Original teratophilia writing and reblogs. This blog is NSFW. If you are minor, do not follow or interact. Content Promise: No content featured on this blog will ever include noncon, incest, or pedophilia.
I was gonna make a “"genres of monsters” posts but upon thinking about it I realized that “"genres of monster fans” has actually been more interesting to think about
anyone else pissed about how choking is way less hot in practice than it is in fantasy?
i mean like, shocker! actually being strangled isn’t as much fun as it looks! news at eleven! i know, i know. thing is like, i do enjoy breathplay! when it’s done right!!
unfortunately!! nine out of ten times it’s some dumbass hookup who i just met and who did not ask permission first and who also, coincidentally, doesn’t know what the flippin heck he’s fuckin doing!! so he’s either actually crushing my got dam windpipe(!!) or like, stupidly trying not to put any actual pressure on my throat by instead leaning his entire phuckening body weight on my collarbone
and stopping this dumbfuck to sit him down and explain where the fricken carotids are kinda kills the mood, wouldn’t ya know!
please my dudes. please. breathplay is not something you can just figure out as you go. do some got dang research before you hurt someone.
It’s edgeplay, it’s dangerous, and you owe it to your partner to mitigate that danger as much as possible
also ask first assholes!!! how you gonna take a stranger out to some shady ass car-sex venue and expect them NOT to freak out when you start strangling them out of nowhere?!?! lucky i didnt break your nose serial killer lookin son of a bitch
I had a sudden strike of inspiration again for making a generator! Hope someone finds it useful :) Drag or screenshot!
Note: I encourage to pick 2-3 times from the additional/special abilities squares. Also to just take the body type square as a inspiration and not super strictly. ❤
I don’t want to give people the impression that Venom (2018) is like a Thor: Ragnarok or something.
A lot of what the critics are saying is true - about the plot, the pacing, the…everything really - and yet
When a sweaty Tom Hardy tears open a bag of frozen tater tots and just starts pouring them into his mouth, while an alien symbiote screams ‘HUNGRY!’ and then makes him eat chicken out of the trash…
I’m sitting there feeling like yes, 10/10, movie of the year, give that man an Oscar
werewolves stink like wet dog and shed all over your furniture and are probably really really needy around a full moon and wake u up all the time with questions about morality but on the other hand vampires are like “øh hëllö thêrę vøuld yoü lïke to help me örganise mai evening vear closët for the third time this veëk :)” so really you cant win
So the illustrator of this comic, Esad Ribic, made this cover as a joke to see if the editors would notice it. They didn’t. (Also note the placement of the beer bottle)
Hey, anybody following me secretly a vacuum repair guru? My roommates used my brand new Hoover Power Drive Pet Bagless to vacuum up solid chunks of paint from a door they were stripping. It looks like it’s melted into the actual plastic in places.The filter inside the bin is covered in it.
Any tips for un-fucking my baby? She still runs, but I know that’s going to affect air intake and I’m half afraid that if I turn her on she’ll catch fire. She was a housewarming gift from my dad on top of everything and I really don’t want to declare her totaled over this. I haven’t even had a chance to vacuum the stairs with her yet!
I am disabled, but my disability is not visible, and as such my opinion on the matter is secondary to people who are visibly disabled and thus potentially bothered by the “classical” definition of the term.
if you are visibly disabled and want to share your opinions on the definition of teratophilia, not only will i not fight you behind an ihop on free pancake day, I will defer to you on this matter and give your feelings thorough consideration.You’re welcome to talk to me any time, I’m actually very chill I promise.
conversely, if you’re someone who wants to keep the classical definition because you’re into that
block me
why are you even here
this is a wholesome monster fucking blog
what in gods name made you think i had anything you wanted
Oh also if anyone’s curious about my opinion on the terato/exophilia thing, I’m sticking to the term teratophilia. Language is fluid and has the possibility to change. Words change meaning constantly.
