#I'm a wuss I know

[all-the-noms]

This was part fo a cool collab @prosdotalkshiz organized and put together for @x33n 's birthday :3

#pretty confident he doesn't open tumblr ever so I have the guts to tag the mans #yes this is an all the mods 8 reference #that flamingo always makes me giggle #x33n #x33n fanart #fanart #didn't dare tot ag him on twitter tho #I'm a wuss I know

[hardly-an-escape]

AU free to a good home:

Dream is the creative director of a famous haunted house attraction. known as the King of Nightmares, his "realm" – called The Dreaming – is an immersive, subversive, creative experience. it's different every year.

as you move through the rooms, you start in a beautiful, imaginative kind of dreamscape, almost a piece of interactive performance art. as you progress through the house, he masterfully builds the sense of unease and dread to a pants-shittingly terrifying nightmare peak.

(like, literally. every year there's a tally in the break room of how many people have pooped their pants.)

Hob is a famous wuss. hates haunted houses, hates scary movies. hears a minor chord and hides behind the sofa. he gets dragged along to The Dreaming one year because his colleagues essentially kidnap him (i.e. get him tipsy and arrive at the haunted house before he knows what's going on).

it happens to be a night when Dream is personally filling in at the last minute because one of the actors is out sick. it's one of the scarier rooms – not the scariest, but when things are starting to get real.

Hob is... not having a good time. he's clinging to the back of his coworker's sweater. he has not pooped his pants, thankyouverymuch, but there are visible sweat stains in the armpits of his shirt. and then he gets to the room where Dream is working.

they lock eyes. Dream is like, 'wtf is wrong with this man, he is clearly not having a good time, why is he here.'

Hob is like,

Hob cannot stop thinking about the breathtaking man who frightened the pants off him. Hob wonders if he could be convinced to take the pants off him in a less frightening context. he is so gone for this stranger that Hob, who is again a famous wuss, goes back to the haunted house multiple times in the hopes of seeing Dream again.

Dream is like, 'this man is either insane or a complete masochist but either way I'm weirdly into it.'

he continues to find excuses to sub in different roles. maybe pays a little extra attention to Hob on his way through. maybe breathes down his neck in a way that should send a different kind of goosebumps down his spine but Hob's actually getting a little hard in his jeans because he can just barely smell Dream's aftershave under the greasepaint.

meanwhile Hob is actually getting desensitized enough to the jump scares that he's beginning to appreciate the artistry of fear and the thought and care that Dream puts into constructing the haunted house each year.

anyway I don't know what happens next but probably after Hob goes through five or six times Death or Matthew or somebody gets fed up and locks them in a closet together and they make out about it.

#you might be able to tell that I'm also a famous wuss who's kind of fascinated by the artistry of fear #I do not watch scary movies but I love to read detailed synopses of the plots because I want to know what happens #dreamling #the sandman #my writing #hob gadling #dream of the endless

[guqin-and-flute]

Question for those who read (specifically READ) horror, professionally published and fanfic alike --what makes something successful horror for you? What makes it stick with you, gives you goosebumps, makes you feel uneasy, look over your shoulder?

What elements, tropes, and content are effective in creeping you out?

#I've always wanted to try writing horror but I'm a wuss who can only handle it in reaaaally small amounts #cause anxiety --I'm able to do a bit more now cause yay meds #but I've never done much READING of it and reading now is so effortful and time consuming compared to childhood #that me picking it up is unlikely #but i still wanna try writing it 🤔 #my stuff #and I'm not so much talking gore and violence--i know those are elementsm more the psychological bit #I've never been one who feels that horror is cathartic to me

[bdoubleowo]

New Life series general spoilers and also a bit of personal taste neg (under a read more just in case u don't wanna see it)

me, yesterday: Yeah last life was probably my least favorite of the 3 seasons. I didn't really like the boogeyman mechanic, I thought it disrupted the players relationships in a relatively unsatisfying way. Similarly the extra lives made the deaths feel less dramatic and less important. Some of the most compelling moments were when people resisted this, Scott taking the life penalty, or Etho refusing to abandon Bdubs when he turned red. Frequently people who were red/boogey and became green again didn't face consequences because they were just following the rules of the system. Bdubs boogey kills Tango and its a VERY funny moment because of how Tango reacts, but its mostly brushed aside by the team as a whole, compared to when Cleo held a grudge against BigB for his boogey kill, leading to the absolutely iconic "do me a favor, die for me". 3rd Life I think also benefited from contrast, everyone was very kind and excited at the beginning before id devolved into chaos and bloodshed, whereas everyone was distrustful from the start in LL. So yeah, I'm glad other people like it but really wasn't my cup of tea like 3rd Life was.

Limited Life (same acronym as LL): Boogeyman is back :] and we did extra rounds of it

me: cool

LL: everyone basically has 24 lives

me: sick.

