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21 ✧˖°She/he/they°˖✧ Regresses between 12-15 READ PINNED POST

[crabcakes83]

This is my TeenRe nostalgia blog *ヽ(◕ヮ◕ヽ)

Ill largely be focused on the years 2012-2015, but ive always loved things that were retro so party of my aesthetic can be far older than that

This blog is for me when I'm regressed from 12-15

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This blog is SFW, but isn't appropriate for everyone.

- Some of my interests include Horror, Call of Duty, and and other scary/violent content.

Feel free to reach out! I'd love to make friends with other middles or be a big sibby for others!

- I cuss when im feeling on the bigger side

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[sisterlucifergraphics]

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[crabcakes83]

These are so cool! Ill definately be using these in my Horrorland reviews 💚💜

[soulspark]

[crabcakes83]

Happy birthday girl

[crabcakes83]

Alright, this is the first one I didnt really mess with. Creep from the Deep had its problems, but this book just didnt feel like it worked. Spoilers below

Im not a fan of anything that ends with "it was all a dream", "it was a simulation", or "It was all preordained and free will isnt real". This story jubilently proclaims that to you in chapter 1. The first 2 chapters are completely fictional, and because you expect the rule of 3, the story goes exactly where you think it would. At the very end its confirmed it was all a story Robby wrote and the crowd goes mild.

I love superheroes, and I really liked The Masked Mutant, but this story just didnt hit the same. For one, Dr. Maniac is just alright. He just kinda does silly evil things that feel kinda whatever. Like asking people to eat squirrels or forcing kids to ice skate. Its just whatever to me. The Anti-Hero, the Purple Rage, on the other hand I really liked. Hes a fun parody of the Hulk who gets really angry about the most mundane of things. At one point he proclaims that children falling off of buildings are his biggest pet peeve and like- who has enough experience with that to have a fully formed opinion. Him i guess lol. He just casually goes on a talk show and acknowledges the fact that he should be fictional. The middle part of the book with him is definately the best part.

The ending just kinda had me reading with a consistently confused look on my face. I get that its supposed to be nonsensical and over the top, but Robby's brother, who has built a mech suit to become Dr. Maniac, just keeps proclaiming that hes evil and never gives a reason why. Hes just evil now deal with it. And then Robby beats him by deleting the text on the script on a random computer that was being used to broadcast a bunch of kids ice skating. And then we smash cut to him being like "pretty neat story i just made up, right?"

The only real thing in the entire actual story is thst a jpeg of Dr. Maniac asks Robby to come to Horrorland. Which is such a lame thing to be the main antagonist's only actual action. This story has a lot of potential, but i just dont like the direction it chooses to take any of it.

Enter Horrorland

So this is where anything actual canon occurs, and its just Robby playing a vr game. Though I have to commend that the whole alternate timeline panic park stuff that gets introduced here is pretty interesting. Still, this whole book just generally left me feeling bummed. Lots of potential, but execution I just didnt like.

I also want to note here that all of the characters being the same age is starting to feel a bit off. I get that levels of maturity can very a bit, but some of these characters feel plain older than the others. Specifically Carly Beth and Matt feel like they could be 13 or 14. Especially Carly Beth, who was trusted to work a daycare practically solo. Meanwhile Billy and Robby feel more accurate as 12 year Olds. I honestly dont know why every protag had to be 12. Billys little sister is there, and is one of the special guests, so its not like them being specifically 12 is likely to be a plot point. Just an observation I had

[littlebouncybunnie]

Gosh I wish I had other regressor friends and we could have a sleep over

Middles and teen regressors could play video games, we'd watch scary movies (or cute vampire movies 👀), we'd do each other's hair and makeup. Obviously the boys dont have to, but you'd be welcome to join in if you wanted to

We could stay up late and make snacks and talk and play games

it would be so fun

[crabcakes83]

Make friendship bracelets? Build a pillow fort? Read scary stories online!? Sounds like so much fun!

[crabcakes83]

I know the haunted mask is one of the all time goats, but its never really been one of my top ones. Its good and iconic, but I dunno, it just never stuck out to me as the scariest or most intriguing one in the way it did to others. I should say, Ive never read the book itself. Only seen the episode, so that might had a lot to do with it.

Either way, my synopsis is that this one's alright, but feels kinda padded. There are things I liked, but by the end I was kinda just nodding along. As always spoilers below.

The buildup to the climax here is really good. Carly has the mask stolen, she learns of the legends of the horse stable, and they set up all the characters. I thought it was cool how the mask shop owner isn't really an active role. He shows up to be ominous about fate and then fades away.

I also did like the characters overall! While her friend i cant remember the name of was kinda forgettable, Carly Beth gets to shine. Because of the original book she gets to have a pretty nuanced personality. Shes still a bit of a scaredy cat, but also sees the fun in scaring others now. Her undying love of horses, even in nonsensical situations like leaving food for dead horses, is cute. I also like the farm-hand's grandson, who catches so many strays. People are always calling him a ghost or blaming him for the anger in the haunted mask. But he just kinda remains cool for the whole book.

