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Author: NemuruMaeNi

Jun 23rd 2014 at 1:10:19 AM

What '''I''' don't like about descriptions (regardless of the fact i'm not throwing hats around yet) like this is their "literaturological" all-knowing approach. It's, like, saying, "Come on, examples where author put blood in to spook you, go here." And I, as the reader, look at this and think, "How in the blue hell should I know what author intended?!" Maybe I'm not scared of rivers of blood, I'm more scared of his poor story passing the press, humanity is in danger.

How would you discern a "blood for horror" from general "violence for horror" or "mutilation for horror", or "stab for horror", or "injury for horror", or "dismemberment for horror", or "just another unexpected illness symptom for horror", or "ahh, yes, something like that is expected now that you're surely dying for horror"?

On that note, I think two things might be worth mentioning. One is that bleeding, regardless of mother Nature intentions, is used as a signal system. Another one is pain. You were sewing, *Wham* you feel pain, you see the blood. Shite, hurts like a witch, where's my first aid kit. Need to disinfect, bandage, in bad cases get a few stitches at a clinic. It's sure not a situation you strive to get in, but it's okay. Yet when you bleed from somewhere and there's no pain, no condition, no history, that's still sure means something is very wrong, but you don't know where, why and what does it mean, what should you do. And because it didn't hurt, you could be too late noticing the bleed that didn't hurt.

Another one is a [[CouldntFindAPen Message written in blood]]. Maybe people just don't like to explore that way that much. Bloody messages are not dramaticized there it looks like. But they didn't even have that example of Sideshow Bob writing death threats to Bart Simpson in blood. Overly enthusiastic about it, he passes out in his jsil cell from anemia, his cellmate yelling at him to use the freaking pen.