LL: like 10 deaths already on episode one

me: awesome

#i want to reiterate its TOTALLY COOL if other people love these mechanics and/or have opinions that differ from mine #i am SO glad for you if u loved last life and love where it seems limited life is heading. #its also possible that i'm just a fucking wuss. i generally don't like things with unhappy endings. though 3L didn't have a happy ending #and i REALLY liked it. even though everyone died it felt. kinder. like. the duos. no matter what the world threw at them they had each othe #i dunno i never actually finished double life and its been a while since i've rewatched any of them #Limited Life SMP #Limited Life SMP spoilers #limited life spoilers #last life neg #last life salt #<- just to be safe. i don't hate last life by any means but i get some people might not wanna hear someone critique it #i know i also put it under a read more but shshhshhshhhhh i'm playing it safe #og post #i forgot my fucking post tag

[terresdebrume]

Trying to write while tired is the Worst feeling

I'm literally falling asleep at the laptop and hating half of what I wrote and going 'nooo must keep going D:'

I mean, it doesn't help that I'm writing a literal hate crime and its aftermath but still, terrible feeling, not cool at all -_+

#Matt writes #dbd fanfic #s: I'm down on my knees #OH YEAH ALSO I'M TRYING THE HORROR GENRE ON FOR SIZE #ME THE ULTIMATE WUSS #I stg when I finish this first draft I'm gonna have to find an alpha/beta reader to make sure it's properly scary #I know nothing about horror 🤡

[yeppeun-riaa]

Its crazy how u support a child lover. Its no mistake. If it was should ever pedo be free? No. Cause yall are a bunch of mina dickriders and hypocrites

what the fuck man??

Ik u didn't just come to my inbox to send anon asks😭😭

If u don't want to accept that what she did was a mistake, that she was just uneducated, that she now regrets it and knows better, fuck off, of you don't want to forgive her FUCK OFF and stop sending me asks on anon like a fucking pussy🖕🏼🖕🏼

#She literally stated you don't have to forgive her #If you don't just fuck off #my goddess #Do you fell fulfilled now?? A bit better about yourself #mina🫶🏻 #Embarrassing how some of yall acting like you never made a mistake #Or that you never did some shit just cuz u didn't know better #also send me asks off anon #don't be a wuss #I'm sure if I disable my anon you'd have ALOT less bullshit to spew #Eat dog shit.

[123countwithme]

So umm found Welcome Home and yeah.....

#my art #starting drawing #welcome home #frank frankly #eddie dear #Welcome Home is such a cute little show. The characters are cool. (some of them I'm still getting used to.) I think Eddie is my favorite. #I choose to ignore the horror bit cause I am not a fan of horror. I know it's not real but I'd like to be able to sleep...... #Also because I tend to overthink things. So horror and me don't mix. #If I wasn't an overthinker sure I'd probably enjoy a bit of horror. #I mean I could be just plain scared. It's hard to tell. #I do like the AU that Home is the villain...... I saw one comic about it that I'm like. Okay. It's not complete horror I can work with it. #For gosh sake I got scared with the Bethany Hamilton movie (shark bitting her leg off) Ew. I was forced to watch it- #and I wanted to curl up and die..... I am not a wuss/chicken/ ect. My brain just can't take it. I remember these things too well. #I am rambling I should probably stop. Thanks for listening Have a great morning/ day/ afternoon/ evening/ night. :)

[incorrect-house-of-nine]

Beloved. Upon this hallowed ground, Will you reach into my chest? Claim that which I gave you,  And lay me down to rest. 

Here among your ancestors, stretched in unbroken line, My bones shall rest easy, on the shores of lapping brine.

But, before you do, Beloved, I make one last request, Kiss the vow from my lips, And leave my sword upon my breast.

So all that come after, Until the end of time, Will know of my devotion, To the Tomb Maiden of the Nine.  https://archiveofourown.org/works/41873790

#I know I'm no poet #inspired by the locked tomb #tlt #the locked tomb #griddlehark #anastasia the ninth #alecto #alect x anastasia #harrowhark nonagesimus #gideon nav #nona the ninth #yeah i wussed out on a title

[thetreeturnedoff]

i'm looking at what dorian posted on insta, and the first announcement post says, or at least is worded as if everything comes out on the 16th, but then the post after it with the q&a bit says the tales will be released on a weekly basis

#the arcana #asra alnazar #julian devorak #portia devorak #nadia satrinava #lucio morgasson #count lucio #muriel the arcana #i never know what to tag for those last two lmao #also i'm gonna be screenshotting the tales and putting them into a google drive to share #so people can see them without downloading the app or paying money for the hearts for any potential paid choices #i'm putting this in the tags instead of a separate post cause i'm a wuss and can't figure out if this is against their tos or something #(i think it is? but i don't understand big words and their tos is full of them)

[what-if-i-dee-eye-do]

only ate today because my wife's coworker bought her a Carl's Jr. meal for her (coworker's) birthday and we split that ✌🏻 love being too broke to exist love that for us ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻

