#i don't do well even with like. horror parodies lmao

[gardenerian]

weeee heheh 👻 ty for the tags @gallawitchxx @gallapiech @kiennilove @mybrainismelted @creepkinginc ily ily ily! spooky time!

Name: mel

Your... uhm.. ScAaAary age: 32 thirtyBOO

🎥🔪🩸 Do you like scary movies? no no no absolutely NOT i am wimp 🙈

If so, what's your favorite scary movie? No.

If you were trapped in a slasher film, would you survive? if not; how & when would you die? i would die immediately. i am drew barrymore dying as soon as the movie starts. i do not last. it's over. i have no self-awareness; i am absolutely getting taken out first. the opening credits are still going, the theme music hasn't even ended yet.

Now that we got the scary questions out of the way. Let's get a little more light hearted! 💕

What is your greatest fear? light.... hearted? what? lmao i guess if we are talking non-existential fears, it's 19th century photographs. anything pre-1930, really. but civil war era really gets to me. it makes being a historian challenging! my more existential fears... we don't have to get into all that 😅

What is your favorite supernatural creature? the banshee! who among us does not wish to keen through the countryside, heralding disaster?

Ever had a paranormal encounter? i remain convinced that my grandmother is present every time i commit a faux pas against southern manners. i swear to the LORDT i can feel her. she is there for every thank you note i forget to send in a timely manner.

In a high stress situation; do you fight or are you more of a flight person? 🏃🏻‍♀��💨 BYEEEEEEE

What is your favorite part about Halloween? treats!!! also i am throwing a little halloween party at work tomorrow, and some of my colleagues are bringing their little kids and pets. tiny kids and pets in costumes..... i am weak! so cute. one of them is dressing their pug up as a bathtub 😭

Thank you for entertaining me 🥰You may live for another day.

Bonus question What is your credit card number? honestly i'll give it to you, there's barely any credit left tho asdlkjfh *crine*

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smooching you all! hi!

[beatcroc]

on the peppinos, postgame

i like to think the peppinos are pretty good friends now, but that certainly wasn't always the case. in fact i think they were both pretty terrified of eachother for a good couple months or so after the tower's fall. here's a moderately-sized ramble on how they went from one end to the other, with some extra thoughts on their current dynamic.

peppino's deal here is pretty obvious. being anxious and afraid of everything all the time is like his main character trait, but frankly he has every reason to be terrified of fake pep even aside from that, given the... you know. the everything. everything that went down in and around their fights, and just the nature of what fake peppino is-both as a general horror creature and also, specifically, as some kind of fucked up parody of himself that exists for reasons unknown to anybody. the only reason peppino let fp hang around in the first place was out of fear of pissing him off and getting attacked if he did try to take some action to Remove him. he tries his best not to invoke that, and stays far away from fake pep.

but fake peppino is also pretty terrified of peppino for the same reasons- he's really only ever seen peppino at his most violent, he's already gotten his ass kicked twice, and what's more he's acutely aware that he's on borrowed land and borrowed time out here. he only went to pizzeria in the first place out of instinct and because he didn't really have anywhere else to go without the tower, but he knows damn well that this is not his turf to be hanging out on, and that peppino has every right to defend it if he wants. he tries his best not to invoke that, and stays far away from peppino.

unfortunately, neither of them are perfect at that, and both of them are peppinos, so...

their paths do tend to cross on occasion. fortunately, neither of them actually want to fight again, so these run-ins never escalate to conflict, and end with them both scrambling away as quickly as they spot the other.

as it goes, time passes and they get more used to eachother at a distance; fake pep being naturally curious and poking around despite his reservations, and peppino sorta noticing fp is skittish whenever he ventures a bit past his usual boundaries. with that and the fact they've never actually had any violent encounters with eachother, peppino eventually catches the vibe that "oh maybe this thing isn't just here to menace me''. there is definitely still the aspect of "why the fuck is this freak here and what does it want" to deal with, so he doesn't drop his guard entirely, but he does go from ardent avoidance to more a... neutral observation.

