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A.P. Murphy's avatar

Excellent - enjoyed them all, the last one is particularly spooky. I recall we discussed already the feeling resulting from the sensation of something inside - could that be the origin of all body horror?

The final painting is also particularly creepy - to consider that some Victorian artist somewhere thought a beautiful girl on a mortuary slab would make a fine subject for a painting.

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I canтАЩt speak for the wider world, but my body horror is born out of my neurological situation. Which does sometimes make it feel like things are crawling out of me or on me or biting me, but also causes chronic migraines and a billion other absurd things.

Fibromyalgia, for example, is a sensory processing disorder in which the brain doesnтАЩt bother to filter out a lot of what it would for normies. I generally describe my brain as a nightclub without a bouncer thatтАЩs always over capacity. That then kind of puts your brain in perpetual panic mode, which does a lot of weird stuff to your body, unless you can limit input by, say, hiding in your dungeon instead of going to the pub. Although, alcohol is excellent for dumbing down your sensory processing center, I have to admit.

That painting is so weird. ItтАЩs called тАЬThe Autopsy (Anatomy of a heart: She had a heart!) The Victorians sure loved a dead person ЁЯШЕ

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