I feel the same. While the original connotations of the word are... you know I was gonna go polite and say ‘unfortunate’ but fuck that. its nasty objectifying ableist bullshit. But we’ve successfully shifted the definition enough that pmuch anyone who has heard the term before knows you mean fantasy teratophilia/intelligent non human monsters. Anyone who hasn’t heard the term before, i just tell them its about intelligent non human monsters and let them live in the nicer world where the other thing doesn’t exist. It sucks that every once in a blue moon we’ve got to sit a bitch down and explain that no we’re not talking about disabled people please stop, but hey consider it an opportunity to educate folks about how not to be gross towards disabled people, who frankly experience enough objectification as it is without adding sexual objectification on top of that. in case you couldnt tell, I was less than happy to learn the classical definition of teratophilia and kind of disappointed in humanity that it even exists. But hey, what better way to deal with that then just to replace that fuckin definition entirely? sorry, that gross shit doesn’t exist anymore! now it means bangin werewolves and i will fight you behind an ihop on free pancake day if you tell me it means anything else.
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bringing this up both because Venom has been every other post on my dash for a while and I wanted to talk about my feelings on the movie, and also because of some of the reactions I’ve seen from both fans and critics.
Venom, while deeply enjoyable, was also hugely technically flawed.
It can be both of those things! I’ve been seeing people getting a little too rabid defending it as one or the other, from people who think it was bad saying the only people who liked it were yaoi fangirls, to people who think it was good accusing the haters of being homophobic. Like, guys, rein it in a little. You can like a thing without it being perfect, and dislike a thing without being ideologically opposed to it. Venom has issues. Objectively speaking, it has serious problems from a basic film making perspective.
The pacing is poor, the tone is super inconsistent. Venom’s motivations are thinly established and there’s no demonstrable basis for Venom and Eddie’s relationship, which the movie can’t decide if it supports or not. Anne has nothing to do and she and Eddie have no chemistry. Most of the actors seem to be struggling to find their characters. I get the sense that there were a lot of issues with the script/rewrites by people with very different concepts for the film and that the director was probably floundering a bit. The villain is a cartoonish caricature of Elon Musk and Steve Jobs whose motivations are even more of an enigma than Venom’s. Riot is a plot device who might as well be an Iron Man suit for all the personality it’s given. The story gets super thin in the second half after overloading exposition in the front, and basically becomes a series of one line objectives strung together by action sequences. Also, and this is just me, but I really liked Jenny Slate’s character Dr. Skirth and I was disappointed by the way she was sidelined and killed. Esp because for a second there I thought she was going to host the blue symbiote and become awesome. But that’s a personal grumble, compared to the major construction issues the rest of the movie had.
All that said! I really enjoyed the movie. Despite it’s glaring technical flaws, it’s still fun to watch. Like a really ugly home made cake that still tastes amazing. It looks good overall, the cg isn’t bad, the action scenes are unmemorable but well choreographed and easy to follow, which is something I tend to be picky about since bad action sequences make me nauseous. Tom Hardy’s acting is weird but entertaining and carries a lot of the film.There are a handful of great, hilarious moments. The movie is at its best when it drops the serious facade and PG13 edge and lets itself be funny. There are hints of something fantastic there when it cuts loose and stops trying to justify its goofy premise. I think a big part of the appeal is just in the potential that it has, even though it never quite lives up to that.
There are plenty of reasons to like Venom despite its issues, but never any reason to be an asshole to people over their opinions on a movie. Try to remember that you can like a film and still be critical of it, and that you can dislike a movie without being disrespectful of everyone who enjoyed it.
That’s it in a nutshell, but if you’re interested in more in-depth criticisms (including where I think some of them originated and how I would fix them) they’re under the cut.
So first of all, as I mentioned before the tone is all over the place. It teases us with hints of the sci fi horror it was pitched as but won’t commit. It tries to be serious one moment, then slips into near-parody of superhero action, particularly around the villain. It makes vague motions at social commentary that it never follows through on (you can’t talk about the plight of the homeless and then also use the homeless for cheap scares and expect your earlier commentary to stand up) but most of the time it’s just generic superhero flavored action. The best moments are when it stops trying to be serious and indulges a little in the absurdity of the concept, but those moments are so tonally out of sync with everything else that they feel taken from a different movie and in the end I suspect even those couple of good moments came from a producer somewhere saying “make it like deadpool. people like deadpool. but not too much like deadpool, because this serious gritty action with Themes like dark knight, people like dark knight.” The movie can’t nail down what it’s trying to be and it feels like it’s fighting itself. It’s like half the people involved wanted to go campy and fun and the other half wanted to do something dark and scary and it cant commit to either. At best, its tonally jarring as it jumps between these two concepts. At worst, they just blend into something mediocre. I would have loved this as a good serious sci fi horror that spends the first acts building up Venom as something sinister, and then shifts in the second half to Venom and Eddie being victims thrown together by the real evil that threatens them both, where the goal is more survival than triumph and a heavy emphasis on suspense. I also would have loved an absurd, gorey buddy action comedy that leans into the Deadpool vibe and plays up Eddie and Venom bickering and bonding over dumb shit and ultimately taking down the bad guy more by dumb luck and teamwork than anything else. But what we get is a few scenes of the sci fi horror version cut with a bad rom com which, by the end of the first act, becomes a generic action movie with no substance, occasionally interrupted by single shots from the buddy comedy.
