insurgentrat

It is defs campy. Campy purple pros is essential to Gothic horror, it's part of what I love haha.

"Nature, I call unto thee, increase thy thunders . . . And hasten me upon the wings of thy barbarous winds.

You just can't get that shit anywhere else. I'm a big fan of the supererogatory phrase

It's literally magic. Her calling out resurrected him, from being "buried in darkness". He isn't like a vampire like idk lestat from Anne Rice's novels, he is more like a force of nature, devourance, plague, death made by Satan from a fell sorcerer to go do evil shit.

It's like fairy rules, he was killed before by a maiden's sacrifice, a maiden called out and awoke him again, they are magically bound and her sacrifice puts him down again. Presumably until some new sensitive person awakens him.

He doesn't have a choice in his desire for her.

He doesn't lose track of time. They are spelled together. He looks to the rising sun and she pulls him back to her breast.

They explain that 4 times in the film. Once Orlok says they can't resist each other and she will be his, once diagnosis? demon! doctor reads it in the big book, he mentions that to her when explaining he will keep her hubby at bay with a false hunt (and she has already figured out she must die which is why she asks to walk him to his door), and then at the end diagnosis demons explains it to the hubby after they watch her die.

Bro skipped leg day so hard, no wonder he has no rizz

It's you! The person that modern films have characters constantly turn to the camera and explain their thoughts and emotions for :p

I jest, the end does play pretty fast but she has spent 3 days coming to terms with the fact that she's going to die and either many others do too or not.

Basically she has a connection to the spirit realm, in the intro you see her call out to anything listening angel or demon. Well a demon answers, and they get freaky in spirit dream space. There's a metaphor of female sexual development being considered a dirty thing that must be repressed, and she conceives of orlok as a punishment she deserves for the crime of being horny. But while he overs mindless carnal indulgence he cannot love, she loves her hubby and that love warded off orlok for a bit.

Orlok awoken must have his bride because demon reasons. So he sets out to profane their marriage and force her to accept him via murder. But orlok can't resist her, so she uses her sexuality to trap him with her till morning and he goes pop.

There's this angle of repressed sexuality summoned a demon, and by her claiming it she can put the demon down. However she also dies, rip.

You are a Philistine but that's ok. Plot is just one element of storytelling, it is not the be all and end all.

Vampires, at least the Gothic tradition, have always been about depraved sexuality and the struggle in the conception of the repressed animal and the rational human as a model of a proper person. The disgusting stuff, it's just vibes. Exploring the grotesque in a safe and fun context.

The world takes all sorts, I'd rather use a staple gun on my face than watch an action flick or see another manly man grapples with manly urges while having to moderate them to avoid driving away the feminine object of his protection story. Maybe gross blood and fucking with maggots just isn't your thing haha.

I mean it's obviously in England but they're just calling it Germany. Nosferatu was always just a very legally dubious Dracula.

They really worked him into this malignant stain on the world. I adored the dream logic of his scenes, and the way they made the animal transformation less goofy by making the rats/plague/wolves/count a sort of nebulous evil entity more than one single spooky dude.

It's so fucking good. The shadow hand manipulating the door was just like chills. Whoever designed that scene adores the genre.

my 2c as someone who isn't in a position to give financial aid but could help with some things like helping teach skills, review CVs, drive someone places, be a fake reference, help with shopping etc, potentially put someone up short term, and the like:

• the comm seems to incentivise only financial aid. Fine, money solves a lot of problems, wish I had more.

• Because of the competitive nature of posting users seem incentivised to dramatise their needs. Some posts have seemed medically implausible, which does not mean someone doesn't need help it just makes it hard to understand where you can be effective and potentially drowns out folks presenting their needs in a more low key fashion.

• People don't list the currency they need which makes it hard to know if you can afford to help

• One off vs expected chronic needs are not differentiated. Stuff like "For the forseeable future I need a place to live" and "I am sick and need cash to see a doctor" have vastly different scopes and solutions, and put very different degrees of obligation on someone willing and able to help.

I dunno what the solution is, life is hard as fuck. Hoping there's a way to help more people get what they need.

Like I said, paper might be friendly idk. But hankies are effective either way.

You can put lavender oil on them and RP a Victorian Lord among the peasants.

I don't want to cramp your style bro, but I know that making clothing from bamboo involves some pretty intense chemistry and that the waste isn't kept in a closed system. I don't know of paper has the same issues, like whether it's in making a polymer fibre that they go nuts or digesting those sick arse culms