#body horror mention

[prokopetz]

One of the occupational hazards of being so preoccupied with game design as a discipline is that sometimes I'll have dreams that are just some unknown force explaining an idea for a game to me, and last night I dreamed what is possibly the most obnoxious mechanical premise for a game I've ever come up with.

In brief, it was a traditional JRPG-style game with an atypical levelling-up scheme. Rather than gaining XP or levelling up at milestones, party members would grow in power by finding and absorbing or ingesting these little extradimensional parasites, represented in the dream as small grub- or fetus-like creatures with smiling humanoid faces. These parasites would be found as treasure and enemy drops, and could freely be given to any party member, except for the player character; the player character alone was unable to use them for Plot Reasons, and was entirely reliant on equipment to grow in power instead.

Absorbing a parasite both granted permanent stat boosts and unlocked weird psychic powers. However, they'd also cause progressive personality changes in the party members to which they were assigned, reflected by changes in dialogue and interactions, and eventually in granting or denying access to particular side quests. This function of the parasites was undocumented, and would likely go unnoticed by the player on their initial playthrough, as they'd level up as they went and would never see the unmodified dialogues.

A further wrinkle is that this effect was mediated by the game's expected progression. Farming parasites and "over-levelling" beyond where the game expected you to be would accelerate the personality changes, while going deliberately under-levelled would slow them (i.e., by giving your party members more time to acclimate to having bugs in their brains); like the personality changes themselves, the existence of these hidden modifiers would not be hinted at to the player.

If you spent a long enough stretch of the game sufficiently over-levelled, you'd eventually receive a non-standard game over where your party would betray, kill, and eat the player character. Furthermore, this non-standard ending had a deliberate "eclipse phase" whereby it would wait for a while after you hit the required threshold before pulling the trigger, in particular making sure that you've saved at least once, leaving your save file irrevocably fucked.

As a final twist, the non-standard game over would only trigger after resting; though the game's mechanics would heavily incentivise resting on a regular basis, it would theoretically be possible to massively over-level your party on purpose and avoid the bad ending simply by never resting again, potentially as a speedrun strat. However, doing so would alter the game's ending to replace the usual final boss with a hopeless solo boss fight against your own massively over-levelled party.

#concepts #gaming #video games #violence mention #death mention #cannibalism mention #body horror mention #insects mention #swearing

[jenderenvy985]

#jerma #jerma985 #jerma meat grinder #blinkies #long post #tw flashing #tw flashing images #body horror mention #i just had to make another one of these. you have no idea how much fun i have making blinkies based on jerma quotes

[greenteacology]

One thing about Matthew Mercer is he will put teeth where teeth should not be

#like everything with cognouza…so many teeth #haven’t watched candela obscura but I heard there’s more Teeth #good for him.jpg #critical role #CR #candela obscura #teeth cw #? #body horror mention

[sandersstudies]

I sincerely believe there is a gap in genres between Novels Using Catholic Aesthetic and Catholic Novels.

Like, a Catholic Novel is similar to a Catholic film. It’s primarily consumed by people who are active Catholics looking for Catholic media that reflects or enforces their beliefs.

Now, Catholic Aesthetic appears a lot in other genres, perhaps especially horror. The terror of exorcism, or the piety/remorse associated with the confessional or a cathedral, for example. They all make for great imagery and typically attract non-Catholic audiences, and sometimes Catholics are actually offended by inaccuracies or contradictions to the catechism.

BUT. SOMETIMES. As somebody who studied Catholic apologetics in college (literally defense of the faith) and now lives a relatively secular life but keeps rosaries and incense on hand, I feel like Catholicism has so much history and superstition that people DON’T lean into because most people stop at that obvious imagery so they can appeal to a wider audience.

More horror about relics! Their bones live in the crosses of Christ’s crucifixion! The virgin mother weeping blood! The sheer bodily horror of developing spontaneous stigmata! More crucifixion and burning alive and impaling yourself on the sword of martyrdom! More horror of Felicity and Perpetua! More horror of Saint Joan! More horror of seeing a stag in the woods bearing a glowing orb of the Holy Ghost in its antlers! It’s demons, it’s ritual, it’s spirits, it’s eldritch, Lovecraftian horror at it’s best!

That! Shit! Fucks!

#horror #body horror mention

[ghostonly]

I see a lot of discourse about what is or isn't allowed to be called body horror. It's a topic that is very close to home for a lot of people, namely, in the disabled community. Abled people will often tag things relating to disability as body horror, and that's understandably very upsetting when it relates to something that is someone's normal.

