Honestly not to be traumatized on main but like. Using horror to heal is such a wonderful thing and I wanna talk abt it.
I can really only speak for myself so I'm gonna talk abt my experiences with it.
One of my most helpful coping mechanisms is playing Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Amnesia is known to be one of the scariest and fucked up games of its time, and still renowned as one of the best horror games. It dives into things like torture, manipulation, unrelenting nightmares, and reality itself falling apart due to a simple action. Yet playing this game and indulging in its story and its lore helps both distract and sort of heal from life when particular memories get bad.
I use weirdcore/liminal spaces/The Backrooms to cope with my derealization issues.
I use analog horror and the Trollge to help cope with my paranoia and fear of the unknown.
I use SCP to help with fear of institutions and anamolies otherwise unable to be explained.
I use FNaF to help with terrible memories. In fact, something my brain has taken to doing is defaulting into believing I'm Michael Afton to escape from flashbacks, phantom sensations, and other things that constantly remind me of my past ab//use.
I use slashers like Michael Myers and Mr. Voorhees for fear of people larger than me (which is a lot of people, Im a very small guy) and honestly they help me accept parts of me that I hate.
It sounds terrible on paper but a lot of people can actually relate to a lot of topics in horror. Its sort of a roundabout way to get that trauma and those memories out in the open and get them resolved, even if its temporarily. Because progress is still progress, no matter how miniscule.
Strangely enough, indulging in horror reminds me that I didn't deserve it, its not my fault, and I. Will. Get. Better. I will recover. And I think thats why a lot of people with trauma turn to horror. Because when everything was shitty and when they were scared the most, horror was a proper escape. It helped, and it continues to help.
I think a lot of people use horror as a coping mechanism and I think its something that people who aren't going through the trauma recovery process should be more open-minded about. I always get odd comments about using horror as coping mechanisms and I think people should be more widely accepting of seemingly unorthodox, but healthy, ways to cope. We all cope differently.
So... are we healing our trauma through ARG Horror and Analog Horror nowadays? Take The Walten Files, Local 58, and The Mandela Catalogue, for example.
I think horror has become one of the only safe and consumable space for catharsis: to expose, explore and heal our trauma.
Bain could fucking hotbox a stadium if he tried.
I feel like each Heister has a weird. Thing they can do. Like they all have a weird quirk.
Like I firmly believe that Sokol can drift in roller skates. I have met very few people who can actually drift in skates and not fall over.
Jacket can take things apart and put them back together with record speed. He definitely has an old samsung phone with no case purely so he can pop the battery back in when he drops it.
You know that cigarette thing from Stardust Crusaders? With the flipping and stuff? Dallas can do that.
Sydney can wrap anything. Like someone's birthday rolls around and someone bought them a funky-shaped gift. Sydney can wrap it.
Houston can drive backwards. By extension, I think he likes the Fast and Furious movies and specifically mods old cars so he can try crazy shit.
Jimmy can open any bottle, and I mean a n y bottle. Sangres can saber any bottle flawlessly and the two bond over it.
Joy can stack cups like a motherfucker. Like full on "she practices every night for four hours" level.
Feel free to add on! I might have more in the future.
Poll should I. Start writing fanfics again. I used to write a lot back in middle school (mostly fanfics but dont even worry abt it) but I got swayed away from it during the transition from middle school to high school. I wrote like. Two drabbles recently and it made me remember how much I actually enjoy creating fan art that isn't always drawing. So should I finally just. Bite the bullet and make an ao3 acct to post on?
- Nori
Plural ppl calling their systems stuff like “The ___ Collective” or “The ___ Hivemind” is an elite sense of humor that only certain people can understand and appreciate.
-Nori
Back on my bullshit lmao so have some domestic stuff of this au.
Joy and Jacket often pester each other with their peculiarities.
Joy sometimes just. Shuts off Jacket's tape recorder mid-sentence.
