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The Stuff (1985) - Mastodon watch party this Sunday evening!
The film follows the discovery of a mysterious, sweet, and addictive substance becoming a popular dessert in the United States but soon begins attacking people and turning them into zombies.
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Colin Greenland reviewed The Stuff for White Dwarf #77 and stated that "A brilliant performance by Cohen stalwart Michael Moriarty as an industrial spy after the truth holds the straggling plot together."[29] It received positive reviews from critics: on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 68% rating, based on 19 reviews.[30] According to Bruce Kawin and Tony Williams, The Stuff satirizes American consumerism, mass media, and health foods.[31][32] Roger Crow of On: Yorkshire Magazine called the film a "schlock horror satire", praised Moriarty's performance, and said the film paid homage to "The Blob and Invasion of the Body Snatchers [and] went on to inspire cosmetics horror satire The Substance."[33] He said the quality of the special effects and picture quality ranged from good to bad. He praised the performance, direction, script, and rewatchability of the film.[33] Ian Berriman of SFX praised Moriarty for his ability to improvise in the film, calling him "delightfully idiosyncratic".[8] Berriman also wrote that although many special effects did not look believable, they contributed to the appeal of the film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stuff
The Stuff (1985) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
- Just start watching that movie this Sunday, Aug 23 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
- and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
- I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.
How to watch the movie:
- for info on how to block ads, see: https://ohai.social/@klu9/115245207831850566
- tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/100049107/the-stuff
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg--NNwFjUo
- peertube: https://tube.me.jon-e.net/w/956f549f-94c8-46d7-beed-6624da52229d
- archive: https://archive.org/details/the-stuff-1985-michael-moriarty-full-movie-1080p-hd
- it's usually streamed on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
- if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-stuff
- for trigger warnings see: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/15361
Don't get confused! It's NOT:
- The Stuff (2018)
- Stuff (2019)
- Stuff (2015)
- Stuff (1993)
- Stuffed (2025)
- Stuffy (2024)
- Stuffed (2024)
- Stuffed (2022)
- Stuffed (2021)
- Stuffed (2020)
- Stuffed (2019)
- Stuffed (2018)
- Stuffed (2014)
- Stuffer (2010)
- Stuffed! (1991)
So make sure you get the right Stuff. But NOT The Right Stuff (1983)!
MaryDeath - Fairy tales [comic, fan edit]
MaryDeath is a comic about life, death, and everything in between. The story follows a young girl named Mary who happens to have befriended Death. Why Death has chosen to take interest in Mary remains a mystery, but despite his ever dark presence Mary finds comfort in his companionship.
https://www.marydeathcomics.com/archives/comic/
MaryDeath Comics was created in the 2010s by Gwen Tarpley, though Cats Cafe Comic is her main effort now. The artist transitioned recently, and when I contacted her to ask about doing the Fan Edits, she encouraged me to remove her deadname from the strips. The main reason I wanted to do the edits is bc in a couple earlier strips Mary has a goth look but eventually she gave it up after a couple episodes. But I wanted a strip in which she retained her goth look. Finally, I wanted the three-strip stories to have a vertical orientation better suited to cell-phones.
this is Halloween this is Halloween [meme]
Based on a true story. I was in a CVS pharmacy a couple days ago (Aug 14 maybe?) and saw they had Halloween decorations out for sale. The stuff usually isn't high quality, but you can find some fun things once in a while. Anyway it's a sign that Halloween season is nigh.
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Goth (stereo)Type 21 - The Steampunk Goth [comic / meme]
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The antiquated, refined elegance of Victorian Goth and the rough, edgy futurism of Rivetheads may seem a completely incompatible combination. But, thanks to a particular genre of fantasy, the two have been successfully wedded to create the Steampunk Goth.
Steampunk is, in essence, science fiction that takes place the low-tech setting of the past (very often the Victorian era). In Steampunk, you may find steam-powered robots, clockwork computers and complex contraptions made from wood, brass and wheels.
The merging of Victorian imagery with quirky technology is doubtlessly of huge appeal to many Goths, but perhaps the most important links between Steampunk and Goth culture are the Victorian writers who inspired the genre, including Mary Shelley and Edgar Allen Poe.
Steampunk Goth fashion is highly creative, incorporating elements that evoke Victorian technology such as clocks, keys and cogs. Although Steampunk is not a music scene, acts such as Rasputina, Emilie Autumn and Abney Park have all been cited as having Steampunk appeal.
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Source / more: https://www.deviantart.com/trellia/gallery/25271332/goth-stereo-types Reposted with permission. The oldest ones are from 2005, and some of the opinions are dated and/or debateable, but they're still a good basis for discussion.
Star Odyssey (1979) - Mastodon watch party this Sunday evening!
In the year 2312, a group of aliens auction off insignificant planets and the winner of the auction for Sol 3 (Earth) is the evil despot Kress. He soon flies to "Sol 3" in what is the first contact with beings from another planet for those living there...
