Got To The Thing In My Mothership RPG Rec Movies. It Had Been On My List For A While. Surprisingly Good.

Got to The Thing in my Mothership RPG rec movies. It had been on my list for a while. Surprisingly good. The effects mostly hold up, though there's a noticeable reliance on jump-cuts. Nicely ambiguous in many many ways. Some gore, but because it's practical effects, these days that mostly makes me speculate on what it's made of.

Highly recommended. Oh, the vintage '80's vibes are most entertaining.

Mothership tropes: Paranoia, transformation, contagion

Magnus fears (top 3): Flesh, Lonely, Corruption

this is so mean but sometimes i see published writing and suddenly no longer feel insecure about my own writing ability. like well okay that got published so im guessing i dont have much to worry about

It is November of 1893. You have just killed a vampire. Exhausted and worn, you close your eyes and rest.

You wake up. It is May of 1893. You are on a train en route to Transylvania. Your diary says you have had queer dreams lately.

You try to believe it.

(An old woman puts a rosary in your hands. You accept it without question.)

You are a guest in a castle you have never been in before (you recognize every hallway and know without trying that every door is locked). Your host is a man you have never met before (you killed him you killed him you killed him he had turned to dust and there was blood on the snow).

One morning you cut yourself while shaving.

There is nobody behind you in the pocket mirror’s reflection.

You turn fast, and the razor is like a Kukri knife in your hand.

"It makes sense to become a drill."

This phrase showed up in not one, but two dreams last night. No clue why. One dream at least featured the spoon drill from Mythbusters (when they were trying to hollow a tree trunk into a can using period tools). The other involved building a spaceship. So, yeah. :)

Related to poor medical phrasing, way way back in elementary school, a dental assistant was trying to convince me to brush my teeth twice a day. Specifically, she said I should brush my teeth "first thing in the morning", and I was confused, because first thing in the morning I wouldn't have eaten anything, and I had brushed my teeth the night before, so what was there to clean off? I started to question it with, "But I brushed my teeth the night before, so—" and was cut-off with something that didn't address the fundamental issue. Took me years to figure out that what was meant was that I should brush my teeth after eating in the morning, and not just before bed.

When I was younger and researching the autism diagnosis criteria and symptoms, I thought “oh I couldn’t POSSIBLY be autistic.” Because when I read “takes everything literally” I thought it literally meant EVERYTHING and I was like “I don’t take EVERYTHING literally, just most things!” And I just realized the other day that it didn’t actually mean EVERYTHING and that was an overstatement.

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