[points at you] FAVORITE CREEPYPASTA OF ALL TIME GO
ALRIGHT FOR ANYONE WHO FOLLOWS THIS BLOG WHO IS YOUNGER/NOT A FAN OF HORROR I'M GONNA PUT A CUT HERE JUST IN CASE: SPOOKY CLOWN VIDEO THUMBNAIL BELOW THE CUT. ((I may be being too cautious but I am well aware that my usual artistic content on this blog may attract people who are less comfy with the uncanny than I am so it never hurts to be respectful))
Ok so fav one I've read, mostly for nostalgia reasons, is of friggin course Chicken Bones
Read it as a kid and it was the earliest reading experience I can remember going "WOAH... YOU CAN HAVE A VILLAIN WITHOUT SEEING THE VILLAIN??? YOU CAN HAVE STORY HAPPEN BEHIND THE SCENES AND STILL KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING WITHOUT IT BEING SPOON-FED TO THE AUDIENCE??? YOU CAN HAVE A CLIFFHANGER ENDING THAT DOESN'T SUCK???? AMAZING" and it's changed my brain chemistry ever since. I want to learn how to do what the ending of chicken bones did to 12 year old me
Also it has a cool setting description at one point and the protagonist's only description is a canonically ugly haircut <333 gotta love me a story where the protagonist isn't a sacred little angel or the coolest guy in the room
CURRENT favorite creepypasta to listen to is Creepsmcpasta's edition of Mayhem Mountain!!!
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I GENUINELY USE THIS TO HELP ME FALL ASLEEP.
ITS A DANG GOOD ONE BECAUSE ok ngl I'm just realizing how similar my reasoning is for liking both stories. Apparently I have a type
Anyway spoilers:
- also has a villain (this time with a name) but they never see or interact with him once
- ARCHITECTURAL HORROR!!!!!
- A MIDDLE AGED CAST!!!!
- all with distinct personalities that are shown through the way they interact with each other, not just told as archetypes!!!
- there's TWO girl characters, and they aren't JUST "and this is my unnamed girlfriend who dies" ((my standards are so low for pastas hAHQGEFD))
- THE NARRATION IS. MMMM 👌👌👌 GOALS. The author shows what needs to be shown and tells just enough without it being too much and its delicious
- actually really accurate descriptions of what it's like to be in a life or death situation instead of the protag reacting like an anime character or an action hero to it
- and apparently I'm a huge sucker for "the villain is still at large" stories where the villain is a normal human instead of an unkillable monster
ANYWAY YES. CREEPYPASTAS MY BE FRIGGIN L O V E D. There's more good ones but these two take the cake for me hands down
still in a really weird emotional/mental space today so i went shopping to get some snacks…
i found chicken bones!!! god i grew up eating these candies and haven’t had them in years! they are 100% part of the reason i’m obsessed with anything cinnamon flavoured.
definitely made my day a bit better, i still feel weird but at least i have chicken bones to crunch on lmao
As I dug in splitting white meat between my fingers
Peeling the roasted skin off the belly of the beast
Just scraping
muscle and meat
It was so cold.
It felt primal
I thought about how It doesn’t feel as morbid as if I the chicken was uncooked, intact, But still dead.
How it was prepared
Lack of innards, of feelings, life.
As I shredded, pulled, and tore off pieces of chicken I began seeing the skeletal structure
The carcass
It was a little sad
Removed of all empathy, there was no negative emotion other than food. I didn’t look at it and registered it as a past life form. It was sustenance.
It was bittersweet, in all of its complexity.
Once I completed getting most the meat and skin off the chicken, I decided to save the bones.
It was kind of disgusting, digging around, prodding its body and having to flip it around. At some point, it became less about preparing for dinner and more about studying it.
I mean I’ve never examined a rotisserie chicken before. Who has?
Even cooked, as I bared it to the bones I could see meat that was once muscle. I could feel rubbery tendons, the cartilage holding parts in place.
You never really notice the purple pink tint to the skin resting between the ribs, or notice the little tail it has till you pop the cartilage off.
It was humane, at its lowest I questioned the horror of it. My own body and bones stripped and examined.
My own body and soul, my ribs stripped and my heart taken, my literal core.
Then I let it be. I let it go, and I decided to stop making associations between me and a rotisserie chicken.
Instant Pot Chicken Stock Bone Broth Recipe
This homemade chicken stock, also known as bone broth, is made with chicken bones, vegetables, and herbs, which add tons of savory flavor.
Slow Cooker Chicken Bone Broth - Broth and Stock
Perfect for soups and stews, this slow-cooked bone broth is made with roasted chicken bones and unpeeled vegetables, resulting in a much deeper flavor and darker color.
Instant Pot Chicken Stock Bone Broth
This homemade chicken stock, also known as bone broth, is made with chicken bones, vegetables, and herbs, which add tons of savory flavor.
Instant Pot Chicken Stock Bone Broth
This homemade chicken stock, also known as bone broth, is made with chicken bones, vegetables, and herbs, which add tons of savory flavor.