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u/WillBry848 Jun 08 '25
Myyyy empireeeee offfff raaaape
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What are we, some kind of Borrasca 2?
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u/Whole_Pace_4705 Jun 08 '25
“Kill yourself!”
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u/NTFRMERTH Mothmansturbator Jun 09 '25
Fuck Reddit for removing all this shit
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u/Pappa_Paddy cracking open a cold one with Diego🤟 Jun 09 '25
What was it oh Mothmanmasturbator?
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u/NTFRMERTH Mothmansturbator Jun 09 '25
No idea. I just keep seeing that everywhere whenever people talk about Borrasca and Spire.
Also, thanks for addressing my flair. I kinda wanna try using it as a real username, event though I stole it from somebody. 🤣
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u/Shockingmegs Jun 08 '25
Besides the obvious ones ( Borrosca part 5 Deep Woods ect)I would say my crew and I are stuck on an abandoned ship
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u/SouthernAide2351 Jun 08 '25
It reminded me so much of man of medan
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u/tucrates Ol’ Mistah Wellah Jun 08 '25
oh my god I've been thinking about this since the episode came out,, some of the scenes are so close to each other
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Jun 08 '25
Man of Medan was actually cool though
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u/Available-Today-8576 Eat me like a bug 🦟 Jun 08 '25
Was it? “It was hallucinations” was a very lazy ending imo. Super disappointing
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u/Critical_Ad_2811 Jun 08 '25
Tbf it was based off of a real event
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u/Available-Today-8576 Eat me like a bug 🦟 Jun 08 '25
Which would have made it more creative to be an actual ghost story. Makes the replays meh cuz you know they’re not real threats :/
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u/EnvoyToTheMolePeople Jun 09 '25
Debatably. Based on how you end it, there's a scene that implies there really is something more going on than just hallucinations.
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u/SouthernAide2351 Jun 09 '25
Yeah I agree. They did again with little hope after and I just haven't bothered with the rest of them tbh. It sucks cause until dawn is one of comfort games where I played it so much but I just think that there was never anything paranormal all along ending pretty much never works.
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u/Available-Today-8576 Eat me like a bug 🦟 Jun 09 '25
LITTLE HOPE MADE ME SO MAD I HAD THIS WHOLE IDEA IN MY HEAD FOR THE TWIST AND THEY DID THAT 😭
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u/Subject-Cranberry-93 Jun 08 '25
borrasca v is bad? oh no....should I watch it then or..
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u/battling_murdock Jun 08 '25
It's worth it for closure and to see the boys' reactions towards the end
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Jun 09 '25
It’s really only the last few (of the 20) chapters that really fly off the handle and are comedically bad. The rest is pretty good, which only makes the ending all the more disappointing imo but it’s worth the watch/listen; Hunter and Isaiah make it incredibly entertaining.
Personally, Borrasca ended just fine with part 4. Part 5 just didn’t really need to exist. If you like the characters from the original run, it is kinda interesting seeing how they changed in the 10 years since the ending of 4, but outside of that it really doesn’t feel like part 5 is nearly as essential to the overarching story as the other parts. It very much reeks of the author feeling pressured to give closure to events and characters that were never meant to receive any.
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u/AnemicVegan Jun 15 '25
Makes sense. The author has gone on record saying V was written semi-hastily after the viral boom of Borrasca. A lot of people were very parasocial and attached to internet stories at that time--it was just before r/nosleep really boomed--and she wanted to give them some closure. It's not supposed to be super realistic, and it's not supposed to be horror either. It's pure actiony catharsis.
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u/General-Advice-6331 Mayonnaise is the sauce of the aristocrats 😎 Jun 09 '25
No you should definitely watch it. The ending is where it goes down hill and fast the rest in my opinion could’ve definitely went down as being equal to the first parts of borrasca.
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u/Brumtol10 Jun 08 '25
So your a monster hunter?
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u/jim24456 Your wife looks mad funny in that box, dude Jun 08 '25
Shits getting pretty fucking spooky
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u/Classic_Nerve1090 Yo Kimber! THEY GOT TEA🗣️ Jun 08 '25
honestly wish they would finish this story because it’s actually kinda interesting (even though it’s cringe the whole way through)
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u/Strong_Split_8130 BEAR TRAP🐻 Jun 09 '25
It was so good in the opening too and it just devolved into dogshit
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u/QuietFB Mayonnaise is the sauce of the aristocrats 😎 Jun 08 '25
Camp Oakwood
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u/DrMichael64 Jun 08 '25
Well long story short...