The climax is really where I started raising an eyebrow. One of the side characters is revealed to have been a ghost all along, without much foreshadowing I could find besides them being superstitious. And then Carly decides to put on the haunted mask for a Shonen anime power boost. And they dont really go out of their way to make the mask itself scary. Like yeah its a bad thing, but youre not dreading or anything. She does it as just the lesser of 2 evils. The actual ending, however, im in love with. As thanks for feeding dead horses, a stampede of ghost horse appear and nuzzle Carly Beth, an act of love so pure that it lets her take off the mask. Genuinely a great ending to the story. Still, the ghost just doesnt really satisfy the need for an antagonist, and is introduced far too late to be super compelling.

All together this ones just a solid entry. Not leading the pack, but certainly not a bad story.

Enter Horroland

Okay fine, im still doing Horroland segments. But my main focus is to complain that Carly brings Sabrina along. Shes such an uninteresting addition to the party, and later on, much more interesting characters from other books are denied a spot. I guess you cant have too many actual main personalities, but then I ask why bring any side characters at all? Otherwise, another run of the mill horrorland segment. Worth reading for the overarching story, but nothing exciting in itself.

[crabcakes83]

Once again, the big spoilers and details below. After some time, monster blood for breakfast is easily my favorite book in the series so far. And im getting pretty deep in now. Fun characters and an interesting climax.

Monster Blood has always been a high ranking recurring villain to me. I find things that can grow exponentially kinda creepy in general, but still pretty cool in concept. This book does it real justice! Especially since, unlike 3 of the 5 monster blood books, the cover doesnt completely spoil where the story goes. The first half really makes you think that its just going to be stopping it from growing too big. Then they make you think the annoying kid who bought the stuff is gonna eat it. And then they do the final switch that the protag accidentally ate it. Having the protag be the one uncontrollably growing genuinely suprised me. It made for surprisingly good body horror.

I kinda loved the characters. Matt was a really relatable protagonist who had to deal with the most annoying person on earth, Bradley, who properly functions as a secondary antagonist. Like- the monster is the blood, but it doesnt really have much agency of its own, so introducing someone who can push the story forward was really useful. With how he constantly screws over Matt, you really wanna see him get what's coming to him.

Also, this book has 2 of my favorite side characters in any of these books. The goons. Theres these 2 shady guys in trench coats who keep bugging Matt about the thing he ordered online, and theyre the most classic mafia tall guy short guy dynamic imaginable. You think theyre gonna be integral to the plot, but right before the end when everything is at its worst theyre just like "woah, we got no idea what a monster blood is. Were here to collect for a recall on some other thing. Good luck with whatever you got going on tho" and then they fully dissappear. Truly a masterclass in creating tension with no intent to pay off anything.

So, I experienced most of this book as an audiobook when I couldn't fall asleep one night, and it was certainly interesting. The voices were honestly really good, especially Bradley. They made him sufficiently annoying to listen too, but not actually annoying enough to bother me. What did take me out of the story was the way they tried to convey Matt's keeping voice as he grew. Instead of the author dropping his voice to a more normal adult level, he started doing what I can only describe as a cookie monster impression? Or a really bad heavy from tf2? Which was kinda funny, but quickly just became distracting. I dont think it hampered my enjoyment, especially because I got to hear what the goons sounded like. It was exactly what I expected.

The ending was the only part I really didnt like. After sneaking back home as a giant, Matt gets Bradley to help him by looking at the instructions that came with the monster blood, but they dont find anything. And then, at the last second before the cops show up (because why wouldnt they) it just wears off. It was a sample size that didnt last as long as the real thing. And thats kinda it. If the characters took literally no actions things would have ended exactly the same. Matt didnt even eat all the monster blood, just a little glob. There was a whole duffle bag full of it. But I guess it just shriveled up after the trial was done? The most satisfying part was the ending stinger, where Bradley uses the mosnter blood to make a plant giant to cheat at the science fair. When Matt notices its sentient and presumably evil he just doesnt care, and since seemingly Bradley wasnt invited to horrorland with him, I'm just gonna assume it ate him. Joking aside, it was nice to see Matt, who was kinda a pushover the whole book, get back at Bradley for everything.

Really good story that did the best at giving the original a new twist. Probably my favoeite out of horrorland so far, and the entire Monster Blood saga.

Enter Horrorland

Man I really might stop reviewing these, because its the third one and I already dont have much to say. At the end of the last one Billy's sister just became invisible, so thats kinda the focus of this one. Im not bored while reading them, but theres just not that much to talk about. I enjoy how anti cop the kids are. As as they see horrors dressed as cops they know that theyre not to be trusted lol. Thats about it. Maybe ill do one review of all the horrorland segments before I read the last 2 books.

[crabcakes83]

Anyone else get sticker paralysis? Like, I loooove stickers but then I dont wanna put them on things because then its permanent! I should get a plastic or cardboard rectangle and just cover it!!!!

