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 No.8914

I've seen only a few other threads about horror on here and they seemed too specific, so I thought I'd make a broader one.

How do you feel about the current state of horror media? To me it seems at it's always been in a way; a mixed bag. However I feel like I've noticed this trend and, correct me if you think I'm wrong, a lot of more successful recent horror seems to be more creator-driven than in the past.

This is natural I think, as the internet has opened a lot of opportunities for more unique visions and riskier decisions that large studios would otherwise reject.

In a strange sort of symbiosis, though, these large studios attempt to acquire these successful creators and even properties for themselves; see the phenomenon of Slenderman for example. Once an entirely community made, solely internet creation has gotten several of his own movies, and has by and large become an 'artifact' of sorts of 2010's-era web. Studios cannibalize these unique properties and, once they've made some modicum of a profit, utterly destroy the integrity of them, leaving communities to look for the next big thing in horror.

With that aside, feel free to discuss almost literally anything horror related here; movies, books, ARGs, games, creepypasta (the rare good kind, if you can find any).

 No.6500

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Before anyone says it
Yes
Obviously most horror films from the 80s were shit, as with most movies in any decade

However, I do have to say that the 80s seem like the horror decade, the decade that set most of the new trends for horror and introduced the most classics, while, IMO the 2010s were the second best decade for horror, they're still far-outstripped by the 80s, why?

 No.6501

Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Jaws, Halloween, Shivers, Rabid, and Alien are from the 70s. The 80s didn't set trends in horror, they followed them. Modern Body Horror, Modern Slashers, Blockbuster Horror and Modern US-type Monster Horror all started in the 70s.
This is not to say that Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Scanners, Predator, etc are not good, but they represent a sort of maturation of themes that were already there. I am not going to get involved in an argument about when Cronenberg or Carpenter were good, but they became players in the 70s and did a lot of famous work in the 80s.

As for why, well part of it was Vietnam vets. Texas Chainsaw Massacre was largely done by Vietnam draftees. You had a whole lot of people who knew what it looked like when a dude gets disemboweled, understood what it feels like to feel hunted and be a hunter, and a nihilistic philosophy where you just sort of sit back and watch someone blow their brains out because its a good show.
Another part was that film creation and distribution started becoming cheap. A lot of people in film get their start in horror because corn syrup, red food coloring and condoms cost pennies. The introduction of enthusiastic, cheaply equipped amateurs to film in the late 60s to early 80s was like the introduction of enthusiastic, cheaply equipped amateurs to politics, that is to say, a lot of very interesting terrorism happened to the public. Most of it was misguided, but ideas that would otherwise have never been welcomed into the mainstream are forced there on a wave of cheap bloodshed and cheerful violence.

 No.6502

they were just made so people could get used to reaganism.

 No.6512

>>6502
So Jason was Reagan?

 No.6523

>>6500
It's been said numerous times before that the advent of the slasher flick was more or less a reflection of white American suburban anxieties. This is best illustrated by the snuff film scene in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986). Also, what >>6502 said. Not only were the 1980s on the tail end of a decade of serial killers in the news, but it was also utterly dominated by Reagan's attempts to "get tough on crime" by rapidly militarizing the police and escalating Nixon's drug war. Combine that with his poor handling of the AIDS crisis and its no wonder I kept hearing phrases like "stranger danger" into the 2000s.

 No.6525

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 No.6527

>>6525
The first slasher was the short story The Most Dangerous Game about a bougie cunt who hunts and kills proles for sport, you can't change my mind so fuck off.

