#i hate jumpscares

[mccoys-killer-queen]

Okay so Elton John and Rod Stewart were always trying to playfully fucking sabotage each other back in the day to the point where Elton got Rod's advertising blimp shot down and that's not the point I'm trying to make in this post but it felt relevant for comparison to the point I actually want to make-

Here's the backstory:

So if you haven't listened to Tommy Shaw's podcast you really should but in one of the episodes he did with Kevin Cronin, Kevin talks about how Styx and REO were very low key at each other's throats for decades without actually being rivals- starting with TW4 (a fetus version of Styx) and Kevin's first band doing a "battle of the bands" at Kevin's high school (because they were all from Illinois) and TW4 absolutely ANNIHILATING Kevin's wimpy ass band at his own school.

Flash forward 10+ years later to 1981 and Hi Infidelity is absolutely dominating the charts in America for months, giving REO Speedwagon the superstardom they worked and waited for so patiently. Kevin said every Tuesday someone from Epic would call them to tell them the position the album was in, and he said after so many weeks of it being #1 they just stopped picking up the phone because they didn't feel the need to hear it again- they already knew it was still up there.

Until one day it wasn't.

One Tuesday, when the phone call came, they said "the album is #2. Styx is #1."

Kevin realized that TW4 was schooling him all over again and he was like gOD DAMMIT

So here's the point I'm trying to make:

THEY FUCKIN BEAT THEM TO MTV IN THE END THO LOL

but at the same time REO's very first video on MTV was also the first video on MTV to experience technical difficulties and was accidentally cut short after 12 seconds on the air oop

but also at the same time as that, the corner text for Styx's first video on MTV got the name of the song wrong (listed as Rockin' Paradise),

So in conclusion there really was no winner here besides the fact they both got played as one of the first 10 videos ever broadcast on MTV

[aiglesperch]

Valentine's Day and a Winter Night

Fandom : Project Zomboid

Word count : 1457

Summary : Recalling one's valentine's day shenanigans with his fiancé, Jean Antonique recalls his memories and prepares himself for surviving the outbreak.

Content warnings : Apocalypse, gore, zombies, losing a loved one, illness, paranoia, violence, murder

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It was a late winter evening in the month of roses.

Chill had begun to fade slowly from Arizona, and soon, it'll be sweltering heat all over. A few ravens flew past the lone picket-fenced houses and settled near a garbage bin in proximity to a middle-aged man, head bent down, in reverence or in lifelessness, studying the trashcan closely.

A lone survivor sat on an antique couch, staring listlessly at a blank TV screen. He got up and stretched his limbs and shambled onward to the bathroom to check out the cabinet - hair gel from Get Set, a silver hand-mirror, a make-up kit, and a band-aid.

He stared at his reflection in the mirror - a man in his late twenties with overgrown coal-black hair. He would really need a haircut, it seems.

The man went back to the living room and glanced at a door with a few decorations here and there. It was labelled 'Yves rests here'.

He opened the door to reveal a plain-looking room. It had a bed with snowy bed-sheets, a desk with a bunch of magazines lying haphazardly, a dark dresser near the bed that contained 2 notebooks, sleeping pills, and vitamins.

Inside the notebook was a letter.

"Jean," it began. "I have reasons to believe that a bite I sustained while fighting those..."people" may be fatal. Perhaps, it may be even life-altering. Do what is needful with this information, and remember, I love you with my whole heart. Even if I die from this wound. Love, Yves."

The letter was a flesh wound re-opening at his heart. Strong emotions - anger, fear, pain, sadness - they tugged at his heartstrings. Jean cried bitterly against the pillow against which Yves formerly laid his head. He wished he was still alive and awake. But alas, he had bid adieu to him.

That day came in mind.

After Jean and Yves had said their vows, exchanged the rings and kissed, finalizing their love and allowing them to enter a new chapter of life, they had to run away from the makeshift chapel as hordes of 'people' with rotting limbs and broken necks, bearing a newfound taste for human flesh, chased them. While Jean hacked wildly at them with his axe, Yves kept shooting them with his gun. This they continued until their vehicle was nearby.

Yves failed to notice his former neighbor nearing his forearm. Right when he was opening his car door, she crunched his shoulder. Jean managed to chop her off with his axe right in time before escaping out of the place with his husband out of Kentucky.

