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This is SLUSHIE. Don't ask how I got that name, it wasn't by choice.

I have numerous interests, but I choose to focus mainly on horror. I don't shy away from the ugly and you should not expect me to censor myself.

You can learn more of my interests by reading ahead, and make sure to complain about how much you don't agree once you're done. Really, I love it. And if you agree, congratulations on having taste.

Video Games

 While there may be a few exceptions (Animal Crossing, obviously), I’ve decided to channel my focus toward reviewing content that aligns with my career goals. Horror games alone offer plenty of variety, and as you're able to see on my page, I make sure to not limit myself to a single sub-genre.

That’s the easiest way to become a shitty writer.

Writing

 I've been writing since I could hold a pen, and over the years, I've finished more stories than some people start. Not all of them are worth sharing, but I've only improved with time and I won't stop until I get to write and direct my own film.

One day you'll see my name headlining, and it'll hit you that you once embarrassed yourself trying to argue with me online.

Film

 You'll be finding out that all your opinions on movies are in fact wrong, and there's more to life than listening to the popular Letterbox opinions.

 Many go out of their way to personify me as a "hater" and aggressively lacking empathy, but I prefer the term straightfoward. Why can't I explain how horrifically wrong and disgusting your thoughts are? Just a few things that I hold negative opinions for include . . .

Weak-minds

 If you can't handle an argument without resorting to insults, threats, or breakdowns, stay offline. And if violence on a screen is too much for you, then leave splatter films alone. Hearing cowards whine endlessly about how “traumatizing” it was to watch some special effects is just pathetic.

People like this are rotting the Internet.

Most "fandoms"

 Fandoms that reduce complex characters to one-dimensional caricatures or needless sexual objects, ignoring the actual story and depth of the character.

It’s infuriating watching fandoms flatten a well-crafted character into someone they’d rather fantasize about than understand. Worse still are the mindless “takes” that miss every theme, turning once-interesting discussions with the stale smell of shallow, fan-service opinions.

Open mouth chewers

 I fucking hate everyone who chews with their mouth open, it is outright sickening. Close your damn mouth and mind your goddamn manners, for fuck's sake. I hate seeing any spit. I hate spit. Disgusting.

 Realism in horror is a paradox, both overused and underused all at once. Too many writers think realism means sticking to the dry rules of reality, as if accuracy alone makes something horrifying. It doesn’t. Horror only needs to feel real enough to stick in your mind and leave it rotting.

 I do prefer precision. Lazily done emotional realism might fool most people, but it falls apart when someone who knows better starts picking at the seams. It’s not enough to guess; you have to understand what makes something believable, and to do that you need the proper research. I’d like to think I’d know how to kill someone if I had to. The trick is transcribing that knowledge into writing, capturing the weight, the tension, the visceral reality all without ever having to act on it.

 Well made slasher and splatter films understand this. They don’t bother with full anatomical accuracy, not because it doesn’t matter, but because it matters most that even a well practiced surgeon feels they saw something they were never meant to witness. The crunch of bone, the wetness of blood, the guts, the primal fear of the body breaking in ways it shouldn’t. These movies should know how to twist realism just enough to make it believable without breaking the illusion.

 Most writers don’t. They either overdo it to the point where it looks like a Halloween decoration, or hold back and end up with something sterile. Done right, it lingers, festering in the back of your mind like a wound that never heals.