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Ghosttundra
is a Brazillian indie animator and digital artist, mostly known for their Digital Horror webseries Lacey Games.
Ghosttundra's works:
- ~Boo! The Ghosts Away~ (2019-2021) A Horror Comedy webcomic published on Tapas Media.
- Bug Murders (2023-)
- Imigrantes Road (2022-)
- Lacey Games (2022-)
and Dreamwidth blog hereTropes that are present in ghosttundra's works:
- Author Appeal: ghosttundra has a fascination with Y2K fashions, as shown on their character's clothing styles.
- Creator Provincialism: Imigrantes Road and Bug Murders take place in Brazil, which is also ghosttundra's home country. Lacey Games is unclear on where its setting is, though the Facebook screenshots from the Moral Guardians on the third episode seem to imply that it takes place in an English-speaking country. ~Boo! The Ghosts Away~ being a prime exception since it takes place on Japan and the protagonist is a transfer student from USA.
- Creator Thumbprint: Their webseries always have Surreal Horror imagery, low-quality real-life backgrounds, Retraux graphics (often mimicking 2000s internet interface), horror derived from real life events, and characters with Y2K fashions.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: Mostly used as Foreshadowing and serve as additional hints and clues about their works.
- Medium Blending: Expect low-quality photos and recordings used as background of their webseries. Live action footages show up occasionally.
- Psychological Horror
- Realism-Induced Horror: Invoked. In this tweet, ghosttundra talked about the reason why they deliberately use horror tropes derived from real life traumatic events is because their experiences living with a spiritist family and being used to apparitions leading them to find horror media centered around ghosts and paranormal events as not frightening to them in the slightest.ghosttundra: Living person are scarier fr.
- Turn of the Millennium: The time period which their works (except ~Boo! The Ghosts Away~, which takes place at the time it was published) are set in.
- Word-Salad Horror: Appears as a bunch of text scattered on screen, used to highlight the (often quite lacking) mental state of the characters.
