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Hotel Transylvania is Toxic - [A look into the Dracula Family]

[Spoiler Warning — Duh. I also have the article posted on Medium if you wanna check that out]

So we all know the movie, “Hotel Transylvania” right? For those who don’t, to sum it up, it’s a movie series about this hotel that’s for monsters so that monsters can hide from humans. The owner of this hotel is none other than the culturally known classic Dracula himself — and turns out he has a daughter named Mavis. Her mother died shortly after she was born due to human’s hatred for vampires during that time period. However, I feel like the story tends to be deeply problematic in terms of how the characters treat each other (specifically the Dracula family).

First and foremost, let’s get one thing out of the way: Dracula is a horrible father in these movies.

Legit, I can’t tell which movie he’s worse in. The only movie where I think he’s not entirely problematic is the third one where they go on vacation. And even then, he completely ditches his grandson to date Erica and lies to Mavis (but even that situation was a bit complicated if you watched the movie).

Excluding that, he’s straight-up horrible. Don’t believe me? What did he do in the first movie?

In the first film, Mavis states she wants to travel since she’s now 118 (which signifies her newfound autonomy in the monster realm the same way 18 is the new adult age for humans — gee, imagine having to wait that long?). However, Dracula, remembering his past trauma with humans, is terrified of her leaving because he doesn’t want her hurt. Obviously, this sounds like a caring father, right? But here’s the major issue.

Eventually, Dracula says that Mavis can test the waters by visiting a nearby human village. This obviously excites Mavis considering that she’s quite literally never left the hotel throughout those 118 years (if I was her, I’d also wanna go outside, hot dang).

Mavis flies over to the village. But the most bleeped up part about the whole thing is during that scene where she’s inside the village, it’s shown that Dracula actively set up the village and hired other monsters to pretend to be humans as a way to scare his daughter into leaving — making them seem like they’ll attack her.

Let’s restate that. Dracula — Mavis’ father — hires other monsters to cosplay humans — and scares her into leaving so she goes back to the hotel.

The guy traumatizes his own child into staying with him so that way she doesn’t leave. Deep down–despite Dracula possibly having the good intention of wanting to protect her from humans who hate monsters — only wants to keep his daughter to himself because he’s become dependent on her for his happiness since the death of her mother (Dracula’s late wife). Yes, Mavis does confront him about this after finding out about it (and during her 118th birthday party no less), but it’s still so slimy that Dracula would manipulate and traumatize his daughter just so he could keep her to himself due to his own outdated perception of humans.

I understand that Dracula also avoided humans up until Johnny showed due to his own experience and trauma, but the fact he even went that far just to have Mavis isolated in the hotel with him is all kinds of wrong. It’s one thing to disagree with something that you think is dangerous for your child, and it’s a complete ‘nother to straight up manipulate and traumatize them just so YOU can keep them where you want them.

You think that’s bad? Oh, you haven’t heard the half of it.

In the second movie, Mavis and her human husband Johnny (who she met in the first movie) have a child named Dennis. Throughout the film, Dracula has a creepy fixation on the vampiric aspects of Dennis rather than completely accepting his grandchild for who/what he is. Almost every chance he got, he tried to teach Dennis to be a vampire or try to trigger his vampiric growth. Sure, you could try to paint it as Dracula trying to connect with Dennis or helping him discover more aspects of himself. But he constantly gets progressively more and more shady about it.

It starts off small with Dracula trying to teach Dennis how to turn into a bat late at night while he sleeps. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still icky to wake up a child from their needed rest, but just bare with me here. Then when Dennis got his tooth knocked out during the werewolf children’s birthday party, Dracula — instead of showing concern for Dennis’ wellbeing–acted happy about it, hoping it meant that a vampire fang was growing in despite there being no correlation between the two whatsoever. Even if Dennis would somehow grow a fang as a new tooth, the fact he cared more about his grandson’s vampirisim than whether or not he was okay is incredibly offputting (for lack of a better word).

And then when Mavis trusts her father to look after Dennis while she and Johnny visit his family in California (a plan formulated by Johnny and Dracula), he completely dismisses her wishes and takes him on a trip, hoping to get him to become a vampire while she’s away. He even visits his former vampire camp and throws him off of a high ledge since apparently, he learned to fly by “being thrown and figuring it out.” Yes, he saves Dennis before he hits the ground, but the fact that he’s so willing to throw his toddler grandson off a tower in hopes of him becoming a vampire is deeply concerning — if not immoral and dangerous.

