I love Scary Women

poster for everybody’s latest OBSESSION.

I, knowing that this was a once in a lifetime opportunity, waited carefully for the lab director to be deep in conversation with someone else on the other side of the laboratory. And then I took my chance.

Test tubes, as it turns out, are really bad as shot glasses. Their shape turns any liquid inside into a stream, so you really can't knock it back quickly - it takes a couple seconds. Additionally, the best way I can describe the taste of virus concentrate was "sterile rot". A very unique kind of bad! Made worse by the test tube's inefficiency as a shot glass.

(by the way we were studying bacteriophages, not animal viruses. these viruses are too specialized on attacking prokaryotes to even recognize our cells as targets at all, according to studies.)

(but also like. if the viruses managed to successfully switch hosts and killed me with a violent infection, itd still be worth it.)

I also just prefer the making of horror films compared to watching them. I love seeing how things work, I like how they do special effects, and it genuinely looks fun to make. In film class I would always opt for making the creepy short film, not because I actually enjoy watching horror, but because it’s just really funny. And while I freeballed all my shots and worked on a thirty minutes per day limit with two friends who weren’t even in my class, it still turned out really freaking awesome.

I’ve got Joanna’s head in my closet

dan tweet