It was a long journey. Jean tended to Yves' wounds and foraged for camping and food while Yves drove the car. Eventually they reached the desert state of Arizona and decided to stay there until the disease had vanished.

Foolish hopes they had...

Yves' condition became worse day by day. Occasionally, he complained of having anxiety about his survival. At times, he vomited on the floor. Jean became his caretaker and while he brought him soup, medicine and bandage, Yves would try to teach him some skills. On rare occasions, Yves would feel try slow-dancing with him.

Jean remembered how warm he felt underneath his strong arms, how soft his kiss was. What he couldn't comprehend was how he didn't succumb to the same infection as his husband did. Wasn't the infection transmittable?

The day eventually happened when Yves had lost himself - his anxiety translated into paranoia, and despite the efforts Jean put to ease him, it barely went away. He couldn't eat or drink anything, nor could speak. All he could do was to silently comfort a crying Jean and bleakly look out of the window.

One day, Jean brought him the usual medicine and food to his room. Yves lay still as an un-breathing corpse. He accidentally locked the door behind him. From the bed rose an un-dead 'Yves', mouth foaming in hunger and body half-rotten.

"Juhhhnnn...uooodd" he growled as he pounced on him. Jean dodged him and tried to reason with him, not wanting to kill the love of his life. He finally brought down his axe on his neck and watched his head roll away.

"Yves!" He cried in pain. He was careful enough not to open the nearby window and let anyone take a good look at his tear-laden face for a good munch.

A groan ensues from the porch

The ravens perched on him as he stared at the asphalt road. Wearing a bloodied shirt and a smelly pair of jeans, the man groaned at his discomfort and shook the birds away.

Jean exited his house, axe in hand, and crouched as to not attract any noise.

"That man is definitely not alive" he thought.

He scampered silently behind the gentleman and landed his axe on his neck before he could turn back.

A dead un-dead. What a save.

He pulled out the magazines and junk mail from the mailbox and ran inside before any other 'un-dead' decides to show up.

"Breaking news : Traces of Knox Infection suspected around Muldraugh, KY. Residents of Knox Country are warned to quarantine themselves until the infection subsides."

"What do you think is the source of the infection, Dr. Mullen?" asked the nervous reporter.

"The infection is currently air-borne; people are advised to wear masks and stay at home at any cost. Infected people are requested to quarantine themselves until their infection subsides. Some of the symptoms are : nausea, anxiety, stomachache. We have reasons to believe this is a severe case of flu and have deployed doctors to tend to this medical emergency."

The host finally concludes with "News9, more at 11. Stay safe!"

The evidence is strong. Knox Infection was the reason why those 'people' tried to bite him and Yves. It was the reason why he felt anxious and nauseous in mere days.

But the burning questions is - where did it start? And how did it even begin? No one suddenly turns into a rabid, flesh-eater within a few days...

Whatever it was, it was evident that this infection had arrived at Arizona - whether it was the refugees from Kentucky, or the roaming un-dead, he had to survive.

And surviving alone is no joke.

Preparing for an Unclear Future

Jean decided to tidy up his place. He arranged the magazines in the bookshelves, kept the food and utensils in their proper position in the kitchen, closed all the curtains and locked the door.

He had to learn from the magazines in the way Yves intended. With that resolve, he picked up a trapping magazine and began reading it. After that, he went for the mechanics magazines.

Some of the magazines were meant for Yves - advanced and full for technical terms he didn't understand.

He didn't knew how to cook.

"I wish I could've learned to make a damn soup before this apocalypse began" he lamented as he searched for some easy recipes and found none. Back then, Yves used to tend the cooking while he went out to hunt and chop wood. And while his husband was ill, he merely made him a salad haphazardly out of canned food.

"And I can't even go out without risking my life! What a world this has become..."

Jean looked here and there. His eagle-like vision helped him notice another un-dead walking into a bush. Two more were shambling down the road - a mother and her son. He went down a cul-de-sac to avoid the parent-and-child duo and to attract the bush-walker down the narrow lane. He then hacked him down with his axe.

Jean noticed that this guy might've been a former gardener, given his clothing. He searched his body, holding his breath to tolerate the rotting flesh, and found some seeds amidst the bloodied mess.

He left him alone and continued to walk down the lane across a building with glass doors and steel fences. Someone must've known about this outbreak to build these fences without the others noticing.

There was a police station seemingly abandoned by the 'residents'. It had a jail, two stinky bathrooms, a room full of lockers, a classroom for some reason and the head office.

