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Reblog to give prev the power to write their fanfiction

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Today, I would like to commemorate an event which has laid a very profound impact on the internet.

Ten years ago on this day (06/08/09), a forum website called SomethingAwful held a photoshop contest titled “create paranormal images”.  The contest would require participants to edit ordinary photographs into creepy-looking images, and then try to pass them off as authentic photos on other paranormal forums.

Two days later, on June 10th, a user by the name Victor Surge would find this thread, and become inspired.  He submitted the two pictures above, featuring a tall, faceless monster which would stalk children, who would then disappear.  He called his monster “the Slender Man”. After this initial post, Surge and others would expand on the character and the story, creating one of the internet’s most famous monsters.  The Slender Man proved to be popular enough to spread to other websites, with 4chan, Deviantart, and TV Tropes all having their own Slender-Mania. On June 20th of that same year, another user on the SomethingAwful forums found the Slender Man, and also wanted to contribute.  Noticing nobody had made any videos yet of the monster, he sat down with some of his friends and planned out a video webseries involving a former college film student discovering and unravelling the mysteries surrounding Slender Man; this would become Marble Hornets, one of the first horror-themed ARG’s of the internet.

That all happened ten years ago.  Ten years of haunting the darkest corners of the internet, and Slender Man has built up a surprisingly dense resume, for a fictional monster.  Several popular webseries, a couple hit games, at least two movies, even inspiring other characters in seperate series like the Silence in Dr Who and the Enderman in Minecraft.  And all this within a ten-year period.

I think this just attests to how much humans can be inspired by an idea.  From a small handful of edited photographs, we collectively constructed a new monster which lurks in our nightmares, and now it almost seems as natural as the horror mythos he was based on.  For better or worse, the Slender Man seems to be here to stay. Happy Birthday, Slendy!  Here’s to hoping you continue to be both terrifying and terrific!

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It’s her day

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Therapy speak is super annoying in characters and i think more authors should weaponize this by having a character use therapy speak to justify all their bad life choices including but not limited to bullying, arson, and war crimes to really drive home just how obnoxious it is

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Clara, pulling up a spreadsheet: So here’s the list of historical figures I want to smooch

Twelve: That’s … really not how this works …

Clara: And here’s the list of historical figures I want to FIGHT

Twelve: No.

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Happy Pride!

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But most importantly THE RANI AND MEL BUSH KIND OF GAY FOR EACH OTHER, REAL, NOT CLICKBAIT

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Somewhere in the world, Christopher Eccleston has the biggest shit-eating grin knowing he’s been right for 20+ years

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literally all the doctor had to do to defeat the rani btw was tell her that the master also keeps trying to bring back the time lords and she'd immediately be like well that's stupid & pivot to a different plan

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she is PROVOKING the BONE BEASTS

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i do love that at no point did fifteen even hint towards the timeless child in the rani's presence. she kept calling them the last of the time lords & he was like 👍

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Wild to make the point that forcing women into the roles of mothers and housewives is a terrible thing to do, only to then proceed to force your female companion into being a mother, when that was not something she wanted. More than that! To rewrite! Her entire! Reason! For choosing not! To stay! With the doctor! To being a mother! Russell T Davies you never did learn how to write women well

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Episode one Belinda: breaks up with her boyfriend because he’s a controlling misogynistic prick who wants her to conform to the role of wife and mother, when he later kidnaps her to force her to marry him she calls him an incel and explodes him

Episode eight Belinda: I can’t help you with the battle I’m no use at saving the world, the best thing I can do is stand in this box with my daughter and be a mother, I love being a mother, please rewrite my entire timeline so that I have a daughter, I’m so glad this right wing incel fascist rewrote reality so that women are wives and mothers because that means I am a mother to my daughter

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can i just say how much I loved archie panjabi as the rani in these two episodes. she's a wicked witch abducting babies rapunzel style she's a mad scientist with her bone beasts and big sky laboratory she's flying around on her green goblin segway she's having beef with her past regeneration she's dancing with the doctor and dropping lesbian one liners on mel. panjabi!rani you will always be famous

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god i would've loved if they got rid of omega together & then (bc they're the last time lords & neither particularly wants to be the only one) this episode ended in a truce & we got recurring character rani(s) who just shows up every now & then to do something batshit & the doctor's like rani do we need to go over basic morality again and she's like ugh whatever. i'll stop rewriting these people's dna i guess while the doctor's current companion & mrs flood get coffee in the bg

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why did it lowkey feel like anti-abortion propaganda 😭😭😭