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agentgrange · 1 year

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What is some fiction outside of the mythos or DG that you look to for inspiration?

Excellent, fun question. I've been on a narrowboat trip through the countryside and hadn't had a lot of time to get my thoughts out so this is a great way to get back in the headspace actually. This isn't going to be the most coherent answer in the world but off the top of my head here's some ideas and recommendations in no particular order.

Philip K Dick-- I've talked about his work a bit before, less because of his works themselves (there's a lot there that's problematic and can be cut) and more because he really channels that bridge between Lovecraft's historic paranoia and a modern contemporary setting

Basically any works by Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, and Grant Morrison-- I feel like I don't need to say a lot about these authors, they really are the triarchy that serve as the prime example of how to distill complex occult principles into media. They really paved the way for how to take an abstract idea and shape it into fiction as a way to sort of upload an idea into another person's brain.

Rawhead Rex by Clive Barker and Les Edwards-- this graphic novel really was my gateway into horror as something more complex than the slasher / torture porn that was en vogue when I was growing up which had previously turned me off of the genre.

Strangehaven by Gary Spencer Millidge-- beautiful and inspiring labor of love about a small town subject to extraordinary circumstances

Mononoke & Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales-- Beautiful stories that give a window into how another culture expresses the same ideas as a lot of the works above

Satoshi Kon's movies to me really tap into the same energy as Philip K Dick but without a lot of the ugliness and much more beauty. Perfect Blue and Tokyo Godfathers are my two favorites to the point that I honestly get emotional just thinking about them.

I don't need to tell you about Akira, but I will absolutely recommend you don't discount it's more low brow contemporaries like Urotsukidoji and Wicked City for some fucked up exploitation anime.

Possession (1981) is genuinely my all time favorite work of surrealist horror and a cornerstone for a lot of my ideas

Society (1989) what if Possession was even more fucked up & grind house but also silly? :3c

Obviously X-Files, Twin Peaks, and True Detective are giant influences but I'd like to recommend a fourth "weird cop" show-- FX's Fargo. The original movie was already a true crime classic but the show really takes it to 11. Season 2 is probably my favorite for reasons that will be apparent for anyone who's watched it.

Lastly the bulk of media I regularly consume is usually actually non-fiction. History, particularly US history, is fucked up and clown shoes enough that it has all the inspiration you might need if you just have a good source that can present it as an interesting narrative. Last Podcast on the Left is a good gateway into this but there's plenty of other more "serious" sources that can still be just as entertaining like the podcast Blowback. Once you're able to put history into a narrative you can be entertained by and feel invested in it becomes a lot more interesting to read books from authoritative sources that help feed into that interest because you have an emotional connection to it instead of it just being a series of context-less names and dates.

#field scribbles #asks #this was a lot of fun thank you!#bonus answer only for tags-- deathproof #its the only Tarantino movie i endorse #horror inspo

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veshialles · 1 year

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thinking about slayers and grey wardens and dawnguard and witchers and hunters

something about a person or a group of people who are chosen by destiny or otherwise make it their duty to fight back against the dangerous things which lurk in darkness, it just makes my brain go brrr

#something about unseen struggles and trying your damndest to save the world #yes this is also why one of the main characters in KTR was born into the cult of monster hunters I invented while worldbuilding #and yes i promise i will get into the witcher games one day soon #ruby rambles #fantasy inspo #horror inspo #writing stuff #buffy the vampire slayer #dragon age #the elder scrolls #the witcher #supernatural

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helloyesamwoman · 6 months

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The Singualarity - A Fan Voice

found a fan mimic voice on twitter, got bored and wanted to try and recreate it in a way, dicked about with it for a while and then realised "oh shit, i'm the singularity" so i revoiced all of it's lines with my fan voice, hope you like

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brokendesigns · 11 months

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Orphan poster🖤

#aesthetic #poster #my design #my upload #graphic design #orphan #horror #horror poster #horror inspo #horror design #horror film #spooky

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thosequiethours · 2 years

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File 02: Nightmare Hotel moodboard

#ghost hunting au #photoset #horror inspo #fanfiction #moodboard #thosequiethours

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porcelainnpines · 1 year

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putrid air

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reichen--art · 7 months

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Mistakes were made

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osirisisv · 1 year

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FIRST WARNING! ⚠️🎃🔪

(He is being merciful rn, It's up to you if you risk yourself biting Mikey again 😂)

I wanted to redraw this picture with Mikey since I watched it on tiktok omgggg 😩❤️✨

#rz michael myers #rz halloween #michael myers #halloween #michael myers x reader #rz michael myers x reader #slasher fandom #slasher fanart #slasher movies #slasher fucker #slasher imagines #slashers #horror #myart #i finally got some inspo to draw #yay!

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engravedlives · 22 days

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creepypasta graphics stamps

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tinystarpixels · 6 months

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agentgrange · 5 months

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Hi! This may seem like a very random question but what are some things you like to incorporate into your games or writing? In the sense of things you are interested in and how they manifest in a scenario you make? Thanks! 🧐

I talked a bit before about taking inspiration from nonfiction podcasts like Blowback that puts history into a compelling narrative I like to use as a form of inspiration. Specifically I've really been into the concept of "telescopic history." Michael S. Judge talks about it a bit on his podcast DEATH IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER during his review of Gravity's Rainow.

If I understand it right, it's a way to describe and capture the truth and anxieties of one time period by telling a potentially anachronistic story set in a different era. Gravity's Rainbow for example is really about the events and culture of the sixties told as if it happened in the 1940s. That kinda framework has been really really interesting to me recently because it lets me kinda reapproach my hobby of studying these old conspiracy theories and world events and ask how those can be told to express what it feels like to live in a collapsing imperial core now. Horror, especially in ttrpgs that can't rely on visuals or jumpscares, really hinges on what sort of intimate personal connection you can make with the audience to illicit a reaction so it's really effective if you can use imagery and events from a different time to sorta unexpectedly mirror feelings and events that people growing up in a Post 9/11 US can relate to. By letting them think it's purely a period piece they maybe drop some of their emotional guard, only for you to hit them where it hurts.

For a practical example-- a story that might take place with the backdrop of a real 1980s UFO incident where a small town is confined to their homes can be used to give voice to a fear your players might be more familiar with of isolation during the pandemic. It's a storytelling strategy that I didn't really know how to articulate until recently, but has been super helpful to take inspiration from older media and adapt it. More importantly, it seems to run in direct opposition to the sort of referential nostalgia for nostalgia sake that's led to "80s fatigue" and a lack of enthusiasm with period pieces. I dunno, it's just something that's been on my mind now that there's so many Analog Horror series set around the time period that it temporarily made me hesitant to continue with my ideas at all. It'd be fun sometime to kind of look at a few Analog Horror series through this lens and show why telescopic history can partially explain why I find some Analog horror to be an amazing piece of inspiration and others to be completely, demoralizingly bad.

... I also like music. I have less to say about that other than it's more of a driving force that gets me sitting down and writing than any amount of coffee or Zyn could. Lately my leading album for Delta Green writing has been AJJ's Disposable Everything.

This is no exaggeration, we’re living in a death machine

And no, it’s not just your imagination, you’ve been living in a death machine

Some of us are passengers. Some of us are driving

Almost everybody’s getting bled to death to keep the motor running

I’m not being hyperbolic, this place is a death machine

Both literally and symbolic in the belly of the death machine

#horror inspo #writing inspo #field scribbles #gravity's rainbow #DEATH IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER #Michael S. Judge #analog horror

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bucciniexe · 5 months

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(tw: blood, blades, needles...)

Requested by sweet anon <3