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[[File:Fears_Scaled_4406.jpg|frame|Fear is here. <ref>The Empty City, Choir, Archangel, Dying Man, Manufactured Newborn, Blind Man, Slender Man, Black Dog, Plague Doctor, Eye, EAT, Rake, Cold Boy, Wooden Girl, Convocation, Nightlanders. Drawn by Lizard Bite.</ref> Fear them.]]
 
{{quote| ''It started with [[The Slender Man Mythos|the Slender Man.]] The tall, faceless businessman was terrifying in his own right, [[It Gets Worse|but then others appeared.]] They weren't members of the Slender Man's own race (if he had a race), but they were similar in what they inspired: fear.''}}▼
 
{{quote| ''The members of this new wave of [[Eldritch Abominations|abominations]] were based on fear. They were the embodiments of particular fears and sometimes targeted those who had those fears.''}}▼
▲{{quote| ''It started with [[The Slender Man Mythos|the Slender Man.]] The tall, faceless businessman was terrifying in his own right, [[It Gets Worse|but then others appeared.]] They weren't members of the Slender Man's own race (if he had a race), but they were similar in what they inspired: fear.''}}
 
''[[The Fear Mythos]]'' is a collaborative writing community project spanning dozens of blogs and featuring a good number of antagonists.▼
▲{{quote| ''The members of this new wave of [[Eldritch Abominations|abominations]] were based on fear. They were the embodiments of particular fears and sometimes targeted those who had those fears.''}}
 
The premise is simple: there are these monsters called "Fears," original creatures (with two exceptions taken from the public domain of creepypasta) that are, for lack of a better term, the embodiments of fears. [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Hence the name.]] [['''The Fear Mythos]]''' deals with blogs, video logs, creepypasta, and whatever else there exists that regard to these disturbing beings. No canon or continuity required; writers get complete freedom.▼
▲The Fear Mythos is a collaborative writing community project spanning dozens of blogs and featuring a good number of antagonists.
 
A current list of all current blogs can be found [http://thefearmythos.wikia.com/wiki/The_Blogs here] and vlogs [http://thefearmythos.wikia.com/wiki/The_Vlogs here], while a list of Fears (and descriptions) can be found [[The Fear Mythos (Franchise)/Characters|on the characters page]]. A blog dedicated to Fear-based creepypasta can be found [http://strangeandsecretfaces.blogspot.com/ here.] A Wiki has been made, and can be found [http://thefearmythos.wikia.com/wiki/The_Fear_Mythos_Wiki here].▼
▲The premise is simple: there are these monsters called "Fears," original creatures (with two exceptions taken from the public domain of creepypasta) that are, for lack of a better term, the embodiments of fears. [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|Hence the name.]] [[The Fear Mythos]] deals with blogs, video logs, creepypasta, and whatever else there exists that regard to these disturbing beings. No canon or continuity required; writers get complete freedom.
 
Below is a list of individual pages for stories within ''The Fear Mythos'':
▲A current list of all current blogs can be found [http://thefearmythos.wikia.com/wiki/The_Blogs here] and vlogs [http://thefearmythos.wikia.com/wiki/The_Vlogs here], while a list of Fears (and descriptions) can be found [[The Fear Mythos (Franchise)/Characters|on the characters page]]. A blog dedicated to Fear-based creepypasta can be found [http://strangeandsecretfaces.blogspot.com/ here.] A Wiki has been made, and can be found [http://thefearmythos.wikia.com/wiki/The_Fear_Mythos_Wiki here].
 
'''Mixed Media ARGs'''
For individual stories within the Mythos, see [[The Fear Mythos Stories (Franchise)|The Fear Mythos Stories]].
* [[Crucible]]
* [[The Undecided Five]]
 
'''Blogs'''
For the epic novel about the Fear Mythos during 2011's Rapture, see ''[[The Rapture Logs (Blog)|OH GOD THE RAPTURE IS BURNING]]''.▼
* [[A Realm of Emptiness]]
* [[Blog/Eccentrically Bored|Eccentrically Bored]]
** [[Blog/Hidden In The Trees|Hidden In The Trees]]
* [[In the Shuffling Madness]]
** [[Call the Schoolmaster]]
* [[Mephi]]
* [[The Rapture Logs|OH GOD THE RAPTURE IS BURNING]]
* [[The Puppets Game]]
* [[Shattered Psyche]]
* [[The World Through These Eyeholes]]
* [[To Light a Candle]]
* [[Topography Genera]]
 
