Anon finds a hut

Horror story QwQ

One of my most embarrassing habits is that I sometimes go to the R-word site and read through the comment section there. Way too often, there are askr-word (or other sub r-word) posts where the comment section ends up being a bunch of bullshit supernatural responses. This one kind of reminds me of that. If you believe in ghosts or extraterrestrial aliens, I think less of you. You are dumb. Sorry, but it is what is is. I still drink alcohol sometimes, even knowing it causes cancer, so I'm not claiming I'm better than you. We can both/all be stupid. But if you believe in that supernatural crap, you're stupid, too.
- You don't need to signal to people that you dislike reddit by saying r-word. It's a given that anybody on lemmy dislikes reddit.
  (Btw, I believe in aliens, most people with even passing familiarity with astronomy do.)
  
  Thank you. I was trying to figure out which developmentally disabled site they were referring to.
- R word? You mean reddit?
  
  Stop it, Patrick! You're scaring him!

God I skipped a beat.

I want this to work as a NoSleep creepypasta or whatever, but it just makes no sense. I have never, in my life, thought any window could possibly be a painting.
EDIT: I just thought of Mario 64. That's an exception!
- Yeah could have just ended on "there were no paintings"
- it would work better as a fairytale, has more of that kinda vibe

Would be worse to wake up and see your own portrait added to the wall.
- That's where I thought it was going.

This just gave me chills

this is based on something can't remember what but it is
- There are a bunch of creepy pastas along that line, it's a pretty tired trope.

Seem to recall this story from r/nosleep a long time ago. That's one of the things I still haven't replaced from my reddit days, I liked reading through the top stories every once in a while. There really were some gems. I just got an AO3 account so maybe I can find something like that again, but I'm not too familiar with the site.
- I remember M59gar in particular wrote some bangers there. That whole portal in the first series was 👨‍🍳😚
- Seems like the story predates /r/nosleep by a fair bit. Relatedly, I wish lemmy were more open to creative writing. The greentext communities respond positively, but it’s a gamble anywhere else. Over the years, It’s become apparent to me that lemmy is full of philistines.
  
  lemmy is full of philistines.
  Reddit, too. The fandoms I was engaged in there seem totally uninterested in (or even hostile to) fanfiction or even lore speculation now. No, just repeating and worshipping the same shallow memes.
  At risk of sounding old... it wasn't always like that.
  
  I'm pretty sure I read this story in a book of urban legends when I was a kid in the nineties and it wasn't new then.
  
  a gamble anywhere else
  Are there even any communities related to creative writing anywhere on lemmy? Never stumbled upon any
  
  If you wrote something I'd read it.
- oh it's ancient. i remember reading a Polish translation of that back in 2013 or something just as i was starting to get into creepypastas
- Ao3 is epic, but it’s very fandom specific. There is a “general” story section I guess, but TBH I have not ventured there.

An old but good one :3.. 4chan has some pretty good horror on it funnily enough.. as long as you can be bothered sifting through the toxic waste that the rest of the platform is
- That's why I subscribe to greentext communities, cuz I did my time in the trenches dealing with the Nazis and gore well before the right well and truly lost (what little was left of) their goddamned minds.
  
  4vhan was pretty left leaning with some libertarian (and still rampant racism). It was also, by far, the easiest social media to manipulate.
  
  You fought in the trenches against the Nazis? You must be over 100 years old!
  Edit:
  Child: Grandpa, did you serve in the Great War?
  Grandpa: No, I experienced much worse, I fought the Nazis on 4chan via chat from the comfort of a $3800 studio apartment in Seattle with my parents trust fund money.

I can see the intention of the story, but how you wouldn't notice many windows on a small hut when you approached makes it not work for me.
- Also the lighting. If it’s dark outside how do you light up a person looking into a window in a way they appear as a painting instead of weird shadows.
- Maybe there's none on the side of the hut Anon approaches from?

Anon, what the fuck

Very relatable

Are you gonna start dogging or what mate?