#Deep Dark Fears

[deep-dark-fears]

See what's new! A fear submitted by Mel to Deep Dark Fears - thanks! You can find original artwork in my shop!

[hersurvival]

Something heavy rests upon my chest.

Debilitating dread bordering on paranoia.

Something bad is about to happen.

You're going to ruin everything.

Lose it all, end up all alone.

Violent waves of intense sadness

Crash into me, drag me out.

Drowning before I can understand

How I ended on shore.

Detached, dissociated

In the middle of the night.

Woken by nightmares I can't recall.

Static courses throughout my body,

Numb yet shivering

In puddles of cold sweat.

What's real? What's happening?

Thoughts howl,

Calling for blood on the bathroom floor.

"Situational. Normal."

[seeminglydark]

i worked the graveyard shift in a hotel in the middle of nowhere where the lobby was all glass. i always had a fear of seeing something on the other side of the glass, like oh i dunno, a person.

even bigger fear, while passing out receipts under doors at 4 am, looking up and seeing a person standing outside the window at the end of the fourth floor hallway.

standing in the concrete stairwells and hearing the echoing footsteps of someone coming up them toward you, but there's no one else there.

looking at the security cameras, why is the pool water moving like someone just dove into it, its been closed for hours.

seeing a hand block out the outside security cameras.

standing on the ground floor, and hearing someone step into the elevator and hit the button on a floor above me somewhere, elevator arrives and no one is in it.

footsteps on the first floor by the lobby desk, so i can go peek around the corner but no ones there.

[jurikyu-blog]

I find myself wondering what fears the boys have and by that I don't mean the obvious fear of losing family but silly fears.

❤️Raph hates bugs, in front of his bros or you he has to be the macho guy but inside he's dancing like he just walked through a spider web. He's always checking the sheets before he crawls in for the night.

💜Donnie I can see being afraid of the dark, in his lab there are many makeshift nightlight, random glowing beakers, led lights on different equipment but take all that away...pure blackness and he hyperventilates.

🧡Mikey is more from a nightmare he had where he lost his voice and could no longer speak. Struggling to learn sign language or using a Donnie invention (like a speak and spell) just wouldn't be the same. He would feel stripped of a major part of his personality.

💙Leo the fearless leader who just hates puppets. The way they stare, the way they move its unnatural. No one knows this fear because he knows a ventriloquist dummy would appear in his room and he would never be able to live it down.

@thelaundrybitch

[lascitasdelashoras]

Fran Krause - Deep Dark Fears, 2013

[prose-among-the-trees]

I have this feel irrational fear of dangling my legs over the side of a chair I’m sitting in and having some rando run up and start tickling my feet. Absolutely terrified that I won’t be able to bring my legs up in time and the fiend will have a hold of my grippers. I hate being tickied.

[ooftherealnoob]

In my opinion Ena Shinonome is the definition of a girl boss, I think she is the type of person who will be deadly afraid of something, but be able to hide it in front of others. (I think its because she never really got attention as a kid, so when she is with others, she automatically feels more safe) tho I think she will probably mess with her shirt or skirt out of anxiety of the thing she fears

[sunlit-spider]

New deep dark fear:

My mom grabbed me by the boxer waist band without telling me first while we were shopping and I felt the safety pin holding my packer in place open.

[dukeofriven]

Seeing Deep Dark Fears unlocked a memory of an ancient webomic that was so ancient it got its start as an alternative newspaper comic in the mid-90s. Slow Wave was a comic by Jesse Recklaw in which readers would submit there dreams and Recklaw would draw them in a four panel strip. In ran from 1995 to 2012 and was, for a time, very popular among the In The Know crowd of the aughts internet. The strip ended in 2012 for a variety of reasons: the artist had physical and mental health issues, the was likely burn-put after so many years of doing it, but there was also the format change a few years early. For most of its run each slow Wave comic was self-contained: a user submitted dream, rendered in four panel, the next a different dream from someone else. It's the comic people fell in love with. Then around 2009 or so the format changed: Recklaw still took user-submitted dreams, but now they were woven into a ongoing story. His recurring characters were experiencing these dreams, going from dream to dream, as part of an overarching narrative and story. And it was really, really bad and nobody liked it. It felt intrusive, and in some sense felt... exploitative is far, far too harsh, but that isolation and self-contained nature of Slow Wave is what made it good. Each dream was personal, part of someone's psyche and given its own little four-panel tribute. Often you wondered how true it was: did someone really have this dream, or were they just writing-in to see their creative writing in print? Either way, these stories were personal, absurdist though they may be. By taking them and making them part of someone else's story, something vital was lost: the pacing changed, it wasn't as funny, and each comic had to spend time continuing the overarching plot or furthering the characters, all for which felt extraneous and clumsy. What made Slow Wave so distinctly itself was gone, and it became just another webcomic with underwritten characters and dull plot. And then it died. Shortly after it died Recklaw took the archive off the internet—outside a couple of retrospective pieces that have some high-def images form god-knows where, Slow Wave has largely vanished from the internet. Despite having the exact same format, with user dreams swapped for anxieties, Deep-Dark-Fears makes no reference whatsoever to Slow Wave, despite starting-up the year Slow Wave died. Perhaps it was made in isolation—it does not seem to have started to take user submissions until several months into its existence. I am not trying to start any internet beef.Regardless, Slow Wave exists only in fragments long, long forgotten. I miss it.

[deep-dark-fears]

Out out, Mister Goofums. A fear submitted by Lauren to Deep Dark Fears - thanks!

You can find original artwork or commission portraits in my shop!

[hersurvival]

You appeared at my feet,

As I sleep alone within this blindingly empty void.

We never had the chance to meet in life

But even in death, you would not stay.

What do you have left unfinished?

Where do you so desperately need to be?

You wouldn't say.

I knew as soon as you arrived, you would leave,

Tears already welling up, threatening

To burn, to leave scars down my face.

Won't you rest? For just a moment?

We can be together finally.

You could only shake your head,

Couldn't even touch me.

[phoenixxxrizing]

[ruins-of-gods]

I think one of my biggest fears is that we'll discover life on another planet, and I'll never know, because no one cares enough to tell me.

[xxbluestrifexx]

My greatest fear on this app is getting blocked by a blog for spam liking….

HEAR ME OUT

When I find a fic I like, I tend to then read EVERYTHING else written by that author but then I have to be so conscious about spam liking their fics and it just makes me sad :( I don’t want to ruin anybody’s algorithm I just want to support the other hard working writers.

Eternally sad

[ademella]

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[kojidesu]

i wanted a pet tarantula until i found out that if you accidentally drop them or they fall from any kind of significant height (like a metre) they EXPLODE. i dont need that responsibility. i dont want to be hanging out with my lil buddy when suddenly they humpty dumpty themself. HORRIFIC.