 No.6528

>>6525
This, but unironically

 No.6538

>Forced Entry is a 1973 adult horror film written and directed by Shaun Costello under the pseudonym Helmuth Richler. It stars Harry Reems (credited as Tim Long) as an unnamed and psychotic Vietnam War veteran who sexually assaults and kills women who stop at the filling station where he works as an attendant. Called "one of the most disturbing and unpleasant porn features ever made," the film utilizes actual footage of the war, predominantly in the rape and murder sequences.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_Entry_(1973_film)
>Noting the film is "the first film to show a disturbed war vet coming home from Vietnam," Ed Demko calls the film "one of the more important and relevant films to ever come out of that age of pornography. It’s a film that really transcends the time that it was made and might even be more important now than the age it was made. Sure there’s a ton of nasty sexual activity in the film but the subject matter and what the movie is actually saying goes way beyond that."[4]
>In "Forced Entry: Serial Killer Pornography as Patriarchical Paradox", scholar Robert Cettl assesses the film's role as pivotal in the history of American serial killer films and discusses its subversion of American patriarchy "by highlighting a paradox in relation to hegemonic masculinity" and how the director turns pornography "into self-conscious political discourse", arguing the film critiques patriarchical reaction to second-wave feminism (represented by the independently-living female victims) as grounded in war-mongering (rape-murder scenes interspersed with footage from the Vietnam War) and ultimately doomed to self-implosion (the killer's suicide).[5]

 No.6540

>>6525
having sex without government certification, drinking fermented grains, dancing with friends are considered "degen" by the mentally ill only and should be thrown in the prison for free labor

>>6528
Point in case

 No.6547

>>6525
I never thought about this but it's kind of true. it's kind of fun to watch bourgeois middle class try to fight for the lives and die trying.
like I had this mentality watching horror before I even gave a fuck about socialism.

 No.8915

>>8914
I honestly think we're in a golden age of horror. Companies like A24 and Blumhouse are funding smaller and more creative directors many of whom are actually good who are then given free reign to put their vision to film. They've figured out that even crappy horror films generally break even and they only need a few breakout stars to make large profits. While a lot of crap is being made we're also getting a lot of high quality films that big studios wouldn't risk like The Lighthouse and Split.
Not to say everything is rosy but horror is the perfect genre for this to happen in and is flourishing for it.

 No.8923

>>8915
Eh
The 80s was the horror Golden Age

 No.8937

>>8923
My eyes have started to glaze over when I see 80s horror discussion, the cheap slasher and gross out schlock people rave about doesn't hold any appeal for me anymore.

 No.8941

i find horror kind of boring, very rarely ever get scared by a piece of media - feel like it works better ats a secondary characteristic rather than the primary focus
closest a media has got to scaring me was psychological horror that made me think about what was going on as well as stuff that could apply to irl, allowing my own brain to get me all scared

 No.8942

>>8937
Fuck off 80s special effects were great they were the peak of special effects, if not then it was the early 90s so yeaaaaa

 No.8945

>>8923
We're in another golden age.

 No.8949

>>8945
No we’re in a fools gold age

 No.8973

>>8914
I've been told before that horror has had a history of being progressive, and that it is a reactionary genre. Is there a progressive horror lineage?

 No.9010

Zombie movies are great, especially when done in a fresh way, like Train to Busan. I like that the genre was started as a critique of consumer capitalism – mindless people consuming everything in sight, set in a mall.

Zombies are consuming a finite resource (humans) and they do it so that the resource cannot multiply itself, zombies represent unsustainable capitalism.

Looking at it in a dialectical way, zombies are often caused by research and experimentation. Unlike other disaster movies where the threat is always without, zombie movies show us that human activity itself carries the seeds of the destruction of our civilisation. In disaster movies there is a threat that the whole Earth will be wiped out, the damage is always total. In zombie movies, there is no such expectation. Zombies are ultimately a threat that can be defeated, either by killing, or by hiding in a bunker until they die off. In zombie movies they're always fiddling on the radio, trying to find army bases (yeah, shit implication), and so on, implying that no one assumes that zombies can get everyone on the planet; unlike an asteroid that destroys all life on Earth, or the Sun dying, or the Earth's core stopping rotating, etc. Zombies are a threat to our civilisation, not on human life. Human life will continue, even if it is some fucked up mad max society.

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 No.10384

>>8915
I think most contemporary horror movies start off with an interesting premise but they never deliver an interesting ending, it either ends without explaining anything or it's a scatterbrained attempt of just trying to wrap it up. Like with Annihilation, I liked the surreal horror of it but the ending (aliens and shit) is just lazy writing. I think a recent horror movie where I liked the ending was Get Out!

But yeah, I feel like many times writers are just starting with "wouldn't it be scary if…" but completely forget to write a story.

