#grimdark

El sistema de magia en la fantasía oscura o ‘Grimdark’ siempre está tan desbalanceada, me causa gracia. ¿Quieres hacer magia oscura? Bien, necesitaras: Un balde con sangre humana Una roca de la montaña maldita (cualquiera sirve, todas están malditas) Un cuerpo de agua de unos 4 metros de diámetro Ahora solo tienes que esperar a que haya luna llena, tirar la sangre junto a la roca al agua y recitar el poema del capitulo 4;12 del MuerteNomicon; Y allí lo tienes, poderes prohibidos sin costo añadido (efectos secundarios pueden incluir: pérdida del alma, una noche eterna qué asolara la tierra por los próximos 100 años, el despertar de los innombrables, entre otros)

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Planet II. While the atrocities of Noah’s family were being acted out, “God” was unleashing his own fury upon the planet which he believed had sinned against him. Cross-shaped ships swarmed all surfaces of the planet, making it seem sick and infected with red sores all over. Great and violent beams of light razed the ground as they once did when humanity had first arrived, but this time, it was cutting down the very people it had decimated the planet for originally. There was so much smoke that it choked the air, killing everything underneath it and making it unnecessary for the ship to destroy anything at all. The land became rough and uneven, so brittle and dry that even the hardiest of flora would topple over after growing more than an inch high. The power of the fleet’s beams of light and the smoke locked heat within the planet, making it a scorching furnace of death. Because of the extent of the destruction with “God” wrought across the planet, it took many years to restore it to a similar previous state and for man to finally land back on its surface.

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My Little Amnesia

This is S. I have been unable to transmit the unencrypted data for some time. I apologize for the hiatus. Our safehouse was compromised. We have relocated and I am back to work decoding the Valentyn files. We are safe. I have also obtained some records of Hadraax IV incidents and casualties. I will begin decrypting these as well. Additionally evidence from new data leaks suggests the Administratum have records of signal anomalies on Ruza-6 dating back to M30. More to come.

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Honestly, one of my media pet peeves right now is when a piece of media is either life action or animated in a somewhat realistic fashion, and to hammer home that the setting is dark and gritty, everyone looks as if the invention of soap was news to them. And mind you, this holds true for a bunch of media that I adore. But it is just… so common. Obviously in historical and pseudo-historical fiction soap was definitely not invented before the 1920s. But even in modern stuff… Like, Arkham Knight starts with this scene in the diner, where everyone looks as if nobody in Gotham can afford soap or water.

