Frankenstonk’s Monster
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fuck it, I’m starting the season today. I need it.

Name change, pfp change, okgoreberfest starts tonight baybee
stonkers.bsky.social
I enjoyed the ride, but the end sort of tinged the whole preceding thing and it ended up being very :/
stonkers.bsky.social
I may be reading into it, but it feels like it’s there, and the sudden recontextualization did the preceding book zero favors.
stonkers.bsky.social
or the major ethical journalistic problems inherent in fucking the person you’re reporting on, even if he weren’t a disgusting worm-ridden freak!
stonkers.bsky.social
Major book end spoilers in the image text below, you are warned!
the entire book is about men doing men stuff and working out complicated men’s emotions and relationships, which is fine and good, no problem. They get into some folk horror trouble. again, great, no problems at all, I love it

but it starts to come out in little drips and drabs that two of the men in the friendship group, the two most financially successful ones, married “high maintenance” harridans and their marriages are falling apart because these women are intolerable shrews. And the third is only recently married and his wife seems a good, low maintenance keeper. Our protagonist is a never-settle-down sort of guy.

so this is where we’re at. Major spoilers ahead:

in the final act, our protagonist is the sole survivor of the woods, but is captured by three black metal losers who plan to sacrifice him to the old god of the forest (the one that’s been stalking and killing our hikers throughout the book and has explicitly only ever been gendered an “it”). They are two dudes and a woman, who is over and over and over described as hateful, spiteful, cruel, fat (but in maybe a kinda lascivious, creamy dreamy sort of way). She has no real speaking lines, doesn’t interact with Luke at all, she is just a lump of hateful malice. The two dudes have personalities and some interiority, but not her.

and now the passage (our protagonist has just killed a little old woman who lives in the house in the woods after also taking out the black metal kids): “…it could be hurt. She was protecting it. Her mother…Moder’s [mother’s] rule and her pitiful congregation had to end. She was an isolated God; the last black goat of the woods…No more sons and fathers and friends should hang from trees. Not that, ever.”

has this whole fuckin thing been about divorce and men’s rights. fuck. lol.
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I’m on page 395 (out of 418) in Adam Nevill’s The Ritual, and I do believe I’ve just hit the book’s keystone and oh no, god damn it, is this entire book actually a men’s rights activism trojan horse 😭
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What D’Angelo said Black Messiah means. It came out at the end of 2014 and it was so needed.
Article (Nolan Feeney; TIME) excerpt reads: “Black Messiah is a hell of a name for an album. It can be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.

It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen, D'Angelo writes in a statement about the album It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them. Not every song on this album is politically charged (though many are), but calling this album Black Messiah creates a landscape there these songs can live to the fullest. Black Messiah is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.”

“D’Angelo’s First Album in 14 Years Is Finally Here, and It’s Surprisingly Timely” via TIME.
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According to his VT legislative bio, Samuel Douglass works for Lamoille County Mental Health Services. They have turned off comments on Facebook posts but can be reached at (802) 888-6393
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I really really liked it, but that last scene was infuriating lol
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I loved 99% of The Damned, but haaaaated the last 30 seconds
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Hello my ghoulish gremlins of #HorrorWatch! What movie shall we chose for this Saturday, for our portal horror theme?

1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/6C853h/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Gate
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/6C853h/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">From Beyond
3️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/6C853h/3" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gateway
4️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/6C853h/4" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Portal

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stonkers.bsky.social
This movie made me so confused about an “egg cream"

and even to this day I’m still like, okay so it’s like you put seltzer in chocolate milk? and this is the desired outcome??
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recently learned that the guy who did this also coined the phrase "gay pride," a true legend
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Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day
A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.
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gaudipern.bsky.social
The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.
stonkers.bsky.social
oh my god 🚨 TRYPOPHOBES BE-FUCKIN-WARE 🚨

I am unsettled
stonkers.bsky.social
but the setup is also one of those where I know if I found myself in it, i’d be
meme of an older white man in a red shirt shrugging and the text across the bottom reads: guess I’ll die
stonkers.bsky.social
Now watching Vicious and so far the setup is very promising
dakota fanning with a tank top showing off arms with traditional tattoos on them. Her hands are bloody and she’s holding a wooden box and looking off to the side dismayed
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Yes! I watched it for the first time last year and loved it, it was chock full of “Hey, it’s that guy!” actors just doing their thing, and it was great
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that IS a very fun fact hahaha
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Harris was really great in that (unsurprising). I liked that one quite a bit, it felt like the real horror was the DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNnnnnnn patriarchy all along
stonkers.bsky.social
oooh thank you for turning my gaze to her page, that’s a good follow!
stonkers.bsky.social
Agreed! And if we do have to have the [redacted] extra stuff I do wish they’d gone the Spielberg with Jaws route and kept it a bit more off screen and hidden by shadows. I don’t wanna say it looked a bit goofy, but...
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And Paul Ready! The only other thing I’d seen him in before The Terror came out was Utopia, so the kind warmth of Mister Goodsir was such an unexpected change!

And Tobias Menzies! (fun to see Caesar and Brutus reunited on screen)