#psych thriller

[bananabreadloveman]

I’m giving writing a shot again

This story is set in a very-near-future dystopia and follows two trans women doing what they can to hold on. One brews and distributes black market estrogen. The other can hear the screams.

I’m experimenting with switching between two POV characters, with different narrative styles for each. This first 4000 words is a proof of concept. I’m going to spend some time outlining more before I update with additional chapters.

I can hear their screams (Wattpad link) https://rb.gy/g4k20

[kaleidoscopic-quiddity]

Does ego bring out the best or the worst in someone? (Alternatively titled; 'Isagi Yoichi, and what it takes to be the best in the world')

difeisheng // Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light - Richard Siken // Landscape With Several Small Fires - Richard Siken // Fury - Yevgeny Yevtushenko // Salvage - Hedgie Choi // BLUELOCK - Kaneshiro Muneyuki & Nomura Yuusuke

[elfqueen006]

Considering playing Saya No Uta myself for a personal project and the ✨️experience✨️ but I'm tryna work out if it's worth the mental anguish.

[captainswan618]

YESSSSS LASSITER FINALLY FINDING OUT ABOUT SHULES AT THE END WAS INCREDIBLE OH MY GOD

I’ve been wondering when they were gonna come clean to the police department, so I guess this is the start of it. I really hope Lassiter has a more detailed reaction at the beginning of next season though, that utterly shaken look wasn’t quite enough for me lmao

[yandere-daydreams]

sorta forgot that to get a publishing agent you have to, like, contact publishing agents. absolutely devastated. will be nitpicking my manuscript for the next two to three months as a method of procrastination.

[yutamayo]

I love the serial killer/psycho/sociopath/murderer trope where they think they're special for "taking a life" or "watching the light fade from their eyes" but that's just in the fictional sense bc like honestly literally anyone who finds killing cool in like a poetic existential way, like it makes them a higher being or some shit...

My dude you are literally doing the same thing a puddle could. Or a raccoon. People die man, that's like the only garuantee in life. OH wOw I sAw ThEiR LaSt bReAtHe bitch that is literally science like. They died. Their body stopped working. They might as well have slipped on a banana peel. They clocked out. There is literally nothing special about being the cause of death. Like lmao that's so extra like genuinely it's so desperate like are you trying to be a trope?? 😭 Crimes of passion, self defense, revenge, ect are whatever. But some fool literally feeling powerful BC they tAkE LiFe or cAuSe PaiN 😂 my brother in Christ I stubbed my toe once and wanted to kill myself bc of it. People will trip down a little hill and break their body into a million pieces.

You. Are. Not. SPECIAL. like it is Sad. At Least have some kind of motive 😭 like u might as well be Christian or call urself a Hufflepuff bc youre that into Harry Potter 😭😭😭 stop tryna be poetic when a cherry tomato could do the exact same thing as u and choke someone to death 😭😭😭😭 get a hobby 😭😭😭😭😭 do something productive 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[gracegrove]

Harringrove folie a deux, except they're so delusional that they don't realize that by merely being in each other's orbit they hasten the other's decline into madness.

But apart their worlds crumble and reality is cold and lackluster.

Which is crueler, letting them blissfully destroy each other? Until nothing is left of the other? Or parting them and watching each waste away the remainder of their days to tedium and loneliness?

[darling-gemini]

If Escape Room (2019) and Escape Room 2: Tournament of Champions (2021) has a hundred fans I'm one of them. If they have fifty fans I'm one of them. If they have 10 fans I'm one of them. If there's one fan it's me, and if there's none then baby I'm 6ft under.

[coldresolve]

out of curiosity, are there any stories (other than your own) on tumblr that you've found portray torture/adjacent subjects with more tact and accuracy?

on tumblr? honestly? no.

but what i personally seek out is also this very tiny niche-within-a-niche-within-a-niche kinda thing so im not making it easy on myself lmao

focus on atmosphere, absurd degree of subtlety, author is willing to grapple with some actually fucky dynamics (love/hate isn't enough), has to have a solid theme, etc. psychological fiction tends to hit the mark for me in this regard, but not a lot of people write those genres, so

has to feature copious amounts of violence, but specifically violence with the vibes i'm into lol rip. im openminded but it has to feel "real", and the gay villain stereotype makes me exhausted

"portrays torture realistically" - nobody likes to do research and popular culture has sucked up all the propaganda. this is, genuinely, the tiniest niche of them all

usually the fiction i read hits one or two of these at once, but all three kinda have to align for me to go batshit over it enough to recommend it to others. this just does not happen a whole lot. especially not on tumblr, cause writers here tend to have fandom trope brain. just not my thing ykwim. i try to seek out writers on tumblr pretty often but man, i just have much, much better luck outside of social media

if yall have recs, please, im desperate lmfao

oh and if you want a rec for a thing i love (not really about torture, more just violence/sadomasochism): xavier dolan's tom a la ferme is so fucking good. its the pinnacle of psychosexual thriller imo

[yvmoveon]

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[divergentwordsmiths]

DOCTOR WHO - THE ALCHEMISTS OF FEAR

"All who come into contact with the case will die. That is the easement of inferior lifeforms..."

Mandusus, 8187. Exploring the zipways, the Doctor, Peri and Frobisher clash with the slowship's past. Artefacts taken out of Time and removed to the present. With malicious intent. One of which has been extinct for thousands of years.

Traced by operatives of Virtuosity Astrotech, the Doctor begins to understand that there is far more at stake than lost property. His deadliest of enemies, the Daleks, are at large somewhere on Mandusus. Already, they have set to work on Operation: Mindnet, a project with hideous implications for the slowship's future.

The Doctor believes he can stop them. But can he? Led by the Red Dalek and propelled by the telepathic powers of the Psyche Dalek, they understand the Time Lord's mind.

This time, the Daleks are ready for him...

https://divergent-wordsmiths.weebly.com/the-alchemists-of-fear.html

[lucaonthropy]

Love how they literally think in different genres lol

[captainswan618]

Setting myself on fire as we speak btw

Like at least Shawn and Abigail formally broke up. but like COME ON, not even a scene with him and Juliet at the end wtf????

Anyway now I’m wondering if there’s a third episode in this Yin/Yang series, seeing as we still don’t know who Mr. Yin is, and apparently Shawn and Yang met when he was young???

Goddamn how do Psych’s few really suspenseful episodes (both of the Yin/Yang episodes, Shawn Takes A Shot in the Dark, Tuesday the 17th to a lesser extent) always get me so bad?? I was so anxious the entire time, I resorted to literally chewing on my thumb lmao

[c1trvswurld]

controversial but as president i think everyone should write a little dark dead dove do not Eat fic and have a 78-hour refractory period where they go "Woah that was fucked up, that was...the best thing I've ever written"

[kimsunss]

best believe.

[wearily-confused]

woke up with a headache, drank water and went back to sleep

2 hours later guess who has a killer headache ;(