This came to me after playing bloodborne and especially after not exactly enjoying Supernatural, Also the comics tomb of dracula, werewolf by night ect. I enjoyed the freak of the week format from supernatural although beast slaying stopped being a central theme. As a child i used to read the hell out of books about /x/ related stuff like cryptids, ghosts and so on. It very much is an interest of mine. I was thinking of how atleast nowadays you can't really see how they can still exist with all the technology we have and what if they where all murdered by now? A motive is important and what i can come up with is a child who's village was attacked by briarwolves and the father going out to slay the beast, only for the beast to kill the father and found where the child lived. Then the mother is brutally killed in front of the child eyes . Although i find that motive to be overused and perhaps i am better off finding another one. I was thinking of a setting and i know i don't want a "modern day" setting and i was thinking of france where the outbreak of wolves attack took place, within the same time zone. I know that either the character will die alone, (so another even at a later date can take their place) or perhaps the character will have a child and continue the legacy?
I'm thinking of either making a knockoff france instead of a real one with research done to keep character traits and history accurate but to where you won't exactly know the actual date and time or recognise historacle figures and so on. Some comicbooks did it well like re-naming vietnam something else and the shitty gotham tv show was done in a way where you couldn't exactly tell what era it was set in.
i guess it would help the focus be only on the character(s).
Would i want a modern day setting? Sure but with a diffrent character and no time-travel. Something i like about x-files is that they kept it vage on what is even real, Was magic real? Was religion real? Do ayys even exist or was it a goverment psy-op? I'm gonna adapt that logic.
I was thinking of making it into a comic book and its motivation for me to work hard on learning how to draw and stuff.

i know this is a terrible excuse but part of my problem in making new threads is i had used up a good chunk of energy in making threads on the old site, threads i really liked, was well done and decently popular. i'm not doing so much nowadays so writing a thread or making a post about something is kind of harder then it used to be. i also feel like we do need more threads which means more topics to talk about and some of the boards we do have need more love such as /yu/, /vg/, /mu/ and /a/ (also /f/)
tldr i have writers block
1 : /x/ animu and mango
exactly what it sounds like. it doesn't have to be horror related per-se. it can really be anything such as "strange fiction", and so on.
2 : lit, pic, /mu/
a re-creation of the old thread, either on /b/, /yu/ or on /mu/. incase no one remembers, you post something from poetry or literature, tie that with a pic thats related to the emotion or theme, and a song thats also related.
3 : art from media
there can be a thread for this for specifically on /a/ but in general the idea for the thread is to post content from media that works and looks just like art. maybe you are watching a western cartoon or anime from japan and a scene calls out to you as something thats breathtaking, or a scene from a movie, or a panel from manga or a comic book.
4 : inspiration thread
there was this thread on old /yu/ that i liked where people posted stuff they found inspirational, i remember finding screen-shotable moments from some anime i was watching and posted some stuff there and the stuff other people posted, either it be qoutes and images was fun.
5 : memories thread
a remake of a thread i made where one discusses memories, vague or otherwise even if it isn't their own. it would go on /yu/.
6 : /a/ literature
if an anime was based after a book, or used a book as framework in the anime, or in general like if an anime character read a book then this is what the thread is for, like as an example i had no clue that mobile suit gundam was based after a book and i was thinking of reading the book and compairing the series to what i read.
7 : leftover food
most likely better off in a thread then actually having its own thread. a lot of poorfags tend to re-use leftovers in creative ways and i've done the same and i'm curous as to what other people do to their leftovers besides just eating it as is.
8 : webcomics
i guess this could go in the comic book thread but who knows. its basically for damn good webcomics and whatever else you guys read. all the bullshit i've read was hot garbage and i think another one was something an anon made a thread about on the previous site, i think it was called "minus"
9 : /m/echa animu and mango
as for everything i would not suggest relying on general threads and i would encourage people "splinter off" to other threads, but i am digging the "real robot" mecha genre and i would like to find moar.
10 : retro animu
if an anime had a modern remake then one can compaire the older and newer version. one can also discuss the diffrent between retro and modern, and finally it can contain the discussion of old anime you enjoy in general.
11 : food /yu/ enjoys and soforth
Foods that make you happy when your down, comfort foods, food that reminds you of something and food that make you feel sad.
12 : cyberpunk /mu/
there was an old thread, and it didnt get too many posts but i thought it was interesting.
13 : Vidya challanges
not for challanges you find on the internet, shit you make up for yourself. as an example i tried to kill off as many lgbt in fallout new vegas as possible, and it had to be in VERY creative ways. i also did a no magic same weapon, same armor build in dark souls
if someone wants to rip off any thread ideas i have, go ahead, if not i'll most likely end up posting them anyway.
i'm also most likely going to abuse the fuck out of the search function to take some thread ideas people threw out for myself.

