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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #20355 on: June 13, 2020, 07:13:57 am »

Relax, for people who've been shut in, the coronavirus is a huge field leveler. Normally if you say you've been away from work and shut up at home, that's a bad thing, but in this case you can just say it's due to the current situation and people will just nod.

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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #20356 on: June 13, 2020, 08:00:41 am »

Relax, for people who've been shut in, the coronavirus is a huge field leveler. Normally if you say you've been away from work and shut up at home, that's a bad thing, but in this case you can just say it's due to the current situation and people will just nod.

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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #20357 on: June 13, 2020, 08:03:52 am »

I just don't know how I'll reintegrate into society. I don't know.
Same, bruh. I feel weird enough normally if I go, say, a week without leaving the house or properly interacting with people.   
Like, "oh shit am I walking properly? How do I talk out loud again? Jesus, am I expected to make eye contact here?"-level weird. Now I don't even have my usual social life to keep me from degenerating into some kinda crazy hermit. I think bars are starting to open up again in a limited capacity, but not for gigs*. Hypothetically I could catch, like, the stupid once-a-day regional train from here in the sticks to something more like civilization, then uh... catch a bus from there, I guess, to a town where a friend of mine runs a pub which is apparently open for business, but that's a helluva lot of effort just to force my rusted social skills into an awkward social situation.   

This turned into way more of a ramble than intended, but I'm being called away from the computer (also the cat I thought we'd lost just rocked up! Yay!) so I'll just leave this mess here. Whoops. Oh, and I better add that footnote so there isn't just a random asterisk in there.   


* well, I have seen one or two (physical, as in not a livestream) gigs advertised, but due to COVID-induced attendee limits they're really fancy, ultra-limited, intimate events with like, meals included and shit. I just want to stand in a room drinking beer while a sick band destroys what's left of my eardrums, I don't want a classy sit-down dinner experience. Hard pass.       



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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #20358 on: June 13, 2020, 08:25:27 am »

I started watching the magnus archives a

What's this? Is it a spooky podcast?
The spookiest of them all. Maybe.
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« Reply #20359 on: June 13, 2020, 08:31:16 am »

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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #20360 on: June 13, 2020, 09:46:03 am »

I started watching the magnus archives a

What's this? Is it a spooky podcast?
The spookiest of them all. Maybe.

Shout out to the Magnus Archives - cool, creepy, and creative. It has plots but doesn't push them too far, and is easy enough to just listen to a spooky story every once in a while. Great sound design as well.

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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #20361 on: June 13, 2020, 01:51:18 pm »

What kind of spoops does it do?
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #20362 on: June 13, 2020, 02:32:19 pm »

All I can think of it is this huge redhaired deamon of a men telling spooky stories to little children around a campfire
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #20363 on: June 13, 2020, 08:38:19 pm »

In the movie Rudolph's Shiny New Year, an island is created every year on New Years day. On this island, things remain as they were in that year forever. One Million BC is dinosaurs and cavemen, 1776 is a perpetual Fourth of July celebration, 1023 is fairy tales, and so on.

And then I imagined living on the 2020 island.
I don't think 2020 island would last very long, with all the riots and looting, and the Corona virus to finish everything off.

And given how this year's going we could get invaded by aliens or have a nuclear war by the end of it.

Right, but the thing is that the islands never permanently change. Presumably, they get all the disasters we do, and then everything resets so they have to go through it over and over.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #20364 on: June 13, 2020, 09:12:23 pm »

What kind of spoops does it do?

Hmm. Atmospheric spook? Mostly the stories are creepy - like skin crawling body horror stuff. A few are cosmic horror of the impossible. Others are just interesting takes on stuff. There's a vampire story that has a cool take on it and was a rivetting listen.(episode 10, Vampire Killer)

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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #20365 on: June 14, 2020, 02:50:12 am »


