It is VERY upsetting.

The Corinthian he/him, it/its nightmare & serial killer primarily comics & hc based, with inspiration taken from the show ______________ written by the Wilds system late 20s, they/it collective pronouns icon by the wonderful harveydont . header by ketavinsky. ______________

[nightmarecountry]

indie rp blog for sandman's the corinthian. 21+ only, multiverse, crossover, and OC friendly. largely based on the comics and personal interpretation, with a lot of influence from the audiobook and tv show - show-only muses are more than welcome. this blog carries a general content warning for a lot of dark themes typical of what you might expect from a fictional serial killer; tread lightly.

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written by wilds. 🕶️🔪

[nightmarecountry]

"There's nothing wrong with you. Nothing at all." [ & now earnestly sincere ]

For a moment, it was as if they'd offended him, the way his lip curled and his brow furrowed--but then the expression smoothed out, grey eyes averting from hers, and Alex only laughed. Disbelief edged its way into his voice.

"... You're certainly the first person to say that."

[nightmarecountry]

"Do you think you deserved to be loved?" [ valentina pulling out the suckerpunches today,,, unintentionally ofc ]

"No," he says flatly, forearm thrown over his eyes. "But that isn't the point. The point isn't that he didn't love me, it's that he couldn't. He wasn't built for it any more than I was... am? Whatever. It doesn't matter. I can't explain it in a way you'd understand."

He's lying on what used to be his and Sila's couch, now just his, skin crawling with the awareness of another person in the grimy, sparse space. The apartment has stopped smelling like Sila and the little money he left behind hasn't stretched far. At some point the landlord will realise Alex isn't going to pay their already-late rent and from there--he isn't sure. Maybe he'll go back to the Dreaming. What else is there? The Waking has lost much of its charm in the wake of Sila's passing.

The offer will be there when you're ready, the raven had said. It will not expire.

He sits up, reaches automatically for the dark shades folded on the end table by the couch arm. He doesn't need them to blend in anymore--if anything, they make him stand out--but being seen without them makes him anxious. Anxious. Nothing has made him so keenly aware that he's no longer a nightmare than the way his body responds to almost everything now with a vague sense of nausea and unrest.

"It's... complicated," he adds reluctantly, glancing at Valentina. Understatement of the fucking century. "He's not my father, he just... raised... me."

[crownmemes]

Psychology Sentences, Vol. 7

(Sentences for interactions with therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists - or even just friends supporting each other. Adjust phrasing where needed)

"You deal with your past, or you get trapped by it."

"How happy are you?"

"Didn't you like your childhood?"

"Good has never been an absolute."

"It's not like there's a borderline between the good people and the bad people. You're not on one side or the other."

"Do you understand that you can't do this alone?"

"Aren't you supposed to ask me some questions?"

"This anger that I'm picking up on - this lack of control - what if it's all projection?"

"Let's not pretend it's been a normal day."

"Why are you so hesitant to discuss this?"

"You know me; I'll be fine. I'm always fine."

"How is it you're supposed to actually be helping me?"

"You've changed. You've transformed fear into anger."

"I had an accident a while ago. That kind of changed things for me."

"You don't say much, but you have an unquiet mind."

"Do you think you deserved to be loved?"

"I'm not certain I can feel anger anymore. I'm not certain I can feel anything."

"Why are you different?"

"May I ask you a personal question?"

"I should have known you wouldn't understand."

"It's called avoidance. You're giving me the least amount of information possible in response to each question."

"It's not a weakness to need people, you know."

"Your anger rules you. You must learn to master your emotions."

"Something dark is growing inside me."

"You don't have to do this anymore. You've already proven how tough you are."

"They talk about the five stages of grief. I think that's a myth. I think there are dozens."

"In the few jerky seconds of sleep I do get, all I see is dark swarming behind my eyelids."

"Have you ever felt alone?"

"I went back to work too soon. I thought it would help me, but now I'm not too sure."

[crownmemes]

Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities Sentences

(Sentences from Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities (2022) and related stories. Adjust phrasing where needed)

"If anything not from the natural world is found on the other side of this threshold, I have one piece of advice for you: do not make eye contact with it, do not speak with it."