The pacing drags at the beginning and then rushes for the rest of the movie. It feels frantic, jumping from one action scene into another without ever stopping to breathe or process, which makes the action more forgettable and severely hampers their ability to develop the plot or the characters. The entire first act of the movie feels almost entirely unnecessary. We get multiple scenes of Riot changing hosts and traveling that aren’t needed (after he jumps into the EMT we really don’t need to see him again until the climax) and Eddie’s introduction is drawn out way more than it needs to be, delaying the action. The movie could have started after he’s already lost his job and girlfriend and given us everything that happened before that in like one or two lines of dialogue. Even after that, they pad with more scenes of Eddie pining over Anne that don’t tell us anything new or even really develop the characters. Once the action finally begins, it’s like they think they’ve filled their quota for establishing anything and now they can’t afford any more character interaction or set up. It’s all action beats from there till the ending.
The screen time spent on that dragged out first act could have been much better spent establishing Venom’s motivations, which get glossed over in pretty egregious fashion considering it’s the title character. Venom goes from “gotta kill all humans” to “actually I like it here and im going to betray my whole race and probably die” in the space of a scene. All its development is flat out stated directly by Venom and never shown in any meaningful way. It just says that it’s changed its mind without anything to show the process of it changing. I also feel like this weakens Venom’s character overall. Its meant to be this amoral antihero, but switches to straight up self sacrificing heroics with no transition. A more believable transition motive might have been something like: “Actually, I like it here on earth because humans are super easy to hunt. If the rest of my species shows up I’ll have to deal with a lot of competition and since im bottom of the pecking order i’ll end up with scraps and honestly fuck that noise.” At least have it debate running away and hiding rather than risking its life and Eddies life in what it says it knows is a pretty doomed effort to stop Riot. Let him and Eddie bond over deciding together to try and protect something more important than themselves. As it is, Eddie doesn’t feel involved in the decision to stop Riot at all, and Venom appears to have been persuaded to martyr itself by nothing but a glimpse of the San Fran skyline.
The movie over all has some interesting issues with ‘show don’t tell’- it shows what would be better off told (ie a lot of the unnecessary early scenes- we don’t need to see Riot switching bodies in an extended action scene, we can just be told it headed to america, and everything else that scene establishes is covered later.) and tells what it should be showing (ie: Venom just declaring Eddie is the reason it wants to stay, when if they’d been given proper time to develop a relationship that should have been obvious).
Also, the movie seems to be of two minds about Eddie and Venom’s relationship. It gives occasional, half assed support to Eddie and Venom caring about each other (by Venom just saying it out loud again, and some of the final action sequence) but it also consistently undermines this by not giving them any scenes to really establish a relationship or any reason to care about each other (pmuch all their time together is a continuous action scene in which Eddie is either scared shitless, violently ill, or both) and also leaning weirdly hard into Eddie’s relationship with Anne, including making Venom ship that, which feels tonally weird and out of character. Again, they could have made it work if they’d spent some time developing it, establishing that Venom is invested in things that make Eddie happy and it thinks Anne will do that, or even that Venom is itself is into Anne. But literally the only time Eddie and Venom really stop and have a conversation is that first confrontation wherein Venom threatens Eddie and calls him a loser. All the rest of their interactions are quips on the go. They don’t have time to find common ground or bond. Ideally, they need at least one more scene later on where the action slows down long enough for them to talk and reach an understanding to even begin to make Venom’s flip and their bond make sense.