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Star Odyssey is one of five low-budget Italian space opera films produced by director Alfonso Brescia (under the pseudonym Al Bradley) in the wake of the success of Star Wars. It is the fourth installment in the cycle, following Cosmos: War of the Planets (1977), Battle of the Stars (1978), and War of the Robots (1978).
The production heavily re-used miniature effects, models, and costumes from Brescia's previous feature, War of the Robots. To save costs, the film utilized low-budget props; a review in Popular Mechanics noted that the "light-sabers" featured in the film were merely cardboard swords coated with fluorescent paint. ...
The film received highly negative reviews for its technical quality. Bill Gordon of Worst Movies Ever Made found the special effects poor and characterized the narrative structure as confusing. Similarly, Popular Mechanics dismissed the film as a "dreadful trashpile", while TechRadar described it as alternating between "insufferable or hilariously bad" depending on the viewer's mindset.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Odyssey
Attenzione! Star Odyssey (1979) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
- Just start watching that movie this Sunday, Aug 16 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
- and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
- I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.
How to watch the movie:
- for info on how to block ads, see: https://ohai.social/@klu9/115245207831850566
- tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/565402/star-odyssey
- fawesome: https://fawesome.tv/movies/10649777/star-odyssey
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCowIGE8JmM
- archive: https://archive.org/details/StarOdyssey1979
- it's usually streamed on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
- if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/star-odyssey
- doesthedogdie does not have any info on trigger warnings for this film but here's the link for it anyway: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/198751
MaryDeath - Presentation [comic, fan edit]
MaryDeath is a comic about life, death, and everything in between. The story follows a young girl named Mary who happens to have befriended Death. Why Death has chosen to take interest in Mary remains a mystery, but despite his ever dark presence Mary finds comfort in his companionship.
https://www.marydeathcomics.com/archives/comic/
MaryDeath Comics was created in the 2010s by Gwen Tarpley, though Cats Cafe Comic is her main effort now. The artist transitioned recently, and when I contacted her to ask about doing the Fan Edits, she encouraged me to remove her deadname from the strips. The main reason I wanted to do the edits is bc in a couple earlier strips Mary has a goth look but eventually she gave it up after a couple episodes. But I wanted a strip in which she retained her goth look. Finally, I wanted the three-strip stories to have a vertical orientation better suited to cell-phones.
A panel from Asterix and Cleopatra - see post body for possibly amusing reminiscence
This is a true story. When I was a kid around 9-10 we lived in Europe for a couple years. For various reasons, even though we weren't in England I went to a British-style school, you know we were all divided into Houses and we had blazers and ties and all that. Anyway, one day we were told that the Queen of England was coming to the country! And we were all going to go see her.
Now I had no idea who the Queen of England was or what it was like to behold her. The only context I had for royalty was, you guessed it, Cleopatra in the Asterix comic. Of course I knew the Queen of England wouldn't be rolling sphinx-style. But I figured she'd be on a throne on a platform carried by a bunch of guys, maybe those guys in red coats with big puffy black hats. Obviously there'd be a couple bagpipes going, and a big hefty guy in front saying "Make way! Make way for THE QUEEN!" Oh yeah no doubt she'd be throwing pennies out to us, and I was really excited about that. No, she was going to be holding a huge threatening scepter so probably she'd have a couple guys throwing the pennies from huge bags they carried, yeah that made sense. There'd be guards with those spears with axes on them and diplomats and court ladies and who knows what else. Wow, me and my friends were all pretty excited.
Anyway the day comes and we all get on buses and go to this place and line up along an outdoors walkway. It's pretty sunny there and we're starting to wilt in our blazers and ties. But still, we agreed, even tho we were forced to just stand there it was better than being in Latin class. And maybe they were going to get us something to drink, look, there's a little old lady walking down the line talking to people, maybe she's asking if we want snacks or something.
No. After a while we realized -- that little old lady WAS the Queen of England! There was no throne, no platform, no guards, no bagpipes, no pennies. Still, she seemed nice, she stopped and exchanged pleasantries with a couple of us and just kept walking down the line. So that was my encounter with English Imperial Might. Years later during the Covid lockdown she gave a really nice speech that I found pretty moving, and I had a better understanding of the role of modern royalty. I still kinda wish they'd thrown out pennies though. And I thought about it every time I re-read "Asterix and Cleopatra."
MaryDeath - New Look [comic, fan edit]
MaryDeath is a comic about life, death, and everything in between. The story follows a young girl named Mary who happens to have befriended Death. Why Death has chosen to take interest in Mary remains a mystery, but despite his ever dark presence Mary finds comfort in his companionship.
https://www.marydeathcomics.com/archives/comic/
MaryDeath Comics was created in the 2010s by Gwen Tarpley, though Cats Cafe Comic is her main effort now. The artist transitioned recently, and when I contacted her to ask about doing the Fan Edits, she encouraged me to remove her deadname from the strips. The main reason I wanted to do the edits is bc in a couple earlier strips Mary has a goth look but eventually she gave it up after a couple episodes. But I wanted a strip in which she retained her goth look. Finally, I wanted the three-strip stories to have a vertical orientation better suited to cell-phones.
