#the thing in the apartment

[rayrainyday]

The 'Thing In The Apartment' Breakdown

What Even Is The Thing?

The Thing is a humanoid creature with grey slimy skin and sunken eyes that can see through walls to put its victims in a trance of fear (e.g 1:06 the Thing looking at Leah- the thing in the apartment, always watching and 3:59 night visions with Lindsay) It is unknown of its specific species but. It slinks in the shadows and seems to hate light for a reason. Like when Lindsay shines her phone screen light at the Thing and it backs away in pain, almost (3:15, the thing in the apartment. night visions). Perhaps light is the Thing's weakness and it is written about in the Crypttv Book of Monsters (with the Looksee's, Birch's and Mordeo's + other monsters'). It also has long fingers, which it uses to kill Leah in Night Visions, and a large bow shaped mouth that doesn't seem to close. Furthermore, it does not kill just for food but also out of aggression to people who get in its way. The Thing is extremely fast, but silent, and uses distractions in order to get its victims in the right place at the right time- so it can score the kill. A great example of this at the end of Night Visions, when the Thing makes a bin roll on the pavement noisily to distract Lindsay from it creeping into the passenger seat. As well as the first scene (also in Night Visions) when the Thing was using the darkness to sneak up on Lindsay in its first attempt to kill her.

Why And How Is It Doing This?

For food. It kills Sam, Leah and Sean then eats them. However, with Lindsay after its failed first attempt the Thing appears to be angered or ashamed of its failure and instead of eating her it just kills Lindsay, because of that shame maybe. As previously stated, it creeps in the darkness and hates the light, so it finds 'hunting' for food easier at night when people are asleep, alone and under the cover of darkness. When the Thing kills for food, it does it in 3 specific stages:

Stage 1-

It begins to keep the victim up a night via nightmares, (sleep deprivation) insomnia and the feeling of something staring at them.

Stage 2-

As this state progresses over a few days to a week it leads the victim to lash out, become paranoid but only subtly, so it appears to just be an effect of bad sleep; natural and nothing to question. Also, due to the strange cause of the victim's insomnia they would not want to talk about out of fear of rejection. That internal turmoil will cause the person to become delirious and lead them to the Thing easily as they are unaware of their surroundings.

Stage 3-

Short but not sweet. In the darkness they are killed by the Thing, eaten and as the Thing cannot hide or dispose of bodies because of its inhumane appearance it could be theorised that it eats its victims whole over time.

Thank you if you are the only person who read this or even if no one reads it at all! This was so fun to write as I love Crypttv and never see any fans all on the same platform interacting as much as other fandoms, so I want to make things for fellow Crypttv fans even if it's just a few :)

Stay spooky and after reading this don't forget,

ALWAYS KEEP THE LIGHTS ON

[ravenlilyrose]

Bruce is at a gala, okay, and he’s talking to a woman.

Random woman: “And we found out that we’re having another child!”

Bruce: *absolutely cackling inside, because this is about to be the funniest thing he’s done in weeks*

Brucie: “That’s wonderful! Where are they? Can I meet them? How old are they?”

Now Brucie is standing there, scanning the room for children with a huge grin on his face, while all of the random rich people stand around like ‘who’s going to explain to the adorable, well-meaning idiot that most people know they’re going to have children a few months before the children are born.’

And worse, who’s going to have to break the news to him that he can’t meet the kid today?

Because this man… this man has acquired all of his children with zero premeditation. Yes, he does have a bio kid, but that one showed up on his doorstep as a preteen. He did even less acquiring with that one than with the others.

Bruce has a blast acting out his disappointment, and has to turn some so that he can no longer see Tim and Cass leaning against each other and laughing, because otherwise he’s going to start laughing.

[saturnvs]

babies!

[subwhizz]

Cuddling night 🌙 💤

The Starved-touch idiots

And macaque being homeless for another season. What are the oods.

[humblegoat]

every once in a while i think back to college and the time my animation professor used moses from prince of egypt as an example of “unappealing character design” and each time i remember this i’m closer to branding it an internalized racism thing

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

so in an attempt to actually use positive thinking, anytime i fuck up and my brain reacts as if ive cause a minor apocalyptic event, i compare my fuck up to the 4 minute fuck up committed by the crew of the uss william d porter.

and only today, as i was having to explain what happened to my mom when i was explaining the whole comparison thing, did i realise that most people dont know about it and ive decided that needs to change because its objectively hilarious.

