I want this to work as a NoSleep creepypasta or whatever, but it just makes no sense. I have never, in my life, thought any window could possibly be a painting.
EDIT: I just thought of Mario 64. That's an exception!
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Yeah could have just ended on "there were no paintings"
it would work better as a fairytale, has more of that kinda vibe
Fake and gay - anon knew the way to the hut and knew it was a place for angry lemon party
Would be worse to wake up and see your own portrait added to the wall.
That's where I thought it was going.
Seem to recall this story from r/nosleep a long time ago. That's one of the things I still haven't replaced from my reddit days, I liked reading through the top stories every once in a while. There really were some gems. I just got an AO3 account so maybe I can find something like that again, but I'm not too familiar with the site.
Seems like the story predates /r/nosleep by a fair bit. Relatedly, I wish lemmy were more open to creative writing. The greentext communities respond positively, but it’s a gamble anywhere else. Over the years, It’s become apparent to me that lemmy is full of philistines.
a gamble anywhere else
Are there even any communities related to creative writing anywhere on lemmy? Never stumbled upon any
!2sentence2horror@lemmy.blahaj.zone, a few !twosentencehorror communities, a poetry community I’ve lost track of, and a smattering of niche writing communities like this one. The tumblr communities as well, if you count surreptitious fiction, which I do. None that are dedicated to writing are very active
Thanks for all these!
Maybe I'll make one
Alternatively, expand another?
I mean zero offense, but I feel like Lemmy is too fragmented, and most communities need more population, not another more-specific shard of a similar thing.
If you wrote something I'd read it.
Squints Oh, wait, you're one of the CachyOS devs! Right?
I'm typing from CachyOS now, love everything y'all do. Though I might get in the community (or matrix chat) to spout a left-field suggestion.
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I'm pretty sure I read this story in a book of urban legends when I was a kid in the nineties and it wasn't new then.
lemmy is full of philistines.
Reddit, too. The fandoms I was engaged in there seem totally uninterested in (or even hostile to) fanfiction or even lore speculation now. No, just repeating and worshipping the same shallow memes.
At risk of sounding old... it wasn't always like that.
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oh it's ancient. i remember reading a Polish translation of that back in 2013 or something just as i was starting to get into creepypastas
I remember M59gar in particular wrote some bangers there. That whole portal in the first series was 👨🍳😚
Ao3 is epic, but it’s very fandom specific. There is a “general” story section I guess, but TBH I have not ventured there.
An old but good one :3.. 4chan has some pretty good horror on it funnily enough.. as long as you can be bothered sifting through the toxic waste that the rest of the platform is
That's why I subscribe to greentext communities, cuz I did my time in the trenches dealing with the Nazis and gore well before the right well and truly lost (what little was left of) their goddamned minds.
4vhan was pretty left leaning with some libertarian (and still rampant racism). It was also, by far, the easiest social media to manipulate.
When were you on there? Because I was on there for a good few years in the late 00s up until gamergate, and the Nazi posting was mainly on /b/, but it wasn't absent from other boards and only got worse as people stopped ironically Nazi posting and were more serious about it
You fought in the trenches against the Nazis? You must be over 100 years old!
Edit:
Child: Grandpa, did you serve in the Great War?
Grandpa: No, I experienced much worse, I fought the Nazis on 4chan via chat from the comfort of a $3800 studio apartment in Seattle with my parents trust fund money.
I can see the intention of the story, but how you wouldn't notice many windows on a small hut when you approached makes it not work for me.
Maybe there's none on the side of the hut Anon approaches from?
Also the lighting. If it’s dark outside how do you light up a person looking into a window in a way they appear as a painting instead of weird shadows.
Anon, what the fuck
This just gave me chills
God I skipped a beat.
Very relatable
Are you gonna start dogging or what mate?
this is based on something can't remember what but it is
There are a bunch of creepy pastas along that line, it's a pretty tired trope.
Horror story QwQ