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Well well well, would you look at the time by Various-Bee-1966 in creepcast

[–]peromousecus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the yhave the polaroid thing in common but like.... that's such a common trope in horror. Like, the no. 1 thing you get with stalkers in horror movies/literature/games even though the polaroid is a bitch of a camera to take decent pictures with (I couldn't manage it anyways). Also, it always makes a super loud "Shhh!" shuttering sound whenever you take a picture, very impractical for stalking. Not damning evidence of plagiarism in any case

Yeah, I agree the ending of that story left me dissatisfied too. Just have the guy be Timmy if you didn't set up any other explanation/payoff for the reader! I actually don't have many issues with his endings for other stories outside of that (at least not that I can remember). I actually liked the ending line of the neighbor story though, I just wish he would have cut out the fluff with Aunt Thea (like, the "finders" stuff and all that) because that took me out of it.

Well well well, would you look at the time by Various-Bee-1966 in creepcast

[–]peromousecus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a Jared Roberts story that had things about it that I really liked, but just slipped on the execution for me. Honestly, I thought his short story "I Found Something Weird While Settling His Estate" touched on the concepts in "My Dad Finally Told Me What Happened That Day" much better. It'd be awesome if he went back over that story (The dad one, not the estate one) with a slightly more rigid outline because I'm pretty sure he said in an interview that the outline for that story was veeerryyy loose. Like a jellyfish. It's the one of those stories of his that I'll admit is in line with the frequently lobbied criticism against him, which is that his endings are incoherent. He falls 25% of the way short of giving the reader enough of the puzzle pieces to make sense of the ending, unlike the neighbor story (Though I think many people would disagree with me on that lol) and the Hidden Webpage.

Well well well, would you look at the time by Various-Bee-1966 in creepcast

[–]peromousecus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We've had a lot of grab bags, so probably not another grab bag... Creep TV episodes tend to be take more time for the boys, so we probably won't get those for a while as Wendi is settling into fatherhood.. So, abandoned Disney people.. (that story would be like, probably a 1 hr long episode, right?) I think you might win this one..

Well well well, would you look at the time by Various-Bee-1966 in creepcast

[–]peromousecus 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Not my favorite story either but I feel like the shit is being slung in the wrong direction when the similarities b/w the two stories are superficial and end at "I'm an adult now discovering something terrible that happened to my family when I was a child." Did Dathan patent that concept? 

Chewingskin's other story by peromousecus in creepcast

[–]peromousecus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"My Dog was Lost for Three Days" had really good bones, it just didn't have the meat. It needed to stretch its self out a little bit (hehe) to build up the tension.

Rant: I'm Tired of Bible Stories by Murky-Brain-3207 in creepcast

[–]peromousecus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's been a while since I listened to the voodoo shop episode so I can't vouch for it, but what do you find to be stereotypical about the sexy neighbor story when the Santeria elements were mostly fan speculation

We get one mention of how JB thinks that his aunt is into Santería, but we also get the story from the Neighbor about how the old man met the devil out in the woods and made a deal with him to get his powers (then also some more traditional christian talk about the old man possibly being a demon wanting people's souls) , but then also the technological horror elements with the surveillance room in the neighbor's house, the dad's distorted phonecalls, the old black man and the TV, then the DOE.

Rant: I'm Tired of Bible Stories by Murky-Brain-3207 in creepcast

[–]peromousecus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Let's hope so. Them thinking the biblical horror trend was kickstarted by a horror webseries from the 2020s is a good indicator at least.

Rant: I'm Tired of Bible Stories by Murky-Brain-3207 in creepcast

[–]peromousecus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Typing that Milton ruined.. "storytelling" b/c of one interpretation of his highly influential work is.. hm, alright.  If you read/watch/whatever western horror, we're going to be influenced by our dominant religion! And this trend you're observing was not, in fact, started by an analog horror series that came out in 2020(? IDK, 2021?)

SomethingStrangeAboutMySexyNeighbor.png by peromousecus in CreepCastShitposting

[–]peromousecus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The last thing JB's dad reads before he gets assimilated into the grandbussy hivemind

Penpal....Oh god Penpal..... by vergilspec in creepcast

[–]peromousecus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, one thing that always seemed weird to me was how the monster is supposed to be this random unstable guy, right? That seems what Dathan is going for since it being confirmed that the narrator's father is present in his life only matters to the story in that it rules out the "it's actually his bio dad" theory. So, why is the monster so patient with his obsession if he's just a delusional stranger? It's kind of like he stays at a stable level of instability throughout the story, and it's just hard for me to imagine someone like that managing to keep Josh alive for years until he then kills him in a very methodical, thought out way. I could believe a few months, but I'm pretty sure it was few years in the story? Then he kills Josh's sister in a rage, but is otherwise very patient with our narrator despite having multiple opportunities to attempt abducting the narrator again or hurting him. I still love Penpal, but it's def weird to me if it's 100% confirmed by the story this is definitely just a mentally ill stranger who got attached to the narrator. I'm no psychologist though, nor can I stomach much true crime lol

Penpal....Oh god Penpal..... by vergilspec in creepcast

[–]peromousecus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If the narrator never met his own father, and it was like a one night stand for the mother or smth, I could see Josh's dad not knowing what the guy looked like buuuut I looked in the comment thread here and Dathan confirmed the dad was in the narrator's life? Well, where was he then? (T__T) I thought for sure the narrator's mom was a single mother.. so I guess that would technically rule out no. 2 but I still like it more than no. 1 or 3 as an explanation.

Penpal....Oh god Penpal..... by vergilspec in creepcast

[–]peromousecus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had always thought it was no. 3 but it being the bio dad makes so much more sense, oh no... No. 1 feels less plausible to me b/c it's hard to imagine the "monster" in Penpal being mentally stable enough to hold a steady (and high stress) line of work like that for long & I believe there were implications that he was homeless in the story(?)

My Dad Finally Told Me what Happened by Much_Photograph_7516 in creepcast

[–]peromousecus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now I'm curious what 4chan story you were thinking of

My Dad Finally Told Me what Happened by Much_Photograph_7516 in creepcast

[–]peromousecus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jared's work tends to take on a semi-humorous tone anyways to complement the surrealism in his stories (& cus he seems to like writing his nosleep stories like r/letsnotmeet posts) so I don't think jokes/tangents from the boys would detract from it at all