Feb
18th
2020
Out of simple curiosity... · 11:26pm Feb 18th, 2020
What scares you? Been thinking up ideas and all for stories in the next PHA but I was wondering what scares my watchers? Anything in particular? Being able to play off the fears of others and put myself into their shoes while writing is a lot of fun. Who knows? Maybe someone's fear could be a story itself without being in the anthology. It's just something I think about from time to time. Feel free to comment with whatever sends chills down your spine or gives you that impending sense of dread.
I am scared of traveling in a car for "long" periods of time, I was in one when an accident happened as a kid, after a while in a car anxiety starts kicking in, followed by cold sweat. Good luck trying to put that into a fic tho
Anything can cause PTSD apparently.
Also going into dark areas while in the less civilized parts of where I live is pretty terrifying.
Stuff that can't be reversed.
Which is kinda generic/simple really -- like, someone dying, or moving somewhere else. Just stuff that drastically changes someone's life and they can't go back to it.
(not a self insert lol but damn it sounds like one)
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I could see that cause distress. Sorry that happened to you. I do think there could possibly be a way to fit something like that in though. In some manner, anyway. I could think on it at least.
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Simple stuff can be greatly expounded on. It's a good thing when looking for ideas or just simply brainstorming for fun. That said, I know what you mean in that sense. I've had some similar feelings tied with such things. Mainly ones involving a character turned to stone, ice, etc. and being vulnerable to anything at that point. Their friend or loved one being unable to stop the shatter hitting deep. One of those moments of thinking if there may have been a cure, it's all useless upon that instance. A bit wordy, but still!
The future, our future as a species. Feels like we’re on a runaway train and the track ahead go off an edge. It’s basically completely out of our hands and those that can do something won’t. It is despairing, to continue to march toward progress as a person feels like a folly as this looming disaster most likely will render it pointless. And I look around and there is a general air of apathy and basically willful ignorance to the facts. We all see the changes, the ridiculous weather trends, the thinning of the animal/insect/plant populations, etc etc and yet it doesn’t seem to matter much to most? I’ve even seen people elated that we are having spring weather in the middle of winter and that there are no bugs to bother them. It is maddening, and has left me disillusioned. I am scared that all of this, all our progress as a species and this beautiful planet will come to an end because we can’t stop.
I know that this prob isn’t what you’re looking for like drowning or getting chased by a killer clown with a murderboner but it’s what terrifies me.
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Any answer that's truthful like what have been given is what I'm looking for. I know the plights of our species are just stacking and seem to tower higher. It isn't something most can do about it and, as you stated, others just simply won't. It would probably be like pleading to someone holding the only cure to something or perhaps needing their hand to aid you. When the answer is just a flat 'no' and none other can help, it's the helpless overall that weighs heavy and the realization of what's going on and set in motion that drives the fear. The inability to change something so dark and heavy.
I’m afraid of escalators and flies. Also bees. Fuck bees.
Everything else doesn’t really bother me too much or isn’t a particularly scary thing to me. I just don’t have very common fears.
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Bees can rather anxiety inducing, especially if you happen to have an allergy to them. I've been stung by a wasp before. Not fun at all. What about escalators scares you?
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Bees don't induce anxiety per se, I'm just terrified of them
They're devil stares and I will never, ever go on one. I can't be near those fuckers.
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Is it the idea of getting caught in them and being taken to a point without escape? Or just that they move when they should be stairs?
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All of the above. They're an abomination and I just don't trust them.
Maybe a bit late to the party, but ideas are always welcome, I guess?
The possibility that there's nothing after death. I'm not talking about the fear of death here, or wether or not there is an afterlife of whatever kind. I'm talking specifically cessation of existence, the idea that death is the end point, game over, do not continue. It's the literal antithesis of 'existing', and as such can't even be fully understood by one who 'exists' in hopes of easing one's oncoming passing.
I freely admit that I'm an agnosticic, but holy shit do I so desperately hope that there is a heaven or hell after all of this.