alyssa @alyssa@cat.family
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also, unlike scream, fright night was actually a horror movie with comedic elements rather than a comedy full of horror references
i think, if i compare it to scream (being also a highly referential comedy horror movie), fright night is the more enjoyable film in itself, but its overt metatextual elements were weaker (being mostly just allusions to vampire films as a whole; although then again maybe there's a lot of more specific bits i missed because of my limited familiarity with the genre and the film not namedropping specific films)
cw for somebody pushing another person's sexual boundaries in the opening scene tho
fright night was a very fun movie. it's less concretely intertextual than scream (which iirc namechecked it), but really fun.
games i am considering for my next rpg one-shot, described flippantly:
- i haven't seen enough film noir to describe this game flippantly, please imagine your funniest way to describe a noir game and pretend that's what this one said
- what if there were a bunch of vampires and werewolves and fairies and stuff and their relationship drama was extreme
- it's hard being a heroic slightly-anthropomorphic mouse
- it's so cool to get swept up in the adventures of heroic slightly-anthropomorphic rats
i wanna send letters to my friends
why do people on tv shows just casually do blackmail so much
food
yum freezepop
how come calendar.app on whatever iOS is called now doesn't let you set arbitrary travel times...
sleepy day
my new toothpaste is overly spicy :<
hmm, i think glitch-soc's(i think?) styling of numbered lists in posts has some issues
my official ranking of movies Guillermo del Toro has directed based on how much i liked them (as opposed to how well made they were):
- The Shape of Water
- Mimic
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Cronos
- The Devil's Backbone
- Nightmare Alley
- Crimson Peak
- Pacific Rim
- Hellboy 2
- Hellboy
- Blade 2
ring fit adventure for the switch is kinda fun actually
it’s too hot
i forgot the scooby doo where are you theme song was so good
someday i will discover a means by which to maintain a list of things i want to read that i won't lose or stop using
i feel like this book's author doesn't really care for postmodernism. big emphasis on "but if the real isn't a thing anymore then how can we say whether anything is good or bad?". including specifically giving Baudrillard on the Gulf War as an example of that, which my impression was that Baudrillard was in those essays very much criticizing (in the "disapproving of" sense) the Gulf War? i haven't actually read them, but that was the impression i had gotten from like wikipedia and such... i think i will probably actually read them now
@aescling does that US history textbook you've been looking at talk about the invasion of Grenada at all?
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