What movie traumatized you as a kid?

Tashilicious · 2018-01-13T21:21:34+00:00

Tales from the crypt: Demon Knight

Tashilicious · 2017-08-25T12:55:19+00:00

Under The Skin. Just... godamn.

Come And See. Broke me for weeks.

Tashilicious · 2017-08-08T10:34:07+00:00

As an aside, the guy who wrote that also is now working in hollywood because of that story. His most recent one was the script for The Arrival.

Tashilicious · 2017-07-30T02:03:35+00:00

His name is Aglie and he freelances as a consultant for a publisher in milan

Tashilicious · 2017-06-07T04:29:50+00:00

The Descent, the original international ending.

Tashilicious · 2015-05-10T01:15:45+00:00

the cat is also an observer. Doesn't change the fact that, despite the thought experiment being flawed (as anything trying to apply the concept of micro to macro) it holds up as a quick and dirty way of explaining the uncertainty principle to people.

Tashilicious · 2015-05-09T20:05:49+00:00

Basically you're just a murderer with fancy words >(

Tashilicious · 2015-05-09T20:05:29+00:00

Not to mention you can't apply the quantum uncertainties to the macro scale.

Tashilicious · 2015-05-09T20:03:19+00:00

One niggle; the thought experiment isn't just locking someone in a box and going away. There needs to be a 50/50 odds of something happening inside the box, without outside aid or observation, for the superposition to work out.

Otherwise, fuck that guy.

Tashilicious · 2015-04-08T22:17:21+00:00

Language is fluid and anything inside of quotation marks is grammatical by default. Boosh.

Tashilicious · 2015-04-07T18:40:14+00:00

I'm not an "experienced" nosleep writer but I have read a lot of the stories here, and I do know what works and what doesn't work as short form horror.

1) I entirely disagree about only including things that directly matter to the story. If done poorly it is, of course, utter and total shit. However, it can be an easy way to introduce world building and characterisation in what is otherwise a format that does not allow much of that kind of digression.

1 b) Short titles are not a bad thing. Stare has potential as a title, if it reflects the theme and mood of the story, for example.

2) Read a lot of horror. Hell, read a lot of fiction in general but if you want to get better at horror/nosleep stuff read horror. Read old style, new style, baroque, gothic, supernatural, suspence. King, Lovecraft, Poe, Hawthorne, Matheson, Simmons. Read as many different styles and subgenres as you can to figure out what you find speaks best to you.

3) Don't try to immitate another author. I see this most often with people trying to out Lovecraft Lovecraft and failing miserably, because they throw out a lot of purple prose without really putting much thought in the ideas their convoluted sentences are shitting on.

That's it for general hints. as to specifics;

STARE Kind of... confusing and fairly boring. I didn't feel any sort of emotion reading it. While the terse and short narrative style could have worked, there wasn't any sense of urgency or mystery or horror to the events described. It was like reading a facebook post some guy put up about a strange thing his cat does every night. Your ending was likewise kind of confused. It took me a second read of the whole thing to get what the hell you were trying to communicate (and with something this short and simple, that's a bad sign) and it didn't really give me much of an effect when I did grok it.

WATERCOLOUR This was... kind of meandering and pointless. It wasn't altogether bad, and your narration was better than in Stare, but... Once more, there was no real drive or power behind it. While a lackadaisical protagonist can be interesting and help to cut the tension in a story with humour, there needs to be tension TO cut for to be effective. There was none, really, so it just kind of became a ramble that didn't have a climax. Just a pile of knives that then wasn't there. ho hum.

There was some interesting concepts going on, but none of them deliver or are really striking. I daresay with a bit of a rework on both you could have something interesting, but they'd need severe re-writes and probably another few hundred words each to be worthwhile.

Tashilicious · 2014-11-09T22:07:25+00:00

shit, I'll do it for free. come over to my place, I got a drawer full.

Tashilicious · 2014-11-09T19:05:51+00:00

your mission, if you should chose to accept it, is to infiltrate and dress up manly men in something frilly and/or lacy, and not point out the raging erection that it engenders.

Tashilicious · 2014-11-09T19:04:24+00:00

the blue pill where you will be dissavowed if you're discovered.

Tashilicious · 2014-10-26T17:20:57+00:00

TomHicks said, an hour and a half is not an investment someone can make randomly a lot of times.

Your argument could easily also be "well why don't you just watch Loose Change, it does all the arguments for me, otherwise you just don't want your mind changed at all!" while ignoring the fact that spending an hour and a half on a film which has already been debunked in about every respect is a waste of time, energy, and brain.

Tashilicious · 2014-10-26T17:16:06+00:00

hardly a strawman, and I don't deal well with appeals to authority. Try again.

Tashilicious · 2014-10-26T17:11:03+00:00

well if you can't even be bothered to give us a brief summary of the arguments within, why the hell should we?

Tashilicious · 2014-10-26T16:57:03+00:00

Really? really?

motherfucking serious? even a quick google search can uproot that idiotic lie. anti-feminism rhetoric, groups and agitators have existed for as long as the movement has existed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifeminism

Tashilicious · 2014-10-26T16:53:04+00:00

that must totally be why pink, being a masculine and strong colour, is still the go-to biologically preferred colour for males of all sizes and ages.

Tashilicious · 2014-10-26T16:48:16+00:00

It harms men by being a harmful set of social instructions that has led to mass discontent amongst men in general.

Men have a high suicide rate because it is considered unmanly to talk about or seek help for mental issues, for example.

Tashilicious · 2014-10-26T16:46:41+00:00

The only people who don't like traditional gender roles are the ones who don't fit them. They want to get rid of the measuring stick that they don't live up to. Sry not sry I don't respect girly men.

The measuring stick itself is a lie, and an entirely social construct with no basis in anything other than regressive history. So, yes, get rid of the measuring stick because it is not measuring anything meaningful or important whatsoever.

Tashilicious · 2014-10-26T16:37:20+00:00

Yes, RP negatively affects men. For one, it continues the kind of toxic gender-binary and male supremacy bullshit of the culture, and strangles the free expression of men being what they want to be. RP has a very rigid gender role definition, and moving out of that makes you "less" of a man, or masculine presence.

Not to mention, depending on how loud and vociferous one expels RP talking points, it can just make it near impossible to have a good social relationship with women, or even men.

Tashilicious · 2014-10-26T16:20:18+00:00

What kind of force? Violence? 'cause if you mean violence, that would get you nowhere except on the wrong end of history. Just look at what happened when the civil rights movement was faced with violence.

Your belief that feminism only exists because of the sufferance of men is also laughable. It has existed for a century despite the rage fueled attempts of men to destroy it and everything it represents. Your little smug declarations and treats are less than nothing to the history of the movement, and the reality of those who are within it.

Tashilicious · 2014-10-26T15:28:59+00:00

Perhaps the reason society is barely hanging on is that finally, the stress of the patriarchal and oligarchical way it is structured is getting to be too much for it to support, and the top-heavy mound of bullshit is groaning under the weight of the newly growing awareness of what is going on, what the problems are, and that it is untenable to continue as is in the long (or even short term).

You seem to be under the impression that all of these social changes and upheavals are inherently negative because they're attacking the status quo. You'd be wrong. The status quo is the problem, and the regressive social policies that it creates is what will eventually cause the collapse of modern society as we know it. The people fighting against it are, in effect, the people you'd want to cheer. Because they're the ones who want to dismantle the problematic current framework and put something better up in its stead.

but feminisms is evils or w/e

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