And it makes no sense for him to do this either. Even if it was how Dracula personally learned how to fly, we see in the first movie that there’s a flashback where Dracula teaches a young Mavis to fly in a completely different way. She’s in the comfort of her own home, is wearing a helmet, and Dracula is placed underneath her to catch her should she fall. So it’s definitely not how he taught Mavis. Why would it be any different for Dennis if his method of teaching Mavis was much more considerate and softer? At that point, Dracula may as well have only done that for some sadistic reason. There’s still major favoritism with Mavis going on and I wouldn’t be surprised if Dracula did that out of malice for the fact that Dennis is half-human.

Even when Mavis returns to the hotel and chews Dracula out for it, he still keeps up his antics by attempting to ‘scare the fangs’ out of Dennis by having Dracula’s father, Vlad, possess the mascot playing Dennis’ favorite TV character, Cakey (who most likely mimics or is a parody to Cookie Monster from Sesame Street) and making him act scary. Yes, Dracula ends up stopping it — but the fact that he even agreed to it and dragged Johnny into his mess (don’t worry, I’ll address Johnny later on) is diabolical. He once again attempted to traumatize someone he supposedly loved to gain control. And what is his motive for doing all of this? To control Mavis.

See, in the movie, Mavis states that she wishes to move out of the hotel and go to California since she reasonably believes that it’d be safer for Dennis. Therefore, if Dennis were to be a vampire (and he does become one by the end of the film), Mavis would be okay with allowing him to stay at the hotel. But throughout the film, it makes it seem like Mavis’ desire to move out is unreasonable or a bad thing when she was most likely the only voice of reason throughout that entire movie (but even she’s not without her flaws and I’ll address that as well). Though when you truly think about it, Mavis simply wants to do what’s best for her child and is constantly gaslit in the second movie about it.

Because of the fact that Dennis is half-human half-vampire, he’s obviously going to be weaker than his monster counterparts. Even if not, Dennis is five years old — thus very young — and it was proven he was not even at an actual good strength capacity to survive the chaotic nature of the hotel to begin with. For crying out loud, Dennis got his tooth knocked out during a werewolf party. And considering Dracula’s less-than-concerned reaction to that, it’s no wonder Mavis didn’t want Dennis to be raised in that environment.

Granted, she may have been incorrect about his ability to become a vampire and sure, she might be ‘overprotective’ (a notion I very much disagree with) but at the end of it all, she just wants her child to be safe since she doesn’t know how weak or powerful he could be. In fact, she actually wanted Dennis to be human because she believed it would've given him more opportunities in life than she did. So if anything, Mavis is the only one in the second movie who was ever truly considerate of the well-being of her son for the right reasons — even if supposedly her views were slightly flawed. But, it still doesn’t justify all the stuff that Dracula and Johnny did to Dennis previously.

Dracula was so hell-bent on getting Dennis to be a vampire because it meant that Mavis would stay in the hotel. Even after Mavis gets married and has a kid of her own, her father is still trying to control her. Dracula still refuses to allow Mavis any sort of autonomy over her life and how she wishes to do things.

And Johnny (her husband) is absolutely not in the clear here either because one of the only reasons why he agreed to help Dracula in his manipulative endeavors is because he liked Transylvania so much that he didn’t want to leave.

I’ll say it again.

He liked Transylvania so much that he didn’t want to leave.

Johnny is not even thinking about the safety of his own child and is focused on his own wants. I get that Johnny’s whole character dynamic is that he’s something of a dummy, but there’s a difference between being a dummy and being so outright selfish to the point where you place your own wants above the needs of your child. Heck, the whole reason why Mavis and Johnny were on that trip to California to begin with was because Johnny and Dracula both agreed to trick Mavis into leaving so that way Dracula could keep trying to turn Dennis into a vampire. The one time that Mavis finally has some time with herself and her husband is all because her husband and father are manipulating her.