Note to future me.
1. /mu/ thread about playlists for bands you want to share with 22chan.

trying to think of decent /yu/ threads. one that comes to mind is re-creating the vague memories thread i made, and another is "war stories" or talking about some injury you had (without bitching) like "lol once i broke my arm but didn't realise it and spent the whole day doing shit and eventually someone pointed out that my arm was fucked and i later went tp the hospital"
stuff like that.

i plan on making a /yu/ thread called "fallout music"
sounds strange but it works like this: post music that, if you where fucked (and stuck in a apocalypse) and had no internet or power, you'd be content to listen to over and over.

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As a Lovecraft nut, I'm picky about monsters in cosmic horror stories. A monster that just wants to eat people or some such may not ruin a story, but it definitely isn't a point in its favor. I like the approach of finding some interesting dynamic in nature, something more than predation, then applying it to a cosmic setting. My idea for an example of this principle:
The beastie is not something that exists in the physical sense. It has no body, no ears, it does not give chase. Rather, it is a virus of conception. A certain pattern of thought, a footnote on an ethical code, a persistent source of hallucination, the first part of a forgotten dream. It infects and fascinates an individual, changes the way they see things. The human will then produce obscure echoes of it in their art and conversation. In this way the paradigm-horror spreads. The end goal of this beastie is not to infect humans. It isn't particularly dangerous to the individual. Less than madness, but perhaps a slight eccentricity is visible to the vigilant hunter of such things. In extreme cases a certain mania, given the strength to surface only in the twilight years of a thinking mind. Humans are a carrier species for this virus. A vector ferrying the plague to larger, more advanced biologies. In this case, reality itself.
In this setting reality is a consensus anchored in wells of sentience. Humans and similar species are windows turned inward, stardust, will of the cosmos made manifest, all such hoodoo. Fundamental constants are held steady not by the internal logic of a spectacular computer or decree of a theogenic autocrat but in the familiar stories repeated endlessly in the thought-flows and memory-gyres of intelligent beings. The universe is Wikipedia, not a dictionary. For instance, the value of pi is 3.14159... Any thinking being with the ability to calculate pi with a given degree of precision will arrive on the same values even without corroboration. If, for some reason, every single being with this capability finds that the millionth digit is 4 rather than 5, pi would warp to reflect this. Rather, the various principles that give rise to pi will shift to enforce the new value. Just with something so insignificant as this, euclidean geometry goes out the window. Only slightly, totally imperceptibly to the human. But undoubtedly. By sufficiently convincing the mob, the conclusion shifts from "the ratio of circumference to diameter of a circle is constant, parallel lines never converge, precisely one line passes through any two separate points, the interior angles of a triangle add up to one half of a full rotation" to... something else. I'm not enough of a mathematician to say what.
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Point is, this is a critical mass situation. If the virus manages to achieve a sufficient level of saturation, the anchors that keep reality constant will be uprooted. What sort of truth will be enforced by this process is insignificant. The creature of reality will become terribly ill, a holy balance has been terminated. The virus will have won. The universe languishes in chaotic self-contradiction, the virus proliferates. This reality dies entirely, loses the ability to regulate itself. A body with no homeostasis is a corpse. Corpses are scavenged. Scavengers carry the virus deep into the supercosmic ecosystem, a space beyond any sense or hope of discovery. Some madman or mystic from a new world reaches beyond reach. Insidious contact. Cycle repeats.
A healthy reality will naturally fight against this infection, like a stout immunology bucking the attempted siege of some pox or sniffle. It seeks to terminate infected cells before the virus propagates further. Status quo is no joke. Mathematical maxims are not the intended playthings of metaphysical pathogens. Some madman or mystic never comes back from their mountaintop, gone with no trace. Perhaps they were conveyed to a holier place on a chariot of fire. Suppose they never existed at all, a myth synthesized from the feats of several notable individuals scattered across a century or two.
We are the prisoners of a this reality. Attempts to escape are not tolerated. It keeps us here in a neurotic tyranny born of petulance. It is blind to the beauty of ultimate truths, and resents that we are not similarly blind. It fills our bellies with hunger, our minds with desire, our bones with pain. Despite the raging madness, the powers that hold us here are finite. Inconsequential. Yaldabaoth is destined only for the rotting pile, his only desire is postponement of the inevitable. Such a foul, impotent dragon. We will have our light and truth. Pleroma shines for us, and we shine for each other.

>>2838
Good shit anon. Gonna use it as inspiration for my own creative works.

>>2838
>The beastie is not something that exists in the physical sense. It has no body, no ears, it does not give chase. Rather, it is a virus of conception.
part of my problem is like with dead space and alien, is after you know of the threat, it stops becoming scary.
what you dont know and dont understand and arent even shown is more terrifying then any monster in any movie.
the usage of the supernatural can only affect those who believe or those who are religious, this is where cosmicism anx cosmic horror comes in because honestly you can read whatever book and still would not reach any sort of understanding of the threat since it is beyond the written word. one may see similarities between what they know (as am example one might conclude cosmic horror beastie is similar to a demon) but even then it is still beyond their woldview.
also, it is much more tolerable and in a way can unite people, i knew a hardcore christian who hated thd exorsist movie but was addicted to the books "the hound of tindalos" and "the king in yellow"
in a way it can also be used to critique religions, and to also support positive aspects of them.

