C. K. Walker

CW: A Lot, especially around SA. Absolutely recommend looking up full content warnings if there's any chance you might need them!

Thanks, I hate it. DNF at 90ish%/ Less than 15 minutez left

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I'm so unbelievably angry for wasting two and a half hours of my life with no one to blame but myself, but I'm just a wittle baby who came out to have a good time and is feeling really attacked right now, so let's unfairly blame other people.

First of all, Jay Bird. They truly are to blame because they made a video titled, The Scariest Short Story I've Ever Read: Borrasca. Is this a crime? No. Do I think ascribing criminal intent to Jay Bird is reasonable and that the police and prisons should be destroyed and replaced with far greater support and a community-led restorative justice model? Yes. Is it fair to blame them for how I feel and my taking the title at face value, watching less than a minute of the video, before seeking our the story? Absolutely not, but I'm going to anyway.

I'm also blaming MrCreepyPasta, but I will endeavour to be fair and balanced™. Is it their fault I nearly wavered when I discovered this "scariest short story" was Creepypasta, but still said, fuck it let's strap in for nearly three hours? Probably not. I'm not the biggest Creepypasta gal, but I do like The Russian Sleep Experiment and like horror and the power of memetic proliferation of the work of unknown authors. They are also very much to blame for just how well they read the story, I genuinely don't think I would have for as far as I did without their spectacular amateur narration. The absolute bastard! Honestly, if Creepypastas are your thing, you simply must check out MrCreepyPasta. I might be furious, but we stan a wonderful amateur narrator and the depth of their library is WILD.

I can definitely blame C.K. Walker because they wrote it and well enough until the reveal that I genuinely thought there was going to be something fun and spoopy revealed to be going on. But it's not spoopy it's gross and weird and comes right out of the blue in a way that is tonally what the absolute fuckery? The more I reflect on it the worse the writing was, I realised. There were weird hints about things on the way that feel less like clues for the reader to pick up on, but more something to freak out about in a re-read.

Look, I'm on the side of write what you want, just examine why you do the thing and if you're writing about problematic stuff or actually being *problematic*. There are many things I don't understand that I would defend because correlation is not causation, survivors need to be able to explore and express, and people can just be awful, messy, and gross--some people want to write that and some people want to read it. Cool cool cool. That's doesn't mean you can right hateful, bigoted stuff or whatever. I'm not accusing this author or book of anything, beyond being super gross and skeevy out of nowhere. But frankly, I jumped in without looking, so this really is on me.

***SPOILERS***

It's not spooky, it's a fucking horrifying case of selling teenage people with the the potential to become pregnant into an utterly disgusting, literally and figuratively, imprisonment and rape farm to create babies to sell "in bulk". I stopped reading almost right after the reveal and the voyeuristic way it describes this victims of abuse and the toll it has taken on them, and one of the revealed villains talks about sexually assaulting the teenage protagonist's (teenage?) sister in front of him. That was more than I needed from what otherwise had a we have modern Stand by Me/ It at home took a handbreak turn into trauma porn. What is it with things I've been reading that out of nowhere take a completely unexpected and unwanted tonal shift into just uncomfortably mean and vindictive, especially towards the women in the stories? I don't like it.

I didn't read this, but I gleaned that the teenage couple are going to be revealed to be not only have been created in this nightmarish situation, but also siblings, because incest is just one of those 'extreme' and 'hilarious' tropes some authors love to throw in. I don't know how it ends and I really don't care to know more. I did see that there is a sequel with the protagonist coming back for revenge

I'll defend your right to write this kind of shit, but that comes with my right to call this, in my own personal, entirety subjective opinion a fucking disgusting waste of time bait and switch edgelord jump scare.

Man, I could have been reading about lesbian pirate adventures.… (meer)