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ahhhh scary!
Aug. 11th, 2026 01:47 pmAn essay about being afraid. CW for implication of child abuse, though it's not explicit, light discussion of kink and sexist horror tropes. "Ahhhh scary!" was my placeholder title for this document and I just couldn't come up with a better title.
I: This Is An Evil Place; Flee While You Can
When I was a little kid – like, in the single digits, although I don’t remember what age exactly – I read Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, and I was so unbelievably terrified by the story The Dream (specifically the art that went with it, of course) that I couldn’t stop crying and I couldn’t fall asleep. Eventually, I woke my parents up to tell them how scared I was, and their response was to say that I shouldn’t read those books anymore.
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I: This Is An Evil Place; Flee While You Can
When I was a little kid – like, in the single digits, although I don’t remember what age exactly – I read Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, and I was so unbelievably terrified by the story The Dream (specifically the art that went with it, of course) that I couldn’t stop crying and I couldn’t fall asleep. Eventually, I woke my parents up to tell them how scared I was, and their response was to say that I shouldn’t read those books anymore.
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