#dead children

[uwmspeccoll]

A Gashlycrumb Halloween

This Halloween we present a few pages from one of American writer and artist Edward Gorey's (1925-2000) most well-known books, The Gashlycrumb Tinies, published in New York by Peter Weed Books in 1962.

For those unfamiliar with the work, The Gastlycrumb Tinies is an alphabet book that details the untimely end of 26 children after an outing in thirteen rhyming dactylic couplets, accompanied by Gorey's distinctive pen and ink drawings. While among our favorites are "N is for Neville who died of ennui" and "S is for Susan who perished of fits," we selected what we think are the most ghastly, gruesome, and horrific pages for your Halloween pleasure.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

View more posts with work by Edward Gorey.

View our other posts from Halloweens past.

This post is especially for Captain Alison.

[deadghosy]

DUUUDE OMG as someone who had a HUGE creepypasta phase I'm obsessed with your hazbin hotel x creepypasta reader fics omggg

Anywaysss could I possibly request a Hazbin Hotel x Sally Williams reader? Completely platonic obviously :)

HAZBIN HOTEL X SALLY WILLIAMS! READER

prompt: a small child with a bloody body accidentally visits the hotel of a cartoon she only saw once

“BENNN! I wanna be in a cartoon..” you says whining to Ben as you grip your teddy bear. Ben rubs his chin thinking then smirks. “What kinda cartoon?” “One with friendship! Like My little pony.” You said with an adorable smile. “What about a better cartoon…” Ben said with a evil smile

And now you are now in the cartoon called Hazbin hotel as you just stood there sobbing at not seeing ponies. Where’s fluttershy? Where rarity? AND WHERE THE HELL IS TWILIGHT SPARKLE.

You must have caused a bad scene as Alastor had took your hand and brought you to the hotel for shelter. You told the “nice” man your friend made you come here making Alastor think you got killed by someone. But what’s a child like you doing here?…..

When the whole crew met you, they found you adorable but they were concerned on why a child, most likely a “human” child like you is in hell.

You have a room next to the next lesbian couple. After they cleaned you and having you wear shoes..which didn’t go well so they let you wear a new pair of white socks as you wore a cute pink dress.

Vaggie felt something about you was off. But she felt like heaven had not let you in. So she didn’t press any farther.

Angel gives you fat nuggets because he trusts you to look after him as he works. He never told you what he does for work but you enjoy keeping fat nuggets some company.

You dressed fat nuggets up as a pig princess. Angel found it cute and funny as he took a photo of it to remember the memory forever.

The most to baby you is definitely the Morningstars and Alastor a little bit. As Alastor felt to protect when he first seen you. He always tells you to smile at most to not let anyone see what’s underneath.

Alastor takes you on strolls at times. Even taking you to cannibal town where you can meet his dearest friend. Rosie, an overlord who takes on the cannibal town.

Rosie absolutely adores you! She called you sweetie pie all the time you visit her with Alastor.

I imagine you gave husk ponytails as he just grumbled drinking. He didn’t feel the need to scold you, you’re just a kid. Kids don’t know no better.

You and husk’s dynamic is “drunk uncle x pretty pink princess kid”

Husk hates to admit it but he likes your presence as you help him clean. Although he tries to tricks you to not clean the glasses so you won’t cut yourself.

Lucifer definitely tries to take care of you how he did for Charlie and it’s so wholesome as he would bring you ducks to your room that across of his.

He is such a overprotective father figure-

Angel and you have such cute fashion shows together as you both dress up like princesses💗

I headcannon that Charlie and Lucifer would spoil you rotten like getting you cute dresses or whatever you want as long as you are happy.

I can see that if it was your birthday, it’s as if Christmas and a birthday was combined as you get so much gifts😭

Niffty definitely teaches you how to clean as she always wanted to teach someone how to clean without ignoring her.

I can imagine you trying to contact Ben somehow as Ben is being interrogated back at the mansion as slenderman is chasing Ben with a pan demanding where you are at.

Sir Pentious lets you In on his machine shenanigans as you just smile with the egg boiz who hold your hands.

You showed your teddy bear to Lucifer who cooed at you as he made you a duck that had bear ears..you were weirded out at first but appreciated it. It was nice to get gifts! 💗

I headcannon you like greeting the residents in the hotel as they greet you back not excepting to se an actual human child in the hotel

I can see Angel dust having Velvette make cutesy outfits for you as he likes to see you as a little sister.

I can imagine you just doing that evil ass child laugh to scare the residents…you little ass menace

[jack-o-phantom]

"They are still here"

[thesittingstick]

Behold: the game that made me cry uncontrollably

[acoustic-accompaniment]

I want every single person who supports the Met Gala in any way to unfollow me. Right now.

