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• date of creation: around april 2012
• summary: basically liu comes back as a ghost after jeff kills him and decides to try and warn jeff's victims before he can kill them. unfortunately, said victims are usually so scared of liu that they don't notice that jeff is after them. jeff remains oblivious to liu, but liu is wracked with guilt every time the cycle repeats.
• cause of death: first of all he's in the Jeff the Killer Expanded Universe. second, i was 16 at the time. third, by the time i wanted to actually do something to take the character in this direction, homicidal liu was already pretty cemented as the Canon Liu Woods Sequel. and lastly, i recently considered taking another crack at the character now that the Slenderman Mansion™ has died down a bit, but i don't really know how i want to write his story. is he a first-person narrative kinda guy? a second hand recount from a victim? from a paranormal investigator? third person omniscient narrative? i don't know! if i ever figure out what to do with him i will post an update abt it tho

• date of creation: around april 2013
• summary: it was going to be an anthology series about a bunch of girls confronting mortality, all guided by the titlular flower (pictured above). she had to indirectly communicate with the girls within her own flower dimension, depicted as a monochrome english-style garden. there were also going to be ARG elements involving flower herself, and her wardens the stem and thorn. the stem was basically a computer that was keeping watch over flower to make sure she didn't interfere with the living too much, while thorn (i think) was a manifestation of the anger stage of grief or something, and was the series' antagonist.
• cause of death: once again, i was a teenager when i made her and i had no idea what i was doing. also, the ARG elements were very poorly thought-out since i had no idea how much effort went into something like that. and lastly, the plot was shifting constantly and i still don't fully remember what the plot was supposed to be by the time i started filming for the project. it was going to be about one girl (totally not a self-insert), then it was an anthology, then the human aspect was cut and it was just about flower. on top of all that, she never made it past the working title phase. now if i tried to do anything with her everyone would think she's a jane the killer knockoff 💔

• date of creation: august 2018
• summary: a rewrite of ticci toby's origin story, now set during 2010-2011 in nevada. the story would be told through a nameless paranormal investigator that found toby's livejournal while hunting for proof of slenderman's existence. we'd follow toby by way of his livejournal posts through his introduction to the online world, his first encounter with slenderman, the ensuing dysfunction and later destruction of his family, and his eventual incarceration after murdering one of the friends he made online. there was going to be a focus on the viral (in the disease sense) nature of slenderman, and the systematic way it stripped away all of toby's support systems until he was vulnerable and easy to control.
• cause of death: ok so unlike all my other flops, this one i actually finished writing, and theres only a couple things i'd want to change about the rewrite, namely clockwork's inclusion (i was gonna do a whole Proxy OCs Cinematic Universe) and the corny cliffhanger ending. however, this one will probably never see the light of day because i later found out that the original creator of ticci toby basically wanted nothing to do with the character anymore since the Slenderman Stabbings, and i worry digging the character back up with a rewrite would be disrespectful to those wishes. so rip to the ticci toby remake, u were at least good for the writing practice 💔

• date of creation: december 2018
• summary: another arg, mostly told through a blog run by pov character jaiden "jai" soto, a paranormal investigator living in the woods on the border between california and nevada. she'd be afflicted by a whole host of monsters, from the sentient and possibly divine black mountain lion, to a slenderman knockoff called sticks, his two confused proxies marissa and aleks, several reality-bending anomolies, and a more realistic version of the fae, one of which is depicted above.
• cause of death: pure hubris. ur girl watched corpse husband's reading of search and rescue (remember when he used to read scary stories and no one was super weird about him?) and found out about missing 411 and thought "hm, bet i could do that but way more and also an arg". i learned absolutely nothing from flowers as you can see. i also got way too into worldbuilding for the fae and the black mountain lion and it became more about the intricasies of their politics and serial backstabbing than actually. you know. being scary. like a horror thing is supposed to be. at least i still think my designs for the fae creatures slaps tho.

1. Candle Cove

obviously an oldy but a goody. i think there was a show made out of this but i haven't seen anything candle cove related past the original story, so i can't vouch for any of that. if you still haven't read the original story though, i would definitely recommend it as a study in simplicity!

