#the fear mythos

[blindrapture]

In 2011, I started writing a thing, on a whim. In 2013, I finished it. A lot of people seemed to love it? Then over the next decade, I put a lot of work into expanding and editing it, with plans for a complete physical book release that didn't happen. Well, here it is again. As an internet novel. A finished novel, this time.

I will start posting the story on May 21st, 2024. May 22nd will be a day of rest. And then, from May 23rd until October 21st, every day will see a new chapter-- a new log. ("F-Five months?? How long is this novel?" Oh yeah, good point. That won't actually get us to the end. There may be another eight, ten days of chapters afterwards. It is important, however, to emphasize the May 21 - October 21 model.)

I will make sure to put the bulk of the contents under "Read More" breaks, so each log won't clutter your browsing experience.

The logs will have art in them. Not as much as in the original draft, but there will still be some. As of May 1st, I expect art by Rappu, RealaChao, Wiratomkinder, and Vis.

I plan on supplementing the logs with the occasional post talking about the making and intention of the story. I dunno, it's gonna be a five-month distribution period, I'm gonna get antsy during that and am gonna want to ramble. That'll be separate content, though.

And when the story is fully and completely posted on tumblr, I will release the full novel on my Website, where I like to keep the rest of my creations. Both the tumblr novel and the Website novel will be free reading, forever. I reserve the right to try again at a paid physical edition afterwards.

So! That's it. Rapture is coming. OH GOD THE RAPTURE IS BURNING is coming.

Trigger Warnings: Sex, Gods, and Rock & Roll. (violence. some swear words. teenage angst, cringe. death. insects. surrealism. symbolism. unpredictability of what will be explained and what won't. sexual acts with dubious consent-- you will be able to skip that part. religious iconography. and so much prog rock.)

Get ready for it.

#writing #tumblr novel #the fear mythos #you do not have to know anything about the fear mythos to read #books #i have worked on this for 13 years. you would be surprised at just how much work went into it. #horror #anti-horror #comedy #anti-comedy #'what the hell does that mean. anti-horror. anti-comedy.' rapture is sprawling and does not like to stay in one place. #rapture is like. honestly just my attempt at art. at making statements about genre and boundary and limit. #maybe i should say 'trigger warning: art' as a joke. but that sounds even more pretentious than anything else. #longpost #there... will be longposts. this longpost is nothing in comparison to what is to come.

[arachnostalgiac]

oh, with google's new inactive account policy, i think we're about to see a Bunch of old creepypastas/horror/slender blogs/etc just fuckin' vanish, since most are on Blogger and most used a specific google account to write them

#slenderblogs #fearblogs #the fear mythos #probably gonna be just gone in december which is mostly a shame #that's a niche part of internet history that's just gonna vanish #and i mean like obviously content made and released by dead people on google platforms also now has a natural expiration date #i hate this era of the internet i hate the era where everything is just burned down constantly it fucking sucks #especially since you Know people are gonna be falsely deleted

[amonsteronmaplestreet]

Storytime:

Back in college, when the Slender Man was starting to really pick up steam, but before Slender the game released and made him mainstream, I was active on the TVTropes forum. In a thread discussing Slender Man stories, I and a few other people shared our own ideas for stories in which Slendy met some other monsters.

We ended up forming our own writing community: the Fear Mythos. We wrote creepypasta and blogs centered around monsters called Fears, one of whom was the Convocation: a hivemind of birds. Its servants were Nests, people who hollowed out parts of themselves to house the birds.

I wrote a creepypasta called "The Witch of Gatlinburg," a letter from a 1817 settler who encountered a Nest. It was posted on our community creepypasta blog, "Faces, Strange and Secret," and later included in our community's self-published print collection of the same name, credited to me.

Years later, after I'd left the community, an old friend sent me a link to a supernatural travel blog that was claiming "the Gatlingburg Witch" as a real Tennessee legend, and passing off my creepypasta as a real letter. I thought this was really funny, and didn't think much of it after.

Recently, while trying to find that blog, I discovered that a ghost tour in Gatlinburg has incorporated the Witch. I found YouTube videos about her, a periscope video of people trying to contact her via seance, and an art print based on her for sale on Etsy. There was one left, so obviously I had to buy it.

Thank you to TeylorMoonStore on etsy for the awesome print, and sorry if my story lessens the magic of the legend. 19-year-old me never imagined my little story would travel beyond the FM community, much less become an actual legend!

I have no plans to claim ownership. In fact, I'm eager to see the legend keep spreading and mutating. This is the wildest thing that's ever happened to something I've written, and I love it.

