#crypdoe asks

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Hey hey do you have the full Herbert West rant not just the cliffnotes version tagged on your blog anywhere?

haha you mean the letterboxd one?

this was mostly written for comedic over-exaggeration, met a lot of funny herb fans on twitter who liked it

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Touch grass please thanks

no thanks i don't like being barefoot outside. i did allow myself to sink ankle deep into the putrid mud though. shoes on of course, modesty is key

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tbh i think its kinda funny and pathetic that youre making hating a character your entire personality, to the point of getting pissy when teenagers decide to be little bitches on your post instead of handling it maturely and blocking them. maybe, like, i dont know, make a hobby your entire personality instead? anyways,

brother you are a solid 3 days late, you gotta get w/ the times.

thanks for the fanart, my legs are bigger than that tho you should have used a reference

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hi i dont know whats happening i just follow you and think you're cool, but i wanted to say i hope you have some good food tonight? i have very little context but i scrolled through your blog bc i was curious, and i'm assuming you mean "Fans" as in ppl actually liking this character's actions? From my impression, you aren't saying anything about 'you're not allowed to be interested in this character', but more that you are suspicious of ppl who actively woobify and say that his actions are justified? in any case, i hope you have a better evening!

i'm not trying to tell anyone what they're allowed to do. but yeah i DO feel suspicious about people who woobify herbert west and reducing him to shipping fodder w/ the guy he psychologically abuses. and even that, if that's what anyone wants to do, have fun, but i'm not required to like someone who does that or to get along w/ them.

i feel like the kind of mindset online is that if anything is looked at critically for any reason it's some kind of personal attack on their very personality. there's room in the world for self reflection. and you can self reflect and still be a fan of whatever if is you like, the only think you stand to loose is a little pride, and you can gain a whole new and fresh perspective on yourself

it's morning now but thanks, i'm gonna take my dogs to the park, it's in the high 60's (F) today : )

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I've followed you for years and while I do respect your opinion I don't agree with attacking people for their taste in fictional characters. I don't even think I've seen you lash out this bad before. Get well soon.

you really think that's an attack huh

i'm not just going to sit around and say only half of what i mean, i think ppl owe it to themselves to think harder about what they project onto. idc if you LIKE these movies or the character, but if folks are really out there watching reanimator and seeing all that shit and they walk out w/ "omg kinspiration! he and dan should kiss" then they are terminally online and need to try to boot up the old critical thinking machine that's been moldering away in the back of their head since 8th grade english class

and yeah. it bothers me that people take "hey think harder about that" as some kind of personal attack. it's not the kind of mindset i want to be around where we have to sit around in the herbert stan hug box and pretend that idolizing a man w/ literally. i mean LITERALLY. no personality outside his dehumanization of women and complete egomania. and that's ALL he needs for ppl to claim he's the paragon of transcoded media. that. bothers. me.

so no i'm not gonna get well soon, or ever probably, i'm 26 i'm only gonna get older and more bitter from here

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I feel like it's worth mentioning though that when some say they kin a character, it's a lot more common for it to be in the "This character has traits/elements to which I relate, I kin this character" way, it's quite diluted. Obviously this is about kinning in general not about a specific guy, and some of the only good traits Herb has are his tendency for killing bigger bastards and being played by Jeffrey Combs. Not a lot of that is #relatable (unless you count being short as one of them).

the only reason he kills dr hill is because hill was going to put and end to his experiments. killing hill had nothing to do w/ herb taking a moral stance against him, so i don't think herb should get to take credit for that one. (he then immediately brings him back to life, making him only stronger -_- so really... i think we should deduct good boy points from him on that)

but otherwise, yeah i agree w/ you i know that ppl usually mean this when they're kinning, but i think no matter how you kin, it's important to think about what attracts you to a character and what that might mean about your own personality. anyway major props to jeffery combs for embodying such an unlikable puckered dog's arse of a man, nothing but respect to jeff

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You're literally the one terminally online losing your mind over some weird fandom battling kin shit that literally isn't even a thing to contend with offline. Just so bizarre to me, good reminder for people to join some in person queer communities and like really talk to people if they can. Touch grass. Also weird trans male singling out there, not surprised more terminally online crap.

yup i'm terminally online, the way my life has gone i can't quite help it. and i think everyone has a few pet peeves. people projecting gayness and transness onto characters that imbody bigotry hatred and inhuman cruelty is one of them. i'm gay. i'm trans. and i hate my LOVE for myself and others being perverted into something like this

so yeah. it bothers me. it just bothers me

and i don't owe anyone jokes or smiles

this is my blog, you don't like my takes, block me. if you think what i have to say is that dumb, block me.