But on the other hand, I have also seen a lot of people, perhaps overzealous disability allies, or perhaps even overly sensitive disabled people, who more or less call for the complete removal of the term.

The term body horror exists for a reason

Not only is it useful in discussing the contents of something, but it serves as a pretty common and necessary trigger warning.

The question of what is or isn't allowed to be called body horror really comes down to

A) Extremity

And

B) Context

The term and trigger tag exist to shield people from content that is psychologically disturbing or triggering to them. You cannot simply divide the Okay uses and Not Okay uses by saying "if it's a medical condition, you can't call it body horror"

Extreme medical conditions involving missing body parts, prosthetics, visible transplants, extreme scarring, and so on can be triggering to a lot of people - and not just abled people who are bothered by disability in general.

These things can also be triggering to other disabled people, especially those who associate certain medical conditions, situations, treatments, etc with their own medical abuse.

Now, the most important fucking part of whether something can be called body horror or not is CONTEXT

If someone is talking about a video game, such as the new Legend of Zelda game, and giving warning to other people about an opening scene focused on nonconsensual grafting of a new arm while Link is completely unconscious, the use of the term body horror can absolutely apply. It is related to the body, and the situation is horrifying. Someone who is sensitive to body horror needs to be warned about the topic.

A photo of someone who only has one arm is not body horror.

You do not tag someone's fucking selfie as body horror, so help me god. If there is a visible prosthesis or it's a closeup of where their stump had been scarred closed, it's appropriate to tag those as Prosthesis, Prosthetic, Scarring, Scars, or Medical. If people are sensitive to these specific things, they can blacklist them.

Are we getting it?

Say it with me:

Body horror is a topic or genre.

Body horror is not a real life person.

A real life person comes with useable descriptors, and none of them include "body horror"

Fantasy genres and topics and situations, including medical subjects, can be called body horror. The term "body horror" is used to describe the topic or genre, not the character in the fantasy setting. If someone violently loses a limb in a game or TV show, them being an amputee is not body horror. It's the violent loss of the limb that's body horror. Please, go ahead and ask anyone who violently lost a limb if the situation that led to amputation was flowery and comfortable for them. I really, really doubt it.

In fact, I would hazard a guess that someone who lost a leg to a car accident may actually be very triggered by witnessing that happening on TV. Just a guess.

And on the topic of ableism, some of you abled people have no fucking idea the kind of shit disabled people go through on a regular basis and your ignorance is genuinely embarrassing to read, so please spare us all and keep your mouth shut about whether you think someone's medical trigger is acceptable to you or not.

#absolutely do not go anywhere near the notes on that linked post #they're crawling with people just being sickeningly ableist #ableism mention #body horror mention #loz #legend of Zelda #Zelda #disability #disabled #actually disabled #chronically ill #chronic illness #medical abuse mention

[wereaddison]

The werepeppino tag always throws me tf off because instead of thinking “oh, it’s Peppino as a werewolf” like a normal person, my dumb brain’s like “lol imagine how lame it’d be to be a werebeast but instead of becoming some badass monster you turn into Peppino lmao”

EVERY

GODDAMN

TIME

#slightly tf related #pizza tower #werepeppino #body horror mention

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

Youkai Reimu: Hm. Maybe I should get a shikigami to help me around the house and stuff.

God Marisa, cheerfully: Hm, maybe!

Youkai Reimu: Also maybe it'll help with making humans afraid of me, that's also a bunch of work and I'd prefer to just have a peaceful life regardless.

Youkai Reimu, not really paying attention to what she's saying and lost in the "am a youkai" sauce: Wait, I know! I could turn a human into a shikigami! The human's original spirit could still be in their body, so it's still a human and they're conscious and terrified the whole time, but their shikigami programming would just override what they're doing!

Youkai Reimu: ... wait no, that's not how shikigami work. Or "still a human".

God Marisa, whom we now see is boggling at her with her jaw dropped: Reimu, what the entire shit.

#shenanigans #touhou #reimu hakurei #marisa kirisame #youkai reimu #god marisa #body horror mention #And I Must Scream #shikigami #mind control #(ish) #lost in the sauce #microfiction #my stuff #my writing #my fanfiction

[screwnames-ihatenames]

Love when people give donnje body horror powers in technodrome fics like that ain’t incredibly fucked up but tbh he should keep like the base level of them in the aftermath for funsies like imagine Donnie in battle and all of a sudden his face splits open during an attack like a godamn fanf animatronic and hits the villain n with a +200 on the psychological damage

#rottmnt #tmnt #r rambling #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rise of the tmnt #rise donnie #fic help #??? #I legit just use that tag for shit I want to see more in fics tbh #technodrome #body horror mention #this would be so cool we are missing out on so much #I never see enough fight scenes in technodrome fics and that is a WASTE #rottmnt technodrome

[kirus-grotto]

“…what?”

