#it’s subtle horror

[dovesick]

the opposite of heaven is nothing at all

#anthro art #furry art #cat furry #cat anthro #oc art #horror art #it’s subtle horror #fluffy #various animals #i’m planning on drawing one of these for all the main characters #i think fluffy’s is the most emo lmao #the alternate title was fluffy in the land of dreams #this is just symbolism #VA isn’t a horror story #she dreams of heaven but is plunged into darkness #she’d be happier there tho :) #cw bugs #i can tag other things if u want just lemme know

[theperfxctgirl]

I simply am not there 🖤

#nightcore #bauhaus #goth aesthetic #nu goth #paranormal #bats #gothstyle #gothic #subtle goth #goth #darkness #dark side #dark wave #horror #macabre #vampcore #vampire #alternative goth #alt

[factual-fantasy]

So what if I took King Boo and just, kind’a filled him with 50% horrifying monster of the night, and 50% adorable loving father. Would that be weird orrr...

Also the simplified story is that King Boo and his Boos live in this giant abandoned mansion out in the woods. And usually if someone stumbles into the mansion, the little boos will just mess with them and scare them away.

Well that is, as long as they don’t try to steal something from the mansion.. or say.. upset one of the Boos. If they do, King Boo will come out of the shadows and snatch their souls and trap them in a painting. Their petrified faces left to be plastered on the Mansions walls forever..

..There are a lot of paintings in this mansion.

#super mario bros #king boo #tw eyes #tw body horror #tw distorted face #not sure what to tag-- #Also the crown was hard to decide #I liked both King boos crowns #so I kinda #made a mash up of the two #also also #drawing these boos was a blast #all the squiggly mouths and subtle colors #it was super fun :} #trying to get specific expressions with a constant furrowed brow was hard tho-

[itsredpaint]

to mend the self

#hsr #nikiki's art #honkai star rail #blade hsr #UHH UHHHHHHH #body horror cw #blood cw #I THINK??????? #i mean its subtle but #just to be safe i guess idk #something something his curse is stitching him together even if hes slowly rotting away

[theminecraftbee]

hermit horror week day 4: season 7 or taken over

Xisuma slowly blinks at the console logs for the server again. He's very tired; he's been collecting blackstone again, and it's very tiring, collecting blackstone. He's been building a lot of pretty houses, and stocking a lot of shops, and he hasn't had time to look at the console much recently. He probably shouldn't be now, because he's tired, and tired people make mistakes.

He makes a lot of mistakes; he's silly like that. A big derp. It's why he has to be careful, since he's been tired so much lately. He definitely shouldn't have the console open.

It's just, earlier Impulse had a question, since his moss farm kept lagging, and Xisuma thought it would be easy enough to try to find the root cause of. And he did find the root cause of it--Impulse's farm is too fast and his storage simply doesn't keep up with the amount of moss--but there's... some other things...

He blinks again at the dates on the server files. The last edited dates. Slowly, he clicks again on his own player data, and tries to make sense of what he's reading. Files like this, they aren't really meant to be that human-readable. It's--well, it is mostly json, so it's mostly human-readable, actually, but a lot of it is still encrypted, for player safety, which would. Maybe explain what he's looking at? He thinks? He's--well, he does have root access, is the thing, because he's the admin, but he still shouldn't be able to look at any player willy-nilly.

He's a little too much of a derp to be trusted with that. He probably shouldn't even be looking at his data! It's just. That last edited date. Xisuma doesn't edit his own player data. That way lies madness. He's, uh, pretty sure he knows some people who went a little mad doing that. So the fact of the matter is--well, it's not the only file that's been edited recently, he tells himself. Just because it's a lot of memory files that seem to have been edited, as well as access permissions--that's... normal enough for a new season, right?

He's...

He doesn't notice his other self walk up behind him.

"Oh, hey Xisuma. You finished gathering materials for our next build, then?" Evil Xisuma says. All of Xisuma's hairs stand on end.

"I mean, I've gathered enough to get started," Xisuma says.

"Pity. I was really hoping you'd manage to get everything. I thought maybe we'd finish today, but I guess we can't now."

"I--you're right. I'm really sorry."

"No, no, don't worry, don't worry, my friend," Evil Xisuma says. "We probably couldn't have finished today anyway, even if you said you'd try for it."

Xisuma's heart is in his throat. "Sorry, my head's just been. You know how I am. Silly me, forgetting things."

Evil Xisuma shakes his head. "It's awfully lucky I came back this season. Think of all the important things you'd be forgetting without reminders!"

Xisuma looks down and away.

"Gosh, and now you're... playing around in the admin console?"

"Oh!" Xisuma says. "It's, er, nothing really big..."

"Can I see it?"

He barely resists the urge to close out of his player data and hide that's what he'd been looking at. He doesn't know why he wants to hide it. It's not like--well, if Evil Xisuma got mad about it, it would be... right, wouldn't it? Because, well, Xisuma knows full well he shouldn't be looking at or editing his own player data. Editing your own data is the way to madness, and Xisuma, well, he's been so tired lately. He could easily accidentally hit a button. He could easily accidentally hit delete. He has root access, after all.