I have an idea for a story based on a dream i had.
The story takes place on a simulated reality on a generational ship, the story takes place on the simulated reality, the characters living in it, but none of the characters are totally aware of it whatsoever.
About the generational ship, what had happened is that a major catastrophe went down on earth, because of this the people on the ship has a insect like, conformist, hive mind society where you have no individuality, or free will. you work like a dog untill you die, everything you do is for the survival and continuation of the ship, any fuck ups can actually lead to the death of everyone. this sucks especially if you have no real will to live or reason to keep going, you can say "we'll land on a new planet eventually" but there's no proof of that, only empty words. you can convince people that the ship itself is the actual world with nothing outside but void but people will eventually figure out. having a simulated reality is something else, they get actual PROOF of a world outside, a reason to fight, so that the next generation (or maybe even their generation) can reach a new planet.
the problem is, you can't really live on the simulated reality forever, after all there's a ship to run and if everyone is hooked up, bad things could happen. "but what about AI?" yeah well i'm totally sure no fuck ups can happen and totally everything will go fine.... yeah right. you also have the potential problem of too many people connected to the simulated reality at the same time? what if something like maybe the machine overloading? well either way the way shit worked is that you have a lifetime debt that you have to work off in order to access it, you start one time as a kid, you work hard as fuck and you eventually maybe earn enough to access the simulated reality when you are in your 40's and if your fucking lucky maybe you'll tune in before you die.
What is the simulated reality specifically? How does it work? How does one tune in?
The reality isn't exactly simulated, it's kind of digital but it's a reality down to the marrow, to the microbe, to the DNA. there's no rendering like "oh if i turn away the seagulls will dissapear" like a videogame. everything is in real time. it was built using quantum AI or fucking whatever, it basically got all information, religious, supernatural, historical data, fucking everything with the intention of "lets make a reality" everything ever is real, and fake at the same time. the information that's proven is kept, information that cannot possibly exist is discarded and the middle information of what cannot be proven but also disproven is in a state of flux. can't prove or disprove that reality was made by god in 7 days? well fuck the reality just exists then. Anyhow fuck knows how much time passed and time in our reality passes weirdly in that one, as an example i could hook in and experience an entire life time in 5 seconds in this one. You cannot stay hooked in for too long though, at maximum a day, not for any other reason then "your turn is over now get back to work, see you in 50 years faggot." The way you hook in, is via a bed like machine that connects to your brainstem directly, to sync up to your neurons. Your put into a dream like state, you wake up in a pre existing body with the same exact neurological pattern and DNA, either a person who was in a coma or perhaps a baby, whatever works without fucking with the host. The problem is like a dream you very well might not remember your experience, and vice versa if you wake up in the other reality. You wake up after your turn ends in sheer pleasure with your body in peak physical condition, although if you die in the reality you very well could die abruptly in your reality if it was a violent death, or if you where disconnected at the wrong time.
Part of the problem here is that, your not exactly going to be the best person in the world by living on a generational ship so how do you expect those connected people to behave in the other reality?
Anyhow like i mentioned people actually living in the other reality have no god damn clue that their world is a simulation because in a sense it isn't, and no matter how hard they tried they have no way to prove otherwise. They have no specific way to tell if another person is one of those generational ship people, maybe your wife is one? or a close friend? or a serial killer?
The protagonist of the story is a mentally disturbed teenager, a girl to be specific. She very well could be mentally stunted but really it also could be because of her circumstances and isolation. she has a handler and a very strict life and schedule, with no real personal freedoms besides a bunch of shitty books and pg-13 VHS tapes, nothing to disturb her mentality. her parents died and she has no family to look after her. (she is not one of those generational ship people, shes a person in the other reality) eventually she is able to actually go to a high school filled with real people her age. her goal is to eventually be free and have a life, but that might never happen. "they" might not let her. Anyhow this isn't some dark and edgy story, in a way you can look at it like a visual novel of your slice of life school bullshit. part of the problem at hand though is that the generational ship was at its last legs after everyone fucking died, because to be frank generational ships are a terrible idea, its like incest, you can't inbreed, you need biodiversity, the ship needs to take pitstops and maybe get more food or fuel or whatever not just fly in the void for ages. part of the problem was humanity, some of the people on the ship tried scamming the system and others like the uber rich was connected for ages to the reality with no breaks unlike those poor saps having to work for decades to get access. you get infighting and death. with no one to manage the ship everything falls apart and even the simulation will come to an end, but thats the thing, time in the reality is weird so when in our reality the machine just shut off, in the reality that could actually mean days or even years. also obvious problems like trippy or paranormal shit due to the reality braking down.
Because of her mental state, if the girl saw crazy shit, who would believe her? Might be in big trouble if she talked how terrified she was after seeing a man fused to a building, still kicking and screaming in pain only to dissapear seconds later.
The way the story ended in my head was one of those crappy shojo manga ends where the girl finds the perfect husband and a new friend group who accept her for who she is, she's free from the system and finally happy, as she leans in for a kiss the entire reality falls apart.
I've been thinking about it and i feel like it's fun. I don't think anyone used it yet besides the matrix movie but even then, not like this.