Laszlo Cravensworth, an up and coming film director, hires recent film school graduate Guillermo de la Cruz to shoot his next project, a documentary about a series of small town murders and the local vampire legend surrounding them. Joining them are Laszlo’s long time collaborators: his wife, Nadja Antipaxos, a stellar editor with a penchant for perfection, and his best friend, Nandor Jahan, a keen-eyed cinematographer with his own reasons for taking a back seat on this project. Rounding out their team is studio man Colin Robinson, in charge of keeping their budget balanced and ascertaining risk.
As the investigation kicks into high gear, the crew finds themselves entangled in a dark mystery spanning the whole course of the town’s history, uncovering secrets about foul truths that lurk within the heart of Coventry, truths that may have been better left buried. And it’s not just the town that has skeletons; the crew members have their own secrets that could threaten their careers, their relationships, maybe even their very lives.
One thing’s for certain: no one escapes Coventry unchanged. Whether for good or ill all depends on how far you’re willing to go to reveal the truth, and what - or who - you believe in.
i need trans allies to really internalize the idea that masculinity in girls and women is punished by society. gender nonconformity is never rewarded. women being allowed in some circumstances to wear pants is not an example of “masculinity” being rewarded. women had to fight for a long fucking time in order to be able to wear pants and in many western households and non-western countries, women are still forced to wear dresses. we are still a long ways off from any kind of gender equality or acceptance of gender nonconformity.
I fully understand this isn’t everyone, but love the sect of m/m shippers who don’t want to be inserted into the relationship at all. dont want to fuck them, don’t want x/reader. this isn’t about me it’s about my boys being in situations and then fucking about it. I’m barely a fly on the wall im not even here.
this used to be most of fandom 😫
Too nice and accurate to stay in comments, @petralemaitre
if i had a dick i would love to have a disappointing orgasm in the shower while thinking of something or someone that i felt i should not be thinking about & then stand under the water with my forehead against a wall watching the proof of my guilt & shame go down the drain
The insight I get into the female mind thanks to this website is amazing.
I just wanna say also that, especially as an atheist, I love that Wake Up Dead Man was not Christian versus atheist. It was weaponizer of power Christian versus faith and kindness Christian.
Not to get on my soap box but I have a lot more in common with a Christian of my own values than a fellow atheist without. And a good-faith Christian has a lot more in common with a good-faith person of any other religion or lack-there-of than they ever could a manipulative, power-hungry, fear-mongering Christian.
I think the story often told doesn’t draw those lines where they should be drawn, and it was something lovely to see. That Jud is in the same category as “proud heretic” Benoit. Wicks the same as Miles Bron.
I love that the pandemic actually definitively proved a lot of those “hard” questions for us. Masking up reduced cases of the flu to almost nonexistent numbers and we had zero flu deaths for a time. The welfare and social service and unemployment programs helped keep people living paycheck to paycheck out of poverty, and those stimulus checks some folks keep complaining about actually massively benefitted the common man and the economy. Individual personal travel was so extremely restricted on a global scale that we basically have concrete proof that individual restraint in terms of driving cars or travelling means absolutely nothing by comparison because the mass pollution is coming from the fisheries and the corporations with private jets and container ships. Working from home actually has massive benefits for a company like productivity boosts and better mental health of employees while also saving gas
and we’re just. Willingly going back to how everything was before. We were shown how to do things better and the people in charge said “that’s nice but we just want to get everything ‘back to normal’ :)”
we’re not willingly going back to how everything was before. we are being forced back into it by members of the ruling class who found out that making things better for almost everyone else made them feel bad.
Let’s not forget about any of these things. Let’s reblog and schedule this post to pop in in the future to remind us of what we may have forgotten a little.
puttering around the house is an underrated form a self-care. make some tea or coffee. put on a podcast. sort the mail. tidy some pillows and fold some blankets. start the laundry. thaw some soup. just casually wander around aimlessly doing little things to make your space and life a little nicer. who cares if you get distracted or only do a little. you aren’t being productive. you’re puttering.
my synagogue was set on fire last night during Shabbat at 3:00 AM in an arsonist attack.
no one was injured, which i am extremely grateful for. they have several security cameras, so there is a suspect in custody. the details and motivation haven’t been shared, but it can be reasonably assumed to be a hate crime.
this was the first synagogue established in the state, the only one that’s not hours away, and certainly the largest in the area. two Torah scrolls are destroyed beyond repair, 5 are damaged. the library where children have religious school and morning Shabbat service is held has been completely burnt down, much of that section of the building that’s left is covered in soot and ash. the administrative offices were also lost.
our Tree of Life, which was for important life events like bar/bat/b'nei mitzvahs, was destroyed. i was just looking at it this past Tuesday while waiting for a meeting with my rabbi. it was dozens of bronze plaques in the shape of leaves with commemorations on them placed above a trunk. there is a photo of the wreckage that makes me cry every time i look at it.
we have a rescued scroll from Nazi-era Czechoslovakia (it is thankfully unharmed). we have a Holocaust memorial garden. we have names of dead loved ones displayed. memories in and on the walls. there are so many deeply meaningful and largely irreplaceable things here.
my rabbi was out of state for the last several days. i cannot imagine how he’s feeling.
im fucking pissed at the police department. they said that they would patrol the grounds more often in light of the worldwide rise in antisemitism. I have not personally seen them once. they let the only area for our community to gather be set on fire.
i am exhausted. i am angry. i am thankful it is not any worse, because it easily could have been, but tonight i am grieving that little library full of vintage Jewish books.
The same Synogogue was also bombed in 1967. This is the best article I could find so far this soon after the fire.
yes, this is my synagogue. Beth Israel Congregation was firebombed by the KKK in 1967 along with the rabbi’s house because he was an outspoken supporter of civil rights for Black Americans.
here are some photos of the aftermath of the most recent fire:
I have been asked about fundraising, so I will be providing a link to donations.
hey!! yes, JPD is useless. the FBI, ATF, Joint Terrorism Task Force, along with I believe possibly a division of Homeland Security (?) are all involved in the case. as I understand it, the FBI automatically gets involved when reports of a place of worship being intentionally damaged are made.
a primary suspect has already been identified and arrested. details are not being officially made public at the moment, although I’ve seen unsourced information on a couple articles (namely Mississippi Today) claiming that it is a 19 y/o white supremacist man.
UPDATE: i can now confidently confirm the identity of the perpetrator as Stephen Spencer Pittman, a 19 year old Nazi as I mentioned. He was texting the whole thing to his dad over text while he was committing the crime (who reported it to the FBI), and then went to the hospital for his burns (because he accidentally doused his legs in gasoline like a fucking idiot) where he was promptly arrested.
They also mention that a citywide prayer service for Beth Israel will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday at Thalia Mara Hall in downtown Jackson if anyone wants to attend.
For everyone asking in messages, share these links wherever you want. Sharing to more people gets more support and more donations towards the long process of rebuilding.
Also, please don’t make this about any other politics than antisemitism. We’re very tired and don’t want to argue about what the motivation was. It was antisemitism and that’s all, the guy said so himself.
We already have a loose plan for service locations, but we’re waiting on other details. We don’t have any official estimate on how long restoration will take, only a decently informed guess. It will be a long time before we return to our synagogue.
Thanks for all the love and kindness. It means a lot.
Awful, those pictures are heartbreaking. I’m glad they got the guy. Reblogging for the donation links, I hope you get enough.
I’m so pissed. It’s never enough for these Jew haters. It’s devastating. The only shul in Jackson, the one that was previously attacked by neo-nazis. I’m so sorry. May you and your community heal.
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