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More stuff that should be required reading before writing creepypasta: http://www.springhole.net/writing/better-creepypasta-and-horror-characters.htm
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Not gonna lie, I'm actually a member of the creepypasta narration community (although I'm very art based and have only written one story that has been published to any creepypasta forum), but even I see the batshit insanity and drama that goes on and just... man fuck these guys.
A lot of it comes from the fact there are young people in the comunity - which is a thing pretty resolutely rejected by most webmasters etc - you have to put a date of birth in to read that story I linked and if its below 13 (or 15 I don't remember) then you will not be allowed to access the site. These changes came from the Waukesha Creepypasta Stabbing - when two young girls attacked their friend while claiming to be proxies of the slender man.
It is interesting to note the response that the creepypasta community actually had (well, the people in the 20+ age bracket; I can't speak much for the teens that have been highlighted here although many did jump to the defense of a fictional, betentacled dude) - as the big players in the narration community set up a 24 hour charity livestream and the moderator of the creepypasta wiki set up a youcaring drive. So, despite the majority of consumers being fucking dumb at least they have some people in charge who aren't bad.
It is disappointing that there's a lot of talentless shit and 13 year olds masturbating over Jeff the Killer - but it does reap some pretty awesome rewards. Check out crappypasta.com if you want a laugh.
A lot of it comes from the fact there are young people in the comunity - which is a thing pretty resolutely rejected by most webmasters etc - you have to put a date of birth in to read that story I linked and if its below 13 (or 15 I don't remember) then you will not be allowed to access the site. These changes came from the Waukesha Creepypasta Stabbing - when two young girls attacked their friend while claiming to be proxies of the slender man.
It is interesting to note the response that the creepypasta community actually had (well, the people in the 20+ age bracket; I can't speak much for the teens that have been highlighted here although many did jump to the defense of a fictional, betentacled dude) - as the big players in the narration community set up a 24 hour charity livestream and the moderator of the creepypasta wiki set up a youcaring drive. So, despite the majority of consumers being fucking dumb at least they have some people in charge who aren't bad.
It is disappointing that there's a lot of talentless shit and 13 year olds masturbating over Jeff the Killer - but it does reap some pretty awesome rewards. Check out crappypasta.com if you want a laugh.
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Anyone who was an alternative comic fan in the 90's (all ten of us) could have told you Jeff the Killer would be popular with teen girls; we'd already been there and done that with Johnny the Homicidal Maniac. It got so bad at one point that the discussion group I was part of had to ban all JtHM talk because sections of the group would actually start fighting about how Johnny would love them and not kill them and how they'd drawn their own fan comic with their self insert and wanted to use the copier in the back to mail it to Jhonen Vasquez.
I didn't understand it then, and I honestly don't understand it now. I just know it happens, and it will happen again.
I didn't understand it then, and I honestly don't understand it now. I just know it happens, and it will happen again.
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Excuse you, I said no such thing.
Kidding. Ish.
Back on topic, I have a handful of teen "friends" who are so far into this bull that they're trying to make up their own "creepypasta OCs" and then cosplaying them and getting upset when no one knows who or what the blue hell they are.
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Lovecraft wrote an excellent (if long) essay about what makes good horror fiction. Potential Creepypasta scribes should give it a gander, and check out the classic stories and novels that ol' Howie cites.
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Most of them wouldn't even take a peak at that link since it doesn't involve bishonens.
they'll just say "ok..." and go on to read Ticcy Taco and call it a masterpiece or something.
I don't get why 12 year olds things that edgy pretty boy killers, Slenderman "proxies" and haunted visdeo games entertaining. they aren't even creepy. and Creepy pastas are supposed to invoke fear. hence why it's called a CREEPY pasta.
they'll just say "ok..." and go on to read Ticcy Taco and call it a masterpiece or something.
I don't get why 12 year olds things that edgy pretty boy killers, Slenderman "proxies" and haunted visdeo games entertaining. they aren't even creepy. and Creepy pastas are supposed to invoke fear. hence why it's called a CREEPY pasta.
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If creepypasta had been a thing when I was a teenager I definitely would have written it. Honestly, it's a pretty great way to hone your craft. Write something, see what kind of response it gets. If I could just overcome my writer's block I might attempt it.
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I suddenly remembered reading some internet sissy fight involving a creepypasta fan. She and her friend were fans of Amnesia, Ao Oni, Dead Island and Slender. At the Ao Oni wiki (which has a comment section that's a major autistic mess), they keep making these awful fan games that have the glaring flaws amateur RPG Maker users do. Protip, when your horror game has a turn-based battle system with the default annoying theme song, you failed at being scary. Anyway, someone finally decided not to be a part of their hugbox and told them what is wrong with their games and they started raging telling them that he/she never made a game before so he/she has nothing to say and tried to get the user banned.
