#haunted by storytelling

[catastrophicgay]

girls who are doomed by the narrative!! girls who have been dead since the beginning. girls who are dragged into death not kicking and screaming but clinging on to the brink until their fingers ache with the weight of the years they’ve stolen. girls who’s every last words are already etched on the stone of an open and waiting grave.

#when i say this trope is keeping storytelling alive #natalie scatorccio #van palmer #max mayfield #abigail hobbs #jennifer check #olivia crain #nell crain #dani clayton #hannah grose #ethel cain #yellowjackets #hannibal #the haunting of bly manor #the haunting of hill house #the fall of the house of usher #stranger things #mine

[mobydyke]

a house is a home but a house is alive but a house is a prison but a house is a graveyard but a house is a caregiver but a house is an emancipation but a house is a monster but the house loves you and the house will not let you go

#guys I haven't even read house of leaves i just have thoughts about houses in storytelling #..... the uss hephaestus.... the martin house..... the house of eternal return..... the house on southwood plantation road.... #i love haunted houses idk yall #oh miranda's house on new providence island and also the house on hill top road #ace txt

[ragesingoddess]

Odysseus, on his journey home to Ithaca, was visited by a ghost.

#this was born from my silver/odysseus brainrot which is constant and is making me progressively more insane #a story is true a story is untrue #etc #john silver #black sails #the odyssey #odysseus #long john silver #james flint #captain flint #i keeps thinking about how both odysseus and silver represent charachters haunting the narrative and are at the same time haunted by it #they csnt escape it but are also the ones that shape it #they were both characters trapped into their own legend in a way #characters that got caught up in a war they never wanted to be a part of in the first place #storytellers forced to same the same story over and over again #anyway.

[tubchunk]

every tubbo qsmp stream these past few days has me just going "yellow daffodil? yellow daffodil?" AND TODAY IS NO DIFFERENT !!

q!tubbo more audibly bringing up the yellow daffodil today whenever he believes he has lost it. he notices it gone from his offhand and verballu freaks out slightly. whenever he accidentally planted it, while talking to q!phil about something, he'd just stop and QUIETLY say "hey can i have that back?" before picking it up, putting it in his offhand, and then continuing as if nothing happened.

and that one time where he thought he lost it, and he stopped everything to ask everyone if they saw it. and when he found it again, he switched it to his inventory so he didn't lose it anymore.

just. q!tubbo and the yellow daffodil that is his one reminder of fred. his one reminder that it was goodbye. his one reminder that its time to move on.

#that yellow daffodil is gonna haunt me in my sleep #his reactions over it have been getting more and more obvious what is he Planning #but also subtle storytelling NOM #qsmp #qsmp tubbo

[luthienne]

Sarah Ruhl, from Eurydice

[Text ID: She walks towards the audience and opens her mouth, trying to speak. There is a great humming noise. She opens her mouth for the second time, attempting to tell her story to the audience. There is a great humming noise. She closes her mouth – the humming noise stops. She has a tantrum of despair.

STONES. Eurydice wants to speak to you. But she can't speak your language anymore. She talks in the language of dead people now.]

#sarah ruhl #eurydice #words #plays #typography #myth #but we are ghosts only #on language #the body as a haunted house #on storytelling

[jewvian]

I don't know how much of episode 5 of sword af was improvised, like in terms of Delores and Koda and their history, cuz there had to be some discussions with Damien prior to the session in order to create such an elaborated lore.

But like it didn't matter cuz it caught me off guard anyways, and I was not expecting the raw emotions from Amanda and Chanse. The level of acting from such comedic actors fucking floored me. Wow. Like I got chills all over, it was insane.

Also the sound department?? The editors??? Whoever decided to put the sound effects for each story??? Y'all need a raise.

#smosh #sword af #damien haas #amanda lehan canto #chanse mccrary #delores paradise #koda amakiir #text #lol lots of tags here 😂 #anyways it'll take me some time to recover from this entire new lore #i had no idea i'll get a massive mental slap today lmao #amanda's face will haunt me for days #and chanse's eyes with that raw fear in them? i'm fucking done #what an episode we had!!! #truly amazing to witness such storytelling

[vibe-stash]

The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020)

#cinematography #visual storytelling #tv stills #mike flanagan #the haunting of bly manor #victoria pedretti #roby attal #horror #netflix horror #horror tv #i love how his glasses look like two full moons

[trentonsimblr]

"For better or for... worse"

#ts4 #ts4 storytelling #the sims 4 #simblr #ts4 screenshots #sims 4 #ts4 legacy #ts4 simblr #the sims community #sims 4 royal simblr #ts4 royal simblr #ts4 edit #ts4 story #ts4 royalty #ts4 royal story #ts4 royal family #trenton extras #sim: eleanor rutherford #why yes that is a line from the haunted mansion ride

