re: what the fears taste like, if you're interested in my hottest takes
desolation. anything that's just too hot. food that's too hot.
vast. have you ever been on a speedboat. I haven't gone skydiving but I imagine the air going into your mouth feels about the same. (it never specified that it has to taste like a food item. vast tastes like air. going into your mouth at a high speed.)
buried. yeah dirt.
corruption. anything spoiled. so right so true.
end. (hate to break it to you but you can't taste when you're dead.) but maybe everything at once as your neurons all fire off one last time.
extinction. eating my computer yum yum yum (I'm of the opinion that that statement's the extinction)
hunt. your own dry tongue, your dry dry mouth. dry from breathing hard. from chasing or from running.
slaughter. blood.
flesh. meat.
lonely. one of those popsicles that you're supposed to split with a friend. except you have no friend and you eat both yourself.
eye. popcorn.
dark. NyQuil
spiral.. have you seen that picture of a candy bowl filled with a mixture of m&ms skittles and reeces? yeah. that.
stranger. contaminates your food with covid and messes up your tastebuds so badly you can no longer properly taste anymore.
web. hands you a plate with a sandwich on it. it's a normal sandwich. you eat the sandwich. it tastes fine. as you're leaving the room you see an emptied pill bottle in the trash. did it put something in your food? you feel fine. everything's probably fine. you go about your day. everything goes horribly wrong. you get fired from your job, your partner breaks up with you, you fight with your best friend. did everything fall apart because you were in an altered state.. was it the supposed drugs that made you act out of character? or was it all just bad luck? or are you truly a horrible person who deserves everything that happened to you? you'll never know. you don't even know if you were drugged in the first place.
These are all so good! Elaboration:
The Desolation is so true. If you eat it that’s an ER visit for sure.
The Vast is also very true, but unfortunately I did have the thought “Would that be a seagull taste like?” because it’s 1AM and I’m borderline delirious.
Okay but have you considered that maybe I’ll be able to taste when I’m dead if I tried hard enough? Because you’re probably right but I don’t like the mortality reminder.
I’ve never ate a computer before but I feel like it would taste like static and that fits The Extinction well. (I also think that episode is linked to The Extinction.)
The Hunt and Slaughter is gross but yeah. The Flesh sounds kind of good RN as long as you aren’t talking about like…flesh meat.
I would still eat all of The Lonely.
Picking popcorn for the eye since it’s a “watching” food is so clever. Fantastic choice. Nyquil is to because the whole thing with that is if you drink enough you might see a shadow man.
Somehow I hate the idea of m&ms, skittles, and reeces all mixed into one bowl slightly more than I hate the whole “eating a computer” thing. I think disgusted feeling makes it the perfect food to represent The Spiral.
The Stranger and The Web are genuinely horrifying concepts…so yeah you nailed it!
I’d give this ask a 10/10 for accuracy.
so glad you approve of my hottest takes
I had to eat so many Fears to write that,, glad it was worth it