Thread:Nanepul/@comment-28071061-20141011045938

Your Crying Tree idea is basically a mish mash of tons of Fears. Becoming part of nature is basically The Algernon Forest, and possibly The Bleeding Tree. Getting lost is the most vanilla interpretation of the Empty City that you can get. There are tons of other Fears I'm probably missing but I want you to know that I'm not doing this just to be mean. Part of why nobody really does anything with specific, or as you put it irrational Fears, is that much better and more developed Fears.

Fear of Needles can fit under Plague Doctor, Fear of Insanity could be Smiling Man or any Fear for that matter, and Fear of fire can be Burning Bride, Brute, and basically any other Fear that has been known to control fire, which is a lot.

In other words, there's a reason there are vanilla Fears. Concerning yourself with creating a monster based on the "Fear Of" nonsense is the exact opposite of what you should do because that only leads to the idea of being too limited. That's exactly why people aren't interested in the Unnamed Child and the Eye: most of the time they're one trick ponies that are not used to their full potential because people are too fixated with making sure they fit into a rigid Fear of Punishment and Fear of Commitment.

While I would never try stop you from writing from what you want to, I do want to suggest the possibility of expanding on established Fears or at the very least trying to create Fears that can cover a large range of different concepts. 