Once Wolf finds out his peculiarity, he begins to utilize it more both in and out of the Safehouse.
If he's feeling particularly affectionate but doesn't want to be human, Hoxton will find himself pinned under a big grey wolf in search of pets.
Hoxton tests his peculiarity on people who piss him off in the Safehouse, which is how he learns to use it better.
Eventually he gets so good at it that he can go out in public without worry, because he can make himself disappear, so to speak.
Jimmy first uses his in front of the crew right after a heist with Dallas, Clover, and Duke. They had all piled into the van after a violent shootout, and the other three were freaking out because Jimmy is actively bleeding out from his stomach.
He just goes "no guys its fine watch this" and splits off himself.
It was fucking digusting. His skin because bubbling and the new clone pretty much crawled out of the dying one (think Adipose from Doctor Who)
The two clones do a little handshake and Jimmy tosses his old body out of the back of the van, effectively slowing down their assailants and freaking out his team members.
Its all the same consciousness, its just like the same player using two controllers.
Bonnie isn't allowed to play any game that has any dice, cards, or any aspect of luck. Heisters banned her from spectating when she used her peculiarity to hinder Clover in a game of Uno.
Speaking of which, Clover lives in a constant state of "i wanna see what these guys are doing cause im nosy and curious" and "fuck these two are dating I might see something icky"
Sokol will just. Sit outside in the winter. Maybe have a drink. Full on T-shirt and biker shorts, just to relax.
The heisters begin to notice a returning Magpie that lingers around the Safehouse when they aren't heisting.
Aldstone's job gets harder, as he has to start handling when people's peculiarities get out of control. (ie, when Sangres almost set the place on fire, or when Joy caused a power outage by trying to see how many electronics they could turn on at once)
People with throw things just to see Dallas catch them.
He's let several things hit him just to be petty.
Chains helps heisters practice boxing and hand-to-hand combat.
Once a week, people will watch him and Jiro spar; Jiro can predict everything but Chains wont fucking go down so its a good passtime.
Jacket talks through the rice cooker occasionally to scare people.
Sydney finds out about her peculiarity and starts to avoid other heisters. She notices that should she start to get a little rowdy or worked up, the people around her do to.
Of course, Clover notices and drags Sydney around to do things anyways, because she's not about to let one of her friends cut themselves off from the gang.
They're a family, after all.
Dallas starts requesting Bain to send the Safehouse plastic eating utensils with their monthly supplies when he notices Rust only eating things he doesn't have to use silverware with.
Jiro notices this and eventually buys Rust a set of bamboo utensils to use so they can cut back on trash.
If Houston needs to cause a distraction, he'll usually turn on some poor passerby's car/motorcycle.
He and Rust have a mutual agreement to not mess with each other's vehicles.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and Payday au, cause I say so.
Bain is an Ymbryne. I know they're all women, but hear me out.
Magdeline Magpie, an Ymbryne trained and set out to create a timeloop. Years and years pass, and eventually, Miss Peregrine finds a rather large magpie on her doorstep. The bird tranforms back into a more human shape, and she almost immediately recognizes the Ymbryne.
"Mag-"
"Its Bain, now, thanks."
Fuck off yes I am indulging in trans Bain I am p r o j e c t i n g
So, Bain had left and originaly intended on creating a timeloop, but eventually forgot about it. However, he begins to realize something.
Every person he finds in the Payday gang is a peculiar, and many of them dont even realize it.
Dallas? Incredible reflexes and reaction speed. He always chalked it up to survival instinct.
Wolf tends to find himself in a more canine body on certain days.
Hoxton can carefully orchestrate and manipulate what people see and how they percieve the world around them.
Chains can take more hits than any normal person should.
Joy can easily manipulate technology (similar to Angel from Borderlands 2).
Duke can turn his skin to stone. Many of his teammates don't notice, but that isn't actually a mask.
Dragan has overwhelming strength.
Sokol can withstand insane cold, and even works better in chilly environments.