 No.10448

I ownder if there's any horror films that were made in the USSR

>inb4 Come and See

 No.10449

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>Ctrl + F "Twin Peaks
>0 results

it's time fellas… let's discuss the greatest show ever made and why it's actually about capitalism

 No.10450

>>10449
>it's actually about capitalism
Yeah, about how great capitalism is.

 No.10451

>>8973
>I've been told before that horror has had a history of being progressive
Yeah, like Hellraiser.

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 No.10455

>>10448
Not really a horror movie, more like a Sci-Fi movie with horror elements, but I watched "Sputnik" yesterday which is a 2020 Russian movie playing during Soviet times. It sort of resembles the classic Russian/Soviet film making style, sadly it tried very hard to imitate typical Hollywood tropes at times which sometimes made it look incoherent. I still found it very very entertaining.

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Saint Maud has been released. It looks like it might be worth going to see.
It's had good reviews from the Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/film-round-up-october-9-2020
and Mark Kermode
https://youtu.be/WAVGfS7X9j8

 No.10805

I'm making the Spooktober thread you can't stop me and picrel has the greatest horror soundtrack ever
https://youtu.be/3o615tjQvhs

 No.10815

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 No.10835

>>10798
is nihilistic, christian-themed horror in vogue? I really enjoyed the lodge and hereditary. there's a recurring painting in the lodge that is quite possibly the most creepy thing I have ever seen.

 No.10844

there's not enough psychological horror and there never has been

 No.11568

>>10448

Idi i Smotri is like the apocalypse now of soviet era cinema. It takes its name from the book of revelation, for that matter.

 No.11588

>>11568
Come and See is IMO much better than Apocalypse Now.

 No.11691

>>10450
Have you seen Season 3, which takes place almost entirely in the post-industrial poverty of the original town, or the half-abandoned post-recession suburban sprawl of Las Vegas? It's literally Hinterland: the show.

 No.11700

>>11588
I think those two movies are very different, and you really can't compare them.

 No.11742

I was trying to find a good list of 2019/2020 horror movies and on Rotten Tomatoes there is surprisingly a lot with tons of hidden gems:

https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-horror-movies-of-2020/

Many of those have socio-political commentary (one of them is literally a horror parable on the American-sponsered genocide of Mayan people in Guatemala), and I've noticed that on IMDB, [b]any[/b] movie with socio-political commentary gets downvoted by right-wingers or uneducated burgers who think some leftist Hollywood smugs secretly try to deceive them. Like, it doesn't even need to decidedly leftist, once it gets political IMDB reviewers have a knee-jerk reaction against it like "leftist agenda ruins my creature flicks!" and stuff like that. "I was expecting to see a horror movie but what is this, the plot makes no sense!!"

This actually confirmed that most average right-wing normies are probably, generally, very stupid people. They don't understand anything on a meta level and even if they had an IQ that entail the comprehension for it, they will just pretend not to see or hear it in a pathological way.

 No.14355

I watched shaun of the dead and it made me fucking cry
Not just the conventially emotional stuff but also when it showed the aftermath of how they even commodified the zombie attacks

those reality shows etc

this might have been just a dumb zombie from edgar wright and simon pegg but it reckon it was trying to tell something deeper that i'm too thick to understand

any anons have their opinions on the movie?

 No.14356

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>>8914
I'm gonna leave this here.

 No.14357

>>14356
how can someone just reduce a movie to such a reductionist conclusion. it's like they watched a trailer for the movie and assumed it wuz da joooooz
If they actually watched another John Carpenter film, they'd be calling him a """slave""" to """system""" since at least 1976.

 No.14358

>>14356
this is horrific.
>>10835
Hereditary was good. I felt like a boomer when someone got their head chopped of in a moving vehicle. It was so shocking I wanted to leave the theater for a second.

 No.14359

>>14358
the logic of the kid lying down in the bad trying to escape what had just happened with a few more hours of normalcy and then having the reality confirmed in the morning with the screams was very striking, made the spooky cult stuff afterwards seem kind of lame.

