Precognition

So lately I've been having this really weird feeling. I can't really explain it except that something big is going to happen. It might only affect me - it might affect the whole world. But it's charging towards me with an army of ghosts I've buried and it's going to turn my soul to ashes on the wind.

It's a very strong sense of foreboding, and I hate feeling like this. Be on your guard - just in case.

SG x 

Christmas Fever (And the End of the World)

So, as I write it is only 6 days until Christmas.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.

You probably noticed that I'm a tad excited. I can't wait this year - although our house is always packed with people, it's actually just going to be the four of us and the dog this year, a small but select gathering of happy people in the living room, opening presents. Our tree looks absolutely fantastic - although we've had to leave the lower branches bare, my dog kept trying to eat the tinsel.

The Polar Express and Tintin are most definitely going to be watched on Christmas Eve, along with eating my mum's FAMOUS mince pies - ohmigod, if you haven't tried my mum's mince pies then you literally haven't lived, they are the BEST - then roast turkey with all the trimmings on Christmas Day - this year is going to be FAB, I can just see it.

However, some rather negative people don't believe that we're going to get to Christmas this year, that in fact the world is going to end JUST BECAUSE THE MAYAN CALENDAR ENDS on the 21st December. True, the Mayans were very clever people. But I seriously doubt they were clever enough to predict when the world was going to end. Below is a little video that a Mr Charlie McDonnell was kind enough to make about the end of the world...enjoy.

He is absolutely correct of course. There is NO proof WHATSOEVER that the world is going to end on Friday. But, just in case you get a little freaked out, here's some links to 'Survival Guides and How to Pack Them.'

http://apocalypsesurvivalguide.org/
http://www.survivetheapocalypse.net/category/survival-guide/

Signing off now, methinks - got a heell of a lot of stuff to do around the house 'n' catch ups 'n' stuff...oh YEAH! You guys don't know! Well, basically, about a week and a half ago, I had a teensy operation to get my tonsils taken out because I've been sick since the middle of August. But apart from a bad day last week, I'm back to my old, crazy, normal self - I didn't realise how ill I'd been!

In the words of Charlie,

'Always deny the Apocalypse, because you'll usually be right, and when you're wrong, there'll be nobody around to say I told you so.'

Love,

ScotsGirl x

Have You Seen Slender Man?

So, there's been a lot of buzz on the interweb this year about a crazy, freaky game called Slender. In this game, you are locked in a park at night, along with this mysterious entity known as Slenderman. 

I saw some people playing it online. Their reactions were pretty funny, so I thought I might as well download the game - which is free - and play it whilst I was at school. It didn't look too frightening to me.

I was so wrong.

The whole game takes place at night, inside a large, circular, heavily-wooded park. You are given a flashlight with very little range, and your aim is to find eight pages which have crazy scrawls on them, with messages such as "can't run" and "he sees you" in creepy, scratchy handwriting. Not sounding so bad, is it? The trouble is, they depict this creepy guy called Slenderman. And once you've found the first page...he comes looking. 

The rest of the game is pretty much you trying to get away from him and his creepy thundering music, without dying. The worst part of it all is that if he gets close to you, your screen starts to fill with static as the Slenderman slowly drives you insane. The game is rigged so that you can't exit the game in panic when the static starts to fill your screen, so you either get away or you get freaked out.

But what exactly IS Slenderman?

The myth of Slenderman started on a forum competition on the website Something Awful, entitled "Create Paranormal Images." Slenderman is traditionally depicted as a tall, humanoid being with extra long arms and legs. He can be from 7-15 feet tall and is a passive-aggressive character, often stalking his victims for years at a time, slowly driving them insane until he feels it is safe to kill them.

I won't say too much more, except that the Slenderman myth has stemmed a whole load of games and spin-off series, such as MarbleHornets, a creepy YouTube series which all focuses around the Slenderman. It's an ARG style series - alternate reality game - which means that everything has to appear as realistic as possible. This means that locations, etc, are all real places. It's quite confusing.

If you're still keen on finding out more about Slenderman, I wish you luck. Don't look back, don't stop running. 

ScotsGirl x