#hide and seeker

[yourfavouritecharactersasdragons]

if possible, could you draw the Hide and Seeker from It Steals as a dragon?

[psi-kings-sensorium]

I love it steals

[libraryspectre]

I DIDNT REALIZE NIGHTMARE KING WAS A SEQUEL TO HIDE AND SEEKER LETS GOOOOO

[backlogbooks]

people who enjoy middle grade books please read Hide and Seeker by Daka Hermon so i can talk to someone about the last chapter

[what-ive-been-reading]

Hide and Seeker - Daka Hermon

One Sentence Summary:

Kids play a cursed Hide-and-Seek game and have to face their greatest fears after getting pulled into a shared personal hell.

Did I Like It?

Yeah. It was extremely enjoyable. I want to get the author's next book "The Nightmare King" but my library doesn't have it. Needless to say I'll be putting in a request.

Would Kid Me Have Liked It?

Kid me would have devoured this book in a single sitting.

How Scary Was It?

It's much more about emotional distress than it is about jumpscares, which I prefer. I don't think there was anything that pushed the envelope, but that doesn't matter. It was an extremely clean bit of kid's horror that showed the perfect amount of restraint.

Multiple characters talk about what their greatest fears are and some of them are enough to make me, a grown adult, think about how torturous something like that would be. I am very specifically talking about Mary and the well. Extremely satisfying balance of "actual monsters" and "emotional monsters."

I might give this book a nod for "My Favorite Kid Friendly Body Horror" in the form of these porcelain dolls that show up at the end. EXTREMELY fun.

Expanded Thoughts:

It was a tight 308 page kids horror story with an extremely natural voice thanks to Daka Hermon's excellent ability to write stream of consciousness.

Justin, our protagonist, is a deeply empathetic kid with a lot of weight on his shoulders. The panic attacks scenes are solid, and the methods he uses to get through them are ones that I myself would have really benefited from as a kid.

The children are endearing and behave in a way that makes perfect sense. Sometimes kids make bad choices, other times they make perfectly sensible ones. That's being human, and it really shines in this book.

Lyric being the one to be suspicious of the police struck me as interesting at first, but it makes perfect sense and I absolutely see what the author was going for here.

Ashamed to admit I didn't peace together some name wordplay until l saw the names directly next to each other in the climax. Extremely cute and got a genuine laugh out of me.

I feel bad for Hyde, and I really do think the text did a very good job of showing how compliance can become complacence in a way that kids will pick up on.

[fairybasketsxo]

if your halloween plans do not involve having scary transgender sex then you need to change that immediately

[starryscale-art]

mide

[nothanksjohnny]

Im back on my insanity run and I said to myself

"Self?"

"Yeah what's up bbygirl"

" there should be more thoughts of bots being a bit scared of humans"

"That's a great idea"

Anyways here are my thoughts. I've read a lot of different kinds of opinions and site's and kinda just jumbled it all together. Cybertronains have their own diets and while energon is a large portion of it there is some verity. While they can eat and mildy digest human food it's not recommend due to gaining no nutrition due to it being carbon based and them not really needing it in the form earth's vegetation and species give. Of course this still means a curious bot or has tried a human meal. Although this isn't really what drives them off. No rather its how humans catch,prepare and vocally crave other living organisms. It's not a oddity to us to hear someone whine on how there "dying to eat some ribs!" Or are dying "for some grilled salmon and rice." It's something that can lead to conversion and finding common ground. This is not the same for a cybertrioan upon hearing this and learning just where these meats come from they will appear uneasy and in their own way sick. Their plating tight as their optics glance at you before recommending you to eat some fruit or any snacks they've come to have stored away for any of their earthly companions upon a ship or a base. This is just hearing this mind you. Now seeing someone eat is another. Eating something as simple as Jerky will get you stares and one of them going out to purge their tanks. This is just something that doesn't make alot of noise. As someone who eats the cartilage off of chicken bone I can imagine it causes them to rethink their options of how weak humans are. They can't help but clamp their plating and shift uncomfortably as they hear your molars grind at the cartilage and tear and snap as it's forces off the bone. Primus help them if you chew the bone slightly. It's almost as bad as when humans describe how much joy they gain from this " please stop talking how much you enjoy the ribcage from a cows carcas." " come on man I don't judge you when you drink blood." Their one "how to cook steak properly" from screaming on how you eating other living being. Vegans and vegetarians aren't safe either once they learn how plants feel pain in their own form. Did you know under black light a plants chlorophyll appear red? Yeah your getting a side eye as well its not as bad but they still don't want to see you eat around them. Now you may be asking " well if their so uncomfortable with the subject how do some of them eat our food then?" Some ways this can happen is that the bot may be unaware at first and never gave a true thought were those chicken wings come from. Another is maybe they don't care as much. Plenty of them have done dishonorable things what's wrong doing a small one.

