Wendigoon Thread

[Catgirl Tyranid]

I agree, albeit I don't think it's that bad, the only story that I out-and-out disliked was the "anima mundi" one (left me in a fugue state by the end). With that said, this sort of writing definitely doesn't fit for the podcast.

I must be in the minority because I hated Red Tower, it seemed like masturbating metaphor for the creative process involved in writing horror, but loved the anima mundi one "Masquerade of a Dead Sword" and wished I had read it on its own without listening to it with commentary.

Something about the imagery just clicked, but maybe I'm a sucker for dark fantasy.

 

[Ratatouilleratatoskr]

I must be in the minority because I hated Red Tower, it seemed like masturbating metaphor for the creative process involved in writing horror, but loved the anima mundi one "Masquerade of a Dead Sword" and wished I had read it on its own without listening to it with commentary.

Something about the imagery just clicked, but maybe I'm a sucker for dark fantasy.

It's difficult to determine what the minority or majority is because plenty of fans still clicked like on the video and didn't enjoy Red Tower. It's not something measured in a ratio of dislikes to likes because the show itself isn't just about the stories.

You can make a guess that Hunter overreacting because he got pseud-checked by the audience and seething wouldn't have happened if the majority of the audience really did enjoy the drivel that was Ligotti's work.

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

It took me a full week to get through that last episode. I enjoyed The Red Tower well enough and the christmas one was passable but I didn't care for the middle one at all and I think it was the longest. If it wasn't the longest it definitely felt the longest by a very long shot, felt like it was way longer than the other two put together

 

[TerminalTryHard]

I think I might be the minority on this one. On the red tower episode the middle story was my favorite. I'd rank rank them 2, 1, 3 but I love these kind of stories even if I acknowledge they don't really fit with creepcast, also MC doing some weird stoned surfer from southern California voice for the wise mage was irritating.

 

[Rick The Stick]

This story was really fun. The gross out stuff was just right and the ending was got a genuine laugh outta me.

 

[a hapless toad]

I ran out of Creep Cast episodes and I don't know what to do now...

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

This story was really fun. The gross out stuff was just right and the ending was got a genuine laugh outta me.

Yeah, Burgrr Entries was almost exactly my kinda thing. I love schlocky body horror stuff and this one got a little bit too silly but didn't completely shit the bed like Tales from the Gas Station did, and the ending hit just right. On top of that the episode had the perfect amount of bants and Meat's fly story from Wendi's perspective slayed me. My favorite episode in a long time, maybe even my new favorite overall

I can definitely see the Invader Zim vibes. It reminded me a lot of the Christmas episode specifically where Zim makes a Santa costume/robot that didn't understand what Christmas actually was and ultimately ends up triggering the apocalypse

 

[General Disarray]

A three and a half hour show today.
I'll save it for before-bed listening.

 

[Edgeymcedgename]

I liked the king in yellow episode.

 

[Aunt Carol]

I liked the king in yellow episode.

Perhaps I am old but I liked him over-explaining a 100-year-old book of short stories more than I like him over-explaining an "analog horror" series where nothing really happens. It's nice, and it's the closest a lot of people are going to get to the source of something that's made itself pervasive.


I did wonder why the other authors all got last named and Ambrose Bierce was "Ambrose," though. Maybe when he faked his death he went off and became Wendi's great-grandpa or something.

 

[Edgeymcedgename]

Perhaps I am old but I liked him over-explaining a 100-year-old book of short stories more than I like him over-explaining an "analog horror" series where nothing really happens. It's nice, and it's the closest a lot of people are going to get to the source of something that's made itself pervasive.


I did wonder why the other authors all got last named and Ambrose Bierce was "Ambrose," though. Maybe when he faked his death he went off and became Wendi's great-grandpa or something.

How many times do we have to hear " pop culture property is actually super spoopy" before you see how lame it all is.

 

[The Bogwater Rises]

Hey I like ... two analog horror series and think they aren't complete shit.

I found Wendi by him going over the Flesh Pit National Park. I'd love for him to find more horror/alt history stuff like that. Still hearing the King in Yellow vid is enjoyable is good. His hyperfixation comes with ups and downs, but the ups are usually good and the downs are usually something I can listen to while at work lol.

 

[Aunt Carol]

I found Wendi by him going over the Flesh Pit National Park. I'd love for him to find more horror/alt history stuff like that.

That's how I first ran across him, too. Mystery Flesh Pit is at its worst when it has a linear narrative, though; as worldbuilding it's great. (And that "worst" is still pretty good.) I think that right now there are a lot of "analog horror" things that are crappy, because they're popular and 90% of everything is crap.

Alt history from a book or book series would probably be a neat video, and something that was edited into a book might be more compelling than a dozen-hours long video series, auteur theory aside.

Mystery Flesh Pit reminded me a bit of Motel of the Mysteries, which would be a decent short video for Wendi.

Spoiler: blurb

It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in crossing the perimeter of an abandoned excavation site he felt the ground give way beneath him and found himself at the bottom of a shaft, which, judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob, was clearly the entrance to a still-sealed burial chamber. Carson's incredible discoveries, including the remains of two bodies, one of then on a ceremonial bed facing an altar that appeared to be a means of communicating with the Gods and the other lying in a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber, permitted him to piece together the whole fabric of that extraordinary civilization.

Then again, imagine just giving him the core book for one of the wiggier old RPGs like Unknown Armies and telling him to 'splain that.

 

[ruckingfetard]

I have never felt as much resentment towards two people as I did when I watched the creepcast episodes for ben drowned and marble hornets. Total hacks.
Their episode about that one retarded rape dummy story was also hilariously unbearable. Hunter going all internet tough guy over a fucking tryhard horror story. "I WOULD BEAT THE FUCK OUT OF THIS MAN! GRRR WHY DIDN'T HE PROTECT HIS CHILDREN NOT ME I WOULD KICK HIS ASS" aight bro.

