The photos I just took are too good, I have to save them for October.
I don’t give the shrimps junk food for 12 hours and they start high-risk feeding strategies already…
Very strong Miette energy
imagining “Jail for mother, Jail for a thousand years!” in like a dozen tiny high-pitched voices, as a fully harmonized chorus…
“there is a lion in my living room” - clementine von radics // ricky “jupe” park in nope (2022) dir. jordan peele
I got 25 minutes into Grave of the Fireflies before deciding I shouldn't be subjecting myself to that on the anniversary of my dad's death.
Not a mufasa origin story
This is blatant revisionism of the Lion King canon. Mufasa was born the eldest son of Ahadi, himself the son of Mohatu, both kings of Pride Rock, and Mufasa directly quotes Ahadi in explaining that the past kings live on in the stars. Zazu states that Simba and Nala's betrothal is part of a tradition going back "generations," further establishing that this kingdom is not new, which it would have had to be if Mufasa founded it. Scar's entire claim to the throne rests on him being the younger brother of the king, a claim which would only hold legitimacy if there had been a previous king to father him.
This brazen defilement of the Lion King lore is, without a doubt, the worst thing Disney has ever done as a company.
WAIT IF MUFASA WAS BORN AN ORPHAN HOW THE FUCK IS SCAR HIS BROTHER
Spur of the moment, not even part of the list I made, I watched The Haunted World of El Superbeasto because I only just learned about it. Pretty much what you'd expect from an adult cartoon from the 00's directed and co-written by Rob Zombie. Not much to say about it that isn't already implied by those things. A world populated by monsters and horror movie villains is a fun concept. Bill Moseley and Sid Haig made cameos as Otis B. Driftwood and Captain Spaulding. This seems to be Sheri Moon Zombie's only voice acting role, too bad she didn't dabble in that more. Honestly, I think Rob Zombie easily could have gone on to make more adult animation. His aesthetic does suit the genre well.
Would I actually recommend El Superbeasto, though? Not really.
Anonymous asked:
I think i remenber you at least know about my hero academia in a not negative way, do you also get the feeling Horikoshi could make a great horror manga?
Yeah, I still remember the first time we saw Shigaraki's face. Horikoshi could do horror if he wanted to
Anonymous asked:
You ever listened to the magnus archive? Sorry if you have answered this in the past.
I'm not really into podcasts. Or novels.
Anonymous asked:
How come a badger would fuck up a coyote
you wouldn’t necessarily clock this from just looking at one, but all species of badger are basically just little fucked-up biological TANKS with hearts full of murder.
adorable murder.
to start with, badger skin is so tough that it can resist most attempts by other predators to bite through it, and is also very loose so that even if it’s grabbed by a larger creature, the badger can still turn around and bring its own claws and teeth into the situation!
which is very bad.
and on top of this, badgers are STUPID strong and ridiculously hardy- badgers can shrug off just about any injury that doesn’t kill them outright and will immediately seek retribution by attempting to open you up with those big ol claws like a can of beans being fed into an industrial shredder.
badgers can even 1v1 fucking BEARS and walk off without a scratch, they’re that op.
no, I was not kidding.
the coyote, a fragile creature built for speed and maneuverability, would stand NO chance if it tried to start shit with the badger, and they both know it.
My favorite quote: “Badgers are what happens when evolution wants to make an alligator, but all it has to work with is a weasel”
Badgers can also outrun horses in a sprint. They give zero fucks and are just amazing critters.
We could have just let badgers have this planet, why didn’t we do that?
the thing about make an alligator but used a weasel is that otters are weasels evolved for water and… they will 100% destroy an alligator
I’m not done, actually, because they in the weaselle family and I can’t not.
Badgers are in the weasel family right along with otters, mink, ermine, stoats, and honey badgers (tho, interestingly, the honey badger is not in fact a badger).
So firstly, to address the q in the op directly, let’s look at what happens when a coyote decides to tackle the much smaller cousin of the badger, a mink (skip to 30 seconds in)
okay, so, that mink idk which species it is off the top of my head but it weighs pretty close to two pounds. Three and a half pounds if it’s huge for a mink. An american badger averages 20 lbs. So imagine how the above would have gone if the mink was ten times larger. And twice as mean (and mink are already vicious).
I have seen footage of TWO large coyotes making a try for an american badger, and they even get him in their mouths from either end and try to tug-a-war him, but they can’t actually injure him much because his hide is too thick and loose. One coyote takes a strong hit and gives up and the other thinks about it for 20 seconds and in that time (i swear to all gods it only took literally 20 seconds on the video) that badger dug himself some damn fortifications: a tunnel in the icy dirt that he could retreat out of reach into, or threaten with his teeth from the entrance while the rest of him was under cover. He stuck his head out and let the coyote realize his new position, then he came slowly out and stalked toward the coyote until the coyote’s nerve broke and it ran, and that badger scored one final bite on its ass.
