#Eldritch Horror (trope)

[transcendragon]

In light of figuring out what to do with the announcement of tumblr and Wordpress selling content for AI generation, there will not be art today.

HOWEVER. I did make a UQuiz for the first time. It took longer than I expected, but I had a lot of fun with it. Check it out!

https://uquiz.com/uSdebr

[dykals]

this guy is currently in my top five favorite characters btw

[moliathh]

[i-am-trans-gwender]

It annoys me when people say the human(s) in "what does (enter thing here) do when we're not around?" Stories are not villains because they don't know any better. While technically true from our perspective it ignores the perspective of the things.

I could use a good chunk of Pixar movies as an example but I'll just use the first and most obvious example Toy Story 1995.

Andy is basically a god to his toys which makes Sid there devil. Sid Phillips from our perspective is just a creative kid (Pixar has acknowledged this saying he would probably grow up to be an animator).

From the toys perspective Sid is basically a eldritch horror. Sid tortures, mutilates, tears them apart, mix and matches there parts just for his own amusement. He doesn't realize that that his victims are alive. His victims could fight back but are not allowed to. This sounds like a straight up lovecraftian horror except the horror is a human.

[memento-mariii]

Speaking of the fae, what gets me about those "dark fae romances" that seem to be so "in" right now is that they don't do anything interesting with the fae lore. Like. Why even call your MC a fae if he never speaks in riddles and can just straight up lie all the time. Why call him a fae and make him impervious to cold iron.

Look. I know that "fae lore" is actually just a disjointed and often self-contradicting collection of completely individual folk tales and mythologies and that no such thing as the Definitive Fae Lore™️ exists, but c'mon. At that point he's just a guy with pointy ears. He's a tolkien elf with an attitude problem. You're allowed to write a yandere legolas fic if you want to write a yandere legolas fic.

[caninemotiff]

Forget red and blue characterisation, which character is the mad scientist that would go to unspeakable lengths to achieve their desires and which one is the Eldritch horror that's just chilling while chaos ensues from their very presence?

[ink-au-askblog]

fgod:as!ink (smudge): he looks away, reminded of something that happened to a certain friend of his. "i- i know they can get hurt... and i know that there's... it's always a possibility to lose them... but i wouldnt want to stop them from being free. i would feel bad if they left me willingly, but i'd feel worse if i just forced them to stay."

a sigh is let out from his small body, as his soul-eye shifts to a blue color. "i'm sorry, but i'll have to pass on your offer. e- even if i could do something like that, i wouldn't want to. i'm not scared enough of them leaving me to stop them from having a choice in the matter."

[braisedhoney]

CAPTAIN!! THERE'S A HUGE WORM THING OVER IN STORAGE PLEASE HELP

~#225

OKAY UH there's a fifty-fifty shot on that thing either being something that breached containment or the good doctor pulling a stupid prank again. if it's goopy and looks vaguely like sentient spilled oil it's probably the doctor, but either way try not to engage with it until that's less of a random guess. i'll lock down the doors and have the area scanned. hopefully whatever it is it doesn't damage the cargo in the meantime, bc dammit we just GOT those shipments!

[new-eyes-extra-colors]

realized i hadn't actually posted any fic snippets of eots with my boy maxie in them so here he is

also. i think groudon and kyogre should be scarier. as a treat.

“Maxie,” she says, tugging gently on his hand. He stops and turns partway around, glancing at her briefly, and follows the direction of her flashlight beam across the cavern to the spot where it illuminates a small x on the rock wall, drawn in white chalk.

“Again?” he mutters.

“This is the third time,” May says, voice high and tremulous, “that we’ve been through here. Every single one of these exits just, I don’t know, loops back here somehow.” She gives him a look that’s halfway between critical and pleading, and he holds her gaze steadily, expression neutral. “Have you seen the passageway that leads back to the entrance? Because it should be right behind us, but we got here through that turn.” She points ahead with her flashlight, to the branch of the cave that heads off to the left. “I mean, how does that even make sense? Coming through the same exit four times from four different directions?”

He turns away, falling silent for a moment. The cavern echoes with the quiet sound of water dripping from somewhere nearby; of Maxie tapping his foot. His hand is warm in hers, and she realizes she’s squeezing it. It’s selfish, but she’s too afraid to let go.

“I think,” he says evenly, “that this is normal.”

She takes a deep breath. “Normal.”

He nods once. “Relatively speaking, of course. But I’ve seen something similar to this before, back at our base.”

She frowns up at him. “I thought that was an abandoned mine?”

He catches her gaze again briefly. “Why do you think it as abandoned? People thought it was haunted, and when they couldn’t find out what was haunting it, they abandoned the project rather than stick around and risk irritating something powerful enough to rearrange a cave system at will.” He looks around the cavern briefly, flashlight beam skating across dripping stalactites on the ceiling. “You have to remember the scale of power we’re dealing with, here. A reasonably powerful psychic-type could achieve something similar to this, and people used to worship Kyogre as a god.”

Maxie’s words hang in the still air for a moment, and May shifts back and forth on her aching feet. She turns and looks behind them, but there’s nothing there except the dark passageway they just walked through.

“You think Kyogre’s doing this.”

