like on the one hand the lovecraft method of not describing a monster and saying “it was soooo scary you guys you should’ve seen it it was SO scary” is just demonstrably shitty but also like. are you ever engaging with some kind of horror media and there’s this horrible horrible tension building up to the reveal of the Creature and you’re just filled with this awful dread and then the creature actually gets revealed and there’s this moment of like. disappointed relief bc what it actually is could never measure up to what your mind conjured up in that moment
horror media: there’s something hiding just around this corner
me: oh god it’s gonna be a scary monster there is gonna be a scary monster there oh god
*a scary monster emerges from around the corner*
me: oh well that is just a scary monster. whatever
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