#silly horror tropes

[williamvapespeare]

“Mate, seriously. Every time you say something like that it makes me more sure that you’ll love it! Just watch one with me? Friday the 13th, it’s a classic!” Of course, they’ve circled back to this. Edwin bites back a sigh. “You’ve determined I will enjoy this film because I ask you to be careful?” “Yes!” Charles grins, unchecked and a touch cheeky. “You love getting on people for ‘impetuous behaviour’ and that, don’t you? That’s like, the whole point of horror!” Privately, Edwin isn’t certain that is the logical take away. “I simply do not understand the appeal,” he says, again. “Surely, we have seen enough horror in our line of work. I can’t imagine I would find any of them particularly scary, after Hell.” “It’s not like that,” Charles turns around to address Edwin straight on as he walks, cheerfully and infuriatingly, straight through a large rock in the middle of the corridor. “You’re not supposed to be scared for real. It’s just for fun, gives you adrenaline!” “We do not have adrenaline.” Edwin sniffs. “We are dead.” The boys have a horror marathon that's a bit more full on than intended. Happy Halloween! This is a collab with the INCREDIBLE @ouchmyghostskin who did THIS absolutely STUNNING cover art <3 A SACRIFICIAL SLAB!!!

[cybertron-after-dark]

Being constantly surrounded by the presence of a loving God sounds great until you realize you never know when his freaky fuckin eyes are gonna show up to check on you.

And man. They do it a LOT.

[clickbeetle]

tbh peak fiction was snapcube’s fandub of until dawn, in which scout, as mike, is actually markiplier, but eventually becomes self aware and realizes that actually, he’s actually a real guy pretending to be markiplier, who is pretending to be mike, a character in a video game, that mark himself has played before, and has a mental breakdown about it, and can only tell himself chuck norris jokes to cope with it. and ryan, as josh, has also been self aware that they are in fact, real people who are doing a youtube video, and they begin to refer to others as their “real” names instead of their characters’ names, but must continue doing funny bits to make their story make sense because they are the only two people aware of the meta. and all of it was made up on the spot.

also “was that the Anus Unus guy?”

[thefourththefifth]

You KNOWWW you’re in fandom hell when you start practically becoming a historian on the topic you’re interested in. I’m talking digging as far as the nine circles for information. Sometimes I’ll find myself scrolling through fandom wiki for hours being like “wow I can’t believe there’s a 9.5 foot tall muppet named thog!” Or something along those lines, and then I get really embarrassed because I realize nobody has cared about the topic for well over 30 years.

[articskele]

I'm so tempted to friend f/o Micolash he's so funny to me

[bijoumikhawal]

also re: transfemmes and gay men draw a sharp delineation between each other, i didn't mention this last night but it means a lot of like. Nonbinary people who are exploring gender as effeminacy are treated REALLY badly by both specifically if they can't ultimately be put in one group or the other, on top of usual effemiphobia. I've seen multiple nonbinary people get subject to brutal public harassment over this, including one person who publicly was like "i might be transfem, i might want to use she/her, I don't know yet, but being treated so badly by other trans people for existing where im at now isn't fucking helping me figure that out". Part of this isn't just about this particular community divide, it's also about how many LGBT people have the idea that someone's lived experiences can themselves be offensive, and that that person therefore harms the community by existing. With trans people in general, there are a lot of people uncomfortable with ambiguity in gender because of worries about how cis people perceive us. There is, again, a particular disgust applied to effeminacy on this front.

[ghostblogging]

the thing abt gay ppl is for inexplicable reasons we love summer camps (it's basically the only time you see gay ppl really display that same high school era nostalgia so prominent amgst straight ppl)

but bc we're gay really all the summer camps we have experience with are religious troubled child/conversion therapy camps which means you get a billion kajillion first love in a conversion camp coming-of-age stories which I think provide a very skewed perception of what conversion therapy is like

[marklikely]

on further reflection maybe it isn't out of character that i liked the kens over the barbies when a lot of the joke is how the barbies are all blandly nice and hypercompetent which as you may know is like my single most uninterested gender dynamic for fictional characters

[zlobonessa]

throwing my re zero ship tier list here because i have Opinions and i need to inflict them on more people

also here the link because i keep losing it

[roystory4]

@thediffidence THATS THEIR MAN!!!!!!!! its true though.

[maxtothemax]

i wanna make a lil book cover or something for notlc soo bad but alas, graphic design is Not my passion and i have no ideas orz

[gacktical]

some sheets from a silly horror trope parody dating sim last year

you can play it here

[worrywrite]

I feel like most people actually know how bad they could be. Or if they hadn't thought about it, all they really need to do is take a couple minutes and think about it.

The harm of an evil clone is that they are actually they bad.

You get angry and you think about saying or doing something awful to someone you love or acting out some road rage or hurting yourself or any number of other things. But you can hold yourself back. You've grown and lived in this world long enough to realize on some level that any harm you do to someone else will be paid back to you and it will hurt everyone and no one really deserves that.

The evil clone isn't even angry. It was cloned, it doesn't have that life experience. But it also looks and sounds and even acts (for the most part) just like you. And so when someone meets that evil clone they see you. They see you, and your clone does what you stop yourself from doing when you're angry. And the clone does it with a smile. And no one else sees the clone. They just see you. The version of you on your worst day in your worst moment doing every dark thing that's ever crept into your mind. It breaks every social code and throws away every kindness and lashes out in every choice it makes. And it does it for the whole world to see.

The horror isn't that the clone does it. It's that everyone else thinks that you did.

people always talk about evil clones like oooh a dark mirror oohh what if you saw what a cruel person you were/are capable of becoming. and well yes but what if you were the evil clone. what if you looked in the mirror and what you saw was so bright it blinded you. what if you had to know exactly how good you could have been.

[pigeon-mermaid]

Woke up sad from a fuckass dream and thought of being comforted into a hug but with me being too shit at emotional stuff of this sorta thing sometimes well... (... i'm better at it i think, i used to be much worse) So naturally the obvious alternative was to think of being comforted by myself, which lead me to think of clone tropes, of course.

This in turn, lead me to think of how it would all work out, how they could do all the things i'm too much of a coward to do... except they probably wouldn't since they are me, so. Also they couldn't alter too much about themselves cause it would negate the point of being a clone? and then we'd get caught being two persons and what? do i introduce them as a long lost twin or?? (ALSO on the technically side of things they have no papers & ID & shit fuck... let's just forgor about those for a sec). They'd obviously have to hang with the same friends cause i know i'd be sad as fuck if i didn't. They'd have to create an internet handle too fucking I'd have to explain we are actually two persons now to my friends server so i can invite them QZSJHGNK What if they are better than me though and people like them better... Who truly is the real one if one of them allow themselves to live to the fullest... But knowing myself, i'd also feel so bad knowing my other self feels sad, whether i'm the clone or the original

Anyway i dont know where i was going with this but... we would just probably hang like 🧍🧍 but at least i could hug them whenever, probably, if they'd let me (also i probably should allow myself to be a bit bolder & kinder to myself)

[wickershells]

Was soooo excited for longlegs & I know reading the plot is in no way a substitute for experiencing it, considering art is first and foremost visceral but still. Little disappointed that it relies as heavily as it does on that specific brand of paranormal occultism which already feels oversaturated in religious horror, and I'm unsure if it executes or subverts them in any real interesting way, which okay it doesn't have to, but is still disappointing because I guess I was expecting it to