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Spoilers ahead- Are you referring to The Cabin In The Woods by any chance, as that is more or less the twist, that eldritch abominations favor troperific human sacrifices, just like horror movie audiences.
edited 21st Jul '12 6:41:19 PM by Jordan
Hodor
Nah. Like i said, it was a long time ago (2009-2010 i believe) and this story more or less its about "The Audience" being too moronic to know what is it what it really wants (having your mind destroyed by your own power does that to you) and the Artist going mad because he cant really do much to satisfy this creature, he MAKES works of art that "The Audience" likes but it is uncertain for him how long it is going to last since up until now he was kinda lucky. If he gives up, the world is destroyed; If he fails, same thing.
I am still not sure if the twist of "YOU, THE READER, ARE THE MONSTROUS AUDIENCE THAT DRIVED MAD THIS INNOCENT YOUNG ARTIST!!" its supposed to be a Take That or a lesson on how artist in general see their insatiable audience (maybe the guy was a gamer and liked the original ending of Fallout 3 or the Prince Of Persia Reboot and wanted the gamers to understand how hard is to have your vision being torn to shreds by the uncaring lovecraftian masses. Da fuk do i know?)
EDIT 1: Done with CITW section. But not sure if that was complaining as much as it is "your allegory/symbolism doesn't make sense"
EDIT 2: oh by the way, i am the OP. I just came back from another house to my PC, where my password is.
edited 21st Jul '12 7:58:08 PM by Diabolo
I personally wouldn't have a problem if there was a narrative story where the author popped up like The Stranger in The Big Lebowski and gave encouragement to a downtrodden protagonist, who replies with disgruntled offense: "Who do you think you are, my Dad?".
No mention of the author being the author would be made apart from having the same name as the guy or girl who made the work. That could be a nice new take on meta, and when it comes to creative visionaries, I'm talking about the Dude here.
Hell Hasn't Earned My Tears
That....didnt make any sense.
How is a joke about: "Look kids!! its the author of the book being friendly to his creation.....BUT HE DOESNT KNOW THAT! Oh the HI-larity!" Has anything to do with what what it seems like a social comentary or "Meta-Horror?" on how the audience can send an artist dreams to the drain because their will is absolute to the point of being GODLIKE?
No be honest, i dont see this thread going any further unless we find a good example of "The audience is a monstrous bastard" that was done well, if it wasnt done well, we could try to understand WHY this kind of twist fly over the heads of anyone.
Then again, if that was done well before, then most likely it would have impacted pop-culture.
edited 22nd Jul '12 11:05:55 AM by Diabolo

This is kinda difficult to put into words since its something i read long ago, but didnt care enough to discuss it on ANY forum (I dont even know if this is the correct thread to place this)
Now that i am interested on writing, i kinda have to talk about it because i think i should learn something of it.
It was an original work that was quite short but it was about Artist/Directors and their relation with their audiences. Everytime that the artist refereed to the in-universe "audience" he talked about it like it was something impossible to comprehend, a mass of stupidity yet almost omnipotent in power if only they could just do it themselves. The way he mentioned it every time, it felt like they were talking about some Lovecraftian Horror, to the point that even his expressions felt out of character compared to his more "jovial and affably" state of mind. He also mentioned that "The Audience" doesn't care about attention to detail and is (again) too stupid to give a fuck about tiny things.
The work also had POV Switch's every now and then. We, the readers or "The Audience" if you will, see everything normal, and each one of the characters that we see with their eyes sees a different color, pattern, or the world is just plain different in every way. In fact, before going into someone's POV, there was a "zoom to the face so we see the eyes only" kind off pattern that ALWAYS repeats every time we go into POV, without exception.
So, in the end comes "The Audience" and effectively, it was a Eldritch Abomination all along. However, we actually go for a POV of the monster and we see..................exactly the same as us. So that was the big twist of that short story, "The Audience" its supposed to be us, we are the omnipotent yet retarded morons who dominate every aspect of the Artist life and they cant do nothing about it but comply. But here is a problem that disconnected me from the story. If that thing is supposed to be us, then how is it possible that we become AWARE of this twist only by PAYING ATTENTION TO DETAIL? isn't "The Audience" supposed to be retarded to the point that it cant notice this kind of things? that makes a disconnect on the twist and falls flat on his face.
I kinda wanna know if i am the only one that feels this way (i know that its kinda difficult without reading it but i will trust you guys that my recollection is enough for a criticism)
EDIT 1: 1) I dont care about knowing where or WHAT was the name of that work, it was a long time ago and most likely that it no longer exist on the place i found it, i only care about the execution of that twist
2) I believe that "The Audience" was supposed to be Azathoth, The Almigthy Moron, The Deranged Idiot and The Nuclear Chaos. So the "retard" is actually part of the name as you can see in the mythos page and most likely the most unsubtle way to refer to him in that work.