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I’m so proud of senshi for making it so far in the tumblr sexyman poll. I think it’s so beautiful that tumblr has reached a point where a short fat hairy bearded man is the pinnacle of sexuality for a large swath of this userbase. it’s like when you see before & after pictures of a rainforest recovering from deforestation. nature is healing and we can fight god

notbecauseofvictories

So I have been thinking about corporate horror again. For reference, this is the category into which I put things like Severance, Thomas Ligotti, Episode 11 of I Am In Eskew and Chapter 7 of Silt Verses, and those scenes in Cabin in the Woods where the guys in ties complain about the Japanese office. People are having a bad time and it yes, it's probably because of the secret cultic rituals requiring human sacrifice, but it's also because Marjorie will not fucking email you back about the catering for the cultic rituals. The catering has to get taken care of, Marjorie! I know someone among the Desecrated 12 has a gluten allergy, Marjorie, but who?!? Do you want me to be the human sacrifice, Marjorie???

Anyway, this kind of horror is distinct from, but has overlap with, another subgenre of horror which I love---"there is a bunch of weird, dangerous stuff in the world and we couldn't stop it but we can contain it and live around it." This is the category into which I put things like SCP, and There is No Antimimetics Division, and probably Cabin in the Woods again. (This subgenre also crosses over into straight scifi, with entries like Warehouse 13, Eureka, The Librarians; I'd argue Angel's corporate seasons also flirted with this.) You see a lot of these kinds of entries on r/nosleep, because it sets up a nicely contained story---a new hire gets instructed on "the rules", proceeds not to follow the rules, spooky thing occurs, new hire flees. And the breadth of jobs r/nosleep has written into this pattern is impressive, from forestry to house sitting to security guard to babysitter to travel nurse to fisherman and sailors to construction workers and escape room managers.

But I do wish that there were more of an attempt to combine the ethos of corporate horror with the more straightforward horror of the nosleep mold. Because after the new hire flees, someone has repost that job opening on Indeed, and clean up the black viscous liquid that the unknown entity spewed in his direction, or convince the walking dead to crawl back into their holes. You have to report the incident to OSHA, and "listen, we told her not to leave that door unlocked after 10:30" is not something they would understand. You're going to have to talk to the company lawyer, who is three venti coffees deep, writing a memo unofficially entitled "here is why strict liability doesn't apply in that recent incident where allegedly, our employees allegedly attempted to allegedly!!! summon the devil."

Maybe it would be an audience of 1, but I certainly would have a good time.

notbecauseofvictories

I have! And I've been mulling over why I don't think of it as corporate horror for a lot of today---I think because it's first and foremost about the horror of a place rather than job.

This is not unusual, to be clear. A great deal of horror attaches that horror to a specific locus. The haunted house is the origin point of course, but you can pull it out in a thousand different directions---cemeteries, hospitals, prisons, caves, drowned towns, "this is not a place of honor", small hamlets in Maine, etc. A haunted place is haunted regardless of your relationship to it; it is a gaping maw whether your family has been there for generations, or you're just traveling through on a leaf-peeping trip. Avoiding that place entirely is really your only hope; otherwise, you must play the game on the terms it has set. Widow's Bay is just the first show that seems to be willing to look that full in the face, rather than play it off as an unknown mystery to be solved.

(This works for comedy as well as well---shows like Rutherford Falls or Parks and Rec, or even something like Kim's Convenience or Corner Gas, are ostensibly about the main cast doing jobs, but really more about shading in the place and the people around the job. The job is only the key that opens the door.)

Whereas a haunted job doesn't particularly care where in the world you are, or go. You might stumble into a corporate horror show anywhere in the world, but a critical part of this kind of horror (at least to me) is the coming back. Because it's just a job, right? You can quit anytime you want to, right? Two weeks notice if you're feeling generous, day-of notice if you're not, and then you're gone. Which means that.....well, you're the one waking up every morning and choosing it, choosing the horror again and again. Corporate horror doesn't trap you, it makes you complicit in your own destruction.

And I mean, sure, the horror might look a little different if you're sitting in the Spanish office vs. the California office, but why should it change all that much? Capitalism doesn't.

