Shaleesh [she/her, comrade/them]

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Cake day: June 20th, 2021

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  • The Void (2016) Its a fucking awesome not very good movie that does suspense and looking nice very well. The plot is pretty loose, a bunch of people find themselves trapped in a decaying hospital by crowds of cultists outside, inside the hospital are body horror abominations and our intrepid heroes try to figure out what the fuck is going on. Tons of practical special effects, a somewhat nonsensical story, remarkably compelling acting and a really good sense of atmosphere. The Void is a movie with a lot of heart.

    The first two of the V/H/S series of short horror anthology films are an absolute blast. I haven’t seen the rest but I hear they fell off.



  • I partially disagree. There are creative works that are being made today that are just as thoughtful, inspiring, aesthetically pleasing and engaging as the ones made in yesteryears. Our view of the art of the past is warped by the tendency for the good to be preserved and passed on while the bad is cast aside. However, in the past 30 years or so media corporations have gotten marketability down to a science in the name of creating safe investments, not stimulating art. That approach creates highly sucessful, super visible, and entirely bland slop like the Marvel movies and Call of Dutys of the world. Its not that its all worse, its just that the great stuff is lower profile. In my opinion the advent of high-bandwidth internet has partially counteracted this by making global distribution acessable to the everyman.








  • It was pretty bad and handled the subject matter extremely poorly. I hated it a lot.

    The premise is strong, a summer camp lasher flick but the camp is for “conversion therapy”. However it manages to be transphobic, homophobic, and enbyphobic even outside of the scenes of adults abusing queer children. Theres a lot of that “oh theyre queerphobic but actually theyre secretly gay haha gotcha!” bullshit. Theres this femboy guy who plays this femme fatale role, iirc he was one of the camp’s “success stories” and he really didnt deserve to get got IMO. At the end the murderer turns out be a victim of the camp from a couple decades back and the teenage protagonist lectures this mindfucked middle aged lesbian about how revenge is wrong and that, if you think about it she’s worse than the child abusers (and occasionally murderers) that she killed… because reasons?

    It was cool that the protag was a transmasc nonbinary person, you don’t get to see that kind of representation very often. Too bad they are an incredibly boring character. I think this movie was made for straight liberals to watch and go “look at those bad people! Good thing Im not like them!” Meanwhile some of these scenes will personally resonate with a queer audience in ways that are uncomfortable at best and triggering at worst. The thing is it’s very competently made and at no point does it even approach “so bad its good” territory.









  • The physical books can be had on secondhand bookstores for significantly less, albeit they’re still sold for more than they aught to be, usually. Thriftbooks is an online reseller that has them for around $25 USD but local thrift stores and library book sales have them sometimes and will sell them for next to nothing.

    There are some inexpensive/free programs/websites that exist to automate and simplify basically everything in the game. IME the only advantages the manuals have over the apps is that the manuals convey the bigger picture of how the game works.



  • The trail out behind my parents house wasn’t really /x/ material but the mixture of fields, woods, and raised levees meant that you could see just about everything from some spots. It’s really eerie looking out into a clear winter night and seeing the bobbing of flashlights a mile away, only for them to turn off all at once. I liked to take late night walks out there when I was a kid, preferring to do away with a flashlight to enjoy the glow of the moon. One night a group of men in a pair of trucks drove up the old dirt road by the trail where they got out and talked or argued with each other. I couldn’t make out what they were saying but I remember them leaving very quickly. I think they might have seen me and bolted. I ran home after they left. Didn’t like that one bit.

    Animal Death

    Not that long ago on a crisp November evening I found a neat little pile of guts (with a heart stacked on top) next to another neat little pile of guts (without a heart stacked on top). It took a minute to register what I was even looking at, then I freaked out a little, then I remembered it was deer season and someone must have done a field dressing. You’re not supposed to hunt in that place so it was kinda neat to see evidence of poaching.