#cw urbanspook

[sanctum-hymn]

imagine if i fused the son from hotline miami, postal dude, and mona lanius into one

everyone, meet caesar lanius, the "Miami Painter"

originally a very talented artist and a leader of a successful drug empire, inherited from his late father, he flew too close to the sun and overdosed on a drug causing psychosis, driving him to a killing spree upon his own men, and he would only grow more unhinged afterwards.

[dynafire]

the wild thing about all the trouble urbanspook is in (deserved) is that no one is saying DONT talk about sa in internet horror just to do it well.

lacey's games was such a real depiction of csa and still respectful towards victims. like it can be done. the fact is that urbanspook doesn't care to do it.

im just happy to see this guy getting his ass whopped tbh. what a creep.

[dollsleeper]

toxic yuri for the first post

[atomicinsantiy]

UBANSPOOK MH AU!!

Killer: Deviljho

Painter: Mizutsune

BLOOD VERSION:

Thx @gadiboi for curing me of artblock!

[naradreamscape]

Content Warning for "UrbanSPOOK" Analog Horror Series

So, in recent months, a new analog horror/ARG series called UrbanSPOOK has joined Youtube, and it's even been covered by a number of indie horror exploration channels (i.e. Goose Boose, Gearisko, etc.), which I know is going to pull a lot of new viewers towards the channel. However, a number of things in the series really need to be addressed, since they're not exactly warned about in the series. This post is not a callout nor any call to harass the creator, Urbanslug; I just wanted to step in and raise a flag.

UrbanSPOOK's premise is that several VHS tapes have been found, of unknown origin, cataloguing the crimes of an unknown serial killer who leaves behind surrealist paintings of their crimes. Little clues as to what happened to their victims are dropped in the evidence, paintings, and witness testimonials, and these can be very disturbing, far more so than other indie series. A disclaimer does play at the beginning of each "tape" warning about general violence and disturbing content. However, I feel people should be aware of sexual violence when going into media of any kind. Moreover, the series's creator sells merch of all of the killer's paintings, including the ones heavily implied to be of abused children.

(Content warning for the rest of this post: references to animal abuse, child abuse, CSA, descriptions of highly violent acts. Don't say I didn't warn you; these descriptions are written only as detailed as they need to be in order to convey why new viewers should approach with caution, and why it's a little Uhhhhh how merch is being sold of these (fictional) crimes.)

At least two of the unnamed killer's victims are children. Most significantly, one painting unveiled in the first episode, "FACES", is called "Fucktoy Cory", depicting a bloated body's face. The third episode, "IN THE WALLS", reveals Cory is the name of an 11 year old, one of two twins who were both murdered, split in half, and then sewn one to the other. The creator has confirmed the painting is of the murdered boy named Cory.

In the most recent episode, "PIGS", a child's severed, eyeless head is found in an abandoned building the killer had been living in. Her painting is called "Four Holes Fiona". There has been a lot of speculation in the video's comments as to what the implications are about this title, most of them concluding that the killer was using the head for something foul.

In the same episode, Fiona's grandmother Mae is found heavily ravaged and dead from internal bleeding, along with a horse that died from heart failure after being overfed sildenafil citrate - the pharmaceutical name for Viagra. Mae's painting is called "Breeding Mount Mae". A breeding mount is a piece of farm equipment meant for stallions to mate with, so their semen can be collected for equine breeding.

The creator of the series promises that things will only get "worse" as it goes along, which is worrying, especially when the only disclaimers given are for "violent and disturbing content" and this content goes from "skinned alive" to "fucked to death by a horse" at the drop of a hat. The paintings for all of the above, along with the rest of the paintings, are sold at their official Creator-Spring shop, on t-shirts. I'm not entirely sure why you'd want to wear something knowing its original context is someone getting killed with the ole "Mr. Hands" maneuvre, but take this as a record that these images, with the same titles given in-series, were available at one point as on-demand printed merchandise.

