#greater horror

[rocktheholygrail]

Hannibal 3x13 - “The Wrath of the Lamb”

Hannibal putting himself in front of the window to shield Will from Dolarhyde and getting shot + Will pulling a knife out of his shoulder at the risk of bleeding to death to save Hannibal from Dolarhyde

[wu-does-art]

dw chat, they could *all* be APYr, theres just no room for all of them <3

also hello Sally Face fandom

[weallpartyatybcpatricksfuneral]

idea:

vampire pete and ybcpatrick au

pete is kidnapped by the Vixens cult, he's The Music Guy of the Chicago hardcore scene and he's got a little too close to figuring out their operation

patrick is an experiment of the Vixens, a kid born from locally famous musicians that they kidnapped and brainwashed into a yellow-eyed, hook handed, violent monster

the Vixens are working to see if the same brainwashing would effect Pete since he is nonhuman, but it doesnt work

the brainwashing in patrick is failing, the Vixens notice this and vocally plan to kill the two of them, which Pete overhears.

Pete shares this plan to Patrick and the two have to work together to break out before they kill them

[specialagentartemis]

“Terry Pratchett is the ONLY author who—” no he’s not. I love Terry Pratchett too, I think he’s a great writer and I love his books! But whatever you’re about to say, he’s not the only author doing it.

[groundbreakingdot872]

What fascinates me the most about Gwen’s enchantment, is how cleverly Morgana uses skills that held importance to her old life, as assets in her plots against Arthur and the greater kingdom.

In A Lesson in Vengeance, we’re told that Tyr Seward had seen the traitor un-stitch and re-stitch the girth of Arthur’s saddle, which promptly breaks when the planned bandit attack comes to play. This is evil!Gwen’s doing obvs, but pays a reference to a younger version of her, who’d embroider the most dainty flower arrangements onto the bodice of her servant gowns, or who helped design and create an entire chainmail set for Lancelot’s first attempt at becoming a knight, after Merlin commisions her help.

Or in The Hollow Queen, we briefly see her use the key placed on top of the dungeon gate (the one Daegal places there for her to get to later), and it makes me think… how would he get his hands on it in the first place?

Morgana’s plan was too meticulous to not involve making a copy of the key so Gwen isn’t under immediate suspicion for the original going missing in the first place. I think she made a copy of it herself, just like she did in The Coming of Arthur, by using her father’s forge and kicking into those ygrained skillsets on how to do it.

Using Gwen’s very own hands, she’s made to undo everything she worked for, mislead everyone she loves, and it’s all, horrifyingly, muscle memory.

[blacktabbygames]

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(And if you already own some of the games, you can still get the others on sale!)

[turtleblogatlast]

Sorry if you've gone over this before but I was curious as to what you'd think it would take for Leo to finally break in front of his brothers?

We’ve actually seen Leo break his persona multiple times throughout the series! And pretty much each and every time has a common theme present: his family being in danger.

[ladystoneboobs]

theon's thoughts of his existing black wardrobe when considering the watch has been talked of plenty, but let's not ignore the rest of this fantasy which is imo even funnier. bc a) he remembers jon snow joining the nw as a selling point but fails to consider what it would mean to meet jon again after taking wf and supposedly killing bran and rickon and b) he describes it as a life of honor but assumes he can bed wildling women, which watchmen usually see as the most dishonorable kind of sex, not just patronizing the whores south of the wall but sleeping with the enemy. his newly-turned and fleeting ambitions of captaining a ship at eastwatch, rising to first ranger and even lord commander look downright logical and realistic compared with forgetting the celibacy vows and the motive he's just given jon snow--who never really liked him to begin with--to oathbreak by murdering him on sight. (tho, funnily enough he is kinda foreshadowing jon's soon approaching experience of sex with a wildling woman and facing accusations that his black cloak was indeed turned, even after rising to the position of lord commander. biggest difference is jon did not plan and go looking for a wildling lover, was unaware of his own possible princehood, and ygritte likely would not care about jon's royalty except to joke about it if they did know.)

[real-godzekiel]

giggle

[britishraptor]

Gonna kick the hornets nest here, but the file from the most recent episode of The Magnus Protocol was incredibly underwhelming. It didn’t take into account at all anything that actually makes snakes scary, little to no foreshadowing, and basically attempted to jumpscare the audience with a reveal that reads more like a parody of a horror story than an actual one.