and it's a bit of a positive feedback loop; fp seeing peppino being less Reactive about him means he's less worried about being Retaliated Upon & thus a bit more venturous still. perhaps even enough to be seen Inside the restaurant...?

from here it doesn't take long for peppino to start seeing fake's, uh, utilitarian benefits. he eats the rats so it's free pest control, and noise seems really afraid of him too which is funny as hell, so pep just kinda starts going lik ''oh lmao ok maybe this is kind of cool''.

for fake pep i think it was just... the first time peppino showed him any kind of thanks or congratulations for such. a moment of "??? does he like that?? does he like me?? do i not need to be afraid of this guy???" and so this is where fp starts trying to Deliberately interact with peppino a bit, and things just kinda grew from there.

i think it's neat because while peppino may have been the first to get over his fear and technically 'be accepting' of fp [shockingly???], it still takes the both of them because without fp trying to Initiate something, i really don't think pep would have ever gone out of his way to Give A Shit or achieve anything besides a mutual tolerance.

it is also so funny because like. i think peppino still is not seeing his end as anything more than a tolerance. sure, by now he knows fake pep likes him a lot, but as far as he's concerned he still only keeps fp around because he's '"'useful''", and because he thinks "ohhh i guess this guy is just never gonna leave ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i guess there is nothing i can do about this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯" when in reality it would take very little to drive fake pep off, and also, i need to reiterate, peppino has very much already beat fp's ass twice [when fp actually WAS trying to fight no less!], and could very much do it again if he actually wanted to. he just doesn't want to. he isn't actually any more stingy towards fp for all this, but it also means like, he's never going to give fp an actual "name" because that would be waaaaaay too direct an admission.

i wouldn't call peppino emotionally Stupid or immature, but i like to think he is often very....oblivious of his own actual state even when LITERALLY everyone else knows otherwise.

fp knows bc peppino lets him get away A Lot Of Shit and even openly solicit affections, gus knows bc peppino actually defending fp and/or making an effort to work him with is an insane leap of faith/trust for this man to have made, every random customer who sees the two buddying around knows, hell even noise knows [and is terrified of it] bc why the hell would the most panicky man on earth casually have a freak fucking beast around in the first place?

and nobody really tries to press peppino on this because he is stubborn. it's a good bit of denial, but it's also partially him thinking he's just being logical; "why would i be mean or try to chase him off if he's beneficial?"

if you asked him whether he was gonna give fp a name he'd get all defensive and probably straight up say some shit like ''noo you know how they say if you name it you'll get attached'.' dumbass. you are already attached.

we all know peppino is a nervous animal but really i think they are both nervous animals. pep is a nervous prey animal who's mostly stressed out and afraid for like, self-preservation reasons; and fake pep is a nervous predator animal like a cheetah who needs constant companionship and reassurance or else he's Also going to be very stressed. and they're like weirdly good at covering this for eachother & so trust the other way more than they probably realize.

for peppino it's as simple as "if this guy was going to hurt me he already would have", perhaps with a bit of extra "if this big scary thing is on my side maybe i'll have less to worry about in general" [i mean this mostly in the powerful allies "oh he can kill things for me" sense, but i'd like to think there's a bit of a confidence boost in the sense of "if i can overcome/make peace with this maybe i can overcome other things too" somewhere in there as well]

for fake pep I think a lot of it is that peppino is like completely incapable of hiding his emotions. it makes him very easy to trust in that regard, and for a guy as Unsure about everything as fp is it's very good for him to have that kind of straightforwardness. there's never any guesswork with peppino; if you are doing something he doesn't like or makes him uncomfortable...you will know it. and for the same, on the rare chances he's showing approval, you can be sure that's genuine too.

