That’s it. That’s all. That’s literally the entire purpose of the story. To make a point about enthusiastic consent.
It’s The Spire in the Woods, if you’re wondering. I needed to find a PDF because it got turned into a book and I’m not paying to read fricking Reddit posts. It’s absolutely not worth your time.
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Nosleep is riddled with female writers and "wholesome horror", both of which are an oxymoron.
There are some diamonds in the rough tho. I might find get you some recommendations if i can remember them.
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The only ones I remember from before nosleep turned from "some pretty good stories if you check by top/month from time to time" to "irredeemable trash no matter how you search for posts" are the collection of short stories from a rescue officer (which at one point I think was the most upmarseyd post on nosleep) and the multi-part story of a young boy being stalked by a man over the course of his entire childhood which was last updated... 10 years ago
Edit: Actually, there's one more I remember, I can't remember whether it was a nosleep story or a creepypasta but I was wondrering if anyone else remembered it because Google isn't showing anything. The general gist of it is that a guy does a haunted house (or something along those lines) where all the rooms are numbered, and it's very spooky and scary etc and he leaves after, say, number 19, and then when he comes home to his house he finds the number 20 in his living room. ANyone else remember this?
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The no end house
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The Penpal story was my introduction to Reddit lmao. Makes me nostalgic.
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Same, I think I first found it linked in an r/askreddit thread (back when new users were automatically subscribed to r/askreddit) and it was the first thing that really made me think "Wow, Reddit really is significantly better than any other social media site", shame everything once good about the site is gone now; the advice "just subscribe to subreddits you're interested in and never browse r/all" doesn't even work anymore, like okay I go to r/guitar and it's just the same as everywhere else on Reddit but everyone's talking about playing guitar, same powermods, same SNOY userbase, just a constrained to one specific topic.
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Borrasca, most stuff by Vincent v cava and 'I dared my best friend to ruin my life' top tier stuff
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I think the Borrasca guy added an epilogue like a year after the original, never got around to reading it tho.
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If its what I'm thinking about, it's Borrasca V, it's like 3 hrs on it's own, and it's worth a listen if you liked the first part
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The SAR story is the first one I think of when trying to think of redeemable spooky Reddit stories. Horror in the woods is generally good when in prose format. Terrible when filmed.
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I remember the story in your edit. It was like a game with a money reward that the protagonist decides to try out when his friend emails him from inside the game and he thinks he is joking about all the supernatural shit. Am i correct?
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Yep, spmeone else replied to me, it was called noend house. Pretty spooky stuff
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Nothing makes me angrier than the “wholesome nosleep :,)” bullshit omfg. You have to scroll to the comments and check for the usual Reddit tard shit about ninjas cutting onions or doggos and whatever before reading anything anymore or else you’re liable to repeatedly spend 20 minutes on massively upmarseyd “scary” stories about how “yeah the spooky demon ghost monster pupper was from HECK but he hated homophobes more than anything else.”
This one got a rec from one of the few consistently good writers, Grand_Theft_Motto. I thought I could trust it
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tfw you are above believing in a righteous God but jerk yourself raw over stories about monsters that eat male feminists.
https://old.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/63ubzl/how_to_survive_in_hell/ one of my favorites. My tastes in horror are pretty much it being scary. I don't search for deeper meanings like "the real horror was humanity after all".
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lol I remember that one. It felt like vidya but it was fun and conceptually it was interesting.
Deeper meaning is fricking r-slurred.
I’m not looking to be moralized at by redditors. Especially not ones who write ostensibly scary stories for free. R-slurs. I like cosmic horror and the ever-more-rare well done supernatural shit. Nosleep has become increasingly horror-free, wholesome, focused on having a moral, or bland butt “realistic” horror.
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This is the same issue mainstream horror has had too. A Quiet Place and Birdbox heralded in a whole genre of a shitty faux deep thriller movies disguised as horror and people are eating them up. So now to find actual horrors you have to sift through the shitty millennial pieces.
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Well no shit, only humans can choose to eat male feminists
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Any fan of horror should be familiar with this shit.
Look up RT scores on your favorite spooky films. Read the reviews. Notice how Jordan Peele's Us was in the top 5 scariest movies of 2019.
Democracy is a joke.
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How many horror movies with actual substance get made in a year anyway? I'm surprised they had enough candidates to fill 5 spots.
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As a matter of fact there were 32 entries
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-horror-movies-of-2019/
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It's rotten tomatoes.
https://rottentomatoes.com/m/ever_after_2019
80% on tomatoe's
meter, 25% from people who weren't paid to see it.
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https://old.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/mw8lff/we_thought_our_emergency_landing_was_a_success/
A more recent one i liked. I have a special love for creepy places.
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I like Odd_Directions a lot! He’s got some flops and nothing I’d consider amazing or anything, but he’s consistently fun and the Scandinavian take on things is interesting.
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It's no surprise that redditors love the Babadook
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As far as creepy fan-fiction goes the the scary stories threads that show up in askreddit can be pretty good when it gets past the same shit that's been reposted a billion times (dyatlov pass, tanam shud, etc...). Also r/LetsNotMeet has some solid creepyposting every once in a while.
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Randos on askreddit being better writers than the full time ones in nosleep is a fun phenomenon
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Russian Sleep Experiment was basically the only good nosleep and i don't even think it originated there
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That story is complete garbage and you probably only thinks it's good because the last time you read it was at least half a decade ago. Here's the last few paragraphs to jog your memory:
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ok you're right, i was like 15 lol
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i think that was regular creepypasta
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You'll find better nosleep by ditching the "nosleep" label and just looking for places were fresh creepypasta are posted as creepypasta.
It's mostly written by teenagers, and some of it is terrible. That being said, you're more likely to find originality in the minds of youth that are untainted by reddit, since they still know what scary is, and haven't built a nuerodivergent fortress aground their minds where even the horror has to be "wholesome" where everything is rehashed to make it feel even safer. I've seen a few newer creepypastas by obvious middle schoolers that are unironically great concepts. All they need is an editor to make it not feel like a 7th grade English paper. I don't have any examples on hand because I don't enjoy creepypasta that much, I just know it's a better read than nosleep in the current year.
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