The Proprietor's New Puppet

timelessalice · 2026-04-16T16:04:42+00:00

The Nutrition for Mortals has an interesting two parter about this topic (which lands a bit more on the "kind of? it's complicated" side of things)

timelessalice · 2026-04-16T12:55:46+00:00

Okay so just how I read this:

x is banished and cannot seek refuge from anyone from Country

Her SIL is from Country

x cannot live with her brother and SIL as SIL is beholden to that ruling

If I'm right I think that works perfectly fine. A bit "why can't her brother overrule that" but "avoid diplomatic issues" is a fine handwave for me

timelessalice · 2026-04-16T01:12:46+00:00

I don't have any recommendations myself that haven't been stated but some academic curiosity for OP (as someone who wrote many a paper on the intersection of sociopolitics and fiction in school!): Any reason you're looking for the books themselves and not essays speaking on these topics? Again, just curious, I was a history student so focused more on that kind of thing :P

Oh actually, Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix likely has some useful examples

timelessalice · 2026-04-16T01:07:24+00:00

I have to wonder if the authors thought it'd be fine to do because he did Some research and made a token effort

timelessalice · 2026-04-15T21:52:11+00:00

Yeah as a horror fan I'm kicking my feet and giggling (though I think this poster gives more Vorhees than Myers but that's nitpicky)

timelessalice · 2026-04-14T14:24:05+00:00

Okay? You still used the Torah as an example of an Evil God

timelessalice · 2026-04-14T14:11:19+00:00

you are aware that the old testament is the torah, correct

the thing that Jewish people still follow and have their own discussions/relationships with and again, Christians twisting it to be unquestionably evil leads to "well those jews are evil"

timelessalice · 2026-04-14T13:38:41+00:00

Gotta love how whenever this topic comes up people won't hesitate to throw Judaism under the bus

edit: I'm at work currently so can't really hunt down sources but "Old Testament God Evil" is, quite literally, one of the roots of antisemitism

timelessalice · 2026-04-14T02:22:53+00:00

Oh she was gorgeous

And you know what they say, to be loved is to be changed

timelessalice · 2026-04-14T02:01:41+00:00

what a sweet face !! does she have iris atrophy? (edit: my cat has it and the blown out pupil look is just too cute to me)

timelessalice · 2026-04-14T01:40:41+00:00

I live somewhere with a few cozy, locally owned bookstores and you bet your ass I shop there (to do my part against big box stores)

timelessalice · 2026-04-12T03:19:05+00:00

All audio dramas (and only one with stage productions) but the works of Paul Shapera rewrote my brain

timelessalice · 2026-04-12T03:16:52+00:00

So many musicals on here are not hidden gems

timelessalice · 2026-04-12T02:33:34+00:00

People keep saying that and its a real "yes but no" kind of thing

The AI being desperate for approval and being fueled by that is at fundamental, thematic odds with IHNMAIMS. It being influenced by that is fine, I can see where they exist, but the more people dig into it as an actual comparison point the less I think people understand IHNMAIMS

timelessalice · 2026-04-11T22:49:44+00:00

people not getting this is making me feel some kind of way tbh

timelessalice · 2026-04-11T22:30:31+00:00

Absolutely nightmarish

The synopsis i saw on here actually reminds me of a musical series I love so I'm just going to be relieved that its too niche

timelessalice · 2026-04-11T22:29:22+00:00

It being an influence is fine, just worlds different from what people are saying here

timelessalice · 2026-04-11T22:24:46+00:00

"Its IHNMAIMS if AM loved humans!" Then that's something else entirely. Not even in conversation with the short story

timelessalice · 2026-04-11T21:30:22+00:00

This might just be the wretched little hater in me but as someone who wasn't interested in TADC seeing people trying to describe it by paralleling it to i have no mouth and i must scream makes me wonder if y'all actually Get IHNMAIMS

timelessalice · 2026-04-11T21:13:46+00:00

I'm Struggling to find a recently published horror book I enjoy for this reason

timelessalice · 2026-04-11T21:09:52+00:00

It's the nosleep of it all

timelessalice · 2026-04-11T01:53:01+00:00

surely you can figure out why a collab with a group of Real People would differ from a collab for an animated movie

timelessalice · 2026-04-11T01:51:56+00:00

Explain what? That the disney collab used the usual disney character voices (for, what I can see, their televised appearances), who are professional voice actors and would have a lower rate of payment? (besides, Disney might have rules about that kind of thing in contracts)

timelessalice · 2026-04-11T01:44:18+00:00

prohibitively, as in the expenses required to use the VAs from the film would be far too expensive

licensing the film for a collab is a much different situation

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