You’re seriously trying to tell me that Johnny, this selfish incompetent man-child, is Mavis’ zing/soulmate? You’re trying to tell me that Johnny is her one and only love? Because I’m pretty sure if he was, he’d also understand and be willing to discuss the problems with his wife, rather than manipulate her behind her back and essentially betray her trust.

We could call it a ‘lapse’ in judgment all we want, but at the end of the day, what decent father agrees to the traumatization of his own child just for his own personal gain? What Dracula did to Mavis, Johnny is doing to Dennis in a similar format. It’s disgusting.

Sure, the movie has Dennis become a vampire by the end of the movie, but let’s be honest. The only reason why the movie would’ve had to go that direction is because otherwise, the conflict between Mavis versus Johnny & Dracula would’ve never truly been resolved. She still would’ve rightfully been super angry with them for endangering her child to suit their own selfish desires. But when Dennis did become a vampire, there was no longer a point for her to be angry since it then would’ve been better for him to stay at the hotel. Though let’s be clear, Dennis being a vampire doesn’t negate everything that Johnny and Dracula did to her.

Throughout the whole second movie, Mavis is gaslit, manipulated, and her boundaries are constantly being dismissed by her husband and her father.

I know it seems like I’m mainly sympathizing with Mavis here (and that’s because I sorta am) but there’s one thing Mavis does in the second movie that grinds my gears as well.

Why. The heck. Did she invite. Her anti-human grandad. To see her son? In the movie, she says, “He’s never seen Dennis.” But in the grand scheme of things, why did SHE expect a vampire centuries older than her father to be more accepting of humans over her actual father who still has trouble with being unbiased towards them? It makes NO sense. I’m glad she at LEAST acknowledges it in the movie when she says, “I don’t know why I ever invited you,” but it still makes no freaking sense and the only explanation I can think of as to why is because she didn’t want Vlad or Dennis to interrogate her about it later.

In the fourth movie, after Dracula gets married to a human woman named Erica (who was the daughter of a van Hellsing of all people), Dracula realizes that Johnny and Mavis will eventually inherit the hotel. However, Dracula has a problem with the fact that Johnny (a human) would be inheriting the hotel.

So even after all this time, meeting Johnny, letting Johnny marry Mavis, having a half-human grandson, letting the human side of his family visit him (who were all very accepting of the monsters by the way), and even marrying a human woman, he still is discriminatory against them. So this goes to show that deep down, Dracula is just an obstinate racist (well, speciest) who refuses to change his mind unless it suits the situation he’s in. He’ll say, “Doesn’t matter–vampire, unicorn, no matter what.” But he doesn’t actually believe it. Actions speak louder than words. That’s also why in the second movie, Dracula was adamant about calling Dennis “Denisovich’’ which is his vampire name — it subtly removes humanity from Dennis’ identity.

Throughout the movie series excluding perhaps the third one, Dracula consistently shows himself as a manipulative human-hating control freak. Yes, I get that Dracula has had bad experiences with humans, but he’s also had way too many experiences thus far to believe that humans are the same as they were in the 1800s regarding their view on monsters.

This whole family (aside from Johnny’s parents and the children) is so toxic. Sure, Johnny’s parents aren’t perfect, but they were more than willing to let Dennis stay with them and make accommodations to make Mavis and Dennis feel comfortable (even if the said execution was less tasteful than Mavis would’ve originally wanted).

We need an equivalent of legally blonde for every movie genre. Give us gritty police dramas with a new generations of Elle woods learning to batter drug lords with phone books. A murder mystery but the detective is an unsuspecting sorority girl who loves pink and think poroit is a kind of shampoo but turns out to be frighteningly adept at solving clues. Just an army of gorgeous women in cute little outfits proving to the world why barbie is an expert in every profession

I guffawed out loud because THIS

Pumpkin Shaped Dinner Rolls

"On Halloween night, the Great Pumpkin rises from his pumpkin patch and flies through the air with his bag of toys to [give to] all the children." - Linus, It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!

Happy Halloween everyone! I’ve been a huge fan of Charlie Brown for as long as I can remember. Every year, my family watches the specials on TV and I must have read each volume in my grandmother’s massive collection at least three times.

So, when I saw this tumblr post late last year, I knew exactly what I wanted to make for Halloween this year… but with a twist! After some trial and error, I’ve found a way to add cinnamon/pumpkin spice sugar to these rolls while avoiding a massive pocket of it.