#the fear mythos #spooky witch art #also the glass pane on the frame broke while I wass putting it in so there's a crack in the corner #gonna need to buy a new frame damn #my dumb life

[1fenfen1]

tw: arkn mythos (fuck sealtoast)

#Slenderverse #Slender Man #Creepypasta #ARG #Unfiction #Edit #mv #The Fear Mythos #The Arkn Mythos #Arknverse #The Architect Verse #The Er'roth Mythos

[sinigangrobot]

Back hurts something fierce this christmas. I have a convention tomorrow look at these stickers I made

#analog horror dump #wendigoon #paskomiket #mandela catalogue #gemini home entertainment #fear and hunger #vita carnis #monument mythos

[moonilit]

Do you think how Dion attempting to just end the whole world might have made Ultima panic for a sec?

#Like he wanted him to test mythos not fucking end the world #He need that planet #Thinking about Ultima tasting fear for a second there #Which is more the reason to respect Dion honesty #‘If you won’t let me kill that mf kid you can go with him’ #Clapping my hand and standing #King. #ultima #dion lesage #ffxvi #final fantasy xvi

[bee-ina-boat]

heres a collection of concept art for the rest of the entities for the mythos au!! if you're wondering where the eye is, they've been drawn already!

they are all FAR from done. keep in mind these are all just my initial concepts and i plan to do in-depth design sheets as i go to explore their designs more.

IF YOU HAVE ANY IDEAS ON HOW TO IMPROVE THESE DESIGNS PLEASE THROW EM AT ME- MY ANON IS OPEN AND I READ TAGS I DONT CARE JUST!!!! GIMME!!!!!

(also au context: the magnus mythos is an au where the entities are all gods, similar to various religious mythology, rather than paranormal entities that feed on fear)

design thoughts for each of them under the cut

The Web - God of Fate (she/it): im pretty happy with her design atm, shes meant to be a half spider half woman thing and i love that for her. shes probably the one ive thought the most on so far given her importance to the story. i want her to wear silks and shiny silver jewelry that just sparkles like wet spiderwebs do, not sure if im gonna keep the veil?

The Dark - God of the Dark (she/he/it): probably my weakest concept at the moment. it doesnt do the dark any justice. i mean i like the cloak idea but i want them to be very tendrilly, all consuming, shadowy, but i dont know how to properly portray them :/

The Desolation - God of Destruction and Fire (they/it): i have a neat vision for them! i want them to be made of coal and ash and smoke, to be burning and glowing on the inside, and their body is decorated with melted wax to look like clothes. not quiiiiiite sure about how their melty candle dress is now? i want it to be less constrictive

The Stranger - God of the Unknown and the Whimsical (he/she/they/it): it's meant to be this. weird wirey creature hidden behind masks and a lot of fabrics, like the framework of a poseable plush doll? i like the way the masks look but im not so sure about the body.

The Vast - God of the Above (she/he/they/it): im not so sure about his design at all im gonna be real. i want them to look like the atmosphere and be covered in clouds and have mountains for feet and an ocean cape but i feel like it might be a bit?? idk??? im just not that happy with it :/

The End - God of Death and Time (they/it): ugh i love this concept sm, making death read as less scary and more divine is so fun. theyre based on a seraphim and a sand timer,

The Buried - God of the Underneath (she/he/they/it): ANOTHER OF MY FAVORITES!!!! i love them. theyre inspired by hermit crabs!! and they have silver chains holding their shell to them. they look so endearing with their lil lopsided eyes ;; <3

The Flesh - God of the Body and Meat (she/he/they/it): i have so many ideas for the flesh y'all- im very excited to do a concept sheet for them. theyre meant to have no skin, just exposed bone and muscle, large limbs, hooves, exposed heart underneath a ribcage, teeth that close around their abdomen. white bandages that wrap around like clothes. a teeth/horn crown? i dont quite know whether to go for a more animalistic look or a more human one? like- theres so many ways to go with him idek!!!

The Hunt - God of Predators and Pride (they/it): see, i like this design but i feel like its too werewolf like? yknow? thats cool!! but itreads more monster to me than God :/

The Corruption - God of Nature, Rot, and Disease (she/they/it): i love this weird bug thing. this one i was really inspired for (mostly because. corruption aligned. so obviously im gonna think about this one alot) theyre this weird bug thing, the veil is inspired by the one from the art on the wiki! i want to maybe make them a bit more gross and weird because nature is like that sometimes, a moot on tiktok suggested that i add animal bones!! and i think thats SO smart im absolutely going too

The Spiral - God of the Incomprehensible (it/its): this weirdo is so hard to pin down istg. i imagine them as this spiral thing. body is kindof liquidy, arms are spindly and long, multiple shifting faces, overall just constantly changing and moving and like!!! how am i meant to draw that??? when my brain cant even wrap my head around what its supposed to look like yknow??? bruh jrdbhgfjdldgfh- that being said i think the main problem with the design is that it just gives me too many Michael vibes!!! is it the hair? the arms? its probably both.

