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Nasty but I love the creativity. A landscape covered in dog flesh, bone, eyes and other gore anatomy. I should warn that there are some truly abhorrent scenes and concepts but if you can stomach it and are interested in exploring completely disturbing ideas, I think it's great. It's a collection of logs written in collaboration so there are some logs way better than others. There wasn't too much of a need to explain how the dogscape came into being and the alien one was just disjointing. I adored how the humans over the hundreds of years lost their humanity and almost became animals themselves. I was disgusted but so intrigued and captivated by the concept of the mounds. Those places where the humans would lose all sense of rationality as they became a slave to pleasure and began procreating with the dogscape. Then, to satisfy their hunger, they'd consume the fetuses. I also loved the final log where the seemingly final human manages to reach a safe zone. All he has to do now is close a door to close off the cold and he'd then be able to use all the technology at the last remaining building but all he's ever known is the dogscape so he doesn't even know what a door is and so he dies, just within the building. Also, the epilogue was very solid as well. Two figures dead in an artic center sending out radio signals to try and help others. One is a human dead sitting in front of the radio transmitters and then, at their feet, curled up, their loyal dog companion. Fabulous. I loved it. All hail the dogscape
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Some parts of this story were really good. like really good. there were a few logs that were a bit wacky but that’s what makes it a creepypasta. i feel like it’s a rite of passage to have a wacky part of a story to make it an actual creepypasta.
i love body horror. i enjoy horror stories that push the depravity of humanity to its limits. because truthfully, what is more horrifying than reality? than humanity being pushed to its limit? the concept was a bit weird but, it worked? as a woman, the apocalypse is terrifying. there’s no scarier monster than humans when they feel they’re “owed” something.
the last two logs of this story FUCKED. that last post was an incredible way to end. what a cool dichotomy.
A good example that silly things and a goofy premise can still be developed into rewarding horror fiction. The different perspectives of each entry allow for different tones and styles to shine and really shows crowd-sourced horror done well.
At the end of the day, it's the "but what if the earth was made out of dogs?" so, there are certainly more compelling settings and backdrops, but I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the stories after hearing the ridiculous summary.
Dogscape is a collaborative effort by online contributors who worked together to build a story of a dystopian earth. Dogscape explores humanities decent into animalism as they are thrust into a primitive world. Some entries nail the themes incredibly while some others fall short. All around it paints an intreguiting picture of a grotesque collapse of humanity.