So, grab your fall-themed drink of choice and check out below for how to make a batch of these delicious pull-apart dinner rolls for yourself! The great pumpkin may just pay you a visit for your troubles…

(Based on the post by Chef John from All Recipes and the tumblr post linked above.)

Prep: 20 mins             Cook:  3 hrs             Total: 3 hrs 20 mins

Ingredients:

1 cup (240 ml) milk, warm

1 packet (2 ½ tsp, 6.5 g) active dry yeast

1 tbsp. (15 ml) honey

4 tbsp. (57 g) butter, melted

1 tsp (6 g) salt

2 ¾ cup (345 g) all-purpose flour, plus ¼ cup (30 g) more for dusting

Kitchen string cut into 12 32-inch long pieces

Vegetable oil

Pour in the warm milk, yeast, honey, and butter into a large bowl and stir to combine (top-left).

Next, add the salt and the 2 ¾ cups of flour. Using a wooden spoon, stir in the flour until a shaggy, sticky dough forms (top-right).

Turn the sticky dough out onto a clean, lightly floured work surface and knead the dough until it becomes smooth, elastic, and is no longer sticky, about 10 minutes. 

Form the dough into a rough ball shape by tucking in the sides. Lightly coat a medium or large bowl with vegetable oil and transfer the dough seam-side down (top-left).

Cover the bowl with lightly greased plastic wrap or a dish cloth and let rise until the dough has doubled in size, about 1 ½ hours (top-right).

Meanwhile, prepare two baking trays with parchment paper or reusable silicon liners.

TIP: I found that only about 3 tsp (8 g) of the reserved dusting flour spread out onto the board was needed to keep the dough workable without the buns becoming dense.

TIP: Remember from the video, you’ll know the dough has been kneaded enough when it springs back after being lightly pressed and you can stretch out a piece the dough like a windowpane without it ripping. The windowpane should also be able to support the weight of the rest of the piece of dough without ripping.

Once the dough has doubled in size, turn it out onto your clean work surface and knead it a few times to bring it back together.

Next, either cut the dough in half and divide each half into six even wedges or divide the dough into 50g - 55g portions using a kitchen scale.

Knead each portion a little and then pull in the edges of the dough to create a ball (like the big dough ball). Secure the its shape by placing the ball seam-side down on the work surface and gently rolling it with the palm of a clawed hand, for about 10 seconds.

Once the smaller dough balls have been formed, place them seam-side down on the prepared baking tray, cover, and let rest for 15 minutes.

Meanwhile, place the pieces of kitchen string in bowl and toss them with a generous amount of vegetable oil. 

NOTE: Do not move onto the next step without this first rest. The dough will expand way too much around the string if you wrap it immediately.

Optional addition to this step:

If you’d would like slightly sweeter rolls to dip in coffee or tea, you can add some cinnamon/pumpkin spice sugar after kneading the measured portions and before shaping the rolls.

First, roll the dough flat and spread ~⅛ tsp. of the sugar mixture on one half (top left). Then, fold in half so the sugar mixture is covered and spread another ~⅛ tsp. on half of the folded dough (top right).

Fold in half again and follow the shaping instructions above to seal the rolls.

NOTE: If you put ¼ tsp. of the sugar mixture in the middle of the rolled dough and shape it from there, the mixture will not be evenly distributed throughout the dough - you’ll just get a dry sugar bomb in the middle of the roll.

After letting them rest, working one roll at a time, place the end of one piece of string on the seam-side of the roll with enough of an overhang to tie a double knot latter, ~2 inches (5 cm).

Wrap the string around the dough so eight sections are created. Unlike the tumblr video in the intro, I wrap the string around the dough in one motion (no crisscrossing or twisting strings).

The string should be secure but loose enough that it isn’t pressing much on the dough before the knot is tied.

Once wrapped, double knot the string so there is enough pressure to form small indents and return the roll to the baking tray knot-side down (which should also be seam-side down).

Cover and let rest for an additional 30 minutes. Preheat the oven to 375॰F (190॰C) with the oven rack in the middle of the oven.

