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[AlecHolland]

Has the mythos changed anything in your life?

[KrisTrauma]

My girlfriend talks to me less...

[Cris711B]

I make posts on unifiction now... well, at least one.

[AgentLampshade]

I have something to check after work/something to do during unemployment.

[xemnasvii]

I consider the importance of friends and lighting..

[Krauser888]

I met my girlfriend and a number of good friends and am taking my writing/video work more seriously.

So yaaay being positive! XD

[7brokenboundaries]

I'm much more paranoid than I used to be.

[Jordan]

I'm autistic and have to rely on props (usually specific films/TV) to get my brain to function normally (it's not uncommon for me literally to have comics or magazine in my locker at work or bring them to uni, although simply because my brain doesn't function very well without them – mind you, it's not something I tell my boss or lecturers about. I don't read them per se, but they just have to be there). It's nice to have something visual that helps me support myself without having the stress about finding the money to pay for it. Checking this forum often helps me deal as well.


Hmmm…I don't know what else really. Being welcomed into one of the sanest and most moderate and nicest fandoms ever is pretty great (it's a nice change from comic book fans or Doctor Who fans who complain about EVERYTHING and yet for inexplicable reasons are still involved in said fandom) and I've met some great people through this forum and My Immersion.


That and I'm a big horror fan, but I'm not really all that enmaoured with a lot of modern horror films and it's nice to see quality horror on film. (My hat to all of the creators - how do you guys keep reintrepreting Slendy and keep him fresh?)

[KrisTrauma]

[Enzd]

[azureillusions]

Well, as a creator, the mythos started taking up a fair bit more of my free time than it used to. It also made me write more, and start looking at the world around me with a more critical eye for atmosphere and potential – in short, both analytically and appreciatively.

It rekindled my fear, as well, but in a good way. The same fear that drove me to seek ghosts and hunt bigfoot when I was younger, a horror combined with a burning curiosity. Before I had it back, I never really realized how much I had missed it.

Finally, of course, I became a part of this community. I've made a lot of friends, and am still making more, and really like everyone I've met. Slenderman fans tend to be people like me, and that's probably my favorite thing about the mythos: even in this specific of an interest, I'm not alone.

[Expression]

Thanks to my producing fanart based on this whole mythos, I have received a lot more commission requests for more drawings than I have before.

It's thanks to the Slender Man that I've been noticed in the artistic community.

Maybe it will lead to bigger things?

[TheFallenenvoy]

As mentioned earlier by azure...being a creator has taken up a lot of my time (which is just fine) and led me into a hell of a lot more drama than I used to. But it's definetely led me to coming out of my shell a bit more offline, feeling significantly less depressed as I was maybe a year ago and I've made some of the best friends I could hope for, unfortunately cockblocked by Atlantic and Pacific xD (though there was that one time I had a small meetup with SilverSelenide. That was fun )
I also find myself significantly less scared of my house and the forests and graveyards and abandoned shit nearby

[EvilFweeb]

As a musician / producer, I've often found that after being introduced to the slenderverse, It's had several impacts on my music.

It may sound strange, and It's probably down to the vibes given off, or the fact I'm now extremely paranoid about every strange sound I hear around me, etc. that my music has seemingly become more ambient based, more open, and like, abstract...

Now, I'm not saying it was aliens...

But I don't know if it was the fact I became obsessed with the mythos, or I've just made the whole thing up. Insomniaaaaaa.

Point is, I can no longer go downstairs without turning the light on. I used to have a serious fear of the dark, one that was so bad I'd turn every light in the house on just to move around, and even then I'd be scared or paranoid. I grew out it quite awhile ago, but now, thanks to the mythos, I get extremely paranoid in dark rooms around the house.

Besides that, a more positive note is It's extremely entertaining! I love the anticipation of waiting for a new Entry, or new log etc. to be released, and the build up to it. Hell yeah.

rant.

[astrofig]

I don't look at shadows--especially TREE shadows--quite the same anymore.