Post AppDLxgMXNPF6bLUci by iris@neuromatch.social
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(DIR) Post #AppCOxigkpkO8WIhOK by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-07T02:29:06Z
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So, for reasons I can't fully justify I follow a lot of rather "young" horror content. I just love a good spoopy story I guess. But, I also like to get a sense of what "kids these days" think is scary. Most of it is what you'd think: blood and guts, shadow people, etc. HOWEVER a big component of modern horror is "threats to mental health" this is how they put it in the stories "staying in this place will destroy your mental health." or "it's so empty and eerie you'll loose mental health"
(DIR) Post #AppCdNssGz5tKzwSO0 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-07T02:31:42Z
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The horror in, this case, isn't as much about a "raving madman" (and found in much older horror, often with little sensitivity for anyone whose struggles might be conflated with the character.)No, this is about the fear of having a mental health crisis, as is becoming too depressed to go on.IDK I find it interesting.
(DIR) Post #AppCeTRF6jOaqzXLl2 by waitworry@sakurajima.moe
2025-01-07T02:31:54Z
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@futurebird this seems like the less problematic version of being driven to madness by things man was not meant to know
(DIR) Post #AppCscbrnzzZLuFiZk by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-07T02:34:28Z
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What I found scary at their age was "but who was phone???"
(DIR) Post #AppD8wXFUTbvmdsJsW by nev@bananachips.club
2025-01-07T02:36:54Z
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@futurebird lmaooooo
(DIR) Post #AppDAEKaoN1PGYZLG4 by nev@bananachips.club
2025-01-07T02:37:27Z
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@futurebird no doubt rooted in cosmic horror!
(DIR) Post #AppDLxgMXNPF6bLUci by iris@neuromatch.social
2025-01-07T02:39:40Z
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@futurebird I don't read horror per se but that's also a theme I've found fascinating. There's a whole subset of anime that focuses there, that I watched as a teen, so it'll be dated now but they handled some topics impressively well. NGE set a high bar early on.
(DIR) Post #AppDeH8yuzhCg2SsJE by mattmcirvin@mathstodon.xyz
2025-01-07T02:42:57Z
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@futurebird Maybe the ending where someone "goes mad" from experiencing the impossible scary thing in the old Lovecraft and Edmond Hamilton type stories was really the same fear, enhanced by the extreme social stigma associated with mental illness at the time--if you had a visible mental health crisis you might just end up locked away in an attic and not allowed to show your face in public any more; end of story.
(DIR) Post #AppDvrFNwMTdZXqNcW by 3TomatoesShort@disabled.social
2025-01-07T02:46:12Z
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@futurebirdReminds me of the Metallica lyric: "Old habits reappear, fighting the fear of fear". Never seen anything else that so succinctly sums up the feeling of having had mental health issues and losing the ability to take functional mental health for granted from that point on.Smart kids.
(DIR) Post #AppHMNY4laNP93vM2a by VampiresAndRobots@writing.exchange
2025-01-07T03:24:37Z
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@futurebird and a skeleton popped out! But seriously, I completely understand the mental health crisis horror. And it's not really new, is it? The Yellow Wallpaper comes to mind.
(DIR) Post #AppHWu0evqeCiWJO76 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-07T03:26:34Z
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@VampiresAndRobots oh no he's just bones!
(DIR) Post #ApqDCTzHlbUTYodXhg by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-01-07T14:12:45Z
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@futurebird is this just a modern re-wording of the old, old horror trope of "things which drive the mind to madness"?
(DIR) Post #ApqDSjNYJGF9vgjdpo by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-01-07T14:15:41Z
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@futurebird my apologies for not reading the whole thread before asking about exactly this.