#troped horror

[probably-voldemort]

the moon that breaks the night

a clarke x murphy fic - rated M

Clarke came to the small town of Arkadia for the student loan forgiveness. She never expected to be swept up in a mystery that had plagued the town for the last decade.

Written for @slyth-princess for @troped-fanfic-challenge's The 100 Horror Exchange Event! Shoutout to @thelittlefanpire and @dylanobrienisbatman as always for hosting!

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[plastiboo]

[goryhorroor]

there’s certainly more but I’m so tired my brain is dead

[bebx]

no I’m literally so fuckable if you ignore the mental illnesses, the homicidal urges, the violence, the tragic past, the pain, the fear, the trauma and the grotesqueness actually

[woundlight]

we need more fungi in horror. characters infected by spores, their bodies slowly rotting as the mycelium consumes them. fungal eldritch beings being deities of decay. cordyceps vampires. cults worshipping the mycorrhizal network. fungi as a symbol. fungi as an allegory

[homosexualslug]

realized that both the beginning and the end of the happy paris stage of Loumand's relationship has this same contrasting orange to blue/green color scheme. and like. the visual metaphor of Armand literally leaving his cold, lifeless world behind him and choosing the bright, golden warmth of life with Louis instead of killing him like he was supposed to in that tunnel. but as soon as he chooses the coven over Louis, he separates from the warmth like oil in water that was never supposed to be there. and now he's back out in the cold. I'm normal about this, btw.

[vent-antiendo]

Ableism is fucking everywhere. And it's so insanely normalized. I was watching a commentary youtube video about a pretty shitty person. And the person who made the video, someone I watch frequently, calls the person a sociopath, a psychopath and a narcissist. Over and over again.

We're people too, what the fuck? Having ASPD or NPD does not equal being a shitty, abusive person. I'm so fucking sick and tired of my struggles being used as a way to insult and label others as abusers.

I am not your fucking horror trope.

[comikbook]

shoutout to stereotypical scary schizophrenics. schizophrenics with intrusive thoughts. schizophrenics with anger issues. schizophrenics that talk to themselves. schizophrenics that have violent hallucinations. schizophrenics with scary experiences. schizophrenics that are scared of their disorder. schizophrenics that hate how we’re portrayed in media because its our reality.

[envydeath]

silence lay steadily.

things haunt, joshua jennifer espinoza // giovanni's room, james baldwin // through me (the flood), hozier // flowers in the attic, v.c. andrews // i am in eskew, jon ware // anatomy, kitty horrorshow // the haunting of hill house, shirley jackson

[saturnisscreaming]

Y'know the thing people do in movies/shows where there like a monster/creature place and they poke a stick in there to investigate? Then it comes out shorter cause it got all chomped or broken? I want them to stick the stick in there and it comes back longer

I just grew your stick what're you gonna do about it

[probably-voldemort]

Halloweeny / Horror / Fall Prompts!

I am going to be taking prompts from now until the end ish of October! I'm participating in @troped-fanfic-challenge's Horror event, which means these prompts need to fit certain requirements, which I'll lay out below. You can find the requirements, tropes, and themes here on the Troped Horror Google Doc. It's all explained there as well.

Requirements for your prompts:

A Horror Theme (there's a list in the google doc - these can be horror, Halloween, fall, but that's the general idea)

4 prompts (again, there's a list in the google doc)

At least 1 of the 4 prompts needs to be a "horror" prompt (again, there's a list)

Your chosen fandom (I've put a list of fandoms below the cut that I'm willing to write. If there's something not on the list, you could put that as a first choice and then have a backup from the list in case I don't know/don't write the fandom you chose)

A ship from your chosen fandom (could be romantic or non romantic, could be a group thing, could give me options if you want)

If you want to just give some of these requirements and/or a general idea, also cool! I may take it or combine it with something else or whatever.

Another prompt option is a song or lyrics with like a fandom or a ship or something. I like writing fics based on the vibes and/or lyrics of songs. You could also add a song/lyrics to your larger prompt as well for vibes if you want but that is not required.

Also as a disclaimer: just because you send me a prompt doesn't necessarily mean I'll write it. I am working and there's only so much time to write and if inspiration isn't striking, I'll do my best but I can't make any promises.

But yeah! It's been a while since I've had prompts open. Feel free to send me requests for batshit insane stuff too. I'm open to anything! Sending them as asks would be preferred and send as many as you want! :)

(also don't worry I'm planning to update Darling really soon too. I'm almost done the chapter)

Fandoms List (in no particular order, literally just the order I thought of them):

The 100

Narnia

New Girl

Julie and the Phantoms

Timeless

12 Monkeys

Pirates of the Caribbean

Brooklyn 99

Umbrella Academy

Parks and Recreation

iZombie

The Good Place

Superstore

Harry Potter

Marvel

The Hunger Games

Merlin

Derry Girls

Ghosts (CBS)

The Society

The Wilds

Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist

Percy Jackson Universe (I've only read the OG series and Heroes of Olympus, though)