The Lonely - God of Solitude and the Self (they/it): i like what this one has going so far! theyve got fog hair, fog tears, their body is meant to be splotchy like turquoise marble, i vibe with it so hard. not so sure what to do with their outfit tho :/

The Slaughter - God of War (he/they/it): another one of my more stronger designs i think! centaur with weapons sticking into them, face concealed, medieval armor and antlers- it vibes

the extinction isnt drawn because i literally have no idea what they should look like aside from color palette-

once again any and all suggestions will be taken!!!! i need ideas!!! plese!!!!

#my art #myart #digital art #tma #the magnus archives #magpod #fear entities #tma fears #the magnus mythos #tma web #the web #mother of puppets #tma dark #the dark #tma desolation #the desolation #tma stranger #the stranger #tma vast #the vast #tma end #the end #tma buried #the buried #tma flesh #the flesh #tma hunt #the hunt #tma corruption #the corruption

[sidecharactersdomatter]

🎶✨when you get this you have to put 5 songs you actually listen to, publish, then send this ask/tag 10 of your favourite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool) 🎶✨

<33

@chucktaylorupset Can all 5 songs be related to my Owl House fanfic projects? If so then:

5. Hang On Smash Mouth- The opening to Gravesfield Cul-de-sac, a modern au that focuses on my Owl House OCs.

4. The Last Shanty - Our Sigil Means Fear, an AU inspired by Our flag Means Death where my OCs are Wild Witches

3. My Goodbye - Titanomachia, A Boiling Isles Creation myth especially when I finish writing it.

2. Heart of Stone - No Belos AU, (I mean I can already hear Mercy singing this about Philip)

Open Arms - Mythos They Cast, a Greek Mythology AU inspired by @turquoisespace35’s Gorgon AU focused on my main Murder They Cast OCs

Now I’m gonna tag, @cinnamondunce @criminalmutantsins @drakepad-luv-2000 @101flavoursofweird @ninjastormhawkkat @kris278m @tired-reader-writer @cjbolan @justanotherradioactivetree and @melodythebunny

#Music tag challenge #Thx sis #The owl house #toh #the owl house au #toh au #murder they cast #The owl house oc #toh oc #our sigil means fear #Mythos they cast #No belos au

[happyk44]

Love the image of Zeus going into a paranoid spiral that his brothers will try to overthrow him and he needs to get them the fuck away from him and Olympus as fast as possible so they can't, and the whole time they're just vibing with the animal crossing theme song playing in their heads

#zeus: discretely hiding the world's worst panic attack caused by his overwhelming fear of turning into his father and being dethroned #poseidon and hades: thinking about dinner #i originally wrote this on sept 20th and apparently its just been sat in my drafts forever and idk why #but here you are world #zeus #happy talks greek mythos #hades #poseidon

[aphemorpha]

what if eldritch madness is just like. the divine equivalent of bug spray.

#keeps the tiny freaks away #cthulhu mythos #you know what? fuck it. we ball. #malevolent #note: i mean the aura of unnatural fear. not just seeing something incomprehensible. #you cannot see something incomprehensible because if you are seeing it. it is by definition comprehensible. #or at least thats my opinion. it might be fucked up and freaky and Hard to comprehend. but not literally mind breaking.

[blindrapture]

Hey... Hello there, Jordan! You might not remember me, but I'm AC11 from waaaay back at the Fear Mythos? I was doing some cleaning on my 'puter and I found my way back to the OG JCINK forum and man... It was a trip down memory lane.

Don't know if you keep in touch with the other members like Alliterator, LizardBite, Red, Cute, etc and I know it's been almost a decade... But idk, I just got real nostalgic and I wanna say Thank You to y'all. Right now I'm in a good place writing-wise, I got an amazing opportunity and I owe it to the community since it was the first serious writing community I ever joined. So yeah... just wanted to say thank you for everything <3 <3 <3

Of course I remember you, AC. You wrote Memories, Chronicles, Tales. And you analyzed Jordan Eats Normally Now and called it a masterpiece. :)

There is a lot of nostalgia in the Fear Mythos. Hundreds of stories, lots of discussion and mutual enthusiasm for writing. We were a community of writers! I went through a period of nostalgia for it when I was making Viceking's Graab, as I wanted to consider our history in full, so I had to go through the forums, the wiki, the original TVTropes thread and archive every story anyone had ever written for it. The mythos still has memories for me.

