#executive dysfunction is a bitch

[bunnyschaoticrealm]

Can you hold my ADHD for a minute - I need to get this done

[maeganbobaegan]

I got home from the store right before it was dark 😍 Then I collected our Easter decorations. I saw this egg garland on the deep freezer. If you zoom in, you'll see a note that says: Please help me get the deep freezer cleaned off. That egg garland has been there for a YEAR 🐰

[parkerthefreak]

idk if i have much of a right to bitch about this bc i haven’t been super active in the creepypasta fandom since, like, 2015-2016ish, but something that irritates me whenever people rewrite jeff the killer is when they make jeff an entirely unsympathetic character presumably for the sake of making him scarier. like on some level i can appreciate people wanting to take the character in a different direction, but on the other hand it feels so counter the the point of the original story (yes i consider 2011 the original bc fuck s*sseur) that i have to wonder what the point of it being a jeff the killer rewrite even is.

bc here’s the thing: if i describe a story as being about a bullied and abused teen who snaps after a traumatic event and winds up murdering their family and peers, i could be describing the plot of jeff the killer, but i could also be describing the plot of carrie. would carrie be a scarier story if carrie was an unsympathetic character? of course not! in fact, carrie being unsympathetic would entirely negate the point of the story! the horror in carrie doesn’t come from the fact that she has telekinetic powers; the horror comes from seeing what years of bullying and abuse can push someone to. it’s a story that, on some level, is meant to comfort those in a similar situation as carrie and help them feel less alone.

i feel like that’s an aspect of jeff the killer’s popularity that isn’t really discussed as much. whenever people ask themselves why the story got so popular, their answer usually boils down to “teens think edgy murder guy cool and also ew fangirls” (btw i could go on for fucking hours about how much i hate that the “ew fangirls” mentality still exists in 202fucking5, but the long and short of my opinion on that subject is if you for any reason shame girls out of liking something in a way that you personally don’t, you are a tool of the patriarchy and you should be ashamed), but, considering the age of a lot of jeff’s fans during the height of his popularity, it makes sense that they saw a lot of their struggles reflected in his story that they didn’t really see in many other stories aimed at them. like, people always clown on the story for referring to jeff’s inner rage as just “a feeling,” but i know that when i was around that age i didn’t have the words to describe a lot of the things that i felt either.

people seem to think that’s a flaw of the original, though, that the premise of a sympathetic young killer is inherently bad or “cringy” (if you still describe things you don’t like with that word btw, you’re probably part of the reason stories like these have to exist in the first place, so consider maybe being less of a dick), but, as we just discussed, carrie has a similar premise and it’s generally considered a good story. the issue with jeff the killer isn’t the premise; it’s the prose.

honestly i feel like remakes that make jeff unsympathetic are symptomatic of this larger, very regressive mentality i’ve seen a lot lately that portraying objectively bad things in a positive or even just sympathetic light in art is wrong bc it will normalize those things in people’s minds and like??? no??? like i’m not denying that the portrayal of things in fiction effects the way people view those things in reality, but if you need every piece of horror media you consume to reinforce the idea in your head that murder is, in fact, wrong, then you might need to consider the fact that the problem lies with you and not the media you consume.

i also understand that a lot of these remakes are trying to be more realistic. i’ve lived with multiple people at this point who are just fucking evil, i understand that those takes on jeff are often more true to reality than the more sympathetic takes, and i do appreciate horror stories with unsympathetic, evil villains. however, again, if you want to write a story with a pure evil unsympathetic villain, then why are you rewriting a story that got popular because people saw themselves in and sympathized with the villain? i don’t understand why you wouldn’t just write your own original story at that point bc it just misses the point of the original story so much.

idk, i realize that this is such a non-issue, and i will concede that a lot of these remakes are objectively better stories than the original. as remakes, though, they confound and upset me on a level that i didn’t think possible. believe me, i am just as confused as you might be that i’m damn near 23 and this pressed about jeff the killer of all things hdnfjdkdbfhdjfbsk

idk, i just think that, even if it isn’t the most well written story, jeff the killer (and creepypasta in general tbh) is still culturally significant and deserves a lot more respect than in tends to get.

tldr i think jeff and carrie should be bffs

[l0ves1ckbunny]

Hnnng I've been drinking water all day but it's never enough and I'm still thirsty so I drink more and then I need to pee so I go and then I need to drink more again and it keeps going on and on and now I'm dehydrated AND squirmy I hate my life

[formerlyarthurlestersspinalcord]

hey-o! heard about that ultimate kayne-off from your earlier post and decided to spend 3 hours drawing a reference to send in here, so uh, here’s the freak!!

@violentisopod2

Hes doing the little flippy gay hand about Arthur.

[napkineater]

We are in uncharted territory right now. I’m setting two goals for myself today instead of just one. Shits wild out here. This is truly unprecedented, who knows how this will go? I’ll keep yall updated on if this works or if I explode

[random-fandom-fiend]

Me when I want to write but can't make any words come out:

[aaabookdragon]

I feel like I've been running a marathon my whole life, and only now in the last stretch, in the last mile, did I find out that I've had an injured foot the whole time. It wasn't as noticeable at first, but then it progressively got worse. Most other people don't have any injured feet but I didn't know that I wasn't like them, I just began to notice that I wasn't doing as well as they were, that it was harder for me than it used to be. Other people with injured feet were given help or told it was okay to be a bit behind, but I didn't know I was one of them so I just thought I was getting worse and couldn't get any better. And only now that I'm almost at the end, in my last year of school (17th now), do I know I have a injured foot. And even though I could get help for it like many others have, I'm just so used to doing it this way, and I'm almost at the end so what's the point? Why try to get help when I'm so used to going without it, when I don't even know if it will work? Why bother trying to get better when I'm almost at the end?

The point is that I'm tired of feeling like this, and I don't want to end it this way. But I don't know if I can do that.