tarae, writing about ttrpgs and horror
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Meddling in Antiquity now has its own profile, which is just me but the content creating stuff! You can find that version of me here: @head-meddler.bsky.social
The biggest achievement of this video so far is getting people who have most likely never heard of Foucault to understand Foucault
New video essay up! It’s a Foucaultian analysis of Dimension 20’s A Court of Fey and Flowers, which is a truly startling combo that only a cinema student could manufacture. Enjoy!
Panopticism? In MY Regency Themed Faerie Court D&D Campaign?! Unfortunately, Yes!
youtu.be/BO2Fa_mJixs
Panopticism? In MY Regency Themed Faerie Court D&D Campaign?! Unfortunately, Yes!
youtu.be/BO2Fa_mJixs
Panopticism? In MY Regency Themed Faerie Court D&D Campaign?! Unfortunately, Yes!
YouTube video by Meddling in Antiquity
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May 23, 2025 at 5:53 AM
The biggest achievement of this video so far is getting people who have most likely never heard of Foucault to understand Foucault
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WE MAKE THE TV GLOW is coming to twitch.tv/aestheticallynostalgic on SATURDAY MAY 3 at 5PT. And it's not just the feature debuting -- there are going to short pieces from many talented artists! Come for a whole night of entertainment supporting trans and nonbinary artists!
May 1, 2025 at 5:51 AM
WE MAKE THE TV GLOW is coming to twitch.tv/aestheticallynostalgic on SATURDAY MAY 3 at 5PT. And it's not just the feature debuting -- there are going to short pieces from many talented artists! Come for a whole night of entertainment supporting trans and nonbinary artists!
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Currently finishing up editing for a new video! Also, I’m currently doing my yearly rewatch of @mikeflanaganfilm.com’s Midnight Mass, so keep an eye out!
March 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Currently finishing up editing for a new video! Also, I’m currently doing my yearly rewatch of @mikeflanaganfilm.com’s Midnight Mass, so keep an eye out!
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I mean it when I say that not a day goes by where I do not think about Riley Flynn at least once
March 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I mean it when I say that not a day goes by where I do not think about Riley Flynn at least once
One of my favorite things about school libraries is going to the stacks for like 2 specific things and walking out with a stack of 6 extra things you Did Not Need but that seem too interesting to pass on
March 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
One of my favorite things about school libraries is going to the stacks for like 2 specific things and walking out with a stack of 6 extra things you Did Not Need but that seem too interesting to pass on
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✨🎀 NEW CFP: The Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures symposium (supported by the University of Tokyo, Media, Gender, and Sexualities Study Group) is coming back for its second edition!!!✨🎀
📩 Send us your abstract by March 21 at popculturesjapan@gmail.com✨
Share widely!
📩 Send us your abstract by March 21 at popculturesjapan@gmail.com✨
Share widely!
February 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
✨🎀 NEW CFP: The Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures symposium (supported by the University of Tokyo, Media, Gender, and Sexualities Study Group) is coming back for its second edition!!!✨🎀
📩 Send us your abstract by March 21 at popculturesjapan@gmail.com✨
Share widely!
📩 Send us your abstract by March 21 at popculturesjapan@gmail.com✨
Share widely!
Thrilled to announce that I’ve been invited to the MomoCon Academic Symposium in May and the Women in German Studies conference in November! I’m extremely excited for the chance to present my research, so stay tuned for some fun updates!
March 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Thrilled to announce that I’ve been invited to the MomoCon Academic Symposium in May and the Women in German Studies conference in November! I’m extremely excited for the chance to present my research, so stay tuned for some fun updates!
Another video essay is on its way this coming week! This one is a bit of a passion project, but one that’s very dear to me
January 26, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Another video essay is on its way this coming week! This one is a bit of a passion project, but one that’s very dear to me
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New video essay up on the channel! This one is about generative AI and how it’s a danger to the animation industry.
