#fear the unknown

[evanescentapocrypha]

Book Cover of Cat's Apocrypha 24x30 Oil on Canvas Look at all the books in their the spiderwebbed shelves.

How should you study? How should you research?

Is it dark in your mind? Is it dark inside? This was my first cover design for the novel I'm working on. I might repaint this another day.

#fear the unknown #horror art #gothic inspiration #gothic horror #anemone #dark aesthetic #dark academia #gothic #my art #cosmic horror #chilling imagery #skulls #violet blue #forbidden knowledge #book illustration #illustration #oil painting #horror

[rangellatoria]

👻🎮 Dive into the spine-chilling world of Taiwanese horror games! From eerie atmospheres to hair-raising narratives, these games will send shivers down your spine. Get ready to face ghosts, unravel mysteries, and experience a unique blend of Taiwanese folklore and terror. 🇹🇼💀✨ Let the fear guide you through the digital unknown. 🌙🕯️

#Taiwanese Horror #Gaming Thrills #Fear The Unknown

[jonnywaistcoat]

what's the scariest thing in this world?

Dracula... But he's got a gun!

#its like oh shit #is he gonna vamp me #or shoot me #its unknown #and the unknown is the essence of fear

[lumberjerk]

its bugs me so much when horror media/content starts out with a really great concept and then runs it into the ground by inflating the lore and over explaining everything

#the most egregious example is stuff that originated as creepypasta #but its a big problem in horror in general #like girl one of the most major things horror explores is Fear of the Unknown #its supposed to be. Unknown. #it doesnt need an origin story it doesnt need to be a metaphor for trauma sometimes shits just scary and its better that way ok

[cowlvent]

clara reaching back into the unknown darkness for several long, agonizing seconds "i'm right please god say i'm right" AND THEN SHE IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the core of their relationship plays out right there: clara can and will defy death, and the doctor will always save clara, even when it seems impossible. (and it's crucial that this is the first really doctor-y moment he has as twelve.) the growth and distortion of these fundamental beliefs drive the two of them to their eventual end.

#going through deep breath induced madness here on this day #that shot of her reaching out into the unknown darkness. yeah it's bouncing around my brain like a windows screensaver #something about it makes me so. like. you can physically FEEL the nothingness there and the desperation+fear she has. whew #also “i'm right aren't i say i'm right” and thats when he grabs her. Where do i even begin with that #clara oswald #twelfth doctor #twelveclara #dw #clara + dr

[to-make-yourself-known]

a twisted sense of self

#false #my art #her lore is making me do flips and twirls and apparently make big art #something about the inescapability of self #something about the fear of the unknown #something something something #hi i love her #falsesymmetry #falsesymmetry fanart #hermitcraft #hermitblr #empires smp #empiresblr #mcyt #mcytblr #hermitcraft fanart #empires fanart #mcyt fanart #false lore is something that can be so personal...

[letitbehurt]

Language barriers in whump my beloved:

Whumpee’s disorientation when Whumper speaks to or around them in a language Whumpee can’t understand.

Multiple Whumpers talking about Whumpee right in front of them.

Whumpee’s frustration when they’re given orders they don’t understand—then their fear, as Whumper still clearly expects them to obey.

Whumpee forced to rely on reading Whumper’s body language to survive.

Insults, pet names, and threats that Whumpee simply doesn’t catch.

Whumpee slowly recognizing a few words, but being ridiculed or humiliated when they try to speak any.

Caretaker and Whumpee who speak different languages, each slowly teaching the other.

Whumper tasks Medic with cleaning Whumpee up, and Medic teaches Whumpee their language any moment they can (maybe it’ll keep them alive).

#oh the possibilities #the degradation Whumpee doesn’t register #Whumpee’s attempts to learn being ridiculed #the frustration and fear of the unknown!! #good stuff #whump

[pulchrasilva]

Thinking about William as a metaphor for disability again. Thinking about how William got into an accident and suddenly he's watching his body rot and fall apart. How does he cope with that? How do his family and friends cope with that? Thinking about how he died, and in a way he and the people around him have to mourn that. How when you're recently disabled you might mourn the ability you've lost, and people around you might mourn because they believe they've lost something too even though you're still RIGHT THERE. Thinking about the monsters in Deadwood being attracted to the wisps and ultimately forcing him to leave home and how that reflects the world suddenly becoming inhospitable and hostile towards you overnight. How rather than making Deadwood safer for William, he had to just leave. How often the way the world treats disabled people forces them to retreat from it in some way. How William was just arguing that the Lich didn't have rights because it wasn't alive, and then finding out he's dead too. How disabled people have their personhood stripped from them by people who think they'll never be disabled so why should they care. Are you listening to me

#did they say something about the monsters being attracted to william putting his family in danger? #bc something something people making your symptoms about Them as if youre not the one who has to actually live with them #william wisp #jrwi pd #i just. ough #he found out he was rotting in a hospital bed!! that is a standard movie disability thing #the doctors cime in like 'this is gonna be difficult to hear blah blah' #also the rotting being unknown by basically anyone (other than mal) #not knowing if it can be stopped/slowed if it'll just keep going forever where it came from etc #its an unexplained disability with all the uncertainty and fear that comes with it #william wisp is a proud member of the leopard's eating people's faces party btw

[flimythings]

When death comes knocking, I'll grasp your hand tightly, vowing to reunite in every existence.

