#i. like horror stories :)

[exilley]

I do sort of wish western anime fans would analyze anime and manga from a framework of japanese historical and cultural context. Specifically a lot of works from the 90s being influenced by the general aimlessness and ennui that a lot of people were experiencing due to the burst in the bubble economy and the national trauma caused by the sarin terrorist attack. I think in interacting with media that’s not local to our sociocultural/sociopolitical sphere it’s easy to forget that it’s influenced and shaped by the same kinds of factors that influence media within our own cultural dome and there ends up being this baseline misalignment of perception between the causative elements of a narrative and viewer interpretation of those elements. It’s a form of death of the author that i think, in some measure, hinders our ability to fully understand/come to terms with creator intent and the full scope of a work’s merits

#exilley's diary #this is about utena btw like. yeah its feminist and a coming of age horror story but also #it was in part ikuhara’s response to the changes he observed in the corporate anime industry and an attempt to subvert those trends #it doesnt really help that i feel certain aspects of the show are filtered through translation and certain cultural emphasises are lost #like for instance. the blood type symbolism. or wakaba’s gestures with making packed lunches #theyre incredibly japanese expressions of conventional gender roles that non-japanese audiences might not fully resonate with

[pomidaea]

Thank you encyclopedia

#disco elysium #harry du bois #lena disco elysium #disco elysium fanart #my art #based on some thoughts i had during my first playthrough #like encyclopedia buddy i love you but not now #im trying to listen to a story of an old lady seeing a giant stick bug not the horrors of the revolution

[kedreeva]

uh, okay. i'm very scared to ask but : rabbit that's not really a rabbit...?

yeah, there's, like. a small god, shaped like a rabbit, that lives in my yard. I would say it's a normal rabbit except it's not. It won't move from my driveway if I'm trying to drive out and it was there first. I can walk up within a few feet of it, and it will turn and just look at me like what do you want? It's the only rabbit that freaks the hell out of all my birds, they CANNOT be directed or communicated with when this rabbit comes around, they will do nothing but stand on alert and stare at it making a soft warning call. I've caught it SEVERAL times now standing nose to nose with one of my peacocks, and it just looks at me and walks away when I catch them. hawks and falcons and eagles and owls constantly pass over my yard, and it is full of rabbits that do not hide from them, and I've never seen evidence of one being taken. You know the moment you walk into a very dark room and maybe it's a room you've been in before and maybe you don't believe in ghosts, but also it's still dark and your little leftover lizard hindbrain goes "anything could be inside of here waiting for me" the second before you turn on the light? It's like that feeling, except in the shape of a rabbit. i didn't ask for any of that.

#rabbits #asks #anon asks #horror #it's not like I'm going to kick it out #but that rabbit is absolutely not my business #the studio ghibli effect where your whole body fluffs up in fear #is what i wish I could do when I realize oh It's You again #stories about ked's life

[nerdpoe]

I'm tired but Danny putting on a Ghost Show.

He's in Gotham, for whatever reason (maybe we go the old Ghost Convention route) and he gets a little too close to a mugging.

In Crime Alley.

He is immediately saved by Red Hood, who uses guns. Who Danny can't fight, or his parents will start putting together a map of where Phantom shows up and eventually realize the correlation.

Aaaaand Red Hood is staring at him.

So like. Shit.

Time to pull a good old fashioned horror movie stunt.

He allows just enough rigor mortis to set in so that every single movement makes horrific cracking sounds.

Moves in a jerky fashion.

Lets his eyes glow and ghostly frost make the temp in the alley plummet.

Drops to one knee.

And starts crawl-dragging himself towards Red Hood, who is frozen where he is.

Is it in fear? Fuck Danny hopes so if Hood shoots him he'll have to drop the act and dodge.

Luckily, Hood is kind enough to stay still until Danny slowly disappears from the visible spectrum.

Then he fucking books it to the hotel.

Jason, meanwhile, is freaking the fuck out because he just saw the younger version of Bruce's ghost crawling towards him in a fashion so scary he's honestly surprised he didn't piss himself.

#dpxdc #dcxdp #dp x dc #dc x dp #phanfic #story prompt #I like to think Danny isn't related to Bruce at all #he just looks like Bruce did at that age #doppleganger #horror movie tw #haunting tw

[zeravmeta]

im reading this manga abt this divorced woman who falls in love with her neighbor and i really love the artists style because the way the artist draws her makes it apparent that theres not only something deeply wrong with her but it veers into looking like a horror manga at points

this lady has a schoolgirl crush and is a total crybaby and she looks like a creature from a junji ito manga

#its called My Crybay Divorced Neighbor #its very cute all this artists works are stories abt deeply damaged people healing which i love #but their expression work is so stylized and intense and on game it straight up looks like a horror manga sometimes which i also love #stay strong ochiai san...!!