▲For the epic novel about the Fear Mythos during 2011's Rapture, see ''[[The Rapture Logs (Blog)|OH GOD THE RAPTURE IS BURNING]]''.
{{quote| ''[[Gas Mask Longcoat|A man in a gas mask.]] [[The Blank|A man without a face.]] [[Nightmare Face|A face without a man.]] [[Living Shadow|A shadow of your former self.]] [[An Ice Person|A boy in isolation.]] [[Puppeteer Parasite|A girl who pulls the strings.]] [[Black Eyes of Evil|A man who is a dog.]] [[Evil Is Visceral|A dog made of men.]] [[Eyeless Face|A man who has our pasts.]] [[Brown Note|A blur in our perception.]] [[Feathered Fiend|A convocation of birds.]] [[Murder Water|A thing with ill will.]] [[Faceless Eye|A judge in the sun.]] [[Body Horror|A beast below.]]''}}▼
 
▲{{quote| ''[[Gas Mask Longcoat|A man in a gas mask.]] [[The Blank|A man without a face.]] [[Nightmare Face|A face without a man.]] [[Living Shadow|A shadow of your former self.]] [[An Ice Person|A boy in isolation.]] [[Puppeteer Parasite|A girl who pulls the strings.]] [[Black Eyes of Evil|A man who is a dog.]] [[Evil Is Visceral|A dog made of men.]] [[Eyeless Face|A man who has our pasts.]] [[Brown Note|A blur in our perception.]] [[Feathered Fiend|A convocation of birds.]] [[Murder Water|A thing with ill will.]] [[Faceless Eye|A judge in the sun.]] [[Body Horror|A beast below.]]''}}
 
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== General tropes for the Fear Mythos ==
* [[The Adjectival Man]]: The Slender Man, the Dying Man, the Blind Man, and the Smiling Man. The Wooden Girl and the Cold Boy are variations of the format.
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* [[Arc Number]]: 417
** 444 in ''Still Remains Within.'' Maybe.
* [[Backstory]]: Oh god, is there ''ever.'' [http://citiesandthronesandpowers.blogspot.com/ Here's one.]
** ''Jordan Eats'' seems pretty dedicated to giving the most it can. [http://djay32-paperdimension.blogspot.com/2011/03/whaddya-know-got-some-leads.html Progression] [http://djay32-paperdimension.blogspot.com/2011/03/this-internet-sucks-at-uploading.html Enhanced] [http://djay32-paperdimension.blogspot.com/2011/03/venturing-into-unknown-screenshots.html is] [http://djay32-paperdimension.blogspot.com/2011/03/some-real-progress.html a] [http://djay32-paperdimension.blogspot.com/2011/03/last-screenshot.html prominent] [http://djay32-paperdimension.blogspot.com/2011/03/almost-forgot.html one.] Then there's [http://djay32-paperdimension.blogspot.com/2011/04/fish-man-screenshots.html Fish,] [http://djay32-paperdimension.blogspot.com/2011/04/more-of-fish-man.html Man!] and [http://djay32-paperdimension.blogspot.com/2011/04/posts-from-fellow-lyric-lover-part-1.html The Topography] [http://djay32-paperdimension.blogspot.com/2011/04/posts-from-fellow-lyric-lover-part-2.html of Thought.] And this is just ''so far.''
** ''Topography Genera Center East'' topped that, as ''Jordan Eats Normally Now,'' itself, is one part of its backstory.
* [[Being Watched]]: By at least fifteen creatures!
* [[The Blank]]: [[The Slender Man Mythos|Slender Man.]]
* [[Body Horror]]: The [http://iamhissteward.blogspot.com/2011/06/birth-of-god.html Birth of the Manufactured Newborn]: {{spoiler|It claws its way out of a man's chest!}} And of course, the Convocation can [https://web.archive.org/web/20120726053111/http://thedarklingthrush.tumblr.com/post/6095572367/opposite-day build nests inside of people]...
* [[Breather Episode]]: The blogs that try to be realistic tend to do these.
* [[Cosmic Horror Story]]: Though some are more [[Buffy -Speak|cosmic horror-y]] then others.
* [[The Danza]]: Jordan and Nathan in ''Jordan Eats.''
** And Seann from ''Cryptid 417''
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* [[Four Is Death]]: Comes up a fair bit in the arc-numbers. Four-''seventeen,'' in ''Eccentrically Bored.'' Three fours in ''Still Remains Within''. Even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in ''brighter than a spoon'' when Tav hides something in PO Box 444.
** In [http://fearofpants.blogspot.com/ Nothing To Fear] [http://fearofpants.blogspot.com/2011/09/songspamming-part-uno.html four] [http://fearofpants.blogspot.com/2011/09/songspamming-part-deux.html songs] [http://fearofpants.blogspot.com/2011/09/songspamming-part-drei.html were] [http://fearofpants.blogspot.com/2011/09/songspamming-part-shi.html posted], all possibly related to concepts of fears. All at [[Arc Number|4:17]]
*** And, each post was numbered in a different language, the fourth one being Japanese, in which four and death are the same word.
* [[Genre Blindness]]: Occurs a ''lot,'' though it's often subverted.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: See above.
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** Garth from ''Moonlit Whispers'' hit this towards the end and just kept slipping further.
** And the Billy from ''Perchance to Dream''. In fact, the Rake tends to do this to people.
* [[Shout -Out]]: Just about everything to do with EAT is in some way a shout-out. <ref>First, there's just the ''name.'' [[Genesis (Musicband)|(The Battle of) Epping (Forest).]] [[Emerson Lake and Palmer|Aquatarkus.]] Then, the [[Arc Words]] mentioned earlier: "Welcome back, my friends..." is [[Emerson Lake and Palmer|"Karn Evil 9."]] "No one runs faster..." is [[Coheed and Cambria|"The Willing Well."]] Then there's all the freaking lyric and song excerpts. Hell, The Camper, even! [[Word of God]] says it's a subtle nod to [[Coheed and Cambria|The Camper Velourium!]]</ref>
** Regarding ''Jordan Eats,'' the story, [https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=495929695988133930&postID=4012708834005668051 Jordan] [http://djay32-paperdimension.blogspot.com/2011/04/my-own-mind-divided-into-hollow.html really] [http://djay32-paperdimension.blogspot.com/2011/04/distracted-xd.html seems] [http://djay32-paperdimension.blogspot.com/2011/04/yeah-gimme-while.html to] [http://djay32-paperdimension.blogspot.com/2011/04/posts-from-fellow-lyric-lover-part-1.html like] [http://djay32-paperdimension.blogspot.com/2011/04/do-you-still-wait-for-your-god.html that] [http://djay32-paperdimension.blogspot.com/2011/04/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.html Marble] [http://djay32-paperdimension.blogspot.com/2011/04/zomg-squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.html Hornets,] [http://djay32-paperdimension.blogspot.com/2011/04/quickie-update-second-time.html doesn't] [http://djay32-paperdimension.blogspot.com/2011/04/o-noez-wheres-my-expy-of-totheark.html he?]
** In ''Out of the Spent and Unconsidered Earth'', the word {{color|blue|City}} is always in blue, just like a certain [[House of Leaves|House]].
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: The narrator to ''Out of the Spent and Unconsidered Earth'' certainly turns out to be.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: Oh, there have been plenty throughout the blogs so far.
 