 No.14366

>>14356
Fucking based
I never watched the movie and always felt uncomfortable how much pol liked this movie but lmfao they got project muh jews onto everything

 No.14367

>>14366
>I never watched the movie
Why haven't you seen it? You should, and also watch Zizek's funny commentary on it.

 No.14368

>>14367
The movie is great were can I watch zizeks commentary?pan-africanismPan-Africanism

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 No.14397

>>14355
I got the feeling that they were satirizing something (that I can't put into words because I'm ESL) at the end of The World's End too.
Has someone else felt like this when watching Hot Fuzz? It's the only one I haven't watched recently so I wouldn't remember if there was anything that could be considered commentary on capitalism.accelerationAcceleration

 No.24717

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In Search of Darkness is a good documentary that covers 80s horror. It's part of a series that explores the forgotten depths of 80s horror that made the classics so good and even the B-flicks memorable cult classics that their remakes can't recapture properly. Boots to Reboots by Maniacal Cinephile, Brandon Tenold's covers and DeckerShado's series do a lot of their own analyses of cult classics and failures.

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>>24717
>In Search of Darkness
In a similar vein a Sci-Fi documentary called In Search of Tomorrow is also pretty good.

 No.24794

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An underrated sci-fi/horror creature is the Balakai from DNA / Генозавр
https://bmovie-monsters.fandom.com/wiki/Balakai

It kind of reminds me of the Rutger Hauer film, Split Second and its creature.

 No.24795

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Anyone know where I can read or find translations (or even the originals) of link related?
https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_unofficial_Hungarian_novels
https://archive.ph/VVJ23

https://archive.ph/0eRTs

 No.24799

Making of Alien: The Beast Within

 No.24800

>>24717
>Maniacal Cinephile, Brandon Tenold's covers and DeckerShado
Forgot to add Oliver Harper's channel

 No.24801

>>24799
A Russian channel called elcinema did an interesting analysis of Alien among other interesting series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0XCaUVyK1Y

 No.24834

>>14356
so he wants restrained capitalism

 No.24846

>>14356
I like that they extrapolate "white people bad" from a movie that has plenty of non-alien white people diguises

 No.29220

New Documentary coming out for the original IT TV miniseries, looks pretty decent IMO, might be better than the Pet Cemetery documentary. Reminds me I gotta take a look at that Georgie short fanfilm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21q2m8l5Mn
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/georgie-a-short-film#/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unearthed_%26_Untold:_The_Path_to_Pet_Sematary

Also on that topic I much prefer the old miniseries over the 2020s remake(s).

 No.29223

>>14356
What drugs do you take to see They Live and then extrapolate that its portrayals of aliens and consumerist subliminal messaging is meant to indicate the exact opposite message and theme that Carpenter had envisioned and demonstrated…

 No.30797

>>10815
What's the politics of The Thing
Do any John Carpenter movies have ideology?

 No.30798

>>14356
Oh nvm I got my answer
Damn

 No.30804

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Is horror even a coherent discursive object even in cinema? A lot of it is more along the lines of exploitation AKA pushing people's buttons for money. Then there's also gore/splatter/visceral type stuff. And then there's a bunch of auteur-ish wildcards that can only extremely awkwardly and dubiously be labelled "horror".

 No.30805

>>11568
Stalker is the Soviet Apocalypse Now

 No.30806

>>30797
>What's the politics of The Thing
It's about HIV/AIDS and jingoistic Cold War paranoia

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 No.36106

Has anyone here seen https://www.youtube.com/c/Crypttv/videos
Their production value is insanely high for an obscure youtube channel

 No.36114

>>30806
The Fly too

 No.36115

>>30806
I can sort of see it, kinda

>>36114
I don't think it works for The Fly. The Fly seems to be more similar to Jurassic Park's message about science not treading lightly resulting in catastrophe.

 No.36116

>>36115
The image of bodily decay is supposed to be striking and embodying of its time though
Its why theres less body horror today, since we dont have people rotting in the streets
To me jurassic park is a liberal fantasy which posits "nature" as uncontrollable (like the market) and so we need to let it be "free" (even to devour itself).

