{"id":182562,"date":"2024-10-31T12:08:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T17:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=182562"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:41:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T21:41:44","slug":"boo-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/boo-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Boo, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"
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While you’re waiting for the little freaks to creep up your driveway tonight, you might enjoy viewing the work of Demizu Posuka<\/a> (\u30dd\uff5e\u30f3\uff08\u51fa\u6c34\u307d\u3059\u304b)), one of the most distinctive and prolific artists at Pixiv. Demizu reminds me of a more macabre Arthur Rackham, but he has his own peculiar style.<\/p>\n

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The internet is forever? Only if it’s something you’d rather were forgotten. I recently looked for my favorite Chick tract<\/a>, but the places it used to be are gone. I did eventually find it, and here it is: Jack Chick meets H.P. Lovecraft.<\/p>\n

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Severian has some thoughts on literary and cinematic horror<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Horror often works via inversion. Just as Lucy Westenra ends up being an inverted version of the classic Victorian matriarch \u2014 she only kills children \u2014 the Count himself is unnaturally pale. But other than that\u2026 he\u2019s Gandhi, basically, using our own laws and over-exaggerated sense of fair play against us. Gandhi actually was in London in the early 1890s \u2014 as a lawyer, no less (called to the bar in 1891). By the time Dracula was published in 1897, Gandhi was a well-known nuisance in South Africa\u2026 and, of course, the Boer War would break out just two years later. (To say nothing of Gandhi\u2019s extremely sketchy personal habits, vis-a-vis young girls. Oh, and he\u2019s a vegetarian, ostentatiously so. Horror works with inversions, eh?).<\/p>\n

Of course, nobody in academia could ever make that argument and live to tell about it….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More culture: <\/p>\n

Sarah Tillard on Henry Fuseli and the \u201cThe Nightmare.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Gaheret on Shin Sekai Yori<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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If you want some spooky music, I have suggestions here <\/a>and here<\/a>. Eve Tushnet has more here<\/a> and here<\/a>. For movies, I’m the last person to ask; perhaps Young Frankenstein<\/b><\/i> in memory of Teri Garr. For books, pretty much anything by Tim Powers would be appropriate. For anime, Mononoke<\/a><\/b><\/i> if you want something artsy, Hozuki no Reitetsu<\/a><\/b><\/i> if you want something funny, Natsume Yuujin-cho<\/a><\/b><\/i> if you want something warm and fuzzy and just a wee bit creepy.<\/p>\n

A few more pictures from \u30dd\uff5e\u30f3:<\/p>\n

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(From here<\/a>.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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While you’re waiting for the little freaks to creep up your driveway tonight, you might enjoy viewing the work of Demizu Posuka (\u30dd\uff5e\u30f3\uff08\u51fa\u6c34\u307d\u3059\u304b)), one of the most distinctive and prolific artists at Pixiv. Demizu reminds me of a more macabre Arthur Rackham, but he has his own peculiar style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-screen-captures","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-whatever"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-Luy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182562"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182826,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182562\/revisions\/182826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}