Clover can see through other people's eyes. She utilizes this during heists to find out where certain guards are, and if her or her teammates are within line-of-sight.
Bonnie can gently nudge the odds of luck in her own favour. Many times this just makes a coin fall a certain way, or make her opponent throw down rock instead of scissors.
Jiro has full on clairvoyance. He can predict other people's moves to a T on a good day.
Houston finds that he can turn on any motor vehicle, even when that vehicle shouldnt ve able to turn on.
Rust oxidizes and corrodes most things he touches.
Jacket is fueled by blood and can speak through any electronic device.
Wick analyzes things much faster than the average human, and could work out a way to actually kill a man with a singular tic tac if he needed to.
Bodhi can breathe underwater, and takes on a variety of more aquatic forms to suit his needs. Need him to sneak in somewhere? Give him a drainage line that connects, he'll be in before you could say "thanks."
Sydney has the ability to sew chaos wherever she goes.
Jimmy is on crack, he's already peculiar. (Seriously though he, the whole "oh I use science to clone" thing in this au is just a cover, he can basically commit mitosis)
Scarface has the ability to "enthrall" people. Not exactly mind control but he can. "Convince". People to work with/for him.
Sangres can breathe fire. Here me out; alcohol boosts the effect. He learned this after trying to show off at a family gathering, and after a few too many sips of tequila, almost set the house on fire.
Aldstone isn't an Ymbryne but he takes the responsibilties of one. He has a generally calming aura, and can very slightly shift memories a little left from center. He's the one who told Bain about the team's peculiarities.
Vlad and Locke aren't peculiar, but both have deep connections with groups in time loops.
So basically, some big bad or problem rolls around, and Miss Peregrine needs every peculiar she can get for help. Of course, she doesnt exactly want to since a lot of them are kids. Eventually, she catches wind of a particularly interesting group of older peculiars, all banded together but existing without a time loop. She arranges for them to meet, assuming they all already know.
A lot of them are surprised, to say the least. Joy, Sangres, Duke, Jimmy, Bodhi, Clover, and Jiro already knew, but the others are quick to deny it.
I imagine Wolf has a moment of "wait that isnt a hallucination?????" when he realizes he can lowkey shapeshift.
Bain steps in, telling the other Ymbrynes to stay away from his crew, purely because he's seen first-hand what happens to peculiars up against hollows and the like, and this crew /is his family/ and he's not letting anything happen to them.
Angst possibilties? Maybe, maybe.
I've been rotating this au like a microwave in my brain for a while and I wanted to share it.
“I don’t need drugs to be high”
You and me both, bud. When I write crackfic it’s LITERALLY JUST. WHAT COMES UP IN MY HEAD. I’m glad we agree that they’re stinkin dummm
okay okay look, it’s a platonic (platonic) soulmate au. DONTTTTT say anythin /j
I realize this excerpt is a little bit uhhhh, but it started off as a serious concept then I decided to write down whatever my brain gave me XD
I’m also the narrator, so if your mental voice sounds like a gremlin I’m doing my job correctly LOLLL
I’ve been trying to find a way to respond to this but ive been so fucking caught up on “Like how Sonic loses his rings when he gets hit”
You wrote Dallas Himbo content and you deserve an award for it
-Nori
GOT MY FIRST TATTOO LADS LETS GOOOOOO
Some of yall needed to hear this
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As an Asian-Mexican who grew up only ever seeing Spiderman as a Hwhite Boi (tm) it makes me so happy to see the POC spiders get recognized. Peni. Miles. Miguel. Hobie. Pavitr. My little heart will explode i love them so much.
I love tumblr we have exclusive holidays like Suez Canal Blockage Anniversary and the Assassination of One Julius Caesar its fantastic
i’m seeing a lot of people reblogging suicide hotlines and this is just a reminder that this is a suicide help line that works like a text-based instant messenger for people who may need to talk to someone but have trouble/are uncomfortable making phone calls
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