...which is a weird thing to say about an event that occured on a warship in 1943, specifically november 14th.

see the uss william d porter was a fletcher-class destroyer but you dont need to know what that means, just that she had guns that went bang bang and that she was escorting another ship, the uss iowa, to cairo.

while they were on their way there, they performed some gun trials like testing the anti-aircraft guns or the torpedos. and while they were running a torpedo drill, the crew of the porter managed to fire a live torpedo straight at the iowa which you know, in terms of a list of things to do while escorting a ship, shooting a torpedo at them is not on that list.

especially if the president of the united states is on board.

yeah so fdr was on board and the gun trials were actually his idea, and part of the trials was that they were conducted under radio silence.

and that means the crew of the porter couldnt just call the iowa to be like "move out the way, we accidentally shot a torpedo at you."

but they did have signal lamps and you know, the signalman on board was trained to signal this exact kind of message.

...and uh never mind, the signalman did manage to successfully tell the iowa that a torpedo was coming toward them but wasnt as successful when it came to the direction the torpedo was coming from.

not all hope is lost though because the signalman could still use the signal lamp to correct his previous mistake and-, never mind, he announced that the porter was reversing, which she wasnt.

yeah so at catastrophic mistake number 3, they broke radio silence to warn the iowa and she managed to turn out of the way just in time which meant no one got hurt. and even though the inquiry into the incident led to chief torpedoman (fantastic job title btw) lawton dawson being sentences to hard labour, fdr intervened and waved away his sentence, saying it was all an accident.

but yeah, so thats my new measure for "how much did i really fuck up?" and when i compared accidentally picking up a pencil case without a tag on it in wilko, turns out it was a very minor fuck-up. yes, the cashier had to ask another worker to grab a duplicate so they could scan the barcode, but i didnt nearly kill the president during wartime via accidental friendly fire

[valtsv]

an angle i enjoy in cosmic/eldritch horror is when, instead resorting to the old classic "the horrors being so incomprehensible that they break your brain and drive you mad" cliché, the premise is that in comprehending the horrors you are so changed by the experience that your new state is indistinguishable to an outside observer from madness. you comprehend the unknowable just fine, but actually communicating that to anyone else is impossible because they just don't have the mental framework required to understand it. the eldritch horrors don't drive you mad. what does is the ordinary everyday horror of finding yourself isolated, ridiculed and doubted at every turn, no matter how hard you try to make yourself heard and understood.

[bloominglegumes]

i love normal guys doomed by the narrative

[mossflower]

i don’t want to be a hater but some of you guys are really boring with your ships. ‘oh i can’t ship that it’s too unhealthy’ skill issue

[skkpaws]

i just learned that bsd is on netflix in some countries and These are two of the thumbnails you can get for it. like Ok might as well slap on the LGBT category while you’re at it god damn

[lotus-pear]

i miss them......please come back........please come home :((

[mischievous-thunder]

Wade: Wined, dined and 69ed.

Logan: Thrashed, slashed and smashed.

Wade: They're the same thing, Peanut!

[aslyran]

Visions

[l-just-want-to-see]

isn’t the fundamental tragedy of 18 year old Dick that he wants to be free but instead he is loved and of 18 year old Jason that he wants to be loved but instead he is free

[dollette-fawn]

[sunderwight]

What if the plant body hadn't worked out, and the Holy Mausoleum solution had actually taken a long time to sort of "fix" Shen Qingqiu's body and fully call his soul back to it, so that hundreds of years passed and civilization in PIDW/SV world progressed to the point of something like the "modern era"?

Imagine Luo Binghe trying to delicately introduce his shizun to such strange concepts as smart phones and credit cards, while Shen Qingqiu is just desperately trying to figure out how dumb he should play this. Would it be believable for him to get everything on the first try? There have to be some differences between what he knows and this world's versions, right, because of the demons and cultivators and things? Right?? But it's not like any of this actually IS difficult for him to grasp!

Luo Binghe: Shizun already discerned how to type using a keyboard...?

Shen Qingqiu, sweating bullets: what, like it's hard?