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres: lovecraftian/cosmic

#disclaimer i don't agree with or like the person of hp lovecraft but to make it easier to categorize the sub-genre #but it does also go by cosmic horror as well #horror #horror movies #lovecraftian horror #cosmic horror #horroredit #moviesedit #filmedit #cinema #horror cinema #horror aesthetic #i used ones that have inspiration or are direct stories #a cure for wellness #the beyond #event horizon #alien #evil dead #dagon #annihilation #re-animator #call of cthulhu #color out of space #the dunwich horror #from beyond #the haunted palace #edgar allan poe title but hp lovecraft story #in the mouth of madness #necronomicon #the resurrected

[thebestestbat]

i do think that writers should be aware of the dark topics they're writing about; to me this means that e.g. if you're writing about an abusive relationship, you should know that it is abusive. i don't mean that you need to have a big and important point to make about abuse (especially not a necessarily moralistic one where e.g. the abuser "gets what's coming to them") in order to write it. just like that you should know what you're writing about. otherwise you get batman comics.

#it's fine for the Point of the story to be like 'wow this is fucked up huh' like i like horror.... i read that shit #but you should KNOW you know. that's all. a low bar

[egophiliac]

swipes everything else off of the table to yell about diasomnia flower bookmarks

(I gave Silver one too :D)

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #white rabbit festival #me: oh boy i wonder what excitement will happen in this new part #characters: now it is time to buy souvenirs :) #me: oh god #jk jk even when the filler is kind of painful i do enjoy the little character moments #like everyone screaming as loud as they can into silver's watch #deuce busting out his suzy izzard impression #SMASH IT WITH A HAMMER! #and of course silver assigning flowers to the other dias and getting all sappy over lilia. god. delicious. #you don't understand this ten second long scene is everything to me #though we all know the real highlight #the knowledge that 1) deuce used to have an extremely silly edgy badass nickname #2) he almost certainly gave it to himself #3) he harassed epel's extended family to the point that they told horror stories about him and he was briefly epel's personal idol #epel: i heard he once killed three men with but a look #deuce: what no i never...i mean...ha ha sounds weird nothing a model student like me would know about #also deuce: if you fuckers don't apologize to my mom right now i'll fucking kill all of you (sees dilla) uhhh i mean #deuce: i challenge you to a children's game #black bunnies leader: (strapping on his duel disk) i accept #meanwhile silver is running full speed at a group of children screaming to them about donuts #we aren't going to talk about what ortho did with that fantasy-gregg's sausage roll #so glad that we've reached the 'what the heck is even happening' portion of the event #anyway i completely screwed up the resolution of these so here's hoping they don't look terrible! #whoops!

[nataliesscatorccio]

YELLOWJACKETS

#I've wanted to make this for a long time and it's nothing at all like what I set out to do #I was going to have Laura Lee's doomed flight and Jackie's death and praying to the gods of the dirt and the girls running w weapons raised #lottie screaming as they board the rescue plane #in short: a horror story #and instead I ended up with an SOS in red lipstick #the living holding hands around the dead they are all doomed to become #the team doing their best to feed themselves on their limited knowledge and looking out for each other #even the girl they don't really like #the group finding hope in lottie's faith passed to her by laura lee #and ofc the horrible spectacle they become in the media #I guess what I'm trying to say is I set out to paint Shauna as a liar but she's telling the truth #that IS the end of the story #it was beautiful and horrible #and it was a love story #yellowjackets #yellowjacketsedit #shauna shipman #lottie matthews #misty quigley #laura lee #taissa turner #akilah yellowjackets #flashing gif

[boxheadpaint]

any recommendations for analog horror that isnt a slideshow with microsoft sam telling you DONT LOOK OUTSIDE. like something unique lately

#something i really liked was the “lost media: obscure security system” one #and its unfortunate that its the only one from that individual at the moment #im giving “nocturnal chronicles” a shot but it starts off with poorly edited footage from... metropolis. #like we just put a scary face over her and had questionable glitch effects #the boiled one was cute- not exactly the most... idk compelling analog horror but the custom art and animation #can elevate a story youve heard a million times before #i am also trying to check out hit metal 17 times but Instagram