 No.36120

>>36116
>Its why theres less body horror today, since we dont have people rotting in the streets
There's less body horror today because marketing tries to make things palatable to wider audiences and people in general have become overly sensitive sissies. Thus we get blood pinatas but very little actual body horror.
>jurassic park is a liberal fantasy which posits "nature" as uncontrollable (like the market) and so we need to let it be "free" (even to devour itself).
That is a MASSIVE reach. There's NOTHING hinting towards capitalism being paralleled to nature in the film, hell CAPITALISM and the human hubris it is directed by, became the cause of Jurassic Park's fall. Nedry's greed was the entire cause of the movies events.
>The image of bodily decay is supposed to be striking and embodying of its time
Ok, but how does The Fly have anything to do with Cold War paranoia? Also HIV/AIDs are autoimmune, leprosy and similarly body affecting illnesses are more relevant here.

 No.36122

>>36120
In jurassic park, The IDEA of nature being an uncontrollable anarchy is the germ of darwinist thinking, which leads to the naturalizing of market discourses.
The Fly is reminiscent of AIDs not cold war paranoia

 No.36127

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>>36122
>darwinist thinking
Oh god it's you. Not only do you not understand the meaning of "Darwinism" but also ignoring the fact that this was never the message at all. Nature IS uncontrollable and while there are patterns it is generally chaotic, that's why populations are never stable and rise and fall with resource availability. It's the same reason that experiments using animals in isolated environments is not conclusive, you cannot isolate all factors because even if you repeat the same thing with all the variables identical there are going to be hidden things that you cannot control which will skew results. There are very real strengths and advantages to isolating variables, but there are also major limitations. Look at the field of ethology (outgrowth of biology). It emerged when biologists recognized that you can't understand an organism by isolating it in a laboratory. It sounds absurd to us now, but biologists really used to believe that you could isolate an animal from its environment and lose nothing from its behavior, that animals were pure automatons who would behave in a fixed way regardless of their surroundings.
>The Fly is reminiscent of AIDs
Vaguely at best.

 No.36147

>>36127
So nature is a free market rooted in brute darwinism?
Or does nature have a mind behind it, the same way we do?

 No.36149

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>>36147
Nature isn't a market at all and the analogy is asinine.
>Brute Darwinism
Doesn't exist. There is simply evolution and Darwin's theorem of Survival of the Fittest, which is based in both traits of an individual being passed down to its offspring (thus making it a successful survivor) and on circumstance. An individual with superior traits that dies due to something out of their control before propagating has failed to pass on its genes. For humans life is not just about surviving and breeding, which is why this idea of "darwinism" applied to human society makes no goddamn sense.
>does nature have a mind behind it, the same way we do
It is possible there is a greater mind behind nature, we have no way of knowing, but it is not the same as us, for it would not be a singular entity and would be closer to a god, with all the implications that would have.

 No.36154

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>>36149
>For humans life is not just about surviving and breeding
Thats not what animal life is like either. Animals have personalities like us. Only a darwinist would call something like consciousness a "mistake" for this reason, because its "unproductive".
As far as i can see, life is waste, not efficient.
I dont see nature as one thing, but systems that intersect, with the brain representing one of these "complex" structures. So i see many "minds" in the world already, which "regulates" the market of genetic competition.

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>>36154
>Thats not what animal life is like either.
Not in whole, but in essence Eating, Sleeping and Breeding are the main things an animal does. Cogito, ergo sum and all that
>Animals have personalities like us
True, but they are not developed - some may even be sentient and self-aware, but it is the rare animal that is fully cognizant like humans (Cetaceans, Great Apes, Parrots, Crows etc.) and of them humanity has developed the most and this is seen in the very concept of a complex society and civilization. The only other animals comparable would be Bees and Ants but they lack the intelligence and probably sentient consciousness portion of the equation.
>Only a darwinist would call something like consciousness a "mistake" for this reason, because its "unproductive".
But I haven't…?
>As far as i can see, life is waste, not efficient.
Dead matter is ultimately inferior to living matter; living matter is constantly changing, which is a requirement for adaptability in this chaotic world. Until synthetic matter can change like organic matter, i.e. be a stable non-equilibrium system - any synthetic organism will be ultimately inferior.
The change aspect I have my doubts can be made considering thermodynamic limitations, and even if it can, could be that much superior in design than what nature itself produced and honed for millions of years. I suspect that any fundamental limitations in living organisms that there are - are a consequence of our universe itself and laws that govern it
>I dont see nature as one thing, but systems that intersect
That is true, nature is not a single entity, but it is a termin that encompasses all.
>the brain representing one of these "complex" structures. So i see many "minds" in the world already, which "regulates" the market of genetic competition.
Perhaps in a sense.