2. Ben Drowned

as mentioned in my problematique faves, another old one that i think still holds up. i've linked night mind's video above so you can get both the videos and the arg elements of the story together, but i think there's also something to be said for watching the original videos out of context. even though it should feel overdone now the reversed music and broken, empty levels of "day four" still get under my skin. much like with candle cove, i think there has been additional ben drowned content since what the night mind video covered, but i haven't watched any of that yet and so i can't vouch for the quality of that either.

3. Stan Frederick

so i haven't watched the full series on this one yet, but i do recall really liking the old stan frederick stuff from when the dude was like, 16, and what ive seen so far this one is just as, and even more high quality that the old school slenderverse series. i will say, this definitely feels like a series for those of us that grew up with the slenderman mythos and i don't know how friendly this would be to like. the analog horror ppl or something.

4. Search and Rescue

ok there's a reason i decided to link corpse husband's video on the story. so if i recall, back when he used to do spooky readings, he would do a mix of true stories and like, ghost stories. at the time i was watching this, i didn't know search and rescue was functionally a creepypasta (i know it came from r/nosleep but like.... it's a creepypasta) and i spent like half the video thinking it was all real and getting super fucked up because i remember seeing staircases that went nowhere when i've gone hiking before!!!!???? particularly in europe!!??? and it was only once the pov search and rescue guy was watching the nowhere staircases eviscerate people that i was like "wait a minute.... i think this might be fake actually..." so anyway i linked corpse's reading in the hopes that u will have a similar experience with it that i did!

5. Abandoned Servers

now listen.... i know the whole "and the video game attacked me IN REAL LIFE!!!11!!" thing might put some of you off, and thats ok. but like.... this story still kinda has me fucked up lol. i feel like it has a similar sort of broken emptiness that got to me with ben drowned and no players online (which i can't even sit through a full lets play of lol). add to that the twisting of the narrator's body, which is something i've had literal nightmares about, and i still feel my heart rate jump when i go back to this story. the really interesting thing to me personally is that i don't think the fear is coming from a liminal space thing, since most liminal space stuff doesn't get under my skin like the afformentioned stories do. there's something about the intersect between the space being both empty and falling apart to a reality-breaking extent that freaks me out, and idk if there's a word for that sort of thing yet.

6. Channel ∞

so i know ritual pastas, as a whole, are kinda hard to suspend disbelief for, since like.... obviously this doesn't work. if you could go to a hell dimension by watching tv i think that would have ended up on the news by now. however, as a jojo's bizarre adventure fan, i am no stranger to suspending dibelief to an absurd extent for the sake of a good concept, and i think that's why i still like this story even if ritual pastas are, by nature, a bit silly. a lot of the imagery in this just goes unbelievably hard, from the statue of ur best friend coming out of nowhere, to the pink full moon that makes you bite your tongue, to the idea of having to survive in a desolate pocket reality only to realize whether or not you make it out alive is down to luck. i don't know, this one just feels a lot more visceral to me than most ritual pastas.

7. Funnymouth

this one may also come across as a bit corny, but i re-read it to make sure it held up since i haven't read it myself since like, 2013 and.... yeah, the ending still has me fucked up. like i know the broken grammer of the titular funnymouth should be funny, but it still creeps me out. for a modern comparison, it kind of reminds me of the ways alternates talked in the early parts of the mandela catalogue. the dream sequences, despite knowing they're dreams, also creep me out in a major way. again, much like with abandoned servers, it reminds me so much of my own nightmares that it makes me a bit paranoid lol. i won't spoil the ending, but i will say i think the cyclical nature of the story is another strong point, and as i said, is probably why the ending still fucks me up all these years later.

8. 'the (Coronation Day)

probably the absolute best of the playable creepypasta game/exe genre, at least until someone makes a playable version of godzilla nes lol. in particular i love how open to interpretation the game is. there's something about it's inscrutible nature that makes it stick with you in both a fear of the unkown sense, and in a "ooooh so many theories" sense. you can look into any community discussing this game and i think damn near every person who's experienced it has their own interpretation of the story. the design for peach in this game is also probably the only creepypasta-ified version of a game character that actually creeps me out