Children bleed out in the streets of Palestine while rich people spend $75,000 just for a ticket and others watch from afar in awe. I don't give a shit if you bought a ticket, was one of the many in the crowd outside, or you watched it from home. Your support of a multi-million dollar institute that only benefits the wealthy when that time and effort could easily go towards saving hundreds of thousands of lives!

"But the money goes to the museum!" I hear you cry from the distance. Yeah, a museum that only benefits the wealthy. It's just a huge fashion show for the rich to flaunt their wealth and hide their designs behind a pay wall. Children are being bombed while celebrities wave at the peasants around them, desperate for their attention while hiding their disgust for the general public.

$24 million. $24,000,000. That's how much money they raised. That's money that could go to saving lives. People starve in tents, rubble crumbling around them from constant bombardment, and the rich pay $350,000 for a fucking table at a bullshit pretend fundraiser.

Go fuck yourselves. Free Palestine.

[gwydionmisha]

CW: Real Dead Bodies. Dead Children.

The families wanted these to be publicized because the murderers had not had any real consequences.

The article has a whole screen warning before pictures start if you want to read the reporting, but not witness the war crimes. I do mean war crimes. Yes, my country did this and I'm furious about it.

Please do not click if you are not in a place to see this.

[dragonfelling]

Dreadful Mcculloughs - Horrotober 2

[blatantescapism]

Ah yes, it’s that special day where once again I find myself wondering what the ever-living fuck Joe Finigan was thinking.

This is the story of how I utterly failed to have the appropriate emotional reaction to 9/11. Mind the trigger tags. I’d add more but I ran out. This story is insensitive by nature and I probably shouldn’t share it, but it’s also such a weird slice of American life that I kinda feel like I gotta.

So, context.

Columbine happened in 1999, when I was in 5th grade. Schools across the US started to be like, “hm, maybe it’s time to actually address this issue somehow.” Our elementary school brought in some random police officers to talk about it. Police who, if anything, had been trained in how to make kids more traumatized.

We didn’t have active shooter drills back then. They were just like, “Hey kids, I want you to imagine this fucked up scenario that I am vividly describing. What would you do if it happened to you? Do you have a Plan? Will you be able to stick to your Plan even while your classmates are screaming? You should think about it hard, in graphic detail, so that when the time comes you won’t hesitate to make Tough Choices. Breaking your leg because you jumped out a window is still better than being dead! Listen to this story of a girl who hid under a desk, but then the gunman found her and she couldn’t escape because there was no room to maneuver and so she was trapped and the gunman shot her while she bravely said her prayers, we have a weird creepy obsession with painting the victims as modern Christian martyrs and we totally invented the entire story but you won’t realize that for at least a decade. And remember: don’t run in a straight line, run in zigzags so that you’re harder to shoot.”

So yeah, that was 1999, we were 11 years old, and we took that shit very much to heart.

Two years later, it’s 2001. There have been 15 new US school shootings in that time. My sister and I are in middle school, it’s early in the school year but we’ve started to get into a normal rhythm,

Suddenly there is a totally unexpected blare on the intercom. It’s Principal Joe Finigan, he is about to make the most significant announcement of his career, and for some fucking reason he decides that THIS is the best thing to say:

“There has been a, uh, a terrible tragedy. Everyone should go home now. Uh, ask your parents what happened. As far as we know, we are not a target at this time.” Click.

We don’t have any other sources of information. The teachers aren’t telling us what’s going on, but some are crying.

Obviously there must have been a school shooting in town. But what the hell did he mean by “as far as we know, we are not a target at this time”? That makes it sound like the gunman is still at large. Is this a sniper situation? Is it even safe to walk home? Are we going to have to line up in the office and take turns using the school telephone to call our parents?

We cautiously head outside, and there’s a line of parents already out there waiting in their cars to pick their kids up. Oh shit, it must be bad. Was it the kindergarten? Or the Catholic prep school?

Our mom is upset. She says she doesn’t want to talk about it while driving. She’ll show us the news on the TV when we get home.

We get home and steel ourselves to face the news, fully expecting to see the names of close friends and neighbors listed among the dead.

So please imagine how appalled our dear mother is when we say, “Wait a minute- all this fuss is because some buildings are on fire in a completely different state?!”

“As far as we know, we are not a target at this time.”

Dear Joe Finigan. What the fuck made you say that. Please tell me, did you genuinely imagine terrorists being like

“At this time, our target is the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. But next, we shall target a mediocre school in a bland suburban town that nobody has ever heard of! Ohoho! Ah hah ha ha!”

Anyway, there’s something to be said about how after both events, the US response was, “You see, this is why we need more guns. We tooootally promise they’ll only be used to hurt Bad Guys! After all, we’re the Good Guys! USA! USA!”

