#secrets of scary people

[scaryscarecrows]

Oooooo gimme the director's cut for Secrets of Scary People! (Either just a single chapter of your choice or the whole work, it's up to you!)

Oh, God.

Okay. Cards on the table: as ff.net (wow so many popups these days) was...happy...to tell me, I started writing that collection in 2013. Just. Just remember that little factoid. :p

Aaanyways, first things first: many fandom creatives know intimately what I mean when I say 'hyperfixation'. That right there explains pretty much everything I do, because you have to find your joy somewhere, right? Right. So now that that's right out of the way, let's get into this.

So yeah. 2013. 2013 was right about the time I hit peak Overwhelmed and basically had a crisis. Hey, I'd busted my ass to graduate high school early, chosen a random college major that I didn't really care about or want to do but 'college isn't option', (I was failing everything by this point, I'll be honest) and my mother's health was really starting to take a turn, which meant I was the Caregiver. On top of that, as plenty of Only/Eldest Daughters (gender-neutral variant) know, expecting, like, support? Nah. This is to say that I was in a bad mental place.

And this fucker. This absolute jackass.

brought me so much joy. That sounds, admittedly, like the start of some Very Bad manifesto, but I swear it isn't. I had seen most of this movie on cable years earlier, but I picked up a copy out the $5 bin at Walmart and...well...look, I spent my entire childhood hearing about 'brains are more important than looks', and he did make that toxin all by himself. Apparently. And he's a doctor. Okay, so the villainy is a little bad, but we all have faults and I was willing to overlook them.

(And Cillian Murphy is both pretty and a gift to watch in pretty much everything, so really, this isn't my fault.)

I've been writing pretty much daily since...nngh...2007? Ish? I don't know, it was like the more age-appropriate way of having an imaginary friend. I had not written fanfiction, however. I didn't know it was much of a thing, either, until I Googled that bastard up there for information Begins had not provided and tripped over ff.net. Fanfiction seemed like a fun, no-stakes challenge--new enrichment for my burnt-out ass--so I did a Wiki dive for basic information, picked up a copy of Year One, and banged out about five or six one-shots over the course of a weekend. One of those would eventually become All Those Things You Fear, the others would end up in Scary People. I'll admit, I wanted him to have nice things once in a while, because

A) I felt bad about the Grandma thing, and about the bully thing. Kindred spirit! At least a little. I got it, anyway.

B) I'm sorry, I acknowledge that Nolan Crane is a corrupt jerk, but Zsasz does belong in Arkham (I Googled him too, at the time) and Rachel needed to just admit that.

At the same time, bullying him a little seemed like a good idea. Especially after further Wiki exploration turned up the discovery of Arkham Asylum (though I was NOT happy to find out what happened to Scarecrow at the end of that one). I did find a good longplay of Asylum that I watched (I had no way to play it then), which shaped my personal take on both Crane and his place of work a little more. Things snowballed: picked up a copy of Batman: Gothic for $1.50 and decided that yeah, comics are rad, actually, watched more movies, Gotham aired...and here we are today, with canon meatloaf.

What a ride. But I probably wouldn't have gotten on it if weren't for the autism and, like, bad mental health. BUT then again I'm pretty sure that's why Bruce is Batman, so really, it's fine. :p

[kiwi]

everybodys gotta get back into the practice of using pseudonyms online... i remember the time of screen names where u never ever told anyone ur real name and that was just understood as basic internet safety. plus having a screen name is fun because sometimes it sticks so well that it becomes part of ur identity that u can use in whatever facet of ur life you choose. it rocks to pick your own name

[ominouspuff]

Fwoom (intimidatingly)

[kasdim]

The "Carrie" scene is fire and i want more of that fucked up Cassandra's face. Terrifying. Thank you Avia Team fot this incredible game.

(I need to finish other routes and make a gazilion fan arts. Because there was some art demon inside me when I drew this.)

[titfairy]

[densewentz]

more dreamling dad au bc thats just what i do now apparently i like lazy afternoon naps and so do our boys

[offorestsongs]

a villainess doesn't get to end up with the prince.

low-quality silverflame posting time! with some vague lore! i don't have the energy to do anything more polished rn but i still wanted to get the idea out

[theshadowrealmitself]

Current thoughts: Group on vacation together and deciding to go to an indoor amusement park type thing that claims to “scare people to death” and the goal is to go the correct path through it to come out alive

And let’s be real here, it is actually a deadly place where all the actors are legit gonna kill them if they take the wrong path, everyone knows this except for people new to the town

So the hotels that people check into will hold their rooms for a bit to give them a chance to win, but it’s been forever since anyone’s won, if they even have (not even the townspeople win, since the path always changes), so the hotel is already mentally thinking about what to do with all the belongings in the rooms

They’re completely unprepared for one of the guests to walk in with prizes and stuff saying they won the amusement park maze thing, apparently this person had the time of their life and never once knew they were in legit danger

Now it’s just tense in the lounge area as that guest waits for the rest of their group to come back and everyone else knows their group isn’t coming back

[monotart]

another batch of joke explainers. live laugh love

[strawberryjammery]

Sorry whoever replied to my tma6 post about Needles saying he’s cuntier than the joker….. you’re wrong. They’re the poster needle guy for cringefail. If you look up cringefail in the urban dictionary there’s Needles fanart right there. He’s a loser. They’re goofy. They’re the Lego Batman joker archetype.

[writebackatya]

Every now and then I think about the DT17 fans theory/speculation during season 3 that Fenton was secretly working for FOWL

Of course not being part of the fandom when the show was new and it felt like anything could happen, I find the theory to be very funny because people thought that baby girl FENTON of all people was a villain

Anyway. If that were the case. This is the only way I’d want them to do the reveal that he was with FOWL all along. Cigarette included

[ingo-ingoing-ingone]

So for spooky season (my favorite season) I wanna write more Ghostmmet oneshots, or at least one or two other ones! I have several ideas lol

But I also wanna write a noncanon crossover with ABYS, where instead of being found in time in ABYS, Emmet dies and becomes a ghost and things get real crazy around the station for a while.

Would people be interested in that, or do y'all think it would be too much? I have. Several ideas, and I think it would be so fun to focus on the spooky horror aspect. Something something a violent end leads to a violent awakening, classic haunting shit, stuff like that. More info in the tags of this post :)

I'd say it would still come to the same conclusion as like. He Trusts You.

But I don't know! Tell me what you think, preferably in comments of this post instead of in separate asks :) Thank you guys preemptively for feedback!

[paperboatprince]

colour wheel but dndads

red: nick close

orange: erin o’neil

yellow: terry jr

green: lark and sparrow

teal: jodie foster

blue: taylor swift

purple: the omega dads

pink: scary marlowe

[tagidearte-spam-sb]

Can Secret of the Mimic give us Foxy again? I miss Foxy. I hope he (and Chica) are not thrown aside and we only get Bonnie and Freddy a la Fredbear Family Diner or something.

[burning-sol]

@exandr0th-0f-viscera I guess has come up with an Albatrio Angel AU. I didn't draw Chip because I'm going to snork mememe but I like the concept.

[crispycreambacon]

Maybe I am autistic.......