I might look like an idiot or a fool when everything all strings together later than the line, but I’m questioning so much about this episode.

Parasites are scary. Worms, and insects and mold and rot. Decay, possession. Spiders are scary because they’re hard to see, hard to pinpoint and they move fast, plus the connections with webs related to control, and manipulation. So yeah, a worm lady, sure, a person filled with spiderwebs, also sure. But the only connection between snakes and parasitism could be a joke about ‘shedding your skin’ or how disturbing that one scene in Harry Potter was.

Snakes are scary for two reasons:

1) the same reason bears and tigers all that are scary. Hunt style being hurt, and killed, and eaten. Simple.

B) uncanny valley reasons. Snakes don’t blink. They don’t have facial expressions. The way they move and eat and exist is totally different from humans and mammals. They’re often described as alien and cold.

My questions:

a) why rodent control? why was he even actually brought in? His walls are FULL OF SNAKES. It wouldn’t have lasted five minutes. It doesn’t make any sense even if you know he was concerned about parasites. Snakes don’t give a shit about other snakes. To call someone a snake is to literally call them callous and prone to betrayal. A snake eats the rodent, so you kill the snake. Plus a snake store would have access to medications to kill mites and deal with snake illness? Why call the guy at all?

b) the foreshadowing on the owner is terrible. You could have mentioned his skin needed moisturising. That it seemed dry, flaky. Scaly. But just. A red rash? A rash? Are you saying being full of snakes is an infectious disease? That’s what he said at the end, right? That his throat itches. It was swelling. You can just?? Grow your own snakes?? Is that the implication?

No uncanny valley mention on the owner either at all. He didn’t move weird, being full of snakes? Didn’t sway or limp as he walked, didn’t move sluggishly? Bad hearing, didn’t know what to do with his hands? No? Just a short tempered customer. Okay.

c) You lost me at the thousands of snakes. THOUSANDS? What is this, a clown car? A snake clown car in some random guys skin, who explodes because he was mad a customer walked out.

Look, I’m Australian. And when I ask my friends ‘hey, how big do you normally picture a snake being?’ we picture snakes about 1.5m long. Dinner table length is pretty common for all of our common brown, tiger snakes, red bellies, and even longer for our common carpet pythons. But even if I adjust to like, other countries’ grass snakes, thousands?

The throwaway line at the end was plot relevant I’m sure, but I’m all around confused, and totally not even a little bit scared.

The only praise I have is that the description of the crickets was very creepy, and I loved the visual of them moving around like a shuddering wave of pixels on a screen, only really perceived by their screaming.

But yeah. The setup, the foreshadowing, the coherent theming and consistency all just fell totally flat for me. The only thing I learnt was that this guy applied to the institute and was rejected, and that snakes can’t do dishes.

[trenchgardens-ooc-ooc-ooc-ooc]

your mommas lyin'... what's she tryin' to do...

[clansunsharp]

while in agreement with the (very valid) post going around about ice aesthetic being more than just The Dragon Cops i have to say for me personally i deeply enjoy the problematic aspects of the ice flight from a horror perspective. following a deity who considers himself the sole judge of what is or is not "natural" and obeying his decision without question. taking on this enormous responsibility to guard and protect when nobody wants or has asked you to do so. considering the scorn and thanklessness all part of the job. knowing and seeing evidence that youre in the wrong but still choosing to victimize innocents rather than risk letting the guilty walk free, because you've seen horrors no other flight can imagine and you keep that shit to yourself instead of inflicting it upon the people who hold you in contempt. i love how fucked up it is.

[shadystranger]

this moment so fucked up💀

[tangirlisfangirl]

i feel bad that my friendly neighborhood had to release a week before the ruin dlc, its such a wonderfully and carefully crafted game with a beautiful story and character/level designs, just so much thought put into it across the board and it truly does justice to its concept, but now its gonna be lost in the onslaught of fnaf hype and not properly appreciated <:/

[noxexistant]

something to be said about irish catholic jack and cain & abel and jack’s belief that he himself killed michael

[chirpsythismorning]

Antis: Stranger Things is a MONSTER show. There’s nothing deeper going on. That’s all there is to it.

The show: It’s forced conforming. Thats what’s killing the kids. That’s the real monster.