listen, i have made a number of regrettable decisions lately, chief among them consuming a series of explainers about various ARG-style supernatural horror webseries constructed around slenderman
and yes, this was obviously a poor call on my part, not just because it is no longer 2012, nor because internet creepypasta is not, as a rule, the most progressive of fiction-spaces and so there was a serious dearth of people of color and/or women, and the (white) women who did exist in these stories almost exclusively occupy the role of soon-to-be-murdered-lady, which is precisely the kind of thing that always fills me with the urge to GO MAKE MY OWN, despite the fact i have no video experience or resources or film talent of any kind oh god oh god
but because not a one of these series ever even brushes against what to me is the biggest mystery in the entire slenderman canon
which is not where does he get his suits? only because the lore establishes that slenderman possesses supernatural powers and so presumably he can bypass the indignity of a big n tall store and just, like, materialize his own
no, the totally unexamined slenderman mythos is why does slenderman wear suits in the first place?
This is why you are my favourite blogger. Because in one single post, you somewhow included a creepy pasta from the early 2010s that we’d all hope we would collectively forget, added potent social commentary on the perceived “defaultness” of white men, and compellingly argued against all possible explanations for a minor detail in aforementioned game dealing with, of all things, attire, tied up in a layered joke that is somehow both a thinkpiece and shitpost.
This is DEFINITLY the content I signed up for. 👍
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