Twlight

Shadowhunters

Once Upon a Time

Vampire Diaries

Descendants

How I Met Your Father

Shadow and Bone / Six of Crows

Bridgerton

A Series of Unfortunate Events

The Summer I Turned Pretty

There's probably others, so feel free to request something that's not on the list, but do please have a backup option just in case :)

[papenathys]

What I'm trying to say is, I hate performative and pretentious depth so much. And it's always white authors, especially in the Gothic/dark academia genres. Whatever had to be said has already been said around the late 90s-early 2000s by actually inventive writers, and now white authors are just milking the contemporary fandom fascination with ships like Loustat and Hannigram (that are actually well written and complex in their respective works), stripping them of their essence completely, diluting them to empty hollows like "toxic queerness" and "the intimacy of violence" and "cannibalism as a metaphor for all-consuming desire" with a splash of Catholic imagery and witchcraft and tarot and smut and poetry that is losely marketed as something like "a bloody sumptuous feast of hedonism and queer desire".

It's not even disaffected in a halfhearted way like Donna Tartt, no, every axis of (supposed) oppression milked by these books is 100% serious and self-absorbed. You got the completely unironic Anne Rice and Sylvia Plath and Oscar Wilde worshippers and the tired, FLACCID endless poems about pomegranates and dog metaphors and knives and stigmata like stop stop stop REINVENT RETHINK BE ORIGINAL it's so overdone it's dead it sounds like regurgitated tumblr metaphors it's accumulating flies just stop!!!!!

No wonder we get those tweets fifteen times a day about how "x line sounds like it would be from the Bible but it's actually from tumblr"– followed by a line/quotation that actually sounds exactly like it's from tumblr. STOP overdoing the metaphor to the point of insincerity!!! stop turning once-novel things into edgy marketable words about bloody girlhood and erotic desire and religious passion!!!

And to take a break from negativity, here are a few books I really, really enjoyed that handled a mix of grimdark, gothic, horror and/or queer themes with originality and substance:

**The Wicked and the Willing by Lianyu Tan: a historical sapphic romance set in 1920s Singapore that examines the "Carmilla" vampire motif from a postcolonial lens.

**House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson: a very short, very eerie sapphic gothic romance (?) story, examining race, class and gender discourses through the allegories of vampirism and a centuries-old hunger.

Mexican Gothic by Silva Moreno Garcia: a historical gothic horror story about a 1950s Mexican heiress who discovers the hideous history underlying the family estate of an aristocrat English family; this is a genuinely disturbing but also great work of postcolonial horror (heavy eugenics storyline be warned).

**Providence Girls by Morgan Dante: a Lovecraftian retelling of two women in 1950s New England who discover love while battling the horrors both monstrous, cosmic as well as societal. genuinely beautiful, disturbing and a wonderful exploration of grief in horror.

**Walking Practice by Dolki Min: a shapeshifting alien stranded on earth lures victims via dating apps and seduces people of both genders before killing and consuming them. translated from Korean and a disturbing, funny (but also tragic) and dark satire about trans bodies, queerness in 21st century South Korea, violence and alienation. PLEASE read this.

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica: in an alternate history where ethical cannibalism has been legalized globally, and humans are bred as livestock, a narrator grapples with ethics when he rescues a live female "specimen" from his meat factory. super disturbing, satire of the author's experience under the Argentinian dictatorship.

**Chlorine by Jade Song: a Chinese-American girl in 1990s USA grapples with sapphic crushes, adolescence, trauma, racism and her immigrant identity while taking part in competitive swimming and dreaming of mermaids. absolute fever dream masterpiece of a debut novel combining teenage queer sexuality and body horror, with a narrative that challenges norms of beauty and gender a lá Julia Ducournau films.

(?) Bunny by Mona Awad: psychedelic, colorful, pop neon horror satire about an all-female MFA creative writing cohort at an elite arts college, and the lengths they go through to achieve their literary success, as observed by the outsider loner girl. this was such a direct, targeted and brutal parody of dark academia/ femcel unhinged women books lmfao??? but also witty and disturbing without sounding condescending.

**= explicit LGBTQ rep. there is a question mark before Bunny because it has– neither explicit rep nor queerbait– but a secret third thing, schrödinger's representation.

Also first person to write "let people have fun" should donate 30 dollars to my kofi promptly

[prokopetz]

Okay, so we all know the real reason for the vampires-versus-werewolves thing in popular culture is because back in the 1930s, the same studio owned the movie rights to Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolfman, and they decided to moosh them all together into what is arguably the first Big Stupid Cinematic Universe, but what's slightly less well known is that H G Wells' The Invisible Man was also part of that package. I want to see what the goofy we-swear-it's-personal-horror tabletop RPG based on that facet of the mythos looks like, weirdly artificial taxonomies of playable splats and all – everybody's invisible, but there are like five completely different possible reasons for that, plus a sixth, evil reason for being invisible which you're not allowed to play as because they secretly rule the world.

[goryhorroor]

horror tropes: the car never works when you need it most

[ojerasgigantes]

Favourite horror tropes 1/? - The house is alive