Hi! I hope you’re doing good in life! So it’s spooky season so I have an ask related to that. I don’t know if you play horror video games, watch horror movies/shows, or read horror books, but if you do, I have to ask: What is the most disturbing book, or video game or show/movie that you’ve played/watched/read? In my opinion, there is two types of horror: the ones that scare you, and the ones that traumatize you. If you can think of any book, movie, or game that really kind of fucked you up, I’m curious to know if you feel like answering. I hope you have a good day and a good life.
Hey, I’m doing good and I hope you are too!
the answer ended up being really long lol
Woof, this is honestly a pretty hard question, since I can't really name any horror (or otherwise) media that actually left me kind of fucked up for a bit, at least not to the degree where it affected me for a while. I probably haven't been really fucked up by anything since I was a kid, so I'll try and recall what a few things fucked me up back then...
Off the top of my head I know that two different spongebob episodes got me bad, the first being one with that tunnel of love thing (tho tbh i havent seen it in a while so it might still spook me today) and the one where i'm pretty sure for whatever reason squidward gets locked in some small locker and has some kind of fucked up dream, whatever that was. I remember there was an eagle in that one. the eagle terrified me. (i looked them up, and the first episode is titled 'tunnel of glove' and the second is 'squidward in clarinetland'. with how badly that second one got to me, i'm surprised i ended up learning to play the clarinet at all)
other than that, i think the courage the cowardly dog episode 'the house of discontent' got me pretty bad, too, but i think everyone who saw any amount of that series as a kid has at least one episode that got them fucked up.
there's probably a handful of scooby-doo stuff that got to me when i was a kid, but i could not name any specifics (asides from charlie the robot's original episode, christ) because i think i managed to see just about every bit of available scooby media around that time.
nowadays stuff still does kinda fuck me up, but it's usually only for brief bits of time. the most recent example I can think of is cowboy bebop's 20's episode, pierrot le fou, which is honestly some great horror, especially how it uses the show's typical format and flips it on it's head, but i wouldn't necessarily say it got to me because of it being scary, more because of the way the ending disturbed me for a bit. it was the only episode that had me stop afterwards and really look into it for anything other than clarifying a character's gender, lol.
the endings of both neon genesis evangelion and end of evangelion had me shaken, the latter more so than the former, but not really due to horror aspects, though. i did have to take a walk after finishing end of evangelion. i don't really watch horror movies, i just... read the wikipedia plot descriptions of them.
honestly, i think some of the more popular youtube analogue horror series have gotten to me worse (likely due to the fact that they can get a bit more fucked up than, say, a tv show or movie), specifically the walten files (which i did watch) and the mandela catalogue (which i just watched wendigoon's vids on), and those two and mostly because facial distortion is generally just an incredibly effective form of horror imo. a lot of the time (esp with the childhood examples) the way i was 'fucked up' was that id be in be visualizing the stuff that scared me, and both the mandela catalogue and the walten files had me doing that for a bit.
now that i remember it, i was really scared of fnaf when it first came out. i first learned of it second-hand from seeing some other kids looking into it, and the bits and pieces i put together about it really scared me.
honestly, it's usually straight-up disturbing sequences or imagery that gets to me the most, and i know my limits well enough to generally identify and avoid that stuff, which is probably why i don't have too many recent examples. i've got one or two examples of non-horror movies that fucked me up as a kid, but that's mostly because they were wildly inappropriate for someone of my age (at the time) to be witnessing, so that's a different sort of topic.
i mean, i think i generally have a decent tolerance for fucked up stuff in media, anyways, i mean, i enjoy berserk and haven't really been too upset or disturbed by what happens in it (look theres some nasty shit in there im not saying its not that bad) so there's definitionally some kind of line that media needs to cross to really get to me nowadays, or it just needs to be a specific kind of fucked up. books generally don't do that for me so i don't have any book examples. no games, either, though shadow mario and the haunted house segments in super mario 3d world scared me so much that i had to make my mom do the levels for me, and i'm pretty sure scooby doo: first frights scared me a bit when i first played it on ds.
other than that, though, I just think that, in pokemon x, the story that an npc tells you during your first trip to route 14 and then the strange office building encounter with the animation-less hex maniac creeped me out pretty bad.
yeah, it's kind of hard for me to think of anything (recent) that actually really fucked me up or anything. most stuff just scared me, never really fucked me up or figuratively traumatized me in recent years.
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ok im still mad about this actually
disclaimer i will probably get these suits too if i can afford them (i spent like 4-5k for desert jewel my desperation for pretty dst unfortunately outweighs many things and i hate that the gamemakers are aware of this) but. to use the phrasing from the tags, this is not a walk.
THIS was a CRAWL: on the left star sea code, which has a dress pose but doesnt include things like the coat, shoes, etc. it could totally have been a glove pose if not for the way the skins in the game are programmed. fine, whatever, we cant have separate poses, so this should at least be the norm. docked points however for the ridiculous price on a suit that doesnt even have a new makeup or is just... big enough to warrant that cost. on the right, luna ballad, which has a dst makeup that is NOT tagged as sexy and is just overall a very cute suit, going against their usual standard of sexy dancers, robots and rock music. its tags are also consistent across dst and default versions, so i dont mind that the dst pose is tagged sexy as its the same on the default and on its twin suit.
my point is, THIS is the bare minimum. dress poses that make sense, makeups that arent tagged sexy, specifically tags that dont change between default and dst versions. the new event? we dont know the prices yet, but going off the poses and tags this is already a regression. we are not walking. we are back on the floor.
theyve been doing this since the desert girls in 2018. they promised more dst at one point in 2020 - that led to a few dst recipes of existing makeups (recipes which still arent available for newer players) and, most recently, it brought a 100$ dst suit. they have had time. they have noticed the demand and decided to exploit it while ignoring all other complaints. so no, i dont think this is progress.
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WHAT POPULAR COWBOY ARCHETYPE ARE YOU?
THE DRIFTER
you've got nothing to lose, and really nothing to gain, so you spend your days with your horse riding along the plains. you're super self sustaining and own a harmonica (or some sort of instrument you can easily play on your own). animals tend to be better companions for you than people, but one day you might find the right person that fits with you when you stumble onto their ranch scaring off coyotes. you're typically quiet, more into listening to others than talking about yourself, but despite all that you've got mighty interesting stories from your travels.
❝ And so the grey-faced stranger parted ways, walking off into the sunset... ❞
“Tagged” by: @dethqveen
Tagging: @the-expatriate @mircge @dxfiedfxte
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