Aunty Acid by Ged Backland for June 18, 2024

ummm does reading count?

No. I had a trauma as a teen. Horror doesn’t entertain me. NHK-World and animal documentaries relax me.

I watch ’em but not to relax.

No, but I do read horror novels to relax. And I used to listen to SCP Foundation videos to relax (for anyone who dosent know what that is, SCP Foundation is a bunch of online short stories that all take place in a shared universe and revolve around various anomalous activities. Most of them are horror.

I watch Police Activity on You tube. Special effects in movies and shows ain’t nothing like the real thing!

My wife watches Forensic Files and real life murder shows, I often wonder if she is studying how to do the deed and get away with it.

Is auntie taking notes?

No.

I relax watching Star Trek shows. They have a lot of violence, but they have a lot of science focus and a tendency to have a positive outlook on life.

If I want to scare myself, I’ll read the news.

Morbid old drunk.

Nope, I’d rather count how many sugar grains there are in a 1lb bag first.

Ummm – no.

ANY true crime show works for me! Just can’t understand why humans do such horrible,evil things to each other……

i’ve only picked up one hitchhiker in my entire life, and her name was Aileen Wuornos

Walt, be afraid, be very afraid.

Nope. I have other, more varied, tastes.

Sort of and it drives my husband nuts—I read about that stuff also.

i fall asleep with forensic files on. i know the stories when i hear them but not when i see them. it has been at least 10 yrs and still going now. all reruns

Me! :-)

Not me!

I watch other things to satisfy my need for fantasy wish-fulfillment, Aunty, but to each their own.

I do watch those, but I don’t find them particularly relaxing.

I like reading murder mysteries, especially the classic British ones. Somehow, the excellent writing takes away some of the horror of the stories they tell.

Oh, no. I watch documentaries about lonely, tv-addicted shut-ins.

After my charming job, I only read fiction now. I saw enough bad stuff in real life.

My wife watches them all the time as she tells me she often has nightmare about them ! I quit watching those shows many years ago as I sleep much better since I did.

Stephen Dalton’s sleep stories on YouTube do it for me. I barely make it past the sleep exercise before the actual story begins.