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As you may know, the popular show “Ed, Edd and Eddy” has been running for a long time. However, between October 7th, 2003 and October 21, 2003 episode 34 was accidentally released one week before it was scheduled to. It was also known to some around the office the primary writer had been sick with the flu, and instead of going on to make episode 34, the show was supposed to replay episode 1. At 5:00am eastern, people reported a very disturbing new episode premiering on Cartoon Network - some children were unfortunate enough to see it. Apparently the quality of the episode was mediocre when held to the regular standards. Animation was choppy, sound was constricted and very muffled. Reports of a line running up and down, similar to a crappy VHS tape were received. Scenery was described as “overwhelmingly dark and depressing without changing props and other background objects; stormy looking."Characters also behaved oddly. Instead of the normal goofy, hi-jinks inspired personalities, viewers complained they seemed extremely agitated, gratuitously hateful toward each other, and constantly about to begin sobbing after the lines. The protagonist also had a very bad lisp - no one knows why, but he spoke with a sexual tone and that further bothered the viewers. Well, I was one of these viewers. Today I’m gonna read EENE The Lost Episode Let get right into it. The episode began with Eddy walking down the street with Ed. I noted that Edd was missing. There was an angular shot coming from in-front of the two to show them walking toward the viewer. He (Eddy) was wearing the angry look he does when something goes wrong, his eyes were red around the iris. Ed looked absolutely forlorn and practically dragged behind Eddy, tears in his eyes - which were both lazy and looking in opposite outward directions. Kevin, the series antagonist was riding his bike opposite of the Eds, toward them. The shot became blurry and low moans were heard coming from Eddy before Kevin hit him - which never happened because the screen went to black.The screen then snapped back and Kevin was again headed toward Eddy - the view was so blurry this time all I saw was a green blob headed toward a yellow one. Again, the low moan, only this time it sounded like the microphone was broken and loud static came, greatly overshadowing the moan. Oh Dear…. A claymation sequence of Double D sleeping in Eddy’s bed came up. Honestly it may have just been the abruptness, but I jumped and shivered. Waking up and getting out of bed, he moved oddly around the circular room, the fast pitter-patter of footsteps being the only audio. The steps’ sounds were very clear as I was shown a birds-eye of him scampering around the room. There were no visible doors. Edd began screeching (sounded like a Fisher Cat) as he moved wildly around the cell of a room faster and faster until the screen began blurring again, the purple room’s color swallowing a now orange blur Next we see Jimmy and Sarah at a doctor of some sort (probably oral). Jimmy, obstructed in view by a hanging lamp, is crying loudly with Sarah trying to comfort him in an unusually warm fashion. ‘It hurts Sarah… it hurts…’ Suddenly, the door of the room in smashed open by a new character, a dentist. His face wasn’t shown because he was tall enough to be out of the shot. Sarah was escorted out of the room, Jimmy was shown. His head gear was mangled, the front bent upward, stretching his lip very high-tearing proportions. The front of his gums was trickling blood, and teeth were missing. The disturbing part was he had lost both arms and legs beforehand apparently, and sat a paraplegic. I almost cried as I came to the conclusion the others had beaten him up and bent his head gear. The camera stayed on his mangled face for a few seconds, still as a picture, silent as ever. ….. Commercials came on.We are instantly assaulted with a very hairy Rolf in his darkened shed fisting the cow repeatedly. The visual loops and gets blurry again as the scene pans out.Nazz is reading a magazine on her couch. The quality is now perfect. Eddy is now alone, without Ed. The quality declines worse than before and he is still walking, the sun now lightening the mood somewhat as he smiles and begins running. The door is shown again and we see through Eddy’s eyes as he reaches out and opens it. His house is nice and bright, but a very badly played violin is blaring - the only audio in this scene as he makes his way through the house. Eddy opens the door to his room. Johnny is shown under Nazz’s couch cushion as he crawls out on all fours in a comedic way and pops up behind her, still oblivious. I laughed because someone forgot to draw his eyes and I thought of a mole. Suddenly I stopped laughing as he starting swallowing her head, still in a cartoonish fashion of course, but this was different. He and she stayed like this until she started kicking and struggling. Johnny held her like this until she went limp. A zoom in on his face revealed extremely small, human eyes. Double D was laying on Eddy’s floor, no longer in claymation. The camera showed Eddy’s house for the remainder of the episode (about 3 minutes), and the next program began on the spot. Marks my words….This is worse than Mlp Creepypasta…Oh well. @creativeblackhole69

This is S. Among the recovered data from Ruza-6 are many other logs, video and audio transcripts. I have decrypted the ones containing Valentyn’s name and will begin releasing them. Log 43: Dara Today was so exciting! The new CO arrived and it’s a woman! Sergeant Valentyn, a Hadraax IV veteran. She looks rugged and glares around. It’s a little intimidating but I know at least she won’t be creepy. Eltaine came to the array with Valentyn and introduced her. A striking broad woman. She’s a little under 6 ft with sandy short hair and walks with a limp. It looks like she’s had some augments done as well. She wore the standard fatigues, but I could tell she was bulky and well built under. I felt my neck getting hot so I looked away. Valentyn sat at the control console and began looking over it. I kept throwing glances at her. Murmur appeared and gave a gentle pulse as it went over to her. I had never seen it as interested in someone before. She asked me what the servo skull’s role was and her voice was deep and husky. It made me blush. It was so embarrassing but she just gave me a tired smile, but there was a shadow of wry playfulness. She seems to really know what she is doing. She has a confidence that inspires me. I like her and I trust her. I hope she stays here a while. -Operator Dara

