#but that's the nature of horror genre

[ladsofsorrow24]

sometimes when your AU is too much of a niche for the modern audience you gotta take initiative yourself

[charmed-n-zesty]

Strolling into...

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres • ecological horror

the complicated relationship between earth and humans has been very extensive, and this sub-genre shows mother nature fighting back against humans with plagues, animals, weather, or all three.

[bazpango]

The outcome of the American election has me deep in regressive-nostalgia-comfortcore. I’ve had a 2005 DN Warped Tour AU in the drafts for months now, but after listening to fall out boy’s sophomore album my outline just hit 5k 🤦

[annabelle--cane]

I don't have insomnia my brain is just so big and sexy that it keeps giving me cool thoughts long after I close my eyes

[thevioletcaptain]

screaming into the sun will the execubot 4000 they presumably have in charge of programming decisions at netflix these days please fucking renew dead boy detectives already??? 😫 i want to write a spec for it, but i'm tired of putting weeks of work into a thing that instantly becomes useless when the show gets axed before i can even attempt to do anything with it.

(also dead boy detectives should get a second season because it's a damn good show and one of very few series currently filling the fantasy/horror niche among hybrid-procedurals in a seemingly endless sea of fucking cop shows. but right now i want the renewal for entirely selfish reasons.)

[mariocki]

Shadows of Fear: White Walls and Olive-Green Carpets (1.8, Thames, 1971)

"Often, a man wants a girl as long as he can't have her. Then, when he's free to marry her, he has second thoughts. He thinks he could do better for himself: no hurry, shop around. It happens."

"Just like that, huh?"

"People do what's best for themselves. I've been let down before now."

"Often?"

"No one ever did it more than once."

[cupiare]

i think the worst experience in the world is seeing a few fruit flies inside but being unable to find anything that might attract them so u think its like ok its been got n humid can’t be helped. And then you find it . sat down and cried

[cuntylittlesalmon]

i’m finding it really hard to take more media discourse seriously right now because a lot of it tends to be hinder by emotional fragility. the “if something make me feel this type of way (namely the escapist, or the horny) it is inherently above criticism, and any attempts to critique (even if said critique is coming from a place of endearment) is an attack on my morality” stuff.

[tenrose]

I'm reading Annihilation and this makes me realize that I have a thing for, I don't know how to call it, plant horror? When the nature is so luxurious it's becoming oppressive, when gore is mixed with flowers (Hannibal did this to me), when the nature is becoming a sentient being and it's reclaiming human lives.

It's a different form of creepy and I love it.

[nellasbookplanet]

In other news, it’s spooky month and I accidentally watched a christian horror movie (yes, that is apparently a thing that exists) and didn’t fully realize until the demon started spouting anti-abortion rethoric, and this has once again made me think about how so many (western) supernatural horror movies are somehow simultaneously very secular and extremely christian to the point that it’s hard to even notice when they start to slide into propaganda because most of them present christianity as this natural and obvious status quo. You use a crucifix against vampires. Call a priest to deal with demons. No one in-narrative ever has any actual conversations about what this means, despite featuring largely secular characters who should by all rights be experiencing existenial crises at the face of all this proof of not just the supernatural but of god almighty himself. Christianity is just the Obvious Tool. Calling a priest is like calling a plumber and requires no reevaluation of one's world view. A crucifix is no different from a bag of garlic.

Despite being mostly an atheist myself, I strangely often find myself prefering stories that lean more into the christian aspect: angels show up, maybe god has a few lines, the devil personally makes an apperance at some point. You know, Supernatural and Good Omens and Constantine and Lucifer type christianity. At this point, it stops feeling like an assumption of One True Religion and starts feeling like any other mythology, not dissimilar to Rick Riordan writing greek gods. It’s just another fantasy element inspired by real beliefs. I really wish more supernatural horror leaned this way, or alternately in the complete opposite way where the monsters and demons are completely removed from christianity. Give me some pre-christian demons, get a bit creative with the concept instead of just copying the exorcist's homework, c'mon you can do it!

[sad--tree]

no1 talk 2 me abt my spotify wrapped top songs playlist it's So Bad help

[toukasspouse]

Honestly, watching and re-engaging with Parasite Eve made me think about RC cells and ghoul biology. At the heart of the novel, PE is science fiction with horror attached (having a physical body in general is its own type of horror, but that's another topic for another day), so maybe with some research, I could see how it fits along the same lines with adaptation of cells in the body that TG's worldbuilding implies.

[jackgoodfellow]

Another WIP, featuring the tastiest-looking thing I've ever drawn and also a cake.

[antimnemonic]

*literally drawing ryoma* im having ryoma thoughts

[homeostasister]

Y’all are so right, but I think this is also a reflection of the way people tend to interact with stories and with life in general. The whole conceit of the eldritch horror genre, as I understand it, is that things are supposed to be mysterious and confusing. It provides just enough detail to be interesting but not enough to fully explain what’s going on, and when done well, it gives the impression that it’s not just because the author decided not to explain the details, but because somehow they fundamentally can’t be explained. And I think this concept is very unsettling but also very unstable because it goes against how we tend to think about what we don’t know. Mysteries lead to questions, and questions lead to answers. A reader who is invested in a story generally wants to elaborate on it, making up headcanons about things that aren’t explicitly stated, proposing explanations for elements that may not obviously make sense. And this goes for real life just as much—we want to explain how things work, whether through mythology, science, philosophy… the idea that there are mysteries so far outside of human understanding that to seek their understanding inevitably destroys you is so disturbing and compelling, I think, precisely because it is so at odds with our own desire to figure out how things work. I think that also makes it really hard to write effective eldritch horror, especially in an established universe. The tendency of storytelling is to elaborate on and explain itself, and this tendency is even stronger in fanfiction. How do you tell a story about something that cannot be known?

it's really funny that HP Lovecraft's successors took the "Cthulhu Mythos," a wholly vibes-based cluster of concepts focused on the horror of the Unknowable, and tried to turn it into a highly structured system with a lot of Lore for people to argue about