How to make the Chzo Mythos even scarier
Mar. 28th, 2008 08:10 amEven though the Internet should by now be the most impressive information exchange system yet known, we all know by now that it plays host to a miscellany of horrifying things and people. And I don't just mean the places where record-breaking thickness runs rampant - it also gives the opportunity for far too many overly loud people to voice their stupid opinions.
The world of fanfiction is responsible for a fair amount of this, because even though the trend of the Internet moved more towards audio and video recently, writing is still the largest direct window into what you're thinking. And as I've just discovered it completely by accident, I really would like to know what the writer was thinking when he came up with this chapter in what seems to be an epic.
Like I've said before, I'm not against freedom of expression but there are some things that you're just not meant to touch. I'm not going to say what the above horror is because it's interesting how it seems to come off in layers if you read it - it begins normally enough, then you'll realize what it actually is at the bottom of the first page and it'll seem like merely a terrible idea for a crossover. But then it'll keep piling in more and more unexpected characters from increasingly unlikely places until you snap under the strain.
(In case you can't tell, work's rather slow today.)
The world of fanfiction is responsible for a fair amount of this, because even though the trend of the Internet moved more towards audio and video recently, writing is still the largest direct window into what you're thinking. And as I've just discovered it completely by accident, I really would like to know what the writer was thinking when he came up with this chapter in what seems to be an epic.
Like I've said before, I'm not against freedom of expression but there are some things that you're just not meant to touch. I'm not going to say what the above horror is because it's interesting how it seems to come off in layers if you read it - it begins normally enough, then you'll realize what it actually is at the bottom of the first page and it'll seem like merely a terrible idea for a crossover. But then it'll keep piling in more and more unexpected characters from increasingly unlikely places until you snap under the strain.
(In case you can't tell, work's rather slow today.)