TIP: Any adjustments to the placement of the string should be made before the knot is tied. The string is virtually unmovable at that point.

TIP: If you’re choosing to add the sugar mixture, set a 15 minute timer once you’ve shaped the first roll. Depending on how long it takes to get through all the dough, you may be able to start wrapping the string around the rolls as soon as you finish shaping the last one.

Sift a little bit of flour on top of each roll (top left).

Bake until the rolls have lightly browned and sound hollow when knocked, about 20 to 25 mins (top right).

Once the rolls have cooled enough to handle, cut the strings off of each roll from the bottom. Slowly and carefully unwrap each roll, removing any strands of string that get stuck.

NOTE: It might have been the string I was using, but I found a lot of little strands were left behind as I unwrapped the rolls. The best solution for this I found was: 

Not to wring out any of the vegetable oil from the string when I took it from the bowl and, 

Have my finger directly behind the string as it slowly peeled away from the roll to help all the little strands come off. 

You’ll probably still need to go in an remove some from where the knot was tied, but this should get rid of most of them.

Finally, cut one or two cinnamon sticks into ¾ inch (2 cm) pieces and press one into the tops of each roll to create the stems.

TIP: To cut the cinnamon sticks, use a steak knife to make a small groove and then snap them at that mark. It’ll really save the durability of your knives. Use long sawing motions instead of short ones.

Voilà, your very own pumpkin dinner rolls! Overall, I would give these a 4.5/5 for the regular ones and a 4/5 for the sugar mixture ones - not because of the taste, but for the process.

Cutting the string, soaking them in oil, plus the wrapping, tying, and unwrapping nearly drove me insane each time. I would recommend making these, especially the sugar mixture ones, with a friend. The extra hands (and jokes) will go a long way.

In the end, although they were a little awkward to make, they were definitely a fun way to get into the spirit of the season (and flex on everyone /j)!

watching a movie isn't enough i need it to possess my soul and feed on my body

reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something

are you a “i have rewatched/listened to the same 4-hour video essay for the 5th time this week”

or a

“if i watch something ive already watched more than once within the last five years i will kill everyone in this room and myself” type of neurodivergent. i need to know.

Superman Movies Problem

I enjoy the classic Superman movies well enough, they’re campy fun, but I really hate how they portray Jor-El and Clark’s relationship with humanity. Why does being Superman have to be some kind of grand mission he’s destined to go on? And the whole thing about him having to stay apart from them is just really weird. I guess it’s part of the Jesus analogy they were going with? But I hate that too.

Superman isn’t a chosen one, his birth parents didn’t send him to Earth with some mission to serve and/or lead humanity. They didn’t care about humanity, Earth was convenient because kryptonians look like humans and it has a yellow sun, so they knew their baby would be safe and could blend in. The only thing Jor-El and Lara cared about was getting their son off of Krypton so he would be able to live, what he did after that was entirely up to him, they just wanted him alive.

This idea’s shown up other places, I remember it clearly from Smallville where the Jor-El AI was almost an antagonist, I didn’t like that either. The AI should just be a database sent with Clark so that he would have information about his species, it didn’t have any purpose beyond giving him a piece of home.

So, yeah. That’s always bugged me, especially when it was used as an obstacle for Clark and Lois being together. Why would his parents ever want him to live alone his whole life? Doesn’t it make more sense for them to want him to find a romantic partner (if he’s interested in that)?

That’s one of the reasons I’ve never understood Superman II. Why does Clark have to give up his powers to be with Lois and why does him being Superman mean they can’t be together? It’s such a weird plot line. Those movies really wanted to make him some kind of god figure didn’t they?

I really do prefer the version of him where he’s just a guy who wants to help but not let I take over his life, so him mom made him a suit.

the new Until Dawn movie makes me so mad, not only because it has nothing to do with the game but it’s basically the complete opposite. the Until Dawn game was all about making decisions and having a butterfly effect - not being able to go back to change it, having to just deal with the outcome even if it’s bad. but in the movie the whole plot is you HAVE to go back and change your decisions, it just feels weird that a movie adaptation of a game so heavily based on the butterfly effect goes so against that in the plot???