Jean took a bunch of paper, a few magazines, a pencil and eraser and some cigarettes. He felt in his scruples that he IS stealing items from the station. However, does it even matter anymore?

After washing himself on the sink, he exited the building and decided to go left. A stench was emanating from that direction, indicating more 'residents' in that place. He instead went to the cul-de-sac and exited via the left side to reach a grassy lawn.

"What the-"

He saw a sight he had never seen before...

[saebarantsandreblogs]

In all "color of the sky" imgs, my mind is always in a state of "There's a jumpscare here, isn't it?"

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⚠️ END ROAD WORK ⚠️

[bittersweetbangers]

my favorite thing about the return of dnpgames is how they scream and grab onto each other at every jumpscare. phil grabbing dan's head

[wickedfairie]

watched the nun 2... i see that franchise fell off after the first movie...

...also u can tell there was a writer's strike cuz no one knew what to do with sister debra

[fungerisms]

samarie the girlfailure sopping wet cat woaaa like

[splatoon-edits]

AliveF1sh Jumpscare

[the-knife-consumer]

Finally settled on designs for the springlocks im actually okay with

[mellohiizz]

Subz anon here again,,,

Hii again hope you’re doing well, if you’re taking requests againn some purple duo or sunshield? *flutters my eyelashes at you*

okay, why not both though?

[eerrratt]

Hi hello

I don't know what I drew but looks cool I guess.

It's inspired in one of my dreams; where sun has this funtime(?) feature.

I know I know, not so original but looks good, and I like it c:

[kaiserouo]

i cannot express enough how much i absolutely HATE him

[reginamillls]

if you need a jumpscare warning for a character maybe you should just... not watch the show with them in it

[clonehub]

Echo, newest member of the bad batch, resident grump (fresh out the coffin so he looks miserable)

[starry-bi-sky]

how do you clone a fey? that's trick question; and fey love those!

@the-navistar-carol (<333) brought up a good point while I was talking about my changeling danny au with her -- Dani! How would she exist in this au? Danny's a changeling - a fae. How would Dani, a clone of him, be created? How do you make a fey? Not through any means that Vlad is doing; you can't make a fey through unnatural means, considering the Fair Folk are nature. And Vlad's not a fey himself -- he's a halfa, even if he could make a fey, it's not in his best interest too. He's a powerful ghost, but even the weakest fae can overpower the strongest ghost. He won't want a clone of Daniel to be more powerful than him.

(In a three tier hierarchy it goes Ancients -> Fae/Mythos -> Ghosts. They all live in the Infinite Realms, but on different Planes. The fae live above the Ghost Zone in the Fey Wild, while the Mythos live beside the Wilds or down in the ghost zone depending on where they are. Places like the Frozone, the Athens Acropolis, and other such large islands climb throughout all three Planes.)

(While Ghosts can travel into the Fey Wild, its generally advised against as the ectoplasm tends to manifest differently there due to close contact magic. It can make it rather disorientating for a ghost, and as human spirits, the Fae living there would jump them faster than they could blink. So unless you're willing to play mind games with 'steal thy name eat thy face' fae, most ghosts keep out of the way of the Wilds. Fey can travel down into the Ghost Zone, they just don't bother.)

That's of course, not taking into account if Vlad even knows Danny's a fae himself. Vlad doesn't ring me as someone who really cares much about ghost culture or the going ons of the GZ. He might be aware that fae exist, but the moment he realizes he can't use them for personal gain he just doesn't bother with them. The risk is greater than the reward, and he'd rather not get eaten. But lets assume he's aware by now that Danny is fey, and has to take that into account while cloning him.

So, how does Dani exist? Good question! Honestly; i'm not sure. She might not exist at all, or if she does, she's more halfa than fey. Vlad would need a lot of human dna and ectoplasm to balance out all that fae magic. He manages to steal DNA from Jack and Maddie to do it, and since Jack's fey ancestry is very dormant its much easier to use alongside Danny's DNA.

In turn, it results in a little girl whose more human-ghost hybrid than clone. With that little extra boost in fey magic making her not a fey, but still relatively powerful. Dani is less of a clone and more of a lab-grown little sister. It's a rather tedious, complex process that has Vlad tearing his hair out trying to figure out. But he does eventually figure it out.

[toastyyjams]

buddies

[rainbowpufflez]

Giovanni homophobia arc™️