Slender Man Musings

TV Tropes, this is somehow all your fault. I don't care that you're not actually a living entity, I am never sleeping at night again.

If you're reading this post, I'm going to assume you either already know about Slender Man or have clicked on the above link, so I refuse to accept any responsibility for what happens to you, nor will I explain about Slender Man.

So, Slender Man. A tall, skinny, faceless child stalker with the apparent ability to sprout tentacles at need who at first glance wouldn’t sound out of place in porn. In fact, if he ever decides to stop being a horrible evil eldritch abomination, I wouldn’t mind watching him in a production of some other capacity. It would certainly keep me from declaring war on the trees of the world, which I somehow don’t see ending happily.

So, technical stuff: the idea of an eldritch abomination like Slender Man existing goes back quite a bit. So do ideas of certain aspects of Slender Man's appearance. He resembles quite a few other villainous characters throughout fictional and nonfictional history, and I'm not going to list them all here, because who knows where that will end? I personally don't believe he exists, but if anything like him would be created, I hope it would be by the Tulpa Effect, because the alternative is worse. Much, much worse. I’d take my existentialism over cosmic horror any day.

After my first Something Awful binge of the original thread, I did what only dedicated computer nerds/internet addicts are willing to do; I began looking up different blogs/vlogs/etc. Hooray for me, because quite a few of them were unintuitive, and some of them were just plain terrible. Once Sturgeon’s Law stopped battering me in the face, I went over and rewatched my favorite parts of Marble Hornets. Three hours later, I had a final exam, wherein I scribbled Operator-related things in the margins and unused sections of my blue book. The grader probably thinks I'm an impending psychopath now. Thanks, Slender Man. In any case, I learned a wonderful lesson; physics sucks.

A week into the Slender Man, and I’ve barely finished some of the earliest “recordings”. Except EverymanHYBRID. I refuse to touch EverymanHYBRID until I miraculously find several hundred free hours and a decent Internet connection. EverymanHYBRID is absolutely huge in a way my mind doesn’t want to comprehend. It’s like trying to read what some people call the “third gen” blogs all at once. I think that if I tried I’d end up taking a chainsaw to my computer, and then where would I be? (Hint: It would be very similar to what happened when I found that CUT! had gone missing. The Madness Place is not fun.)

Update: I just found the Slendeparodies! Yay! Now we just need one gigantic crossover for Slender Man to not be scary anymore! Also, we need to find whoever wrote/sang “Gimme 20 Dollaz” and do something I probably shouldn’t post on this blog to him.

So yeah. That's pretty much my brush with Slender Man. So far. Other than that, summer’s been pretty tame. I can’t wait for school to start.

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