#strangercore

[abstractski3s]

The light shines!

[just-a-lidle-creacher]

fuck you the stranger is NOT the circus (it is but like hear me out) the stranger is that one post about a deer. “that thing is not a deer.” “that thing never was a deer.” “that thing is no longer a deer.” “i have no clue what that thing is, but it is not a deer.”

[str4ng3rdanger]

aw shucks this really gleeps my glorp.....

[mmaurysiek]

the way characters in time travel fics react to someone else's doppelgangers is so unrealistic!

i mean, as someone coming from a family with a same face syndrome, I'd expect the characters to visibly blue screen, take a second, third, fourth look — and awkwardly ask "are you two related?" / "are you related to...?"

and informing someone about meeting their doppelganger is likely to be accompanied by a haunted look, and to go along the lines of "I've met your [x]. i immediately recognised them, like, I thought that they were you at first, but their [y] wasn't like you, so I've asked if they're related to you"

or, my favourite, a direct introduction: the blue screen expression remains just the same, and so do second, third, fourth look taken; then — "how do I tell you apart now that I know both of you..? you have different... everything, actually? everything but the face"

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

HIII MAC! i don’t listen to tma (podcasts r hard :[ still working my way thru nightvale) but whatever an avatar of the extinction is sounds very intriguing 👀 giggling kicking my legs twirling my hair. would u like 2 perhaps. explain what that is and how it relates 2 knives perhaps??? i am holding out a microphone 2 u the floor is yours

OH FUCK YEAH. HI HI IVE BEEN DYING TO TALK ABOUT KNIVES AND VASH IN THE LENS OF TMA ENTITIES. SORTING SYSTEMS AND HORROR THEMES MY BELOVED.

ok in basic terms. The Extinction rules over. obviously the fear of going extinct. (alt names for it are. The Terrible Change, The Future Without Us, and The World Is Always Ending. which. hello. slaps.) it deals with catastrophies, large forces of change, the human race dying out and being replaced with something else. you know that feeling when you think about how the sun is going to expand and swallow the earth in millions of years and theres no way the planet or anything on it will survive that, but time will keep passing anyway without us? yeah. that.

there werent ever any actual extinction avatars within the show, so its given more as a vague concept instead of given human form (which i think is very fitting) but if it was given a form i think that would be TEXTBOOK knives. thats his Whole Deal.

the extinction IS however manifested physically in different ways in the show, mostly in the form of different technology. and sometimes it gives visions of what humanity could potentially become or be replsced by.

ALL THAT TO SAY. holy shit. extinction avatar knives. he is distinctly Not Human, but appears human. he's actively working toward the destruction of all humanity, planning to replace it with plants. plants are vaguely humanoid in shape, but also distinctly Not Human. horrifying and eldritch and scary. the first time any of the humans see what a plant actually looks like its often met with disgust and horror. now imagine seeing those and being told "one day all of humanity will die and be forgetten about, and youll be replaced with these. nobody will be left to miss you." knivescore.

this post is getting sooo long but i have so much more to say. namely regarding not only knives' need for the destruction of humanity but ALSO his destruction of everyone he used to love. the people on the ship. rem. vash. etc.

BUT. i woudl also like to talk about desolation vash :]

The Desolation is the fear of losing things dear to you. losing everything you own in a house fire. family members and close friends dying unexpectedly and out of your control. everything you love being cruelly ripped away from you in an act of senseless and unstoppable violence. natural disasters. etc. you see what im talking about here.

Desolation is often represented by fire and melting wax but thats really only because the only canon representation we get is very fire-heavy. personal hc is that it can manifest in ways other than that.

normally i would call vash a victim of the desolation (victims are people whose lives are ruined or are killed by the fears, but avatars are people who either embody or serve the entity. instead of being afraid (or sometimes in spite of being afraid) they are also drawn to their fear and have a sick fascination with it) BUT. even though he has VERY much been a victim. vash has also CAUSED desolation. its not always his fault and its never intentional, but it still Happens. he doesnt want it to. and thats why hes unwilling, he would never choose to torture people in that way, but it still happens and because of his actions the entity is still being fed. look at the people who want revenge on him because of july. look at augusta and the fifth moon. it might not be his fault, but hes still the catalyst.

look at vash standing in the ruins of july and tell me that isnt desolation incarnate.

[fated-normal-767]

What if I dressed up as you and stole your identity and proceeded to be a better and kinder person than you. What if people liked the you I acted as more than the you you were. What then. What would you do then.

