#eldritch horrors
This applies more to actual media than to jokey internet posts but I’m tired of characters who are on casual terms with horrific things yet somehow still use horrific terminology to describe them, that horror comedy that’s like “oh that’s just the sound of an incomprehensible formless abomination, must be tuesday!” is too fake sounding to be funny.
Anyone at that stage of familiarity would either be describing it in very banal words like “oh that’s the big ugly blob thing” OR, at an even later stage, they’d give it a funny pet name and attach some kind of in-joke to it and that’s where you can make it alarmingly funny again.
Like imagine you’re in someone’s house and suddenly the whole place is shaking like an earthquake, there’s purple light coming in through the windows, you hear this overwhelmingly loud chorus of inhuman babbling from all directions, and somebody’s just like “IT’S STICKY BOBO!!!!” and then they all laugh and keep repeating “HE MOIST!!!! HE MOIST!!!” with no further context. That is farmore confusing and upsetting than if they straight up tell you it’s some kind of cthulhu.
