I Exist And That’s Your Problem

While I’m okay with my posts being used as writing prompts, please please please don’t feed any of my posts or works into any kind of ai thing

Edit: This ^ is all still true, you can use my posts for HUMAN works, but an amendment to it would be if you could let me know if you use any of my posts

Just cause I’m nosey

I know I know that they give me horrible anxiety dreams/nightmares but I need to get this knitting project done in time for a bday (who’s at that age where it’s like every bday has that worry that it’s the last bday, y’know?) so I’m on some serious crunch time and need that extra stimulation to stay focused

I’m looking for something in the realm of anthologies (since I really need subtitles to process things I don’t want overarching stuff where I definitely have to fully absorb what I’m hearing) where it’s more scary than horror (huge fan of supernatural creatures and improbable situations, not so much a fan of abusive families and cults where they rape children, y’know?)

My go to used to be Otis Jiry’s Scary Stories Told in the Dark, which I ended up dropping because of the nightmares and also in the later seasons it felt like there were a lot of stories that weren’t my tastes and I wanted to go back and give it another try (since there were still a lot of seasons to go and even more added so maybe it was just a couple of “off” seasons) but they changed the website and my brain is going “no no no no no no”

Y’know what I mean, like when they change the packaging on food

Anyways, hoping one of y’all has the exact tastes that I do and knows exactly what to recommend 😭

• (Childhood friends) You’re not pursuing them because they’ve seen you through all your awkward phases in life so you think there’s no possible way they could be attracted to you after that, meanwhile they were quietly smitten the whole time

• You used to try to get them with this one person they had the biggest open crush on, and you still think they have a crush on that person and you have no chance (despite the fact they haven’t gushed over that person in forever and keep trying to use the pickup tips that you gave them on you)

• You’re actually worried about coming across as one of those “friendzoned” weirdos and keep avoiding the topic of romance so you don’t make your friend and crush feel awkward

• You have a crush on a friend you made in your apartment building, but you’re anxious about dating because what if they wanna move in and you’re not ready to really give up your alone time and share your space

(Spideypool variation: you’re also a vigilante and if you share a space with someone they’re gonna figure it out, don’t worry tho he actually is really anxious about sharing his space too and wants to keep separate units, this healthy dose of conversation and boundaries actually prevents the both of you from figuring out each other’s secret identities for a ridiculous amount of time)

• They once made a joke about their “type”, which is completely opposite to you, and it never once occurred to you that most people actually don’t have only one specific type that they like and they don’t only date people in that one really specific category

• You know they want to date someone their parents will like, and you don’t think their parents will like you

(Parksborn variation: You know Norman doesn’t like you, and will try to kill you if he figures out you’re Spidey)

Or god forbid it’s a more dramatic story where a character can’t handle their unrequited feelings so even tho they’ve been best friends for so long and are so important to each other, actually the friend needs to run off and isolate themself because it’s not enough for them, and all I can think about are friendzone creeps

So like the characters, after switching bodies, were also gaining the body’s personality traits and its memories, just ship of Theseus’ing them

And I really thought the author was going to commit to that, where at the end it’s like having those two people back, but we’d know that they didn’t actually switch back, they just became each other

But after the swap back it became apparent that they did actually swap back before becoming each other because they had memories from during the swap that they wouldn’t have if the swap back hadn’t actually happened