Discover Top Posts Tagged with #keyboard bashings

I was not allowed to watch horror movies as a kid, but I adored them.

Walking lazy circles around the perimeter of the playground while my best friend whispered, "seven daaaaaaays," recounting a version of The Ring that I can never return to.

Hugging my blanket at a sleepover as someone my size intoned, "have you checked the children yet?" How could watching When a Stranger Calls possibly compare to being literally BABYSAT while hearing about a serial killer terrorizing a babysitter?

The fumbled ending of, "and in blood! In her shower there's the dog and it's the dog's blood and it says 'did you know humans can lick just as good as dogs!' And the dog was DEAD!" It freaked me out as if I'd been in that bathroom.

As a young teenager I would read every Saw movie's wikipedia page, guilty and electrified by the rebellion that my fundamentalist christian teacher said risked letting demons into my bedroom to possess me in my sleep. Mrs.Kimbraugh, if you're out there, you made it ten times better.

Part of me wants to visit these stories the way they were meant to be told, but I don't think I ever will. I'll watch new horror, or stories I didn't hear back then, but when the 10th Saw movie came out, Wikipedia months later was my opening night.

#horror #keyboard bashings

Sometimes I feel weirdly self conscious about getting really into something new that hasn't been a "life long passion." I just have this desire for a specific narrative where I've always known exactly what I like and what I want and it's all culminating into A Big Deal.

I can't tell you shit about sharks. Truly. I will not retain obscure facts if they are not tied to interesting stories. I am captivated by the way they move. The casual circling. Their expressionless faces. The way the simple act of opening their mouths can become so deadly so quickly when it looks like nothing at all. Or the reverse, watching videos of great whites take the side of a whale carcass into their mouths and thrash rhythmically. They're like carpenters. They're at work.

It would be soooo much sexier, to me at least, if I were a human encyclopedia and I could identify shark species by their fins or whatever. But I'm not. I'm sitting here watching these videos literally thinking, "that's not a dog. That's nothing like a dog!"

However, I have found a certain amount of unexpected joy in falling madly in love with carnivorous plants. At one point, anything with leaves was inherently boring to me. This is not a life long passion. This is basically a toddler of an interest, but it's opened up a whole WORLD of neat things to look at.

Do you REALIZE how often movies and television will use Sarracenia and Nepenthes in their sets to signify that something is strange about a person or a place? They're perfect little metaphors. All is not as it appears. This is not a simple woman tending her flowers, this is a sleeping predator among predators.

I never would have appreciated that last year, and instead of feeling guilty for not being a life long expert, I'm giddy every time I notice it. That feels like something to me.

#keyboard bashings

You have never lied to me succesfully. Never in our entire friendship.

Every tall tail you've spun to make yourself seem more interesting, I knew.

At times I have humored you.

At times I have tested you, poking your story just until I found a tasty contradiction. Then I pulled the punch just before it pierced your illusion.

I've told you all this. About other people who can not lie to me. I imagine a thrill in your stomach as you thought you had gotten away with it.

You talk so much, you've never heard me whispering back. Every time.

I love you.

You are enough.

You liar. You liar. You liar.

#keyboard bashings

#asdfghjkl;#keyboard bashings

I never would have appreciated that last year, and instead of feeling guilty for not being a life long expert, I'm giddy every time I notice it. That feels like something to me.

#keyboard bashings

#keyboard bashings

Trending Tags

Recently Viewed Tags

#keyboard bashings