== Tropes for ''Eccentrically Bored / Hidden in the Trees'' ==
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* [[A Form You Are Comfortable With]]: The Archangel has no body of its own, and must interact with our world by using the bodies of the dead. Its favored form seems to be a man in a gas mask and hoodie.
* [[Fridge Horror]]: In a mythos full of nasty monsters that can kill you in all sorts of interesting ways, the Blind Man seems rather tame. He doesn't even kill his victims, he just wanders around libraries, collecting childhoods... {{spoiler|then the idea of losing your entire childhood sinks in...}}
* [[Only Known Byby Their Nickname]]: The Archangel's messages seem to imply that this is the case for all the Fears, and that the names humans have given them are no their true names. For example, the Archangel only ever refers to Slender Man as "STRANGER."
* [[Prophetic Name]]: {{spoiler|Joey Steward. A Steward is a kind of household servant, and the blog ends with Joey becoming a proxy to Slender Man. To signify this change, he even drops his first name and just calls himself "Steward"}}
* {{spoiler|[[Redemption Equals Death]]}}: The ending to ''Hidden in the Trees''
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* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: [http://djay32-paperdimension.blogspot.com/2011/04/that-was-freaking-weird.html The door that wasn't there in this entry] later comes back to haunt Jordan in [http://djay32-paperdimension.blogspot.com/2011/04/i-went.html this one.]
* [[Combat Tentacles]]: EAT has them.
* [[En Route Sum -Up]]: [http://djay32-paperdimension.blogspot.com/2011/04/i-brought-nathan-to-house.html It's almost silly sometimes.]
* [[Eye Scream]]: Sam to {{spoiler|Nathan}}.
* [[Face Revealing Turn]]: [http://djay32-paperdimension.blogspot.com/2011/03/my-video-camera-sucks.html So here's a dead girl,] so let's look awa--[[Face Revealing Turn|fffffffff.]]
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* [[Idiot Ball]]: '''Jordan.''' [http://djay32-paperdimension.blogspot.com/2011/03/call-me-stupid.html Lampshaded] once, early on, but it got to the point that [http://djay32-paperdimension.blogspot.com/2011/04/god-cant-you-guys-leave-me-alone.html he had to respond to all the claims of how oblivious he acts.] {{spoiler|Justified in that he's developing an obsession.}}
* [[Murder Water]]: EAT.
* [[Only Known Byby Their Nickname]]: [http://djay32-paperdimension.blogspot.com/2011/04/email-sunp0005-sams-message.html Sam only calls Jordan] [http://djay32-paperdimension.blogspot.com/2011/04/i-went.html "DJay."] Justified in that she never learned his first name in the ''Progression Enhanced'' entries. Becomes possible [[Fridge Brilliance]] when you realize that {{spoiler|EAT ''does'' know Jordan's name, yet for the sake of keeping a good disguise, made Sam pretend she didn't.}}
* [[Stock Footage]]: [http://djay32-paperdimension.blogspot.com/2011/04/camera-6.html Sam used Futurama as this once.]
 
