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So, EverymanHYBRID.
I'm all caught up on the whole thing (EMH posts, geocaches, CYSTW, Alex's Youtube, etc.) and I'm kind of in love with it, even though the guys are not the best at special effects. I was telling SC (who basically doesn't "get" horror, so was immensely bored while I was going on about it. Pfft!) that one of EMH's great strengths, and the thing that really separates it from Marble Hornets is that while Marble Hornets largely freaked me the fuck out more [not that EMH hasn't, but more on that in a bit], EMH makes me feel other things than scared all over the place. Like, it started in this really slow, failtastic way with the whole "fitness show" angle, but taking all that time (like the 9 minutes of "A Day in the Life") to basically show these happy dudes dicking around, being themselves, makes me like them a lot more than I do the protagonists in a lot of other Slendervlogs.
I feel similarly about "Damsel" of the affiliated Can You See the Words blog. About half her posts are about Slender Man, yeah, but the other half are her talking about bangin' hoagies and posting videos of her and Jessa talking about going to Wawa.
So with that, plus the ustreams (which I did not watch) plus the geocaches, and the way the viewers are actually sending the guys places, it feels much more immersive. And I feel way more involved with the characters themselves.
I mean, for god's sake, they had a TWITTER FIGHT that culminated in what I can only describe as an A+++ parody of internet drama.
The series itself does have some bits that gave me the serious heebie jeebies. The two that really stand out are the first time they open to door in "Jeff" and basically all the parts of "In which I assume the role of a 13 year old MySpace girl." that aren't made entirely of adorable. ["I will follow you into the -ark" FFFFFFFFFFFFFF.]
The other thing that creeps me the ACTUAL HELL OUT about it are the disappearing tweets (the phone-only tweets, basically) and the youtube videos that the guys can't see, or that show up and get deleted, etc. etc. And I'm still not sure if what's going on there is that they can't see the words, but the words are there, or if the viewers are seeing shit that isn't there.
Which sort of gets me to what I'm thinking about lately, which are the Corenthal papers found in Box 3 and the bag. Because clearly making HABIT's given name be Evan, and having the second paper revolve around a Vincent isn't coincidence, but since the dates for both papers is 1971, it can't possibly be the Evan and Vincent we know without serious reality warping. (Not just time travel, but both have referenced their parents as being alive and around in the present day, so they can't have just suddenly appeared in the present day as is. Also, Jeff and Vinnie have supposedly known each other since elementary school.) However, the characters (Linnie and William anyway) from the The Rake creepypasta make appearances (Well, William in a letter, and Linnie as a dead body), and both appear much younger than the 1964 date in the creepypasta would lead you to believe.
I'm not really sure what's going on there, but I've got two theories. One is that it's a deliberate anachronism, partially to allow the Corenthal!Vincent to have probably watched Candle Cove as a kid, but partially as this sort of meta reference to our tendency to backdate our creepypasta. We don't set these stories in the present, we set them in a past juuuust far enough back to make them difficult to confirm. We tell scary stories about present fears and set them in 1970. Or whatever.
Alternately, it goes back to months ago timeline-wise when they were still focusing heavily on dreams and sleep. The whole thing (including the missing/disappearing tweets and videos) give the whole thing this crazy nightmare logic. Vincent is college age, but was also a kid in 1971? Evan is a teenager who digs violence and horror movies and metal, but was apparently a kid who killed a nurse when he was institutionalized in 1971? Sure! This is kind of backed up by Corenthal, when writing his letter in 1971 seems to have "Who could win a rabbit?" stuck in his head in spite of the impossibility of that. This is furthered by the "extra-canonical videos", "Congratulations, Magus!", "Slender man" and "Welcome to the Ark". None of those seem to exist in these guys' real world: the guys never see Slender Man actually take Jessa, Evan hasn't gone slasher movie on Vince for real, and there are still people outside, walking around, and nobody's trapped in a timeless basement. But in spite of being factually impossible and not in the timeline, they feel simultaneously true. Just like the Corenthal papers feel, in a certain way, true (in a "worst possible scenario" way, anyway), even if they're not factual.
Largely, I am super super glad that I wasn't following this when they asked for addresses to send out the wristbands. Since it largely seemed to be a ploy to get addresses. OH YOU CREEPSTERS.
Also, I appear to ship Evan/Damsel. He likes knives. A lot! She burned down her house! They possibly mutually stalked each other! OTP!
