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[redthedragon]

Read the Mystery Flesh Pit fic. Really good fic. Not... disturbing, not what i was hoping to get out of it at all. But a hell of a story.

I don't know if it's possible for me to feel "disturbed" by reading things any more. I might've overdone that one and run out. I'll be kind of upset if that's the case, though.

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[yvannairie]

Definitely more gross than creepy or terrifying, agreed. A gross-out body horror thriller, not a psychological horror story like I also expected. I'm currently trying to write a review of sorts about it but I keep finding I have, like, a ton of negative quibbles like I would have of a book so I've been putting off commenting or saying anything outside of that recommendation.

[sexytronians]

Yeah much as I enjoyed it (when I wasn’t so scared I was nauseous) I also have various little quibbles.

I think I’m going to read the rest of the fics in the series but I agree that the psychological horror was lighter than I thought at first.

[yvannairie]

Having read all three parts in the Ao3 collection, a lot of my quibbles from part 1 were removed by it just being act 1, replaced by all new quibbles, some of them distinctly just being "oh this isn't the kind of genre literature I like", lol.

[sexytronians]

Fair enough tbh!

[redthedragon]

That's a good way to put it, the genre literature thing.
I think my only major quibble is that the ending felt really abrupt to me, but a few minor things did kind of eat at me while I was reading. Nothing big enough to make me unsatisfied with the story until the ending though.

[sexytronians]

I probably should’ve pre-faced my recommendation with the fact that I’m very easily creeped out and disturbed. At least compared to most people I know who like horror.

I’m kind of the horror fan equivalent of a guy who loves curry but needs a gallon of water to have anything spicer than a naan bread.

I’m glad you still enjoyed the story though!

[redthedragon]

Oh yeah, that might've been good to know. Honestly, for me the Flesh Pit story was more of an action thriller with horror elements than horror; it's way too difficult (for me) not to look at the weird flesh creatures as just like... animals and people who live there and have to deal with the oncoming encroach of human exploiters. Anything that creeped out or disturbed me did it by being unbelievably, interminably cruel to the flesh pit and its denizens tbh
and like there was some of that. but i do not believe you've gotten up to the parts that are going to stick with me lmao so i will not elaborate.

i'm the opposite way with horror, too; most horror lands like a spark on wet wood for me and just fizzles out. I'm a hard man to shake LOL. unfortunate for me, because I rather like the state of being shaken. but.

ACTUALLY, one horror fan to another, if you get creeped out easily but find that scary things with a neatly-tied and very satisfying ending that supplies the acting characters with agency doesn't leave you all shook up inside, I really recommend Jordan Peele's Us. That movie does such incredible things with its backing track, set and elements. Shit you not I was terrified in the middle and by the end I think I was actually *more* settled than I had been before. It's a very satisfying movie that me, my brother and my dad agreed had almost the exact opposite of the sticking-with-you power that most horror tries to get after.
a bit apocalyptic though. Not sure if that's a thing you need to stay away from in this day and age but worth mentioning bc I dont think anyone warned *me* that it had a form of like apocalypse as its plot

[sexytronians]

I think the amalgams? Is that what they’re called? Those freaked me out. I did see everything else like the Shames and colotropods are just animals that live in the pit, they don’t freak me out. But I am a baby when it comes to unnatural body horror. I mean the anagrams are technically natural but anyway XP

I like being shaken to an extent, sometimes it’s a good way to clear your brain out of more real and present stressful stuff.

But if I get too shaken my brain goes a bit weird and not in a good way. Because I sort of forget out to be several people in a trench coat and end up as several people just falling around. XP

I’ve looked at the synopsis and I’ll try it! Possibly while hiding behind a cushion but it looks good. :D

[redthedragon]

oh yeah, largely when i get shaken it just lets my dominant personality go take a nap. it's relaxing in a weird way