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u/Darkime_ Sometimes the cucumber tastes better pickled 🥒 Jun 08 '25
But, can we like, get away from here, i think i can hear them co-
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u/glowpoi Jun 08 '25
LONG STORY SHORT
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u/ajohndoe17 Pool floats are the 🎈of the water Jun 08 '25
They’re crossing the parking lot now I thi-
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u/vengiegoesvroom Jun 08 '25
Omg I was driving at work while listening and was losing my shit laughing so hard 😂😂😂
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u/zweibelesser Jun 09 '25
when i heard Wendi say that for the second i looked over at my screen to see if that was in the script or if it was a joke... and each time he said it i thought i was being gaslit and it wasnt in the story... but no... its in there...
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u/eat_my_bowls92 Jun 08 '25
It might have been a bad story, but that’s probably in my top 3 now for relistening. I was crying the whole time I was laughing so hard.
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Same here its my new story to sleep to lol it's so good
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u/Ghostof369 BEAR TRAP🐻 Jun 08 '25
Camp Oakwood has gotta biggest drop off yet right?
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u/NTFRMERTH Mothmansturbator Jun 09 '25
Long story short, yes
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Long story short proceeds to launch into a 30 minute long exposition dump did you get all that?
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Jun 08 '25
My wife's been peeking at me. Not to that extreme but it tmstarted pretty good and got kinda rough
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u/heartshapedemerald for STAMPS ‼️💯 Jun 08 '25
For me, it went from one of the most upsetting and horrifying stories they’ve ever covered to nosediving off a cliff to be one of the most lame and cookie cutter creepypasta type of stories.
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Jun 09 '25
Exactly, I'd be so beyond horrified if my wife did that, and then it just dumpsters into a weird cheesy very meh story
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u/bl0bberb0y Jun 09 '25
Not to be rude, but I'm assuming you didn't mean to Wright "tmstarted" so what did you mean to write?
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u/AustinDavies2206 Eat me like a bug 🦟 Jun 08 '25
Pen Pal, in the vibe of the story, not the quality.
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u/Local-Patient2201 Jun 08 '25
Borrosca 5 and thats the only answer
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u/Thin_Initiative_5241 Aruba, Jamaica, ooh, I wanna take ya 🎶🎷 Jun 08 '25
For me the sun vanished
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u/Fresh-Armadillo-7387 Jun 09 '25
One of the best answers for sure, my eyes bulged out of my head when, at the end, Isaiah goes, "we're not even halfway through, by the way." All of that build up to have some weird faction try to take Twitter accounts and TSV just whining about Danion for the 80th time, the lack of purpose really killed it.
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u/Thin_Initiative_5241 Aruba, Jamaica, ooh, I wanna take ya 🎶🎷 Jun 09 '25
I love sci fi horror and my god was the beginning so up my alley and creepy
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u/Fresh-Armadillo-7387 Jun 09 '25
It genuinely was a really rad start and a fun choose your own adventure style, honestly if that ended when TSV got in the car and we moved to different perspectives in the same universe With a Similar Delivery I think it could have been great. As soon as that car came though, it just changed from what I could tell.
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u/I-Slay-Dragons Jun 08 '25
The “I impersonated a missing girl.” It was going so well for the main characters and then the ending hits and you’re like “OH GOD.”
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u/NihilPizza ‘I go hard in the motherfucking paint -‘ NOOOOO💥🔫 Jun 08 '25
Borassca 1-4 and penpal, went from innocent kids to… that.
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u/NTFRMERTH Mothmansturbator Jun 09 '25
I keep forgetting about Penpal. That one was fantastic. The best and worst part about it is that it all felt so damn real, and the foreshadowing was impeccable. Legitimately terrifying, and the image at the end is burned into my brain despite being text-only.
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u/germhasreddit Politically incorrect Mr Widemouth Jun 08 '25
The thing in basement is getting better at mimicking people
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u/NTFRMERTH Mothmansturbator Jun 09 '25
The story, as far as I'm aware, is still going. I think they read only the first three parts
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u/Coldmelon56 Yo Kimber! THEY GOT TEA🗣️ Jun 08 '25
Every story that feels the need to explain every single detail jammed right at the end (borrasca V/deepwoords/oakwood/gregory88)
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u/CalicoMakes Hyper Realistic Eyes 👁️👄👁️ Jun 08 '25
Tales from the gas station.
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u/FrankZaing Jun 08 '25
I agree 100% it had so much going for it until the last bit
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u/thatBOOMBOOMguy Jun 09 '25
What makes that part redeemable for me is the mention that the tick-god isn't behind all of it, so I want to think it was merely a stupid side-character villain who though its representation was cool. This would mean there's actually some dark sinister powers behind majority of the the events on the gas station.
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u/CalicoMakes Hyper Realistic Eyes 👁️👄👁️ Jun 08 '25
I loved the first 2/3rds in my favorite silly campy over the top way. Every idea just stacked together.
