summer creeps

[steeplechasers]

i associate summer with creepiness. i think it's because, in middle school, during summer vacation, i was pretty much constantly on my own, and that meant watching things on tv that i couldn't watch when my parents were home--like e! crime investigations about people like anna nicole smith, or deadly women, or the lgbt network. (all of which,

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[amberdreams]

"also, someone really needs to start a goddamn spn horror comm." Mmm - whatever happened to Sharp teeth, I wonder...

[steeplechasers]

i think i've heard of that, isn't it defunct? ;o;

[amberdreams]

I think so, sadly.

[steeplechasers]

:( well, then, we need a new one!

[galwithglasses]

Late fall, after Halloween, when the year and the light are really dying and the trees are bare is the creepiest time of year for me. We have burr oak trees outside our house that are gnarly and old and twisted and look like they belong by an old haunted mansion when the leaves are down. Hot summers have a real gothic feel to them though.

I can't help but think about The Darkness in terms of real creepy horror. It has so much potential. Maybe The Darkness needs a comm or a comment fiction meme or whatever they are called.

[steeplechasers]

i feel like late autumn would be my Creepy Season if only i lived further north! as it is i've never experienced a real autumn with tons of trees changing colour and stuff :( things just sort of dry out and die here, and then it's winter.

ooh, i'd be down for a Darkness meme! i'm so intrigued, i love that they've given us something that we literally know NOTHING about. even with purgatory we had some idea, but with this we have no clue what it can or will do ;u;

[hymnary]

There's something about the oppressive heat of summer that reminds me of discord in nature

[steeplechasers]

ooh, i love this. and i love how different the summer creeps are depending on where that summer is. the desert is definitely a different kind of summer creep--like you said, dust and death--whereas here it's just as often that swampy southern gothic vibe. though the mosquitoes, of course, are ubiquitous.

(how do we make this happen!)

[story_monger]

As a Midwest person I'd have to go with winter, mainly because that seems like the time when nature is most liable to kill you. I read something once that said only humans would look at the dead of winter and decide to stick a feasting holiday in the middle of that. So I always liked the idea that these traditions of light and food associated with the cold months come from a real fear of how uncaring nature is at that time of the year. I remember doing a project on Northern/Canadian literature, and quite a few writers were into people being stuck in cabins during a snowstorm and murdering/cannabalizing one another (Wendigo!) or fur trappers getting lost in the massive forests and having to fight off packs of wolves

[steeplechasers]

and quite a few writers were into people being stuck in cabins during a snowstorm and murdering/cannabalizing one another (Wendigo!) or fur trappers getting lost in the massive forests and having to fight off packs of wolves.

i loooove. this is a really good point. the winter creeps do tend to be either more inward or more savagely outward--cabin fever or dying in the wilderness. (which, btw, is one of my biggest fears. way 2 go winter)

[katzenspn]

That's such an interesting question

[steeplechasers]

ohh, i feel this, especially the pacific northwest thing. i love the countryside and the pervasive dark but when it's pervasive dark + deadly winter it's. something else. you feel trapped, constantly. it doesn't help how dense the forests are up there, too!

if enough people are into it, i might be willing to start one up, tbh. it seems like all of you agree lmao