Wandering Adventure Party

Just had a friend ask for Stephen King book recommendations for someone who doesn't read a lot.

Someone had told him IT and… why would you recommend that book to someone who doesn't read a lot? Holy shit, it's forever long, large portions of it are badly paced, it has a tweenager orgy in it, and the end doesn't even really make sense.

I personally think it's his worst book (although the first of the two recent movies and Tim.Curry from the old TV Miniseries are amazing), but even setting that aside, that's a HUGE and confusing tome to throw at someone who doesn't read much.

#StephenKing #horror #bookstodon

This is your regular reminder to use CW for politics, violence, and nsfw content in general. Let's make Mastodon a safer place than the trash social media out there.

Insisting on CWs limits or destroys the effectiveness of the outrage bots and other bad actors. It doesn't limit what you can post or discuss. It just puts a damper on Doom scrolling.

So if you're posting something that upset you, CW it. If you're boosting something that upset you, make a new post with a link to the content and CW it, or quote-boost and add a CW.

I'm personally less concerned about sexy stuff due to general disinterest, but this applies to that too, I suppose. It being behind a CW will make a lotta folks feel safer, so do that.

I mean, unless turning Mastodon into Bluesky and Twitter is your goal. In which case, carry on, I guess.

(If you agree, please boost for visibility.)

@CactuarJoe oh come on, not even close.

Dracula Prisoner of Frankenstein is worse by several parsecs. There's no dialogue in the first fifteen minutes… and when they finally start talking, you pray for them to shut the hell up.

Vampires on Bikini Beach was the week before Alligator and it was *objectively worse*.

Alligator made mention of animal abuse, but Food of the Gods had real *on screen* abuse of rats.

Alligator had bad science, but it also said up front that the Alligator in it was impossible and at least *tried* to give a plausible explanation. What's Grizzly's excuse?

And finally: The Alligator crashed a rich people wedding, ate a buncha assholes, and then beat the car the main bad guy - an immoral pharmacy executive who paid people to hurt dogs - until it crushed him to death.

Alligator was AWESOME.

@CactuarJoe in fairness, that's kinda how Jaws ended.

#Monsterdon #Alligator1980

Much to my own annoyance, I am awake.

@CactuarJoe neither. It's a limerick!

"Do you want a Valium?"

- the most 80s Mom line ever to appear in a movie.

#Monsterdon #FrightNight1985

I feel like not naming a macroblogging Fediverse service "Mammoth" is a missed opportunity.

@CactuarJoe I think the bear should take the helicopter and fly back to the Kodiak Archipelago where he belongs.

#Monsterdon #Grizzly1976

#Monsterdon Marjoe got his acting skills on the tent revival circuit, preaching the word of Jesus.

That's… not a joke. He actually did that as a kid. As an adult, he went out again as part of a documentary to debunk all the so-called miracles and to expose the way the evangelical tent preachers bilk people out of their money.

@CactuarJoe sadly, that's too much to ask for some people.

@CactuarJoe I wanna watch that one again...