His heart is in his throat again. He shuffles his feet. "Sure," he says, finally. "I, er, I promise, I wasn't doing anything. I just noticed the last edited date on, uh, files that aren't automatically created by the system? And I thought, gosh, that's weird. I'd only been in there to check on Impulse, really, after he'd had some lag issues. I was just finishing up. It's nothing--the date's weird, though, right? That's all I was noticing."

He watches Evil Xisuma's fingers scroll through all of Xisuma's data. It's not quite fast enough that Xisuma isn't sure he's reading it, and suddenly, Xisuma feels very small.

Finally, Evil Xisuma hands Xisuma's tablet with the admin console open back to him. Xisuma looks down, and Evil Xisuma has closed out of the player data again.

"You just forgot the last maintenance date," Evil Xisuma says.

"Really?" Xisuma says.

"Oh, yeah, for sure. You're so tired lately. You silly derp. You've just been forgetting things easily. You should really get more rest!"

"Oh, but then we won't finish our projects," Xisuma says.

"I guess we wouldn't," Evil Xisuma says back.

"It's just--it's. Most of the time, access permission for player memories isn't edited during maintenance, and I just--I don't remember putting your name down?"

"Why wouldn't you?"

Xisuma tries to think.

"I don't know," he says finally, small, unable to meaningfully articulate anything about what's wrong with it. "I guess it only makes sense, if I'm forgetting things so easily."

"Exactly! Gosh, we make a good team," Evil Xisuma says, and he smiles at Xisuma. Xisuma crookedly smiles back.

"Yeah, we do," Xisuma agrees.

"Don't pull that out again unless I say so, okay?"

"Okay," Xisuma agrees automatically, and then he knows he will not. It makes sense. If he was upsetting himself over nothing like this, why, imagine what he'd do if he could open it whenever? He'd just constantly be upsetting himself!

"Now, my friend, let's return to building the Evil Empire."

"Let's!" agrees Xisuma, and just like that, the entire encounter slips from his mind.

#hermithorrorweek2023 #a bee fic #hermitcraft #xisuma #evil xisuma #emotional abuse #mind manipulation #(like genuine warning for emotional abuse here albeit like. somewhat subtle manipulation type.) #if this fic is late in my time zone. no it isn't. #anyway. i will never stop thinking about. whatever was going on between xisuma and evil xisuma in season 8. #anyway. ANYWAY. god one day i'll write the Very Dead Serious Take on that plotline. maybe this is one piece of it. #anyway the horror here is only barely the implied possession it's more the implied. emotional abuse. #GOD i will not stop thinking about the implications of that storyline whether intended or not #like. i'm forever like. did he INTEND to imply the abuse that so many of those cutscenes imply #or was he just trying to write evil xisuma acting like a villain? #anyway this isn't how i'd write evil x for any season that isn't season eight specifically btw you can blame it on jeff if needed

[betweenblackberrybranches]

Tape recorder Sun in a horror setting, like i talked about in the tags of my last post! Guy will record you and use you own voice to taunt you. A La: he records you screaming for help and then tells you "nobody is going to hear you no one is comming to help" with your own scream

But sometimes he has to really search for the right words... and it makes for awkward pauses.

#sundrop #fnaf sun #dca #daycare attendant #tape recorder Sun #my art #i just really like the concept #i also imagine fluff but idk am in a horror-y kind of mood tonight #this isnt even truely horror but idk #also did anyone see the subtle 'help' i put in there or was it too subtle?

[blackberreh-art]

Tree of the Beginning

#berreh speaks #my art #tree #fantasy art #horror art #is this a very subtle afo reference for my demon AU? #yes it is #mha demon au #afo #artists on tumblr

[annaofaza]

Two thoughts:

1. These are the eyes of a man who's spent the entire night crying and is too exhausted to do more at this point.

2. Vash declares (blames?) Livio (technically Razlo?) for Wolfwood's death, and he still feeds and takes Livio with him.

Imagine their journey west. Imagine them shaking out bedrolls and Vash turns to say good night and realizes Wolfwood isn't the one beside him. He never will be again.

#trigun maximum #trigun bookclub #trigunbookclub #my post #vashwood #the subtle horror of walking alongside your friend's (unwilling) murderer #what the fuck can you do? vash forgives but i don't think he forgets #somewhere in his mind deep down long after #even when he and livio are friends and pop by to rebuild the orphanage and exchange letters #he thinks 'you killed wolfwood' #(technically ww killed himself by taking two vials but you can't be mad at a dead person for long) #(and this applies DOUBLE for vash) #also: to people who are like “how can you still eat?” 1) you gotta and 2) have you seriously never been on a depression binge? #if vash had ice cream he'd be cracking it open

[cupoteahatter]

In the wake of the cancellation of Warrior Nun, I am imploring anyone who has Disney+ to watch Willow (2022).

It features a woman loving woman romantic subplot at the forefront, meaning it’s not in the subtext. Episode 1 has them kiss and afterward the lines of romance exist so throughout the narrative for these two characters that it is current and seen to the point that it cannot be argued away.