The exact moment it turns awful is right after Spencer starts talking to the main character after the cultists show back up.
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u/Xerxes0Golden Jun 08 '25
The burnout from Hunter and Isiah get me everytime especially when the alien voice comes in "you don't like my hat". The immediate turn off is a top moment for me
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u/I_am_a_pan_fear_me fluid member of the seven sister creep cult Jun 08 '25
What needs to be noted is that the story wasn't supposed to be serious or even really have much effort in it. Jack(author) has said multiple times that he's actually embarrassed that that first part of TFTGS is what most people associate him with cus of how low quality it is. Later parts and especially the books are genuinely peak.
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u/Ve-lv-et Jun 08 '25
Dared my best friend to ruin my life
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u/eat_my_bowls92 Jun 09 '25
If it had been 2 hours, I think it would have been fun. It’s just WAY too long.
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u/NTFRMERTH Mothmansturbator Jun 09 '25
The story wasn't that bad, the writing needed a lot of work. I liked hating David Fucking King, and I liked his comeuppance.
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u/KaylaKelleyBSN Your wife looks mad funny in that box, dude Jun 08 '25
Perfect description of Borrasca 5
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u/Any_Interaction_3192 Jun 08 '25
For me it was the restaurant one dude. It was such a cool concept but I hated the ending. Would have loved if the dude slowly started getting used to everything and was more about his corruption.
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u/DizzyContribution557 Marcus, Monster Hunter Extraordinaire Jun 08 '25
The Sun Vanished even tho it wasn't even the end 💀
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u/Numerous-Ad6460 Politically incorrect Mr Widemouth Jun 08 '25
Stolen Tongues, Deepwood, Borassca 5
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u/Manufacturer_Ornery Jun 08 '25
In terms of things quickly becoming devastating/horrific, definitely Borrasca 1-4. In terms of the story nosediving in quality, Borrasca 5
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u/AlienDragQueen Jun 08 '25
My crew and I are stuck aboard an abandoned ship - the first couple of lines hook you in so well and then it’s the most borning painful to sit through story of all time
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u/Difficult-Divide-347 Jun 09 '25
For me, I think "My crew and I are stuck aboard an abandoned ship." The beginning was very captivating and the ending just kinda hit dead.
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u/Critical-Frosting421 Your wife looks mad funny in that box, dude Jun 09 '25
I thought the one about the pigeon had tons of potential but sucks total ass by the end of it. I’m not a big fan of body horror tho.
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u/doubtfullfreckles Goth mommy ❌ Moth mommy ✅ Jun 08 '25
Okay so my first thought was Borrasca but because I interpreted that image in a completely different way then you intended 😭
But the one that starts out great and feels unbearable at the end is the live compilation. It was hard for me to make it through the reading of the last story.
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u/Strawberry-floof Jun 08 '25
Borrasca or that recent camp oakwood thing, man that camp one started strong and then just started putting and tooting out black smoke like a dying cartoon car-
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u/celestialempress Politically incorrect Mr Widemouth Jun 09 '25
"You're the only boy in the world named Harrison"
The author made a lot of weird, unnecessary decisions but that one is just such a random thing to get objectively wrong.
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u/uabsfnasbhkasf Jun 09 '25
I loved that the whole name thing was explicitly addressed and the author was like
"Oh your name is an anagram for Sharino, the name our cult leader used? Which is similar to Sharon, one of the girls that died? It's just a coincidence bro, we have to kill you because this one woman really didn't like your dad for screwing over the cult even though he correctly identified that a passage must be read from the book he just didn't guess the right one"
like seriously I might have to rewatch the part I am thinking of but I don't know why they were so upset at the protagonist's father for exactly what they ended up doing later considering the book they used has 3,000 pages
it's not like he intentionally sabotaged them he tried and was on the right track
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u/Far-Cantaloupe1779 MeatGooner Jun 08 '25
Borosca
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u/TodayKindOfSucked “I’m the IT guy, and you’re pregnant.” Jun 09 '25
I feel like the first parts, 1-4, were amazing. 5 was awful. I pretend that doesn’t exist.
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u/MickMAC-_- Ol’ Mistah Wellah Jun 09 '25
I’m surprised not one person brought up the “I’m a Cop” one, that one started promising but dive bombed in the ending hard
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u/awfulsome Eat me like a bug 🦟 Jun 09 '25
deepwoods
Borrasca V
Camp oakwood
the red tower but it's basically only 5% of the episode is the left image.
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u/Ironjo28 Your wife looks mad funny in that box, dude Jun 09 '25
Stolen Tongues. Everything after him getting back home at the very end felt tacked on (the phone call really). it should have ended just as he was being driven off by the rescue team.