Finally, a friend brought up to me that "spook" is a racial epithet against Black people in America. However, Urbanslug is from Sweden and likely did not know of the word's connotations other than meaning "spooky", or "scary". I will clear them on that accusation.

Again, do not go and harass the creator of this series. This post is just intended as a sort of warning label. Analog horror is more popular than ever, and with the Writer's Guild strike coming up, I anticipate a lot of people will begin looking for indie series to consume while mainstream television is put on hold. I walked into this series blind, and had no idea how grim it was going to get so soon.

You can call me a wimp, or "triggered", or whatever the hell you'd like for making a post about this, but extreme media and figuring out how far is too far is one of my big focuses in my journalism and archiving. I just finished an article about Agony in Pink that concluded with me saying it had the right to exist; with this in mind, UrbanSPOOK was so extreme and so under-warned that even I had to say something.

[urlocal-juggalo]

I'mma just...leave this right here

CW suggestive

I'm not sorry :3

[jules-tells-a-story]

the whole urbanspook/urbanslug situation on twitter/youtube got me thinking about something i've been seeing in the wider horror community, so, as someone who enjoys analog horror and actively writes horror, i thought i'd throw in my two cents.

cw for brief mentions of animal abuse, child death, and csa below the cut:

the thing about urbanslug isn't necessarily the topics he covers. no topic should be 100% out of bounds to cover, especially in a genre like horror that relies on making people face the things they fear or what makes them uncomfortable. and it's not as if topics like this haven't been covered before. child killings, animal abuse, even csa have all been covered by previous horror projects. urbanslug isn't necessarily doing anything new here.

the problem is that with topics such as animal abuse, child killings, csa, and the like have to be handled with a certain sensitivity, even in the horror genre. things like these aren't just buzzwords to be thrown around in an "and then THIS fucked up thing happened!" mad libs sort of way. these are serious topics, life destroying events for many people, and they should be treated as such. at the very least, treating these topics without their due diligence will just create a lazy story which uses these topics for shock value. at the worst, it's making a total mockery of people who've experienced/witnessed such trauma, using their pain as fluff to make a story seem like it has more substance than it does.

what urbanslug has created is, dare i say it, fetishistic. it makes me so sad because it started off as a project with actual promise. a serial killer who paints their victims as their calling card? come on, that's an intriguing premise! but as things have gone on, it just feels like he's throwing things at the wall to seem as edgy and fucked up as possible without taking into account the gravity of the topics he's covering. (and do NOT get me started on the fact that he's selling csa, albeit fictional, but still, csa, as merch. as of posting, cory is still on his creator spring page. what in the actual fuck.)

there are ways to cover sensitive topics. what urbanslug is doing, for lack of a better phrase, just ain't it.

[phantomtrax]

[vinxeance]

I fear my gore and horror art/writings being viewed as something shallow and purely for shock value like urbanspook. I try my best to put not just a narrative but a personal meaning or satirist point to the story, like why Angel and Blasphemy is so dark and disgusting is a point about the Catholic God vs the devil and how the Catholic narrative barely draws a line between them besides "this one is just good because we said so" and also a way to express gender dysphoria.

However I fear people will look at it and just say "you just want these characters to suffer because you're gross" which, yeah I do enjoy a good angst and gore, but without meaning it's boring. I'm not gonna lie abt being a sadistic narrator, but with urbanspook it's just "look at how gross this is" and I hope I don't sound like that 💀

[creepy--claws]

[● CW// Discussion of CSA

Really don't like the analog horror series thing where they call an 11 year old a fucktoy oh my god it feels more gross than walking through a sewer with improper footwear...

As far as I know there was no point in that series where that needed to happen and yet it did... Why on God's green earth...

It is so easy to remove the csa thing entirely and yet it is still there... I can't think of a purpose it serves in the narrative]

[digestedvocalcords]

[GORE] catifted urbanspook wip map part real not clickbait???!!!

i just realized you can upload videos on here

just the girlies having fun 😋😋

[bluepenguinsotherblog]

Wait.

