palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.

choking on whatever bargain we settle on at some mercy of fate always drawing the fool.

[remindertoclick]

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[folkdevilism]

[via]

[frankencain]

– The Creature in Vol. II, Chapter II

– Victor Frankenstein in Vol. III, Chapter VII

of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1818)

[frankencain]

notice how the creature likens itself to lucifer on grounds of their shared abandonment by their creators, while victor does so on account of their shared hubris against god. one shattering the idea of divine paternal righteousness and allowing himself to accept the reality of his suffering being undeserved and thus offering them both a way out of the cycle (which victor of course refuses); the other keeping those very same ideas firmly intact, convinced of having earned fateful punishment and so rendering forgiveness (for the self and the other) impossible—both coming together in the same image from opposite ends

[frankencain]

»In the acclaimed painting An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1769), Joseph Wright of Derby depicted a natural scientist evacuating air from a jar containing a live bird. This experiment was first conducted by Robert Boyle in the seventeenth century and became a staple of popular scientific demonstrations, often performed before large audiences. The air would be pumped out and the bird would begin to expire; sometimes air was released back into the jar to revive it, sometimes not.«

the fact that victor is especially fascinated by an experiment which bridges the gap between life and death to create a kind of quantum state somewhere in-between + he considers this a "natural phenomenon"...i know this phrasing probably mainly refers to the proof of the existence of air and the reliance of most living beings on the presence of this invisible, seemingly indetectable substance to survive (which offers so many avenues of exploration in itself), but i can't help but interpret it also as victor viewing an existence in this superposition as natural in the sense of it being something he relates to.

the obvious analogy is of course to equate the creature with the bird and put victor in the place of his fellow scientist, but i think there's also a case to be made that on some level, victor sees himself as the bird, too. is himself intimately familiar with being suspended in the tension between dissolution and reclamation of the self & at the mercy of the whims of forces outside of his control. death and loss have been intricately weaved into the tapestry of his life from very early on, sickness and incest permeating his family tree and co-existing there with seemingly unconditional love and support—one does not, in fact, oppose the other. on the contrary. his adoring family leaves no room for even the mere consideration of a life outside of their designs, and the workings of his mind (which could very well, from a modern perspective, be considered affected by something we might today call bipolar disorder) have accustomed him to making a home at the junction of paralysing despair and compulsive frenzy. the air might be released back into the jar, it might not.

which supports a reading of victor's construction of the creature as not only an attempt at asserting some sort of agency in his own narrative (which he fails at utterly), but also—and arguably even more importantly—an endeavour to manifest something that might understand him. which, of course, he undeniably succeeds at, to his own tremendous horror. and what is intergenerational trauma but an endless concatenation of bringing forth something into the world that understands?

[trainstationgoodbye]

Claudia was… everything. I loved her unconditionally. All the noise, the chaos, the crisis of my former existence, silenced. The simple joy of her hand in mine. You had a daughter. I had a daughter.

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE | SEASONS 1 & 2

[calisverse]

angelus also loves buffy, that's my hot take. he loves her in the way he can, with obsession and extremes and he hates it because he is not supposed to feel that way. its not really angel he hates but her, he ses buffy as the reason he felt human, while angel loves her for that same reason. angelus loves buffy to the point of obsession, that he has to end the world because a world where he is in love is just not a possibility.

[camellcat]

in I only have eyes for you I LOVE those seconds after the ghosts stop possessing them, and angel just. stands there. either overwhelmed by what he'd felt for her again or uncomprehending that it's over or whatever. and it isn't until buffy tentatively asks angel? that he snarls and runs away. cause he isn't angel. he's not. wrong name. and he can't be there another moment. he has to rub himself raw to try and escape loving her again, and it doesn't even work. he got a taste of it again, that all-consuming, blinding love, for buffy, and it won't let him go. she makes the lines blurrier than they should be because there shouldn't be any blur at all. he's not angel, and angel is not him. but he can't get her out of his head. not with a soul and somehow even less without one. and it is entirely unacceptable to be owned even a little like that. to have her own some piece of him again when he's supposed to be free

[spikedru]

bangelus is fun because what if you hated being so in love with this girl you decide to kill yourself and the world because of it

[ceciliastark]

having buffy wear the union jack here is so unintentionally funny. yes I’m trying to convince u that me and my irish bf are enemies now so naturally I’m wearing a british shirt

[theslayerfest]

“face it, white bread, buffy’s got a type, and you’re not it. she likes us dangerous, rough, occasionally bumpy in the forehead region. not that she doesn’t like you, but sorry charlie, you’re just not dark enough.”

