Desire: A Horror Story 

1. This got SUPER DEMONETIZED hahaha. But I tried to approach it with maturity. 2. Wasn't aware I was this into John Malkovich, but we learn things about ourselves every day. He was a cutie. 3. Malkovich Malkovich. Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich? Malkovich.

I feel shipping has to be older than the 60s. I refuse to believe that there weren't Sherlock/Watson ships back in the day.

Great video. I've recently been on a bit of a classic vampire novel kick (carmilla, dracula, powers of darkness) and it has me thinking about how the vampire represents so well all the destructive impulses we have to ourselves and others. The vampire has since been turned into the sexy anti-hero, but one of the things I liked about the villainy of vampires in the old novels is that it expressed a fear of our own desires by compartmentalizing them and projecting them onto a bloodsucking other.

I don’t know what it is but longing is preferable to fulfillment in my opinion. Maybe it’s because once the relationship is consummated there’s the possibility of disappointment.

This was a thoughtful breakdown. I completely agree that it's more interesting to use film to reflect on the power of filmmaking and story to encourage a specific reading than it is to do something confronting and then blaming the audience for accepting the framing as given by the author.

Ngl: when you said "gaze" I heard it as "gays" and was like, oh wow, the desire for lgbtq+ representation in media is so big it gets a whole category, that makes sense 😂😅

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I think maybe I don't know what "fandom" means anymore.

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When I was in middle school, my parents wouldn’t let me watch Dangerous Liaisons. Fortunately the local video store would give you a membership if you had a learners permit, so I rented it on my own and scrambled my little brain. I had already read the novel and was a voracious reader of historical romances, so I just really got hung up on how this story had so many of the same beats but went to very different places. Also everyone in the movie was so hot, and the movie seemed to be about sex, and yet it was so cold despite its intensity. I tried to build on this in the hopes of tying it more explicitly with your points in the video by talking about what an excellent and disconcerting presence Malkovich is In the Line of Fire, but I was just kind of flailing about the depiction of deviancy, so I’ll just say this is an excellent video.

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wow I forgot all about this movie. all I remember now is "he came out of the darkness like he was made of it." totally spaced on all the horniness when I first saw it, probably wasn't in the headspace for it at the time... reckon I'll take your advice and NOT rewatch it tho 😊

great video! you put into words so many things I've thought about yet struggled to describe. I was also reminded of the many comparisons often drawn between the horror and romance genres . I know it isn't easy or profitable to post videos focusing on sex related themes on youtube, so thank you for taking the time to do this despite that!

There's also the topic of witholding pleasure or consummating the object of your desire. The fact that you can basically enjoy the witheld desire in your own imagination, concocting scenarios around what it would feel like is part of the experience, and I could recon, it might be even more enjoyable than the act itself. A lot of people I talked to who have experienced limerence (which is characterised with this obsessive, very romanticized desire) told me that a large portion of their obsession was fueled by enjoying imagining scenarios and coming up with features about the object of their limerence, even if those were unrealistic or in clear conflict with reality. It was basically like writing fanfiction in their head.