wade of mutilation

@waderockett

Seattle-area writer, TTRPG designer, horror movie watcher, religion nerd, ADHD-haver, military brat, Trekkie, and Friend of DeSoto. He/him Protect trans lives. Black lives matter. Fuck fascism. Abolish ICE.

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wade of mutilation@waderockett· Jul 10

“We don't belong here? On the contrary, Herbert. I belong here completely and utterly. I'm home.”

A scene from the time travel movie Time After Time. Jack the Ripper (David Warner) shows H.G. Wells how horrific and full of atrocities the world has become in the late 20th century.

wade of mutilation@waderockett· Jul 10

It’s a Wonderful Life: Bert, George, and Ernie watch Violet walk away.

wade of mutilation@waderockett· Jul 9

Swan Penis Destiny, band or album?

My Recent Searches list consists of:
swan
penis
destiny

I know "swan" is for the comic Swan Boy and "destiny" is for the video game. I think "penis" was when I read a post where someone demanded that a victim of sexual assault describe her accused attacker's penis and wondered whether this was widespread or just one misogynist freak.

wade of mutilation@waderockett· Jul 9

I have decided that Swan Boy is so good I'm going to read it from the beginning. swanboy.com/comic/swan-b...

wade of mutilation@waderockett· Jul 8

Mr. Burns never remembers who Homer Simpson is.

Smithers: That's Homer Simpson, sir.
Burns: Simpson, eh? New man?
Smithers: Actually, sir, he thwarted your campaign for governor. You ran over his son.

Mr. Burns walks in on Homer Simpson painting "I AM HOMER SIMPSON" in huge letters on the wall of his office and asks, "Who the devil are you?"

wade of mutilation@waderockett· Jul 8

It’s Wednesday.

Wednesday Addams dressed as a Native American for a Thanksgiving play, smiling slightly and holding a lit match as the world burns behind her. It’s from the movie Addams Family Values, which I’ve somehow still never seen.

wade of mutilation@waderockett· Jul 7

I'm not familiar with Knave! The graphic reminds me of RuneQuest's character sheets.

A little guy composed of stat blocks for head, arms, chest, abdomen, and legs, with space to write your armour points, encumbrance, and hit points. In RuneQuest after you hit someone you roll a d20 to determine which part of the body you hit, so each box has a number or numeric range for quick reference.

The same diagram in RuneQuest: Adventures in Glorantha. It looks nicer and dispenses with encumbrance.

wade of mutilation@waderockett· Jul 7

A recent update to Destiny 2 has armor that provides bonus abilities when you equip 2 or 4 of the same set. I like moving fast and using swords so I’m currently wearing 2 Cyberserpent Null pieces and 2 Swordmaster pieces. Plus, uh, I really like dressing up my paper doll. #DestinyFashion

My Arc Hunter in Destiny 2, designed using shaders and armor ornaments to look like the villainous sorcerer Lightning from Big Trouble in Little China.

wade of mutilation@waderockett· Jul 6

GERALD FHORD

A screencap of Dana Carvey on Saturday Night Live. playing news anchor Tom Brokaw. He’s recording pre-tapes announcing the death of former President Gerald Ford in case he passes away while Brokaw is on vacation. As the takes go on the causes of death become more ridiculous.

wade of mutilation@waderockett· Jul 6

Man, the summer of ‘81 was an incredible time to go to the movies. I forget that all of these were in theaters at the same time (with Time Bandits and Escape from New York coming soon.)

Newspaper movie listings for either June or July 1981 include:
Stripes
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Superman 2
The Great Muppet Caper
Nine to Five
Clash of the Titans (stop motion animator Ray Harryhausen’s final film)
The Cannonball Run
Dragonslayer
For Your Eyes Only (a return to a grittier, more realistic Bond) (still played by Roger Moore though)
Cheech and Chong’s Nice Dreams (scene-stealing early appearance by Paul Reubens)
A kids’ double feature of Freaky Friday and Herbie Goes Bananas
Sensuous Vampires, aka Vampire Hookers, a Philippines-U.S. sexploitation film starring legendary actor John Carradine

wade of mutilation@waderockett· Jul 6

Man, I need to watch that again. I had the same experience but at the opening:

A rural Texas cemetery beneath a ghastly orange sky. Someone’s dug up an old, rotting corpse—wearing the suit it was buried in—and posed it sitting on top of a tombstone holding the severed head of another corpse. Its legs inside the trousers are at a profoundly disturbing angle. Over the scene you hear a radio news broadcast saying that some unknown person or persons dug up and dismembered multiple bodies buried here, turning them into something like art.

wade of mutilation@waderockett· Jul 6

What horror movie image haunts you?

Uh, what am I watching Toni Collette do in this scene from Hereditary? It’s dark, and the perspective is confusing. And what’s that sound? Oh. Oh Christ. No. No no no. Does she…does she know she’s doing that? Is she in a trance, or just gone, or is her consciousness trapped inside her body as a passenger, experiencing everything that’s happening but unable to stop it?

wade of mutilation@waderockett· Jul 5

I was thinking the other day that probably more people remember “Lazy Sunday” than remember there was a Chronicles of Narnia movie.

[Chorus: Andy Samberg & Chris Parnell]
It's the Chronic—what?—cles of Narnia
Yes, the Chronic—what?—cles of Narnia
We love that Chronic—what?—cles of Narnia
Pass that Chronic—what?—cles of Narnia

wade of mutilation@waderockett· Jul 4

Decades later I still quote the English line, “We need a Supercop.”

A white man in a suit telling people in a meeting that in order to meet this new threat to Hong Kong they need a Supercop.

wade of mutilation@waderockett· Jul 4

True story*: Aquaman was created to appease Julius Schwartz, who wanted Superman to stay a merman forever and live as “merman Clark Kent” in Tritonis. “Aquaman is just like Superman but he’s the king of the ocean,” they told him. *not a true story

The cover of Superman number 129. Superman has a mermaid tail and is diving into the ocean, declaring to a heartbroken Lois Lane that he’s turned himself into a merman so he can be with his mermaid true love and her people. The mermaid hussy (Lori Lemaris) looks at Superman smugly.

wade of mutilation@waderockett· Jul 1

It’s a good overview of the political and theological conflict, and I appreciate @jackjenkins.me providing historical context—how various branches and denominations’ approaches to social good can shift and change over time.

Screenshot from the article:

Heath Carter, a professor of American Christianity at Princeton Theological Seminary, said the broader debate over Matthew 25 may reflect “deeper, longer-standing divides” among U.S. Christians that date back at least a century.

On one side of the theological chasm, he said, are those who believe Christianity is “oriented around the salvation of individual souls” and that “the way that you change society is by changing every soul within it.” Their de facto opponents, however, hold that “inequality and social problems spring from structural or systemic roots” and argue that “part of what it means to be a faithful Christian in the modern world is to fight against inequality and its structural forms.”

wade of mutilation@waderockett· Jun 29

Willem Dafoe looking crazed in costume as a grimy medieval German peasant in Werwulf. Over him is the Sickos speech bubble: “Yes…ha ha ha…yes!”

wade of mutilation@waderockett· Jun 29

Hooterville's location is never specified in the three sitcoms where it appears (The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, and Green Acres). The Wikipedia page sifts through the evidence, with a substantial section on where Hooterville is not: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooterv...