[ SECRET POST #2605 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2605 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Slenderman]


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03.
[Saints Row 3]


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04.
[Doctor Who]


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05.
[Welcome to Night Vale, My Mad Fat Diary]


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06.
[The Middle]


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07.
[Steven Universe]


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08.
[Kyuhyun and Seohyun]


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09.
[Disney]


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10.
[Teen Wolf]


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11.
[Thor: Dark World]


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12.
[The Avengers/Clark Gregg]


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13.
[Teen Wolf]


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14.
[Hannibal]


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15.
[Fate/Stay Night]















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 036 secrets from Secret Submission Post #372.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

02. http://i.imgur.com/OUjJHtM.jpg
[Slenderman]

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't think anyone found him scary. He seemed more like a joke like Jeff the Killer than a well written character that inspires real fear.

[kaijinscendre]

Because Slenderman is less likely than all those other horror monsters (werewolves, vampires, Jason, random groups of evil children, ghosts, snake monster).

[(Anonymous)]

All of those things are totally real, what are you talking about? Especially the random groups of evil children.

[(Anonymous)]

"random groups of evil children"

You obviously don't work in early childhood education. Some of those little bastards are evil and God forbid they find one like them, they will team up.

I knew a four year old who regularly punched people for no reason and he also poisoned the class fish.

[morieris]

Doesn't he just...stand in the forest dressed nicely? and without a face? I admit I'm not familiar with the mythos because I am a chicken and don't like reading creepypastas.

[misslucyjane]

He also kidnaps children and kills people, and possibly eats them. There's a theory that his mythos was inspired by Germanic forest gods, that people would make sacrifices to back in the day.

[dinogrrl]

I've never gotten it either. I just shrug it off and move on.

[forgottenjester]

He couldn't really happen because he's... not... real. Does your confusion also extend to ghosts and zombies? Because that's the same thing really.

Also unicorns. They're scary as shit and thankfully not real.

I mean, it's fine to not be afraid of things that aren't real. Goodness knows there are far more scary real things, like taxes and armed gunmen. However, people who do fear the unreal, the untrue, aren't faking it. They just have different fears.

Also, at least for me, it's nice to be scared by something I know logically can't happen. That makes if safe, in a way. I can have my fear in the moment but when I want to go to sleep at night I'm not going to be kept up worrying.

[cassandraoftroy]

I assumed OP meant they found it implausible, and thus weren't scared by it, while they might be scared of something they knew wasn't real but had more verisimilitude or was less ridiculous. Which I get -- there are some not-real things that I find too nonsensical to be scared of, and some that seem plausible enough that no amount of rationally knowing they don't exist will help.

[(Anonymous)]

You're afraid of unicorns?

[(Anonymous)]

You should check out Diana Peterfreund's Killer Unicorns series! It's not exactly what you described, but unicorns are straight-up murderous and the only people who can hunt them are virgins.

[(Anonymous)]

Unicorns probably would fucking gore you, thinking you're after their horn or some magic shit, when you're just minding your own business, trying to go on a nice walk.

Fucking asshole horses.

[dethtoll]

I don't really get the Slenderman shit either.

I might be too old, and played too many scary games over the years. (Silent Hill, Thief, System Shock, the first Dead Space, Afraid of Monsters/Cry of Fear, the original Siren, the first and third Stalker games, FEAR 2, Out of Hell, Alien vs Predator 1 and 2, Doom 64, the list goes on...) But at this point I'm pretty completely inured to horror. In a way, that's probably why I've stopped caring about them.

Then I played Dark Souls. I've never been filled with such dread since I played the original Silent Hill fifteen years ago.

[skeletal_history]

He's an urban myth that was manufactured by the Something Awful forums. Why would anyone find him legitimately scary?

[(Anonymous)]

Feeling like they're exaggerating for effect. That's it exactly, that's how I've been feeling about the Slenderman thing. Well put, anon.

[nightscale]

I found Slenderman scary when I first read about it but I don't anymore, I think I desensitized myself to it.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes. THANK YOU OP. What is it with Slenderman? I was reading stuff about him the other week (looking for a good scare) and this was so highly rated I had to check it out. Where's the scary?

[(Anonymous)]

The initial fear, I think, was mostly a play on paedophilia (Slenderman used to abduct children only, before it got later changed to him going after adults). I like the Slenderman mythos, but I don't find it scary either. Just fun to read about/play/watch stuff with him.

Creepypasta Recs?

[(Anonymous)]

Since we're talking about a figure from one anyway, I think this would be a great time for some to share their favorites.

[diet_poison]

I didn't think the horror factor had to do with any kind of "reality" possibility.

[(Anonymous)]

Slenderman is creepy to me because he hits directly in the midst of Uncanny Valley for me. I also find mannequins creepy. This is actually a common thing, and he plays off that.

[darkmanifest]

It may be that I'm such a chicken that I even find the secret picture scary, but to me the horror of Slenderman is the face - or lack of the same. In a lot of scary stories, the key aspect of the monster is that it's very humanoid, only deeply, tragically wrong in some way. It's the uncanny valley rule, and the last time somebody posted a secret about Slenderman, somebody wrote an interesting analysis about the human psyche's thing with faces and how many of us are discomfited when they're unnaturally fucked up somehow.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I think Slenderman is a mix of a few tropes that are scary. One person in this thread has said it's an Uncanny Valley thing.

I also think a big part of it is that he's a stalker character - he follows people around, just disturbing them with his mere presence.

I've never watched any of the vlog series about him, but I got the impression from my research into the that the basis of them is that they start out relatively innocent until later, when the characters are reviewing of the videos, they start spotting this strange figure that keeps popping up.

It's all a fear of stalkers, particularly murderous stalkers. Everything else - the tall thin figure, the blank face, all the supernatural elements, those are just trappings for what is basically a fear of stalkers.

[(Anonymous)]

I have an overactive imagination and am pessimistic enough to convince myself if I don't maintain a respectful amount of fear to folklore, that'll be the one thing that comes back to bite me in the ass, ends up being real, and leads to my demise.