“Not doing,” he corrects. “Well. Maybe doing, but I don’t think it’s necessarily a conscious control.” He takes a deep breath. “Obviously, I’m not sure. But have you ever seen anything like this before? Since Groudon… left, we’ve been able to map the entire mine and the cave structure it intersects with. We tried several times before, of course, but were never able to do that successfully while they were still there.”

[withoutend]

g/t prompt 43

as you watch the night sky, you see a massive figure start blotting out the sun

as the blackness covers up more stars and takes on a clearer shape, the silhouette nears the moon

the figure does not blot out the moon

the figure is behind the moon

they are that big

[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

So many of the Eldritch horrors that the Inspector tangles with

are presented as humanoid entities, even if they really are beyond human understanding. It’s effectively a budget-saving thing.

[sansloii]

— MUSE AESTHETICS: HORROR EDITION.

bold whatever applies | italics what sometimes applies [ both if it's perfect for your muse ] | strike through what doesn't apply & tag people. repost; don’t reblog!

CLASSIC.

black and white. powder puffs. red lipstick. winged eyeliner. white kitten heels. black lace lingerie. icy blue eyes. rain. abandoned cars. skeletons. acid. poison. voyeurism. switchblades. strangling. overcoats. looking over your shoulder. trans-atlantic accents. private detectives. dinner parties. haunted mansions. cobwebs. perfect blonde curls. kitchen knives. shock. cellars. dust. ghosts. dark alleys. empty streets. horn-rimmed glasses. radiation. zombies. serial murder. suspicion. the city. witches. the devil. cannibalism. conspiracies. amulets. abject terror. the American South. the American Northeast. England. analog cameras.

CRYPTID & URBAN LEGEND.

aliens. blinding light. dark woods. driving at night. claw marks. bite marks. men in black. memory loss. dismembered bodies. sewers. flashlights. cell phones. video cameras. cars with tinted windows. unlabeled cassette tapes. bugs. big cities. urban crimes. clowns. something rustling outside your window. glowing light. unsolved mysteries. suburbia. mirrors. the american pacific northwest. the american midwest. hiking. backpacking.

GOTHIC.

gaslights. corsets. ballrooms. candlelight. mist. starless nights. full moons. cobbled streets. horse-drawn carriages. mysterious strangers. bogs. moors. forests. mountains. castles. velvet. silver. brass. gold. jewels. domino masks. the opera. dangerous romances. tragic romances. violins. roses. lilies. empty graves. crosses. cemeteries. snow. ice. the gallows. crows. milk-white skin. ambiguous illness. fangs. pointed nails. something howling in the night. capes. gloves. top hats. straight razors. lightning. pipe organs. underground caverns. bats. mice. rats. ravens. cats. pearls. attics. talismans. axes. wood. isolation in a room full of people. vampires. werewolves. ghosts. coffins. western europe. eastern europe. bones. churches. catacombs. mausoleums. books. stitches.

PARANORMAL.

malevolent spirits. seances. spells. missing bodies. hidden graves. white noise. static. flickering lights. rings of salt. demons. poltergeists. dark histories. old buildings. cold air. wells. urban exploration. a dog barking at unseen things. iconoclasm. black ooze. old photographs. dark bodies of water. crucifixes. priests. possession. exorcisms. dolls.

SLASHER.

bloodbaths. massacres. wanton nudity. newspapers. leather jackets. letterman jackets. converse sneakers. obscured faces. social unrest. bonfires. lakes. babysitters. high school. lockers. dead leaves in the fall. jack-o’-lanterns. passing shadows. outdated television sets. nightmares. psychiatrists. hospitals. unstoppable forces. gunfire. police. landline telephones. improvised weapons. halloween. secrets. revelations. cut wires. character masks. scrunchies. wild curls. jeering children. parties. fire. swearing. revulsion. california. the american midwest. ambulances.

THRILLER.

daylight. fluorescent lighting. morgues. unwavering eye contact. tension. lit rooms. empty rooms. killer in plain sight. a dog digging in the newly-planted flower bed. steely gazes. paperwork. anagrams. codes. convicted killers. missing persons. law enforcement. federal agents. small towns. paranoia. subdued terror. dimly-lit parking lots. a noise in the distance.

tagged by: @distopea tagging: @un1awful | @lured-into-wonderland | @arcxnumvitae ( Iomhar ) | @royaletiquette ( Queen Koko pls ) | @kinglyisms (Casimir )

[antifathomable-shapeshifter]

cool fucked up horror things

blood coming from a place where there shouldn't be blood/something that shouldn't have blood is bleeding.

What The Fuck Am I Looking At? What The Hell Is That?

Big Smile

shadow-y humanoid form with Hyper-Realistic Eyes/Mouths

limbs too long

Oh look at that weird deer* ... Wait A Minute That's Not An Deer*

Normal But To The Left (bad)

Normal But To The Right (good) (no wait this is bad actually)

*any common animal

feel free to add on with other cool fucked up horror things

[exvelovly]

being next door neighbors is cool and all but what if our balconies were right next to each other and so close that i could cross over to your balcony on a starry, moonlit night and maul you to shreds

[hungryslothwrites]

sometimes writing fic is just an excuse to wax poetic about how terrifying space is and therefore how hecking awesome it is, and also the alienation from society inherent in cosmic horror or something

[itsroswelll]

safsdagds just realised jon and martin follow the absolutely godly trope of trans lovers surviving in the apocolypse