I'm all caught up on the whole thing (EMH posts, geocaches, CYSTW, Alex's Youtube, etc.) and I'm kind of in love with it, even though the guys are not the best at special effects. I was telling SC (who basically doesn't "get" horror, so was immensely bored while I was going on about it. Pfft!) that one of EMH's great strengths, and the thing that really separates it from Marble Hornets is that while Marble Hornets largely freaked me the fuck out more [not that EMH hasn't, but more on that in a bit], EMH makes me feel other things than scared all over the place. Like, it started in this really slow, failtastic way with the whole "fitness show" angle, but taking all that time (like the 9 minutes of "A Day in the Life") to basically show these happy dudes dicking around, being themselves, makes me like them a lot more than I do the protagonists in a lot of other Slendervlogs.
I feel similarly about "Damsel" of the affiliated Can You See the Words blog. About half her posts are about Slender Man, yeah, but the other half are her talking about bangin' hoagies and posting videos of her and Jessa talking about going to Wawa.
So with that, plus the ustreams (which I did not watch) plus the geocaches, and the way the viewers are actually sending the guys places, it feels much more immersive. And I feel way more involved with the characters themselves.
I mean, for god's sake, they had a TWITTER FIGHT that culminated in what I can only describe as an A+++ parody of internet drama.
The series itself does have some bits that gave me the serious heebie jeebies. The two that really stand out are the first time they open to door in "Jeff" and basically all the parts of "In which I assume the role of a 13 year old MySpace girl." that aren't made entirely of adorable. ["I will follow you into the -ark" FFFFFFFFFFFFFF.]
The other thing that creeps me the ACTUAL HELL OUT about it are the disappearing tweets (the phone-only tweets, basically) and the youtube videos that the guys can't see, or that show up and get deleted, etc. etc. And I'm still not sure if what's going on there is that they can't see the words, but the words are there, or if the viewers are seeing shit that isn't there.
Which sort of gets me to what I'm thinking about lately, which are the Corenthal papers found in Box 3 and the bag. Because clearly making HABIT's given name be Evan, and having the second paper revolve around a Vincent isn't coincidence, but since the dates for both papers is 1971, it can't possibly be the Evan and Vincent we know without serious reality warping. (Not just time travel, but both have referenced their parents as being alive and around in the present day, so they can't have just suddenly appeared in the present day as is. Also, Jeff and Vinnie have supposedly known each other since elementary school.) However, the characters (Linnie and William anyway) from the The Rake creepypasta make appearances (Well, William in a letter, and Linnie as a dead body), and both appear much younger than the 1964 date in the creepypasta would lead you to believe.
I'm not really sure what's going on there, but I've got two theories. One is that it's a deliberate anachronism, partially to allow the Corenthal!Vincent to have probably watched Candle Cove as a kid, but partially as this sort of meta reference to our tendency to backdate our creepypasta. We don't set these stories in the present, we set them in a past juuuust far enough back to make them difficult to confirm. We tell scary stories about present fears and set them in 1970. Or whatever.
Alternately, it goes back to months ago timeline-wise when they were still focusing heavily on dreams and sleep. The whole thing (including the missing/disappearing tweets and videos) give the whole thing this crazy nightmare logic. Vincent is college age, but was also a kid in 1971? Evan is a teenager who digs violence and horror movies and metal, but was apparently a kid who killed a nurse when he was institutionalized in 1971? Sure! This is kind of backed up by Corenthal, when writing his letter in 1971 seems to have "Who could win a rabbit?" stuck in his head in spite of the impossibility of that. This is furthered by the "extra-canonical videos", "Congratulations, Magus!", "Slender man" and "Welcome to the Ark". None of those seem to exist in these guys' real world: the guys never see Slender Man actually take Jessa, Evan hasn't gone slasher movie on Vince for real, and there are still people outside, walking around, and nobody's trapped in a timeless basement. But in spite of being factually impossible and not in the timeline, they feel simultaneously true. Just like the Corenthal papers feel, in a certain way, true (in a "worst possible scenario" way, anyway), even if they're not factual.
Largely, I am super super glad that I wasn't following this when they asked for addresses to send out the wristbands. Since it largely seemed to be a ploy to get addresses. OH YOU CREEPSTERS.
Also, I appear to ship Evan/Damsel. He likes knives. A lot! She burned down her house! They possibly mutually stalked each other! OTP!
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