I still cant help laughing at how absurdly coincidental these storylines are "and then an evil nun, and then a crime boss, and the cops bust in!" It sounds like a 13 year old edge lord
Aron Beauregard has never grown out of his edgelord phase. In an interview he sayd that his first "horror" story was when he was a teen, and it was abut a boy asking his crush out, she rejected him, then killed her, raped her corpes, and the corpse got preagnent. Aron did not grow as a writer.
Here's a better idea. Sister Dulcis. A Latin word meaning "sweet," "pleasant," "charming," "delightful," and "kind" in Latin. With it being her surname, it would have served as irony for how horrible of a person she actually is. It didn't even take that much thinking for me to come up with that idea.
@@Kimura1313 OP is being sarcastic with regard to the author of the book giving the evil nun a surname based on the English word "doom." This choice of the author is clearly not very creative and, quite literally, spells out what kind of character she is before her actions would reveal such. I offered a hypothetical suggestion on how to go about her name in a more creative way.
I'm still scratching my head over that bit! Unfortunately the part that made me lose it was the "Reach for the lord" bit- I think this story has made me go insane- please help.
If it were literally any competent writer (aka not Aron) the story of a woman who gives birth to her abuser’s baby but tries to love him and raise him to be better, only for him to grow more and more similar to his father every day which causes HER to go on her own downward spiral would be a very interesting story. Like I like the detail that due to her trauma, her house ended up a hoarder’s house just like she feared. And that’s literally the extent of it. That it COULD have been good. Unfortunately it’s written by Aron Beauregard so any modicum of genius is purely accidental. Bro is literally just throwing every gross idea he can think of into the same pot of shit and he does not care if it makes sense so long as it grosses people out. Half the time it makes no sense (seriously why do we have to have that whole backstory with the boyfriend having HIV and the druglord, you could’ve just kept it at “prostitute breaks back into hotel room to steal back her meth”), and the other half it’s not even original (oh no, catholic school, *insert obvious joke here*). And it still sounds so fucking boring! Thank you for your sacrifice, and my condolences to your mental wellbeing.
I guess the weirdest thing to me is how many horror book fans like this series. The worst thing about it isn't the disturbing aspect, but how poorly it's written and presented. Like... prayising Aron Beauregard for making it is pointless because literally anyone could do that. Beauregard simply lacked the thing in your head that makes you want to stop. I used to think anime fans were stupid for watching basically the same crappy Isekai show over and over with no variation, but here are splatterpunk fans gushing over which guy can writer more ridiculous description of baby gore
So many Ex-horror novels are just like this. Riding on the 'shocking' (boring, unintentionally hilarious, tryhard) content to make up for the amateur writing. This is literally edgy attention seeking teenager tier shit authored and published by people old enough to be grandparents.
I feel you, people think it's commendable to be able to write EDGY stories, even without any nuance. Isekai is a good example, they all usually have some kinda Harem that gets molded into it, kinda ruining it. Pure Virgin Day Dreaming. Like, why not have a gay person be thrust into an Isekai, or how about a serial killer, what about a Kaiju, maybe even a world where souls of people who die in our world have a 30% chance of entering another persons body killing that person, or fuck it, why not have a person accidentally cause an incursion being summoned so both our world and theirs go to war. Lazy writing, no thinking outside the box besides "Lol, dude with generic haircut is so overpowered every woman wants to bang him." SO SAD.
From what I know about Splatter Punk, it's supposed to use gore as a way to push your point across to the reader. The gore is supposed to *mean* something. With Aron though, it truly feels like he only chose Splatter Punk so he can be shocking and nothing else. Bro is singlehandedly trying to ruin an entire genre because he can't be a mature writer
From my understanding, Splatter Punk also tries to cover more politically charged issues in society, which is what makes it different from extreme horror. To me the Slob and this book, were not splatter punk, but just extreme horror
@@serenafraticelli1030 but is it even horror tho? like yeah it's gross and obviously most people wouldn't like to be in whatever situation is depicted in there but it's trying so hard to be edgy but at the same time nonsensical that it's not even really scary anymore
heavy agree with you there. there's plenty of horror books that are gory and extreme but still manage to be interesting. tender is the flesh by agustina bazterrica is a great example of this with the books commentaries on animal welfare
@@MR-qi5lc I think it would depend on who you asked honestly. I can see not calling it horror for the reasons you listed, but I can also see why some people would consider it horror. I personally didn't view it as a horror novel myself, but it is viewed as an extreme horror by the community, which is why I used the wording I did. I think the author said somewhere that he considers his writing to be splatterpunk though, when I disagree with that.
I have an idea for a splatterpunk novel called “Forevermore” about a woman who discovers a means for immortality and that a bunch of rich tech CEOs killed 10 people to ensure no one knew about it so only they could have it, and when she broke the news they hated it so much they force fed her the immortality potion and locked her in a cinderblock coffin and buried her alive. Then a hundred years later she finally gets out with her bare hands, and finds a horrible future in which they’ve taken over and made the world in their image, so she goes on a revenge killing spree where she finds ways to kill them and picks them off one by one. One Idea I have for a story element is that one of the CEOs is a sex pest who is so horrified by female sexuality that whenever he has consensual sex with a woman he stabs her in the middle of it just to make sure she doesn’t enjoy it, but also insists on having every female staff member walk around butt naked 24/7 or be shot. This is because of a phenomenon I noticed where men will be obsessed with sexualized images of women but will be disgusted when women deliberately act sexually. It would also have a working class of shapeshifters who are physically controlled by their boss and sometimes by customers, and that’s a whole thing. But the main plot and the splatter part would be the main character powering her immortal body into terrible situations as it gets more and more torment that she always survives and comes out of more scarred and deformed until the final fight where due to a firebombing she ends up an eldritch being basically and traps the main guy behind it all in the bomb pit with her and they become hopelessly entangled in their flesh and she assimilates his body and snuff out his mind, and only then does she give up and go back to sleep, buried again and just staying there.
