CURRENT OBSESSION #1
This book...this book. Wow. So..I have been a Stephen King fan since my freshman year of high school when I read Desperation. It scared me a WHOLE lot, while at the same time giving me something I had never experienced: a truly amazing work of fiction that I voluntarily read other than Harry Potter. It was also probably the first time I encountered the realm of "adult" fiction. Cussing, violence..and yes..some rather graphic scenes of the sexual nature. Now please don't get me wrong here! I DO NOT read books for those types of things. Quite honestly, it doesn't affect me. And, being a Christian, yes, it does bother me to a certain degree..but I am reading fiction. And King's stories are never propelled by sex or violence, rather his stories are propelled by his stories! So. There. A lot of rambling to get to my point...I am reading IT and it is TRULY terrifying. Never before have I read a book that has scared me so much! As I read it, even if something scary isn't happening, I feel this overwhelming sense of danger, evil and foreboding. And I love it! See, I love being scared. And this book does WONDERS for that love of mine. I literally could not go into the kitchen the other night because I was pretty sure Pennywise the Dancing Clown was going to be crouching right around the corner with a handful of balloons for me.
(The book is about these kids who battle this evil, inter-dimensional being known only as It, and it primarily takes the form of a killer clown.) I am only about 180 pages in, and it is just SO GOOD! If you are looking for a good scare and/or a good read (not to mention a LONG read..it's a good 1000+ pages long) I STRONGLY recommend this book!
CURRENT OBSESSION #2
This guy:
Again, something entirely too creepy. But something entirely too good!! One of my best friends and I stumbled across this YouTube channel called Marble Hornets. We began to watch these strange, short videos called "Entries" that were about this college film student who suddenly stopped work on his current film project called Marble Hornets. The entries are uploaded by the student's friend and colleague. As we watch, we discover that he stopped work because he said that he could no longer deal with the conditions that he was working under. We then begin to watch with horror as he is being stalked/haunted by this faceless, long limbed entity, known as The Operator. Well..it is basically an urban legend known as The Slender Man. This man who has no face and has unnaturally long arms, stalks his victims (usually children or college age kids) and drives them insane with paranoia. Along with the occasional coughing fits and other odd symptoms. If you are looking for a good scare, along with a wonderful and ENGAGING story, go check out Marble Hornets on YouTube and begin watching with the Introduction. There are currently 44 entries, with more to come in the future.
CURRENT OBSESSION #3
The past two obsessions of mine are by products of this last current obsession: being scared. My friend that I discovered Marble Hornets with and I are both currently obsessed with this, and are always trying to find ways to creep each other out!! At church camp, I drew the Operator Symbol from Marble Hornets (it's that circle with the X through it) on her bunk bed without her knowing, and she FREAKED OUT! It was SO funny! (If you watch the videos, you'll understand why it scared her so much.) And as the week progressed, I began to add more. She finally discovered that it was me, and we had a huge laugh over it! Just this past weekend, I went to a lock in at her church, and she tried to scare me with a BEAUTIFUL life size cut out of Slendy. It was REALLY creepy, but looked so good!! It was ruined when someone came up to me and said they saw it in her apartment, and then someone else told me they also saw it in her apartment and in the church nursery. I confronted Janae about it and all she could do was laugh!! She had made it in hopes that I would stumble upon it and be scared out of my mind. Wish I would have been...Oh well, c'est la vie. I did get to keep it and I plan on hanging it up in my dorm room! It really is an awesome picture!
Well! Those are the things that I am currently obsessing over! Hope I didn't disturb anyone too bad..haha!
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