Skulldrinker
No bio...
User ID: 1874
Skulldrinker
11hr ago
this has had an brought women together to share their stories in a moment of cultural solidarity.
Hasn't that been continually happening for the past 16 years?
Skulldrinker
12hr ago
Also, an educated priesthood that generally doesn't believe in demons.
Skulldrinker
12hr ago
Doesn't Jesus need to be Type-O for theological reasons?
Skulldrinker
1d ago
This is the tradcath equivalent of Transwomen are Women.
Skulldrinker
1d ago
But not the protestant God. And also satanic witches are real.
Skulldrinker
1d ago
Obviously an actual vial of Jesus blood is more potent than metaphysical/metaphorical wine-blood. Otherwise Catholic-run hospitals could produce infinite blood for transfusions.
Skulldrinker
1d ago
I'm not objecting to dramatic license, I'm objecting to the "mythos" and metaphysics. Whether the ghost actually dragged someone around a basement or held a door shut doesn't bother me nearly as much as the Salem Witch Trials thing.
I recently had some houseguests, The conjuring came up on movie night, and the guy's girlfriend turned out to be a huge fan. They're competently done horror films, but I was a little bit surprised to find out that she thinks that they're real, and it took an effort of will for me to not go overboard poking holes in the Warrens. So now I've got all these thoughts about The conjuring.
Even in a film that glazes them, you can see the underlying shape of the grift. The mythos doesn't match up with other supernatural fiction, it matches up with the vague folk-Catholicism of a dumb person. Why is Ed Warren, who knows all there is to know about demons and exorcism rituals, less supernaturally potent than a Catholic priest, who probably thinks demons are imaginary? Why only a Catholic priest, why not a minister or a voodoo guy? Why is it relevant that the satanic witch ghost had a relative who was killed in the Salem witch trials? In the universe of The Conjuring, did the witch trials find real witches, rather than it just being a jilted lover and ergot poisoning? Just seems like such a unnecessary story element. Catching an actual witch at a witch trial is usually a punchline, like in Widows Bay or Treehouse of Horror. In the 70s did median American believe the Salem witch trials were real?
When a story is presented as fiction, this kind of inconsistency doesn't bother me as much, I don't ask why Patrick Swayze can walk through walls but not through floors, because ghost doesn't pretend to be a documentary.
Skulldrinker
1d ago
"changes society" is a recent tack-on to the heroines journey; they all have to be activists.
Skulldrinker
5d ago
5 miles is like 10 minutes of country driving, though.
Skulldrinker
6d ago
There are no single women in the middle of nowhere who will be impressed with your house and stable job at the general store, so this strategy is a non-starter.
Skulldrinker
6d ago
Female to Male has been described as "ten years ago, these girls would have just gotten into wicca" by a guidance counselor.
Skulldrinker
8d ago
thatisthejoke.jpg
I didn't go to a college with frats. Yet I still had to hear the women in my social circles talk about frat party rape culture.
Skulldrinker
8d ago
My only concept of Greek life is "they throw parties that women know they will be raped at, yet still mysteriously attend"
Skulldrinker
8d ago
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kJBuQr7w-n8?is=wCp7jJsF7w68qAT3
This conveys quite a bit.
Part of the first chapter takes place in a sex club, so the softcore porn gets a liiiiiiitle much, then it improves once you start fighting the most messed-up zombies I've seen in a minute.
Skulldrinker
9d ago
Hellraiser, most fun I had in a single-player game in forever, takes me back to 2012. Gameplay isn't perfect, but it's a well-crafted experience.
Skulldrinker
10d ago
So, nerd queen.
Also, to be more generous, often times the sorts of women who are that obsessively driven towards an artistic pursuit or hobby don't get along with other women, or at least with the normie female social scene.
Skulldrinker
14d ago
Good deal: mint mobile unlimited service bought a year at a time. Your cellular service winds up being $15-20/mo
Skulldrinker
17d ago
I only use a bourbon-and-oak scent, I feel like a cologne should be very singular to the point where it becomes associated with your character. Like Yennifer with Lilac and Gooseberries. Not different scents for different occasions.
Skulldrinker
17d ago
I meant that it's easier/cheaper to get actresses to do girl/girl stuff than to get penetrated by a stranger's biological penis on-camera.
Skulldrinker
18d ago
And over-estimating the prevalence of Greek life.
I still remember back in college when I tried having a conversation with a girl in gamers' club. She immediately started talking about how afraid/concerned she was over sexual assault at frat parties.
I should have reminded her that we were at a flyover-state university that doesnt have frats or sororities, and even if we were, those parties are easily avoided by not going to them. Since I never saw Animal House, I really didn't have much of a concept of fraternities beyond "place where rape happens" so I was always confused as to how they find people to attend these parties.
Skulldrinker
18d ago
What is the deal with the hetero female obsession with gay stuff? It seems much more intense than the male desire to watch girl-on-girl that really only exists because of the practicalities of filming porn.
I would like to see some sort of parody trailer sketch for an imaginary film about a woman who can't get laid at college, because every single guy she hits on is too respectful of her feminine lack of agency.
I'm sorry, but we can't have sex, you've had alcohol [camera pans one white claw] that means that you can't legally consent to anything, you're not in your right mind, I'm pretty sure just talking to you about sex right now is harassment, I'm gonna go report myself.
And so on. Even when she's stone sober, the guys just apologize endlessly for their male privilege and refuse to do anything to her without a fresh consent form for each additional finger. Depending on how broad or focused you want to be, you could also include every man she does talk to getting escorted away by security because another woman saw her being attention-assaulted and called the hotline.
This all culminates in her drugging a guy with ketamine and mounting him, only for campus police to arrive in full tac gear and arrest him for rape.
Skulldrinker
26d ago
Someone who murders someone else in a fit of [justified, but not to the point of murder] rage can still be regarded as less of a bad person than a rapist.
Yes, but when people notice the cringey unflattering self-indulgent tropes of women's romance fiction, they don't treat it as an injustice that needs to be corrected so more men can enjoy reading about vampire billionaires.
More options
Context Copy link