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3:29am
June 3, 2014
Necromancer old woman who summons the dead to help her out with knitting projects
“Can you fetch me the angora yarn? I’m starting a blanket for our Nancy’s newest.”
And then undead Napoleon or Ghengis Khan or whatever just sigh and are like,
“The cream or the lilac?”
“The lilac, dearie.”
*sigh*
This is actually a plot point in my favorite book! A woman with powerful magic is running a hotel that’s haunted by a ghost. Because of who she is, some old gods come to stay at her hotel during a trip, and the God Of Death’s wife keeps having the resident ghost fetch her knitting for her or pick up things she’s dropped and can’t bend over for.
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8:50pm
April 12, 2014
Actually every time I see “stretchy” characters like Elastigirl or Mr. Fantastic I always think about how nightmarishly disturbing they could be and how that’s such an untapped facet of them, like they could so easily just terrorize villains as stretchy uncanny bogeymen. It’s an innately creepy power yet almost never played for creep factor.
There was an episode of the new Doctor Who that had people who could stretch and it was definitely played for creepiness.
4:19am
December 27, 2013
Most disturbing things children have said about their imaginary friends
- He has no face.
- He tells me it’s ok to kill people
- She stares at me from the ceiling
- The man in the Easter Bunny costume loves me so much
- I talk to her through the mirror
- When you leave, she crawls out of my closet on all 4’s
- When I take a bath, he comes out of the water
- She says she’ll take me away with her one day forever
- He has no arms or legs
- She’s bloody and she cries all the time
Some of those aren’t disturbing to me (no arms or legs? that’s kind of normal for some people… and talking through the mirror seems normal to me too), but some are very disturbing. (Staring from the ceiling holy crap, that reminds me of that horrific ceiling monster from Buffy.) But I suspect a lot of them aren’t actually creepy to the kids in question.