#lurking nightmare

[aurelion-solar]

Legends of Runeterra - Fiddlesticks Followers Dread Harvester - Shallows Siren - False Friend - Baleful Seeker - Lurking Nightmare - Forgotten Terror - Crowstorm - Nightmare - Reap

[swaglexander-the-great]

Pictures I have of Gordon Ramsay lurking ominously, from my very specific Ominous Gordon folder

[italiantea]

soft and neat

[mostlyghostlyy]

[fnafverse-quotes]

Plushtrap: I will FIGHT you.

Nightmare Bonnie: What’re you gonna do, huh pipsqueak? Kick my ankles?

*later*

Nightmare Foxy: *whispering* Why… is Bonnie limping?

Nightmare Freddy: Plushtrap bit him in the ankles for trying to violate the two hour grace period the kid earned.

[wr-n]

I want Nightmare to have dreams.

Not normal dreams of nonsensical story or memories resurfacing.

I want him to live a second life in his dreams where the shadows are filled with mechanical clicking, beasts lurk in every room, monsters disguised as loved ones.

And Nightmare has to survive them every time he goes to sleep.

Maybe Nightmare starts losing his handle over his powers and accidentally drags Cross and Horror into himself - into his dreams.

And now they have to survive and look for Nightmare to get out.

[lunerat]

*Clenches fist* I just like the color yellow

[j-psilas]

Each row is curated around a theme or idea, designed to give you An Experience™ when you read/watch/play all five from left to right.

Places That Awaken Us: Halloween (1978), Little Nightmares (2017), The Lighthouse (2019), The Shining (1980), Silent Hill 2 (2001)

Trials of Possession: The Exorcist (1971) and Legion (1983), The Exorcist III (1990), Faith: The Unholy Trinity (2022), The Babadook (2014), When Evil Lurks (2023)

Fractured Self, Tortured Self: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824), Perfect Blue (1997), Father of Lies (1998), Inside Mari (2012-2016), Slay the Princess (2023-2024)

The Dark Feminine: Carmilla (1872), The Witch (2015), The Bloody Chamber (1979), Ringu (1998), Rule of Rose (2006)

Now is the Time of Monsters: De Bello Civili, or Pharsalia (61-65 AD), Dracula (1897), Between Two Fires (2012), Fear & Hunger (2018), Fear & Hunger 2: Termina (2022)

Witness the Unspeakable: The Three Impostors (1895), The Great God Pan (1894) and The Hill of Dreams (1907), The King in Yellow (1895), "The Color Out of Space" (1927), Bloodborne (2015)

Family, Love, Obsession: "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839), Crimson Peak (2015), Saltburn (2023), The Gift (2015), Creep (2014)

"Have You Read Devilman? Trick Question.": Devilman (1972-1973), Berserk (1989- ), Demon's Souls (2009), Death Note (2006-2007), Chainsaw Man (2018- )

Several of these categories have some crossover. Rule of Rose definitely also belongs in "Places That Awaken Us," and Devilman belongs in "Now is the Time of Monsters," as does Demon's Souls.

I could go on and on, but I won't list them all. Draw your own connections, if you like, and please recommend more texts to go in these categories!

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PLEASE LOOK UP CONTENT WARNINGS FOR EVERY SINGLE ITEM ON THESE LISTS. THERE ARE TOO MANY FOR ME TO LIST INDIVIDUALLY.

[theguywholikedmusicals42]

Citizens of Hatchetfield, assemble

*I'm using "less" very loosely here - less as in their roles aren't usually the main focus? Like Mariah has Harmony "Greenpeace Girl" Jones, Alice, Woodward, Doug and Zoey, but aside from Honey Queen her characters weren't really a main focus in the stories up until Steph Lauter in NPMD.

[hockeyisforthegays]

sometimes i think my purpose in life is to write excessively long and in depth media criticisms that in their entirety arrive at the overall conclusion of "it's mid"

[letmereadherbertwestfics]

I like imagine a world where all of the Jeffrey Combs characters are coworkers at a retail store, like a dollar tree or something small like that. like one is the store manager, one is an assistant manager, some key holders, and of course some sales associates. Maybe a few that don't work there but are regulars, fuck it

[cryptiddeer]

My favorite type of crossover fanfiction unfortunately only exists in my head, but it's essentially that everything exists in the same universe. Everything. Maybe on different planets, at different times and places, but its all the same universe

This of course presents the dilemma of trying to explain why certain differences between unrelated media can exist at the same time, ie: why Russia doesn't exist in Steven Universe, which explicitly happens on the planet Earth, but Russia DOES exist in Honkai Impact 3rd, which also explicitly happens on the planet Earth

Is this type of crossover very handwavey and vague in its world building? Yes. Is it Extremely Funny to imagine Monster High, Undertale, Monsters Inc and Lilo and Stitch all existing on the same earth and the weird political implications of that? Also yes

[nyastyaraspurrtina]

LOVEEEEEE how google search results talking about the glass fanged viperfish talks about how creepy and monstrous and disgusting they are. such a huge fan of how a fish that has a diet of mainly crustaceans and smaller fish and is a maximum of twelve inches long is described as a disgusting, horrific monster.

[mugentakeda]

i really like how the fn royal palace looks so stifling and spooky. like even in zukos memories when its all faded theres this gloom to it that looks suffocating. all the hallways are long and empty and look like walking through the doors at the end will lead to your doom

[doolallymagpie]

my thought on the dark one is it is really supernatural, but it's always in a plausibly-deniable way where you only realize something is very wrong when you start putting it together and then you're like

[whump-me-all-night-long]

drumroll please...

"Midsummer Nightmare" cast

our whumper: Ikelos Sunbane

details:

pronouns: he/him

age: he lost track around year ~350

occupation: second son to a powerful fae king, basically just the "spare" although he does command quite a bit of respect in the high social circles and is very good at playing politics

personality: has serious daddy issues and always feels like he's being compared to his older brother (who's also an enormous dick), this has made him cold and cruel, sadistic to a certain extent, and ruthlessly searching for the latest pleasure or commodity in the upper echelon of fae nobility

our whumpee: Arne Kersey

pronouns: he/him

age: ripe old age of 19-almost-20

occupation: typically just a farmhand for one of the only not-dead-broke people in his tiny village, but he does have some skill with a bow and arrows so he will do the occasional hunting for his mother

personality: sweet and kind, adventurous, incredibly empathetic, daydreamer, he truly just wants to explore the world but also he knows he has his full life ahead to do that, for now he just has to take care of his mom and family

so, who's interested?