I would go “yippee! hooray!” and generally have a silly time about it

[diicktective]

-forcibly moisturizes u-

[stardust-and-papercuts]

Lonelycore

No one knows where the fog comes from. You’re sure it exists though, you feel it blurring the world around you, enveloping you in a damp coldness that chills you to your bones.

The others notice it too, not the fog, but the effect it has on you.They cluck worriedly and tell you about how ashy-grey your face is and how thin you’ve gotten and how the bags under your eyes keep getting bigger. They tell you these things like you have never seen your reflection before, like you don’t sit in front of the mirror picking every flawed element that you are made of. You lean into the fog then, the familiar cold comforting you as you watch their faces slowly blur away. You are invisible, and you are safe.

The fog slowly gets thicker, and colder. You walk around astonished that people don’t notice the cloud of condensation that follows you. Your fingers feel stiff from the cold and your body shivers from the onslaught of the fog. You see people walking on the street, holding hands, hugging one another, sharing the heat you so desperately crave. Your body trembles, shivering in memory of the warmth you never really had. You put on a sweater. The fog thickens around you once more.

It’s cold, is the thing. It is so,so cold.You wait for someone, for anyone, to give you a hug. You wait for them to say words warm enough to melt the ice that fills your bones.You look at groups of friends and you ache to be like them, to laugh at nothing in the buttery glow of happiness. When was the last time you laughed like that? Have you ever been that happy? Your chest feels like someone has scooped out an integral part of you. You want to yell at them for being too loud; You want to beg them to include you, to make this pain go away somehow. You want so,so much. You look once more at the giggling group of friends and you are struck with the terrible, horrible realisation that you will never be one of them.

You fold yourself into the fog. You are invisible, and you are alone.

You can feel the colour slowly leaching out of you. You sit in front of the mirror for hours just to make sure you’re still there, to make sure you haven’t disappeared accidentally. People no longer comment on your looks, you phone no longer flashes with messages of people you wish you could call your friends. You open a chat and stare at the keyboard. There is dust on your friendship and dust in your lungs and dust on the person you used to be. You have been forgotten now. You switch off your phone with frostbitten fingers and stare at the bluish tinge of your palms. 

It is so,so cold.

You go to the beach one morning and look at the waves sluggishly roll out. The mist envelops you so thickly you can almost pretend the fog never existed at all. No one notices your absence, no one cares that you have seemingly ceased to exist. You know with a sudden, sharp clarity that if you looked in the mirror you would see nothing at all. There is a lazy river and it is uninterested in the way it pumps your blood. Your heart beats in time with the waves lapping on the shore. You are alive, and it does not matter at all.

You breathe in the ocean mist and make one last discovery.

You are the fog.

You are invisible.

Isn’t that what you’ve always wanted?

(Or maybe that’s what you’ve always been, have you ever real at all? Has anybody ever ever noticed you? Who are you trying to fool? You’ve always been the fog.)

You walk into the fog.

It’s not cold anymore.

[dannybobany]

I have a fnaf blog and a tma blog so which do I post the fnaf tma crossover on

:(

[spacedykez]

this episode is so strangercore

[fernvictor]

is fern strangercore, thread locked after 184 pages of heated debate

[inkedmyths]

S1: E11 "Scarecrow"

I said I would watch some today so here we goooo

One Year Ago? Hm

Ooooh Apple Pie... I want apple pie now

[ Crepe says she thinks I will like this ep. I like apples so this seems like a good sign. ]

Oh is it a cult town? I think its a cult town

Ohhhh spooooky orchard

God I want apples

Thats a spookyass scarecrow

IT MOVED

ITS GONNA COME FOR U

Oh where's he go? Him gone?

OH FUCK HIS FACE

Wasn't there a scary stories chapter like this? A scarecrow that skinned someone?

[ Yes! From Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark: More Tales to Chill Your Bones. This monster isn't Harold, but there are big similarities. ]

HEY ITS THE BASTARD DAD

Ok its a demon? A demon that killed the mom and the gf? Whats its fuckin problem?