Another factor that causes them to wonder just how "harmless" their human companions are is when we do rather primal acts. Have you ever wanted for spook someone or just not be seen? You stalk them to achieve this. Now while we don't do it like our canine or feline companions I belive we still do it in our own way. You tense and for some even hunch yourself over a bit in a attempt to make yourself smaller for a lesser chance of being seen. You take soft yet full steps as you ease your weight on each leg to not cause to much noise. Or maybe you lift your heels off the ground and step with the front of your foot taking strides as you crouch and keep your legs firm on the ground. You keep yours eyes focused and either hold or try and even out soft breaths. You hear every creak and shift until eventually you pounce a yelp cause a smile to curl on your face. Or maybe your trying to catch a fly carefully trying to almost play the insect that your just passing by before you trying to slam a object or your hand on it in hopes of killing it. It's makes any autobot or decepticon shiver as they see it happen. Or maybe they stumbled upon children playing hide and seek ( dont ask me how their big ahh selfs somehow manage to not be seen). They can't help but freeze as they see these smaller pathetic organics go still and listen shifting and holding their limbs tight yet isn't help the trembling causw by the thrill of the chase as they snap their head a certain direction and dig their feet into the ground to start running with a push. To see them giggle and smile aa they creep up on their friends and just like the fly pretend they don't know someone's there until they to pounce " got you!" Is squealed happily and yet all the poor bot can think is " I need off this fragging planet" They can't help but let their processor run wild as they one day notice you doing the same to them. Ratchet at the computer and the others are simply lounging around the base and there you are. Not even half their size but you eyes seem to snap to the poor medic and you grin. Soft steps and your eyes concentrated and they slightly dilate. A smile that shows the tips of your canines as your breath slowly shifts to larger silent intakes of air. The others take notice but they can't help but stare. You can't harm ratchet. You wield no weapon. So why?. Their optics trace you and it's so unusual. It's code for them to know how to deal with situations yet here you are. No training and yet your mind is already making all the hopefully successful changes to catch what your hunting. A primal itch that adores to take the front in now subtle ways in modern society. So they watch. Watch and slowly move their helms to following you as you making your move closer to the medic shifting through the noises of the conversations still playing out. Shifting out of view when the medic moves just slightly. And then when your just a few away from his peds you snap your teeth on the rabbits neck snapping it with the sound of " Hey ratchet whatcha doing?" As his yelp and huffs is intangled with laughter at his misfortune. Your canines presented by pulled back lips as teeth snap and cause a soft dull clank to fill a empty space as you smile at the medic that now has a scowl on his faceplate. Blue optics causing a whirrrr noise as they shift in a mimic as to how any creature on earths eyes do naturally. All as the the others shift and silently keep in mind to always glance behind them hoping they won't have misfortune to be your next rabbit.

[dizzy-hat]

redraw

old one 👇

[lunagames]

I'm of the opinion that Zestial and Carmilla had and have wildly different opinions on Alastor, though Zestial's opinion probably didn't shift all too much overtime.

Now Carmilla is just a bit annoyed at the drama queen that is Alastor, but I do believe that she was concerned at the beginning of his appearance. Like dude just took out half her meeting room of overlords in a matter of weeks, that ain't fitting into her statistics. She likes control, she likes knowing what will happen and planning for it.

So, she probably met with Zestial to discuss this in a 'is this a normal problem or something we need to do something about'-way only to be met with a 'funniest thing to have happened in three centuries' banner.

[pomefioredove]

HELP- Playing hide and seek with Rook or the tweels- The idea would be fun until it hits you who you're playing this game with.

Like you'd think it would be all fun and games until they take it too seriously- Going from a nice game of hide n seek. To a full on horror movie type of you being hunted 💀

you wouldn't do that to yourself unless you had a death wish. 😭😭😭

oh and add lilia to the list too

[psi-kings-sensorium]

It Steals but they're "human"

[libraryspectre]

Just finished a great middle-grade horror story. Definitely recommend if you want to see a wonderful group of kids band together to defeat their worst fears. This book is as touching as it is scary. Also the cover rules

Synopsis copied from Goodreads:

One of our most iconic childhood games receives a creepy twist as it becomes the gateway to a nightmare world.

I went up the hill, the hill was muddy, stomped my toe and made it bloody, should I wash it?

Justin knows that something is wrong with his best friend. Zee went missing for a year. And when he came back, he was . . . different. Nobody knows what happened to him. At Zee's welcome home party, Justin and the neighborhood crew play Hide and Seek. But it goes wrong. Very wrong.

One by one, everyone who plays the game disappears, pulled into a world of nightmares come to life. Justin and his friends realize this horrible place is where Zee had been trapped. All they can do now is hide from the Seeker.

[imtryingandtired]

I just imagine anytime the museum exhibits play some kind of scavenger hunt or any game like hide and seek, Sacagawea always ends up winning. She’d be able to find the best hiding spots or be scarily good at finding whoever’s hidden.

[ii-thelightseekers]

AUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MEPHONE MEPHONE4 SPEAK TO ME ARE YOU ALRIGHT??? IS ThERE ANYTHING YOU NEED ME TO GET YOu???????????????

📱-I’m- uh

Not the best I guess?

…you won’t be able to get what I need right now

[ask-a-bot]

Two things!

Starscream can I take one of your children (specifically Grid cuz he adorable) to uh, actually didn't plan where to go- Museum, art gallery? Oh what about the place where humans have all these aircraft on display?

Second, the person with the seeker at their place, is the seeker red and black with gold patterns on em?

Definitely not cuz the red seeker is my spouse and reason why am on Earth-

AM DEFINITELY NOT SLEEP DEPRIVED WEEEEEEE

I haven't got any children! Who's Grid? Have you had a knock on the helm or something? What the ever-fragging frag are you talking about?

Starscream!

Frag frag fragetty frag!

Go to berth, you... you... foul-mouthed, delinquent dolt!

You think so highly of me! It warms my spark.

Star, please, go to berth. I don't want to have to pick bits of you out of the rug.