"You have no idea what you've awakened!"

"This is one of those nightmare specials. The kind you never get to the bottom of."

"If anything happens - anything at all - don't do anything. Just observe, okay?"

"Why are you doing this?"

"I am quite more familiar with your physiology than even you."

"You really don't see it, do you? You're jealous!"

"There's nothing wrong with you. Nothing at all."

"If there's something wrong with you, then there's something wrong with me too."

"You don't need to be fixed."

"What the fuck? You stabbed me in the face!"

"So, do you do this kind of thing a lot? Haunt cemeteries in the dead of night?"

"You were rude tonight. I was embarrassed."

"I promised you I'd protect you. You remember that, don't you?"

"You're telling me that you put an unknown chemical from an unknown gentleman into your body? Have you gone mad?"

"For the dead to become flesh, the living must die."

"What demons have you been conjuring?"

"The world will never know what we went through last night."

"I am not going to let temptation to get the better of me."

"Did you not hear it?"

"Is it so wrong to read a dead person's letters?"

"You have a scientist's brain. Since when have you relied on feeling in place of facts?"

"How am I ever supposed to help you if you never tell me anything?"

[nightmarecountry]

had a bizarre dream that involved a lot of different things but the key part is that corinth 2.0 met a weird. guy. in it. who was a) some kind of magic user/sorceror/vampire/SOMETHING??? and b) domming the hell out of him (mostly non-sexually but there were Moments) and now i'm like. OC? OC?????

[plutomused]

you are made of infinite complexity- of stardust and galaxies born and died and born again. you are a mausoleum for all that ever was, and a stage for all that will ever be. you are stories untold and those already written; and in this dichotomy you are something more.

a participant in the divine act of creation.

#𝐏𝐋𝐔𝐓𝐎𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄𝐃 || 21+ | independent | fairly selective | multiverse | multiship & crossover friendly 𝐌𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐑𝐏 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐆 exploring the stars of multiple fandoms. Supplemented with a plethora of headcanons, armchair psychology, meta, && influences from various scifi & urban fantasy properties. 𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐈𝐓𝐘 will be irregular as well as 𝐋𝐎𝐖 & 𝐒𝐋𝐎𝐖~.

[cinememed]

₍ 🎞 ₎   the  great   (2020 – 2023)  rp  starters  ! featuring violence, explicit language & mature themes . some lines have been slightly adjusted for rp purposes .

if the crown fits ... take it.

i promised myself a great love. that didn’t work out. 

you fired something in me, and when i look at you now, i must have you again. 

i have carried a romantic idea of people all my life.

it was an act of love, not an act of betrayal.

i saw a great love as a kind of perfect love. maybe it's not.

you're delusional about people, about the world.

that is your great gift. but it's a curse as well.

we cannot change without cost, even if it is our own.

you are always seeking for me to look at reality. well, i am, and it's horrifying. 

it is a flaw for a leader to want love so much.

you don't believe in me. i've spent my life trying to get you to.. and you just don't.

the worst thing in life is to come up against your own limitations and stumble.

i can't stop loving you when you talk, it rushes me.

no morality, no philosophy, just win.

i think you have a large appetite that is not constrained by morality.

you are complicating me.

a great love, like a great country or a great leader even ... is a flawed one.

not as fun as me. because i am known for being fun.

it's .. close to enough.

you do this, and you can't come back. i mean it.

there are many versions of you, and you know i'm the only one who sees them all.

i never thought being doomed would feel so pleasant.

i am fucked. i have decided to embrace it.

sometimes you just take the next step and the path appears. 

i look at you ... and my heart breaks. for your pain. for your sorrows.

i will not live a powerless life.

i do not wish to avoid bloodshed. what part of that plan do you not understand?

sometimes i'm so clever, i have to take a breath not to become dizzy.

i think i was angry because no one has ever not liked me.

there is no other way. i am a prisoner here.

you think me more naive than i am.

we are always not quite as good as we wish.

i don't want to kill you. you're not a bad person.

i could kill you. you are a bad person.

you're so sweet sometimes, i could just kiss you on the nose.

people underestimate the joy in suffering.

it wasn't destiny that did it. i did it.

i'm not scared, and i'm not holding your hand.

you're lying, which is both out of character and really annoying.

i am as good as dead here. that's why i have nothing to lose.

i will not be at your, or anyone's whim.

i wondered what had happened to you! well, wondered might be too strong.

