FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Renowned Horrorman Kris Straub Reveals Development-Ready “Nightmares Park” August 11, 2015
Seattle, WA – Kris Straub, creator of Candle Cove (now in series development at SyFy) and Broodhollow (not in development because period piece = too $$$) is giving idea-birth to a new horror legend: Nightmares Park.
“It’s basically just Jurassic Park but I replaced the dinosaurs with nightmares,” said Straub as he typed this. “It’s pretty much just going to be Jurassic Park but about dreams.”
When the sleep research conglomerate Oneirosyn licenses their dream-realization technology to a theme park company, they end up creating the world’s most terrifying attraction: a place where everyone’s worst dreams become real… but safely behind glass. That is, unless the man the cages are wired to falls asleep.
“It doesn’t make a lot of sense as a device, but there had to be a way for things to go wrong,” said Straub. Straub was talking again. “Maybe I should do it where the guy has to wake up, and that makes the nightmares escape. But then that implies that it’s just his own nightmares. I wanted it to be everyone’s nightmares. That will pay off better later.”
“The best Straub in horror is back,” said me.
Kris Straub is not Peter Straub’s son but he once saw The Talisman at an airport bookstore.
Please release this press release immediately, like it said at the top. Thank you.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I remember being mildly disappointed when I looked into the Tumblr kin community and found a good chunk of it to be fictionkin
Like, I'm in no state to spit on other people's coping mechanisms, but it's not very interesting to me
You can be anything you can possibly imagine...and so you're Kankri Vantas. Yay?
Granted, my coping mechanism is pretending I'm a near-omnipotent magical princess, so like I said, no room to talk
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
TBF, if I were ever to become a kin of anyone, it would probably be Karkat, so I can't complain too much about that.
I dunno what the popular thing is now but when I was last really into it during early 2013 (during my alicornkin phase) there were SOOOO many Homestuck fictives
It's like when you go to a convention and you see a good 90% of the people in costume are Homestuck trolls, because of course they are
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I remember when I first realized that being Princess of Centralia was a coping mechanism for what I feel to be a lack of control (and, to an extent, lack of agency) in my actual life
It was weird because suddenly this playful land of make-believe has this question attached of "would I even be entertaining this if not for my mental illness?"
I mean, I suppose it doesn't matter in the end, since it does really help me get through the day sometimes, but you know...it was weird to think about for a while
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
My relationship with the whole otherkin thing is weird
Perhaps most obvious, there was that time in 2013 when I was like "I'M LITERALLY AN ALICORN IN A HUMAN'S BODY" and @Anonus and @Section42L just went along with it because I'm me
That slowly morphed into being the princess of "Centralia", a name I often wish I'd put more thought into because it makes people think of an abandoned town that's been on fire for 50 years
But I never really applied the term "kin" to the princess thing, even though that's effectively what it is...I just say I'm "literally" a magical princess in a parallel universe
But of course I do use the term "kin" to describe my occasional desires to be a teenager, a doll, etc...but I'm note nearly as invested in those as I am in literally being a magical princess
my first encounter with otherkin was pretty negative, kind of soured me on the whole thing for a while, you guys helped me lighten up about it
i still can't really imagine being an otherkin because i dunno, my brain doesn't seem to work that way, i find it hard to internalize things that aren't literally true
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Like I said, I've internalized the princess thing largely because I can't deal with some things that are literally true.
it's your coping mechanism and it works for you, i'm not knocking it
idk i don't want to be melodramatic but i feel like with me it's like, i can't deal with things that are literally true in my life, but things that aren't literally true are just intrinsically inadequate to me, so i'm a buzzkill 24/7
i want to make it clear i was just musing on my own subjective experiences, up there, not commenting on anyone else's subjective experiences or the validity of such
honestly other people's fantasies tend to feel more 'literally real' to me than my own, since i experience them as part of the external world rather than something i created (idk if that makes sense)
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I didn't think it was rude, I just didn't have a response.
For a while I worried that treating my princesshood and magical powers as if they're real meant I'm delusional, but ultimately I decided that even if it does I'd rather be delusional and happy than lucid and sad.
Increasingly, it's become an integral part of my dreams now. It used to be that Princess dreams were few and far between, but now in my dreams I'm a magic princess by default.
Having a fantasy persona seems perfectly fine to me so long as you don't impose any unfair expectations on other people because of them. Like, don't expect the plumber to kiss your rings and call you "Your Highness."
On fictionkin: a couple of my friends identify as fictional characters like this in some way and I don't particularly have any issues with it as a result, though I will say that I don't think I really qualify for it
Much as I love calling myself Rayman or Tiny, I know that I'm really just myself (albeit a self that identifies greatly with both of them and a few other characters, like Finn and Mordecai).
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Renowned Horrorman Kris Straub Reveals Development-Ready “Nightmares Park”
August 11, 2015
Seattle, WA – Kris Straub, creator of Candle Cove (now in series development at SyFy) and Broodhollow (not in development because period piece = too $$$) is giving idea-birth to a new horror legend: Nightmares Park.
“It’s basically just Jurassic Park but I replaced the dinosaurs with nightmares,” said Straub as he typed this. “It’s pretty much just going to be Jurassic Park but about dreams.”
When the sleep research conglomerate Oneirosyn licenses their dream-realization technology to a theme park company, they end up creating the world’s most terrifying attraction: a place where everyone’s worst dreams become real… but safely behind glass. That is, unless the man the cages are wired to falls asleep.
“It doesn’t make a lot of sense as a device, but there had to be a way for things to go wrong,” said Straub. Straub was talking again. “Maybe I should do it where the guy has to wake up, and that makes the nightmares escape. But then that implies that it’s just his own nightmares. I wanted it to be everyone’s nightmares. That will pay off better later.”
“The best Straub in horror is back,” said me.
Kris Straub is not Peter Straub’s son but he once saw The Talisman at an airport bookstore.
Please release this press release immediately, like it said at the top. Thank you.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
He himself directed Chronicle.
SA hates him, because they have no ability to form opinions unless the funny rapeman they worship tells them to.
that came first?
edmund i am going to make you play as the lost where every run has thin-room haunt
a coping mechanism, since you are better than me
i still can't really imagine being an otherkin because i dunno, my brain doesn't seem to work that way, i find it hard to internalize things that aren't literally true
idk i don't want to be melodramatic but i feel like with me it's like, i can't deal with things that are literally true in my life, but things that aren't literally true are just intrinsically inadequate to me, so i'm a buzzkill 24/7
idk
i'm sorry if that was rude
i want to make it clear i was just musing on my own subjective experiences, up there, not commenting on anyone else's subjective experiences or the validity of such
honestly other people's fantasies tend to feel more 'literally real' to me than my own, since i experience them as part of the external world rather than something i created (idk if that makes sense)
For a while I worried that treating my princesshood and magical powers as if they're real meant I'm delusional, but ultimately I decided that even if it does I'd rather be delusional and happy than lucid and sad.
Increasingly, it's become an integral part of my dreams now. It used to be that Princess dreams were few and far between, but now in my dreams I'm a magic princess by default.
Much as I love calling myself Rayman or Tiny, I know that I'm really just myself (albeit a self that identifies greatly with both of them and a few other characters, like Finn and Mordecai).
also dadrock
i never saw anything wrong with having a fantasy persona