[multi-lefaiye]

hello hi please try and explain tribe twelve to me maybe? :3 I have never heard of it before and your rambles are always a delight

hello hi thank u for the ask!!!!! <3 and thank u for the support heehoo

time for another installment of Multi Tries To Explain Some Semi-Obscure Piece Of Media He Enjoys Or Feels Some Level Of Nostalgia For

to start, clarifying: i'm just here to talk about the characters and the story and i'm gonna avoid the creator himself as much as possible, b/c uhh i don't want to touch that with a ten foot pole, i just like the funky little fictional people and some of the concepts this series touched on.

SO tribe twelve is an older horror unfiction series on youtube--essentially, a series that operates under the idea that the story depicted Is Really Happening in an alternate reality, of sorts, but the story itself is still 100% fictional. if that makes sense. or, as one definition i read put it: unfiction pretends to be telling a real story, but it is still ultimately fiction--the audience just isn't TOLD that it's fiction.

(also i do have some thoughts on unfiction as a genre as a whole i might share at some point, but yeah they play with unreality in a very literal way.)

(putting the rest under the cut b/c this got long)

anyway tribe twelve is one of the older unfiction pieces, and it was pretty influential on the genre as a whole in my opinion. it's not the first, but it was on the scene early. it's also a big part of what's referred to as the slenderverse, i.e. media based around the slenderman creepypasta (think marble hornets).

actually marble hornets was a huge inspiration for tribe twelve, especially in the beginning lmao- it moved away from that influence more as the series progressed, but at first. it was obvious (and actually if i remember right, it was originally meant to just be a short parody of marble hornets, but then the creator decided to make it more original.)

tribe twelve centers around the protagonist, noah maxwell, as he unravels a big mystery in his family, starting with the mysterious death of his cousin milo. as the series progresses, noah catches the attention of a group known as the collective, who have been tormenting his family for many, many years.

the story is told via a series of what are essentially vlogs noah uploads that document his experiences as the collective begin following him and tormenting him. the unfiction element is that, in-universe, the channel is noah's and he is the one posting the videos. also should be noted that there's a twitter account and i think a blog that go with the videos and following along those helps you understand the story better as well. (there also was, funny enough, a vine account that had some lore lmao. remember when vine was a thing?)

there's ALSO a series of videos on the channel that are uploaded by the collective themselves, and those are kinda what the series is most known for. those episodes have a very distinct visual/editing style, even if they're usually just kinda Spooky without advancing the plot much (at least at first).

i also want to note, one thing that i think is kinda interesting is that the creator's identity as a jewish man was ultimately REALLY important to the storyline in many ways--the main characters are all jewish as well and this ties into the plot and the history of the collective in a way that i think is pretty neat. there's a lot more relating to that but i'm not sure if i feel personally equipped to type up a whole analysis of that aspect of the series, or even really to start a discussion about it.

as the series progresses, the timeline deliberately gets really fucky and confusing and honestly i'm not even fully sure what's going on in a lot of aspects. there are like three alternate timeline versions of noah running around as major characters that all have distinct personalities and it's Wild. i don't think all of them have names, but i still love firebrand. he's great <3

also the series was never finished and at this point isn't going to be </3 the creator has, afaik, abandoned the series entirely after Shit Happened and while i think he might've posted the plans for the rest of the storyline somewhere, the series itself is dead in the water.

ALL THIS TO SAY. i don't know how much sense any of this makes. i really enjoyed tribe twelve because it touches on really interesting themes, imo, about the nature of reality and destiny and the idea of fighting back against your own fate. i'm still a little feral over the concept the series presents about like... your future self intervening to save you from a terrible fate that befell them, in the process completely destroying the timeline and even reality itself.

ok yeah there's a lot i could say about this series and i don't really know where to go with this so uhhh just know. noah was the true first member of my collection of dark-haired horror men in distress that give me gender envy. i rewatched an episode of this series recently, and it was one where there's a shot of noah all sweaty and bloody and looking in the mirror and all i could think was "give me your gender."