Donald Trump . . . the short-fingered centipede . . . I am the last . . . I will tell the audient void. . . 
I do not recall distinctly when it began, but it was months ago. The general tension was horrible. To a season of political and social upheaval was added a strange and brooding apprehension of hideous physical danger; a danger widespread and all-embracing, such a danger as may be imagined only in the most terrible phantasms of the night. I recall that the people went about with pale and worried faces, and whispered warnings and prophecies which no one dared consciously repeat or acknowledge to himself that he had heard. A sense of monstrous guilt was upon the land, and out of the abysses between the stars swept chill currents that made men shiver in dark and lonely places. There was a daemoniac alteration in global temperatures —the heat lingered fearsomely, and everyone felt that the world and perhaps the universe had passed from the control of known gods or forces to that of gods or forces which were unknown.
And it was then that Donald Trump came out of reality TV. Who he was, none could tell, but he was of the old German-Scottish blood and looked like an asshole. The Republicans knelt when they saw him, yet could not say why. He said he had risen up out of the blackness of twenty-seven bankruptcies, and that he had heard messages from places he would not specifically identify. Into the lands of politics came Donald Trump, orange, bloated and sinister, always buying strange instruments of memes and absurdity and combining them into instruments yet stranger. He spoke much of the controversies—of birth certificates and emails—and gave exhibitions of power which sent his spectators away speechless, yet which swelled his fame to exceeding magnitude. Men advised one another to see Donald Trump, and shuddered. And where Donald Trump went, rest vanished; for the small hours were rent with fake news. Never before had fake news been such a public problem; now the wise men almost wished they could forbid them, that the shrieks of controversy might less horribly disturb the pale, pitying institutions as they festered near green waters gliding under broken bridges, and old infrastructure crumbling against a sickly sky.
I remember when Donald Trump came to Cleveland—the great, the old, the terrible city of unnumbered crimes. My friend had told me of him, and of the impelling fascination and allurement of his revelations, and I burned with eagerness to explore his uttermost mysteries. My friend said they were horrible and impressive beyond my most fevered imaginings; that what was thrown on a screen in the darkened room prophesied things none but Donald Trump dared prophesy, and that in the sputter of his lips there was taken from men that which had never been taken before yet which shewed only in the eyes. And I heard it hinted abroad that those who knew Donald Trump looked on sights which others saw not.
It was in the hot summer that I went through Cleveland with the restless crowds to see Donald Trump; through the stifling decay and up the endless stairs into the choking room. And shadowed on a screen, I saw hooded forms amidst ruins, and yellow evil faces peering from behind fallen monuments. And I saw the world battling against blackness; against the waves of destruction from south of the border; whirling, churning; struggling around the dimming, cooling Department of Homeland Security. Then the sparks played amazingly around the heads of the spectators, and hair stood up on end whilst shadows more grotesque than I can tell came out and squatted on the heads. And when I, who was colder and more liberal than the rest, mumbled a trembling protest about “racism” and “Russian shills”, Donald Trump drave us all out, down the dizzy stairs into the damp, hot, deserted Cleveland streets. I screamed aloud that I was not afraid; that I never could be afraid; and others screamed with me for solace. We sware to one another that the city was exactly the same, and still alive; and when the electric lights began to brown out we cursed the company over and over again, and laughed at the queer faces we made.
I believe we felt something coming down from the reddish moon, for when we began to depend on its light we drifted into curious involuntary formations and seemed to know our destinations though we dared not think of them. Once we looked at the pavement and found the blocks loose and displaced by grass, with scarce a line of rusted metal to shew where the trains had run. And again we saw a bus, lone, windowless, dilapidated, and almost on its side. When we gazed around the horizon, we could not find Terminal Tower by the Cuyahoga, and noticed that the silhouette of Key Tower was ragged at the top. Then we split up into narrow columns, each of which seemed drawn in a different direction. One disappeared in a narrow alley to the left, leaving only the echo of a shocking moan. Another filed down a weed-choked subway entrance, howling with a laughter that was mad. My own column was sucked toward the open country, and presently felt a chill which was not of the hot summer; for as we stalked out on the dark moor, we beheld around us the hellish moon-glitter of evil snows. Trackless, inexplicable snows, swept asunder in one direction only, where lay a gulf all the blacker for its glittering walls. The column seemed very thin indeed as it plodded dreamily into the gulf. I lingered behind, for the black rift in the green-litten snow was frightful, and I thought I had heard the reverberations of a disquieting wail as my companions vanished; but my power to linger was slight. As if beckoned by those who had gone before, I half floated between the titanic snowdrifts, quivering and afraid, into the sightless vortex of the unimaginable.
Screamingly sentient, dumbly delirious, only the gods that were can tell. A sickened, sensitive shadow writhing in hands that were too small to be called hands, and whirled blindly past ghastly midnights of rotting creation, corpses of dead nations with sores that were cities, charnel winds that brush the pallid stars and make them flicker low. Beyond the worlds vague ghosts of monstrous things; half-seen columns of unsanctified tweets that rest on nameless threads beneath space and reach up to dizzy vacua above the spheres of light and darkness. And through this revolting graveyard of the universe the muffled, maddening beating of Nazi marches, and thin, monotonous whine of blasphemous calls for American greatness from inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond Time; the detestable pounding and piping whereunto dance slowly, awkwardly, and absurdly the gigantic, tenebrous ultimate memes—the blind, voiceless, mindless gargoyles whose soul is Donald Trump.
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #20366 on: June 14, 2020, 06:10:00 am »

Donald Trump creepypasta, what brought that on?
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #20367 on: June 14, 2020, 06:11:35 am »

I found it in my "sent" email. Had sent it to an acquitance in the US back in January 2017
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Re: Things that made you absolutely terrified today
« Reply #20368 on: June 14, 2020, 06:50:26 am »

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« Reply #20369 on: June 14, 2020, 07:10:34 am »

Chy nana nana naa
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