Gnome Anne

They did it for mine! And I’m on the free account :)

If you email notion, you can ask them to turn off the AI features and they will!

I'll accept "maybe women are people" as the thesis of the Barbie movie (which actually had more nuance than a lot of self-proclaimed feminist horror). But if you're in a genre that's designed to be transgressive, maybe push that a little further.

We're getting into dualism -- seperation of mind and body, and degredation of body as labour. Oh damn oh damn what a rich meal you have presented me today.

And you don't need a philosophy degree to notice these themes and articulate them in your own words. THATS CINEMA, BABY

In one of the first episodes, we meet Mark's Outie and all he's doing in labour: cleaning gutters, dealing with trash, and dealing with his horrible brother in law. This hit me like a freight train. We work all day and toil all evening because we are alienated from our labour and each other. YES!

let's tap into SPECIFIC anxieties: fear of your life slipping away while you consent to being tortured more and more because the escalation is gradual and you need the money. That's a lot more thought provoking than "actually maybe billionaires are bad actually".

I'm currently half-way through Severance S1 and I love it. The mystery of it is fine, less my taste, but the *horror* of it -- the way the evils are so familiar, so banal, and also literally hell that we consent to put ourselves in 5 days a week -- I'm like YEAH LETS TALK ABOUT THIS!

Even uncritical schlocky horror reflects the fears of the age -- that's actually really interesting! We can talk about that! Tapping into a social anxiety is inherently political, even if you have no idea what you're going. Fantastic!

These stories with clear good guys and bad guys feel like fables to teach children decency 101. Star Wars is a children's movie series (and a great one!) -- but as adults I really don't see the value in stories that simple beyond shiny pixels (Tron: Ares, the NIN music video).

It usually occurs when someone is trying to explore a theme they don't have a lot of experience with. A man going "hey dudes, did you hear about this thing called patriarchy?" -- which is almost as alientating to the female audience as sexism.
Intro texts are fine, but I want the messy stuff!

"Man Bad" Horror: A Feminist Autopsy YouTube video by Infinite Snow Productions

I like this video essay! it illustrates something that bothers me in many modern movies: instead of exploring a theme, they feel like they are leading up to a 'moral of the story'. In horror, they are trying to shock an audience with a lukewarm morality take.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6PB...

tragic 😭

Thats really kind of you to say!

When it comes to taste in game design and play, I don’t even say “I like this“ anymore, I just say “I’m really into this right now” because I genuinely have no clue where this train is headed.

Changing your opinion is sexy. Overhauling your whole perspective is hot.

The longer I’m in this hobby (playing, producing AP and now designing) the more my perspective evolves to the point where I’d disagree with 90% of 2018 Anne’s opinions on the topic (and 2035 Anne will disagree with mine) — and that’s actually rad

HAPPY FRIGGIN BDAY YOU BEAUTIFUL WEIRDO

The thing about recording standing is that sometimes your session goes for 5 hours and you still stick around to gab after because you’re having a good time and then your knees are on fire because you have the joints of a 100-year-old chainsmoker

A screencap of a Riverside recording for the Panic Table featuring Gina Susanna in a blonde wig, Laurie Hernandez, Cameron Strittmatter, Justin Estrada, and Anne Monteverdi

What could this be??? 👀🚐😱

(Plot twist: im always trying to make an argument)

I don’t even know when they took this but I appreciate that I’m clearly trying to make an argument

”AND ANOTHER THING ☝️”

👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

because, you see, there's this one scene in Buffy that rewired a lot of brains. It involves a house.

... have you seen Buffy?

HELL YEAH HELL YEAH HELL YEAH

MORE SLAYERS APPEAR! There's only supposed to be ONE, and yet??????

It’s an All’s Fair hack where you alternate between fighting evils from the hellmouth and having supernaturally acrobatic lesbian sex

BE THE FANFIC YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD

2 person ttrpg where you play as vampire slayers with radically different world views and strong sapphic energy