#greylock series

[micdraws]

Top 10 girl boss moments (she has been possessed by incomprehensible forces)

[linkr0tt]

Hope yall are keeping up with Greylock

[usernose]

Guys, hear me out on this. A Sofia the First... Gravity falls... au. Now, I don't have most of it down, but here are some characters I assigned to be in:

Cedric as Stanford (and by extension Cordelia as Stanley)

Greylock as Fiddleford

And please hear me out on this one

Obake as Bill Cipher.

Now, it would make sense to switch the roles for Cordelia and Cedric, but I'm not basing all the story points from GF into this au. Also, Cedric falling for Obake's compliments and tactics makes more sense.

Anyway, that's all I'm gonna say about it, and yes, Obake is going to be a shape. What else would he be?

[souplovingwerewolf]

Analog horror series explained poorly (underrated series edition):

Greylock: Foster's Home for Imaginary Eldritch monstrosities

Suitmation trials: "people possessing animatronics" trope but it's opposite day (and also Godzilla is there)

White Stag Education: creepy mask cult worships space Satan, also there's psychic drugs for some reason?

Sominum dream viewer: You VIEW dreams?? You view dreams like the TV show?? Oh! Oh! Distorted nightmare jail! Distorted nightmare jail for human for one thousand years!!

Happy meat farms: welcome to McDonald's would you like a beesechurger,a mutagenic horror beyond human comprehension that's being exploited by humans for their own selfish and foolish desires, or chicken nuggest

Surreal broadcast: oops! All interdimensional nightmare spiders! (Ft. The cult of the green guys)

[corvsayscawcaw]

GREYLOCK: TAPE 012 - Waking Your Subconscious [RAMBLE]

Just gonna ramble here for a bit because that tape was absolutely crazy. You can watch it here. Please heed the in-universe content warnings as well as mine. Some of this topics will be mentioned.

Content Warnings: body horror, gore, loud noises, disturbing audio/visuals, animal cruelty (specifically against dogs, but I'm not too sure if that's the right warning for this situation), flashing lights, brainwashing (like... brainwashing visuals paired with distorted audio and such. I find it pretty disturbing, so I'm gonna add that here.)

Alright, now onto the very disorganized ramble.

Synopsis

A SimioDyn tape addressed to Charlotte Jean Melgren is played. It runs through a couple of mind exercises that slowly become more disturbing and brainwashy as it progresses, clearly altered by a malicious entity or force. The tape cuts out and switches to recording of a computer screen from a security company with an alert to a security breach and power outage at Forever Friends Shelter and Adoption Center. Charlotte, the owner of the shelter, is called by Troy, an operator for EverVIGIL Security. She checks out the kennel and confronts a thoughtform. Troy tries to keep her calm and calls the police. Charlotte is dragged away from the phone by the thoughtform and brutally attacked. The tape continues with some more exercises and a bit of brainwashing until it finishes. The police officer that was called to check out the shelter heads to the basement and finds Charlotte on the ground alive, but now a grotesque amalgamation of herself and three(?) dogs. The tape ends as he runs out of the shelter panicked as the creature screams.

Production and Small Details

So far, this has been the main analog horror I've been keeping up with consistently. For those who are fans of Local 58 or have watched the series, the video gives major Real Sleep vibes, even pulling some inspiration for the true and false sections and face exercise. I fucking love it. The shadow monster that appears in the background grid of the SimioDyn tape for Charlotte Jean Melgren slowing inching closer to the screen is an extremely unnerving visual that I like.

Major props to the actors involved in this episode! I could feel the raw fear and desperation even though there wasn't any live action footage. The horror is left up to the viewer's imagination and is fueled by the snippets of CGI for the thoughtform. There wasn't a moment where I thought that the scenes were too corny or stiff. Absolutely phenomenal. The in-universe warning in the tape also acting as a content warning is a very effective way of warning viewers AND not breaking immersion.

New Information

As briefly mentioned in the previous section, the tape that is shown in this episode is for Charlotte Jean Melgren. The surname "Melgren" stands out because another character in the series shares the same name. Private investigator Jim Melgren has been a reoccurring character in the series, debuting in TAPE 007 - back to normal in a quick flash of a news article and is mentioned by Arnold Rivers in TAPE 008 - old odd ends.

It becomes apparently clear Charlotte has gone missing because of an event undisclosed/unknown to the public and supposedly to Jim as well. Whatever has altered the tape seems to know that the person viewing it is indeed Jim. We now know why Jim Melgren is so involved in this investigation of SimioDyn and the Unit 13 project. He has a personal tie to these incidents because of his daughter, who was an unfortunate victim of one of the thoughtforms. We finally have a better grip on his character.

His daughter owned a shelter called Forever Friends and lived in a separate building right next to the kennels. She has been called numerous times over the course of two weeks regarding security breaches at the shelter, but most of the footage is corrupted or distorted, a common thing associated with the presence of thoughtforms. It seems to have been stalking her for a while.

