Pronounced Theta-geist.
I dabble in everything, trying to make games. ¡Hablo español también!
I sometimes make A-rated horror. Don't lie about your age!
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Joined on 8/11/18
@Thetageist silliness and khaos aside, i can totally relate to ur statement. i believe that fictional stories can be a great release.
while i feel empathy for characters that go through lots of hardship, i tend to restrict the empathy. its not rlly worth the compassion fatigue.
i have a quote i wanna share “creating fiction stories is how you portray your feelings of reality and desires.”
That makes a lot of sense.
@Thetageist also, imo, art is meant to evoke emotions, both positive and negative, and also express the artist’s feels.
for example,
i tend to draw godlike entities as hateful and violent, due to religious trauma. i do expect some naysayers but to me, what matters is that i spread my message.
while there is also art that just shows something cute or beautiful because the artist wanted to share something they like, it does show what the artist feels about something, even if its not deep
Exactly. All art is communication, even unintentionally.
This was an interesting read.
Specifically "reality is scarier". I've had the same kind of feeling for a while now. I regularly fall asleep to missing people/murder documentaries and for some reason find it really relaxing - my best guess is that it's because no matter how bad shit gets, it could always be worse. I could be freezing to death with a gushing headwound while up a mountain somewhere.
Some of the ways people die are fucking fascinating.
Yeah. The cause and effect that leads up to a murder is an interesting train wreck to examine. I’m still enough of a soft touch that I don’t look much at true crime, but I can respect having an interest in it as long as it doesn’t become some weird parasocial shit like a fucked-up K-pop stan.
@DeaghlanNG i used to actually take some interest in the columbine massacre, but left it for personal reasons. for me, true crime is a bit much for me, and im still a noob to crime psychology, but once i get back on myself i should get into it
@Thetageist
I think I understand what you're getting at, but I have zero frame of reference when it comes to K-pop stans.
Maybe my response was a bit of a non sequitur to your original post - what I really mean to say is in modern life we've become a bit detached from how brutal life can be. Being scared by something horrifying can offer some perspective on whatever mundane problems we face daily - it could always be worse. I take some strange solace in that fact.
Yeah, the disclaimer at the end of “so long as you don’t take it to a parasocial extent” is just there so people don’t come at me complaining about the worst kinds of people in the true crime “fandom”. I’m glad you don’t know shit about K-pop, hehe.
@DeaghlanNG i can relate to the solace stuff. i like to remind myself that im doing pretty good and that things could always be worse.
also i plan to make my art more brutal when i like. i’ll still do wholesome and light stuff but my art will be darker
@KhaosKitsune617
I don't even think of them as true crime, I just look at them as documentaries. One of my recent favourites is on the Yuba County Five, five guys just seemingly drove into the mountains one night, got out and wandered off into the darkness.
Something about that just... it's fascinating to me. What the hell happened? We'll probably never know.
Young people these days are too damn soft. Why, back in my day I remember when there was good horror made by teenagers and young adults on newgrounds that would make Stephen King go "Newgrounds I kneel!"[long oldman rambling goes here]
This gave me a good chuckle, thanks.
KhaosKitsune617
beautiful.
also i am the real mahabre god >:(
Thetageist
Oh boy, someone’s been through the dungeon already.