I thought today would be a good day to tell everyone how TMA, a horror podcast, made me less afraid. (I have to feed the Beholding somehow, don’t I? Wait, that might not feed the Beholding…never mind. I do feel like I"m going to launch into a statement.)

Ever since I was little, I was afraid of going to sleep because it felt like I was going to die. (I’’d try to draw from the canon statements here to explain, but even ‘Roots’ doesn’t really cover it. We’ll leave it there. No reason to actually go into a statement.)

Anyway, you can plainly see what entity that falls into, right? The End, for both death and dreams—so, sleep. And that helped me think about my fear. I wrote a 'statement’ about it, actually, to do that. Having it written down makes it seem smaller, more manageable.

Honestly, by the time I started listening to TMA, I was close to getting over the fear, but not quite. I like to think being able to say, 'well, the End must have marked me’, to pretend that, helped a little. I think it did. (This seems cheesy to write down, like it’s kind of dumb or something. But I don’t really think it is.)

So, thanks, Jonny and Alex. I bet you never thought your horror podcast would take away someone’s fear. (I’m reminded of that shirt comic meme where it’s like no fear -> one fear, but it’s one fear -> TMA -> no fear.)