#stan frederick

[mankindsbadhabitz]

WHY ISNT ANYONE TLAKIGJ ABOUT THIS IM GOING INSANE?

LOOK. LOOK AT IT.

I’m seeing like NOBODY talk about it and I’ve literally been FREAKING the FREAK out about it for HOURS. I’M SO EXCITED FOR THE RELEASE OF PART ONE!

[habitsbf]

since the slenderverse documentary is coming out, theres some things id like to say about it.

for starters, this documentary took 18 MONTHS to make. it probably took alex hera so much time to get ahold of all the actors involved and put together the documentary. we should appreciate alex for all the effort that was put into this, they worked hard to make this happen.

next thing i want to mention is how weird it is people are only really focusing on evan jennings and tim sutton. i understand we are all excited to see them since they kinda backed away from the internet a bit, but are you guys forgetting WHY they did? they want to live normal lives and be treated like normal people, so the fact some of you are literally editing the short clips we got of them from the literal TRAILOR is genuinely so weird. they are not celebrities. its a documentary, not an actual slenderverse series. they are just a couple of dudes being dudes.

we should appreciate ALL the actors involved, even if the series they are from isnt one you PERSONALLY favor or havent watched yet. the slenderverse is a community, so many creative people worked together to give us the media we all love and enjoy today. every series has its own unique aspect to it and i absolutely love that. they all took the idea of slenderman and turned it into something way beyond just him.

now, last thing id like to mention involves one specific actor in particular, and thats jeffery koval. as much as we love everymanhybrid and the character he played, we cannot look past the fact he is an abuser. him being in the documentary is super cool! we get to hear his side of things! but lets not forget what he did. im aware hes trying to get better and be a better person, which is super great and all, but we still cant just forgive him. it is not our apology to accept. PLEASE remember that.

[michaelandersen0]

Hey! I felt like with all things considered, the old combined symbol really needed an update. I felt like there were series that came out after it really gained popularity that needed recognition, and some that should really be left behind, so I made my own version of the combined symbol!

The basic explanation is as follows:

The biggest symbol is the classic operator symbol from marble hornets, combined with the unfinished circle from Stan Frederick, and with a clock motif in the middle to reflect MLAndersen0, as well as the arrows from EverymanHYBRID. I hope you guys enjoy this, and feel free to use it however you like! I’ve included transparent version under the cut!

[archivehornets]

There's a special guest in Valeria Santiago's (creator of The Record of Stan Frederick) new slenderverse series redredhat! ;) I had the pleasure of interviewing her for the SV Zine in 2023, if anyone understands the slenderverse and the kinds of stories it can tell, it's her! Go check it out ASAP!

[gaylex-gaylie]

heres almost all the slenderverse pixels and blinkies we've been working on for our rentrys in the last little bit if anyone wants to use them :3

[heathermooch]

TONIGHT AT 7PM EST

Alex Hera dives deeper into the evolution of the Slenderverse!

I've been told I'm going to cry happy tears because of how moving it is. I can't wait 💕

If you guys haven't seen the first part, GO WATCH IT NOW, SERIOUSLY! Alex Hera portrayed the slenderverse movement so well and I'm beyond impressed with the amount of research & talent everyone who worked on the project did.

Afterwards, join THE LIVESTREAM AFTERPARTY at 11pm EST with guests Heather Mooch, Alex, &. Chris (Darkharvest00), Lee (WhisperedFaith), Dylan Sindelar & Austin (The Anderson Journals), & Marissa (Tulpa Effect) for some fun chatter, Q&A, and behind-the-scenes discussion! The after party will be hosted on Alex & Crew's Twitch

🖤🩶 #NoMoreBlogs 📹

[veespee]

i'm probably being nitpicky but everyone is so hyped about the Slenderverse documentary (me too) but why are they all ignoring most of the people featured and focusing almost ONLY on Evan and Tim 😭😭 like i get it, EMH and Marble Hornets are really popular, but come on... Heather and Chris, Lee, Valeria Santiago, the creators of hiimmarymary, daisy brown, and CH/SS??

i mean I'm a bit biased cause i love ARGs and some people just watched the popular slenderverse ones which is valid, but damn 😭 Valeria Santiago especially needs recognition for Stan Frederick (impeccable editing and story btw) and the fact that she is advocating for more Slenderverse series!! she is probably one of the reasons why Slenderverse is still alive rn.

anyway sorry for the small rant, i just want more creators to be recognised!!

