#sfm horror

[creepymarshmallow3]

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[chiibss]

New episode of Serverblight factions out now :D

[oil-rigging]

DO I GET TO TALK ABOUT SERVERBLIGHT NOW???

I have been a TF2 fan since I exhumed myself from the seafloor, and I am here after all these years simply for the love of the game. Literally.

I was rewatching Pootis Engage: Extreme after a long night of not sleeping, and my slumber-deprived brain saw ‘SFM HORROR’ on my YouTube dash and BOOM. Here I am.

I’m assuming that you’ve watched Serverblight if you’ve clicked on this post whose tagline is me being excited to talk about Serverblight, so no plot recaps for me, I fear.

First of all. New post, like, two days ago? I watched it while I was folding laundry, and, just, wow. I doubt that 2idiotgermans are on Tumblr, but y’all seriously have a talent for writing, voice acting, composing, WOW!!!!

So, after doing some digging on the new post —like two inches of digging, the OG Reddit post was linked in the desc—, I think it’s really interesting to note that the Serverblight is a known issue on Steam forums.

I wonder how many people have been asking around about ‘that odd game glitch’, I wonder if the entity itself revels in the notoriety and thus lets people ‘live’ to tell the tale. It could and does snatch up some of our protagonists pretty easily without much to worry about in the way of stretching itself thin/expending its resources. You see how easily and quickly it overruns a server, like in Reflection. I’ve heard theories about the entity being sadistic and toying with its prey, being curious and learning from it. I think that, maybe, it’s doing a little bit of gloating, too.

I think any scenario is a win-win scenario for the entity. My personal theory on the matter of where the series may go is that there will be people who go so far as to actually search for this entity, just to see for themselves. I’m thinking we may get a video that’s a documentary-like thing— like that Bing Soy video from elmaxo, where someone talks all mysterious-like. Maybe a horror-parody? If those are a thing? Of all of the people posting theory videos about Serverblight. I would be very excited if the Serverblight universe started looking a little too close to ours in terms of content created, now that we may be getting the post-format content more often (which I LOVE, for the record).

Maybe there’s a Serverblight Universe Tumblr somewhere, and a Serverblight Universe oil-rigging is making kooky ramblings, eh ;]?

I think that’s another aspect of the horror in it, really. The interactions, the gaming, it all seems so parallel to what we as actual TF2 players do. I post on Steam forums! My friends and I have community servers that we frequent and know us by username— I met a long-term friend on the game, like the Proxy protagonist and Marc. These mundane aspects are real things that happen to people who feel like they hold a place in this world, and to see these terrifying things happen to them evokes that Good Horror.

Notice how I haven’t said ‘kill’ in reference to the entity? Well, Proxy confirmed what many people suspected, in that the entity doesn’t kill anyone. It assimilates, and then;

“By the time I entered that room again, Marc’s PC was dead.”

IT COVERS ITS TRACKS. Smart bastard! The eyes were haunting, I felt my skin crawl at the whispering, it was glorious, WONDERFUL.

My mind immediately jumps to what the outside, non-Steam, Serverblight universe world thinks of this, EMTs picking up the comatose bodies at their desks, all with their computers dead in front of them. I wonder if anyone had thought to question it, to tie this unknown symptom together. I wonder if more people will look into it— the inactive social medias sending notifications to their friends. I wonder if it will find a way from Steam to Discord to YouTube. I understand that it’s such a broad scope and thereby unlikely, but regardless. That YouTube documentary idea from earlier makes me think of the Serverblight assimilating the content creator attempting to observe it, hitting ‘post’ on its own as a way of saying ‘come and get me’ to the world, or would that ruin its air of mystery?

Not to mention, the constant pull from the entity outside of the game. The Steam notifications, the whispers, the laughing, “The voice sounds like Marc, but the words don’t belong to him.”

I’m so invested, truly. I’m invested in this Thing that is not human, infesting and overtaking like the rot it’s named for. I have so many thoughts on this series and not enough words, all I can say is that I salute the creators for making me wake up in a cold sweat, dreaming about those hands waving at me like tall grass.

Well; my thoughts, as always, were disjointed. I hope you enjoyed, though. Much love from this longtime TF2 fan, simply happy to see SFM on my dash again and amazed by what treasure it’s brought me.

[creepymarshmallow3]

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[chiibss]

Episode 1.5 is out :D I hope y'all enjoy the interim while we work on episode 2