I don't really keep in contact with the others. I've heard from alliterator a few times, mainly I end up relaying messages to him from Fear people asking questions. cute and I are mutuals on twitter. LizardBite is writing books! I'm friends, or, mutuals with Red on facebook, he seems happy and also still writes. TheSomnambulist is still someone I consider a friend. I don't know if you were around when Dr0Shadow and Hexillith joined the mythos, but they're very much still in contact with me. I recommend asking around for the Fear Mythos discord server, if you haven't already; plenty more people are active there, it's a chill little hangout spot, and you're sure to find some old faces.

I'm really proud of you for what you're doing. Make the most of your good place, do it for us. :)

#ask post #the fear mythos

[arachnostalgiac]

honestly if i couldve changed one thing about my contributions to the fear mythos i woulda pushed harder on the smiley redesign like.  it’s supposed to evolve a bit after it’s first introduced (since the initial point is it’s shaped by some stupid high school kids).

but alas

might’ve talked a bit more about its like.  key feature too since i think ‘a smile wider than his face’ got misinterpreted a few times as just like.  a glasgow grin.  when i envisioned it as way more body horror-y than that (since you know me i fuckin love body horror)

i do go a bit more into it in the Unreleased Fearblog but you know that’s just languishing in my drive for all eternity

#the fear mythos #what could have been

[dr3amofagame]

Hi ! I'd like to know too for the ask game : 6, 13 and 26 ?

6. Is there a c!Dream scene/moment/action you would change?

Hmmmm I can't think of any, no. Mostly I think I would like some more in terms of follow-through w/ certain scenes, such as c!Endersmile the whole agreement with c!Dream + c!Foolish, the whole Aimsey debacle, stuff with c!Sapnap, but a lot of that was kinda beyond cc control. In terms of the stuff that seemed to be building somewhere that we didn't get I'd say what I miss the most is probably c!Wilbur getting involved w/ the prison arc, because damn it seemed like everyone involved wanted that badly but it just never worked out scheduling wise. Also, scrapped lore, but scrapped lore Is Canon. To Me.

In terms of actual scenes I would change...idk, LN5 c!Quackity and c!Dream showdown comes to mind? But that wasn't like bad, it was just because of internet issues there was a lot less of it than I would've liked. I wanted to see more c!Dream in the c!Dream vs c!Quackity showdown (tm), but as it is c!Dream blowing up a shit ton of slime and having a panic attack works perfectly well for me (it honestly hurt c!Q more than c!Dream, considering their stories, but again sometimes technical issues can't be helped.)

13. Since we rarely saw c!Dream's own POV, who was your main pov character/s?

Wherever c!Dream Was (tm).

For a more serious answer, especially in the early days I watched a lot of Tubbo. Fundy too, funnily enough? Wilbur as well, Tommy POV was probably what I watched the least at that point (unless Dream was online lmao). Lots of Punz watching too tbh when he was active on DSMP (and now, I've been watching Punz for a long time). Later on, still lots of Tubbo, more Tommy, I just kinda hopped onto whoever's stream at the time errrr I will not lie i was kinda a no life DSMP watcher for like all of 2020. Later on I watched a lot of Sam, Foolish, and Bad when they were the main three logging on. But yeah, basically whoever I could lmao

26. If c!Dream had to spend the rest of his life around only one other DSMP character, which one would you choose for him?

🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰c!Sam🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

I mean I do have an AU that's literally this exact concept what do u expect from me who am I if not giving c!Sam eeeeeeverything he could ever want (tm)

If I'm not literally torturing c!Dream, probably c!Techno XD

#dreblr ask game #my asks !! #ask game #thinks about c!dream in the finale ueueuue #remembering how it was to . Want To Live. oh my boy :[ #tbf in terms of like /healing/ that last question is a hard one to answer for me #idk c!dream kinda needs to live like. for himself yk. idk. #he's been in a really fucked place in his head and scrambling to Fix the Whole Fucking World #and he's like looked at himself like who he is in the mythos is all he can be #and look i think at the end of the day he needs idk. room to breathe. idk. to not be alone but also #to not like idk become consumed by this like idk intertwined mess of devotion and fear #like there's no really easy answer imo healing isn't exactly easy for him. at all. #he's been in the thick of a community where he was the scapegoat and the Cause Of All Evil and he's done a lot of shit things true #but he's also been treated in so many terrible ways and honestly just never really given a chance to be like. human #and there's a lot of paranoia and thought patterns divorced from reality and whatnot #anyway . all that being said. making him worse on the other hand is very easy #so yeahhhh [waves c!dream over c!sam's head like a new toy for a dog] WHOS A GOOD BOY

[afklancelot]

why does every collaborative writing project that originated from a creepypasta eventually have a pantheon of fictional gods

#scp #scp foundation #backrooms #like w scp and fear mythos i can see where gods could come in #but backrooms doesnt rlly need something like that #it's just kinda dumb

[call-me-schmidt]

Fear & Hunger's god lore was written to re-roll my brain like a ball of yarn, I swear. What is all of that, orange? What is all of that? I'm gonna be fascinated for ages.