[theslenderversezine]

Pre-orders close at the end of February! Get your copy while you still can!

[mla0]

what's your guyses favorite slenderverse series in order, based on the ones you've seen ofc. mine is

mlandersen0

everymanhybrid

marble hornets

whisperedfaith

stan frederick

darkharvest00

[broccwalker]

Sharing the major stuff that happened during six hour slender man stream

[fantasydoctor]

fanart for miss santiago!!! haven’t watched sf in a WHILE but i wanted to draw her character because i love her work and am excited for her new slenderverse series! we are so back

[planetcruspy]

Saw this on Twitter and wanted to see what tumblr would say :3

[thebrokengate]

The Record of Stan Frederick: A Study of Amendments

This is an analysis that is long overdue. If there’s anyone in the world that could tell you how much I love The Record of Stan Frederick, it’s my best friend whose ear I’ve talked off endlessly about it, and they would probably tell you that Amendments is not only my favorite episode of the series, but also that it’s my favorite Slenderverse video of all time. If anyone who hasn’t experienced the Slenderverse asked me to show them one video from it that would paint them a picture of what the spirit of this universe is all about, this is the one I would point them to, because its characters, story, and editing encapsulate everything that I’ve loved about the Slenderverse for years all in one episode. I believe that Amendments is not only just a brilliantly made episode among many others in The Record of Stan Frederick, but it is also crucial to our understanding of the narrative, of what both separates and brings together our primary protagonist and antagonist, how the events of each character’s lives and how they felt about them affected their choices, and how the overall story of this series promotes the cautionary tale of not letting yourself fall into perpetuating the cycle of violence.

This is a case study of Amendments.

In the context of The Record of Stan Frederick, the dictionary meaning of the episode’s title would be defined as “a change made by correction, addition, or deletion” as our protagonist Stan Frederick’s goal in this particular video is to correct his error of putting off stopping his ex-partner in crime, Connor Dwight, from hurting the people around Stan when he had known how to stop Connor for at least a year. Stan put everyone else’s monsters ahead of his own, which only led to further destruction that could have been avoided—yet another huge mistake that cost him greatly. With his metaphorical will to live gone when he lost Willow, a child Stan was trying to help who was being hunted by the monsters known as Seedeaters, who manipulated her sister Dana to give her over to them—an event that Connor had a hand in tricking Stan over after being given Willow’s death prophecy by another monster known as the Rake, in which Connor proceeded to give Stan a warning ahead of time that other characters they knew could be the next to die, but never gave Willow’s name as an option—Stan finally worked up the nerve to take care of him once and for all.

Stan returns to his childhood home years after the loss of his little brother Erik and his parents, the place still as empty as it was then, save for the monster who took them all, standing at the top of the stairs waiting for him like it had never left. The Slenderman, as we know him, a monster who Stan used to fear so much and once gave into survival to appease it, and now Stan needs its help. It’s such a cruel twist of fate when he had taken everything from Stan in the past, and he has to question it: Can the monster feel emotions like pain or fear, and do the things that it does mean anything in relation to what it is? The reality of this question is to wonder if this faceless being who never speaks its mind has any level of consciousness humans can understand. Is it just a monster meant to prey on people like an animal for its own survival? Is it meant to play games with the mind until its victims are broken and nothing more? Is it something so far removed from us? Or is it like us at all, able to understand the horrors it puts humanity through, but does it anyway? Could it ever have felt the pain that Stan felt every time it took someone from him, and could it have ever understood him? But they’re questions that never come with an answer. It does what it does and that’s all we know.

