#petscop (arg)

[ratsoup64]

care a

[let-them-fight]

never forget your roots

[xdoll-sickx]

some close ups of my petscop cassette, i love all the different details!!!!

[bubblvii]

redraw of this one year later ^_^

[cookiecaker]

tonight me and my friends (@galactinqq & @spideyes) made a diagram connecting some important things between petscop, TBOI and interloper because they have a lot in common between the three of them (at least sometimes). i would love to discuss this more because i really like all three of these things

transcript below:

Interloper & TBOI:

All layers of the game becoming a downward spiral

Major characters' imagery becomes recurring

Major connections to creator's personal lives (there's not much for these two TBH. For now. Sad.)

Petscop & Interloper:

Older game aesthetic, unreleased game material

Game acts of its own accord

Input recording, "demo" recording

Moving your character without seeing it

Waiting for a really long time for something to happen

Dark as shit (Visually) (It's dim)

Deadpan and sometimes oblivious recorder

Ambiguous and strangely motivated group behind the videos

Fictional company behind material creation

Messages left for specific people in the game

Changing one person into a different person

TBOI & Petscop:

Horribly unreliable narrator

Trans-coded protagonist

Perspective works directly through the lens of trauma

Divorce

Identity warping through family member manipulation and abuse

Repressing childhood memories and returning to them later on

Recurring themes of being locked in a closet

The color red being related to the past

All three:

Trans related theories

Connections to respective creator's earlier works

Themes of dehumanization and horror of change Ghosts, both living and digital

INSANE Soundtracks

Unreasonably convoluted game mechanics

[stopaskingmetocreateanaccount]

i love getting pedantic about stupid shit

[kotico-png]

PESTCOP FANART‼️ (I made this one for spooky month + wishing a happy late bday to Paul & Care 🎂✨)

OH YEAH ALSO SHERIFF DOMESTIC MENTIONED 🗣️‼️:

[puppyboywinger]

wendigoon’s petscop video has me very slightly fucked up. /neg

it’s genuinely very upsetting to me that seemingly every youtuber that covers the story seems to just… turn a blind eye to the idea of transness? in wendi’s case, at the very least, i don’t think this is intentionally out of malice it’s just really telling how we’re not even slightly considered when it’s the most obvious explanation.

i’d even accept a theory that’s simply.. paul and care are the same person. i’m so tired of theories trying to separate the two of them when it is entirely apparent that they are THE SAME. bro they have the same birthday i’m.

i’m obviously very passionate about paul being trans because that’s the most obvious solution, but even if you don’t subscribe to that there is still many other instances pointing to them being the same— not just connected.

anyways if you guys know any good videos that talk about trans paul theory i’d love that. i need a cleanse. if not then i’ll just make my own.

[polypie]

I think they should just chill out for a while

[deerhalou]

I’m really inspired by haunted game creepypastas/series and I have been reading/watching/playing anything I can get my hands on in that genre for a long time. I just thought I’d make a brief list of some favorites for fun/to recommend them to anyone who might be interested! I might add more to the list later but for now I have six recommendations people might like.

Petscop

Probably the most well known on this list, one of my absolute favorites as I was always so excited for a new update and I followed it since the beginning (same for a lot of these series haha) I think it does commentary on the cyclical nature of trauma very well, as well as being at peace with not knowing everything. A puzzle you can never fully solve.

Link :

Invisible Games (A brief exhibition)

Killswitch is definitely the most well known story from this website (and a popular creepypasta in its own right) but, the website Invisible Games as a whole is a wonderful and strange place for haunted game stories/weird artifacts with a certain level of dedication and surrealism mixed with documentation that I love. My favorite story is “what happened to agent small” but all are worth reading. The website is also very fun to explore!

Link:

Summon House

While the first video in Summon House is 3 years old, the series is still updating and the creator has taken it in a direction I love! Part haunted game and part satire of pure summary analysis vids, summon house straddles the line between funny and creepy very well. I also recommend their older work AI builds!

Link:

Basilisk 2000

This is one of my favorite horror indies I’ve played in the past 2 years and I play a lot so that’s saying something haha. Explore an unfinished rpg game through its level editor and uncover the inner turmoil of the developers and possibly something much, much worse. This game is so fun to explore and play! Don’t be afraid to look at everything! I also think it’s fantastically creepy at parts and deserves more love and attention. It’s only $2 to play! I also recommend playing Basilisk SNES which is the equally cool (but smaller and free) predecessor of this game, both in universe and real life. The creator is also the dev of both Spookys Jumpscare Mansion and Lost in Vivo!

Link:

Valle Verde

Valle Verde has been around for a while and while it updates sporadically it makes sense as the visual design, animations, and general 3D modeling is some of the best I’ve seen. I love some of the brutality at play in it as well as it’s historical angle and references. I would say this is one of the more explicit ones but I think it’s done very well. It often emulates older games in impressive detail as well!

Link:

Vermis Malum

A newer series I’ve been keeping up to date with that just wrapped up disc one! I’ve been watching it with my partner as it overlaps into the more technical side of a digital worm that takes advantage of the weak and lonely. Really awesome 3D assets/voice work and lots of niche references to send you down the rabbit hole (possibly what the worm wants?) The text portions also have wonderful writing!

Link:

[starship-of-death]

Oh I'm gonna cry

Yall. If any of you are even REMOTELY INTERESTED I'm video essays, args, creepy pastas, petscop, or wendigoon PLEASE WATCH HIS LATEST VIDEO ON PETSCOP!! It's so good and literally the only one that's accurate and well put together enough that I don't automatically hate it!!

Honest to god, this is my new comfort video (the last one was a fnaf theory and I haven't had a new one in YEARS) and my life is so much better having watched this.

[littengamer909]

i love you args i love you petscop i love you inscryption i love you don't look at the moon i love you andy's apple farm i love you catastrophe crow i love you welcome home

[petscopkidverysm4rt]

Do you remember being Born ?

[cursedwiththethirst09]

personal opinion ; internet/web/digital horror is one of the best genres of horror we have, and the 2000s- the mid/late 2010s was their golden era. PROVE ME WRONG

Websites/Games ( f.e. Lomando.com, FNaF, BATIM, Sally Face, DDLC, Ib, Fran Bow etc.)

Creepypasta ( f.e. Jeff the Killer, Ben Drowned, Slenderman, Ted the Caver, Pinkamena etc.)

ARGs (Alternate Reality Games // f.e. Marble Hornets, Everyman Hybrid, Petscop etc.)

Horror Chain Mail ( f.e. The Case of Carmen Winstead)

+ A LOT OF OTHER COOL THINGS THAT YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY CHECK OUT IF YOU LIKE HORROR!!!

Again, tis simply my opinion!! Feel free to correct me on anything or tell me to add something else!!

[nerdyganiii]

Hit 100 people in the arg creator discord server!!

We hit 100 members in the arg/unfiction creator server!! I'm so happy with how many people turned up and how much people are seeing each others work. I'd like to share this image made by @arkomaly, a collage of different characters from series in the server. So happy with how many talented people are here!!

[crunchycrystals]

btw i would really appreciate it if people learned the difference between an arg and unfiction