#he's the uncanny valley if it was a person

[sweetangle8]

Bitter and bloody AU

Contacts: so I’ve had this AU for like a year and a half in the making I have never really shared it to nobody but now to my moots and they really liked it so I wanna share it to others to want to know if they like it so this is you is like would’ve bittersweet and then off in a much more darker and much more creepy than it’s more of a really fucked up bad ending kind of

TW: Mentions of Self harm kind of religious motive kind of weapons and blood and mostly very heavy topics with mental health issues and horror image

I don’t know if I’ll make a whole fanfiction about this but these are some like ideas and head cannons I have about this au

The start: Like a little au bittersweet that instead of you know Finn coming into the picture sugar boo actually kills Derek, and instead of you know, Derek die normally he pass his way he instead you know, haunts the listener, and the listener has to deal with him because he’s now “ you kill somebody you’re just like me for real “ and they have to deal with him, torturing them pretty much being stuck in their head without leaving and they can’t tell both of the boys because they don’t know how to explain how this happened and they’re just stuck with this annoying ass guy the entire time torturing them because they killed one person and they’re just basically haunting him and the listener doesn’t know how to explain the boys because how do you explain to somebody that a ghost is torturing you

Why he plans to make sugar boo like fucking miserable and they have to deal with him like he’s a constant nightmare. I have a audio about this.

And they start becoming slowly more miserable like they were once a happy little sunshine and now they just wanna beat the shit out of everybody. I don’t know what’s with me wanting to make sugar boo the most miserable person in the world, but I really like this. I don’t know why maybe is it because I don’t like much of the end then yes and no

Like I can imagine him appearing in the worst times just to make sugar booze, life fucking miserable just reminding him that “hey you killed a person when you said you wouldn’t do that” and they they’re just trying to make it in their head too. I’m a good person just because I did this doesn’t mean I’m not a bad person. I’m a good person and trying to reassure themselves that they’re not a bad person but they think they are a bad person and they don’t know how to tell the boys because how the fuck are you gonna tell people I’m being haunted by a guy, and I feel like the most miserable person in the world.

Like psychologically like they look like they’re fine physically they’re fine. They’re standing they pretending to be the sweet little cinnamon roll that they are but inside every time you look at the mirror at night, they just see him in the back like staring at them and he has like. Warning for blood. ||He is like the blood running down his face and everything. He looks all fucking fucked up and it’s like uncanny Valley type of thing.||

Thank you! P0tion_Alb For giving me this question

I mean, yes and no like in the back of my head it would be a good thing but in the back of my other head, I’m like it would be more fun for me to make them fucking miserable and they have this as a secret until like they finally break like at that point they find them having such a bad mental breakdown that the boys are just fucking confused Because their partner has been fine and dandy, a nice little cinnamon roll. They always been just to find out that this guy has been haunting them for like over a year.

They gave me this idea and it’s so good

Like I think about it as like

Sugar boo trying to have like a normal day : I’m a nice person. I’m a good person. I wouldn’t consider killing somebody and I’ve never done that before

Derek in the background : actually you have killed somebody and you would do it again wouldn’t you you little fucking liar you’re a horrible person. If your boyfriends found out they would think you’re a horrible person too.

Thank you! Time For giving me this question

So I support where I’m like. I don’t know if they should hide it or like they do kill Derek, but the boys find out and they’re like they’re trying to reassure them that everything’s OK(I’m assuming the boys have done this exact same but sugarboo is worse haunting measures)

But I’m also thinking about like they leave they try to make a scene that it happened like you know how auron finds his body that’s how he would find it but sugar boo wouldn’t say anything. They would try to hide it from the boys try to make it like it happen all of itself and the sugar boo had nothing to do with.

TW: disturbing images

Derek don’t want to look sexy. I actually want him to look like he came out of hell like he was dragged by the fucking mud over and back. Beat the shit out of him like I want him to look like the worst person ever and have the most horrifying smile.