But there is one other thing that Stan knows: how to please it. He makes a deal with Slenderman, not a far cry from making a deal with the Devil, that if he would make Connor human again so that he can be killed, Stan would let Slenderman take him in return. Turning the corner up the stairs, Stan finds that Slenderman has disappeared at the request, and at first believes that this was a denial of the offer on the monster’s part, only to look back down the stairs and see him now at the bottom instead. The deal Stan made effectively reversed their roles where Slenderman went from being both literally and metaphorically above him to being below him, showing that Stan now is the one who has control over the monster, it doing his bidding instead of the other way around—a relatively uncommon thing for a protagonist of the Slenderverse to make happen. This is one of the many things that makes The Record of Stan Frederick unique in general, because the story is told from the perspective of someone who has already been through this and knows the monster’s behavioral patterns instead of someone who has never had these experiences before.

With his deal accepted by the monster, Stan enters his old bedroom with only his camera that he sets up on the windowsill, and Connor’s gun. For a moment as he loads the gun, he thinks back on the last conversation he had with his brother Erik the day Slenderman took him, a memory that we as the audience also hear, before putting the gun to his head which lures Connor out. The trigger is pulled and despite the gun being loaded, no bullet comes out, because Stan isn’t allowed to die. The Rake still owes him for having given Connor to him years ago, and Connor can’t kill him because he’s under the Rake’s protection. Similarly, Connor can’t be killed in his current form as what’s known as a corruptelam—an echo of a person much like that of a ghost that can be left behind when a monster consumes a human. So with the two of them now standing face to face, both unable to be killed by the other, they’re finally at a stalemate. This is also reflected in the framing of the scene in which neither character stands above or below the other, showing that they are currently equals, unlike before for example in the episode People where Connor stands over Stan and Serena after fighting them off.

This is when Stan tries to appeal to Connor’s emotions, asking him if he remembers when they first met and saying that he knows Connor forgot a lot of things. It’s unspecified just how much Connor did forget as the type of corruptelams Stan had described the Rake leaving behind being echoes of the body rather than the mind, the type which Connor is, but we do know that day was one of the things he seems to have forgotten. Stan reminds him that they were once just kids in the foster system, both afraid of the same monster and the only ones who seemed to have been followed by it, which is when they clicked. And interestingly enough, for a second, Connor almost seems… sad. He bows his head and stares at the floor, and Stan mirrors the same position. Mirroring someone’s behavior in psychology is often a sign of empathy, giving the other person a non-verbal sign of connection and understanding, and it’s often something subconsciously done in our every day social environments. It shows that both of them are in sync, engaged in the same discussion and nostalgia of the past they endured together.

Stan didn’t know anything about Connor back then, certainly not what he was capable of becoming, but he knew even less about what he himself would become and what they would become together. Fear drove them both to survival, as equally guilty in what they did as they are in their equal inability to die. It’s what they both wanted at one point, to be able to live without that fear. To want to survive is human; when we’re faced with death, most of us will do anything to stop it, just as they did. But sometimes we go about it in a way that brings harm to others. Sometimes we become selfish creatures and throw others to the weeds if it means we’ll get a good night’s sleep. The truth is, the only thing that makes Stan better than Connor here is the fact that he woke up one day and realized he didn’t want to live that way anymore, to hurt others to keep himself safe. They’ve both been victims and they’ve both been perpetrators, but only Stan broke that cycle.

Stan then lifts the gun and points it at Connor, who reminds him that Stan can’t kill him. Stan replies that he knows because Connor is a corruptelam, the phenomena which he had named himself, to which Connor points out that he finds this whole situation embarrassing. This moment and the moment before are so surprisingly human, taking a step back and looking at the portrayal of Connor’s character up until this point as an otherwise threatening and intimidating figure. But, being completely unphased by the gun, Stan wonders if Connor had forgotten that, too—how to be scared, knowing now that he can’t be killed as a corruptelam and feeling that nothing bad would ever happen to him again because he’s something stronger than a human now. This conversation perfectly mirrors Stan’s earlier questions to Slenderman of if he can feel emotions and if the awful things he does have any purpose relative to his being, because Connor has truly become their own monster: perpetuating the cycle of violence, taking what he can from Stan to hurt him, and now unable to die. He’s forgotten the times that he used to lie awake in bed every night, terrified that their monster would come back again and harm him, and that’s something he outright tells Stan. “You move on. You make it better for yourself. You forget!” he argues. “No, you don’t! You don’t forget that,” Stan responds. “I certainly don’t. I forgot a lot… But I would never fucking forget that.” 

