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punkcrow The horrors persist, but so do I (He/Him) from Northwest Indiana Since: Dec, 2020 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
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#26: Apr 23rd 2023 at 9:09:33 AM

Eye Scream and Fingore definitely freak me out. In general, a lot of the Anatomy Agony tropes can be this to me if they're sufficiently gruesome enough.

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#27: Apr 23rd 2023 at 12:24:49 PM

And I Must Scream - just the idea of being helpless for possibly eternity...

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#28: Apr 23rd 2023 at 3:50:50 PM

Cosmic Retcon, Mandela Effect, and the like. The idea that the past can be wrong, that your memory can betray you, and that reality itself is unstable is horrifying to me.

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#29: Apr 24th 2023 at 1:32:47 AM

Eye Scream is just... eugh.

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#30: May 2nd 2023 at 5:12:38 PM

Several people mentioned And I Must Scream, and I agree. Also Eye Scream squicks me out, I have a hard time looking at more graphic examples and sometimes I instinctively turn away if someone is about to get something in their eye

Also, Breeding Slave, Baby Factory and anything along those lines is just highly uncomfortable

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#31: May 3rd 2023 at 7:50:30 AM

And I Must Scream scares me if the victim is completely immobile. I've always had a fear of being physically restrained because I can't protect myself from danger. If the character can still move, even just a little bit, even though they're trapped, I'm okay with it, although it is still fairly freaky to be stuck and unable to communicate.

Also Ambiguous Clone Ending. I don't know why. I just don't like the idea of not being able to tell who's a clone and who's real.

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#32: May 3rd 2023 at 8:05:13 AM

Fingore.

Checking in on this account after leaving the site, MAN that is a cringy forum post history. Daaamn. Never again.
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#33: May 3rd 2023 at 9:46:22 AM

Oh god Breeding Slave. Now i wish i've never heard of it.

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#34: May 3rd 2023 at 9:54:52 AM

Can't think of a particular trope just yet, but I just hate maggots in general. Don't know if I saw an example in fiction before, but in Real Life, they make my skin crawl.

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#35: May 3rd 2023 at 1:03:10 PM

[up]I'd rather not be around maggots in real life but they bother me way less than their adult form does. Flies are so annoying. I hate their buzzing so much.

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#36: May 4th 2023 at 4:19:41 PM

[up][up] Eugh, same. Anything with tons of maggots crawling around is just hard to watch

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#38: May 5th 2023 at 3:29:35 AM

Death by De-aging and related tropes have always freaked me out.

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#39: May 6th 2023 at 11:42:51 AM

Jacob Marley Apparel makes me uncomfortable because people that die naked in these settings have to go naked for all eternity.

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#40: May 6th 2023 at 4:55:11 PM

[up] Maybe it only applies when they manifest to the living, which is usually a small part of their time.

On the other hand, I find the idea that a soul is stuck to a single building to be more disturbing than it is usually made to be. Although you can suppose that it's not the real soul but an echo of its unresolved trouble.

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#41: May 6th 2023 at 6:13:12 PM

[up]x4 Same here. I can't handle embarassment humor. For me it's so bad that I have to stop watching/playing/reading for a while so I can stop thinking about it, and if I rewatch/play/read that work I have to skip that part.

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#42: May 8th 2023 at 3:14:36 PM

[up] Very much same. I don't remember having trouble with it in text, but it isn't uncommon for me to just pause something for a while until I've recovered, or just stop and come back to it some other time.

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punkcrow The horrors persist, but so do I (He/Him) from Northwest Indiana Since: Dec, 2020 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
The horrors persist, but so do I (He/Him)
#43: May 8th 2023 at 3:38:28 PM

I'm Melting! always scared the shit out of me, especially if it's portrayed graphically. The implication regardless is still kinda... eugh...

Ironically, Who Framed Roger Rabbit was one of my childhood favorites (and still is a favorite of mine to this day), and somehow I didn't have any issue with the Dip.

Edited by punkcrow on May 8th 2023 at 6:40:42 AM

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#44: May 8th 2023 at 7:49:43 PM

[up][up] I do the same exact thing. There's still a show I've left off for months now just because a character was about to walk into a spa full of the opposite gender.

Checking in on this account after leaving the site, MAN that is a cringy forum post history. Daaamn. Never again.
Unicorndance Logic Girl from Thames, N.Z. Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
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#45: May 9th 2023 at 3:23:36 PM

Similarly, Potty Failure always gives me, not anxiety per se, but I feel extremely bad for the character. I actually found the scene from Bear in the Big Blue House where Ojo wets her pants to be a Tear Jerker as a kid, likely also due to her pitiful voice.

Edited by Unicorndance on May 9th 2023 at 10:23:48 PM

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#47: May 10th 2023 at 11:09:43 PM

[up][up] Ojo doesn't wear pants, but I did feel a bit bad for here there.

I really hate the Nosebleed trope (or when Nasal Trauma results in a nosebleed), it's just gross.

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