had to emotionally manipulate them to become killers.

Now one of them was definitely all for it, but the other is clearly not up to it and feels she has a hard time standing up for herself, even with her twin

Clearly we can't beat her or kill her. She's already dying and living a miserable life. But I am not giving her the satisfaction of seeing her grandchild or visiting. Not when my other twin had to die

That's like one of my main issues I have with the movie. That chapter of their relationship with their mother felt unresolved. Which is odd considering they were doing so many parallels of how they treat her as this godly figure for bringing them into this world, vs the abusive father and how other characters treat him literally the same way. Especially that half-brother that, while they mocked is a cult follower, was spewing the same shit one of these girls be having. "You think you can kill my creator!" Like clearly there's a connection made here that I think ended up getting dropped a bit

Idk I might have to rewatch it again. Cuz I'm still confused whether she did pull them into the fire or not. I feel bad for her being a domestic abuse and burn survivor. I share her sentiment that that man needed to die a horrible death. Just, I didn't care for how she treated her traumatized babies and showed favoritism towards the one

I just need more established "No Contact" ending for parents that are awful like that, along with killing parents like the dad cuz he just need to die

[skeletonpoett]

Spoilers below

This is actually what I liked a lot about the movie- how it shows the ways victims hurt other victims.

I think narratively it's supposed to be true that she pulled them in to the fire with her. It's when you're in an awful situation and theres the one who's trying to protect you, trying her hardest to fight and keep you from getting harmed. But the way the abuse left her burning rubbed off on you. Maybe she could have helped it, or maybe she should have, but couldn't.

If only she wasn't burning to the point where she acted based off of pure instinct, and that instinct wasn't the kind that helped anyone. Instead of knowing to stay away it was desperate, reaching for the only people she had close to her, and they were the people who needed her to be strong for them. But what else could she do? She was on fire and no one else was there.

The father reveals this fact (at least I'm taking it as a fact) and tries to spin it as if there's a "whole new side to the story" as if he's at just as much fault as their mother. Obviously, this isn't true, and it's not a twist in the story showing us who the 'real' villian was the whole time. It's just confirming what Ania had been pointing out since the beginning.

Their mother isn't God. She's a woman who was burned and couldn't face her daughters until she was dying. She spelled her own child's name wrong and insults her indirectly through her own pain. And then she sends hoth of them on a mission of more fire, because she's still burning, of course she is, who wouldn't be? But in the end, she's just Ruby, and she's once again getting her daughter's burned.

Ania was always the one to start rubbing the ice over Racine's scars. She was the one who "always got so emotional" because she cried, but out of the three of them, she was acting the least out of emotion.

She was the one Ruby couldn't look at or remember properly because that was the daughter hurt the worst, the one that looked the most like the parts of Ruby that Ruby doesn't like. She sees the part of herself who reaches and hurts and she doesn't know how to heal it. So she stays far away and only looks at the part of herself that runs and fights, like she wishes she'd been able to do so long ago.

[a-queer-man-of-a-few-words]

I’m really fucking tired of people praising Gameoverse as a “nostalgia piece.”

Newsflash; It was never intended to be a nostalgia piece. It’s a project that came from a very old script that never adjusted for modern standards, aside from getting more polished animation. The reason why it “handles” cliches from the 2000’s “so well” is because it was actually developed from that era. It’s not nostalgia, it’s just outdated.

In fact, calling Gameoverse a “nostalgia piece” is an insult to actual nostalgia pieces. Wanna see some REAL nostalgia pieces?

Nebula & Quasar: An upcoming 2000’s styled indie game, that is currently being advertised as fake lost media.

(Content warning- Bird miscarriage in Nebula & Quasar (PC) Opening Cutscene, jumpscare in the Nightfall OST, and some ad based videos contain flashing lights.)

Lacey’s Flash Games Series: A horror ARG that explores a fictional, obscure defunct flash games site for girls, with a horrifying secret hidden within.

(Content warning: Frightening imagery, gore, body horror, animal abuse, implied child sex abuse)

Murphy & Mitzi: An animated short series, following the misadventures of a cat boy and girl squirrel, in what looks to be a Cartoon Network series from the millennium.

(Content: None. It’s cute, wacky, and very nostalgic.)

If you guys know any other good, and better, nostalgia pieces, I’d like to hear your recommendations! ^_^

[dinah-lance]

Is God Is (2026) dir. Aleshea Harris

[magpiecharmbracelet]

Is God Is (2026)

listen I am not someone that knows how to talk about film specifically but I do have thoughts anyway. I'll try to keep to minimal spoilers and none of this is in any particular order. 1. great movie. please go see it in theaters if you can. I said in the notes of a different post that it feels like one of those movies where you can tell it was made by someone who *loves* movies.