 No.36160

>>36159
>The only other animals comparable would be Bees and Ants but they lack the intelligence and probably sentient consciousness portion of the equation.
Not be wittgensteinian, but we dont know what its like to be a bee. So i abstain from making any human prejudices. They are *as* evolved as anything else, so they probably have some tricks up their sleeve

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>>36160
>we dont know what its like to be a bee
Which is why I said "probably". Their brain size and structure make the likelihood small, but not impossible.

 No.36225

The Stomach is nourished by two Intestines: the Large Intestine and the Small Intestine. The former, a broad yet notably shorter river compared to its smaller sibling, surges powerfully through the city's southwestern region. Its waters charge with a potent vitality, radiating a sense of life and force that belies its relatively compact length.

The Large Intestine flows through the verdant sunflower fields, a blooming oasis amidst the industrial expanse. These fields provide the southwestern city's uncharacteristic greenery, creating a refreshing contrast to the grey monotony that otherwise defines New Gaslight. Here, towering sunflowers stretch skyward, standing tall and proud like sun-kissed sequoias, their golden faces basking in the scant sunlight that filters through the city's ever-present smog.

The river, revered as Hathor's River or the Night Piercer, courses with a swift, unwavering determination. Its route is a thrilling adventure of ascents and descents, of roaring rapids and calm stretches, mirroring the city's own tumultuous journey. The most striking spectacles of the Large Intestine are the cascading waterfalls that punctuate its course. These aquatic marvels crash down from impressive heights, carving into the rocky crags with a ceaseless tenacity, before they plunge into the fog-ridden abyss of the Maelstrom at the city's edge.

The Small Intestine, a capricious tributary, weaves an intricate spider's web through the gritty thoroughfares and industrial wastelands of New Gaslight. With a myriad of streams, rivers, and smaller tributaries ebbing and flowing in an unpredictable dance, it is a pulsing, ever-changing circulatory system at the heart of the city's massive body. Its course is as erratic as the city's heartbeat, sometimes overflowing with the abundance of rain, sometimes reduced to a mere trickle in the throes of a drought.

Often, the course of the Small Intestine appears to the uninitiated as an incomprehensible chaos, much like the city it crisscrosses. However, the residents of New Gaslight, the life-blood of the city, recognize the rhythm in its madness. They understand that the waxing and waning of the waterways are as inevitable and essential as the city's cycle of decay and rebirth.

The city's mercurial weather system, notorious for its acid rain, makes living near the often-dry riverbanks a precarious proposition. Yet, the prospect of danger seems a small price to pay for the convenience of proximity. As a result, the riverbanks are overcrowded, teeming with mile upon mile of shanty towns and makeshift settlements, a testament to the city's relentless survival instincts.

 No.36227

>>36225
This is quite schizophrenic but interesting, thanks.
Also the Lovecraft thread for you >>6750

 No.36229

>>36227 i found it on /tg/, seems pilled but also insanely schizo
https://gaslightchronicles.com/lore/locations/stomachwharf

 No.36230

>>36229
Typical /tg/; full of schizo shit and reactionaries, but also some interesting content.

 No.36234

>>36161
Not even the foremost scholars in the field know what conditions give rise to consciousness and neither do you.

 No.36235

>>14356
>trying to school John Carpenter on literary theory
>doing it by linking to TVTropes
This is what bad education has done to this country.

 No.36236

>>36234
>Not even the foremost scholars in the field know what conditions give rise to consciousness and neither do you
Get off your high horse and read a fucking book yourself, or better yet learn reading comprehension, you strawmanning smart ass.

 No.36453

Anyone seen this? I'm reading the book about Showgirls by Adam Nayman, and apparently he really liked this one.

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