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sometimes brennan just smacks me in the face with his incredible worldbuilding so hard it pisses me off

wdym the trees in zood were fighting for sunlight so hard that they just went fuck it and started floating, and they pulled dirt up with their roots, and that’s what the floating islands are

that’s such a cool idea i’m so mad i never thought of that before

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Realism ≠ No Mansion

So I saw a confession on the Creepypasta Confessions blog and I am pissed.

First off, to be clear: I’m not trying to attack anyone personally. But I am extremely tired of people throwing around takes like this and calling it “realism” because it’s not. It’s uncreative and borderline gatekeeping.

This is gonna be a long one. Buckle up:

🚫 Saying “Jeff would kill everyone”

That’s not realism. That’s avoiding the question of why he might not. You’re dodging character complexity in favor of edge.

👁 Saying “Eyeless Jack only sees others as prey”

That’s not realistic. It’s ignoring that even monstrous characters might have nuance or boundaries, or that he might recognize other cursed beings as more than meat.

🎮 Saying “BEN Drowned only sees others as pawns”

You're writing off any chance of him forming actual relationships or attachments.

🎪 Saying “Laughing Jack sees them as entertainment”

Again, yeah… until he doesn’t. What happens when the entertainment fails? What happens when he connects? Explore that.

💋 Saying “Nina only cares about Jeff”

Okay, and what about after? What about growth? What about disappointment or found family? You’re locking her character in amber.

⏰ Saying “Clockwork and Toby are too insane to get along”

So… you’ve never heard of shared trauma bonds, dissociation, or neurodivergent kinship, huh? They're more than their instability.

👧 Saying “Sally won’t trust anyone”

Great. That’s the start of a story. What about the arc? Who does she learn to trust? What brings that wall down?

🌲 Saying “Slenderman isn’t a father figure to everyone”

Sure. But why can’t he be one to someone? Who sees him that way? What does he feel about that? Explore the dissonance, not just the denial.

🔥 “Realism” Isn’t an Excuse to Be Boring

I’m sorry you couldn’t think of ways these characters might grow, clash, bond, or just coexist without stabbing each other, but don’t act like that’s realism.

Here’s some so-called “realistic” reasons for why Slenderman might have a mansion just pulled out my ass just right now:

Maybe it’s not his, it’s just a convenient base

Maybe he built it to contain or protect his proxies

Maybe a proxy built it for him

Maybe it’s just a house from when he was human, if you roll with that theory

Why might Jane and Jeff exist in the same space?

Slenderman's forcing them to

Jane’s forgiven him, Jeff doesn't have to stay evil

She’s forgotten what he did, Slenderman gave Toby amnesia why not her?

You can write any of this in a grounded, character-driven way. “Realistic” doesn’t mean “everyone is alone and evil forever.” It means understanding why they’re not.

💡 This Mindset Hurts New Creators

What pisses me off the most is that someone who wants to write a “realistic AU” might see this garbage take and think:

“Oh… I guess I can’t do that.”

YES. YOU. CAN. If you want to write a mansion AU? Do it. If you want to make them friends, enemies, exes, reluctant roommates? Go wild.

Just ask yourself why it works. Get creative. Build the bridges. Tell the story. Stop saying "this can't work." And say, "How can this work?"

Don’t let boring people kill possibility and call it "canon."

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trying to draw all of my more interesting looking ocs before artfight starts so here’s my guy jhon

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the thing about transitioning is that it's a divine act of self creation and it's also an unholy desecration of the natural order and it's also a thing you do on a tuesday morning

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love when people basically use the pastas to show the diversity of alternative subcultures because of just how interwoven alt/emo subculture is with this fandom

anyway thought of dark decora clockwork or just decora pastas in general today and thought that’d look interesting

toby stalking his next victim through the forest and he’s given away by the clinking of his millions of accessories

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i love pappy very much

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happy pride

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Shoutout to the time in the last olympian where Nico takes Percy Jackson on the worst date of all time is convinced he’s doing a great job and then fucks it up so bad that Percy very nearly almost murders him.

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I went out to my local library today and found out that the new batch print of the HOO series includes an original passage narrated by The Seven themselves in the back cover instead of a summary or review. Jason was the narrator for BOO and–

translation:

Have you ever felt burdened by your parent's identity? People only see the beauty on the outside. Fame, glamor, glory, that's what you get for being a child of Jupiter, the King of the Gods. No one ever thinks about the struggle behind it. Always placed with responsibility, always made the leader of the army, always burdened with the hope of achieving victory. Not allowed to make any mistakes. Not allowed to give up. I, Jason, only wanted to be an ordinary young man. Who is allowed to complain, allowed to look weak, allowed to despair. Who wanted to share duties to lessen the burden. It is not that I mind sacrificing myself for my friends or jumping into dangerous quests to save the world. After all, the prophecy has stated it: To storm or fire, the world must fall. The choice is me or Leo. To defeat Gaea, one of us will die. It would be better if that person was me. — Jason Grace, After being stabbed by Imperial Gold sword, Gravely injured and nearly met Death.

I'm just. My heart is being beaten black and blue again. When Jason found out someone had to die for the prophecy, he resigned himself to it. There's no contest there. 【Someone had to die, it better be me】. I've said before here, but Jason has always been raised as a Hero. His sacrifice was expected, that's his fate, that's all he had ever known. It's easy for him to throw his life (he has to be at least a little bit suicidal under all that conviction of self-sacrifice for the greater good honestly)

in the end, he never got out of his duty as a hero. He ended up shouldering a prophecy all by himself (a burden he always wanted to get out of), and died as the result. Died as a Roman, a son of Jupiter, a Hero (but who was Jason Grace outside of these grand titles? Not even he knew)

Rest in peace, Jason Grace. I hope you get the freedom you wanted in the end :(

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This was gayer than the Cupid scene

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had a dream last night that my dad discovered marble hornets and was showing me it as if it was a cool new thing and i had to pretend i had no clue what it was

anyway happy hornetversary ig

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having ocs is so fucked .... i miss them so bad but im the guy who has to create new content. but im sleepy

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started pursuing doug because the trailers made me think i’d like him but i actually hate his guts

anyway here’s a key to his fuckin sudoku puzzle that i completed out of spite for anyone interested

the * are next to the ones he actually asks you about, circled numbers are the solved answers, have fun dating him if that’s your thing, i’m gonna aim for hate with him now

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whaddayamean it’s already january

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i don’t know what i’m drawing anymore and why

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you fucked it up, vinnie