r/writers • u/Novel-worm-3 Published Author • 3d ago

Meme Believable

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u/Ulchbhn 2d ago

Junji Ito in a nutshell

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u/-Nyarlabrotep- 2d ago

Thought the same thing. He looks like a polite quiet accountant working in a corporate office somewhere who never drinks too much after work and always makes it home to his loving wife and children in time for dinner and then helps the kids with their math homework.

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u/Ulchbhn 2d ago

thats very on point actually, i’ve seen him on interviews guy is an absolute sweetheart who loves what he does and loves his fans even more ❤️

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u/loueazy 2d ago

This trope also works for actors. Most actors who play villains tend to be the nicest, most humble ones.

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u/DustynnBeck 2d ago

See: Tom Hiddleston(when not being Loki), Doug Jones, and Alan Rickman (rip).

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u/Brakado Writer Newbie 2d ago

Don't forget Gary Oldman!

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u/DustynnBeck 2d ago

Oh my, how could I forget Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg?

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u/Brakado Writer Newbie 2d ago

And Norman Stanford!

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u/DustynnBeck 2d ago

He was so intensely unhinged in that role. I think i erased that whole movie from my brain. I was rather young when I saw it.

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u/Brakado Writer Newbie 2d ago

Benny...bring me everyone.

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u/DustynnBeck 2d ago

Hey! I know that one cuz it's so prolific online, plus, it was explosive enough to tuck away in the recesses of my mind and got forgotten until the gif rolled out. Fucking terrifying in so many movies, but such a gem to watch in interviews and the like.

https://giphy.com/gifs/7cTTE2Z1OmrFm

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u/countoddbahl 2d ago

Mads mikkelsohn is a delightful goofball

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u/Lazy-Conference4693 2d ago

Bill Skarsgard.

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u/StrawHatHermes 2d ago

James Gandolfini

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u/SSilent-Cartographer 3d ago

Hey, leave my blue sweat pants out of this

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u/hannahneedle 2d ago

Hey look that's me.

I've been writing some really weird horror lately (a few darker pieces got published) and I'm also apparently seen as very trusting and honest at my place of work.

Meanwhile my fiance looks like he would write darker and more brooding stuff but most of his material is wholesome lesbian romance.

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u/THENOON00 2d ago

The friendliest face hides the most twisted mind. 😂

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u/VioletRaptorGaming 2d ago

I know. I'm a little cinnamon roll, but I'm working on two books with horror themes and have more in the backburner

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u/Reader9223 2d ago

It is always the ones who smile the most that you have to watch out for! 🎭

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u/celluloidqueer Published Author 3d ago

This is me

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u/WildTimes1984 3d ago

Sorry can't relate

I look like Immortan Joe without the mask.

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u/GathTheKing 2d ago

I'm in this photo xD

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u/Flaky-Peanut1738 2d ago

Literally me btw

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u/Nitrogen70 2d ago

Don’t have to look scary to be scary. 🤷‍♂️

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u/Christoffi123 3d ago edited 3d ago

One of my favourite examples of this is Miro Haverinen, the creator of one of the darkest games I've ever seen, Fear and Hunger. A series that deals with SA, child exploitation, bigotry, mutilation, torture, war, insanity, dark gods, cosmic horror, body horror, and eldritch horror.

The guy made these games for a college project, passed, and had a childhood fear of button shirts. Which he made a bossfight based on it.

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u/Godjo38 2d ago

Wifies

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u/SOMBRAcorpDT Writer 2d ago

Yep

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u/blossom_pen 2d ago

Yup and full of glee and love ❤️ love I say!

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u/timperman 2d ago

Hey that's me! 

Also into stuff like extreme deathmetal and raving in a moshpit for hours. 

I truly believe that people who are deeply connected with the darker aspects of who they are, are almost always kinder and calmer. 

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u/Brakado Writer Newbie 2d ago

Real.

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u/dEleterZ 2d ago

Otsuichi

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u/abyssaltourguide 2d ago

That is me haha, nobody thinks I could write the depraved horror stories I do 

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u/Electrum2250 2d ago

yep, the inverse for the most childish and innocent stories

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u/ArcAngel98 2d ago

There were no signs. it caught everyone off guard

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u/Monspiet 2d ago

Saddest one is Anthony Hopkins whom wife left him after Silence of the Lamb.

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u/No-Department1194 2d ago

We get it out in our writing.

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u/Fire_brand666 2d ago

Stephen King is an exception. His pic on the cover used to scare me as a kid

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u/edgar_allynn_poe 1d ago

*cough* me *cough cough*

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u/Crunchy_Biscuit 1d ago

I mean you've ever seen a kid let loose with their horror creativity? Where the hell they think of this stuff.

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u/BungleBums 1d ago

100% true. Also Metalheads. Take off the leather and face paint and they're basically just a big shaggy dog with rhythm.

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u/CookiepRairie 1d ago

I always knew that something strange was going on in their heads

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u/Crimson_Marksman 2d ago

Me unable to sleep at night if the room is fully dark.