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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

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If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 9 hours ago

Fake and gay - anon knew the way to the hut and knew it was a place for angry lemon party

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 52 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I want this to work as a NoSleep creepypasta or whatever, but it just makes no sense. I have never, in my life, thought any window could possibly be a painting.

EDIT: I just thought of Mario 64. That's an exception!

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago

Yeah could have just ended on "there were no paintings"

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

it would work better as a fairytale, has more of that kinda vibe

[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Would be worse to wake up and see your own portrait added to the wall.

[–] glibg@lemmy.ca 10 points 17 hours ago

That's where I thought it was going.

[–] anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 15 hours ago

Horror story QwQ

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

God I skipped a beat.

This just gave me chills

[–] HyperCube@fedia.io 106 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Seem to recall this story from r/nosleep a long time ago. That's one of the things I still haven't replaced from my reddit days, I liked reading through the top stories every once in a while. There really were some gems. I just got an AO3 account so maybe I can find something like that again, but I'm not too familiar with the site.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 67 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Seems like the story predates /r/nosleep by a fair bit. Relatedly, I wish lemmy were more open to creative writing. The greentext communities respond positively, but it’s a gamble anywhere else. Over the years, It’s become apparent to me that lemmy is full of philistines.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

lemmy is full of philistines.

Reddit, too. The fandoms I was engaged in there seem totally uninterested in (or even hostile to) fanfiction or even lore speculation now. No, just repeating and worshipping the same shallow memes.

At risk of sounding old... it wasn't always like that.

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[–] proceduralnightshade@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

a gamble anywhere else

Are there even any communities related to creative writing anywhere on lemmy? Never stumbled upon any

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

!2sentence2horror@lemmy.blahaj.zone, a few !twosentencehorror communities, a poetry community I’ve lost track of, and a smattering of niche writing communities like this one. The tumblr communities as well, if you count surreptitious fiction, which I do. None that are dedicated to writing are very active

[–] MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Alternatively, expand another?

I mean zero offense, but I feel like Lemmy is too fragmented, and most communities need more population, not another more-specific shard of a similar thing.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I'm pretty sure I read this story in a book of urban legends when I was a kid in the nineties and it wasn't new then.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

If you wrote something I'd read it.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Squints Oh, wait, you're one of the CachyOS devs! Right?

I'm typing from CachyOS now, love everything y'all do. Though I might get in the community (or matrix chat) to spout a left-field suggestion.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Me? No. I just use it lol.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah, my mistake. I just vaguely remember your handle from some CachyOS space awhile ago.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I'm a mod on the Lemmy community. That's probably where.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

You’ve been here for a few months. In all likelihood, you have! Though nothing particularly long and nothing particularly good.

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[–] Atlas_@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I remember M59gar in particular wrote some bangers there. That whole portal in the first series was 👨‍🍳😚

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

oh it's ancient. i remember reading a Polish translation of that back in 2013 or something just as i was starting to get into creepypastas

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[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 114 points 1 day ago (1 children)

An old but good one :3.. 4chan has some pretty good horror on it funnily enough.. as long as you can be bothered sifting through the toxic waste that the rest of the platform is

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's why I subscribe to greentext communities, cuz I did my time in the trenches dealing with the Nazis and gore well before the right well and truly lost (what little was left of) their goddamned minds.

[–] DefectiveFoundation@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

4vhan was pretty left leaning with some libertarian (and still rampant racism). It was also, by far, the easiest social media to manipulate.

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago

When were you on there? Because I was on there for a good few years in the late 00s up until gamergate, and the Nazi posting was mainly on /b/, but it wasn't absent from other boards and only got worse as people stopped ironically Nazi posting and were more serious about it

[–] spacecadet@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

You fought in the trenches against the Nazis? You must be over 100 years old!

Edit:

Child: Grandpa, did you serve in the Great War?

Grandpa: No, I experienced much worse, I fought the Nazis on 4chan via chat from the comfort of a $3800 studio apartment in Seattle with my parents trust fund money.

[–] Doom@ttrpg.network 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

this is based on something can't remember what but it is

There are a bunch of creepy pastas along that line, it's a pretty tired trope.

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 61 points 1 day ago
[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 48 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I can see the intention of the story, but how you wouldn't notice many windows on a small hut when you approached makes it not work for me.

[–] mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml 4 points 22 hours ago

Also the lighting. If it’s dark outside how do you light up a person looking into a window in a way they appear as a painting instead of weird shadows.

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 15 points 1 day ago

Maybe there's none on the side of the hut Anon approaches from?

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago

Anon, what the fuck

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

Very relatable

[–] SurfinBird@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago

Are you gonna start dogging or what mate?

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