To remember our fears, in Stan’s eyes, is what keeps us human. It’s what reminds us that other people in our own personal situations have the same feelings as us, and makes us ask what right we have to make them suffer while we find peace. What makes us our monsters is not the hardships we face, but the hell we choose to make others go through to feel better about ourselves, and we have to be careful not to cross that line. We are all as capable of continuing the cycles of torment we experience as we are capable of breaking them, and Connor unfortunately never did.

It’s at this point that Stan allows Slenderman to complete his request, to turn back the clock and make Connor human again. Connor falls to his knees before his monster and screams as Slenderman does this, remaining on his knees even when it’s over and Stan points his gun at the back of Connor’s head. This scene shows that their stalemate has finally been broken with Stan now being above Connor rather than on equal ground with him. Connor begins to make one final plea for his life, but Stan cuts him off by shooting him, ending his life for real this time. Blood covers the screen, hiding Stan’s face from view as he too falls to his knees, now becoming his monster himself. We can no longer see his expressions beyond the blood, we don’t know his exact thoughts, if he feels better for taking Connor out of the world so he can’t hurt anyone else, or if he feels more grief for having to take his life with his own hands this time around—having also been stated in one of the book excerpts to have hated himself for giving Connor over to the Rake originally—or if he’s feeling some strange mixture of both. We don’t know what his emotions are toward that action in that moment, just as we don’t know what Slenderman’s emotions may be when he hurts people, if he even has any at all. There’s only emptiness left in the silent room that we as the audience feel, until Stan leaves Connor’s body behind for the Rake to find and goes back downstairs to accept his fate in giving himself over to Slenderman, completing their arranged deal.

Except he doesn’t.

As Slenderman tries to take him, Stan talks back, explaining how Slenderman used to be so huge and terrifying to him as a kid, and how he took everything from him. He asks the monster then if he really thought that Stan was going to let him take him too before using the same gun he had just killed Connor with to shoot himself, finally able to die as he was no longer in the Rake’s good graces. A body for a body. And not to get all David Kushner’s Daylight here, but that gun, too, is a metaphor for how Stan and Connor drinking poison from the same vine of survival led them both to their deaths. It was Connor who owned the gun first, the person who also initially suggested the idea of sacrificing other kids to their monster in return for their own peace, which Stan agreed to. The blood from the same deal they made was always on both of their hands, but Connor choosing to share that poison with Stan made Stan his own undoing from the beginning as he would always be the one to stop Connor. The awful truth is, if not for Stan, Connor’s way of surviving may have been proven to always work. It’s a horrible way to go, but no one else ever brought him down. If Connor truly wanted to survive in that way, picking Stan as his survival partner was the wrong move, unbeknownst to him at the start. The gun is a symbolic reflection in this scenario of Stan’s original plans when he had initially accepted Connor’s proposal of harvesting—that he was going to poison his and Connor’s cups of coffee which would kill them both, stopping Connor from going through with perpetuating the cycle of violence and ending his own life because he never stopped feeling guilt and grief from losing his brother to Slenderman.

The narrative actively punishes Stan whenever he chooses to live, and fate seems to scream that he has always been meant to die that day with Connor before they could ever do any of the horrible things they did together. Whether that be the time he handed Connor off to the Rake and got to live again only to be stuck trying to make up for their mistakes, or this time in Amendments when Stan returns as a corruptelam for one last try at making something of his life and he loses the last of the people that he loved, it’s always a punishment that he doesn’t die. He committed unforgivable sins that he could find no redemption for unless it was to choose death, and there was never another option to redeem him. The tragedy of The Record of Stan Frederick is like something out of a Shakespearian play, that there is no atonement and no end to Stan’s suffering unless he dies when all he wanted to do before was get out alive—just as his favorite song said. Amendments perfectly conveys the message of this story like no other, that becoming your own monster can only lead you down two paths: one of a never-ending cycle of hurting others to feel better about yourself, or one of never-ending regret. There’s no hope in that cycle. But there is hope in reaching out to others for help when you need it, and that is part of the message, too. After all, it’s Stan who tells his support group in the episode titled Support Group that they have each other and tells them how important that connection is. The support of those going through the same troubles as us is meant to lift us up, to help us survive together in a positive way, not to abuse and exploit it as Stan and Connor once did. It’s up to all of us to decide which path we’ll choose, and it’s up to us alone to accept the responsibility of those actions—just as Stan finally did.

