Getting to work - Part 1

Yeah, time for me to start this thing already. I had plenty of ideas to write in my first "real" entry for this blog, each and all of them related to thoughts I had for a while after dwelling and stalking other places. Because there's nothing like a little online stalking when it comes to learning shit about our thin, tall friend.

Let's face it: Each of us, and I'm not the exception, have an original fear, something that we loathe that much we block our minds the moment after we find ourselves confronting this... primal fear, maybe? For some, it's an experience that shouldn't be relieved ever. Others, like me, find some animal or object to be an opponent to be reckoned, because they spring some instinctive answer related to a subconscious fear.

And others simply hate clowns. Like me.

This "theory" was inspired after watching a marathon of horror-themed movies, all of them based on famous books. Several of them based on the writework of Stephen King, like "The Shining", "Carrie" and, more important to me, "IT". This will act more like a comparison between the main antagonist in that movie and our personal enemy, the Tall One, and it's a weird comparison, because I'm one of those who blocked their memories after watching that freaking movie. Just because the stupid Pennywise was an ugly clown, and because it's a giant spider at the end, which kickstarted my arachnophobia.

For those who doesn't remember the gist of the movie, a short summary can be made: There's this town in Maine called Derry, where every 27 years an eldritch monster wakes up and starts killing children in order to feed itself. The story is set on the year 1957 (The first part), with the main characters as children who team up in order to fight the monster. After their victory, the story jumps into the future, where as adults they learn that the monster is still alive and they have to regroup in order to kill it once and for all. They do so, but sacrifices are made because of it.

"Close, but no cigar. Still creepy enough, at least."

The monster is described as having somewhat omnipotent powers, able to being in several places at once, shapeshifting and some other stuff. Also, his modus operandi revolves around stalking and killing the victim, by making use of a form fit to the fear that person has. While it has many forms, the true form of the monster is one we can't grasp at all, as it exists outside our universe, but the closest, most-understandable physical form it has is one of a giant spider. Still, it's most famous shape is one that... brings? children close to him, related to that guy up there on the photo.

Pretty similar to someone we know, don't you think?

Yes, our "little" friend the Tall One acts in the same way, by stalking its victims and making them go "poof!", with no clues as to what does he do with them when he kidnaps them. Well, at least we can say that our faceless one is classy enough to dress on a black business suit and not like a friggin' idiot like Mr. Pennywise "Eldritch Abomination", the Monster Dancing Clown.

Let me ask something, just a doubt regarding all this issue at hand: Who came first? Slendy or the book written by Stephen King? In my opinion, it's possible that Slendy came first, as the story should have something to be based on. Not that I say that Mr. King has no imagination (I enjoyed "The Shining", after all), but at least it's strange how familiar one feels when analyzing the similarities between these two subjects: The Clown with a thousand faces and the Faceless Businessman.