As An Entire Queer Trans Allosexual I Think It's Weird When Other Allosexuals Don't Like The Term Allosexual

as an entire queer trans allosexual i think it's weird when other allosexuals don't like the term allosexual for themselves. it just means not asexual. smacks of cis people who scream and howl and pee their pants about being called cis

Obligatory everyone's-mad-about-Scooby-Doo-adaptation plug for Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero

It's not exclusively a pastiche on Scooby Doo - there are some other Kid Mystery Gangs mixed up in there - but it's a book about sort of the primordial ideal of your Gang of Meddling Kids, now young adults and deeply, diversely psychologically fucked up after their last job, which went wrong somehow.

The style is kind of internet-friendly/Terry Pratchettesque¹, with neat, creative, twisty analogies and use of screenplay formatting and dialogue to get points across differently.

The plot is fun, but not light - there's that adage that a really good parody is both a mockery and a good example of the thing it's parodying, and the thing Meddling Kids is parodying is horror². I'm a terrible source for content warnings, but seek them out if you're unsure.

¹Woman who's only read one author: "Wow, this sounds exactly like-" [the agent assigned to me slams the detonation button]

²And, I would posit, the full-length Scooby Doo movies a lot of us grew up on, where the putative monster threat just keeps escalating

this tweet hasn't left my mind once in the two years since it's been posted

I want an adaptation of Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein where you never see the creature’s face. It’s just out of frame or you see him from behind and all you have are people’s reactions to seeing him.

It’s just so hard to visually capture the idea of him because I don’t think it’s just that he has a messed up mug or looks like a corpse that scares people, I think they see him and their instincts go “that thing was not made by god, that thing should not exist. You don’t belong here”

I really like the idea that the creature’s effect on people is more psychological than anything else but makeup doesn’t really cover that, leaving it up to the imagination however….

I don't "hate watch" anything. I simply observe everyone else on tumblr hate watching something and than I just absorb all of their opinions via osmosis.

“ew thick water gross and weird” ITS NOT FUCKING FOR YOU!!!!! “ew why buy pre-cut vegetables when you can cut your own” ITS NOT FUCKING FOR YOU!!!!!! “I don’t need a device to help me put my socks on I’m not lazy” ITS NOT FUCKING FOR YOU !!!!!!!!! “Why drink liquid meals when you can cook them” ITS!!!!! NOT!!!!!! FOR!!!!!! YOU!!!!!!!!