We also a full-body view of a thoughtform as it breaks into the shelter. All previous images have been only partial or very distorted. It's a tall, monstrous skeleton with clawed hands and what looks like to be bits of muscle or blood all over its body. We still don't know who specifically created this thoughform and what its specific goals are.

Going back to the SimioDyn tape, we learn that it is supposed to induce fear and paranoia through the exercises, explaining they are crucial to induce the desire change for the experiment being conducted. It does an effective job, of course. I was utterly unnerved and very comfortable during my initial watch (creepy ambience and a slowly approaching shadow creature easily does the job for me). It goes on into a True or False exercise with a couple of statements.

The tape's aim is to alter the brain in some way to manipulate Charlotte into exploring the darkest parts of the unconscious and into opening the "Black Door", explaining "[t]he darkest aspects of [her] mind are part of a larger psychological entity that resides deep within [her] unconscious." It goes on to state the entity cannot be ignored, subdued, locked away, or eliminated, and attempting to "has the opposite effect, only making it stronger, darker, and more dangerous." I'll tap more into this shadow entity in the analysis later.

Something to note is that the tape seems to hinge on the idea of shadow psychology, which in "analytical psychology, the shadow is an unconscious aspect of the personality that does not correspond with the ego [the conscious] ideal, leading the ego to resist and project the shadow, leading to a conflict with it." I'm no psychologist, of course, so I can't really explain much about it with the little knowledge I have.

My brain is hella dead right now and running 100 miles a minute, so I'll just have to make a separate analysis post or something because I love this series so damn much, and I'm gonna milk this hyperfixation before I inevitably throw myself at another series.

[lenny-zesty]

please ask me about analog horror pleasepleasepl

[dead-philosophy]

If you haven't watched this yet

do it right now.

[dread-knight]

WAIT the "seriously strange" guy made the greylock tapes? the same dude who I got pissed at because he made a "cringe comp" type series back in like 2016-ish along side his horror content, because said series was making fun of young trans/neurrodivergent people's personal posts???? LOLLLLLLL (the lol is sarcastic. grown ass man doing that shit. hope hes changed but also that was like.... old enough to fuckin know better. conflicted abt that greylock series now)

[autistic-butters-stotch]

im getting into greylock but all i can think abt is making an oc 😭😭

[i-hear-a-sound]

I should’ve never slept on greylock bro..

[micdraws]

I keep forgetting to post it but!!!! Here's the fanart for tape 12. My absolute favorite tape so far!

[konnetwork]

Severed Steel: A Fast-Paced, Destructible-Environment Shooter

[usernose]

Greylock: Well hello.

Cedric: Oh Greylock.

Obake: Oh hey Greylock. I'm banging your ex friend.

Greylock: Sorry I was just LATE! I tried to call but... *The battery*

Cedric: Well, I didn't want all this food to go to waste, so I called Mr Aken. Luckily, he was free.

Obake: Yeah, and we had sex.

Greylock: Oh yeah. Good thing he was free.

Cedric: Well, I don't want you to go hungry now. Let me heat up some food.

Greylock: Yeah, how bout you do that, bitch. *stares intensely at Obake* Get in the kitchen.

Obake: *is cutting his steak* What's your problem, Mr. Monocle?

Greylock: You know I would prefer if you didn't call me that.

Obake: Oh yeah, really. Too bad I don't care. Though I heard you're quite the dazzleball player. I'm not too much into the game myself. I find the balls a little bit oversized. *eats the steak bit*

Greylock: *I'll show you some oversized balls, you little prick.*

Obake: You say something, Greylock?

Greylock: No.

Obake: *swallows and moans a bit* Sorry, big bite.

Greylock: that was.. that was really weird.

Cedric: Hey Greylock, I was reading over your resume and Mr Aken agreed with me that being able to wipe your ass without your king's help isn't a real skill.

Greylock: Oh yeah, Cedric. Well, being a ho3 isn't a real skill either.

[verynormalguy]

posting art on the internet is so sad and demoralizing bc I'll work on something for days only to get 2 notes of engagement on every platform i post it on and I'm not sure if it's bc people didn't see it or bc they don't care or bc my art is just bad

[graylikethecolor42]

Going to jail for trying to uncover the secrets of Greylock (it’s rlly good btw)

@rusalkaandtheshepherdgirl @idiot-mushroom @fizzy-champagne @mad-i-moody @zeldanoel

Found this on Twitter, so I thought, why not posting it here and doing a tag game 😊

Ok, I’ll go first

If he is the reason, I’d go to prison gladly 🥰❤️‍🔥

Tagging: @killerqueen-ofwillowgreen @nic-214 @milkyway-ashes @dr-radiation @whitequeen-ofwillowgreen @sunsetdaydreamer @therockywhorerpictureshow @delicatelyfantasticninja and everyone 😊

Sorry if I forgot to tag some of you!

[bangpuddingmuffin]

Severed Steel

I changed my opinion on this from the demo. I ended up having a good time with the game. I just needed to embrace constantly doing moves, constantly doing slo-mo, and just being willing to blast through a level.

Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMOeTsMoezKbJnhSVVvbDG-xBF9qy5rXq