User blog comment:Nanepul/irrational fears./@comment-1988716-20141008234724/@comment-25515926-20141009205409

that is an excellent point and i understand it completly and agree with you on most of it, i seriously do.

i think the one diffrence is that we share two different perspectives and definitons of fear and neither of us are wrong. i think of fear as in the serious loss of something which induces a senses of panic or anxiety or un-easiness or doubt in varying degrees. a cosmic thing that affects living beings no matter what. it is the dark, the prey, the enemy, the absence of understanding, pain, isolation, lack of control, things that are for the most part inevitable. that is fear. creepiness on the other hand is the distortion of our innocence mixed with the traits of our fears which creates un-easiness and uncomfortablity which sometimes leads to phobia of something .im not scared the least by any of the examples i gave and i made the mistake of saying "scared of" it would have been better to put "made uncomfortable to varying degrees whic may or may not cause you to gain a phobia of that object" im not scared of my examples but they do make me uncomfortable in varying degrees.

i dont fully know your definition of fear and its counterparts, but i understand where your coming from on all that you have said so far.

and i fully understand that this is not a scary site (not the site itself, the theme) and that its more like the works of h.p.lovecraft and serling and del toro and kubrick and if i may even say (and please dont kill me for this) hussie. i wasnt making it out to be a horror site i was just saying that if we have charachters who are based off of basic fears it would be interesting to see what irrational fears would be or be based from. i know that most irrational fears are just  phobias which are usually traits and Fears are usually things, i was just wondering in a story sense where they would fit in. i know the fear of failure is vauge and that it applies to them all i was just making a example.

when comes to writing (and storytelling in general) i completly agree with you and am very for story over substance. i would never call most common scary things, scary,  not in the least bit because of that. i much rather watch the twilight zone which just so happens to be eerie but doesnt focus on that, than watch some pointless slasher flick.

the stories ive written are not purposfully scary, dark ? maybe, but not purposfully scary. i just like you and countless others i wrote to tell a story. we are STORYtellers. to quote a wise man,
 * "We are the music makers,
 * And we are the dreamers of dreams,
 * Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
 * And sitting by desolate streams;—
 * World-losers and world-forsakers,
 * On whom the pale moon gleams:
 * Yet we are the movers and shakers
 * Of the world for ever, it seems."