“I..I’m sorry.” Crowley repeated. “I’m afraid there’s no way to send you back from where you came..”

Yuu stared defeated, gaze lowering down to the floor. “But.. you. Y-you said that…”

“I know,” he replies sadly. “It’s just that no matter what I do nothing seems to work. It’s as of your world doesn’t exist.”

Tears sprang free from their eyes, flowing quickly down their cheeks. “I’ve been here four years. Four long years..” Yuu muttered just before laughing. “Four years of solving EVERY DAMNED PROBLEM that’s shown up. From doing tasks that could have KILLED ME,” they continued, laughing harder as more tears came, “to solving ALL of the overblots that you could have stepped in for!”

Here Crowley cringed, finally showing some remorse. “I-I… I admit that I haven’t been the best at—“

Yuu now began laughing harder. “Oh! I’ll say!” More tears sprang from their eyes as they laughed. “I’ve been stabbed in the back more times from you than I ever have from anyone else!” They took a deep breath, their skin now beginning to physically bubble slightly; their form now beginning to bend at strange angles.

“I’ve been through worse than hell in this place, never once being thanked for what I’ve done!” They yelled. “All while you’ve claimed to research how to get me home! You’ve done NOTHING to help!” They yelled louder, eyes now turning black.

Crowley felt his eyes widen as he witnessed this magicless student begin to turn into an overblot monster. “Y-Yuu!” He stammered out. “Please! I-I implore for you to calm down! If you could wait just a bit longer I’m sure—“

“IM SICK OF WAITING!” The student screamed, their form changing even more. “You useless, good for nothing, headmage, have no right to even call yourself great… I’m so sick of all the excuses. I’ll make my own way home…” bones cracked as they now stood their fully transformed height. “No matter what it takes!”

#twisted wonderland fanfic #twisted wonderland #I’m just in a mood #cw: body horror #body horror mention #twst overblot #twst crowley #twst yuu #twst angst

[kronoose]

Trying to figure out a more socially acceptable way to describe the body horror I'd like to get consent for before getting into planning my big bad for my pathfinder campaign

Like I can't just say like Jared Hopworth post BoneTurner's tale

They wouldn't get it

And as much as I love him and the flesh I understand that tma and that level of body horror isn't for many

#tma flesh #tma #the magnus archives #jared hopworth #please help #tw body horror #body horror mention

[jeweledstone]

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#spamtober #deltarune #spamton #my art #art challenge #body horror mention #implied body horror #implied transformation #eye strain #unreality #I feel like a spamton hivemind virus would be less like an actual hivemind and more like a shitty mlm that turns those who join it into spam #Neo wtf you just made the bendy hivemind again with a different character #what’s next? is pizza tower gonna get one too? is noise gonna have his own hivemind virus??? #jfc new fandom same brainrot

[prokopetz]

Hello, person of many recommendations, I come seeking your web of knowledge. I know this isn't TTRPG, but do you and or any of your followers have recommendations for games where you play as a Creature. Just, an absolute thing. Claws. Teeth. No shade to the recent beloved cat game, but I'm talking a monster. If not, no sweat, just discussing trends among friends.

Since you say it "isn't TTRPG", I'm assuming you mean video games, though I'll note that nowhere in your request do you actually specify the medium you have in mind – if I've guessed wrong, that's on you!

That said, a few favourite video games where you play as a Creature:

Realistically, you’ve probably already heard of CARRION, but on the off chance that you haven't, it's a stand-out in the genre. A stealth puzzler with medium-weight metroidvania elements where you basically play as The Thing. This one really leans into playing as a creature with no fixed body plan, so you’ll have to be prepared for occasional physics engine jank as well as omnipresent body horror.

They Bleed Pixels is sort of an edge case, since you’re really just a purple-skinned schoolgirl with claws, but as it’s widely accepted by the Tumblr community that creepy little girls are a kind of Creature, I’m counting it. It’s an ultraviolent precision puzzle-platformer, and if the character design is a bit low on monstrosity, what you do to your enemies more than makes up for it.

