There’s a lot going on in that little critter’s head right now.
1. Power move.
2. Why do people whisked away to magical worlds just automatically believe the first creature that tells them what side the person needs to help? Where’s my isekai where the MC slowly finds out they got in with like the deranged zealots and are part of the evil faction, and not the plucky rebels?
I think about this comic once per week. It’s funnier then anything I can conceive of. Mastery.
I mean, that’s basically what happened to Edmund in Narnia.
ive never seen a horror movie that scared me like at all because my fear response is, if not entirely absent, at least extremely muted. i also don’t feel grossed out or even uncomfortable because It Is A Movie It Is Not Real (which might also be linked to fear machine broke idk)
but horror is also my favourite genre because i think horror films exist on a scale from ‘extremely funny’* to 'technically great and interesting’
so when people say “if you like horror there’s something deeply wrong with you” they are talking about me specifically i think
*@learnorlose can verify my default response to jump scares or The Big Bad or particularly interesting kills is to lose my shit laughing. the red face demon in insidious is hilarious don’t @ me.
I can’t believe that we have to say this but horror genre is supposed to be fucked up, grotesque, disgusting and deeply unsettling. It is supposed to make you feel deeply uncomfortable and unsafe. And the point of it is that you reach catharsis through the negative emotions it makes you feel. It can also has funny, absurd or tragic elements but the heart of this genre is terror and disgust. it is called fucking HORROR and it is 100% understandable that you don’t like horror genre but saying shit like “if you enjoy Saw you are abnormal” is just funny. Maybe YOU are the one who dislikes horror. Have you ever thought of that
As an example, I don’t really enjoy slasher or gorn subgenres because they simply don’t cater to what I look for in horror, as I lean into more psychological/paranormal subgenres. And this is MY PREFERENCE, and if I said “If you enjoy Cannibal Holocoust or Friday the 13th you are a freak :’(” just because I don’t enjoy them, it would make me look like a dumbass. If you are looking for something silly and cute, then mayyyyyyyyybe horror is not the genre you are looking for.
blasting @nobleplaidypus because ‘unearned confidence and lack of self awareness of a fabergé egg’ is sending me
work today feels like me (classicist) walking into a room full of historians (who aren’t even looking at me) and saying “DID YOU GUYS KNOW YOU CAN LOOK UP NEWSPAPER ARTICLES ON PROQUEST?! TECHNOLOGY IS AMAZING!” and they ask if i’m okay but i’m just crying because primary sources are so so precious cherish them always it’s fine i’m going to be fine