Altho it is worth noting, in case anyone reading this was unaware, american badgers and coyotes have been observed in cooperative hunting, as in teaming up to hunt together, which I assume was the context of the implied exchange in the op.
I keep saying american badger because that’s what is pictured, and that is what is likely to interact with a coyote.
European badgers are like the very polite cousin of the american badger. The european badger lives in communal burrows where they dig a separate bathroom to use, and they eat a lot of earthworms and tubers and some lizards or whatever. Civilized.
American badgers live alone in burrows they’ve taken over by murdering and eating the previous occupant, and they eat literally anything they can bite enough times to kill. They will bury an entire cow carcass to save it for later.
Like, please do not mess with a european badger, they are still weasels and not to be trifled with, but oh my goodness what a demon the american badger is.
And whatever ancient weasel evolved into the american badger also went up north and became the wolverine.
And if you want to know what a wolverine is like, you should know three things.
One: this is the live trap biologists use to tag and study wolverines. Only you don’t really trap a wolverine with this, more like inconvenience it; once set, biologists have to check it often. That’s because when a wolverine digs it digs in frozen earth and when it eats a goat or an elk, it eats all the bones, hooves and horns — their claws and teeth will just saw right through that wood.
Two: They can dig into the frozen earth like I can dig in sand. They can climb a tree as fast as I can run. And they’re much better swimmers than I am. Btw I love climbing trees and I was on the competitive swim team in school. Oh, and while they can’t fly, they have been known to hunt and eat eagles. Nowhere is safe.
Three:
though it is extremely rare, wolverines have been observed killing both grizzly bears and adult moose.
they hunt alone or sometimes in pairs and are this size
which is terrifyingly large for a weasel, but SO small compared to moose and brown bears. And yet they can and will murder those animals. r.
wolverine
american badger
I bring up the wolverine because, a case can be made that an american badger is to a wolverine what a coyote is to a grey wolf. And wolverines have been known to kill and eat wolves.
So yeah, badgers and coyotes actually make great hunting partners and sometimes cooperate, and otherwise tend to leave each other alone, but if it came down to a 1v1 coyote vs badger… either the coyote runs away or the badger takes it out.
Oh and, one very last important point
this is my dog, whose name is Badger, and who is the same general size and shape as a coyote
"You have turned The House of The Lord into a circus. And its servants into clowns."
Pretty good summation of this film. It's the story of a French priest who is so sexy (by 1971 standards) that the local convent goes into a mass hysteria, and the Catholic church accuses him of bewitching them as a cover story to subjugate their city-state which has resisted unification under Louis the 13th. Obviously it's not a traditional sort of horror movie, but it's at least as much horror as The Wicker Man. Blasphemy and a mockery being made of Christianity is basically old timey horror in a nutshell. It's trying to shock and appall the viewer with its imagery. And there certainly is a lot of imagery. Might as well be called Nuns Gone Wild. But there's also torture, diseased corpses, public execution, and offscreen necrophilia. So, like, it wasn't amazing, but it had more mettle than you'd expect for something so dated. And it seems to have really ruffled some feathers back in its day. Like I said earlier, what old horror lacks in polished effects, it makes up for in being balls-to-the-wall.
Shame the closed captions fell out of sync and the video wouldn't buffer properly. It took me like 5 hours to watch.
The problem is that I was judging Phantom of the Paradise by the metrics of a horror movie when that wasn't the point. It's a musical theater comedy horror in that order. They invested the budget into the songs and having a millionaire composer be one of the lead actors, so someone being electrocuted to death looks like this
This is the same year as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and a year after The Exorcist. But again, that's not what Phantom of the Paradise *is*. It's a campy musical that just happens to involve disfigurement, death, and devil magic. The point isn't that the character with eternal youth was played by a 34 year old, the point is that the 34 year old was a real-life singer-songwriter-composer who the audience would have known. The film did what it set out to do. It's simply that it's even cheesier than intended after 50 years of aging. If you can't laugh at it, I don't know what to say. It's either A) find it goofy or B) find it offensive due to all the homophobia and misogyny.
With that out of the way, I'm starting The Devils (1971). An even earlier film, which does take itself more seriously. A period piece telling the (embellished) story of a 17th century priest named Urbain Grandier.
70's films really are a mixed bag because despite being crude and unpolished by 2022's standards, there's also a legitimate chance you'll see actors getting injured, animal death, human remains, or graphic sexual content. It was basically a lawless zone. That's why people thought Cannibal Holocaust was real.