EDIT: My favorite creepypasta thus far are Psychosis and those written like campfire stories. The latter sounds more immersive than "haunted game cartridge" or "lost episode of a show with hyperrealistic graphics".
EDIT: My favorite creepypasta thus far are Psychosis and those written like campfire stories. The latter sounds more immersive than "haunted game cartridge" or "lost episode of a show with hyperrealistic graphics".
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One of the last conversations I had with my dad was explaining where Slenderman came from, and that those two girls stabbed their friend over a monster that had been invented by people from Something Awful.
This bothers me to no end.
Dionaea House is fucking excellent, holy shit.
But yeah, creepypasta fangirls weird me out because I remember being on /b/ years ago before /x/ was even a board, and people were swapping creepypastas with each other late at night, mixed in with horrifying guro manga. It seems so strange that 12 year olds are making fandoms around it now.
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I love well-written creepypasta. I love terrible creepypasta even more. This is how I live my life.
My personal favorite bad creepypasta is a little ditty called The Deadsun Myth.
It's a tale of wisdom and wonder, where a young man from a made-up town wth an anachronistic nickname that is immediately invalidated by his turning into a ghost monster after all his DNA is replaced with ectoueasnone (ecto-ease-none, geddit? ...I... think?) and the narrator's grampa nicknames the resultant scamp Deadsun, for no apparent reason, as Deadsun has no dead-sun-like traits.
He is totally unstoppable, even by religion masters, until AK-47s are invented, and even then, with AK-47s "and others" he respawns every day. And then a large, but not strictly daily, number of "wars" are fought against him until the modern day. The end.
No moral!
It was probably written by a kid, or somebody with the writing ability of a kid, so I can't be too hard on t, but oh man, I love it so.
Also, as for why Jeff and Slenderman are eroticized by fangirls? Some ladies just can't get enough of bad boys, including monstrous serial killers or literal monsters with murder tentacles and no face. I can't explain it, I just know it's a thing. See also: Sigourney Weaver continually proposing that she has a sex scene with the xenomorph.
My personal favorite bad creepypasta is a little ditty called The Deadsun Myth.
It's a tale of wisdom and wonder, where a young man from a made-up town wth an anachronistic nickname that is immediately invalidated by his turning into a ghost monster after all his DNA is replaced with ectoueasnone (ecto-ease-none, geddit? ...I... think?) and the narrator's grampa nicknames the resultant scamp Deadsun, for no apparent reason, as Deadsun has no dead-sun-like traits.
He is totally unstoppable, even by religion masters, until AK-47s are invented, and even then, with AK-47s "and others" he respawns every day. And then a large, but not strictly daily, number of "wars" are fought against him until the modern day. The end.
No moral!
It was probably written by a kid, or somebody with the writing ability of a kid, so I can't be too hard on t, but oh man, I love it so.
Also, as for why Jeff and Slenderman are eroticized by fangirls? Some ladies just can't get enough of bad boys, including monstrous serial killers or literal monsters with murder tentacles and no face. I can't explain it, I just know it's a thing. See also: Sigourney Weaver continually proposing that she has a sex scene with the xenomorph.
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They're a fandom on a surface level.
really theee kids know nothing of creepy pastas. they just like edgy stories with guro and pretty boys.
if it's a Tl;dr with actual horror elements they just skip it and go to reading Ticcy Toby and watch pewdiepie.
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It feels really weird to get snobbish over creepypastas, of all things.
I've never written a creepypasta proper, but I did write a fan fiction five years ago that gets passed around as copypasta on /v/ and Reddit that's a horror story. It's popped up in some weird places.
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Weird thing is, the admin who made this is the same one that scoured the Creepypasta Wiki clean of shitty fanfics and self-inserts, despite a massive uproar in the community over it. It's not exactly a bastion of quality now, but it used to be much worse.As a former mod of the Creepypasta Wiki, it makes me very happy to see this. Our users spend a great amount of time finding these stupid things and rooting out the authors. As such, I will donate one of our traitorous former admins for your approval.
Ladies and gents, http://furbearingbrick.deviantart.com/
Meet Fur, creator of Worm Jeff.
As for creepypastas themselves, they're not all terrible (I'm a big fan of Slimebeast's work) but there seems to be a growing bias towards shitty DeviantArt OC's like Ticci-Toby.
