Grieve. Feel it. That’s love. It hurts and it’s heavy, but that’s just the cost of them moving from a physical reality to one of memory and emotion. Don’t shut it out - mitigate it if you have to, bit by bit. But grief, to me, has never been about those you love leaving, that’s just them knocking at your heart’s door, asking to be let in.

this is the heart-warming romcom I want for christmas this year

yes but it requires an AI-generated image

Possibility? I thought we knew this was happening for real?

can’t even have a public wank in peace anymore what is the world coming to

I do believe that in “Measure of a Man” it was revealed Data to have a soul-crushing 13 inches

“I don’t know, I was too busy thinking about you”

(Pre-amble, I don’t think the meme should be taken seriously and I do find it funny)

Horror is my favourite genre because it genuinely seeks to express the most primal and furious of all emotions: fear. From the goriest, straight-forward splatter fest to the subtlest discomforts of tense artsy horror films, the popular and cult favourite movies offer a fantastic reflection of that generation/culture’s deepest vulnerabilities.

Slashers like Friday the 13th were about the internalized self-criticism of modern, white Judea-Christian values (pre-marital sex, drugs, etc) and Nightmare on Elm Street was about parents, society, the government, etc, being unable and unwilling to help with the problems they created, problems that turn lethal. Suicide due to depression from repression, OD’ing from drugs because you need a way out, getting killed because you got mixed up with the “wrong” crowd at the wrong time, these were all things that happened to people because the “system” pushed you into a corner, and vilified any means you sought to escape.

Even “torture porn” like Saw was about feeling trapped and what extremes you’d take to “free” yourself. Terrifier, too, can offer a reflection of extreme violence offering some form of release.

Backrooms and Obsession are so relevant because they too talk about our fears of being trapped in the endlessly mundane, or attachments that we cling to beyond the safety of ourselves and others.

This is a really general rant so I’ve glossed over and even ignored so many nuances. Not to mention that I’m really not eloquent enough to really hit every nail on the head… and each person will pull their own unique experiences from horror.

I genuinely love it when people find something they can connect with in horror, regardless of what generation or subgenre they find.

edit: head not hand

what is gen alpha on

what are the cool hip kids memeing

I won’t get it but tell me like I would. Make me feel young again

Your tone indicates anger, but your subject matter indicates something fun

“We’re gonna need you to burn at least 500lbs of tires for every tree planted.”

Great, that means were gonna fight mecha hitler in the 2040s

I always forget this fact because it’s so incredulous. Then I re-learn it every time. I’m not looking forward to Alzheimer’s

five dozen, no less

that explains my sterility. i always watched with my balls glued to the screen

road rage is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be… unnatural

those who fear sex toys get neither the sex nor the toy

Hydropower causes more deaths than nuclear reactors

sauce

Edit: sorry, changed the link because I had copied the wrong one. New one is not AI slop, I apologize

I’m sensing a lot of pent up anxiety about your incurable Denobian warts, Will

She was on both, too

I mean everyone here probably knew that but PT is ♥_♥