[akajustmerry]

In light of the no.1 trending topic on this site, I'd like to inform youse that Kitty Kendall, one of the survivors who bravely spoke out against Neil Gaiman and accused him of rape in 2025, has said here and here that if you are looking to support her and other survivors, you can make a donation to OurVOICE (the counselling service Kendall herself used) or your local rape crisis centre. If you can't make a donation, you can help to ensure people do not forget what Kendall and other survivors have gone through and continue to go through as they pursue legal action, and that Gaiman has already spent a lot of money in the attempt to sue these women for speaking out.

[evilvvithin]

@margaretoakgrove requested: THE BLACK PHONE scott derrickson, 2021

[ava-deb]

BLACK PHONE 2 2025, dir. Scott Derrickson

[finnish-me-im-still-here]

The uncomfortable sexual tension should've been thicker. We should've seen that Al wanted to ruin and end Finn completely. Whether you think he touched Finney or not, he touched those other boys. You think with all his *(vaguely misplaced feeling, but I digress) anger, not getting to fuck/molest/otherwise assault this one little bastard, the one that murdered him, doesn't add to the list of things that piss this petty old fuck off about Finn?

The only times he got to touch Finney (alive) were (iirc): kidnapping him, the few times he's carried, that bang adjustment and cheek caress, and at the end when he snatched Finney's arm and pulled him down, leading to his murder. One way they show how deeply personal it is: when Al leaps, grabs, and chokes Finn mimicking the way they moved together four years prior, and the way he's rocking Finn down onto that ice? He can feel Finn's pulse, feel him struggle to breathe and feel him swallow against the belt. I know he can. He should've lingered or made it look like he was going to kiss Finn.

Also, I think at some point, we should've seen Al grab him by the hips or waist. Skate by, swoop over, snatch him up around the hips/waist, maybe spin him? Then use the momentum to throw him into something or someone? Maybe he gets slung into the water—or they could've given him and Gwen like a single linked dream and Al's hands come through the glass of the payphone booth to grab Finn's hips and yank him back through the rest of it, waking him up—maybe he has cuts on his back now.

Maybe Al could've sliced Finn's shirt open on a particularly close call when he swings the axe down, Finn moving just in time to have it shallowly cut into him down his back so that we see his exposed skin, see him bleed.

Either way, people who went into it having seen the first movie probably remembered/assumed he was a pedophile already anyway, so it wouldn't have needed explanation and wouldn't have been out of place. Not to mention he calls Gwen naughty, which not only seems to and usually does have sexual undertones, but also calls back to Naughty Boy. So, they had some stuff in there on purpose, but it just didn't evoke the feeling as strongly. Not nearly. He wasn't scary. He wasn't real enough (wow the hellspawned ghost of the pedophilic murderer with his feet frozen into ice blocks in the campy sequel isn't real enough, go figure).

And y'know. Maybe that's fine. Meh. He wasn't meant to be as scary this time around I guess. Something to be said about being stronger than you think when you confront your trauma and face your fears? Man, my arm is tired from reaching (I say lovingly).

My point: It should've been more intimately uncomfortable and explicit. There should've been more uncomfortable sexual undertones between Al and Finn, a little bit more visibility to the lasting effects of being kidnapped and held captive by a man who wants to touch you, knowing he probably raped and killed your best friend, and all the other boys before you. Seeing what happened to Billy, hearing Vance say Al "took his time"—knowing without any doubt, especially now that you're older, that's what he wanted to do to you.

[alicecoopersbush]

cricket noises. im not saying it dawg

[softcervid]

The difference between Finney during the ending scene of the first movie and the opening scene of the sequel really drives in just how young Finney is in that first movie. He's too young to fully understand what the Grabber did to him, it's still traumatic of course, but he doesn't grasp the full extent yet, there's still an innocence to him. He's grateful that the event has stopped the bullying, he's happy people look up to him, he's happy his crush is talking to him. Cut to tpb2, that joy is gone, that final innocence lost- he understands fully now what happened to him, he's so full of fear and grief he's taking on the characteristics of the person who saved him (Robin.) He doesn't let anyone into his life, he's turning to drugs to cope, it's such a stark contrast.

[daffsforstag]

I’m sorry he was so funny in this movie, he was here in his fifteen minute screen time to protect his sister, cry, and serve cunt.