If there’s one thing you need to know about me is that I LOVE zombies

A lot of media with zombies will be a hit with me because it’s not about the zombies it’s about what people do with the trope

LIKE at this point it’s not about the damn zombies, they’re a plot device to help you deepen your characters and people can do that in such an interesting way in apocalypse stories

ALSO THE WAY THE ZOMBIES ARE CHANGED IN EVERY STORY I LOVE THAT I JUST LOVE WHEN PEOPLE HAVE FUN WITH IT THAT WAY !!!

I don’t watch enough zombie apocalypse media even though I love it😔

any good recommendations will be really appreciated too:))

OHHH YOU DONT WANT TO HEAR ME TALK ABOUT A QUIET FUCKING PLACE

LOOK I DONT FEEL STRONGLY ABOUT THINGS BUT OH MY GOD IT WAS AN ENTIRE WASTE OF AN HOUR

Maybe I’m just not like good at seeing the depths and nuance of film or whatever but THE CHARACTERS WERE STUPID AND I CANT ENJOY SOMETHING WITH STUPID CHARACTERS THAT ARENT STUPID ON PURPOSE!!! THEY COULD AT LEAST ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THIS FAMILY IS A STUPID STUPID FAMILY THAT IS DUMB BUT THEY DONT EVEN DO THAT??? THE MOVIE ACTS LIKE THEY SHOULD SURVIVE WHEN THEY ABSOLUTELY SHOULD NOT!!!

RAAAA WHY IS SHE PREGNANT WITH THE KNOWLEDGE THAT THETES EVIL BEASTS WHO WILL EAT HER BABY ESPECIALLY WHEN HER OTHER KID DIED TOO LIKE 😒

They could’ve made it less stupid by saying ‘oh she was pregnant BEFORE the quiet place happened’ BUT IT SPECIFICALLY STATES THAT SHE GOT PREGNANT WHILE IT WAS HAPPENING! IN WHAT FANTASY LAND ARE YOU LIVING IN THAT MAKES YOU THINK OH YEAH LETS HAVE SEX WITH OUR KIDS IN THE HOUSE AND ALSO MONSTERS ROAMING AROUND !!!

Don’t even with me right now IT MAKES ME SO IRRATIONALLY MAD !!!

Don’t watch a quiet place I could sum the whole movie up in about 4 ish paragraphs. nothing significant happens until the end AND BY THAT POINT ITS OVER!!

But prove me wrong I like hearing different opinions👍

A book/movie about an aroace person who pulls every human being they come by and is extremely attractive and would be an amazing partner, but is completely uninterested and just wants to have a tight nit group if friends to hang out with, and at the end they finally get they're wish by all the people who had a crush on them lose feelings and instead they all become a very close friend group that are genuinely platonically inlove with eachother.

A movie that starts out as one of those cheesy, badly written hallmark movie, like the exact usual type of movie, down to every detail, even the trailers are the exact same as the usual hallmark ones, but, for some reason, the movie is rated R and is edited in a strange way, until eventually(close to the end, specifically after the typical "city girl" main character has broken it off with her lawyer boyfriend/fiance that they always have for some reason, making it too late for her to escape) it's revealed(only revealed to the watcher, MC remains unaware) that the whole small, cozy, typical hallmark town is actually a extremely murderous and dangerous cult, and the movie ends with the usual engagement scene that most hallmark movies end, except a split second before the end credits, there's a scene of the main guy/love interest biting into an already dead MC before the words "a happy end" pop up on screen written in blood and then the credits roll with the typical hallmark music before slowly distorting and then just cutting to blood-curdiling screams of the MC.

A romantic comedy between a mob boss and a cop, where the two are married and constantly have to make it seem like they just barely failed to get the other, one day the cop accidentally actually hits the mob boss, they mutter a quick "Oh god, I'll never hear the end of this." The whole squad around them congratulates them for finally hitting them, as to them it's a small step towards catching them, but the MC is simply filled with dread for when they get home, once they finally get back they ask(trying to lighten the mood but failing miserably) their parter(the mob boss) how their day was, only to get a very angry voice yelling from their shared bedroom: "How was my day!? You f***king shot me! That's how my f***king day was!" The whole rest of the movie is just more stupid antics and cute domestic scenes between the two before ending with a scene in the future with their child visiting they're graves, cleaning them and replacing the flowers, the tombstones of the two graves(which are right next to each other) having both they're names and some sort of sarcastic and or joking statement, plus they're final words(obviously) before rolling credits with the song "Da ya think I'm sexy" by Rob Stewart.