I’m going to route with the second cause like I kind of wanted to be like this was kept a secret and this is why they’re so like afraid of themselves like they want to reassure themselves like they’re a good person like they would never do this, but also in the back of their head, they’re like I kinda like this like they have a weird taste for like blood in a way

Like I can imagine the reassuring themselves that they’re like a good person they would never do this there they’re not as bad as they think they are, but also the second thought they are kind of a bad person not really cause they had a good right to do it, but in their head, Derek, and also their feelings are manipulating them

Thank you! P0tion_Alb For giving me this hc

If that makes him feel even more fucking worse, they feel miserable because they’re pointing the fault on somebody else now instead of themselves and that gives you know who gives some get more fuel, fucking Derek he’s like yeah you’re blaming somebody else when this was your fault you did this YOU KILLED ME AND YOU’RE SAYING YOU’RE NOT A BAD PERSON THAT YOU WOULD NEVER KILL ANYBODY, BUT BESIDES MY FRIEND, YOU ACTUALLY DID KILL SOMEBODY

I feel like this would give Derek more fuel into tormenting the shit out of sugarboo like this is not helping them feel better. This is making them feel worse.

Anyways I hope you guys like it I was been a really long time on it and I hope you guys love it as much as I do :3

[mangosaurus]

and just one more thing, if i can

i've had a pretty hard time grappling with the way ben's been handled in CT. in concept, i can appreciate what they've done with his character, i.e. showing that he's not forever defined by his trauma or the rambo type persona he adopted because of it. this part of ben's storyline has been present since CC s4, so it makes sense that it'd carry on into CT in some way. but i think the problem i'm having is that, for me at least, we've swung so far in the opposite direction from the stoic front he put up post-monorail incident, so now we have this ... uncanny valley version of ben that should make sense on paper but which resonates with me in very few ways

and maybe i'd have an easier time accepting this version of ben if A) the trajectory of his character in CT matched up better with the impression we got of him in CC's epilogue, B) we actually got to see the progression of his character between CC's epilogue and the major events of CT in real time, or C) we got any indication of him seeking therapy like yaz did to heal from his trauma. but ... we haven't. and that last point sort of lends into the second Big Gripe i've had with his character, which is that so much about ben's character ultimately functions to serve the punchline of a joke, including his trauma and the consequences of it: his conspiracy theory tendencies, his living habits, his general sense of paranoia. and ben is so integral to CT's overarching plot ("we're being hunted," finding out brooklynn's alive, spearheading the plan to save her from soyona), but i fear that gets overshadowed by the role he's stumbled into as the nublar 6's primary comedic relief

that isn't to say ben didn't have his funny moments in CC—he did! many of them, actually. they never felt this frequent or mean-spirited, though. the man can't even say he has a girlfriend without his friends (uncharacteristically) clowning on him for it. and that's really disappointing when kenji (someone who uses humor to brush off/cope with his trauma, but who is very rarely ever treated as the joke) and brooklynn (someone who's able to make light of her situation in a way that doesn't undermine the severity of her trauma) exist in direct contrast to him. overall, it just feels like a weird direction to have taken his character. and all of this has been something i've had a much harder time putting into words than, let's say, the way darius's character has kind of just meandered through the plot the last two seasons, but it's something i've felt more consistently from the beginning of the series. there's only so many times the show can tell me major aspects of ben's personality has changed before i start questioning why that is, and how we got here. unfortunately, the answers i've been provided with (or been expected to infer) have yet to convince me

hrmm ... criticism below the cut

s3 is such an interesting case study of Questionable Darius Writing to me. like, he's more involved in the main plot than he was in s2 so at least he's doing something. but i spent the first half of the season just going "he would not fucking say that" and the second half wishing he'd have stronger feelings about anything that was going on

[crooked-wasteland]

I had to rewatch SC video to understand why he quit HB, because all I got was HB season 2 was bad and people are mean? it sounded like he couldn’t admit he was wrong when dire, cartoonishi and other YT spotted the flaws in the first episodes, plus not to be mean but his channel depended on HB and the fans to keep it growing that he stuck with it for as long. Most importantly it sounded like he had an epiphany that S2 was terrible. The circus was a disaster premier episode that the professional writers while still fans recognized the flaws and foreshadowed it getting worse they struck around and were fans. They didn’t make HB to be meanspirited they genuinely loved the show and the show runner wasn’t till they were vague tweeted by viv and harassed by fans did they drop the show. They weren’t safe and viv can’t take criticism.

