Imagine a body horror story of a monster who takes pleasure in scaring humans, but slowly, they discover just how similar to the humans they torment they truly are. The monster starts to look at themself in disgust as they start to see more and more similarities. They start growing hair, skin, hands, and other such human features. What tips them over the edge is when they attempt to scare a human and that human jumps but treats them as if they were human.
The more "monsterous" the monster tries to act as, the more human they become.
And yet, the kinder they are and the more they accept they have to be human, the more monstrous they become perceived as. Their kindness let's their hair, skin, or whatever else fall back into their previous monstrous forms.
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Themes: body dysphoria (gender and otherwise), perception of humanity, morality, social hierarchy, demonization of innocence, youth
Inspired by the book "Someone You Can Build a Nest in"
Imagine a story where people are, in the most literal sense, forced into boxes (or perhaps rooms) that they are not allowed to leave. People admire celebrities, who are the ones with the tightest, most constricting boxes.
There are people who have fought for larger boxes, boxes of different shapes, and even different colors, but never for freedom. Why? Because those boxes are all they have ever known. What would happen if they were to even leave their boxes? "How selfish of them to even suggest such an idea. You already have such a large box, now you want to leave it all together? There are people out there without these boxes that you just want to throw away!"
I think that a fitting name for this story may be "Think Outside the Box." It will display themes of activism, censorship, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, (+ other similar hatered for marginalized groups), the idea of freedom, and how scary true freedom may be.
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A way to emphasize the story's themes of activism for the marginalized would be to emphasize the fact that numerous characters may be trans, gay, POC, etc, but also the fact that there are people who are stereotypically privileged whom are in the exact same boxes as them (symbolism: societal pressure of playing the part of their particular "role" or part). Perhaps as a minor point, a character may realize they're nonbinary during the same times they realize they no longer fit in their box and they want a new one. Hell, give them neopronouns!
I believe the best perspective to tell this story through would be through the 1st or 3rd (limited) perspective of the true main character's friend. The main character will obviously want to be the one to escape, but the friend will want to stay. They fear the unknown of what may lie outside of the boxes they live in. As the story progresses, the POV character may even become even more resistant the closer they get to freedom. Hell, even after they get out, they may see a bird (synbolism: freedom) flying by, and they'll shoot it out of fear or something because they've never seen anything like it before and, well, it mightve attacked them!
I am uncertain if this should be a small group of people, if this is the entirety of the human population, if it should be a post-apocalyptic setting where humans set up shop in their safe boxes, or perhaps there is a true haven just out the doors of the boxes.
What would they do in case of a fire? Either high-tech stuff that drowns it out, or.. they get a glimpse of the outside. Ohh that would be a cool plot point: the fire escape leads everyone out into a yard, but it's fearmongered by the people in charge. Something like, "Be careful of anything green! Do not touch anything, do not eat anything, even if it looks similar to your food! And most of all: if you see anything move that isn't one of us or yourselves, shoot it!" (Mmm racism symbolism)
Imagine a video game where basically, it would be like one of those "spot the imposter" games where you have to decide if someone is real and if they are allowed into whatever you're guarding. The thing is, is that the "imposter" stuff is all just mass hysteria, rumors, and general paranoia perpetuated by people in power.
You are given "evidence" that certain people are fake, but in reality they are immigrants and homeless people with false or outdated paperwork, people with mental illness, non-conventionally attractive people, anxious and angry people, and just people with really bad luck. Sometimes, if you ask them too many questions, they'll offer you bribes or beg to pay up next time just to get in. As time goes on, people get more and more desperate to be let into this safe space (apartment or bunker or lab or country or something) as the people's paranoia grows.
Hello! I am repurposing this dead blog to become my blog for sharing my creative ideas for all the things that I unfortunately have no time or ability to create in the moment of inspiration.
I am currently overflowing with so many ideas for things. I am incredibly sad that these things will never come to be shared with others.
I truly hope this blog will become a source of inspiration and joy for others here. If even one person takes inspiration from this blog and my ideas, I would be infinitely happy :)
As your host, you can call me Voidsy, and I welcome you to my mind.
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Tag guide:
#voidsy's mind : story ideas
#voidsy's canvas : artpiece ideas I don't have the time/motivation/materials to make yet
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General blog TWs: (under cut)
Description of gore (will be tagged as such)
Description of horror
General horror topics
General dark stuff
American politics + social activism
!!Anything else will be tagged accordingly!!
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More abt me:
I am a young, transgender, alterhuman, plural, gay man who loves horror, and many of my ideas will incorporate those sorts of themes.
I believe that morality, kindness, humanity, social activism, and dysphoria will be the most common topics that i explore (as it is what affects my life most), but I also love topics of sanity (+insanity), creativity, depression, plurality, and PLENTY more.