Writer/Director Aleshea Harris I will watch more movies made by you please do it.

2. so many good directing and framing and color grading and other cinematography choices.

we get these sepia flashbacks and information from off screen and these side by side split screen shots and there's text that goes back and forth between the twins Anaia and Racine as a visual sort of "twinspeak" or other kind of connection you get when people are super close where they can say what they need to say to each other without it being out loud.

also their mom's house feels so lush and green and alive and cozy there's soft fabrics and plants and soft lighting and then their father's house. . . is not. ooogh! loved that. the whole movie looked so good.

3. the sound design?? oh my god, so many good clicks and crunches and rocks and fabrics and fine little details that sounded so so good. also a killer (haha get it?) soundtrack. the sounds in the hair braiding scene? you can hear the women working with their nails and rings and jewelry etc. moving in the background of the conversation and it feels soo satisfying and real.

4. hair and makeup felt so good too, I love how in the scene where Anaia and Racine go to meet their mom at the start their hair is tied back away from their faces and styled into pigtails almost (style that feels very young and innocent and childlike) but as the movie continues and the stakes get higher we see the hair looser and moving and wild and in their faces and getting splattered with blood, etc. very fun detail.

also Anaia and Racine and their mom? all have their hair in long braids. the two other women they encounter that know the father & have some connection with all this? have their hair smooth and partly covered and tied back/cut short and pinned into place just so.

5. the main antagonist? the father? I love that we don't see his full face until later in the film, we see him from the back and in shadow and just his mouth as he talks but we don't get a good look at him until he's right there. we get shown throughout the whole movie what he's done and how he has affected so many other people's lives and the pain he causes to everyone around him but until he's confronted it's almost like he's the monster under your bed or something that's not quite real, you're not sure what you're actually going to run into and then. There He Is.

6. idk how the oscars works but please give this movie at least one.

7. the dynamic between Anaia and Racine feels so real too, I'm not an expert in like twin tropes & things but I do have a sister and I love how even though they have some similarities visually between their hair and how they dress etc. and do a lot of the same things together they still feel very different and obviously have different ways of approaching the situation and managing the way they feel and what they do and what they want with their lives.

one of those things like that's my sister I love her, I don't agree with her, what am I going to do with her, what am I going to do without her.

8. also not for nothing I will always love when women make art about revenge and anger and power and Making Decisions TM even if they aren't "good" ones.

9. doomed narrative, haunting the narrative, psychological weight of the unknown and knowing you gotta confront it anyway they could never make me hate you.

10. there's blood and softness and connection and grudges and loyalty and rejection and it opens with sisters who have been through hell and back and still have each other and then it ends with even more hell and whatever comes after that.

ps: shout out to @creatingblackcharacters who made the post that told me this movie existed in the first place.

[sheet--metal--girl]

can we get a shoutout to trans girls who don't wear makeup

[sheet--metal--girl]

i don't need to just keep practicing I don't need to just learn to contour or whatever the fuck else I'm 100% happy being bare-faced and the only times i ever felt compelled to do makeup was for other people's benefit!

[sheet--metal--girl]

watch the mfs with zero reading comprehension get ahold of this and act like I'm personally attacking them for wearing makeup

[spacelazarwolf]

adding on trans girls who don’t shave their face or armpits or legs, or have short hair, or do any of the things that are seen as “saying Fuck You to the patriarchy” when cis women do it but for Some Reason when trans women do it they’re “not trying hard enough to pass.” do whatever you want with your meat suit and related adornments forever.

[receptor-antagonist]

still burning all the while

[standwithdaanes]

having a process for people who have done morally horrific things to make amends, rejoin community, and do right going forward is actually fundamentally crucial for the left. having a clear and accessible pathway for people to be socially (if not interpersonally) forgiven is how you get people radicalized against capitalism and imperialism and white supremacy and patriarchy. its how you turn "these people think i am a bad person" into "these people think something and someone coerced or forced me into doing bad things, and these people want to help me do something about that."

if you want more revolutionaries, you must have a system to turn guilty, traumatized, angry bystanders and collaborators into revolutionaries. and I say a system and process because its not "oh the drone operator said they were sorry and felt bad so its all good now :)" there is no shortcut here. but it is absolutely necessary. no revolution is comprised of morally pure people. in many cases, the most devoted revolutionaries are the ones who know exactly what it is like on the other side.

[maratheghost]

I keep thinking about how Racine spent the whole movie attacking anyone who called Anaia ugly but also immediately, easily embraced the excuse that it had been better to think their mother was dead instead of seeing how she was disfigured like Anaia