An R rated movie about a typical alternative loser/dorky girl in love with the most popular guy in school, (we get a bunch of scenes that show that both of them are complex characters while also still fitting into their assigned roles throughout the movie) around a quarter through the movie we are introduced to the stereotypical blonde bully girl (basically the Regina George of the story) and we get a few typical scenes of her being the typical "cruel," popular girl, bully stereotype (bullying the MC as well as other "losers" at the school) we also get plenty of wholesome, cute development between the MC and love interest before the movie suddenly switches to the mean, bully girl's perspective, revealing that she's actually obsessively inlove with the MC and has been stalking her intensely, and is complete and totally obsessed, with a scene of her creepily staring into the MC's window as she sleeps, the movie eventually escalates to the mean girl attempting to murder the love interest after he gets in a argument with the MC, leaving her crying on a park bench, in which she almost succeeds before getting hit over the head with a metal trash can lid by the MC, who then disarms her and points/aims the weapon at the mean girl, who becomes extremely jealous over the love interest (who is currently injured and hiding behind the MC) and starts fighting with the MC, leading to a scene where the MC is sitting on top of the mean girls waist, with the weapon aimed/pointed and her face and or her heart, the mean girl brakes down and completely professes her love to the MC leading to her sitting in shock and horror as she connects all the pieces before the mean girl flips her over and takes back the weapon, leaving them in the same position but switched, it's then revealed that the MC used to have a crush on the mean girl before she had one on the love interest, she also starts crying as she confesses to the mean girl, the mean girl goes in for a kiss, letting down her guard which leads to the MC disarming her once again and shooting/stabbing her in the stomach, the dying mean girl asks "why?" To which the MC explains that she could never forgive the mean girl and that maybe she could have loved her in another life, in a different time, the mean girls responds by coughing up blood and smiling as the light leaves her eyes before saying "I would have loved to just do laundry and bake with you in another life." A single tear falling from her eye, the MC nods, starting to cry, helping the love interest up and taking him to a hospital, the move ends with the MC putting a bouquet of roses on the mean girls grave, the credits roll with the song "kiss me" by Sixpence None The Richer, the very last seconds of the movie are just a scene of the mean girl and the MC sitting next to eachother on a dock in the summer, watching the sunset by a lake, with the words "in another life.." written in a romantic pink color with hearts as both the movie and song end.

After having finished it over 3 years ago, I'm finally releasing my short film, Fen!

To see it, click on this magic shortcut here! ^^

I made this short as my graduation project back at my old art school, the USFQ, but I kept it private to be able to submit it to festivals. But now that its festival run is over, I can finally release it to the public!

I also wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who participated in the production of this movie, be it by helping with the music, the voices, the logo, or just with their love and support. This movie is yours, too!

Anyways, I hope you like it, and... Happy Pride Day!

(English subtitles are available alongside French and Spanish!)

LITERALLY MY FIRST THOUGHTS AFTER THE MOVIE

robert pattinson i was so embarrassingly unaware of your game. im so sorry. i was so misguided. i had no idea you were such a slutty little guy. i was a fool. please have sex with yourself on my screen anytime

Imagine: being on a three way call with Ghostface and Billy Lenz

"Hello?"

You hold the landline phone on your shoulder while painting your nails with your free hand. It was your average Friday night in your house and like every one before, you had nothing to do. Well, almost.

"Who am I speaking to?", a gruff voice asks on the other end, sounding like an obvious creep.

"This is (Y/N). Who is this?".

"Your worst nightmare."

You chuckle into the phone as you open your mouth to speak when your cellphone rings. Unknown caller. You answer it anyways. Holding the phone up to your ear, you hear someone breathing heavily on the receiver. Before you can say anything, you hear:

"Lemme lick it... I wanna lick your pretty pink cunt...", followed by snorting sounds and squeals. 'Why, of all people, does this happen to me', you wonder silently, picking up the other phone after hearing loud shuffling sounds.

"Ignore me again and I'll gut you like a fish!", the person says angrily, nearly growling at you as you hear more snorting noises from your cell getting louder.