[crabcakes83]

I guess this is gonna goosebumps reviewing blog for a bit. Ive read a few more and havent written reviews so I might spam them a little bit. But theyre cool so I dont care. Again, big spoilers below

Sometimes goosebumps kinda drops its horror angle and just becomes fantasy adventure. This is one of those. The title, Creep from the Deep, made me think it might have something to do with either one of my favorite 2 originals, Deep Trouble and Calling all Creeps. Sadly it didnt really have anything to do with either.

I honestly cant say I loved this one. It wasnt bad, but a few things didnt fully work with me. I really liked his crazy imagination in concept, and often its put to good use. It allows the narration to embellish and then backtrack in a way that feels more natural. The book isnt lying to us, Billy is just an unreliable narrator for the moment. My issue comes with his superhero fantasy. Every so often there will be a third person sentence of Billy gloating about how cool his superhero identity is, but it never changes anything. He doesnt act brave or reckless because of this fantasy or anything, he doesnt act like he believes these stories even a little bit. Hes a pretty normal kid despite the narration implying hes more of an oddball.

The villains were also a little off. Most Goosebumps books have a quirky or weird villain. Even when it does traditional monsters it usually puts a twist on them. But the villains of this are just evil skeletons. Ghost pirates who want treasure. The entire book is the protags doing a fetch quest for the pirate captain to get their uncle back. When they do what he wants he says "Actually I love lying so much that I wont give him back", and then they throw a peice of wood at him and he instantly dies. The villains just arent a threat to anyone and arent super funny or memorable either.

I asked myself "what is even happening" multiple times while reading because things just kinda occur for the sake of adding excitment or somwthing kinda scary to the story. I didnt dislike it, but definately not my favorite.

Enter Horrorland

Its cute how the new book narrator has to do all the voices of the previous protags. You can tell theyre trying. Anyways this part was kinda meh. After going on a ride, the old protags go missing, and our new ones act really worried for a chapter and then immediately forget. They frantically search the park until they get distracted by ice cream and arcade games and then just forget to care. I get that they want to have it feel like theyre in a theme park, but it just felt odd. Final thing, it was cool how the next books protag was introduced here. You go into monster blood kinda already liking Matt because of it. Not bad but just kinda okay.

[crabcakes83]

Lets go to the arcade!

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I've been reading through horrorland again and have been thoroughly enjoying it. Book review below. Because I wanna talk about these books. Readers beware youre in for uuuuh spoilers...

Im only 3 books in right now, but I think this has been my favorite. Its classic Goosebumps stuff. Annoying younger kid, oblivious parents, and a good twist. A really strong start.

Britanny is probably the most relatable protagonist so far. Some of the other protagonist have been given gimmicks, but Britanny is just a normal person who likes painting. She genuinely tries to be nice to her demon of a cousin. Her best friend Molly is allowed to be mean to him, which is pretty cathartic.

I really liked the twist that Slappy wasn't alive until near the end. Ethan consistently acts scared around the dummy, but still brings him everywhere. And you can genuinely suspend your disbelief to think that hes a kid whos so scared he does whatever slappy says. It feels logical when the girls read the words thst can bring him to life thinking it'll put him back to sleep. A lot of the time in these books the characters make some pretty boneheaded decisions, which doesnt always take me out of the story, but its appreciated when It doesnt happen. Also that they dont defeat him by saying the words again! They bring in the mind stealer doll, who was basically fake out from earlier in the book, to beat him.

As a kid I never read all of these books. I had a lot of the original series, and only read a handful of the horrorland ones, but its kinda cool reading them now. The characters have phones and have acess to the internet, and actually use them when applicable! Goosebumps being aggressively 90s was never a problem, but I can appreciate it being super 2000s as well.

Enter Horrorland:

Okay, last the Horrorland segment. And I gotta be honest, I think these are going to be consistently my least favorite parts of these books. I love horrorland and theme parks in general, but by the third book these parts seem to always follow the same pattern. Every scary thing that happens is usually a complete fake-out. And even when they dont immediately tell you its fake, I'm all too aware that we have another 10 books to go, so nothing important is going to happen until the other 70% of the characters will be introduced. Im still reading them, because I like these characters, but they drag a little.

Okay thats was my rambles! Ill probably keep reviewing these as I read em! Buh bye 👋 ✌️

[crabcakes83]

Im glad we have a better idea of how things really were, but sometimes its fun to look back at how fantastical we made it out to be. Also Ive been real into trading card scans recently

Spinosaurus

Spinosaurus wasn't your typical predator from the age of dinosaurs. A tall sail on this creature's back looks like it belongs on a plant-eat

[voidvinn]

played fnaf 3 on my crt and it’s the coolest and most horrifying thing imaginable

[crabcakes83]

A good time to wanna be special

[slimechuu]

[crabcakes83]

Who wants to go to an abandoned building and scream at the top of their lungs with me?

[crabcakes83]

I know we're well past halloween but I dont care. Im still thinking about horror so much. These are some images that always really stuck with me. Not all of them are iconic, but they are in my mind.

I might be making a third horror mood board because my brain is a full week behind.