#horror theories

[thosedamnlemmings]

My Dog Nightmares theory. (Spoilers under the cut)

If we look at the “He’s still out there” photo, the first thing we’d think the title to mean is that Bailey’s still out there, but the picture seems to show Emily and who may be her father, which makes me think that her father did something bad enough to be imprisoned, but fled and was never caught.

My theory is that the Dogman is actually Emily’s father who’s face her mind distorts due to a traumatic event involving him, in one of the photos two people’s faces are replaced with rhinoceros and alligator heads which i originally thought were her parents, but in a community post on Piggy Soda’s channel titled fathers day, we see what is definitely Emily and her father, with her dad’s head replaced by a dog that looks more mature than Emily’s dog head.

I also believe that the current story takes place much later than it would want us to think, it’s said a few times that Emily’s search for Bailey has gone for along time and that it’s time to give up, and i think it’s possible that Emily has either been age regressed permanently since the traumatic incident which would have probably happened multiple years ago and may be experiencing both short term and long term memory loss.

Or that a more recent traumatic event, or something that reminded her of the last one, has caused her to regress and have her stuck in a loop of when Bailey went missing, and that the inciting incident would be that the Dogman is her father who has been stalking her and attempting to lure her out using dog sounds because he knows how much she loves dogs, and try to kidnap her, it would also explain why she thinks the Dogman is her friend despite how scary he is, because on a subconscious level she still recognizes him as her father.

It’s also possible that Bailey’s head being twisted/decapitated might not have anything to do with Bailey’s disappearance, but may be a distorted memory of the event that traumatized Emily, and that her father may have murder someone by decapitation, strangulation, or snapping their neck, and Emily is superimposing those images onto her memories of Bailey.

[diaryofaphilosopher]

"The shift from the Afro-Caribbean zombie to the U.S. zombie is clear: in Caribbean folklore, people are scared of becoming zombies, whereas in U.S. narratives people are scared of zombies. This shift is significant because it maps the movement from the zombie as victim (Caribbean) to the zombie as an aggressive and terrifying monster who consumes human flesh (U.S.). In Haitian folklore, for instance, zombies do not physically threaten people; rather, the threat comes from the voduon practice whereby the sorcerer (master) subjugates the individual by robbing the victim of free will, language and cognition. The zombie is enslaved."

— Justin D. Edwards, "Mapping Tropical Gothic in the Americas" in Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture.

Follow Diary of a Philosopher for more quotes!

[jtt-033-1613]

[lucabyte]

monologue

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

Eldritch/not-entirely-human Grunkle Stan stories have been eating away at my brain, so I have a silly little concept of Mimic!Stan.

He and his Mystery Shack are both mimics that lure tourists in as a literal "tourist trap" to gather and devour them! Since the house is alive, it raises a few (read: several) child safety concerns that lead to a LOT of rules to be created for Dipper and Mabel to follow when they eventually arrive, such as:

Be careful not to get lost in the winding hallways! The Mystery Shack is bigger on the inside, and you don't want to end up in the wrong areas.

Don't go through randomly appearing doors, they may eat you.

If you think you feel the walls around you breathing and the floor beneath you shifting, no, you don't.

If you think the walls feel a bit damp, you're imagining it.

Watch your fingers around windowsills! You wouldn't want to lose any of them.

Don't linger too long under the doorframes; it may start feeling like they are slowly constricting around you.

[nesperus]

miss blue!!

[beanghostprincess]

Chainsaw Man has always been about power and control and a guy who has been stripped of his childhood and teenage years to then be constantly used and manipulated, forced to become hypersexual after being groomed and sexually assaulted, and losing the one bit of normalcy there's left in him.

Denji has no control over both his body and decisions and instantly becomes a vessel of what he thinks will fix him, the very same thing Asa is to Yoru, who keeps demanding war and respect and power and she knows what to do to make Denji lose his humanity.

The relationship between Denji and Asa is so genuine and human that using that against both of their wills is incredibly violating and dehumanizing. And that's why it is so good. And that's why it needs to be explicit. And that's why I am extremely surprised people are grossed out by this happening when dehumanizing and taking control of the lives of others is exactly what War would do.

[woundposting]

wound, eroticism and subjectivity

the holy wound, attributed to jean le noir / the incredulity of saint thomas, guercino / the body of signification, elizabeth grosz (in: abjection, melancholia, and love: the works of julia kristeva) / hannibal nbc / the incredulity of saint thomas, caravaggio / saint catherine drinks the blood of christ, francesco vanni / the body of signification, elizabeth grosz / crash, david cronenberg / side wound of christ (england, 15th century) / the terror amc / the terror of pleasure: the contemporary horror film and postmodern theory, tania modleski (in: the horror reader)

[taeiris]

in honor of our first byler set leaks and pride month

i present to you: the romantic goth byler i was yapping abt

[loriache]

Falin's Nightmare

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres: death games

[caramelldansenu]

how michael afton got hired

[lilli-eyr]

ꁝꏂ꒒꒒ꄲ ꉔꋪꋬꊰ꓄꒐ꏂꇙ

[ohyka]

that one scene in dungeon meshi but it's robot!Trudy and for some reason she snaps/malfunctions

[twentysideddinglehopper]

[whereserpentswalk]

Nothing is more illustrative of how rainbow capitalism erodes queer identities into marketable categories then the difference between the original movie of Rocky Horror Picture show, and that live show they filmed in the 2010s.

In the original Dr Frank n Furter is a character who blurs gender lines. He's technically a villian but in that Disney way where he's still inherently likeable. He's androgynous, and can be interpreted as trans, nonbinary or gnc depending on how the audience decides to read him, but he's very clearly outside the gender binary in a way that's hard to ridgedly define.

In the 21st century adaptation he's changed to be a very binary, 100% passing, trans woman. While people like that are definitely valid, it's far from making him more diverse or progressive. He goes from someone that can't fit into either binary gender norm, to someone working hard to fit into one of them. And it's the type of thing neolibs love to see as being more progressive. We've gone from a queer culture based around trying to destroy gender norms, to a queer culture based around begging cishet people to let us be part of their gender norms.

Rainbow capitalism doesn't just commodify queer culture. It actively eats away at parts of the queer community.