#fascinating #horror writing #not a fan of horror personally but very fan of horror elements as mood setters and plot elements

troublepunk-ldn

me as a teenager: man it sucks to have no privacy or autonomy but i guess its for a good reason. when i turn 18 i will realise how young i was and understand why they did all that.

me as an adult: teenagers are an oppressed class, their abuse is normalised and systemic and they need to start killing people

auxins-insanities

this disability pride month lets be kinder to folks with moral ocd . no more “if you really care about this minority , you’ll reblog this post” , “someone will die if you don’t reblog this” , etc etc , and all other kinds of guilt tripping reblog bait . at the VERY LEAST tag your reblog bait so we can filter it out and avoid unnecessary spirals . it’s 2026 , we need to move past using guilt to get engagement .

alleesaur

sardines creature

creekfiend

thing I am proud of: when the doctor started going on a weird rant about long covid not being real I paused and listened to his nonsense for a bit and then very calmly said, in a polite and curious tone, "you don't believe in post-viral illness?" and he like. stammered a bunch and was like OH WELL I'M NOT SAYING -- I DON'T...I just think ..! and backpedaled awkwardly while I just sat there like :3c interesting :3c thank you so much for clarifying your stance on this :3c

creekfiend

an important skill for chronically ill people to develop is the ability to treat the doctor as though they are simply a person you are interviewing to find out how much they know about your condition.

nightmare-from-heaven

Holy shit op this is LITERALLY in the book 'Never Split The Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depends On It'. Written by a guy who did hostage negotiation and then tried doing business negotiation, and mopped the floor with industry experts.

I'm fortunate enough to have a primary care doctor who knows about hEDS, but it's occurring to me that the skills in this book could be medically life changing for chronically ill folks of all kinds. Like. Literally a matter of life and death, especially for BIPOC and/or fat and/or young people who are having their issues dismissed.

creekfiend

HMMM interesting!! will have to check this out

catmask

it is not actually hard to see that a trans girl is going to be a girl in a story if you dont hate or actively avoid thinking about women. you too can develop this skill by caring about them in real life and not just when they are characters. and talking to them even

catmask

'how did you know this' every single girl ive been friends with for the last four years has looked at both of those characters and went god shes so me and i was like interesting. tell me more. instead of telling them they were seeing faces in tree bark. because i remember what it was like to be transgender and have no one listen to or care about me so why the fuck would i do that to them

arrimorr

Thinking a lot about Papyrus and flowey being friends again....my fav comfort and horror dynamic at the same time. What a duo

zostoybox

The great things about girls is that there are so many kinds!

(I initially imagined this as the cast, plus Kaufmo and Ribbit, getting to dress Jax up. Try to guess who's pick is who's!)

As for Caine's pick...

You could've done this the whole time!

cinnanovaz

nerdygaymormon

dunkthebiscuit

This is why Pride is not just a party. It's a joyful celebration, but it's also a pointed and colourful two-finger salute to a world that stood back whilst so many of us died. And we'll never go quietly, never again.

katycreep

She needs a little more time…

smallpwbbles

Bratty AI fucks around and finds out when you ragebait a Dad enough, more on the news at 11.

Fanart for a REALLY good Caine centric fic called Small Gods. This convo in chapter 7 is SO good, like I could genuinely see this happening in the show! its by @crimes-wears-goggles so go show some love to her and her fic!

I gonna do the second half of this convo too just cause I'd hate to leave it here :)

pikavani

A little white lie 💚

My contribution to Ribbit's and Ragatha's relationship.

Believe it or not I've been working on this comic for months now but only had the time and patience to finish it now.

Rest assured that whenever Ragatha doesn't get enough attention, I will make it my mission to make her shine.

It's just a little funny interaction I had in mind.. tho I'm sure Ragatha had a hard time keeping up her smile when her friend abstracted.

important-animal-images

nudityandnerdery

New cosmology dropped, we know what's underneath the turtle now!

heartattackkidd

@gallus-rising

discworld-heritage-posts

Discworld Heritage Post

jagalart

Lately I don't give you much time to breathe between posts, but there's still so much I want to show before Pyrkon! Then on Thursday I'm shutting up for a few days, I promise, lmao

Here's the print many of you have been asking for, and I was happy to deliver, anything Witcher related is awesome to draw and I had fun figuring out a matching vibe with Regis portrait I've done a year ago <3

veryberryskye

yeah i like to give my blessing to the most pathetic looking weak little knight at the tournament. she can’t even look me in the eye when i give her my flower and she stutters out that she’ll do her best or something of the like. i think its funny when she has to cry and beg my forgiveness and i get to say “such a shame, i suppose my hand in marriage will have to go to someone else…” and then i get to hear her whimper like a dog. ive done this like 6 times alrea-

did she just win.