What has UrbanSPOOK (autocorrect renders it that way for me) done now?

Aside from the usual shittalking and inability to take any form of criticism.

(Where has he been the last few months, he just sort of dropped off the radar after his last video from what I could see)

Has something happened?

Hi. He’s mostly just been the same old tbh. The only two things worth mentioning are he and his fanbase pretty much celebrating during the whole Alex Kirster situation, in which Urban was treating a pretty serious situation as a joke. He also somewhat called another horror creator, Chezzkids, a pxdophile. I say somewhat as it wasn’t like a full out accusation but at the same time he was pretty much comparing Chezzkids with Alex. So yeah pretty bad shit.

The other thing that inspired my post is a recent interaction with another horror creator, Vibingleaf. I’ll just let the images explain themselves honestly. Cw just in case. It’s pretty insensitive.

In short. UrbanSpook has the emotional intelligence of a brick to the face and I don’t want to talk about him anymore. His series is apparently nearly finished despite not having a new episode in months. I honestly think it’s for the better once this guy finishes his series and leaves. This guy brings out the worst in people. Thanks for asking.

[billy-beetle]

Heyo!! The name is Mason or billy! I’m a 4teen year old artist who lives in the USA!! Other than drawing, I hope to be able to blog about my personal life and also jot down my thoughts and opinions!!

I identify as a transgender male, but you can just call me a guy lol. I use he/him pronouns but any others are okay! If you misgender me accidentally I’m totally chill with it so don’t worry!

Being very socially challenged as of now, I don’t have lots of friends, but I hope to make some good friends on here soon!!

small warning; some of my art/discussions may be about sensitive topics or things that might disturb others, because of this, I will make sure to put TW/CW’s at the top of those posts!

DNI (Do not interact):

basic dni criteria (ie: homophobic, racist, pedo, etc.), anyone over 17 (except if I know you really well), anyone under 13 (same goes), pro/com/darkshippers, furry antis, therian antis, nazi, political, transage/racial/etc, radqueer/fem, loli/shotacon, nsfw blogs, fujoshi/fudanshi’s, anyone I know irl (unless I gave you my acc)

FANDOMS (the fandoms im in!):

FNAF, DDLC, BaTIM, CupHead, Inside Job, TWF, TMC, Welcome Home, Lethal Company, Gravity Falls, regretevator, CRK, Omori, TOH, Dreamworks: Trolls, Spooky Month, MLP, phighting, Total Drama, LMK, Lacey’s flash Games, and uhh also a bunch of unpopular/dead fandoms I can’t remember lol…

MUSIC (fav music artists!):

Lemon demon (personal favorite), mitski, *NSYNC, Meghan Trainor, Brianna Mazzola, Sabrina Carpenter, Penelope Scott, Tom Cardy, Sir Elton John, Chappell Roan, ERB, Jack Stauber, Weezer, Weird Al, Will Wood, Queen. (I also listen to movie soundtracks, musical songs, fan songs, etc!)

FANDOMS/PEOPLE I DONT LIKE:

(disclaimer, if you like/support the things mentioned, I am totally okay with that, it just makes me uncomfortable when people bring up these things)

Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss/Spindlehorse/Vivziepop, Boyfriends/Refrainbow, DSMP/TommyInnit/Dream/GeorgeNotFound/Wilbur/etc, Urbanspook, MHA, Genshin Impact/Hoyoverse, YanSim/YanDev, RockyRaccoon, Alex Kister, Stranger Things, MSI, MCR, Tally Hall, Brandon Rodgers, Your BoyFriend, and a couple other things I can’t name lolz!

I may not be too active a lot so plz don’t criticize me for not being online or something I just have lots of things going on.

I also use tonetags and I do respect neo/xenopronouns! I will try my best to remember them so plz don’t be mad if I forget <3

Anyways that’s all I have to say right now, thank you for checking out my blog!!