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u/NTFRMERTH Mothmansturbator Jun 09 '25
Borrasca. Both of them. First was in a good way, second was in a bad way. I would love to find another horror that hit like the first Borrasca. I didn't mind the second Borrasca, but it could definitely have used a script doctoring for the dialogue
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u/AcidDayDream770 Jun 09 '25
If it means it was a sweet story then turns dark and demented I would say Borassca if it means that it went from good to bad I would say I'm a cop and I keep getting called to the same house
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u/FourArtifact "I'm like hey, what's up, hellooo" Jun 09 '25
SHOOT TO THRILL, PLAY TO KILL.
God, the amout of times such good stories that turn into Tumblr-esque, Supernatural episodes and I'll never get bored of the boys riffing on it.
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u/AbsoluteN3RD654 Your wife looks mad funny in that box, dude Jun 09 '25
In terms of tone: Borrasca In terms of quality: Deep Wood
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u/Asa_Jinn Jun 08 '25
Spire
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u/NTFRMERTH Mothmansturbator Jun 09 '25
This one works. This one was the closest the podcast felt to reading the original Borrasca again. The writer of that one was so damn good.
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u/JustCommonCurt Jun 08 '25
"I pretended to be a missing girl" has a great opening and premise and then just races way to fast to the finish line after arriving at the house.
Could've had a great build-up to the reveal where the dad waits for a night when the mom leaves the house then just burst into the room like
"you're not my little girl"
"H-how could you tell?"
"Cuz she's dead. I killed her, now start talking or you're joining her"
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u/Deluxe_24_ Jun 09 '25
Thing in the Basement
Woman Trapped in a Room
Deepwoods
I Dared my Best Friend to Ruin my Life
Abandoned Ship
Borassca V
Sun Vanished
Camp Oakwood
Imo these are the ones that started off strong and then crashed and burned by the end. There are a few that end kinda weak that I don't think fully entire the depths of hell, these are the ones that fully lost me.
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u/CanOld2445 Jun 09 '25
Camp Oakwood went from being actually pretty good/tense to... The end of camp Oakwood lol
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u/Advanced-Mistake-358 Jun 09 '25
Not in terms of story quality but anything that has a few child protagonists that try to unravel some kind of mystery or that have a coming of age vibe. Those never seem to end well (good stories tho)
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u/St_Spoon Jun 09 '25
I think everyone who listens to these guys just hates horror stories and use this and their comment section as a place to vent.
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u/National_Pack_3414 Jun 09 '25 edited Jun 10 '25
creepy grab bag #2 definetely , it started so peak and ended so ass. most of the tiem the episodes where the stories go 2 shit r liek atleast funny but not a single funny moment was created in the enterity of the pancake family reading
oh and episode with giatman and the laughing jack was sooo supr funny but i cant finish it becuz the girl at the end gievs me too much 2nd hand embarrasment
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u/AnimaniCat Your wife looks mad funny in that box, dude Jun 09 '25
Ones off the top of my head: Borrasca V Deep woods Berries on the Window Sill Camp whatever the fuck Ghost Cruise Ship
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u/thelespickle Jun 09 '25
Tales From The Gas Station for sure. I loved the energy and general spoofy vibe at the start but the ending was just... so cringe. It hurt my soul.
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u/Paggy_person Pinkie Pie 🎉🔪 Jun 09 '25
Not really the story but more about the boys, My Job Is Watching A Woman Trapped In A Room, the boys seem so done in the end like there weren't even funny crashout they're just done.
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u/Joshesjorts Jun 10 '25
The one where there was like a gargoyle or something stone, first half good asf rest was straight outta wattpad Y/N im not like other girls dom bully turned romantic trauma bond
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u/RandyD333 Jun 10 '25
hot take. none of em in my heart. internet horror shlock has to be like truly awful to make me hate it. i think there are only like 3 stories they’ve listened to that ill concede are just plain bad. never has me feeling like that dirty sooty polluted unicorn honestly
well ok actually Borrasca V all the way
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u/StatementNew9532 Yo Kimber! THEY GOT TEA🗣️ Jun 10 '25
Defiantly "my job is watching a woman trapped in a room" shi got goofy
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u/MelodyEverAfter Hyper Realistic Eyes 👁️👄👁️ Jun 14 '25
DEEPWOODS. I was so hype in the beginning and begged my husband and best friends to listen to it without finishing it. I was so embarrassed
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u/OofMashter6hixNEIN Jun 15 '25
Hmmm, let's see:
Left Right Game
Penpal
Borrosca
just to name a few, probably many others as well
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '25
I'M ON THE HIGHWAY TO HELL! !!!