#who's fronting? #other #negative #I'll take 'not even able to get snap or tanf benefits because you don't have a mailing address' for 200 Alex #my mom said yesterday she'd send grocery money and then forgot and then when I reminded her she said she has to wait until the daytime bc #it's her husbands account and the dumb security code gets sent to his phone and he's out of town #I know I couldn't have even gone shopping until after my wife gets off work tomorrow but got dam #I'm just :) not meant to exist huh :) #I'm so close to letting valerie take over as host again bc like. this isn't getting fixed any time soon #I had an opportunity to set up a job interview for tomorrow but it looks like it's suck and I wussed the fuck out #I don't think my disabled body could be lifting 60lb bags of dog food for 8 hours at a time every day anyways #but it still gives me the same shameful sick feeling quitting the dog daycare did :(

[probablyaseamonster]

Top 3 things in movies that horrified me as a kid:

1 - the cake scene in Matilda,

2 - almost everything in the original Spy Kids, and

3 - one specific track that plays in every single Land Before Time sequel, for some fucking reason

#shitpost #matilda #spy kids #the land before time #if anyone knows what song i'm talking about please hit me up #it's the one with the choir #no but fr the author of matilda was a sadist #the true ancestor of all angst fanfic writers #i can't be the only one who never liked spy kids #to be fair i was a massive wuss

[pompadorbz]

Felt like making something a little silly! A little different! Audio Transcription: And in that moment as his vision blurred and distorted, he wanted the taste of a gentle vanilla cake with buttercream, he wanted ribbons, he wanted tart strawberry rhubarb pie, he wanted soft white rabbits, he wanted freshly picked daffodils, and decorative cards addressed to his name in practiced calligraphy.

More than anything he wanted to be loved. To be held in a soft embrace by someone who cared, but was already long gone.

He'd been taught it was selfish to want what he had not yet earned, but he would soon be asleep with an inability to feel guilty over pettiness.

#syd spiels #syd's sounds #this is about Taka btw. Idk if that was clear but this is about him #you should know this tho. I'm riddled with horrible diseases #you can pretend its not about him?? i guess?? but it is #too much of a wuss to put this in the tags tho #this is a sydney follower vip exclusive #putting this guy into some SITUATIONS #i wrote this blurb on a whim at like 1 AM last night #with the mentality that i would check to see if it sucked in the morning #i only just remembered it lol

[piplupod]

genuinely very :( because i looked at the doesthedogdie page for the sandman and here we are yet again w the excessive gore !!!! i am so fsjdfjkl tired of it!!! i cannot watch it now bc wowzas there is. a lot of shit in there. RIP me and my sensitive little snowflake soul i guess :/

#rly frustrated w myself that i can't watch any mainstream shit these days bc everything has just disgusting amounts of gore #i can do violence and blood and even the occasional internal organ #but GOD. so much of this stuff is incredibly realistic (which is cool i guess! but why!!) and its just. Overkill honestly #im just fhsdhghsgjkl why cant i be normal and desensitized to all of it #why do i have to be such a fucking wimp about it #also i can't even do much for blood these days bc my brain will see it and start fixating on relapsing in SH lmao #genuinely feel like such a fucking wuss and like i just should not be allowed to live bc i'm such a fucking idiot abt things jdsfjkl #anyways. lowkey upset bc it looks like such a cool concept and plotline but of COURSE i cannot handle shit in it #because EVERY cool show these days has to have excessive gore and suicide/SH implications/references #fucking tired of it. make better shows honestly fjsfjkl #but then also maybe im being a prude so idk #i feel like a wuss and i also feel like maybe im right but also maybe im just being a prude and killing art by criticizing this #so. who the fuck knows. im tired and i cannot have a single thought anymore without picking it apart into little pieces #self harm mention #suicide mention #ALSO HI LOL DID YOU MISS ME VENTING ON HERE :))))) IM SO SORRY THAT IM BACK i'll try to stay quiet more though lol

[creator-eliminator]

lol haha hey tumblr user blushydrangea if you see this I think ur cool and it's awesome that we're mutuals and I think thatmaybe. we could,, b friends if u wanted of course.

#saying it on here bc I'm shadowbanned and can't send asks off of anon #and I'm too much of a wuss to dm you #and I know you follow me here #I mean. you like my Normalposts does that qualify us as close mutuals /j #not blu

[imeminemp3]

oh good god i just fully had a cry over laura

#finally crying LOL sorry i shouldn't bare my soul on here but I've been so ridden witj depression and anxiety and I've been needing #a good cry #it's not Enough but I've been too wuss to watch a sad movie to actually have a cry #so seeing this random screen cap of Laura + listening to her theme = tears #it helped. i think. #i mean i cried when Henry died ofc #but im getting out months worth of pent up tears in these instalments lol #i won't lie i did nearly cry over peter at work. why. who knows. #whatever I'm sorry i got to not be depressing on the dash but #well i used to vent post on twitter but i don't go on there anymore so. here we are. #diary

[marsuni]

im going to my first AA meeting tomorrow

#i hope #i might wuss out but i told at least one person i trust who will help hold me to it #but hey hopefully ill be able to hold Myself to it #its at my family's church which im comfortable with but #its also a small church so im a little worried im gonna show up and itll just be me and a sponsor lmao #but i guess on another hand I'm also worried about embarrassing my family if theres people we know there but tHAT DEFEATS THE POINT #ugh im just scared