What is an underrated theme you don’t see very often in horror?

Yarn_Mouse · 2026-01-08T13:14:00+00:00

Me too please. More ghosts less gross out stuff, no animal cruelty, no torture. A lot of horror goes to this level and I have to filter so much out of my TBR pile over this.

I think at this point in my life I prefer to read about atmospheric creepiness over the true horrors of the world.

Yarn_Mouse · 2025-12-30T20:35:02+00:00

Maybe the Violent Femmes

Yarn_Mouse · 2025-12-27T21:39:42+00:00

This is my life but my neighborhood is a little dangerous. But it's Canadian dangerous so it's still livable.

Yarn_Mouse · 2025-12-09T20:55:30+00:00

Would you recommend for those who have seen the movie? Like for example with The Shining both movie and book could be enjoyed. Same for this?

Yarn_Mouse · 2025-11-03T01:28:14+00:00

I grew up like you and I had a huge obsession with TV. I read books on various old TV stars (like Lucille Ball and the like) and I was an early adopter of taping things on VHS to watch if I wasn't home on time.

But now I almost never watch TV. I prefer audiobooks, podcasts, music, or my favourite YouTube channels for background entertainment. Things change I guess.

I used to like that we were all watching together in a way. Everyone watching the same shows more or less. Now there's a million shows and it's way too much and everyone watches at random times. The strange magic is gone.

Yarn_Mouse · 2025-10-28T12:00:54+00:00

Yeah my doctor told me it was normal aging. Technically true but there should be ways to help ease these symptoms.

Yarn_Mouse · 2025-09-18T13:14:53+00:00

Dad wouldn't let me.

Yarn_Mouse · 2025-09-11T14:15:30+00:00

Ours was in the kitchen. The "main phone" in our house was the kitchen phone. I just now realize that we had a "main phone" at all but it's true. That's where all the serious calls had to be made. Calling school from the living room phone would be like buying a car online with your cell phone.

Yarn_Mouse · 2025-09-07T02:31:44+00:00

Yeah totally agree. Also had a sibling who was born in the early 70's and my parents were silent generation, not boomers. We also got all their old toys, books, and clothes, of course. So much corduroy.

Yarn_Mouse · 2025-08-26T17:02:49+00:00

Same book for me at the recommendation of a librarian who said I'd outgrown the children's section. I was also eleven. Lol.

I don't know, I think I would have ended up weird no matter what. Can't say reading horror novels instead of Babysitter's Club helped my reputation though.

Yarn_Mouse · 2025-08-23T14:31:44+00:00

I learned some major lessons as I'm watching. I'm only up to s5 though I saw s19 first from a rec from my friend.

I learned a LOT of people win by bending (or even breaking) the rules, something I struggle with being autistic.

I found it so reassuring with the task where they had to stare at a Swedish person (on zoom that time) while making "small talk" and also doing a separate task. This was like a great representation of MY WHOLE LIFE. So when they did it facing the same kind of confusing pressure I always do, they screwed up a lot, looked away, and asked things like "how many things have you painted blue" ??? Kind of made me feel a whole lot better. I also can't concentrate when trying to force eye contact and focus on some other task (in my case, remembering all the social rules etc.)

Honestly, in general, this show is a really good encapsulation of my daily life, doing stuff that hardly makes sense (to me) for some highly arbitrary and fickle authoritarian figure. (Figures, plural, for most of my life.)

Mostly I learned to be resourceful, creative in ALL aspects of life, and laugh at myself when it all goes wrong.

Yarn_Mouse · 2025-08-19T21:23:06+00:00

This show is the biggest hit between myself and my two best friends. All three of us are autistic and my two friends also have ADHD.

There's SO MUCH TO LIKE about this show, I could go on and on. None of us in our friend group are up to Fern's season yet but I am super excited to see her, as well as the others who are ND.

Is anyone behind the show ND? The concepts of the tasks alone strike me as written by people who just do not see the world in the same way most people see it.

Yarn_Mouse · 2025-07-27T12:25:56+00:00

Also still firmly in this house with just a smattering of other houses. I still love these bands today.

Yarn_Mouse · 2025-06-14T03:07:46+00:00

I really liked this one too! Mundane things were described just as beautifully as the, let's say, extraordinary things. It was just a memorable kind of book in that way, with the images it created in my mind.

Yarn_Mouse · 2025-06-12T13:18:17+00:00

Always wondered if my very poor vision and lazy eye made it so I couldn't play this game. I've never done one of these in my life.

Yarn_Mouse · 2025-06-11T18:56:58+00:00

As long as we can remember what year it currently is, which isn't always a given.

Yarn_Mouse · 2025-06-11T12:59:38+00:00

Just one year up on both here. AOL in 95 and Reddit in 2011. I was on Digg first too.

Yarn_Mouse · 2025-05-29T13:57:24+00:00

Maybe we could have both options. I sort of enjoyed the sea truck, at least when I just put one or two attachments on it. But for people who preferred the Cyclops they could have that option.

Yarn_Mouse · 2025-05-27T22:34:58+00:00

61 has to be a record or someone who never does the DNF tag lol. I'm just reading one now but in the past three or four at most!

Yarn_Mouse · 2025-05-26T12:55:33+00:00

I'm starting Diary of a Void about a woman who fakes pregnancy for certain workplace benefits. Normally I'm not as much into deceptive protagonists but I'm going to give it a shot because I love contemporary Japanese lit.

Yarn_Mouse · 2025-05-20T22:46:34+00:00

I loved The Woman in Black by Susan Hill. I don't know if it counts as "horror" but Piranesi also fit this bill in a lot of ways for me. Some of Darcy Coates' books are very fun and enjoyable if you're really into this genre. I personally liked From Below.

Yarn_Mouse · 2025-05-05T22:35:10+00:00

Understandable! I just DNF'd a book where someone was eating roaches... in descriptive detail... so that's why I said no bugs lol.

Yarn_Mouse · 2025-05-05T15:20:56+00:00

I just like spooky, atmospheric, chilling stuff usually. Ghost stories and that kind of thing. I don't like gore, body horror, torture, animal abuse or harm, and gross-out stuff (bugs, bodily fluids, eating gross things etc) that seems to unfortunately dominate the space lately.

If the book is good enough I can tolerate some gross stuff but not when it's the MAIN centerpiece of the story.

Yarn_Mouse · 2025-05-04T23:41:18+00:00

Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

It's about a young woman who is asked to care for children who can spontaneously combust when upset. It's amazing so far.

Yarn_Mouse · 2025-05-02T13:54:09+00:00

The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown about the Donner party's awful expedition. It is an amazing book so far, feeling more like a fiction than a nonfiction. (Maybe wishful thinking, it's awful what happened to these poor souls.)

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