Studios Are Forcing Animation into Her Slop Era (Because the Bad Guy Really is Capitalism)
youtu.be/rKRE_YssvTc
Studios Are Forcing Animation into Her Slop Era (Because the Bad Guy Really is Capitalism)
youtu.be/rKRE_YssvTc
Studios Are Forcing Animation into Her Slop Era (Because the Bad Guy Really is Capitalism)
YouTube video by Meddling in Antiquity
youtu.be
December 18, 2024 at 11:18 PM
New video essay up on the channel! This one is about generative AI and how it’s a danger to the animation industry.
Studios Are Forcing Animation into Her Slop Era (Because the Bad Guy Really is Capitalism)
youtu.be/rKRE_YssvTc
Studios Are Forcing Animation into Her Slop Era (Because the Bad Guy Really is Capitalism)
youtu.be/rKRE_YssvTc
thinking about how I can convince the department head and my future committee let me keep the title ‘jester, taako, and a sexy rat’ for my thesis because it’s funny and I like it a lot
December 10, 2024 at 9:10 PM
thinking about how I can convince the department head and my future committee let me keep the title ‘jester, taako, and a sexy rat’ for my thesis because it’s funny and I like it a lot
live footage of me consulting turabian on how to cite the player's handbook and the dungeon master's guide
December 9, 2024 at 6:38 PM
live footage of me consulting turabian on how to cite the player's handbook and the dungeon master's guide
Thesis idea shifted again. We’re going full tilt into TTRPGs as new media now
December 3, 2024 at 1:39 AM
Thesis idea shifted again. We’re going full tilt into TTRPGs as new media now
Had a blast working FanExpo this weekend with Starfleet International. Now I begin prep in earnest for Sinister Creature Con (and modding Emily Perkins’ panel??!??!?!?!?! Insane)
December 2, 2024 at 7:02 AM
Had a blast working FanExpo this weekend with Starfleet International. Now I begin prep in earnest for Sinister Creature Con (and modding Emily Perkins’ panel??!??!?!?!?! Insane)
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Me since 2012:
Everything abt "AI" as currently construed is inextricably woven w/ carcerality, capitalism, white supremacy (w/ racism, ableism, sexism, & LGBTQ+ hate being foundational thereto), hegemony, & kyriarchy, & we must name, examine, & deconstruct those before we can build something better
Everything abt "AI" as currently construed is inextricably woven w/ carcerality, capitalism, white supremacy (w/ racism, ableism, sexism, & LGBTQ+ hate being foundational thereto), hegemony, & kyriarchy, & we must name, examine, & deconstruct those before we can build something better
June 14, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Me since 2012:
Everything abt "AI" as currently construed is inextricably woven w/ carcerality, capitalism, white supremacy (w/ racism, ableism, sexism, & LGBTQ+ hate being foundational thereto), hegemony, & kyriarchy, & we must name, examine, & deconstruct those before we can build something better
Everything abt "AI" as currently construed is inextricably woven w/ carcerality, capitalism, white supremacy (w/ racism, ableism, sexism, & LGBTQ+ hate being foundational thereto), hegemony, & kyriarchy, & we must name, examine, & deconstruct those before we can build something better
@carloscrits.bsky.social Question: I’m writing an academic article about a D20 campaign (Neverafter) and wanted to know if there was any way to get in touch with/talk to Brennan (and hopefully Emily) about the campaign? (Sorry for the unsolicited @ I try not to do this ever)
November 21, 2024 at 7:41 PM
@carloscrits.bsky.social Question: I’m writing an academic article about a D20 campaign (Neverafter) and wanted to know if there was any way to get in touch with/talk to Brennan (and hopefully Emily) about the campaign? (Sorry for the unsolicited @ I try not to do this ever)
GDT Frankenstein will save me from Nightmare Timeline Dorian Gray and Wuthering Heights, I think
Frankenstein will have a theatrical run...
First look at Guillermo del Toro's ‘FRANKENSTEIN’
Starring Oscar Isaac as Dr. Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as Frankenstein’s monster.