-filmythings

#english literature #poems on tumblr #inspiring quotes #relationship quotes #poetry #life quotes #love #quoteoftheday #love quotes #dark academia #this is painful #unknown #original poetry #original poem #death note #dear diary #spilled tears #spilled ink #spilled writing #tears for fears #trending

[nuge]

leon draisaitl | 32 thoughts | 02/05/2023

***please do not repost anywhere without permission

#leon draisaitl #connor mcdavid #mcdrai #edmonton oilers #oilers lb #perlinigif #no one #literally no one #drai: brings up mcdavid even when the topic is not about mcdavid at all #also me 🤝 drai: fear of the water unknown

[therabbitthatpostthings]

You guys ever think about how Mr.Incredible is one of Disney/Pixar’s saddest character?

Like it’s the night of your wedding, you save the day same as usual but the next day you discover you are the final nail in the Superhero coffin. Supers are outlawed, hundreds are loosing their jobs because YOU did your job and saved a man.

It’s years later and you and your family have gone into witness protection essentially. House after house, school after school, all to fit in to this world. You get fired and you get a note offering you a high paying job. Finally! You get to be a hero again AND support your family. Your bonding with them again, getting into shape, everything is perfect!

Then it happens, you find out that this program was designed for you. To kill you. And it’s been tested on hundreds of supers before you, all to kill YOU. And this whole plan was concocted by the one boy you turned your back on that night.

This villain of your own making.

Because if you your friends lost their jobs. And now, they’ve lost their lives.

And of course Bob has to realize all that, his whole world crashing down on him. Next thing you know, you’re tied up by the psychopath you made and he, supposedly, kills your wife and children who were coming to rescue you.

Just a tragic story.

#shitpost #shitposting #I do find it cute that his first instinct upon learning the truth was to make sure Helen was still unknown to Syndrome #not only because her location was unknown but because it would have listed that the two were married and had kids #imagine the fear knowing if they hadn’t gotten to you first they would of 100% tested Frozone #OOF- #mr incredible #bob parr #the incredibles

[skeletoninthemelonland]

In case it hasn't been made clear, Behind The Codes is not a horror series. Despite having some disturbing themes, it doesn't focus on them the same way FNAF games did.

#I'm a big fan of silence as a cinematic tool #and when something feels wrong but you can't actually point your finger at it #as well as the concept of dreams and nightmares #the more time you spend analyzing them. the more you realize what's really troubling you deep down #some themes and visuals are tricky and make you frustrated because their meanings are unknown to you #things that are “without foot nor head” #might as well mention the concept of time running out. there are PLENTY more themes to explore! #you know you don't have to fear anything. as long as you keep your mind's integrity #but what if someone were to take that away from you. something so personal as a name or a story #an empty vessel will seek out fulfillment and eventually learn to love and hate all over again #starbstalks

[soup--champ]

god I love how this episode makes you completely recontextualize everything in both this and the previous one with the reveal of sanitized filter showfall uses, and its all revealed just from that one scene of charlie's dissection. the unanswered questions make it so much more rattling.

it paints such an eerie feeling over the entire rest of stream. any slapstick moment loses a lot of it's comedy because of the implied reality of the scenario. the reactions from those who broke free from the control helped sell it a lot as well.

the shot of sneeg staring in horror at charlie off screen while everything and everyone around him just kind of pauses? brutal.

and the fact that most of the offscreen deaths were never shown, but were often treated with the most sincerity as well. it both works as effective horror and also as a way to work around format limitations.

shoutout the fear of the unknown. it's such a good horror device.

#soup speaks #generation loss spoilers #generation loss the social experiments #genloss #sorry for the rambly rant im just obsessed with this #i think one of the best ways of inciting horror in an audience is leaving them with more questions than answers #fear of the unknown is SO effective and having the reality of almost every death implied rather than stated incites so much of that #god i love well written horror

[maskyartist]

Trolls AU where it’s Clay who came back to the pod n brought Branch with him during the escape only for the cave in to happen and now Branch is a Putt Putt Troll :)

#masky says #trolls dreamworks #trolls clay #trolls branch #puttin this here imma come back to it later #there’s a vibe here…idk what it is but it’s somethin #gimme branch instead of being a paranoid wreck actually wanting to explore #between Viva’s insistence no one leaves the golf course once they arrive #and Clay’s unwillingness to let Branch do much on his own after everything #i feel like this is a decent scenario where Branch could actively want to see the rest of the world #he knows there’s danger out there but…there has to be more beyond the golf course #maybe even other trolls! #like I do think he’s still grey but he’s grey and ✨willing to try✨ #mostly cause the sadness and fear of the unknown is better then the suffocating air living in Putt Putt Village has caused him over the year #*years

[krogerkryptid]

I mourn that there wasn't canon TMA content where all the fear avatars hung out, went to parties etc. Like tea on Tuesdays where they all commiserate about the horrors, it's the only time any of them ever get along they have one day where they all agree it's just a gossip/fear session, they take turns hosting.

#tma podcast #tma #the magnus archives #fear avatars #Elias pulling up like the smug mf he is having so much to say #when a new avatar is snatched/made they get a text from an unknown number with a map location and a threat to attend

[paleodictyoptera]

I made something

#mormon #mormonism #queerstake #tumblrstake #lds #why isn't there more info about them #why doesn't the spirit have a body when we had to come get a body on earth in order to progress #why does the lack of knowledge about heavenly mother feel more like misogyny and fear of the unknown than a simple drought of revelation