I prefer both of them on their own. Wendigoon's content is inoffensive albeit not the best researched, I can put it on while I do chores. And I like meat's animations, but I don't like his other content. I really don't care what the RAPIST BUGS BUNNY guy has to say about movies.

 

[Edgeymcedgename]

I have never felt as much resentment towards two people as I did when I watched the creepcast episodes for ben drowned and marble hornets. Total hacks.
Their episode about that one retarded rape dummy story was also hilariously unbearable. Hunter going all internet tough guy over a fucking tryhard horror story. "I WOULD BEAT THE FUCK OUT OF THIS MAN! GRRR WHY DIDN'T HE PROTECT HIS CHILDREN NOT ME I WOULD KICK HIS ASS" aight bro.

I prefer both of them on their own. Wendigoon's content is inoffensive albeit not the best researched, I can put it on while I do chores. And I like meat's animations, but I don't like his other content. I really don't care what the RAPIST BUGS BUNNY guy has to say about movies.

GOD DAMN

 

[THEbobby]

I have never felt as much resentment towards two people as I did when I watched the creepcast episodes for ben drowned and marble hornets. Total hacks.
Their episode about that one retarded rape dummy story was also hilariously unbearable. Hunter going all internet tough guy over a fucking tryhard horror story. "I WOULD BEAT THE FUCK OUT OF THIS MAN! GRRR WHY DIDN'T HE PROTECT HIS CHILDREN NOT ME I WOULD KICK HIS ASS" aight bro.

I prefer both of them on their own. Wendigoon's content is inoffensive albeit not the best researched, I can put it on while I do chores. And I like meat's animations, but I don't like his other content. I really don't care what the RAPIST BUGS BUNNY guy has to say about movies.

I dunno man, I thought their reaction was alright, Hunter acknowledged he would fail when it comes to stopping Tommy Taffy but it's better then doing nothing which is fair.
The marble hornets episodes were boring though.

 

[Edgeymcedgename]

I have never felt as much resentment towards two people as I did when I watched the creepcast episodes for ben drowned and marble hornets. Total hacks.
Their episode about that one retarded rape dummy story was also hilariously unbearable. Hunter going all internet tough guy over a fucking tryhard horror story. "I WOULD BEAT THE FUCK OUT OF THIS MAN! GRRR WHY DIDN'T HE PROTECT HIS CHILDREN NOT ME I WOULD KICK HIS ASS" aight bro.

I prefer both of them on their own. Wendigoon's content is inoffensive albeit not the best researched, I can put it on while I do chores. And I like meat's animations, but I don't like his other content. I really don't care what the RAPIST BUGS BUNNY guy has to say about movies.

It's probably the normie energy they give off. It kinda bothers me too, but only a little and only when they mention politics directly.

 

[Ratatouilleratatoskr]

I have never felt as much resentment towards two people as I did when I watched the creepcast episodes for ben drowned and marble hornets. Total hacks.
Their episode about that one retarded rape dummy story was also hilariously unbearable. Hunter going all internet tough guy over a fucking tryhard horror story. "I WOULD BEAT THE FUCK OUT OF THIS MAN! GRRR WHY DIDN'T HE PROTECT HIS CHILDREN NOT ME I WOULD KICK HIS ASS" aight bro.

I prefer both of them on their own. Wendigoon's content is inoffensive albeit not the best researched, I can put it on while I do chores. And I like meat's animations, but I don't like his other content. I really don't care what the RAPIST BUGS BUNNY guy has to say about movies.

Hunter and Isaiah have remarkably low reading comprehension for normies while also needing to play the game of being an influencer. The reaction to Tommy Taffy was both performative and caused by them not being able to consume the work without feeling the performance was necessary to preserve their reputations.

The dad in the story is a victim of Tommy and represents adult male survivors of sexual abuse but they shit on him for not fitting their preconceived notion of what a father and a man is. This happens even though it's blatantly clear that the dad is a victim of Tommy, that there is no solution to Tommy and that the dad's presence is what mediates the damage Tommy can do. Their "solution" would be a performative faux masculine emulation of the masculine protector, without considering the horrible consequences of what would happen to the family WITHOUT the dad there if he died trying stop Tommy.

 

[The Bogwater Rises]

That's how I first ran across him, too. Mystery Flesh Pit is at its worst when it has a linear narrative, though; as worldbuilding it's great. (And that "worst" is still pretty good.) I think that right now there are a lot of "analog horror" things that are crappy, because they're popular and 90% of everything is crap.

The way Flesh Pit is presented by its creator is absolutely fantastic for youtubers to examine and explain in a more clear way, while also having enough there for a passerby to look at some interesting things and maybe keep up with it.

A lot of Analog Horror tries to do a similar approach (non linear/chronologic story telling) but fails the moment you actually start explaining it because the actual narrative is usually as deep as a puddle.

 

[Edgeymcedgename]

Hunter and Isaiah have remarkably low reading comprehension for normies while also needing to play the game of being an influencer. The reaction to Tommy Taffy was both performative and caused by them not being able to consume the work without feeling the performance was necessary to preserve their reputations.

The dad in the story is a victim of Tommy and represents adult male survivors of sexual abuse but they shit on him for not fitting their preconceived notion of what a father and a man is. This happens even though it's blatantly clear that the dad is a victim of Tommy, that there is no solution to Tommy and that the dad's presence is what mediates the damage Tommy can do. Their "solution" would be a performative faux masculine emulation of the masculine protector, without considering the horrible consequences of what would happen to the family WITHOUT the dad there if he died trying stop Tommy.

That's......
That's actually very insightful and makes a ton of sense.

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