I like this article a lot.
It’s a little sad to me that it’s a zero-comment post on an abandoned blog.
No doubt there are hundreds of thousands of great pieces of work that basically nobody ever sees, scattered throughout the obscure corners of the web.
I wouldn’t even have noticed this one myself, if not for three consecutive coincidences.
I have this nagging feeling there was another theorist (possibly several?) who wrote about the advantage of narratives that don’t explain themselves. Maybe I’m thinking of Adorno with his anti-capitalist/anti-meaning stuff? “Something something, Paul Klee painted an angel that takes away meaning and that’s beautiful”?
What’s interesting about the Slenderman point near the end is that I think its longevity plays into what Scott McCloud might call its “iconic” nature – the vagueness of the character is an advantage because it allows people to project whatever they’re thinking of onto it (this sounds like I’m just re-stating what’s written in the article, but it’s actually McCloud’s theory I’m citing from memory, which shows how similar/applicable it is).
Anyway, yeah, this is good. Glad to see someone write critically on BEN Drowned!
The OP blog isn’t dead! After more than a year of innaction, there was a post about tabletop role-playing games earlier this month! The blogger seems really good, and to the taste of the kind of person who is probably reading this tumblblog.
I think in discussion of horror, particularly horror movies, the idea of not showing the monster too soon, or ever giving the audience a good long look at it ever is brought up fairly often, if more to discuss the breach than the observance.
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