#creeped out

[lillaray]

New profile picture!!

[myb0nesandsku1l]

The bffs and the gay‼️‼️wow he's bisexual i did'nt know that

[dinosaurwithablog]

Now, that's creepy... 💯

[yourmanicpixiedreamgirls-world]

i love creepy and offbeat media especially for kids. media targeted for kids need to also be weird and it needs to take their audience seriously. i vividly remember wanting to be taken seriously and like seen as a person so bad when i was younger that i used to be happy when ads came up between episodes of Odd Squad on PBS Kids because thats how the cable shows for adults functioned too

we need more Goosebumps-esque books, we need more Series of Unfortunate Events, more Creeped Out, etc.

help me brainstorm here what are some other shows you felt were more darker that you enjoyed as a kid (and to this day!!)

[ignocubo]

i am so tired of people saying "yeah vivziepop's representation sucks but it's all we have..." because no it is not. if you have amazon prime (which hazbin hotel and soon helluva boss are streaming on) there's at least a handful of shows that do representation better, even if it's in a subtle way. if you're streaming on youtube, there are assuredly a lot of indie creators and short films that have good lgbtq+ rep. vivziepop is far from the only representation any queer person has, if you're claiming it is then i genuinely believe you are not looking.

[passionateseadruid]

Can I admit something embarrassing?

Stephen King does not scare me. I’ve seen Christine and I believe I’ve seen The Shining if memory serves me correct. And I’ve seen a lot of more mature horror movies like Friday the 13th Halloween and my all-time favorite horror movie Scream. None of those scare me…

goosebumps on the other hand…

now look… I am an adult… I am a grown woman… (OK well I’m 19 at the time of posting this) but for some reason children’s horror scares me way more than slasher movies or Stephen King horror! Genuinely the only thing that really freaked me out about the shining was that weird bear thing (I hate it, I hate it so much.) But that didn’t really scare me as much as it just grossed me out. But that goosebumps spinoff the haunted hour (I think that’s what it’s called) that was made for a teen audience.

gagged, appalled, mortified

AND ALL IN THE BEST WAY!!

The mascot one and the one about the fucking syrup luck demon in the walls are the only things I remember about it, but I hate it and it traumatized me.

if you don’t know what I’m talking about there was an episode about a Hollow haunted mascot costume that swallowed a kid whole and ate him and the kid ended up like drowning in the mascots stomach acids. It was really weird.

and then there’s this episode where this family moves into this house and their ends up being this creepy demon in the walls that feeds on sugar so every night this kid has to give him syrup so he’ll stop wailing. but the demon brings good luck and the parents fork off the responsibility on him but at the end of the episode so he doesn’t tell anyone he makes them switch rooms so they’re trapped in this tiny cramped little bed together. I hate it. I hate everything about this episode. I hate how neglectful the parents are. I hate the demon. I hate the fact he eats syrup. I hate the resolution because I don’t even know why.

and I don’t hate it in a way that I dislike it. genuinely it is one of the scariest things I’ve ever seen and I think it’s a really good episode because it freaked me out so much. My memory is foggy though so it might just be a bad episode. I don’t know. I don’t remember.

I don’t know what it is about children’s horror that scares me in a way adult horror doesn’t. Especially because a story like Christine about an abusive toxic relationship taken to the extreme that is something that I as someone in the dating age range have an actual stake in. I could potentially someday find myself in a very abusive relationship. Or any slasher movie! Thankfully, I’ve never been attacked, but that doesn’t me it couldn’t happen!

and with children’s media, it’s more oh, Look at the scary monster coming to get you! Isn’t that so spooky? And I’m sitting here on my couch thinking yeah that IS scary. That IS spooky.

maybe I’m just still a kid at heart?

Also I don’t care what anyone says creeped out is objectively scary and I hate that gargoyle episode because of the body horror and the existential horror

[brmwthlvs]

Whatta guy 😏

// Creds. to edtrxz on insta