No Revolution Here

Ace detective? More like ace defective

[hotvampireadjacent]

bro stop chanting in dead languages you’re scaring the hoes

[antigone-lesbian]

im summoning the hoes fool

[messengershooter-deactivated202]

.pdf (poison dart frog)

[inksplit]

[narkinafive]

[anne-hathaway]

If you love chess, which I do, but you don’t have anybody to play against, which I don’t, then sometimes you just gotta play yourself.

[wellbutrinboy]

sometimes people speak and you know what i just dont listen

[dragonagegenerator]

fool (self-diagnosed)

[bimboficationblues]

fantasy author: the story ends with the magic going away forever. don’t you find it sad and poetic? please give me a pulitzer or at least a hugo

me: this is very dumb. I hate you. bring back the wizards

[argumate]

I like big butts and I cannot lie, my other brother also likes big butts and cannot tell the truth, how will you escape our dungeon

[whitepeopletwitter]

[weirdlandtv]

Artist, Matt Bailey.

[spider-hands-mannos-deactivated]

There is a specific and terrifying difference between “never were” monsters and “are not anymore” monsters

“The thing that was not a deer” implies a creature which mimics a deer but imperfectly and the details which are wrong are what makes it terrifying

“The thing that was not a deer anymore” on the other hand implies a thing that USED to be a deer before it was somehow mutated, possessed, parasitically controlled or reanimated improperly and what makes THAT terrifying is the details that are still right and recognizable poking out of all the wrong and horrible malformations.

[spider-hands-mannos-deactivated]

hey I totally fucked up and forgot the 3rd type, which is “Is Not Anymore And Maybe Never Was” monsters “The thing which was no longer a deer and maybe never was” implies a creature that, at first glance, completely appears to be a deer, but over time degrades very slowly until you realize (probably too late) that it is not a deer anymore, and had you seen it in this state first, you wouldn’t have recognized it as a deer at all, and there’s a decent chance that it was never actually a deer to begin with but only a very good mimic, and what makes this one scary is the slow change from everything being right to everything being wrong, happening slowly enough that you don’t even notice it until its too late, as well as the fact that something now so clearly not a deer could have fooled you to begin with.

[endreal]

No idea if this commentary adds anything or not but since monsters are generally couched in terms of danger and threat, and therefore fear, in my mind these posts broke themselves down kinda like this:

The “was not a deer” monster speaks to fear born of deception, dangers that approach under the guise of familiarity, with varying levels of success to infiltrate the familiar before lashing out

The “not a deer anymore” monster speaks to fear born of coercion. Whatever it is was once familiar and perhaps even comforting but through the action of another agent the familiar has become grotesque and dangerous.

The “…and maybe never was a deer” monster speaks to fear born of self-doubt. Most people spend most of the time in a sense of vague assurance that they’re doing the right thing, or at least a right thing, in the situation they find themselves in. This fear lies in the danger of *thinking* you understood, only to be eviscerated by the cruelty of “no…you were never correct, and this is your consequence.”

[hamenthotep]

[tlbodine]

Yes this. Good analysis. 

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Actually, in light of this I’d like to propose yet one more type of monster to this list. The monster is a deer. But you realize you were very, very wrong about what deer are like.

The deer itself has not changed, you were just wrong about deer from the very start.

[darksaphire2002]

This was horrifying to read while high and now I have an unhealthy fear of deer in general so thanks for that.

[zorri]

Another one: The thing that was not like a deer.

[pavelow]

I would not survive a vibe check right now

[sonicrainbooms]

i may be a fucking idiot but at least i can understand donald duck

[sonicrainbooms]

[glitchbean]

me: [walks into a psychic’s shop and slams down my tarot cards] it’s time to duel

[bbblackcats]

[jumpedoverthemoon]

I wanna live in a little quaint cottage that backs up to a big old forest full of birds and deer and mystery and i want to dry my laundry outside when its sunny and tend to my garden when its foggy and sit inside by the fire and write when its rainy