Daddy Issues Galore

Generally speaking taking "orders" from a parent is a bad sign for your relationships

NO DEAN THATS NOT HOW PARENTAL RELATIONSHIPS SHOULD WORK

These two are so. So stupid. So bad at emotions in different directions

Worried about their family members and SHIT at expressing it

CLASSIC ROCK FAN fucking moron

Ohhhh this town is definitely a cult or something

Ohhh its a chick. Oh they're going to be the "couple" that get attacked huh

GIRL THATS SO SHADY WHAT. DONT DO THAT

Oh maybe not. Maybe its normal

Ohh weird screaming? Is it the emf? Yep

Haunted orchard haaaaaunted orchard

Ew scarecrow

"Dude you fugly" so true Dean

YOU'RE GONNA POKE IT??

OH FUCK THE SKIN? I WAS RIGHT

Strangercore

OHHHH I get it I seeee like. A yearly sacrifice that keeps the crops bountiful

Lmao girl I knew it

GOD ALL THESE APPLES I WANT APPLE PIE 😭

Dean stop talking to people you're bad at it

Ohhhh they are so definitely being sacrificed

HHHRGH

Dean gets arrested pt..... whatever. Moron

Ok so theres Sacrificial Couple and then Sam is having bonding time with this chick over Families Sucking

There's the scarecrow! A hunting we will go!

I WAS RIIIIGHT THEY WERE SACRIFICES

But I am going to go out on a limb and guess Sam and this chick are gonna be hunted by this ~pagan god~

[ Crepe asks if this is "best girl Meg". Apparently yes! I don't know what this means aside from she will be returning later. ]

I like this professor dude hes excited to share knowledge

OOP

I KNEW IT. CULT TOWN. OUT TO KILL THEM

OHHH they are going to sacrifice Dean right. OH AND THE NIECE NO

[ Crepe points out that aside from the human sacrifice it could have just been like. A normal festival. Like they could have just been normal about it but nooooo. Can't have that. Have to kill people. ]

Meanwhile Sam is like DEANS NOT ANSWERING NOW IM STRESSED

Sam looking like a kicked puppy bc he is worried about his brother

Poor girl she knew nothing :(

Fucking weirdass cult town

GUYS YES THERE IS YOU GUYS COULD JUST GROW APPLES FUCKING NORMALLY

Dean you're so lucky your brother is paranoid

LMAO "I take back everything I said I'm so happy to see you" god they're so funny

LOCALS. LOCAL NUTJOBS

Oops got u instead bc ur stupid

Ah yes old tree old runes on it

Huh I thought the fighting the scarecrow would be more of a fight

And she's the one getting on the bus now. Hope she gets some therapy and a nice life after that.

Sam is like "I was gone for a day and you almost died. I can't leave you be for 5 minutes"

Ohhh hey its this chick again

WHUH

OH MY GOD SHE JUST? BLOOD?

Serial killer Sam bestie you dodged a bullet I think

UHHH WHATS SHE WANT WITH THEM

"FATHER" WHO ARE YOU

What the fuck

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Alright so I did like that ep. I think taking normal white rural neighborhoods and making them fucked up is fun. Fascinated by this poor Emily girl, just. Like I hope she moves on? Makes a good life for herself? Like losing your parents, living with your aunt and uncle, loving them and the town, then one day without warning they drag you off to a cellar to sacrifice you to the town god, watch them get murdered by said god... and then you pack up and leave for somewhere else, anywhere else, because what else can you do? Man.

Uhh jury’s still out on favorites. This was a good ep for development and a good Sam ep. Actually how did Dean ever survive w/o Sam around to bail him out lmao.

But just. The way Dean goes on about the greater good, but ultimately its more about what their dad wants them to do. Sam’s often more swayed by his bond with his family, as estranged as he feels from them. But this flip flops, back and forth, Saving people, saving family. Its interesting.

And the plot thickens. Dad Winchester’s on the trail of what killed their mom and Sam’s fridged gf, this Meg chick is? After the bros? And was clearly lying to try and get close to Sam for reasons unclear. Hm.

Anyways I get apple pie now so definitely a win

[str4ng3rdanger]

[l-do-not-know-you]

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[gardenergulfie]

Us @ oli, slams him into the spiral bin.

Jimmy I think is a mostly normal guy, definitely marked but currently he's not an avatar. He does think he can beat the fears in a fight tho.

Joel maybe the vast? With lizzie being the buried idk I think the dichotomy would be interesting!

OK LISTEN JIMMY IS STRANGER TO ME HE'S A TOY LOOKING LIKE A HUMAN WHO WANTS TO BE HUMAN THATS STRANGERCORE

and yes i agree Joel Vast

[scpwiki-official]

Our fingertips are flaking off this is so strangercore of us