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ik you touched on it a little bit but i'm still like extremely curious about why you don't like hereditary and midsommar specifically? i can't say they're my favorite horror movies either but i do like them so i'm curious about your criticism!

i really struggle to be totally coherent w/ my complaints about these movies 😅 i mainly have just a very gut reaction to them. like i GUESS i can see why people like them, they both have some really well done effects and gore visuals, and they both have a pretty cohesive aesthetic style. but ultimately both of those things end up feeling rather hollow to me.  in hereditary’s cause i think when so much attention is put into the visual look of a film, and clearly had great actors and a good budget that someone would have edited the the plot (and i’ll struggle to stay calm about how frustrated that makes me). if a little indie B movie w/ unknown actors and a tiny little budget makes a somewhat slapdash movie w/ some plot holes but they blow some stuff up in the end or have 2 minute scene of someone’s face melting off you feel like yeah ok this makes sense it is what it is and i can really appreciate that. hereditary has so much going for it and yet it feels completely superficial. it’s all about looks and it has no substance when IT REALLY COULD HAVE. there’s just no excuse! the plot makes no sense to me, the whole cult this is completely convoluted and needed massive editing. nothing adds up and to me it really pulls away from what’s happening in the movie. it kind of seems like it jumps from shock value gore scene to shock value gore scene which is like FINE if that’s what the movie is SUPPOSED TO BE but hereditary parades around in the skin of a psychological horror film about family tragedy. AND IT’S REALLY NOT  ONE. the focus is massively pulled away from the family dynamics w/ all that fucking cult demon ghost shit going on and in the end neither the family drama OR the demon cult ends up being well fleshed out enough to make sense. it’s like they had two scripts lazily glued them together and then put a real expensive dress on it. i really. REALLY. don’t like it. to me it doesn’t feel organic or honesty or fun. i fucking hate every character they are so god damn unlikable there isn’t even anyone to hold on to or enjoy. it just makes every little annoyance stick out to me, there’s nothing to sooth it over and make me feel like the little faults are forgivable.  and that brings me to midsommar. which is a bloated, self important hell film. honestly i would just write it off as insufferably boring if not for how it was received by the public. the way audiences interpreted this movie have created so much loathing in me for the movie itself. which AGAIN comes off to me as being superficial. all flash no substance. again not really any likable characters! which WOULD AHVE BEEN GREAT TO HAVE SINCE IT’S A LONG LONG ASS MOVIE. jeSUS it’s so god damn long did i watch a directors cut by accident or is it really three hours long?????? EITHER WAY it needs massive editing, there is so much garbage in there, it wants to have this deep lore and everything but there’s just too much!! like fucking pick your set dressing!!!! it’s just exhausting and pretentious that a director would think the audience really needs to see every single little thing you thought up like you’re not the second coming man, get ur point across and get out. i just don’t feel a heart or soul in the movie, it wasn’t fun to me to watch, or even haunting or traumatizing. it was just annoying the reason i keep fucking thinking about it is because i hate that i wasted time watching it and every time someone brings it up i feel SO mad that people really think this is what is the pinnacle of horror media when it feels like a gentrification of horror media. dress it up make it glossy and pretty, it feels corporate and sterile. and what is it w/ BOTH these movies dragging mental illness into for no fucking reason?? w/ in hereditary saying the dead mom had schizophrenia and dani’s sister in midsommar having bipolar? WHAT did that add to the movies?? other than villainizing people w/ mental illnesses REALLY what was the point? like this is one of those little details i was talking about earlier, like the fact that it’s in both movies really makes me fucking wonder. like if this was just some stupid little b movie that no one watched it would barely matter to me, but the fact that these movies are so fucking popular and there are so many of these ~le problematique~ features in these movies that everyone is willing to condemn the genre for! BUT THEIR STILL. HERE. makes me feel like people only give a shit about advocating for the awareness of the demonization of the mentally ill in horror media when the movie can’t be turned into pretty aesthetic gifsets. 

i’m not going to say no one is allowed to like these movies, like i said at the beginning to an extent, i can see their appeal, i admire the gross shock value that hereditary kind of has, and i can dig the serene aesthetic of midsommar. and you’re allowed to enjoy a movie that’s problematic, we all do, i’m not trying to “cancel” these movies. i do think ari aster has some thing about the genre down and i’d love to see him make a movie i can really enjoy. but jesus i will never ever ever come to enjoy these films, the really rub me the wrong way and i think they’re both too big for their britches.