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The Reluctant Knight-Errant The Witcher material is frequently labeled as grimdark, and it uses many of the genre’s conventions. Heroes die; good intentions fail; kings lie; blood is spilled and body parts cut off; war reduces ordinary people to refugees and scavengers. Sapkowski never spares the reader from the consequences of violence. But neither does he mistake cynicism for wisdom. Amidst his gloom we constantly see shimmers of light. Like many modern heroes, Geralt’s first act of heroism is refusing to believe he is one. He spends over 3,000 pages insisting he is not a knight-errant: merely a neutral party who slays monsters for profit, a witcher whose emotions were stripped away by the Trial of the Grasses. But time and again he risks his life for others, protects the vulnerable, and follows the very ideals he claims to reject. Geralt spares monsters that do not deserve death and protects strangers who do not pay him. He adopts Ciri despite insisting he wants no attachments. He gradually accumulates a fellowship while insisting he work alone. Arthurian heroes proudly embrace their role. Geralt reluctantly stumbles into it. And he is hardly the only character who engages in this kind of performative neutrality. The Continent is a violent place full of people who claim to care only for power, profit, or survival. Yet a closer look often reveals something else. A dwarf who admits to robbery and possible murder also escorts refugees across a war-torn countryside. A cynical lawyer who prides himself on having no scruples deliberately misses an easy killing throw. A vampire becomes a monster hunter’s trusted companion. Sapkowski’s world contains plenty of darkness, but its most memorable characters repeatedly prove better than they pretend to be. The moral tension comes not from the absence of virtue but from virtue surviving in a world that offers little reward for it. There is no shortage of depravity, betrayal, and outright evil. But there is also no shortage of decent people who are forced into difficult choices. Ar ticle

Watergate Gothic Were it not for one catastrophic act of overreach, Richard Milhous Nixon would probably be remembered as one of the 20th century’s best presidents. There was no need to plant listening devices in the Democratic Party’s Watergate headquarters. Nixon would go on to defeat George McGovern in the 1972 election by a margin of 520 electoral votes to 17. His fall was like Macbeth’s; he created enemies because he could not trust his colleagues. Had he not struggled so desperately for power he already possessed, it would never have been stripped from his hands. So what does Richard Nixon have to do with modern grimdark? He helped create the audience. Writers can crank out stories of corruption, despair, and betrayal until their keyboards wear out. But if they can’t find people willing to read those stories, they’re soon going to seek out new genres. Nixon made grimdark’s pessimistic themes seem not only plausible but resonant. To a country reeling from the exposure of rot at the highest levels, movies like Taxi Driver and Chinatown seemed less theatrical and more realistic. Watergate Gothic

i’ve written 245 words over the last three days…. but i am trying to challenge myself to get a few words down, at least, for 30 days. that’s not a hard deadline though. just needed a push to get this short story done by next monday. here are two characters from the story made as paladins in diablo iv. wanted to try out the paladin even though i don’t normally like melee classes. it’s more like a ranged class in this though. mainly used a two-handed sword, so i don’t know what the hammer is like. ko-fi 🥀 “ Project Rot Playlist ” (dark ambient) 🥀 gaming YT

The Strait of Stone is technically classified as a residential district, which is optimistic in the same way a knife wound is technically a ventilation feature. Most buildings lean at angles not approved by God, engineering, or common sense. Entire families live stacked atop old freight vaults while the streets below flood black every time the tide coughs wrong. The walls sweat. The pipes scream. Something in the gutters occasionally develops opinions. Locals are friendly enough provided you don’t: — stare too long — ask what happened to the previous tenant — mention rent within stabbing distance — fall asleep near the canal during Gnashe r season The steet food is excellent, though. Best fried eel in Raptoræm. Potentially because the oil is ninety percent industrial runoff and ten percent divine intervention. Tourism slogan pending. 🖤👁🖤 RAPTØRÆM Book I Available on Kindle for preorder 🕸🕷🕸 Links RAPTORAEM: Book I launches Sept 2026 raptoraemofficial.com Kindle Pre-Page on Amazon Join the Contraband Network Follow for contraband art, lore, and music from the Drowned Star. Members of the Network gain early access to the gallery, official art, and exclusive tidbits not available anywhere else.

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