[anistarrose]

continuing on my "Lup and Barry get married every cycle and the ensuing weddings encompass a very wide range of tones" bullshit: consider, if you will, a cycle where they mean to get married early on, they really do. but the hunt for the Light is just so intense, and the time flies by so fast, that they still haven't done it by the time the end is closing in...

and in the final fight for the Light, a little under a month out from the Hunger's arrival, Lup is grievously wounded. she lies in Barry's arms, bleeding out, and with her dying breath, she whispers her final wish:

"reanimate my corpse and put her in a nice dress for the wedding"

and who is Barry to turn down a dying wish from his wife, let alone a dying wish that's that fucking funny, so Barry loyally throws some wedding plans and some necromancy spells together so that Zombie Lup can attend the ceremony. her soul doesn't reside in her body anymore because no one was willing to burn the spell slots on True Resurrection (it's only a month out from resets, come on), but she's very well-behaved as Barry very sincerely declares his eternal love and wiggles this cycle's ring onto her finger.

Taako hates it so much. the energy in the studio is incredibly uncomfortable. Lucretia takes a bunch of photographs of every moment so that Lup can enjoy it later upon respawn. most of the crew eventually looks back and recognizes this instance as the start of the slippery slope that lead to lichdom, but Lup and Barry refuse to acknowledge how fucking weird it was. they will treasure those pictures forever

#taz #taz balance #taz balance spoilers #blupjeans #lup taaco #barry bluejeans #like no offense but i think that this fandom could be making lup and barry SO much weirder #they're little freaks (affectionate) and the rest of the crew must have so many horror stories #anyways i've decided this is canon to someone i have loved but never known #just didn't make it into the memory montage

[saintbleeding]

it’s a horror tragedy. people are mean and uncharitable and impatient with him and don’t give him the benefit of the doubt because he is the protagonist of a horror tragedy. u are supposed to think it is tragic. dare i say u are supposed to be horrified.

#i didnt say a name but u still thought of him didnt u. #to be clear this is not in direct response to a specific post or occurrence it’s just a long term annoyance #and like! to be fair! u don’t have to like tma BECAUSE it’s a horror story. heck like it in spite of that if that’s ur taste #but there are certain conventions and plot/story features that are going to be present #and it’s not because [melanie/georgie/basira/martin] is being necessarily unreasonable #it’s almost always because he is a horror protag. bad things happen to him because technically speaking that is what we are here to #forgive the phrasing #bear witness to #anyway im not tryna attack anyone or suggest anything be Done about this it’s just a thought ive had knocking around

[hensel-x]

finally finished my Vaguely 80s Zombie Boy 

#my art #tw gore #tw blood #queer horror #horror art #zombie art #the story behind this is that The Protagonist wakes up at 3 am from strange noises #goes outside with a flashlight and finds in his backyard This Guy #whos a talkative kind of undead #'you come here often gorgeous?' #and then they have gross gay sex #thats it #also the gore part is just vibes cause i was too lazy to google references #i know that he kinda looks like billy from st okay #I KNOW

[fincholeander]

８番出口

#orv side story #lee hakhyun #kim dokja #omniscient reader's viewpoint #orv #the exit 8 #its kinda like a crossover fanart... #i want to make a horror game for lee hakhyun so bad...

[argxstxs]

Ohhhhhhhh shiv’s face when she realized that she’s going to be cut out of the boy’s club AGAIN and this time with a baby she can’t even talk about with her husband without risking being seen as soft … Kerry being humiliated by Marcia and the rest of the family… shiv falling down in front of a room of snickering men… gerri being thrown out as easily as garbage… connor’s mom being talked about less like a human being and more as fodder for a pr campaign…

#like yeah this show is about the horrors of the top 1% destroying and reforging our moral and ethical codes #but more than that it’s also a story about women #the women of this show are shown time and time again to be disposable #it’s so ingrained and systemic #no amount of privilege and whiteness will ever save you from being a woman!! #misogyny predates white supremacy!! you will never escape it!! #GOD this show is good #my god I hate how much I love it #I was just sitting there the whole time biting my nails I was so anxious #succession #succession s4 #succession spoilers

[squea]

ah yes. the _reads hand_ divorced would have been partners in crime.

#oh ive just sat back and realised he looks like gunther munch. hm. i am not immune to the gunther munch effect. #u know those ocs that start as just like attachments to other characters then u wake up in a cold sweat and think ok but what if and now u #have 2 new ocs with their own lore and stories and then u expose them to the horrors and the cycle continues. anyway. #future story folk so u dont get their names xoxoxo #ts4 #mine