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#he got him there
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u can’t suck, u can’t fuck, and u don’t know karate
THIS POST ISNT ABOUT COBRA KAI!WHO THE FUCK IS COBRA KAI!!!!!! THIS POST IS ABOUT SUCKIN FUCKIN MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE!
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let me tell you driving from Ohio to Washington in a SmartCar with everything I owned was funny enough on its own but once I got west of the Rockies, every. single. time. I stopped ar a gas station, random dads would just spawn beside my car. like there was some sort of dad portal following me. and they’d see my ohio plates and go, “did you DRIVE through the mountains in that?” and every. single. time. I’d go, “well, they didn’t airlift me!”
it killed. it absolutely cleared ever time. never failed to make the dads laugh. they were obsessed. i said it the same every time. it was like I was in a groundhog day timeloop on interstate 70 westbound gas stations. and you know what? I was happy.
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Besides that it is completely unnecessary why did we stop grilling musicians like this. mfer look like he got subpoenaed
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College friendship is sending one of your friends who's graduating soon a giant list of monster theory and gothic horror academic reading recs so they can download as many PDFs as possible before they lose their university database access
Got a request for some of the recs here, so here's a short-ish list of some of the reading recs -- I've made an effort to link open source and/or at least slightly more accessible databases like JSTOR wherever possible, but some of these are, admittedly behind various paywalls that I wish everyone luck with circumventing in whatever manner you deem fit
- Monster Theory - Really great anthology to start with, especially the first reading, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen's famous "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)" which is a personal favorite
- The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts - A general SF/F journal, but there are definitely a lot of great monster theory and gothic horror readings sprinkled throughout. Consider taking a look at Veronica Hollinger's "The Vampire and/as Alien," the special issue on Dracula, and Faye J. Ringel's "Genetic Experimentation: Mad Scientists and the Beast," among others
- Werewolf Histories edited by Willem Blécourt - Phenomenal anthology on werewolf scholarship, especially if you're interested in the connections between werewolves and witchcraft and/or witch trials in Early Modern Europe
- Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters by Jack Halberstam - Of interest to those who are interested in the connection between the gothic and gender (among other topics). Halberstam has written extensively on both
- The Journal of Dracula Studies - Exactly what it sounds like.
- Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural - Another journal, which focuses on the connections between witchcraft and occultism, monsters, demonology, and the like.
- Susan Stryker's "My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix" - An absolutely landmark piece of writing on Frankenstein and the transgender (and in particular the transfeminine) experience; one of my favorite pieces of academic writing of all time.
- Speaking of Monsters: A Teratological Anthology - Another solid monster theory anthology
- Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene - A really, really good anthology about the ecological gothic that I cannot recommend enough. As a known werewolf guy I especially like the piece "Wolf, or Homo homini lupus" by Carla Freccero
- The Vampire Lectures by Lawrence Rickels - So many vampires
- Monster Culture in the 21st Century: A Reader - Another anthology, I in particular recommend Rosalind Sibielski's "Gendering the Monster Within: Biological Essentialism, Sexual Difference, and Changing Symbolic Functions of the Monster in Popular Werewolf Texts" in this one.
- "The Trans Legacy of Frankenstein" by Jolene Zigarovich - Definitely a good read if you enjoyed the Stryker piece earlier; it's a more general survey of the idea but might give you some ideas for further reading
- TransGothic in Literature and Culture - A whole anthology of works on transgender identity and the gothic!
- Twenty-First Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion - Not to be confused with the other similarly named anthology earlier, this one is on various modern perspectives on the gothic.
- "Christians and Jews in the Twelfth Century Werewolf Renaissance" by David A. Shyovitz - Stand-alone article but really really interesting
- Wonders and the Order of Nature: 1150-1750 by Lorraine Daston & Katherine Park - Incredible volume that gets into several different subjects surrounding the fantastical in the medieval and early modern eras, monsters among them. The same authors have written some other fantastic work, such as "Unnatural Conceptions: The Study of Monsters in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century France and England" and I honestly would recommend any of their work.
- Monster Anthropology: Ethnographic Explorations of Transforming Social Worlds Through Monsters - A more anthropology focused volume, I particularly like Rozanna Lilley's "Drawing in the Margins: My Son's Arsenal of Monsters—(Autistic) Imagination and the Cultural Capital of Childhood"
- Marvels, Monsters, and Miracles: Studies in the Medieval and Early Modern Imaginations - Another anthology, this time with a historical perspective
This isn't even everything I've dug into on the subject, but I hope it's enough to get folks started on some reading!
but the second mother was with the seventh son !!!!! and they were both out on highway 61 !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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If We Were Villains
Foreshadowing, or something akin to that
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Imagine saying If We Were Villains is just a “bad The Secret History knock off.” Imagine not understanding that IWWV is a modern Shakespearean tragedy and follows the five act structure of those tragedies. (Act I: exposition, Act II: rising action, Act III: climax, Act IV: falling action, Act V: catastrophe). Imagine not understanding that the characters in IWWV are supposed to be twisted versions of roles in Shakespeare plays. Imagine thinking that it and TSH are the exact same, even though the only real similarities are that someone is murdered at a liberal arts school. Imagine not understanding that. Could not be me!
#ppl who say things like this (except when TRYING TO CONVINCE THEIR FRIEND WHO LOVES SHAKESPEARE AND THE SECRET HISTORY TO READ THIS BOOK BC#IK SHE WILL LOVE IT AND I NEED SOMEONE TO YELL AB IT WITH AND IM JUST TRYING TO GET HER TO UNDERSTAND THAT IT IS RIGHT UP HER ALLEY !!!!!!#lowk really piss me off cuz ppl will do it with all sorts of stories and im like ooooh okay so you dont care for the intricacies that make#one work of art what it is and would rather focus on what makes it similar to another. okay!
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When M. L. Rio said “What is more important, that Caesar is assassinated or that he is assassinated by his intimate friends?” friendships were broken.
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Hollywood needs to bring this genre back.
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joan baez imitating bob dylan you mean everything to me
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Not enough people are insane about The X Files
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“In the war film, a soldier can hold his buddy—as long as his buddy is dying on the battlefield. In the western, Butch Cassidy can wash the Sundance Kid’s naked flesh—as long as it is wounded. In the boxing film, a trainer can rub the well-developed torso and sinewy back of his protege—as long as it is bruised. In the crime film, a mob lieutenant can embrace his boss like a lover—as long as he is riddled with bullets.
Violence makes the homo-eroticism of many “male” genres invisible; it is a structural mechanism of plausible deniability.”
–Tarantino’s Incarnational Theology: Reservoir Dogs, Crucifixions, and Spectacular Violence. Kent L. Brintnall.
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SHAWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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MY BOYS ARE BACCCKKK 🫶🏻
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Soooo late on this but I love how much robby and sam genuinely like demetri and enjoy being friends with him in s2??? like they're all hanging out outside of miyagi-do, they find his neuroticisms funny but they're not laughing at him? They're not just tolerating his company and rolling their eyes when he says something nerdy or complains you can tell they genuinely like being around him they really do just like him as he is and don't make him feel like he has to change I just ughhhhhh