brownmane
off kilter
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Haha. Tell me you're not a gamer. You have to see Free Guy.National Par Carks?
Haha. Tell me you're not a gamer. You have to see Free Guy.National Par Carks?
I want to see it now.Haha. Tell me you're not a gamer. You have to see Free Guy.
Definitely do.I want to see it now.
When you go to bed you can look at that pillowcase-face again.@Carlos! Would you PLEASE spoiler that thing? Even now I know it's a fake, it gives me the heebee-jeebies to come across it suddenly!
Stop it!When you go to bed you can look at that pillowcase-face again.
I'm a member as well. Hardly ever experience anything close to paranormal, so I read about the paranormal and watch paranormal videos instead.Welcome to the NPC club!
I had these thoughts about myself a few years ago. My life seems to repeat on a loop.
Non Player Character.National Par Carks?
The Underbed Spider grows EXACTLY to a length where it covers a span underneath the bed to touch all the bed legs and still rise menacingly with fangs above the headboard.I'm a member as well. Hardly ever experience anything close to paranormal, so I read about the paranormal and watch paranormal videos instead.
This thread has made me think about what used to really interest me. I think my driving force was all about the spiritual side of a person and what you could do if you could expand your consciousness.
So all my big interests were OOB/Astral Projection, telepathy, telekinesis, survival of the self after death, hence ghosts, reincarnation etc. And then later ritual magic which I still tied into the power of the self.
Looking at paranormal web sites, podcasts and even FT, it all seems to be heavily biased towards cryptozoology, conspiracy theories and UFO’s. Unfortunately I have absolutely no interest in these subjects so i find myself dipping into the paranormal less and less. I look to the time when fashions may again change and some of my former interests may rise to the fore.
Great post. We now have ultra-HD 'magic' being streamed into our living rooms at the touch of a button. Special effects have now become so sophisticated that the real is almost indistinguishable from the fake. What interest are some fleeting lights on some damp old moorland to the great majority of people who now demand immediate and constant entertainment night-after-night in ever-greater detail on ever-bigger screens and who think 'nature' is the barren dog-toilet of their local park...?Fashions do seem to affect Forteana as much as anything else. I would never have predicted the big (podcast driven?) resurgence in cryptozoology in recent years, but there you go.
I'm reminded by a current thread on the ufology board that some of my personal interests - ghost lights and other possible strange natural phenomena, and all the rich local folklore that goes with them - have a bit of an unfashionable air. A slight whiff of real ale, as I think of it. Who's to say why certain things grab the imagination of the public, and others stay a bit niche? I've seen a few mainstream news articles suggesting that there's been a growth of interest in the 'paranormal' during the pandemic, but I think it's been building longer than that.
The one thing that seems to be clear is the growth of a certain type, or more accurately tone, of scepticism in the past decade or so. I'm not saying this is necessarily a bad thing, just interested to see it. I don't think that it reflects a corresponding growth of interest in Forteana, so much as it's part of a reaction against a perceived tendency in politics, and culture generally, towards emotional messaging - I'll leave it there so as not to stray into politics too much.
Great post. We now have ultra-HD 'magic' being streamed into our living rooms at the touch of a button. Special effects have now become so sophisticated that the real is almost indistinguishable from the fake. What interest are some fleeting lights on some damp old moorland to the great majority of people who now demand immediate and constant entertainment night-after-night in ever-greater detail on ever-bigger screens and who think 'nature' is the barren dog-toilet of their local park...?
Great post. We now have ultra-HD 'magic' being streamed into our living rooms at the touch of a button. Special effects have now become so sophisticated that the real is almost indistinguishable from the fake. What interest are some fleeting lights on some damp old moorland to the great majority of people who now demand immediate and constant entertainment night-after-night in ever-greater detail on ever-bigger screens and who think 'nature' is the barren dog-toilet of their local park...?
As it happens I was walking across some old Cornish moorland yesterday and it was also a bit damp as the promised Easter ‘heatwave’ has yet to arrive down here. Lots of wildlife but alas no earth lights, although the old mine engine houses are rather haunting.Fleeting lights on damp old moorland seem like the very essence of Forteana to me! The kind of everyday marvel that has puzzled humans for centuries, millennia probably, hidden away in the dark and secluded corners of the countryside.