[astranauticus]

not sure if this counts as an AU but.. thinking about the Per Aspera crew as horror game bosses like.. you are wandering through a forested mountain range and you know somethings wrong because the forest shouldn't be this eerily silent, this devoid of life, and then you hear the crash of falling trees and there is a hand that is half your size glowing golden in the night and it is grabbing you and its claws are digging into your flesh and you see the spines running down the golden arm that is far too long as it lifts you over a crater in mountain, over a coiled, serpentine thing with a visage that is not of this world, and if you look closely you can see the shape of a child curled at the centre of the thing, golden hair reflecting the glow of the creature and if you listen closely you can hear her sobbing, 'Don't hurt me, I don't want to do this'. you are sailing through the astral sea when you see an ephemeral, resplendent spelljammer cutting through the starry waters and you rejoice because you have been lost on the seas for so so long, so you board the ship looking for help, supplies, anything, and you are greeted by a blue fire genasi (you wonder, do those even exist? but you can't get off the ship now because where else will you go?) and she tells you she is the captain of this ship but as far as you can tell there is no crew on board, and if she is not appearing right behind you from a trapdoor you've never noticed she is always in the engine room 'fixing the ship' even though the ship seems to be sailing perfectly fine ('Where are we going?' you ask her once and she doesn't even turn to look at you, 'Don't worry about it') and if you are ever so unlucky as to damage the ship in any way, you begin to catch flashes of red and orange out of the corner of your eye, a fire genasi wearing the woman's face who whispers at you with hollow, angry eyes 'Don't you fucking dare hurt my ship'. you are sailing through the astral sea when you see a rotting, decaying spelljammer, so badly damaged it's barely moving although you have to wonder how it's even staying afloat at all, and out of some morbid curiosity you climb on board and the deck of the ship is in no better shape than the hull, the marks of hard-fought battle - scars in the wood from sharp blades and arcane energies, stains of blood and oil splattered about - still fresh but you know time doesn't pass on the astral sea so who knows how long ago this all took place, and as you climb below decks you start to notice the writings on the walls, pieces of parchment nailed to every surface and connected with fraying, rotting threads, or words etched directly into the wood, the deep gouges barely readable, and you start to hear the creaking and clanking of rusted machinery slowly moving about and you turn a corner to see a figure standing in a room facing the wall, slowly scratching yet more of that unintelligible writing into the bones of the ship, and it turns as the rusted dented mechanite stares at you with eyes ablaze and he asks 'Who are you? Where is my crew?' as sparks of arcane lightning begins to arc through the room. you are running through a feywild forest and you know, even without the figure chasing you, that you have made a horrible mistake, you should have known better, should have been more careful, should have kept your impulses in check, and now you are being chased through an unfamiliar forest and the figure, the Hunter pursuing you knows this realm like the back of his hand, knows every tree and shrub and vine that is slithering up to grasp at your ankles, and you glance back desperately to catch any glimpse of your pursuer but there is no pursuer, he has hidden himself with some arcane trick or some innate power or just the knowledge that this realm is his home, and you hear his voice even though you cannot see him as he cries out 'You should not have hurt my family. Prepare to face the Hunter of Hundkiln'

sorry no Vhas yet maybe I'll update with one for him once we get more of his whole deal

#rolling with difficulty #asto speaks #well i lied only kyana's and finbar's really work as video game bossfights #dani's is more... horror short story? vr-la's is horror comic #bc dani's much more psychological and the environmental storytelling of vr-la's one would be pretty interesting.. probably #in hindsight vr-la's reads like it could be a magnus archive entry LMAO #contrary to whatever you may think (especially if youre in the discord) i dont actually like most horror #like i've only listened to abt ~10 episodes of tma bc it started fucking up my sleep thats how much of a wuss i am #like i dont actually *enjoy* horror but idk i had so much fun writing this. for some reason #hell i dont even enjoy *writing* most of the time #all the others are kinda based on a specific scenario like kyana's is if she never left the cenobium and suvi snapped before she did #(if you've watched/read jjk0 video game bossfight suvi is very much just orimoto rika) #vr-la's and finbar's are pretty self evident #dani's is kinda.. inspired by alfonso of the stultifera navis making this my second rwd brainworm that's just an arknights reference #captains that are cursed to haunt their empty ships plagued with has beens and could have beens #(her one is the only one absolutely not meant to be read as literal btw its a very 'that house has been empty for 40 years' kinda vibe) #found it kinda funny that dani's and vrla's start in very similar ways bc they both kinda have that i am the ship and the ship is me thing #dani's vibe in this is just more illusions and delusions and vrla's is more decaying forgotten grief #a ghost of a mechanite haunting a corpse of a ship

