What Are YOU Afraid Of?

The Magnus Archives (a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill, Horror Fiction) has been my favorite podcast for a good three years now, maybe more. It's got me into podcasts like Malevolent, Welcome to Night Vale, and Midnight Burger.

For those who haven't listened to it, MAJOR spoilers warning. This is lore stuff.

For those who've actually listened to the podcast, read the transcripts, or just know the lore. Which of the The Entities do you think you'd be terrorized by? For example;

Afraid of Spiders? The Web.
Being alone? The Lonely.
The dark? The Dark. (lol) 

It's pretty straight forward, BUT, here's the specifics for each of the dread fears straight from the wiki if you want to be specific or your fear is not as straight-forward, here's all fifteen of them:

The Buried = The fear of small spaces, suffocating, drowning, being buried alive. Fear of everything crashing down around / on oneself. Fear of being trapped without enough space.

The Corruption = The fear of corruption, disease, filth. Fear of the feelings of disgust, revulsion and the things or beings that might evoke such feelings.

The Dark = The primal fear of the dark, of the unseen, and the creatures hiding from our view.

The Desolation = The fear of pain, loss, burning, and destruction, especially with a senseless cause.

The End = The fear of death itself, uncaring and unstoppable, the fear that everything ends eventually.

The Eye = The fear of being watched, exposed, followed, having secrets exposed. Can also pertain to the drive to know and understand, even if your discoveries might destroy you.

The Flesh = Born from the fear held by animals bred for meat, and in the human realization that we are just animated meat and bones.

The Hunt = The animalistic fear of being chased or hunted: the primal fear of being prey.

The Lonely = The fear of isolation, of being completely cut off and alone or disconnected from the rest of society.

The Slaughter = The fear of pure, unpredictable, unmotivated violence. The fear of pain coming at sudden, random moments.

The Spiral = The fear of madness, that the world you know is wrong, that your mind is lying to you. Fear of deception, lying, deceiving of the mind and senses.

The Stranger = The fear of the unknown, the uncanny, the unfamiliar. The creeping sense that something is not right.

The Vast = The fear of heights, falling, and large open spaces including sky, space and deep water. More broadly: the human fear of insignificance and meaninglessness, of losing oneself in too much space.

The Web = The fear of being controlled or trapped, especially being unaware of one's own entrapment. The fear of being forced to do things against one's own will, of being manipulated. Also the fear of spiders.

The Extinction = The fear of catastrophic change, destruction of nature, destruction of human skin and tissue, the destruction of humanity itself and its replacement by something different; all of this especially via mankind's own causing.

Not Afraid of Anything? = You aint got a fear haunting you loser (L)

If you need help identifying which one matches you, feel free to comment :-) always up to help


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arthurtecture

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love seeing people who love tma here :) im the eye aligned (in a sense that it sums up my biggest fears and parts of my personality very well) but i also find the vast really fun. Which of the fears are you aligned with?


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