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[Bauglir]

Soak a banana in DDT and leave it on a windowsill. Nothing could go wrong

[Pnx]

So the past month has been pretty miserable... All starting with my great aunt coming for a visit, and realising that despite her being a really awesome person who's into literature in a big way, I found myself completely unable to talk to her on account of the paralysing fear that anything I said would wind up being used against me.

Which just sort of drove home the point I've known for a long time that I'll never be able to piece myself back together unless I get the heck out of this household, a prospect which has been immensely scary for me, due to reasons of agoraphobia mostly...

Then from there it's been basically one bad event after another. And...

Well I've basically spent a lot of time feeling anxious and afraid, having anxiety attacks, staring at walls or ceilings, idiotically arguing with phantasmal versions of people, having nightmares and otherwise sleepless nights.

And I'm feeling so tired of dealing with people that override everything I say, and shut me out, and treat me like a monster, and all the manipulative BS I've had to deal with from my mother and other people.

I spent most of last weekend wondering what I had to do to myself to stop people from treating me like this all the flipping time. If I need to starve myself into a withered husk, or mutilate myself, or something just to stop people from treating me like a monster so much.

I've been trying so frigging desperately to just... cope... but I don't think I'm succeeding, I'm pretty sure my maths test is going to come back very bad, and then I'm going to be screwed in terms of grades this semester... I don't know what to do with myself. I don't know how I'm going to stop people doing this stuff to me.

[Solifuge]

Urg. And I think some fruitflies must have hatched in my apartment. I really hope some spiders move in soon and clear these out.

Man, now there's spiders everywhere! I best get some house centipedes to clean them out.

We had one of these as an apartment pet, at one point. His name was Doobin. No matter what things a spider can, he'd take care of it.

These are probably the most depressing things I've seen all day.

That's no Wonderella.

Thank you for reintroducing me to this series. I had forgotten how much I enjoyed it.

[alway]

Urg. And I think some fruitflies must have hatched in my apartment. I really hope some spiders move in soon and clear these out.

Man, now there's spiders everywhere! I best get some house centipedes to clean them out.

Na, spiders I can deal with. They're typically pretty damn chill. Just sitting in the corner all day murderizing any insect dumb enough to enter my apartment. And if they're jumping spiders, that's even better, because those things are adorable.

[gman8181]

Spiders are good... as long as their web isn't right over your bed.

[Helgoland]

Watched Sucker Punch last night.
Is there a "So bad it's not even good because it's bad" trope?

[misko27]

Yeah I know how you feel with the flies. Try removing their breeding ground/food source. It's the only way to be rid of them.

[Descan]

Watched Sucker Punch last night.
Is there a "So bad it's not even good because it's bad" trope?

So Bad It's Horrible?

[scrdest]

Urg. And I think some fruitflies must have hatched in my apartment. I really hope some spiders move in soon and clear these out.

Man, now there's spiders everywhere! I best get some house centipedes to clean them out.

Na, spiders I can deal with. They're typically pretty damn chill. Just sitting in the corner all day murderizing any insect dumb enough to enter my apartment. And if they're jumping spiders, that's even better, because those things are adorable.

Spoiler: Arachnophobia warning (click to show/hide)

[BlackFlyme]

Urg. And I think some fruitflies must have hatched in my apartment. I really hope some spiders move in soon and clear these out.

Man, now there's spiders everywhere! I best get some house centipedes to clean them out.

Na, spiders I can deal with. They're typically pretty damn chill. Just sitting in the corner all day murderizing any insect dumb enough to enter my apartment. And if they're jumping spiders, that's even better, because those things are adorable.

Spoiler: Arachnophobia warning (click to show/hide)

So kawaii~

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Helgoland]

Watched Sucker Punch last night.
Is there a "So bad it's not even good because it's bad" trope?

So Bad It's Horrible?

