being someone who's passionate about their interests when you're a horror fan really is a special layer of hell because every interaction you have with another person where the conversation turns to your hobbies and personal entertainments is a trial where if you show too much unrepentant glee at getting an opportunity to talk about your preferred subject you get to watch them mentally move you onto their list of untrustworthy individuals to avoid in the future in real time
you'll be like i enjoy horror because it articulates things that i've experienced and understood for a long time but never been able to put into words, and tackles ideas and themes normally seen as too taboo to express, and people will hear "i'm a sick fuck who enjoys watching people suffer and die"
#not to detract but it's like this if you love erotica too#'this genre articulates and examines the twisted and arcane mechanisms of human desire'#'and the MANY MANY MANY ways in which it goes wrong'#and then someone is like 'so you just like jerking off to pretty boys'#like doreen i've jerked off to things you can't comprehend#please focus on the thesis here(via @roach-works)
Whump is also like this!
And bog bodies!