"Suck on my juicy, fat cock....", it's getting too much for you to handle with both impatient people on the phone. You grab both phones and begin to hang up.

"Don't you hang up on me, bit-", yells the man before getting cut off. Your nails are pretty dry by now so you get ready to head to bed as you're awfully tired from doing nothing all day.

After doing your routine, you began to get into bed when you hear what sounds like a window open and shut. On edge and pretty terrified, you begin to get back out of bed to investigate the sound when you hear a door open and shut. You stand up and exit the bedroom to look down the hall to see a figure in a tattered black robe with a knife in one hand and a cellphone in the other.

They begin to run towards you and are chasing you back into your bedroom when a door is thrown open and slams them in the face. A silhouette with curly hair is chuckling and whispering obscene phrases before walking slowly towards you with a blade of some sort. You scream and run into your room as you barricade the door with your body as you hear thumping from the outside.

Reluctantly, you crack the door slightly to see that both figures are tussling in the dark hallway in what seems to be a fight. You rush towards the window and open it, leaving to alert your neighbor about the intruders. You fight the urge to laugh because this only happens on Friday night.

God, just give me a person I can talk about things like...

Anime/Manga

Art/writing

Games

YouTube

Memes

Movies

Fandoms: Star Trek , etc

Understands disabilities on some level

And they don't even *have* talk, just listen and understand my bs

Basically give me my soulmate for the love of all things holy.

Do you know how messed up a movie has to be for me to watch Arcane as a comfort show to make me feel better?

Well I do now

Hey, is there a movie or show where the slasher/killer ends up with the final girl (or boy even)? It's a really popular trope in like fandom and fanfic but as far as I know it doesn't exist in official media form... Does anyone know anything like that? Something like, the killings were somewhat justified and as such the survivor falls for the killer or something. Idk idk just thinking.

If not, then what's a really good fic with that trope? I don't really care if it's from a random fandom I know nothing about lol I just want to see the concept actually executed (extra points if it's lgbt!!!)

Also I just got into horror movies bc I'm quite squeamish lmao (watched Jennifer's body and loved it) so if anyone has a recommendation I'd appreciate trigger warnings :))

Excuse me as I obsess about this movie for the next week

Stopmotion (2023)

Ella Blake is a stop-motion animator who is struggling to control her demons after the loss of her overbearing mother. Suddenly alone in the world, she creates a macabre new puppet film, while struggling to maintain her sanity. As Ella’s mind starts to fracture, the characters in her animated film take on a terrifying life of their own, and the unleashed power of her imagination threatens to destroy her.   IFC Films and Shudder distribute in the US. Scott Shooman, head of AMC Networks’ film group was quoted saying: “IFC and Shudder are ecstatic to bring Robert Morgan’s riveting live-action/animation hybrid to audiences everywhere. ’Stopmotion’ is excellent as it weaves together a unique, psychological-horror with unbelievable visuals. The film joins the ranks of critically acclaimed titles such as ‘Mad God’ and ‘The Wolf House’ – breaking ground for how we perceive stop-motion in horror. We are thrilled to distribute Morgan’s first full-length feature for its theatrical release and presence on our streaming platform, Shudder.” The feature film directorial debut of Robert Morgan. Described as an “elevated horror film” and a “live-action/animation hybrid.” IFC Films releases Stopmotion in Theaters on February 23, 2024. Stopmotion premieres on Shudder on May 31, 2024. IMDb Director: Robert Morgan Dread Central:  ‘Stopmotion’ Director Robert Morgan Explains Why Meat Doesn’t Make Good Puppets Bloody Disgusting:  ‘Stopmotion’ Trailer Brings Eerie Puppet to Life in Psychological Horror Movie Rue Morgue:  GET ANIMATED OVER THE NEW TRAILER FOR IFC AND SHUDDER’S DISTURBING “STOPMOTION”   Read the full article

Ciao!

Io sono interessato a scorprire le amicizia italiani per parlare con mentre imparo la lingua! Il mio blog è in inglese ma io parlo di scrivere e l’anime (sopratutto my hero academia).

Mi mandi un messaggio se interessa o se hai una raccomanda italiana per i film/le serie, musica, o i libri :)