[mankindsbadhabitz]

ALEX HERA SLENDERVERSE DOCUMENTARY LAST STREAM!

Hello again everybody, I just wanted to say the last part to Alex Hera’s ( @therealalexhera ) slenderverse documentary stream is out TODAY in about 20 minuets!

So sad this is coming to an end, but I’m very glad to have met some of you guys along the way♥️ Everyone who worked on this are absolutely awesome <3 I love you all and I’m glad to have had sm fun on these streams and seeing all my favorite creators together!! Good job everyone.

[hasbeenandroid]

(18+, not a NSFW server but we're attempting to keep out non-adults) tim @butchwrights and i have assembled a GNARLY SLENDERVERSE SERVER and HOUSE OF SLENDERVERSE DISCUSSION! there's little else to say this is just a public slenderverse for older and oldish fans. strictly no tribetwelve though

[sleeping-jayy]

New creepypasta x slenderverse AU just dropped (with more to be added)

I'd you're going to get inspired, please credit me :3 I'll me making some fanfiction soon!

Found family AU (Slenderverse + Creepypasta)

- Slenderman doesn't exist, its a metaphor for abuse and misfortune.

- Tim, Brian, EJ, Jane, Dr.Cornthal, and Stan are all caretakers of the drifting teens who come by.

-None of the kids have killed yet.

Tim + Brian

- Legally have possession over Toby after he lashes out ageinst his Bio father. Him and Lyra get put into foster care, Toby gets separated from her and due to his own delusion thinks that she's dead. Tim and Brian try to get visitation hours between her and Toby as often as possible. When Lyra turns 18, she plans to stay with the two until she can get an apartment and get custody of Toby herself.

- Cody bounces between The Hornet House and The Clinic often. He is best friends with Toby but feels like he's obligated to help Jack with Sally since he was the one to help him. Rather than ever getting interested inscience, he runs away from his foster father and is a runaway. Tim and Brian are aware, but let Cody think he's hiding it well.

- Kate is a victim of SA, and winds up at the Hornet House after fleeing her boyfriend during a date. She's not as young as everyone else, a collage kid away from home. But she finds comfort in Tim and Brian. She's quite terrified of boys her age, but trusts the two adults because they showed her more kindness than the men she thought she knew well.

- Nina occasionally visits when she knows Kate is there. She (not so) secretly has a crush on her. Nina is a hypersexual teen who was often prayed on because of her good looks, but unlike Kate she leans into the attention. She finds the Hornet House after having a particularly bad day and meets Kate who lets her in for warmth. She's a bit nervous of Tim but hits it off with Brian. She is homeless by choice and drifts around a lot, but stays within the state, often coming right back to Kate and the Hornet House.

- Evan once met Toby at the outskirts of the woods and they both got along well, leading Toby to introduce him to Tim and Brian who welcomed the boy. Evan mentioned Dr.Cornthal and Tim wants to meet the man one day, having recognized the name.

EJ

- He runs an underground clinic through his home, keeping it open doors to anyone regardless of their situation.

- Sally is a girl who had gone missing at just seven years old. Jack found her beaten and nearly dead in a park. She said she'd been running from someone and fell in the forest, she doesn't answer when pressed for more details. When Jack ever brings up taking her home, she has a meltdown. So she stays with him.

- Cody is at The Clinic when not at the Hornet House. Jack finds him having overdosed close to his Clinic from pain killers. Cody later says it was to ease a headache that wouldn't go away, later exposed to be an untreated concussion. Cody is very thankful for Jack, but gets restless in the Clinic so he often visits Toby when he can.

- Helen is an art student at a trade high school. He often gets bullied for his feminine nature, and it leads him to be isolated. He often goes walking in a storm in the woods and stumbles apon Jacks cabin and knocks on the door out of curiosity. Jack pulls him in and helps him dry off and offers his place as a form of refuge from school if he needs it.

