Succumbing To Propoganda, Re-entering My Kirby Era, Designing New Gijinkas.

Succumbing to propoganda, re-entering my Kirby era, designing new gijinkas.

After some careful consideration, I’ve decided that yes, it is time to be cringe on main.

He looks like he’s about to sell me car insurance <3

Norman 🫶

What are your LEAST favourite analog horror series and tropes?

I can’t stand EAS scenarios, sticking to one format and synthetic voices.

They can be used well, sure.

But only if done well or sparingly

Thank you for the ask.

There’s one big thing that always irritates me in analog horror, and it’s when they throw in some random awful event just to try to make it creepier. It doesn’t advance the story, it doesn’t add to the lore, it’s not something well made or interesting or unique. They just add something awful to make you uncomfortable because they can’t make real horror.

It’s why I could never really get into the painter. It’s just kinda dull. It’s the same format over and over with a few weird pictures and some text thats like “this person was alive when they got stabbed in the face. That would suck huh” like ok, cool, I guess it would.

There’s no element of real story, it’s not building up to anything. I’m not watching the next video thinking it’s going to be even better than the last one. The only thing keeping you watching is the hope that eventually they’ll show you something weird. I can’t get into an analog horror series where the only point of interest is “hey, isn’t this fucked up?”.

They really just spoon feed you the horror. Urban spook has never heard of show don’t tell.

Reading this back I guess that’s more two things.

My least favourite tropes in analog horror are shock for the sake of shock and explaining why something is scary.

Other than that I’d say I like most of the other tropes, even if they might be overused. Things like synthetic voices and EAS scenarios were always things I myself liked, although I get why they’d get annoying over time.

As for my least favourite series, I think you could figure it out from what I already wrote lol.

i really love the nuance and bleeding of lines between the fears in tma and i don't think people talk enough about it. like, the vast and the buried can't exist without eachother, which you might think would make them opposites, but they are so close to eachother, the prime example being the ocean. and the similarities between the spiral, web, and stranger are fun to think about, like, the way they fuck with your reality and perception and everything. then we obviously have the similarities of the eye and the web with information gathering. the vast and the lonely are actually pretty connected because if you think about it, you feel the most lonely in a big open space with no one around. the corruption and the buried, bugs live underground. corruption and web, connectedness. there's so many connections you can draw it's great! and let's not forget about the one that presides over most of the others, the end. it looms over almost every fear, it's so cool!!

It really is so cool. I love the idea of all these other worldly fear powers that are so incredibly different being so alike. I love that they all need each other to exist, and no matter how different they all are.

Trying to make up for a severe lack of memes in the analog horror community.

hope you get well soon. here’s a house inspired by the one in howls moving castle (a little smaller though i don’t have the patience for a big one lol)

Thank you! I love the drawing! It reminds me of what fish looked like when they first started evolving legs and walking on legs. To clarify, I mean that entirely as a compliment.