#the way that the christ and devil figures of this mythos seem to be the conscious and subconscious of one being split apart #look maybe the catholic upbringing is influencing me there but it's fascinating #what did the god of fear and hunger leave behind? is it a separate being? is it contained in the doll you give her? #are you the thing she leaves behind? #video games #fear & hunger #schmidt makes a contribution #i tag everything

[bee-ina-boat]

hello gay people. i mentioned awhile back about a possible concept for a tma au but its mixed with mythology/religion based stuff. i have since finished this chunk of concept/reference art of the Ceaseless Watcher for this au!!!

im dubbing it: The Magnus Mythos!! please talk to me about it i am insane

putting my rambling au nonsense under the readmore!!!!!

edit!!!: new mythos post just dropped :3

alright- bare with me because my thoughts are everywhere lol

random various au information:

the fear entites are instead more general gods, much like those from various mythologies (greek, norse, egyption, etc.) like the eye, rather than an entity that feeds on the fear of being watched, is rather the god of knowledge and sight!

all of the gods have influence over the world, some mortals will devote themselves to one specific god entirely, others will become devout to multiple, and some will simply be neutral among all 14 and live life out as they please.

avatars are mortals who have been blessed with power by the gods while creatures (like mr spider, the not them, etc) are simply beings who have been born into the world by the gods power seeping into it. artifacts are items that have either been blessed/cursed by the gods or avatars, or have been affected by the gods power seeping into the world also.

theres multiple sects, cults, and churches for each god much like how many real life religions have different sects with their own rules and standards. some have beef, others do not.

the gods themselves are entirely morally neutral, they have their own interconnected relationships with eachother, and kind of view mortals as pets in a way, picking favorites and seeing them as of lesser importance in comparison to themselves.

since the gods here arent necessarily evil and theyre actually sentient beings, their titles are changed to be more fitting (the mother of puppets -> the mother of fate as an example)

the story is set in an era resembling the early 1900s because idk. vibes are neat i guess

thats all the basic world building crumbs for now, ill go deeper into it when i have more art and story stuff ready!

for now- heres some actual lore :3c

Jonah magnus is basically eye jesus. thousands of years prior to the start of the story, the eye favored him and he became a messiah of sorts.

the House of Magnus is a church sect of the eye founded in what is now london. but it doesnt operate JUST as a simple church. many sects of the eye devote themselves to gaining knowledge of the world around them and the House of Magnus is no different there. operating with a library, research centre and all. the research not just on history and knowledge, but also the holy and divine. documenting stories that deal with the divine powers and researching cursed/blessed artifacts aswell.

its a common legend that if one tells their story under the eyes watch (either in a church of the eye or directly to an avatar of the eye) that theyll receive good fortune and foresight, and since the House of Magnus has become a well known sect of the eye, many will come far and wide to detail their accounts under its roof

all of this documentation leads down to the Magnus Mythos, a large archive under the church where the written documents are filed, curated and cared for by the head Archivist. as such, the position of Archivist has become a most sacred role among worshippers of the eye comparable to the head of the church itself.

they arent just revered for their care of the mythos (though the devotees of the eye view the care of documented knowledge to be a sacred and ever important responsibility) Theres a prophecy, hand woven by the Mother of Fate herself, one that states an ordinary archivist will one day be gifted by all 14 of the gods and awaken the great change, bringing about a new and blessed age.

but is this newest archivist even ready for such pressure and commitment? and what if the prophecy is more devious than one might think?

oooOOOOoooOO mysterious lore- i know this is heavily self indulgent but i refuse to apologize for that because im havin FUN. if you read all of that just know i love you so much and i hope you liked it ;w; im very excited and ive been working on archivist +archival assistant lore for the past few days and im excited to do art for them ;_;

#myart #my art #scopophobia #trypophobia #eyes tw #religious themes #religion tw #tma #magnus archives #the magnus archives #magpod #tma fears #the fear entities #the ceaseless watcher #elias bouchard #jonah magnus #tma au #the magnus mythos #digital art #long post #the archivist