SC literally saying how he's "Not like those other people" is just another way of saying "I'm one of the good ones". Which is his feeble attempt to try and couch his criticism so the fans don't turn on him, while simultaneously holding up boogiemen in DireGentleman and Cartoonishi. As if to say he isn't like them because their criticisms are invalid because he waited until episode 5 to suddenly see the issues with the show.

The fact that, instead of fessing up to the full extent of his spinelessness, he still tries to set himself apart from other critics who were former fans; I feel that negates any acquiescence he made to the fact that he was basically pulling his content out of his ass. He still isn't being authentic in his approach to the series because he knows it would destroy him.

My most personal criticism of Medrano is that she doesn't deserve her success. I feel the same, if not moreso, about Sarcastic Chorus. The best thing to happen to him is losing his channel income and going out into the real world and actually developing an identity outside of a brand.

I have plenty of criticism towards Medrano, it is her fault the shows are badly written and her fandom is a literal cult. However, I don't hate Medrano. I have stated she is narcissistic, ignorant, abusive, and incompetent. I have accused her of being a compulsive liar and even untalented. I stand by all of those assessments, but even then I don't hate Medrano.

I genuinely despise Sarcastic Chorus. I can only describe the revulsion towards him as the sensation one gets staring into the Uncanny Valley. He's so devoid of identity, of humanity, he may as well be an AI.

[faint-taste-of-almonds]

I like the idea of there being something a little sharper about Zaunites.

Jayce often turns around to find Viktor much closer than he had thought, even being able to hear the tapping of his cane. During late nights in the lab, his amber eyes burn violently in the blue glow of the hexgems. On the rare occasion he blinks, Jayce can swear they appear reflective, like a cat’s. Just tricks of the light and the mind.

Mel’s skin rises the first time Jayce brings Viktor to a Council meeting. They’ve met before, of course, but there’s something immovable in his grip when she shakes his hand, touching him for the first time. Viktor smiles ingenuinely, almost mockingly, at something Salo says, and his teeth are a tad sharp. Mel has grown up around war, around danger, but it had always come for her head on. In Piltover, it came in the form of ruining reputations or profits. She wonders how thoroughly Viktor could ruin someone before they even realized he was there. She dreams of wolves and foxes that night, and from a tree, the ember-bright eyes of a lynx watches, waiting for the other predators to tear each other apart.

Vi likes to climb. Caitlyn knows this, though she supposes she didn’t really think about it. It’s almost beautiful to watch, really — the agile switches, the power thrumming beneath Vi’s skin like she might burst from it. Vi maneuvers through the rooftops of Zaun as easily as breathing. Sometimes, Caitlyn’s own breath will catch when the jump looks too far, too much, then Vi’s hand will catch the ledge without fail and she can huff a laugh. She ignores how many distances Vi has crossed that shouldn’t be crossable. Like a cat, a Zaunite will always land on their feet.

Ekko seems to move quite strangely, Heimerdinger thinks. Though, he’s never truly paid close attention to human movements, the boy seems to traverse without the normal effect of gravity, as if he simply never dismounted his hoverboard. It was far too smooth, far too even — it took a considerable time for Heimerdinger to put his finger on it. As they discover the sickness of the tree, the pattern changes. Ekko glitches sometimes, staying in one place for too long before seemingly being sling-shot through space, appearing somewhere else without having gotten there. A mystery for later, he supposes.

Silco feels like a condensation of all Zaun’s noxious gases, perhaps with a vein of Shimmer added for realism. Marcus feels like his lungs are clouding just from being around him, getting the urge to cough out the pollution. Silco is the grimy cracks, the perpetually-wet streets, the sunken ribs and track marks of every body slumped on every street. His voice curls around Marcus like a snake, squeezing tighter and tighter until the fear and the threats are the only things left in his brain. Yet, Silco sits calmly, always far too still. Sometimes his scar appears to splinter in front of Marcus’s eyes. When he tucks his daughter in a night, he wonders about what kind of monster might slip, unheard, through the cracks of her window.

There’s always been Something in the air in Zaun. The water too. Really, can one be surprised at the consequences?

[katoobee]

my headcanon heights for the bad sanses :D

[sixty-silver-wishes]

everyone talking about how robert eggers should do a caligari adaptation after he did nosferatu and like. I liked his nosferatu a lot. but idk if I would trust him with caligari. maybe I would, but I would be watching very carefully.

