Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-6822927-20180811192309/@comment-9041013-20180811235712

KingSparta300 wrote: BloodySpghetti wrote: KingSparta300 wrote: BloodySpghetti wrote: Im guessing since it's eventually revealed to be a "door to another dimension through your TV" kind of story it wouldn't be blacklisted. I am also assuming you're going to make up a fictional show that never appeared on any of our screens. So there's that too... Basically, you're going to come up with a seemingly harmless plot that ends with "oh look we have a fucked up thingy over here" twist.

Sure, give it a go. Thanks for the input. To be clear, there's going to be elements of satire in it, as it is a story showing what happens when someone buys into those Lost Episode tales.

I'm also drawing upon Celtic folklore for inspiration for the story's supernatural elements. A dark humor bit, I likey.

Also props on the Celtic Folklore, nobody knows a jack about that so you have a lot of room to incorporate stuff, maybe even tweak some to modernize it. Which reminds me, doesn't some of the Slenderman Lore have to do with him being a supposed fairy that takes people to the Otherworld to "help" them avoid an awful death? ...that...if that's true about Slender Man, that makes him one of the tamest fey folk out there.

At the least, some just drag into a dance and take a few months of your life, while others swap your kids with theirs. Then you have the Nuckelavee, who hates everyone and is the most dreadful of all Fey creatures.

I have been influenced heavily by Celtic folklore in my work so far, especially the in the woods mythos. It's probably not true about Slendy, unless the creator did come up with a very large hype machine for the character due to the popularity his original photo had gain. I guess it's a fan made detail. Still scare when you look at it through the eyes of an adult who believes in these kind of things.

And yeah, I know, Celtic mythology has some messed up notions. I mean, Balor's eye created a lake after his head was severed. I did kind of use the Nuckalavee in a story of mine once. That is a cool demon. Very cool demon.