The actors seem kind of lost the majority of the time, like they aren’t sure what they’re supposed to be feeling in any given scene. The only one who seems to be confident in what they’re doing is Riz Ahmed, and that may just be because he’s playing a cartoon super villain whose only distinct character trait is a god complex which the script telegraphs in fucking neon. More than anyone he embraces that the only way to play a character like that is to go as campy as possible and he makes it work. I wish the script had let him run with it more honestly. He would have looked great really chewing the scenery. Hardy defaults to fear and confusion, which is appropriate, but makes his performance kind of one note and doesn’t really support him and Venom getting along. His panicked antics are entertaining enough to keep you watching, but don’t give him much personality. Michelle Williams’s Anne is a cypher whose personality is whatever it needs to be for the plot and so her acting feels a bit subdued. She can’t play up any particular quirk or personality trait because it’ll probably be contradicted in the next scene. The character is just a featureless icon of inoffensive femininity. The one place it feels like William’s makes a choice about the characterization is (and this is just how I’m reading her so ymmv) she seems to be interpreting Anne as being over Eddie. Unfortunately the script can’t seem to decide if she’s right or not. I can’t tell if the new boyfriend’s lack of defensive animosity to Ed is intentional in the script or just how the actor is playing it, because everything else seems to put her into a standard love interest box. “Gotta get my girl back” is probably the only personal motivation Eddie has, honestly? Everything else is just him getting dragged along by the plot. The plot setting him up with this goal and then making Anne unobtainable without adequately subverting or replacing that motive weakens Eddie’s only real characterization and ends up feeling like a loose plot thread, an uncompleted arc. The ending scene suggests he’s going to keep trying to get her back, but also feels like it’s doubling down on her lack of interest. Again, it may be me interpreting how William’s acted the scene, but the whole “the kiss was your friend’s idea” thing felt like a nail in the coffin for them getting back together. Particularly the fake out with “it felt good though” where she realizes how that sounded and kind of cringes before clarifying that she meant *being* Venom felt good. Which, like, relatable. I too would enjoy becoming a gorgeous and incredibly powerful seven foot tall monster woman. And I would definitely get distracted during conversations thinking about it. But both of those things- her being completely over him and him still pursuing her, feels wrong.
Speaking of, and not to harp on her unnecessarily, but Anne feels super unnecessary all together. She has nothing to do- she’s just there to be the obligatory female love interest. This is made worse by the fact that, imo, she has no chemistry with Tom Hardy, though that could be a result of her character having no personality for either of them to work off of. While I liked the supportive boyfriend character, the movie might have been better served by combining his character with William’s, so that she was at least serving a purpose in the narrative. I don’t think she passes the Sexy Lamp test tbh. Her involvement in the plot boils down to- Eddie stealing the files from her, her introducing Eddie to a doctor, the scene where Venom possesses her to save Ed, and being the deus ex machina at the end by playing loud noise to freak out the symbiotes. I don’t think I need to go into detail on just how easily she could be removed entirely. But considering she’s basically Eddie’s only human connection I’d rather she was just beefed up a little, given more personality and more relevance to the plot. Williams is a good actress, I just feel like she has nothing to work with here.
As a side note, the scene where the symbiote possesses Anne is super frustrating for me, because on the one hand *~Monster Lady Hot~* - and on the other it feels like a big “no homo” that they had to give Venom boobs in order to have it kiss Eddie. Doubly frustrating because there wasn’t even enough support for their relationship in the film for me to feel like the kiss was justified to begin with. Like they barely touch on the relationship at all, but still feel like they need to hide it under a hetero safety blanket just in case. Honestly, it was probably a condition of getting the rating down to PG13 now that I think about it. I get that they worried an R rating would prevent future Spiderman cross overs but, first of all, you don’t get a franchise if you shoot your first movie in the foot trying to make it open to sequels and I really wish film makers would figure that out. Making a good movie should always be the first priority. If your future franchise plans hurt the movie as a stand alone you’re doing it wrong. And second, honestly, why even do a Venom movie if you’re not going to commit to the two most basic elements of the character? Venom’s whole thing, even putting aside the relationship with Eddie, is edgy 90′s gore and being uncomfortably sexual.That’s the character. Also, Deadpool is going to want a Spiderman crossover eventually and I can bet you they’ll get it even with the R rating. The rating, like a lot of the problems in the movie, feels like pressure to play it safe interfering with everything that might have made the movie better.
Like I said, I enjoyed this movie, but I also left it already imagining doing a full rewrite of the script because most of its issues are so basic and blatant. I honestly might just do that if I ever get the free time. Instead, I’m falling behind on my actual work so I can rant about Venom on tumblr! Adulthood.
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