British girls comics of the 1970s and1980s also influenced me pretty heavily. Some of the stories were weird even in mainstream titles like Bunty. I missed out on Misty first time round (I've read it since) but liked Bunty, Jinty, Tammy, Mandy, Judy, Nikki... All of them had paranormal and science fiction stories in them. There were stories about cursed trees, robot horses, totalitarian futures where music and ballet was banned, spacefaring rabbits, possessed painting sets, cat goddesses and Misty had a superb story about a high rise tower block which contained a portal to a terrifying Nazi Britain mirror universe. There was one artist who mostly worked in Jinty and I only had to open the comic, see it and I would start to feel sick. They were particularly brilliant at Evil Victorians. Unfortunately these comics didn't have credits so I have no idea who it was.I read Misty comic and Jinty. Misty was spooky stories. The annuals were good.
Funnily enough I could never find enough horror fiction as a child. And I don't remember any science fiction at all. Not in the school or public libraries. I used to borrow the same book on space from the public library regularly because there was not enough odd stuff for me to read.British girls comics of the 1970s and1980s also influenced me pretty heavily. Some of the stories were weird even in mainstream titles like Bunty. I missed out on Misty first time round (I've read it since) but liked Bunty, Jinty, Tammy, Mandy, Judy, Nikki... All of them had paranormal and science fiction stories in them. There were stories about cursed trees, robot horses, totalitarian futures where music and ballet was banned, spacefaring rabbits, possessed painting sets, cat goddesses and Misty had a superb story about a high rise tower block which contained a portal to a terrifying Nazi Britain mirror universe. There was one artist who mostly worked in Jinty and I only had to open the comic, see it and I would start to feel sick. They were particularly brilliant at Evil Victorians. Unfortunately these comics didn't have credits so I have no idea who it was.
I believe there have been academic studies into why girl's fiction can be so brutal. These comics really tortured their heroins and Misty in particular would visit horrible fates on young girls who often did not deserve it.
If you grow up reading that sort of stuff it's not so much of a stretch to shift into horror and science fiction in children's text fiction and then lap up any non-fiction that deals with the strange and the weird.
I think I may have been really lucky. My mum was a bookworm and my local library was fantastic.Funnily enough I could never find enough horror fiction as a child. And I don't remember any science fiction at all. Not in the school or public libraries. I used to borrow the same book on space from the public library regularly because there was not enough odd stuff for me to read.
I was a picky reader. If I started a book and the beginning was rubbish I wouldn't continue. If it started good and became rubbish I gave up too.....
My mother bought me books but she thinks science fiction/horror are "silly" so she didn't tend to get those sorts of books for me.
There was always Star Trek and lots of sci fi on TV in the UK in the 70s.
I didn't realise I actually am drawn to "sci fi" until I watched the first series of Red Dwarf on BBC2 and later ended up sharing a flat with male students who watched lots of Sci Fi - The X Files, Star Trek with Picard and Babylon 5 etc.....I always said I far preferred that to sharing a flat with soap opera/Eastenders obsessed people.....
British girls comics of the 1970s and1980s also influenced me pretty heavily. Some of the stories were weird even in mainstream titles like Bunty. I missed out on Misty first time round (I've read it since) but liked Bunty, Jinty, Tammy, Mandy, Judy, Nikki... All of them had paranormal and science fiction stories in them. There were stories about cursed trees, robot horses, totalitarian futures where music and ballet was banned, spacefaring rabbits, possessed painting sets, cat goddesses and Misty had a superb story about a high rise tower block which contained a portal to a terrifying Nazi Britain mirror universe. There was one artist who mostly worked in Jinty and I only had to open the comic, see it and I would start to feel sick. They were particularly brilliant at Evil Victorians. Unfortunately these comics didn't have credits so I have no idea who it was.
I believe there have been academic studies into why girl's fiction can be so brutal. These comics really tortured their heroins and Misty in particular would visit horrible fates on young girls who often did not deserve it.
If you grow up reading that sort of stuff it's not so much of a stretch to shift into horror and science fiction in children's text fiction and then lap up any non-fiction that deals with the strange and the weird.
she did a fantastic job!My late mother was one of the most prolific writers for Misty.
Even though it was a girls' comic, I must admit that I enjoyed reading the spooky stories!
... There was one artist who mostly worked in Jinty and I only had to open the comic, see it and I would start to feel sick. They were particularly brilliant at Evil Victorians. Unfortunately these comics didn't have credits so I have no idea who it was. ...