Goth (stereo)Type 19 - The Gothabilly [comic / meme]
::: spoiler Click here for the Image Text
What do you get if you mix Elvis Presley, The Cramps, a bunch of old horror movies and a splash of lounge? Bizarrely, you get Gothabilly - a rare and exotic breed of Goth with rather eclectic tastes in both music and wardrobe.
With styles originating from "Rockabilly" (American 1950s rock n roll) and "Psychobilly" (1980s punk with heavy rockabilly influence), Gothabilly is visually and musically a play on retro, kitsch aesthetics - but with a dark twist. Like Deathrock, which often shows many overlapping traits with Gothabilly, the music and imagery is frequently tongue-in-cheek and deliberately cheesey.
As such, many Gothabilly bands sport such creative names as Nacho Knoche & The Hillbilly Zombies, Cult Of The Psychic Fetus, and Vampire Beach Babes.
Gothabillys tend to be some of the brighter Goths out there, with their vivid tattoos, cherry accessories and ubibuitos polka dot clothes.
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Source / more: https://www.deviantart.com/trellia/gallery/25271332/goth-stereo-types Reposted with permission. The oldest ones are from 2005, and some of the opinions are dated and/or debateable, but they're still a good basis for discussion.
Hawk the Slayer (1980) - Mastodon watch party this Sunday evening!
... sword and sorcery adventure film ... follows Hawk and Voltan, two warring brothers. Hawk, wielding a magical sword, assembles a small force of fighters to rid the land of Voltan. The film was received negatively upon its initial release, but has since developed a cult following.
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The film opened at the Odeon Marble Arch on 18 December 1980.[6] The film did well when it was released in the United Kingdom, but the collapse of the distribution company ITC prevented a theatrical release in the United States.[3] The movie's American premiere was on television, as part of The CBS Late Movie series, on December 3, 1982.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawk_the_Slayer
5.3 on IMDB! 40% tomatometer / 57% popcornmeter on rottentomatoes!
Hawk the Slayer (1980) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
- Just start watching that movie this Sunday, August 2 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
- and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
- I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.
How to watch the movie:
- for info on how to block ads, see: https://ohai.social/@klu9/115245207831850566
- tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/465040/hawk-the-slayer
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaRr5FYLWts
- archive: https://archive.org/details/hawk-the-slayer_202404
- it's usually streamed on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
- if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/hawk-the-slayer
- for trigger warnings see: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/84503
yardwork
Making of / behind the meme: a couple weeks ago I had to do some yardwork so, being a loyal citizen of ![email protected] , I put on some aggrotech (which is basically harsh electro industrial) and I was swinging around my sickle and saying things like "DIE BEFORE THE BLADE OF THE REAPER" and it reminded me of a scene from the comic "MaryDeath" and so I made a meme about it: https://piefed.social/c/[email protected]/p/2169450/mow-em-down-meme Then like a week later I had to do some more yardwork but I wasn't really feeling like more aggrotech bc it's kinda machinelike and I wanted something more, idk, fast and metal. So naturally my mind turned to Slayer. So I cued up Reign in Blood, South of Heaven, and Seasons in the Abyss and went for it. Many plants died that day. And thus the meme was born anew.
Nemi - To be goth [comic, fan edit]
I really like this strip, it's such a wholesome interaction between them, and it has a nice message about being yourself. Plus it's a nice follow-up to last week's strip.
Nemi is a character from Norway by Lise Myhre. The strip is written in Norwegian but for a while it was translated and ran in England. The character is into metal, industrial, goth, and “dark culture” in general. For more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemi_(comic_strip)
::: spoiler edit notes
The copy I found online was very low-res and hard to read. I enlarged it and ran a "sharpen" filter over it - it's still kinda fried, not as sharp as Myhre's artwork deserves. Kinda sad, but that's the nature of fan edits. Anyway then I removed all the text (which was very hard to read) and added it back in the Garfield Sans font, and made some wording changes. That's besides the usual change from 1x4 to 2x2 and border and titles.
Here's the original for comparison:
The biggest change was in panel 3 adding a word balloon and remove the phrase "so full of unattainable wisdom about life" which I thought was a bit overblown. I thought about adding back just "deep" which kinda echoed the fact that they were at a well, but that sounded reductive and plus then in the punchline when Nemi said she was mysterious it kinda looked odd like she was saying her friend was mysterious but not "deep". Maybe something between the two? idk, wording in comics is really hard bc you have such limited space, that's one of the biggest things I've learned from doing these edits!
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Joachim Boaz (@[email protected])
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Paul Callé's interior art for Ray Bradbury's "Impossible" (variant title: "The Martian") in Super Science Stories (November 1949)
#scifi #sciencefiction #art
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