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I keep imagining them as the size of acorns (the size of Western fairies)

And then I think maybe they're the size of the item, like the kami of this tree is the size and shape of this tree because it is the tree

And then I think maybe they're of indeterminate size and shape

Idk just trying to visualize them in my head

I do a series where I review movies purely on how good the dogs are

All dogs get a minimum of 11/10 unless they're a cop. If they're a cop, they get 10/10 with the explanation "dog good cop bad it all evens out"

I'm gonna watch The Beast of Mossy Bottom tomorrow, and I'm on the fence about whether this particular dog functions as a cop within the sheep's world

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I'm building a Final Destination TTRPG where you all collectively play as Death, each person putting on one more piece of the Rube Goldberg Machine Of Death and rolling to see whose piece actually kills the person

Right now, the game has a very hands-off GM. I'm considering splitting up the job of the GM among the players, to represent how the players are collectively playing the same character.

A GM-less game worked for Wanderhome, because it reinforces the worldbuilding, the tone, and the philosophy of the game

A GM works really well for a game like D&D

I'm looking to get a few people's opinions before I change the rulebook to be GM-less, because it will be a lot of work to change the formatting of the rulebook, and even more work to change it back. It won't change the game that much. It will just change the words I use to describe it

It looks to me like it's somewhere in the 80s, possibly 1982-1989

I wish I could say 2024-present is the Golden Age, but I might call it a Renaissance

I've been using this lens to look at body horror movies for a few years now

Here are my thoughts so far. I would love your thoughts too

I've been defining it with the question "what is the grotesquerie contributing to?" because sometimes the answer is "it's contributing to the horror", but sometimes the grotesque stuff is contributing to the drama or the romance or the comedy or the action

I think the first 75 minutes of Society (1989) is a neo-noir with an occasional shot of body horror. I think the last 15 minutes is body comedy. It even has cartoon sound effects, slapstick humor, and puns.

I don't think most of Cronenberg is body horror. I think most of it is body drama. Sometimes body romance.

A lot of people have been telling me Spider-Man is body horror. I do think there is some actual body horror, like Spiders-Man, the dream sequence in Spider-Noir Episode 6, Kane pulling people's faces off, and occasional stuff with symbiotes. But I think a lot more of it is body action, especially Brand New Day (2026), the Sam Raimi movies, and stuff with symbiotes

Nightbitch (2024) and Slanted (2025) were both advertised as body horror movies and I didn't actually see any horror in either of them. Sure, there was grotesque stuff for about 1 shot in each movie, but that wasn't to support the horror; it was to support the drama. And both of these movies are dramas to their core.

The only Toxic Avenger movie I've seen is the 2023 version with Peter Dinklage. I thought of it as body comedy and body action. I haven't seen the other Toxic Avenger movies, because I just got into this genre 2 years ago, so I have a whole list to catch up on, including Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)

I'm looking forward to finding a body heist movie. Maybe the main character would have the powers of the transformed Senator from X-Men (2000)

The best way I can describe The Human Vapor (TV 2026) is a "body detective thriller", which is terrible phrasing🤣

I think Hellraiser (1987) could be considered body horror or it could be body drama. Depends on if you find corruption scary

I know I'm making a lot of strong statements, but I want to reiterate: These are just my ideas so far. I am happy to hear other people's perspectives and I'm happy to

I feel like I didn't really *get* this movie the way everyone else did, and I'd like to understand it better

For reference, here's my experience and perspective: I saw it with some kinky friends, so I just saw it as a slice-of-life drama about how one subset of the kink community: play parties, getting run out by the police, watching porn together, planning scenes, etc. I saw it as a way to re-other kink for kinksters, so that Cronenberg could say "hey kinksters, this is what you look like to vanilla people". From that perspective, it's a very thought-provoking movie that has a really boring structure. My friends and I thought the only reason it got popular is because it was a high-concept movie with big-name actors, right at the peak of high-concept movies with big name actors like Groundhog Day, Big, and The Truman Show

In my current TTRPG, my character's name is Dad. And that's his entire character. He's just the most stereotypical Dad ever.

One of his Skills he can roll for is Know Manly Stuff (like pulling out a fun fact about WWII that's relevant to the situation)

I can make up fun facts, but it's more fun if I use real fun facts

Also, I'm not looking for unfun facts about how corporations exploit people or how The Holocaust did a genocide. I mean more like "Americans renamed hamburgers to Liberty Steaks during the war" or "Accuracy International was 3 dudes in their garage who scammed the government into thinking they were a whole operation just to win a contest"

I'm working on a fanmade Final Destination TTRPG

The movies include some triggering material (suicide, racism, grief...)

So I'm trying to remember what Safety Tools people usually include

The closest thing I can think of is Your Name. (2016), which uses Shinto principles and acknowledges kami. But I mean something about the character like Izanagi & Amaterasu and kami like that

Some people are asking for a recommended reading order, because they really like the idea of The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl

Here's the reading order I recommended. Is there anything you would add?

First appearance: Marvel Super-Heroes Vol 2 #8

Shannon & Dean Hale's Squirrel Girl novels

Deadpool/GLI - Summer Fun Spectacular

Skip to The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl

In between Vol 2 Issues 4 & 5, read The Unbelievable Gwenpool #9 (optional, but I recommend it)

In between Issue 11 & Issue 12, read The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Beats Up The Marvel Universe

Read the rest of The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl

At some point during The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (doesn't matter when), read Gwenpool Holiday Special: Merry Mix-Up, specifically the story titled "Deadpooloween"

After The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, listen to the full voice cast audio drama podcast "Marvel's Squirrel Girl: The Unbeatable Radio Show”

I just joked to someone "if that counts as a magic system, then Paddington 2 has a kindness-based magic system"

And then I immediately thought "I want to see that anime"

PLEASE tell me there's an anime where canonically in-universe, the kinder you get, the more powerful you get?

This is NOT the place to give your feelings about trans people, positive or negative. This is a place for movie recommendations

One of my friends just said:

I imagine puberty as a trans kid feels like some cosmic Body Horror film where you start magically transforming into this thing you know you're not and the people around you are just like "No, the cosmic being had decided your gender and it doesn't matter what you say, you have all right parts, and look, the cosmic force even put it on your birth certificate" Just getting aggressively gaslit that you're not being transformed into something different when you can see the changes as they're happening

And I'm wondering if that movie had been made already

Even if there's a body horror movie about puberty, I'll take it

I really like body horror, but most body horror movies I've found are about adults

My partner wants to get into horror movies

I tried starting off with a couple of trailers for a couple different genres and she said "those were too scary for me"

So now I'm trying to think of super-chill movies that have a little bit of horror, so that she can gradually dip her toes into the genre

I promise you, she actually does want this

EDIT: Wow! This post popped off! I just wanted to give a thank you to everyone who commented. Y'all are so invested in helping people get into horror. Feel free to add more. I just sent this post to my partner.

I need recommendations for non-R-Rated Tubi movies

I'm gonna be in the Crisis Center for anywhere from a day to a month, and their only streaming service is a restricted version of Tubi

They prefer for people to not scroll Tubi and to instead request a movie by name, which means I don't really know what they have on there until it comes up by accident. So I need to write down a bunch of titles before I go into the Crisis Center

Even if it's a movie everyone has seen, I'd like to know it's there and write it down