[circusm0us3]

Poetry hasn't touched me in a while. But I thought I'd share this piece I found on facebook that feels like my experience lately

[mixed-up-media]

We've been aging up Coraline and Wybie for years, aren't we forgetting some kids?...

:3

Before anyone asks, if we can age up Agatha (I know we do it) then we can age up these dead freaks.

But seriously there is not enough content on these guys. Sure Other Wybie Makes it into some fanworks, but we as a fandom have three mostly personality-less characters waiting to get stories. This is a fan content factory.

I like to think up in heaven (or whatever afterlife you believe in) the ghost kids are besties and then find Other Wybie. They all end up being really close cause they were all killed by the same spider demon. Here is a list of rolls in the friend group, and my personal headcanons.

Sweet ghost girl. She's the leader of the dead kids. Up in the afterlife she developed a bit of an attitude. Still watches over her sister and grandnephew. She's a bit bossy at times, but still has her heart in the right place. Still a sweetheart.

Huck Finn Jr., You know that annoying younger brother character in cartoons who's constantly flirting with the older girls in the show ? Yeah that's him. He's the gremlin dude who just stirs up chaos. He really does care about the others and is a great emotional support person.

Pioneer girl, The mom of the group. She was the first one killed, and the oldest when she was killed, so it was just kinda natural for her to take care of everyone. Says "Girl" every 5 sentences. Overly protective.

Other Wybie, Quiet and incredibly loving. He's kinda always been a little weird, considering he was created by the nightmare that killed all of them. However He loves these three kids like they are his family, and in a way they kinda are. The Other father essentially adopted him and the two live with the rest of the dead Lovatt family. Wybie's parents are pretty chill about the whole thing.

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HEADCANONS

The Other father learned how to play chopsticks on the piano and is very proud of himself.

The crew absolutely hangs out with Aggie whenever she's not busy being a ghost and annoying Norman.

They have been to the dream fair, and have met Wendell and Wild.

Other Wybie kinda acts like Coraline's "Guardian angel" type of thing. So he watches over her and OG Wybie, and does angel stuff (I'll flesh that out more later)

[starii-lins]

Dead kids gang featuring my favs from my fandoms!! List of names below

Ortho shroud from TWST

Chara from Undertale

Cassidy and Charlie from FNAF

Mari from Omori (technically not a kid but shes still a minor so it counts)

Sally from Creepypasta

Qiqi from Genshin

[lykos-with-a-gun]

Mad

Luffy is mad, i don't want that here, i need happy luffy to survive.

C'me here!, down here! Come down for more fun facts!

Luffy is still 19 in this au, his b-day is still 5 may, (kodomo no hi/children's day)

Nika doesn't have an age, or a b-day, so luffy makes him be his older brother (nii san)

Luffy says that Nika is 25, n his b-day is 21 June, (that day is the summer solstice, n the most longest day in the year)

Nika thinks usopp is a cool liar, a very cool and brave liar

Robin can understand the idiom alternates talk

The east blue gang existed in the void century aswell

Alternates like Nika are called dead children (that small detail is important for the lore)

If Nika had an age then he would be older than the void century

Nika is taller than luffy (yes, he can actually get out of the body you saw it in the other pic, but anyone could see him, I will draw how he looks like when the people can see him later)

Dead children like hovering around luffy and Pao (Nika)

That is all!

Be kind, be safe.

[angelnumberdigest]

[asocial-skye]

thinking too deeply about the scene where palpatine just goes, 'well, if you want to save your wife from dying, you have to go murder a bunch of kids. it's okay, i know this has nothing to do with prenatal care, but trust me on this one.' like, i know it's just shorthand for 'he's evil now', but what purpose does this serve? what is the reason for murdering children? is it just for palpatine's shits and giggles? does he want to check to see if anakin is really that desperate? why tamper with useful apprentices that could be used as an army, and could eventually serve as viable replacements for anakin lest something happen?

like, lucas went with child murder, and didn't do anything interesting with it. like, at least do something useful with the dead children, like, use their souls to keep luke and leia alive and that's why they make it through childbirth. make anakin drag them up to the top of the jedi temple to show dissenters to the new empire, this is how we deal with traitors. use the dead souls to purge the light of the temple and shroud it in darkness. do something creative!

or, at least, let the dead babies haunt people. every strike vader lands, he can hear a child's cry at the end of it. they sob loudly, and he rips his eardrums from his mangled ear to dull the pain. they whisper in luke's ear as a child, avenge us, and luke wonders if he's gone insane. everytime padme cries out in her birthing, she can hear fifty echoes of babies and children crying with her. and when she turns her head to her daughter and son, the voices that so fervently cried out for help were silenced in eerie quiet, and then she knows.

i don't know where i was going with this. anyway, uh, utilize the child murder properly!