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* [[An Ice Person]]: The Cold Boy.
* [[Ironic Nursery Tune]]: The Cold Boy loves these.
* [[Lost in Thethe Maize]]: The setting to a [[Wham! Episode]].
* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]: Lampshaded in [http://nihilartikelling.blogspot.com/2011/04/though-stars-in-their-silence.html this entry] of ''brighter than a spoon.''
* [[Ominous Fog]]
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* [[Platonic Cave]]: A major theme of the blog (the companion blog is even called "the allegory of the cave").
* [[Sanity Slippage]]
* [[Sealed Room in Thethe Middle of Nowhere]]: The basic premise is the main character, Martin, is stuck in one of these (though it has plenty of food and water and a working laptop).
* {{spoiler|[[Tomato in Thethe Mirror]]: "Martin" was never really Martin. He was always a Nightlander.}}
* [[You Wake Up in Aa Room]]: This happens to Martin in the first post
 
== Tropes for ''The Jeanette Experience'' ==
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* [[Canon Immigrant]]: [http://jeanetteisalive.blogspot.com The blog] started independent of the Fear Mythos, but has recently been integrated into the world.
* [[Chess Motifs]]: {{spoiler|Penny Balisong}} is fond of these.
* [[Cluster F -Bomb]]: Jeanette is fond of these.
* [[Eye Scream]]: {{spoiler|Vanessa}} has her eyes burned out of their sockets by the Smiling Man and later {{spoiler|Jeanette's}} right eye is destroyed by him as well.
* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: {{spoiler|Jeanette}} ends up wearing one due to the Smiling Man.
* {{spoiler|[[Gone Horribly Right]]: The Smiling Man was brought about by a conscious attempt to make something like the Slender Man. It works a bit too well as far as [[Go Mad Fromfrom the Revelation|some of its creators are concerned]].}}
* [[Ironic Echo]]: "[[Badass Boast|As Long]] [[Title Drop|As I]] [[Despair Event Horizon|Am]] [[You Can't Fight Fate|Alive]]"
* [[Lemony Narrator]]: Jeanette occasionally makes fun of her younger self's writing (calling it "too teenagery"). Keep in mind that this is her younger self by ''half a year''.
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== Tropes for the other blogs in the Mythos ==
* [[Anachronic Order]]: ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120726053112/http://conversationswiththecold.tumblr.com/ The Ripeness is All]'' is a story told in conversations. It begins with the last conversation and then goes to the first.
* [[The Bartender]]: [http://strangeandsecretfaces.blogspot.com/2011/04/odd-patient.html This] EAT creepypasta has your stereotypical one, even so far as being called [[The Simpsons (animation)|Moe]].
* [[Creepypasta]]: The whole basis of ''Faces, Strange and Secret'' is to have creepypastas for the Mythos.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Mike, the protagonist of ''The Eyes of God''. The Archangel [[Go Mad Fromfrom the Revelation|showed him everything.]]
* [[Bedlam House]]: Used by name in the show-within-a-show in ''Debasing the Beef Canoe''.
* [[Evil -Detecting Dog]]: The Black Dog.
* [[Kill 'Em All]]: Happens in the show-within-a-show in ''Debasing the Beef Canoe''.
* [[Marionette Motion]]: In ''Debasing the Beef Canoe'', this happens at the end of the show-within-a-show when {{spoiler|the Wooden Girl kills everyone and controls their corpses like ''puppets''.}}
* [[Scary Scarecrows]]: Subverted in [http://strangeandsecretfaces.blogspot.com/2011/04/scarecrow.html this story]. The scarecrow isn't evil - the birds ''are''.
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[[Category:The Slender Man Mythos Stories (Franchise)]]
[[Category:Web Serial Novel]]
[[Category:Main/New Media/Horror/SandboxFranchises]]
[[Category:The FearSlender Man Mythos Stories]]
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