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haha oh man - i loooove this shit, it's my FAVORITE guilty pleasure of all time! i love stupid shit and i almost don't care. for years i tried working on a particular rambly creepy pasta story and maybe i'll give it another go. my favorite subgenre is creepy vidya gaemz. the gimmick of mine was that our hero would keep the bizarre device, and it would drive all his friends away. so he had an unhealthy relationship with a sentient video game console that wanted to keep him glued to whatever tv it was hooked up to. and i just gave away the gimmick.
anyway
figured someone would mention furbearingbrick, haha.
seriously though, i'm all for letting the kids have their fun with their dumb little fandoms. and making loltastic art. i love that "time to killed people" thing! it's like a new chasethehedgehog.
anyway
figured someone would mention furbearingbrick, haha.
seriously though, i'm all for letting the kids have their fun with their dumb little fandoms. and making loltastic art. i love that "time to killed people" thing! it's like a new chasethehedgehog.
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There's some pretty good creepypastas out there. Then you get people who write stories like this:
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Ah great. I was hoping someone would make a post about this, happy halloween folks. Creepypastas are great, only the well written ones. The fandom is pretty batshit at times but that's every fandom. I'm glad a couple of people mentioned SlimeBeast. He's one of my favorite internet horror writers. Have any of you heard about the trouble he had with a YouTube narrator named MrCreepypasta? Look it up an that will be discussed in another post.
Back on topic, am I the only who finds Jeff the Killer creepy as hell facewise, the original photoshopped face, btw. In retrospect it was a pretty bad story. There was so much wrong with that story after reading it again. I'm not saying I would write something better though the pastas I've written so far has been shit, but to be a better writer, you need to write shit first, right?
The whole 'Slenderman made me do it' killings were stupid. This is the problem with some of the fans in the Creepypasta community. They take this stuff too seriously for their own good. The fan art and fan fics of the popular pastas like Ben Drowned, Lost Silver, etc are disturbing at best, some of them. There's more to say but I don't want to go autistic mode.
Back on topic, am I the only who finds Jeff the Killer creepy as hell facewise, the original photoshopped face, btw. In retrospect it was a pretty bad story. There was so much wrong with that story after reading it again. I'm not saying I would write something better though the pastas I've written so far has been shit, but to be a better writer, you need to write shit first, right?
The whole 'Slenderman made me do it' killings were stupid. This is the problem with some of the fans in the Creepypasta community. They take this stuff too seriously for their own good. The fan art and fan fics of the popular pastas like Ben Drowned, Lost Silver, etc are disturbing at best, some of them. There's more to say but I don't want to go autistic mode.
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Antidote for your ears: The F+ podcast did dramatic readings of the least-scary creepypastas a couple of years ago, and it's brilliant.
Episode 68: The Episode is Coming from Inside Your House!
Also, for those seeking good creepypasta for their All Hallow's Eve, try The House of Clocks.
http://preserveusfromthehouseofclocks.com/
On the surface, it's a rather old website for a small museum in Chicago, housing an aged heiress' collection of antique clocks from all over the world. But then you start reading the descriptions of the exhibits, and things get... interesting. Be sure to pay attention to the authors of each exhibit's description, and don't forget to have a look at the guestbook.
And don't go near the Mother's Clock, especially near the hour.
Episode 68: The Episode is Coming from Inside Your House!
Also, for those seeking good creepypasta for their All Hallow's Eve, try The House of Clocks.
http://preserveusfromthehouseofclocks.com/
On the surface, it's a rather old website for a small museum in Chicago, housing an aged heiress' collection of antique clocks from all over the world. But then you start reading the descriptions of the exhibits, and things get... interesting. Be sure to pay attention to the authors of each exhibit's description, and don't forget to have a look at the guestbook.
And don't go near the Mother's Clock, especially near the hour.
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Oh man, I remember when MCP narrated one of my stories. To be honest, it was one of my worse pastas, but it feels good, dude.
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Sums it up pretty well. The scariest part about Jeff is the original picture of him, the one on the left. The one in the middle looks like undead Michael Jackson.
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oh hey it's halloween
well, i'm surprised no one mentioned ted the caver - a classic of the genre!
also i have this dump i haven't updated in ages (not my real name in there)
http://vidyadreemz.blogspot.com
i'd put the nes godzilla story in there, but it's way too damn long with way too many pictures. but even though it's full of cliches, i have a huge soft spot for that one. i no longer factor in cliches or stereotypes into how much i like something.
well, i'm surprised no one mentioned ted the caver - a classic of the genre!
also i have this dump i haven't updated in ages (not my real name in there)
http://vidyadreemz.blogspot.com
i'd put the nes godzilla story in there, but it's way too damn long with way too many pictures. but even though it's full of cliches, i have a huge soft spot for that one. i no longer factor in cliches or stereotypes into how much i like something.