ChaosDoctor07
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Fatstrat06 wrote:Should start reading more comments before I submit one myself I suppose. There seems to be quite some contention as to how much this relates to the theme. The theme in this case; however, is rather broad and subjective. Nightmares can be anything for anyone. Just because it's not one of the stereotypical nightmares (i.e. falling, showing up to class naked, being chased without being able to run, your teeth falling out, etc.) doesn't mean it's not a potentially legitimate nightmare. I know someone who is afraid of tulips because they see faces in them, someone who is afraid of deer, people who are afraid of feet and hands, etc. and these are certainly not your typical nightmare or phobia. Just because something that could potentially be very frightening is presented in a cute-ish manner doesn't mean it ceases to be a nightmare.
The point, for me at least, isn't that this isn't a "typical" nightmare; there's a bit of a slippery slope to be had with that "nightmares can be anything for anyone", since one could more or less argue just about anything could be considered a nightmare, depending on the person, but I'll try and avoid that discussion for now...I just think that, and this is totally based on my own opinion rather than any hard facts or anything, that there's more or less an informal limit as to what constitutes a visual depiction of a "nightmare" and what seems to be, as tanniver noted, an idea for a previous derby("Naughty or Nice) inserted into this derby instead. To use your example, in the case of the tulips...If you had a field of tulips drawn "normally", smiling or something like that with a person standing among them, that's not terribly nightmarish at all, to me. It's another matter if the tulips are "monstrous caricatures" of tulips and are preparing to eat the helpless victim; this sufficiently represents the fear that the tulips are causing the person.
Hope that long-winded paragraph sort of expresses my thoughts. For a visual example, compare "Your Friendly Neighborhood Baku", which features a potentially frightening spirit in cute-ish form(though the point of it is that it eats nightmares, but still, potentially frightening in its own right) and this.
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ChaosDoctor07
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Re: Behold a pale horse...
If this shirt had another figure in it, say, another kid and his reaction or something like that, I think this shirt would be significantly better, as opposed to just the Reaper on the horse.
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Mavyn
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Re: Globophobia
It looks like a water bear is going to eat him!
Awesome.
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Mavyn
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BootsBoots wrote:I think you've just inspired a future water bear design. That thing is ridiculous. 
Yay! Water bears are amazing, totally worthy of a shirt. :D
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kylemittskus
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fablefire wrote:Okay. I'll bite.
This is pretty much exactly like a recurring nightmare I had when I was 3-5. It'd have two parts, one at preschool (our ponies were red, yellow, and blue) and one at home. Both parts would look much like this - dark and charred with random molten burny bits on the ground, and a bigger lava pool/moat around my house. Grim reaper was full size and in my house though.
Your horse weirds me out. What's on his head?
You used to have nightmares of being death on a playground rocking on a horse? Nope.com
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