But there’s next to no buzz for it, only the Disney+ app really promotes it as something to watch with the odd ad showing up on Instagram of the cast playing mini games.

On top of that, it is a well written show that holds all of the love of the original film from the 80s.

I know that it would appear that numbers don’t seem to matter, but I am begging people to watch this show because it is a fantastic piece of media that delights in paying homage to the source material it comes from.

Also hot women with swords. Hot women with swords who could KILL you-

#willow #willow series #willow (2022) #Warrior Nun #Netflix #First Kill #Netflix cancellation #Twitter #like it’s not subtle and it’s fantastic at showing the Bodyguard Royalty romance / Friends to Lovers pipeline #It’s only up to ep4 with weekly releases but #*Yells* It’s use of fantasitical horror is just amazing #genuinely I am in love with it #Cheesy fantasy mixed with horror queer romance and rock music??? #Plus Boorman is the perfect Blorbo for the ‘I don’t want to fix him but if he could make me worse that would be fine’ crowd #And that’s just the tip of the iceberg #Especially if you want a Chosen One who knows nothing about being a chosen one but is quite literally the only one who can cook #It’s like watching a D&D campaign tbh #Anyway Kit and Jade should get to hold hands and be married

[italoniponic]

I saw some people confused over the backgrounds in the new event SSRs and decided to rewatch Pinocchio to give me some clues (at least, for Kalim's card that was the most mysterious). I'm still settled that Ace's background is Gepetto's shop with the wood-clocks and Ortho's bg is Stromboli's room with the bird cage where Pinocchio was kept... but then, where the hell is Kalim's bg??

I was sure it was Pleasure Island and oh boy, I was right! It's almost the same broken piano from the scene where the boys are being a menace through the island

And I already have a bad feeling about this...

#twisted wonderland #kalim al asim #i would be surprised if after the 'strolling around tour' we always have #half the cast or the npcs turns into donkeys #or something dark like that #people sure underestimate how scary the 1940 pinocchio movie was #like not in a horror movie way #but in that subtle moral lesson that's vividly animated in the screen #in that the aesthetics are ON POINT #cherry's mumbling about twst

[robobee]

can I say something mean. gansey's second resurrection ending up turning him into a strange variant of a visionary + halting his aging process by making him Part of the ley. when all his friends die one by one he's holding their hands looking as young as he ever has and at the end of it all what else is there to do but trudge into the forest and do its work at its behest and doom yourself to eternal solitude

#i have a quiz i didnt study for >:[ #trc #whats that they say about horror being subtle and insidious

[cenobitebf]

Looking for Ash's top surgery scars in literally every evil dead fanart ever is so fun it's like Where's Wally

#ash williams #theyre always there somewhere #sometimes subtle but always intentional #evil dead #the evil dead #horror

[twyz]

happy valentines day all!!! 💕

#twyz #now be honest #how many of yall thought i wasnt gon' post today? #I would never miss out on my fav holiday!!! #enjoy the (subtle) froz content!!! #rhps #frank n further #dr frank n furter #frank n furter #the rocky horror show #rocky horror picture show #rocky horror #rocky horror fanart #rocky horror au #valentine's day #oc x canon #digital art #made in ibis paint

[needsmorewlw]

The path where Dylan is infected is so genuinely funny because Mr Dylan "oh fuck I'm in a horror game aren't I?" Lenivy, was sweating and side eyeing Nick while he was slowly succumbing to the werewolf cooties, hyper-aware that it was gonna happen to him too. meanwhile Ryan Kaitlyn and Abi were just like "man nicks acting kinda weird :/" and I just imagine Dylan going full sherlock mind palace over everything he's even learnt from a werewolf horror movie

which is also why he didn't act weird when he was infected because he over-thinked himself into clarity like the true gen z he is

#dylan lenivy #the quarry dylan #the quarry #i stan this white boy with my whole heart #i saw a comment on a youtube playthrough that was like: #'the other characters think they're experiencing a scooby doo mystery and dylan knows theyre in a horror game' #the subtle 4th wall breaking for one character is always funny #nick fucillo #radioheads

[thesnadger]

The Occultist from Darkest Dungeon is the funniest character in the world. He's ostensibly trying to hide the fact that he's a host for some eldritch monster, but the second he gets a little stressed all his dialogue is like "I FEEL THE HORROR WITHIN ME PUSHING THROUGH, IT LONGS TO BE RELEASED" like buddy, you aren't subtle.

#darkest dungeon #occultist:i've been dropping subtle hints that i'm possessed by an eldritch horror #*tentacles burst out of his eyes*

[keepthebeanscool]

so i guess alex doing a majority of the writing for protocol means we not only have to endure the utter insanity of mr bonzo but also the phrase “treason’s bussin” just thrown in there for funsies

#i’ve had enough and it’s only been 13 episodes #i love that tma began with subtle quiet horror while tmagp is jumping right into the giant skin monster biting people in half #no one could have prepared me for a single thing that’s happened so far #tmagp #the magnus protocol #tmagp 13 #mr bonzo #jaspers rambles