Worse. I can usually respect bad but serious films - not everyone's a Tarantino. But this thing is filled to the brim with Lolita girls whose bras are filled to the brim with boob who heroically delve into escapism and/or battle machinery because no blood, all while being accompanied by pseudo-heroic rock music.
And it's apparently meant to be a social commentary about sexism. By displaying sexism. Without confronting the viewer with his(/her) sexism. And delivering the message that when a girl is confronted with injustice, running away is her heroic only choice.
I mean, damn.

[Vector]

THANK YOU.

I watched through to the initial samurai thing and I just fucking couldn't anymore.  Blech.

[scrdest]

Urg. And I think some fruitflies must have hatched in my apartment. I really hope some spiders move in soon and clear these out.

Man, now there's spiders everywhere! I best get some house centipedes to clean them out.

Na, spiders I can deal with. They're typically pretty damn chill. Just sitting in the corner all day murderizing any insect dumb enough to enter my apartment. And if they're jumping spiders, that's even better, because those things are adorable.

Spoiler: Arachnophobia warning (click to show/hide)

So kawaii~

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Avatar'd.

[Willfor]

I've been waking up to spider bites on my legs every couple of weeks. I think they've been coming in through my air conditioner at night, finding a good place to hide, and then attacking it when it turns out to be alive and many millions of times more massive than itself, rolling around in its sleep. I am that spider's Cthulhu. It's still pretty damn annoying.

[Pnx]

Watched Sucker Punch last night.
Is there a "So bad it's not even good because it's bad" trope?

So Bad It's Horrible?

Worse. I can usually respect bad but serious films - not everyone's a Tarantino. But this thing is filled to the brim with Lolita girls whose bras are filled to the brim with boob who heroically delve into escapism and/or battle machinery because no blood, all while being accompanied by pseudo-heroic rock music.
And it's apparently meant to be a social commentary about sexism. By displaying sexism. Without confronting the viewer with his(/her) sexism. And delivering the message that when a girl is confronted with injustice, running away is her heroic only choice.
I mean, damn.

I'm sorry, but I think I really have to come to this movie's defence here.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

It's actually a social commentary about the displays of sexism in the form of the "stripperific action girl" genre. I mean it might seem like the rather garbled story with the brothel fantasy, and the asylum, are just vehicles to let them do the crazy surreal action sequences (and this is how I viewed it at first), but really when you examine it it starts to become pretty obvious the entire thing is actually a parable about the "empowering" properties of the "action girl" genre.

I mean look at it this way. The asylum can be viewed as being a metaphor for institutional sexism, the girls in it are being exploited and the entire thing is supposed to be for their own good, but really, no, just seriously, no... The brothel meanwhile is a metaphor for the activities of the asylum where the egalitarian veneer falls off, something to keep in mind about this is that this is a movie that "hides the blood", and I think that the brothel is really just a dolled up version of the asylum that's supposed to make the activities seem "nicer".
In order to escape the institution of the brothel, which is also the asylum, the main character engages in an erotic dance. We don't actually see the erotic dance, instead we see a sleazy action girl sequence (notice that the action girl sequences are being compared to an erotic dance here).

Now a big part of third wave feminism is the idea that being sexualised is not necessarily bad for women. This has been applied to the "action girl" genre by saying that it's ok that they're in a skimpy outfit, because really they're a strong female character, and that in fact this can be empowering for women. It's this idea the movie is breaking down, the main character is trying to empower herself through these erotic fantasy-action dances. You might have noticed, it really didn't work out for her in the end.

I didn't really interpret it this way when I first saw the movie, I just watched it as a cheesy over the top action movie with a tragedy story interwoven in, and frankly I rather enjoyed it. I didn't feel it was a class A material or anything, and I did roll my eyes a lot at the stripperific outfits, but I liked seeing them take on the Undead Steam Nazis or fighting the dragon with the B-25 bomber there is something about that kind of cheesiness that appeals to me. It was only after I had it pointed out to me that I really saw the other side of the movie. It's probably far too subtle about sending that message really.