- Patrick (and Micheal) often goes to Jacks clinic when he fronts and his nose bleeds. He ran off out of paranoia and finds the blind man's cabin, Jack quickly taking care of the teen. He and Cody have a friendly relationship and Patrick often treats Sally like a princess to see the girl smile.

Jane

- Jane protects the Woods Brothers, worried for their safety ageinst the neighborhood bullies. She promises to keep them safe, and if she fails, then to take revenge on the kids who hurt them and get them arrested.

- Jeff is mostly at Jane's, but hates her. He hates her because she's worried about him, but Liu likes it there so he stays. He gets bullied relentlessly by the known trouble makers and he feels the need to be tough for Liu, even if he is younger than him. Jane finds him after a particularly bad brawl and helps him with his injuries, much to Jeff's dismay. Him and Liu are almost inseparable. Almost.

- Liu often throws himself at Jeff the moment his younger brother is about to get in trouble, making Liu sit though detention or adjustment classes. Jeff is deemed a compulsive lier by adults since he tries to get them to believe that he was the one to blame. They pity Jeff and that gets him riled up. Liu is taken to Jane's after Jeff fails to take a hit and Liu gets injured. Liu expresses his gratitude for Jane and says he likes it there. So Jeff goes with him and takes it as a place of protection from the bullies, even if Jeff hates her for her kind words.

- Kate is very close to Jane. Jane being the younger of the towns runaway safe spots, and Kate being the older of the said runaways, they bond over being closer in age than others. She doesn't visit as often as she'd like, since Jane is farther away from her collage, but she tries. Jane often gets Kate dinner every once in a while when the Woods brothers are held up at their own home.

- Nina bounces between The Hornet House and Jane's place. She met Jane after Kate mentions her, going to see what all the fuss was about. She really was worried about Kate liking Jane better, but ends up becoming good friends with her. Nina is obsessed with Jeff the moment she sees him, finding him fascinating for some unknown reason. She tries to get his attention much to his annoyance. They form a sort of sibling like relationship later on.

- Shauna once met Jeff near the school and they fell into a strange sort of friendship, Jeff was friendly but made vaguely threatening statements toward others in the school that worried Shauna. Upon meeting Jane and seeing that she had it under control, Shauna was a little more relaxed and the two fell into a healthy friendship.

Dr.Cornthal

- He has custody over Vinny after meeting him in his time working at a mental facility. How he managed this is beyond him, but he and his wife keep their doors open to much more than just him.

- Vinny is a paranoid kid, his kind and respectful and all other aspects though. He's a really good kid, but thinks bad things will happen to him constantly. His biological family had died when he was very young and he stayed in the system for a while until Cornthal got to him.

- Evan was also a patient in Dr.Cornthals facility, but he wasn't able to get custody. Evan later moves into a home in the town that Cornthal lives in. Vinny and Evan meet at school and the two hit it off right away. Evan has dissociative episodes that result in impulse and intrusive thoughts. He insists on being called the HABIT in these episodes, professionals deeming it a form of OSDD.

- Jeffery is known in town for his parents and brother dying in an accident. This results in anxiety and suicidal tendencies. He meets Evan and Vinny through school and the three get along impeccably well. He's often too nervous to go into the Cornthal household, but when he does, he's treated like Cornthals own son along with Vinny and Evan.

- Noah is a skittish and brash stray, he's homeless, less by choice as he was kicked out by his parents. He's lived on the streets for a year now and finds Cornthal after him and the boys find him in a movie theater alleyway. He's offered a place to stay and he takes it right away despite himself. He runs off after a calm night, craving the chaos of the streets. He comes back more and more often after a while of getting comfortable though.

Stan Frederick

- Stan is a hermit in his own right, but he knows a kid in need when he sees one. Along with hosting his drifter friend Carmen, he picks up strays up off the street more often than he should.

- Michael spent many years in the mental hospital, struggling with intense dissociative episodes. The hospitals didn't help much though. He was diagnosed with DID, a more social alter being Patrick. The two find Stan with Shauna after running away from home, their parents being abusive after Shauna came out as trans feminine.

- Much to Shaunas relief, she and Micheal find Stan after running away from their transphobic parents. She loves the freedom, especially getting to meet Carmen who visits once in a while. She understands that Micheal is a little.more hesitant, but insists on staying.