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hello my loves <3 do not ever, ever, ever "officially" create for an IP that you have not signed a vetted contract to be paid for. this is a tactic companies use to get a free writer's room they don't have to pay for. you won't see a cent and they will own your work. don't do it.
Similar has been tried before and it crashed and burned. It is a scam. It may not seem like a scam, especially if it manages to sucker in a few big name folks, but it is a scam nonetheless. Do not fall for it.
The good news: you get to pick your new soulmate! (You can define "soulmate" however you want: platonic/romantic/partners in crime/etc. But they will be in your life, constantly.)
The bad news: you don't get to pick where they come from.
Spin this wheel until you get a fandom with characters that you recognize. As soon as you do, stop. One of those people* is going to be a constant presence in your life, whether you like it or not. So choose wisely.
*broadly defined
it really is crazy how quickly people were willing to just let chatgpt do everything for them. i have never even tried it. brother i don't even know if it's just a website you go to or what. i do not know where chatgpt actually lives, because i can decide my own grocery list.
i wisely turned off the notes on this when it was at 700 but oh my god stop telling me what you "just" use it for in the notes shut the fuck up shut the fuck up I AM NOT A CATHOLIC PRIEST, I DO NOT ABSOLVE YOU. WRITE YOUR OWN EMAILS.
It's hard to pinpoint my EXACT first experience with not-Goosebumps horror, but I believe it may have been Clock Tower- a 1995 game that is, incidentally, known as the pioneer of the survival horror genre. It's pixel art, so no gore, and there's no sexual shock value, either.
If you think you can handle something a tiny bit gorier, I recommend Witch's House. The horror genre had (probably still does) a super neat community that made their own games with a tool called RPG Maker. Witch's House began as one of these horror RPG Maker games! A bigger publisher helped them remake and polish it sometime within the last five years. If you don't think you can do gore at all, find the original- there's blood and violence but it cuts out before you see anything gorey. If you think you can handle a little, the recent version has some gorgeous pixel art to gawk at.
I will slap a content warning on this one though for an ending you may not enjoy. If you don't do endings that aren't happy, don't look at this one.
Both of these games involve teenager girls dungeon crawling their way through spooky old houses by solving weird logic puzzles. In Clock Tower, there's multiple endings depending on a number of factors, and you'll get one half of the story for two of the different routes you can take!
In Witch's House there is only one true ending that you do have to do something special to unlock. I... admit I forgot what it is, though.
Watching a youtube playthrough is a perfectly acceptable decision, too. In fact I recommend that. If something is too much for you, you can tap out, then.
Horror is a deeply fascinating genre to me, a very unique way to explore the human condition, and if you decide to give it a try, I hope you can find something in it, too!
Oh hey! I think I actually watched a review of Clocktower once, a long time ago, by a youtuber I'll not name (at least, I think it was Clocktower). Regardless, I have heard good things about it, and I would like to at least watch a playthrough of it!
As for the Witch's House, I did watch Markiplier play it YEARS ago (along with Ib and the other one... about a hospital?). It really is fantastic, even with that awful ending. I remember I went and found the supplemental reading too, the witch's diary or something, but it was one of those things that gave me bad vibes and I felt super unsettled after reading it for some reason.
One way I actually can manage horror media is through the filter of watching someone like Mark play it, haha. Sometimes something he plays is intriguing enough for me to try it myself, like Slay the Princess, which can get pretty heavy on the mutilation and body horror but I did all right with it. I tend to do better with things without sound, like comics or books.
The darkest movies I've been able to stand are probably Pan's Labyrinth (barring one scene I was warned about) and Crimson Peak. Both of those were really good, especially Pan's Labyrinth
Imagine you're a big wrestling fan. You follow this one really dominant wrestler and you absolutely love her. You keep up with all the drama and you're super invested until one week there's just Bomb after Bomb.
First your fave dominates an event - duh, obviously, she's the best. Then during the part of the show where the announcer is like "anybody in the audience want to challenge her for a fat stack of cash", somebody actually does. (Obviously a tourist.) It's some kid wearing like a beginner outfit from a McDojo... and he actually wins?And gets the cash! And then the event just ends!?
You're buzzing. It's clear that this is like a storyline or something. You can't wait for next week's show. Except that there isn't one, because - as you find out through the gossip mill - your fave was actually the local billionaires' daughter who was competing in secret. And also kayfabe might not exist. And now she's gone and the billionaire is blaming a demigod (who's back from the dead? I guess?) for kidnapping her.
So, how come that means no show this week or possibly ever? Well, the billionaire hired the promoter (and a random McDojo sensei) to go after the demigod to get back his daughter (your fave wrestler!) and the guy just... packed up his entire promotion and left.
Some months later the war that's been going on since your great-grandfathers days ends. You go to a peace parade. And there she is: Toph Beifong, the Blind Bandit, giving the new Fire Lord a noogie.
Insane fucking storyline.