[diamondsandtoads]

I really need everyone to see Hans from Jim Henson's The Storyteller episode "Hans my Hedgehog"

#the video quality is terrible but this man haunts my dreams #WHY DOES HE STAND LIKE THAT #HE LOOKS LIKE AN AWKWARD TEENAGE BOY TRYING TO HANG OUT WITH THE COOL KIDS #hans my hedgehog #grimm fairy tales #brothers grimm #fairy tales #fairytales #jim henson #the storyteller

[stardust-kiddo]

Hadestown, Road to Hell (Reprise) // the novelization of The Revenge of the Sith // Richard Siken, Planet of Love // Panic! At the Disco, The Calendar // @/olreid // Aeschylus, the Oresteia // @/chetungwan // Slavoj Žižek, Enjoy Your Sympton! // Tory Adkisson, Anecdote of the Pig // Hadestown, Road to Hell (Reprise)

#web weaving #I’ve never made one of these before #but the concept of circular storytelling and being doomed by the narrative has been haunting me lately #it’s because I just read hamlet lmao #the sun is queue bright

[talentforlying]

the fact that the "golden boy" is a canonical figure in hellblazer who simultaneously represents both constantine's twin who was never born (thus becoming a spectre of the death of john's mother, a crime he was judged for without cause that poisoned his entire childhood) and also the expectation of who he would be in his father's eyes that was never met and thus subsequently killed........chewing glass would make me happier than these comics sometimes.

#( ooc. ) OUT OF CIGS. #i go insane about the golden boy CONSTANTLY i think delano's intentions were soul-crushingly gorgeous. #like what do you MEAN john is LITERALLY haunted by who he could have been in another life!!!! LITERALLY???? #i'm also not terribly mad about the very literal way it was adapted in the 240s bc it only furthered that message #of how badly his father's disgust in him + john's own self-hatred seeped into every aspect of his life + contributed to his choices #although for this blog i think i've decided the 240s golden boy claim of interfering was more manipulation than fact #bc i like the notion that john Can and Does make his own bad decisions and must suffer the consequences accordingly #i don't talk about the golden boy here much i don't think??? i should tho. killer bit of storytelling fr

[dykebeckett]

haunted by thoughts about. characters

#currently the specters of storytelling haunting me are: #the eighth doctor #hawkeye pierce #sam beckett

[virtueisdead]

well this was one of the most haunting things i have ever read. brilliantly composed rendition of the story of the hollow knight. it seems to have been written by https://youtube.com/@Horny_Fruit_Flies, though my wary because their profile banner appears to be a pile of maggots. i found the comment on this video.

#kingvirtueisdead #art #writing #sad #haunting #imagery #dark fantasy #fantasy #hollow knight #the hollow knight #hollow knight fanfic #hollow knight fanwork #hollow knight fan #indie games #creative writing #YouTube comments #storytelling #worldbuilding #world building #fantasy world building #fantasy world #nihilism #self fulfilling prophecy #doomed #suicidal ideation #tw suicidality #tw death #tw neglect

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

As someone who is, themself, a writer, I hate the tendency of writers to exalt the importance of poets, writers, and storytellers. "Words matter!" wrote the author, whose business is words. […] Here, the emphasis -- [The Doctor] may say 'Words matter,' but she's saying it while pointing at [Percy Bysshe Shelley] -- "We can't let this man die! We can't let this writer die!"

"Writers are too important!" wrote the writer.

Source: The Haunting of Villa Diodati (is overrated) - Take Two Doctor Who Review (YouTube. Uploaded 25 January, 2023. Transcribed from auto-generated captions, starting at 13:36. Eye contact).

The thing is: Stories are important -- I believe they are the central trait to our humanity.

But that means that every human is a storyteller -- not only the ones who get their stories written down, and get paid for them.

That's a weak point of Doctor Who's history episodes: it tends to fall into the trap of the Great Man theory of history. The unknown people around the famous person are allowed to die, to raise the stakes, and make the story scary. But no harm can come to the famous person at the center, lest "History is changed."

#The Haunting of Villa Diodati #Doctor Who #13th doctor #storytelling #it's a human thing #council of geeks #Doctor Who review (spoilers)

[vibe-stash]

The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020) Episode 8: "The Romance of Certain Old Clothes"

#cinematography #visual storytelling #tv stills #mike flanagan #kate siegel #the haunting of bly manor #horror #netflix horror #horror tv