Ever since I was a child, I’ve had:
- an overactive imagination
- a fascination with horror media
- a propensity to consume that media in the late hours of the night
Do YOU, the viewer at home, see the problem?
Anyway, it used to be that I’d just have to wait for the fear to fade, I never had any working strategies for calming down if I read/watched something particularly scary
But to my surprise, I actually found something—a mantra—that worked for me recently:
“Heart. Lungs. Liver. Nerves.”
Idk why it works when so many things haven’t??? My guess is it’s something about the tirelessness of how Paranoid keeps the body working throughout the Nightmare section
WHY AM I TEARING UP GODDAMMIT
He was just so brave. The moment called for him, a voice CHARACTERIZED by fear, a voice who says to run at the first sign of trouble, in the middle of a labyrinth created by a sadistic ghost straight out of a gratuitous horror movie, only to be later CONFRONTED by that ghost, and HE STANDS HIS GROUND! HE KEEPS THE BODY MOVING! Not even Hero could do it when he tried!
And if Paranoid can do that, then I can stomach a little psychological horror without feeling like there’s Something with me in my room!😤