Zapling Bygone only came out a couple of days ago, so I haven’t yet had a chance to see everything it has to offer, but I like what I’ve seen to far. Though it might seem redundant to include both this and CARRION on the same list, they’re two very different takes on the idea of a metroidvania starring a tentacled whatsit that goes around killing and assimilating its enemies.

Nohra is another creature-escaping-a-lab game, this one in the form of a Celeste-style precision puzzle-platformer. (I recognise that I’ve thus far plugged nothing but metroidvanias and puzzle-platformers, but well, you knew who you were asking, right?) Quite short, but also free on account of being a student project. The monster’s design suggests that someone on the dev team was definitely a furry.

Maneater probably isn’t quite what you have in mind, being a self-described “open world SharkPG” in which you play as an actual fucking shark, but you can’t deny that a shark is in fact a Creature. Not quite as Grand Theft Auto as the trailers make it look – there’s legit RPG gameplay here, though it leans a bit too hard on the novelty of its premise to really make the most of itself. Still: fucking shark.

Sea Salt has you playing as not one Creature, but many – specifically, a devouring horde of Lovecraftian beasties which you direct as a single unit. The Steam tags notwithstanding, it’s not really an RTS; the logistical play is minimal, and you just have the one mob of critters to direct – it’s more like a bullet hell game where you direct your characters using a laser pointer.

As for forthcoming titles, Necrofugitive is a side-scrolling beat-’em-up where you play as a shape-shifting zombie thing escaping from prison in a shitdark medieval setting. Like They Bleed Pixels, above, whether this one meets your criteria depends on how you feel about essentially humanoid Creatures, though in this case the shapeshifting element pushes the humanoid envelope a little.

#gaming #video games #video game recommendations #violence mention #death mention #body horror mention #swearing

[ohnothehedgepog]

On the topic of Maria, considering she befriended an alien hybrid with a resting bitch face, you know that she would have been the kind of girl who gets excited over unconventional things. She would’ve loved creepy crawlies like snakes and spiders, she would’ve loved Shark Week on Discovery, and had those Egyptology and Dragonology books, an isopod plushie, and she would excitedly infodump to others about slightly disturbing scientific facts, like “Did you know that the reason why Egyptian embalmers removed the organs was probably because the natron they used to preserve mummies would cause them to swell and explode out of the body!”

Long story short, Maria got her family’s Autism and it fuels her weird little girl powers.

#maria robotnik #shadow the hedgehog #sonic the hedgehog #sth #autism #body horror mention #text post

[hauntedfalcon]

other thing I can’t stop thinking about: the way Jean starts asking people what things feel like, after losing half her fingertips

#Candela Obscura #Jinnah Basar #she’s a SURGEON she relies on TOUCH #absolute buckwild choice of a scar to take! Zehra your mind! your choices!! #hand trauma mention #body horror mention #but again that’s kind of. redundant with the Candela tag

[pillowspace]

hellow! i have a little question: If Sunna and Meno only had 4 eyes total, where do Eclipse's other eyes come from?

Is it a fusion side effect? Product of the desire to never lose sight of each other? Or pure aesthetic? :0

The fusion isn't exactly a... 2+2=4 type of fusion. it had a lot of side-effects that didn't really apply to either of them. First and foremost, they are known as "an abomination," and everything about Eclipse is things that had gone terribly wrong (or very, very lucky that they managed it at all)

For example, one of the skirts has stripes. Sunna did not have stripes, but the colours of his skirt melded together. The eyes sprung up in duplicates, seemingly unendingly adding on and on until the body finally caught up to the fact that it had already added eyes, and stopped. So yeah, side-effect

#ask #celestial sundown au #body horror mention #[🎡 mutuals tag]

[just-antithings]

One fandom I still can't quite believe has antis in it: the Outlast fandom. The franchise which features, in canon: excessive body horror by way of mutilation, lots of blood and gore, graphic torture, heavily-implied rape of both adults and children, medical abuse, uncensored full-frontal nudity, genital-chopping, suicide, ritualistic child murder, brainwashing, and characters ranging from good if flawed, to morally grey, to evil as fuck but with complex and tragic backstories, to utterly repugnant monsters - has antis.

Bonus points for some antis being big fans of the most villainous characters (who are already popular in the general fandom), who they'd absolutely HATE if they were in any other fandom.

every damn time

#mod erin #ask #just anti things #suicide mention #child murder mention #murder mention #body horror mention #ask to tag #gore mention #blood mention #torture mention #rape mention #abuse mention