Callum Pursall (DM for commissions)

Paleoart and bad decisions.

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currently in my ammonite era

cephalopod enjoyer

he/him

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Some late Cretaceous ammonites bask near the oceans surface. This art was made for the fantastic paper released by @JoeFlanSan in @NatureComms .

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@killherbunni You can have concerns about the people you love using their bodily autonomy in ways that seem harmful. Rigidly enforced patriarchal beauty standards which are packaged with violent misogyny and racism can be dangerous.

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@EF_escape @vaudevillehook Currently also implies someone could beat ringo out for the top spot

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@DangervilleTeam @DarkOfTheMovie Spielberg was a fan decades before Jurassic Park, wouldn't surprise me if he took a lot of inspiration from sorcerer for the atmosphere of the film

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@saucefunk2 Have you read The Vorrh? Hits similar to the southern reach books but with a focus on biblical mythology and the colonial exploitation of Africa.

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@u_kno_2069 @_CharlesPreston through a racial lens, and if you want to talk about how that imagery makes you think or feel that's great, especially within today's socio-economic context. But the film making you have those thoughts doesn't make the film racist.

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@u_kno_2069 @_CharlesPreston Is it racist for a black man to portray a complex antagonistic character whose issues within the movie are not tied to race?

Ejiofor is cognisant enough to recognise if he's being used to portray a character designed to be racist.

The film has imagery which can be analysed...

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@ickycasket It was both a cohesive narrative and would be completely fine without a sequel. Just because it didn't provide an answer to what the backrooms are or why they exist. The story of Mary and Clarke is absolutely self contained and doesn't need a sequel

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@LHOReborn1963 @_TRAMMY_ @VCHK_LVNA Where do you think the endless non Euclidean space exists? It's not just a big building you go into. Finding a space like the backrooms would fundamentally break our ability to rely on the assumptions that physics is built on.

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@LHOReborn1963 @_TRAMMY_ @VCHK_LVNA Are you more scared of things you can or cannot comprehend?

How much would it shake you if you found something which shattered your understanding of how the world and physics fundamentally works?

Or maybe a goblin or something runs at you I guess.

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@VCHK_LVNA It's gamified and given structure in a way that makes it lose the mystique and cosmic horror elements, it starts to feel intentionally manufactured rather than an inexplicable structure

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@LHOReborn1963 @_TRAMMY_ @VCHK_LVNA I don't believe it. We're hardwired to understand being hunted, it's a biological reaction to danger. An endless warped facsimile of the artificial world we have created isn't something our primate brains have precedent for. The why is so much scarier than "ooh monsters"

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@cowboysensual @imohtravels @DiscussingFilm Real Twin Peakers know this

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@halyconelement It's a lot deeper than "trauma". It explores the psychology of why the backrooms aesthetic pulls people in, the way it interacts with both the characters and our own memories as well as allusions to AI, social atomisation and the horrors of being perceived.

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Pretty much all modern horror is downstream of the babadook. Smile is serviceable but not revolutionary.

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my theory is that Smile (2022) marks an irreversible turning point in contemporary horror, and that any movie released after it will in some way be influenced by it in a number of ways. Obsession is a Smile film, for instance.

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@thepetrovaline This enormous threatening sad baby lumbering through confused and hurting people without a glimmer of recognition of the harm he's causing.

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@CoreyAtad Nope is a clear hydrogen bomb. Bring her back is still substantial ordnance. The black phone is a baby that already died from diphtheria

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@TalesofKaimere Damn grizzly bear coming at you

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RIP Jamiroquai you would have loved the backrooms

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@sleepy_pastel That's the prison they've created for themselves. Obsession and endless introspection without action becomes toxic and hollows you out just like the backrooms warps and distorts reality.

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@MichaelO2k People think that any introspection in horror is about "trauma" as if trauma is a single homogenous action that is done to characters. There is nuance to how characters trauma inform their actions, psychology and interpretations of what happens to them.