[unnonexistence]

ok there was a poll going around a while ago about whether you think your 5-year-old self would recognize you, and I'm curious:

[awhoreintheory]

The Joker gives uncanny valley and in this essay today I will

[discordiansamba]

"rin, wake up."

rin groaned, his eyes flickering open. it takes a second for them to focus, before he turns his head and sees his mom sitting next to him. she's smiling, but her smile is strained.

"...mom?"

his mom lets out a long exhale of breath, her shoulders slumping in relief. she pulls him close in a tight hug, but when he tries to return the gesture, his limbs just feel heavy and strange. his head is groggy, like he's still half-asleep.

...where is he? the last thing he remembers...

fire. lots of it.

his breath hitches sharply in his throat, but even that action feels strange to him. his fingers twitch, and he dimly becomes aware that he's sitting down somewhere, in a place that looks a lot like mom's lab- but it's different than he remembers it. he slowly turns his head to see yukio watching him, almost warily. his brow furrows at the sight of his twin. he looks... a little older, he thinks?

"it's okay," his mom rubs a soothing hand over his back, "-it's okay, rin. you're going to be okay now."

"...i feel weird," rin muttered.

"that's okay," yuri assures him, "-you'll adjust soon enough, i promise."

...adjust? adjust to what?

his mom lets him go, and rin slowly lifts a hand, staring at it almost in a daze. he flexes the fingers, his brow furrowed in confusion. it looks like his hand, but it doesn't feel quite right. it's not just his hand- his whole body feels that way. the heaviness is starting to fade, and his limbs are slowly starting to respond, but he can't shake the strange, alien way his entire body feels to him right now.

"...nii-san?"

rin turns towards yukio, and does his best to grin at him. yukio lets out a breath of relief of his own, before he hugs him, just like mom did. rin blinks and returns the gesture this time- but yukio winces a little so he automatically lets him go. mom tells him he needs to be careful- he's a lot stronger now than he used to be. rin's brow furrows in confusion. he doesn't understand. why would he be stronger?

"oh, your internal battery should be finished charging now."

...internal battery? rin stares at his mother in confusion as she presses a few buttons on the weird chair he's sitting on- and all of a sudden, the last of the heavy sensation leaves him. he frowns, gradually swinging his legs out of the chair- and just as abruptly becoming keenly aware of feedback from a limb he didn't have before.

...huh? why does he have a tail?

he looks between his mom and yukio- then slowly his gaze drifts. there's a long mirror in mom's new lab, but when he meets his eyes in it, his reflection doesn't feel right. like yukio, he looks a little older... but it's not just that. something's different, and it's not just the black tail that's flicking behind him like it has a mind of its own.

...but it's not until his mom helps him stand up, and he turns his head to see the tube behind him that he realizes just what it is about him that's different. it's hard to recognize it with all the damage, but he's keenly aware that the body that's hooked up to life support inside of it is his own.

...or it was.

oh. he's not human anymore, is he?

[nightsandreala]

Btw here’s another tweet from the thread I was talking about yesterday, it was just kind of interesting imo

[lesbiansforspock]

i wonder how scary it must have been for the hobbits to be constantly looking up at people

[cap-wilson]

Why did Matt feel better written & in character in she-hulk than in his own show??

[bogkeep]

watched berserk (97) on a whim after reading someone's tags on a writing advice post on how to justify Big Fucking Swords in stories. have started reading the manga. there's a lot of triggering visuals to me so i imagine this is what it's like to be lactose intolerant and decide to eat so so so much ice cream

[teethsmoothie]

i wasn't sure abt putting alla this in the tags of the post i just rbd but, i think the biggest thing about mascot horror, to me, is that not much of it can successfully impart the feeling of being a Small Child near a Thing that you are Scared Of and you don't know Why .

and everyone around you is laughing about it, the adults that are in charge of what's going on around you. telling you, oh you're so silly. for being scared of chuck e cheese wanting a hug. or, from your perspective, the gargantuan rat that wants to Fucking Grab You .

& they're telling you not to be scared but you Are and you don't Know Why so in your scared little childmind you've decided that this object of your terror must be Fucking Evil. which in the moment the logic tracks because in the moment you are In Fucking Hell

[eclipsecrowned]

watching the bestie have away with words to express what i also feel but stumble over trying to say re: rep in an adaption.

[randybutternubber]

Gino 🙏