u/Daihatschi — reddlx

Recommendations for 6-8 child?

Good day everyone,

I'm trying to be the cool uncle. My nephews and nieces are all between 3-7.

For the oldest boy, now in 2nd grade I got a Pokemon Manga (adventures of red?). Big success! But that was easy, the boy has been as crazy about them as i was 30 years ago.

For the niece, in first grade, i got no idea. And for the others, not yet able to read, i would like to at least plan ahead.

So honest question here, what is exciting for 1st to 3rd graders, age appropriate, and either a classic or in the zeitgeist for kids?

(And i know! Mangas arent just for children, but the stuff I read will take a couple years more before i can show them the glory of Berserk, of FMA, or ghost in the shell (i like the classics)).

If its not sacrilege around here, if you know any western comics that are exciting for kids, i also take any recommendations. I just dont want to get them some garbage from the nearest store because it has pretty colors. I've read most of that pokemon book before i gave it to my nephew and its actually really fun. So, i like that. I'm searching for stuff like that. Just good quality, to share. But i'm so far removed.

Cheers and thank you.

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u/Daihatschi — 4 days ago

▲ 94 r/backroomsfilm

Anyone else got an immense urge to rewatch Hellraiser II after seeing Backrooms? I love that mixture of scale, indecipherability and being lost in a labyrinth!

I made the big mistake of opening a review thread and two, often repeated, claims really stood out to me as weird:

The movie doesn't explain enough background info for the Backrooms.
That the movie is only good for people who are already fans.

I know nothing about the 'extended universe' of this beyond the film, never seen or heard or played anything. But I do know why I love this film:

Anyone remember the descriptions of R'lyeh in Call of Cthullhu?

>Without knowing what futurism is like, Johansen achieved something very close to it when he spoke of the city; for instead of describing any definite structure or building, he dwells only on broad impressions of vast angles and stone surfaces

>He had said that the geometry of the dream-place he saw was abnormal, non-Euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours.

>Johansen swears he was swallowed up by an angle of masonry which shouldn’t have been there; an angle which was acute, but behaved as if it were obtuse.

Which of course brings us to the great LEVIATHAN, Lord od the Labyrinth brought to us by the instant classic horror hit film Hellraiser II ! Ok, barely remembered, mediocre, cheesy, low budget special effects gimmick film that I wouldn't recommend to most people in my life, but is in my personal Top 10 fav movies of all time.

By the end of that film, we know shit all about any of this. Why does any of this exist? who/what actually is this thing? Why are we here? Why is the box? And also in general, what the fuck?

In all these cases, the true horror lies in "Its here, its dangerous, and it does not care about your fragile sense of reality". And the movie Backrooms is a wonderful example of true eldritch confusion horror that attracts the already mentally unstable and pushes them over the edge, making other humans the true villain, again.

Lore isn't story. Knowledge kills Horror. And goofy ass looking monsters that only scare us in the first half of the movie before becoming comically overused and almost boring in the end? Thats my second favorite genre of horror movies! How did they know?

All I'm trying to say is, really fun movie, enjoyed it tremendously. Feels like a direct ancestor of the really experimental late 80s/early 90s low budget horror movies. And I don't know how big the audience for those is nowadays, but they are definitely loving this film.

u/Daihatschi — 15 days ago

▲ 12 r/DnD

My current campaign is about a group of Aberrations deluding themselves to be Gods - without much understanding of what they are actually doing.

As such, my players have just met the (self-proclaimed) God of Nature sitting in a dark cave and using ancient magiteck to 3D-Print living spiders. It doesn't particularly care about the spiders, just found them the most resilient for its experiments (randomly sowing them together to see what happens) and its obsessed with making a big egg to rebirth itself so it can grow and eat its brothers. (The other aberrations)

Any efforts in convincing it that its idea of Nature is horrible have been futile. As such, my PCs have procured as many explosives as they could get their hands on. For obvious reasons.

So here is my invitation to you. Think of a mind about as stable as a Beholder, deciding it should take over one of those pesky divine domains.

And worst: succeeding.

Could be a fun exercise.

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u/Daihatschi — 2 months ago