[nightmarecountry]

@pohlepen ok firstly HIIIII MWAH MWAH MWAH!!!

secondly YES. YES. i really feel like he watches frankie sleep a LOT. he probably did it even as alex if he couldn't sleep but once he's a nightmare again it's like. all the time. sometimes she'll have brief, weird bad dreams - not quite "nightmares", but just vaguely unpleasant - because of Corinth briefly passing through her sleeping mind to get to her in the Waking, and then she wakes up later and he's THERE! YAYYYY!

[nightmarecountry]

silly cidrinthian facts for today because i have no braincells and you will instead hear about my canon/oc ship:

cid occasionally calls him "blondie". mostly the second, affectionately, but he did occasionally call the first that in a more derogatory/annoyed manner.

corinth picks up cid's accent a little when they spend too much time together. with the second, it can sometimes sound like a little of his predecessor's accent is slipping through to the untrained ear, but if you listen closely you might notice that he lacks the first's characteristic "talking almost from the back of his mouth/through his teeth" kind of clenched quality to his voice.

(except, of course, for when the first IS coming through in his voice...)

cid steals things off of corinth's plate whenever they eat together, which is often. corinth1 used to take him to fancy restaurants just for the pleasure of watching him a) make a mess, and b) kill and eat everyone in the place afterwards. he was FASCINATED by cid's gluttony for violence and the way that it was a) so at odds with the rest of him, and b) a strange inversion of the way most creatures like cid tend to justify themselves. most of them go "it's a biological need, i HAVE to do this to eat :(" to justify gratuitous violence. cid, when they first met, was very much in denial of that and believed it was just a reflection of Him Being A Monster TM In More Ways Than One, rather than an actual physical condition. if that makes any sense.

cid will never admit to himself that he likes the second corinth better than the first, even if it takes him a long time to get there. the second corinth will never admit to cid that he misses the more unhinged, feral version of cid he remembers from his predecessor's memories.

[nightmarecountry]

one of these days i’m going to write about the sexual assault he experienced as alex and the ways that, once he was reinstated as a nightmare, he was able to connect that experience to what his predecessor had been doing. and how strange and messy it is because it affected him as a human in ways it doesn’t as a nightmare - but even then, it was not The Worst Thing That Could Ever Happen To A Person the way a lot of literature (and frankly, just society) depicts it. not for him. which doesn’t mean it wasn’t awful but i think his experience is/will be depicted a little differently from the usual. one day i am going to buck up and write it!

but not today.

[nightmarecountry]

I personally don’t see him as a canonical symbol of queer resistance given that he… I mean. The first one is a predator and arguably pedophile (some of his victims are 12-16, including one that he EXPLICITLY is described as having sex with), there’s nothing “queer resistance” about his rebellion, he just wants to eat boys and encourage people to kill people lmfao. Even the second one, except MAYBE in NC, is more just… idk, not that? Nothing in his narrative arc is really about “fuck you, I’m queer”. BUT I didnt wanna put that in the tags of someone else’s post, especially art, it’d be rude.

[smthwckd]

happy pride month and your yearly reminder that the corinthian has forever been canonically homosexual and a symbol of queer resistance 🫶

[aseaofquotes]

Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

[aldebarangel]

im an absolute fan of when characters have their own twisted perceptions of love. like holy shit that guy thinks inflicting pain is affection! woah this silly man believes love is a form of ownership! give me more.

[qingxn]

:)

"No, go away."

[nightmarecountry]

"What brings you here? I got the feeling you weren't ever coming back." jack hes never gonna leave you alone

"Mm. Plans fell through."

It crowds up against him, nosing at his neck. It's perfunctory, rote; the usual dance he goes through with his marks, a bland performance that does little for him except for the way it gets him closer to the kill.

One kill of many, in this case.

"Miss me?" His hand wanders. Down then further still. He laughs. "Feels like you missed me."