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fuck. seems like i've been caught

this movie is so fucking creepy jesus fuck

It’s by Tim Burton, what did you honestly expect?

Actually, it’s Henry Selick, who was the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas. The book was written by Neil Gaiman, though, and is far…far….worse.

Sorry, I’m about to geek the hell out.

The movie is captivating, but the book is twenty kinds of terrifying, even now, ten years after I first read it. As disturbing as the movie may have been to some, the things Selick added really serve to cushion just how horrific the story really is.

First of all, the character of Wybie does not exist in the book. Coraline is facing all of this nearly alone, with her only help coming from the sly comments of the cat, a warning from the circus mice, and the stone given to her by her neighbor, presented with no comment but that it “makes the unseen seen.”

Second, the Other Parents are never quite as warm (and, dare I say, normal) as they are in the gifs above. They’re described as having paper-white skin and the Other Mother’s hair is said to move on its own, and her long, red, claw-like nails don’t ease any uncertainty that she is absolutely, positively up to no good. The first time Coraline meets them, they (and the rest of the Others) seem to be playing roles (for whatever reason, Coraline does not seem to pick up on this), like they all know what to say and what to do and are simply waiting for Coraline to make her move in their terrifying play world. This is shown to be partly true when the Other Parents tell her they know she’ll be back soon after she refuses the buttons - this time, to stay.

Third, the Other Mother commits atrocities that really should not have been in a book for anyone not fully grown up. She physically deforms the world around Coraline to slow her progress in their game beyond any mild traps the movie portrays, and, instead of turning the Other Father into the wandering pumpkin-thing seen in the film, she simply ceases to use him and throws his body away in the cellar, leaving him to rot with whatever bit of sentience he has left. She begins to lose her touch, as Coraline gains the upper hand. Her world doesn’t just become a nightmare - it falls apart completely. No creepy but oddly cool bug furniture here, just the house that now appears to be a child’s drawing. Whatever the Other Mother is (a beldame, but something tells me she’s much more ancient and powerful than that), she does not give half a hump about what she has to do to ensnare Coraline. Destroy the supporting characters of her twisted creation? Done. Allow herself to be dismembered to ruin Coraline’s life in the normal world? Not even gonna bat an eyelash.

On a final, personal note, imagine eight year-old me, ignored by my parents, absorbed in the story and identifying with Coraline from the start. Imagine me finishing this bloodcurdling book and immediately thinking of my basement, where there is still a locked door that my grandmother swears up and down is nothing more than a storage room, but has not once in my (or my mother’s) lifetime unlocked.

Can you see why this book still scares me?

Fun fact I learned from seeing neil gaiman speak: when he first wanted the book published, his editor said it was too scary. He suggested she read it to her young daughter, and then decide. So she did, and her daughter wasn’t afraid, and it was published. Years later, Gaiman was sitting next to that daughter at an event and told her this story, and she said “oh I was terrified I just didn’t want to tell my mom”.

Coraline WAS too scary to be published, but exists anyway because a girl lied to her mother.

@neil-gaiman, is this true about the publisher’s daughter?

It was my literary agent, Merrilee Heifetz who read it and said “you can’t seriously expect this to be published as a children’s book.” So I suggested she read it to her daughters. And she called me back a week later and said “They love it and they weren’t scared at all. I’ll take it to Harper Children’s.”

A decade later, at the Opening Night of the Coraline musical, I was sitting next to Morgan, Merilee’s youngest daughter, and told her how her not being scared had made the book happen. And she said “I was terrified. But I needed to find out what happened next. So nobody knew.”

So, yes.

This website can be toxic at times, but the fact that people can just tag Neil Gaiman to get his input, like a sorcerer invoking a benevolent spirit, is definitely a bright spot.

Thrilling chase happening here

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Frankenstein fleeing from his monster

au where spencer has a reputation as the greatest vampire hunter who ever lived but every single one he killed was by accident through electrical fires and he has no clue vampires even exist but the volturi keeps sending assassins that die in fire after fire

jokes aside, and i can’t believe i even have to say this, but don’t give this website your card credentials. it’s not secure. it’s proved time and time again that your information isn’t as safe as it claims to be, and if the neverending sunglasses plague is anything to go by, then it’s only a matter of time before more than just your blog gets taken from you. 

They might be onto something here

Matilda (1996) dir. Danny DeVito

As others have noted in the past, Danny DeVito not only directed Matilda (and played her dad), but he and Rhea Perlman (DeVito’s wife at the time and Matilda’s mum in the movie) basically looked after Mara Wilson because Mara’s mother was in hospital with terminal cancer at the time of filming (She died during post production work, and it wasn’t until years later Mara discovered that Danny had taken an advanced (not quite completed) copy of “Matilda” to the hospital so that her mum could watch it before she passed.)

When Mara mentioned that she was feeling nervous about the dancing to “Little Bitty Pretty One” sequence, it was DeVito’s idea to have the ENTIRE cast and crew join in and dance too (off camera) so she wouldn’t feel self-conscious, apaprently even the craft services folks joined in, and the cameraman shooting the scene did a bit of a shuffle, but not too much because it would mess with the camera shot)

*gets horny*

*makes it everyone else’s problem*

I don’t know if Post+ is a good or bad idea, but people shitting on it without even a second thought is just another proof that no one values content creators here. That art is not seen as work worth being paid for. 

It’s easy to paint Tumblr as the bad guy, but who here is expecting to be entertained for free, and not contribute in any way in return?

Who’s expecting artists to, once again, work for free?

freezing cold take op, i say this as gently as i can, this scheme is genuinely illegal and can cause fanartists and fic writers who charge for their work in very real danger of being sued! you are legally not allowed to profit off of fanworks

i say all of this as an artist. its not “we dont think that artists are worth paying” its “tumblr is notoriously bad at security, there is no way to block your supporters if they harass you, and you can get sued by Disney for putting your sketch of mickey mouse behind a paywall”

also there are SO many other sites that are LEAGUES more secure than tumblr is. do not trust tumblr with your banking info i can promise you it will be stolen.

patreon and ko-fi were made for a reason and are much, much better because they were created with the intention of artists monetizing their work

“if you’re not angry you’re not paying attention” used to be such a powerful phrase but now it’s more accurate to say “if you’re not angry you’re probably exhausted by 5+ years of Panic Outrage Mode and are nearing the limit of your emotional range for reacting to this shit”

The fact that this is pre-covid haunts me

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Never forget that the War on Drugs was fabricated to criminalize certain communities. 

This headline pretty much sums up my thoughts about tumblr monetization

disabled trans people exist and we deserve just as much control over our bodies as abled trans people do

also we are hot as fuck

I know I’m late to this meme and I don’t care.

This was a really difficult cipher, Professor Van Helsing, I’m not surprised you had to diagram it out.

he smoked one of those cigarettes for each letter he figured out