Releasing on Netflix in 2025.
(Source: www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...)
Starring Oscar Isaac as Dr. Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as Frankenstein’s monster.
Releasing on Netflix in 2025.
(Source: www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...)
November 21, 2024 at 4:48 PM
GDT Frankenstein will save me from Nightmare Timeline Dorian Gray and Wuthering Heights, I think
Combing through Maria Tartar’s ‘Off With Their Heads’ right now, and I’m obsessed with the book’s insight and breakdown of fairy tales
November 21, 2024 at 12:51 AM
Combing through Maria Tartar’s ‘Off With Their Heads’ right now, and I’m obsessed with the book’s insight and breakdown of fairy tales
“You spook easily, Starling?”
What’s a horror movie quote that you say to yourself often?
November 20, 2024 at 6:37 PM
“You spook easily, Starling?”
Started writing my paper about Neverafter, and am genuinely baffled that more people in Cinema Studies haven’t written about ttrpg’s? Like, ttrpg live play is such an untapped field and we need to get up in that mess
November 20, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Started writing my paper about Neverafter, and am genuinely baffled that more people in Cinema Studies haven’t written about ttrpg’s? Like, ttrpg live play is such an untapped field and we need to get up in that mess
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In an excerpt from an upcoming book by @bavalamp.bsky.social on the Church's relationship with Satanic cinema, the Vatican uneasily recognizes what their evangelical counterparts often fail to, that horror can be a tool to spread the faith.
THE POWER OF CHRIST: THE VATICAN VS….SATANIC HORROR
When speaking of the Vatican and of the horror movie, there is perhaps no more obvious example to link the Roman Catholic Church and the darkest of cinematic genres than The Exorcist.
nighttidemag.com
November 20, 2024 at 5:29 PM
In an excerpt from an upcoming book by @bavalamp.bsky.social on the Church's relationship with Satanic cinema, the Vatican uneasily recognizes what their evangelical counterparts often fail to, that horror can be a tool to spread the faith.
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"It's called intersectionality,
Class consciousness is both you see,
Intersectionality of Life!~"
Class consciousness is both you see,
Intersectionality of Life!~"
sigh. if anyone actually read Black feminist theory, they'd know that identity politics includes class! it's not one or the other. gender and race are inextricably linked to class!
“You’re going to have to do both.”
November 20, 2024 at 5:51 PM
"It's called intersectionality,
Class consciousness is both you see,
Intersectionality of Life!~"
Class consciousness is both you see,
Intersectionality of Life!~"
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Take 1/4 of the energy y’all have for wanting that Clint Eastwood Juror film accessible in theaters & give it to any POC/Queer/Women directed projects
November 20, 2024 at 3:37 AM
Take 1/4 of the energy y’all have for wanting that Clint Eastwood Juror film accessible in theaters & give it to any POC/Queer/Women directed projects
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Genuinely forgot I’m also a filmmaker who am I?
Short film I made about a year ago. Technically the end of the folk horror lesbian vampire franchise that I’m working on
youtu.be/3sJvpZAJFw0?...
Short film I made about a year ago. Technically the end of the folk horror lesbian vampire franchise that I’m working on
youtu.be/3sJvpZAJFw0?...
Green Banks of Yarrow - The ReVamp
YouTube video by Meddling in Antiquity
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November 19, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Genuinely forgot I’m also a filmmaker who am I?
Short film I made about a year ago. Technically the end of the folk horror lesbian vampire franchise that I’m working on
youtu.be/3sJvpZAJFw0?...
Short film I made about a year ago. Technically the end of the folk horror lesbian vampire franchise that I’m working on
youtu.be/3sJvpZAJFw0?...
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Here's my Animation Designers & Art Directors starter pack - it's a work in progress. Still finding my ppl so pls shout if i've missed anyone obvious 💘
November 17, 2024 at 11:36 AM
Here's my Animation Designers & Art Directors starter pack - it's a work in progress. Still finding my ppl so pls shout if i've missed anyone obvious 💘