if you want to run a successful tumblr blog you should change your blog title to Angela or Sarah and then have your first post be a video of 2 people having sex. simple as that

i don't think "bluesky" or "cohost" or "pillowfort" exist i think y'all are just making up words, to me

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olivia rodrigo is like if taylor swift was paramore

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Cozy Horror is such a fascinating term. I honestly 100% understand the desire for cozy wholesome stuff. Where my beloved mutuals might snark at the Wholesome Direct, I know in my heart that sometimes you need the video game equivalent of a hot chocolate.

But. Cozy Horror.
A Cozy version of the genre that is meant to unsettle you.

Horror isn't necessarily only jumpscares and gore and violence - but it is those things because they're effective ways to unsettle and unnerve, the real core of what horror is (in my opinion).

"Cozy Horror". Man. It's just a total "what the fuck are you even talking about" sequence of words. Which is impressive, given its brevity!

I wouldn't necessarily define Cozy Horror as analogous with hot chocolate by a fire.

YMMV on interpretations of these movies, but for me, Midsommar is Cozy Horror because it's about the importance of being seen and truly cared for, and how the absence of it drives you to desperate lengths. The VVitch is about recognizing that you're trapped in a cage of repression and tradition, and realizing that you can enjoy the pleasures of life without being punished. Suspiria (2018) is about a bunch of gleeful witches making sexy torture art in a purely female space.

to me, Cozy Horror is about a story you can fully relax into, knowing that its themes resonate with you, and that it will make you feel seen, understood, and respected. add the body horror, consistently excellent cinematography, and goth aesthetic, and you've got my favorite genre.

Sometimes it's just cozy to know that other people have the same anxieties and fears as you.

Okay, for one thing, those examples are all just horror movies. It's the same trick as "elevated horror" - deciding you've invented a new subgenre which is full of the good stuff, unlike the regular type which is bad.

Secondly, Midsommar is a movie about a white supremacist cult manipulating a woman into falling in line with their beliefs, until we get the "happy ending" where, yay! She's a member of the white supremacist Swedish cult!

If your takeaway from that movie is "wow... women need to feel truly seen in this horrible patriarchal world. I'm so glad this movie truly sees and respects me as a woman", then I'm really sorry but you might have missed the entire point.

Like, the cult uses this feminist angle because that's kinda generally what cults do! They identify something that people need, and then convince them that they're the only ones that can provide it.

If you're listing Midsommar as a movie that makes you feel seen and respected, you've actually fallen for the same trick, oh my god!

midsommar literally opens with one of the most harrowing murder-suicide reveals i’ve ever seen and ends with our lead character being drugged, tricked, and manipulated into burning her partner alive and unknowingly trapping herself in a murderous white supremacist cult that wants to use her as breeding stock.

the witch is about how religious extremism can rip families apart and oppress women and ends with our lead signing her soul to satan—going from one extremist faith to another—after said satanists have murdered her entire family including young children.

i don’t even know what to say about this person’s summary of Suspiria because nothing about what happens in the remake is remotely “gleeful.”

i genuinely think tumblr’s obsession with consuming media in a way that’s “comfy” and safe has severely damaged media literacy for some people. horror isn’t meant to be cozy, especially not when it’s politically charged and critical like these films are.

Being raised by areligious jews with 0 exposure to christianity outside pop culture is so fun. One time I asked my ex-catholic friend why a picture of jesus had a bristle crown and she looked at me like I was insane. One time I heard someone mention the "lance of longinus" and responded, word for word, "Like from Evangelion?" One time during a history lesson my professor described an important monk and scholar as "Dominican" and I spent the rest of class super confused and hung up on it because I was very sure that the Dominican Republic didn't meaningfully exist as an entity back then, maybe she meant he was a native Taino or something but that's a weird way to say that and I'm pretty sure this was pre- European contact? Really fucks people up when they realize I genuinely have no idea.

This but it's my partner taking an art history class in college and the professor looking at them like they grew a second head when they answered "What came out of Jesus' wound when he was stabbed on the cross" with "...Blood?"

Additions that prove my point by mystifying me because what on earth would come out of a nail wound besides blood. Are you telling me it was something besides blood. What was jesus full of that wasn't blood. You guys are scaring me

Apparently it was water?? I guess he was also stabbed on top of being crucified (which feels like overkill imo) and water came out, which was a huge deal in medieval symbolism and also to my medieval poetry professor, who was genuinely shocked and upset that I didn’t know. This man fully docked me points because I, a whole ass Jew, hadn’t somehow heard about the secret waterballoon Jesus lore that I guess everyone is supposed to like… intuit

On the plus side, it does lead to some absolutely wild medieval Jesus art of angels tapping him like a fucking keg

a friend of a friend went to go see passion of the christ for kicks without knowing anything about the story

when jesus was hauled up on the cross he turned to my friend and said, in all evident sincerity, 'i know they're not going to kill the main character but how's jesus getting out of this one?'