I think a legitimately more compelling story would be a story where Vera divorces Daniel after a period of time when we find out she was pregnant and theres an unclear idea of what happened to her baby in the first book. She doesnt talk about it, shes afriad to address it, and shes afraid of being intimate. So she turns to religion to cope and refuses to have an abortion. the timeline of the pregnancy is weird and there could be complications with the pregnancy and from the stress but Daniel relapses in his alcohol addiction and doesnt question it. Daniel loses his empathy and compassion, and the therapy session with the cannibal joke confirms it for Vera. She leaves him and Daniel surrenders his custody of Harold. The audience doesn't know if the child is Daniel's or the Slob's, and Vera navigates her postpartum period alone and recovering from her experiences, freshly divorced. She meets Tina at her work, who needs a place to stay after finding out her partner traded himself for enough money and meth for her to start over because he finds out about his diagnosis from sharing needles and when she tested negative he had a realization that he wanted to give her a better life. Tina is an addict herself and wants to quit, but recovery is hard alone. Vera realizes she wants to "fix people" to distract herself and convinces Tina to move in with her under the guise of her being her nanny and Vera decides to make Tina her "i can fix them" project. Tina and Vera have a codependent relationship with a psychosexual edge to it, calling back to fatal attraction. Tina has issues caring for Harold since he has developmental issues and Vera tries to work with her so she can keep her motel job, but ultimately Vera ends up quitting her job and Tina becomes a plug to make ends meet. Vera ends up trying some uppers to help herself out of her postpartum depression and develops an addiction of her own and creates another toxic dependency on Tina. The uppers then cause her to experience PTSD related hallucinations, feel paranoid, and ultimately begin to disassociate from reality. She sees her child as the slob and as Daniel, fixating on similarities that may not be there and the horror comes from that spiral of addiction and detachment from reality.
The child abuse and cannibalism in this feels so random and out of nowhere, like it's just there to be there, like the writer is using a disturbing check list to make the story. I wouldn't even say this has a plot. It has massive stuff just happens vibes. Honestly this feels like such a slog of nothing, punctuated with lazy shock every other page. For sure the worst sounding book you have taken on.
I feel like it was to reach a page count and shock value. I would have found the story more compelling if the abuse at the Church School wasn't there. I feel like focusing more on his home life or Vera and her husband would have added a lot more to the story.
There’s no way there are people who actually like these books. I just can’t believe it. Even if you ignore the content the writing just doesn’t seem that good 😭 like the random extreme child abuse and the overly complicated backstory for some girl who breaks into the motel room? Hello??
I seen some of his fans hating on poeple who criticise his books. Luckly his fans are not cult like, and he is not so full of his writing, himself and ego like Mat Shaw is to send hate mobs after critics.
Wow Beauregard really just picks a new group to be super bigoted to every book. First gay people and now disabled people. It’s like he thinks bigotry, violence and poop are central to a compelling horror.
Can't wait for antisemitism and racism next! I bet his new book will be about a Jewish woman being a bloodsucking banshee and the victims are men with blonde hair and blue eyes. And there'll be a plot twist with incest. Why not. His works already hit all the heinous points.
@@Dodoorknob obviously its not good horror and its not trying to be. Again, if u dont like it, dont read it. It's that easy🤷 it's trash and it will always be trash so dont complain
I mean, this could have been like, a fun revenge thing? Like, the son of the slob goes out hunting for people like his father and what comes of that but Nah, gotta do whatever this is, I guess?
11:57 Her boss should've hired a literal crime scene cleaner instead of a traumatized woman 😭😭 GODDD aaron is so incompetent when it comes to any type of writing
Read the book, it’s explained clearly multiple times he’s cheap and a POS. Don’t call it “incompetent writing” just because you have poor literacy comprehension.
He's got a regular office job with a wife and white picket fence. It's just a 50s sitcom with a REALLY ugly protagonist. Bonus points for him still acting weird as shit and everyone around him just going "oh you" and laughing while Harold is literally eating a roach with his bare hands.
i actually really liked vera's character in the original so reading the sequel was like getting slapped in the face 20 times before getting your head dunked in a vat of acid the most infuriating thing about it is how the plot actively bends reality and common sense in order to railroad its plot to its conclusion.
it's so disappointing because she was actually such a strong character but then got absolutely screwed over in this one like i would understand the argument "trauma changes people" but her inner monologues were so shallow, her motives were selfish at times too. vera just played the role of a mop in the book. beauregard loves abused becomes abuser trope but is so bad at delivering it lol
@@mainmorphoI think beauregards greatest strength is setting up things. he sets up ineresting big characters with big personalities. they are fun to read but he fails miserably at payoff. it stagnates to a point where its just gross thing 1 gross thing 2 gross thing 3 to the worst possible ending.
@@mainmorpho i think the only time one of his endings truly paid off was weirdly enough his worst book, wedding day massacre. its corny in the best way. the book is a complete unpleasant slog up to that point because beauregard hasn't nailed his schtick of having the most over the top characters to ever over the top so when the ending hits you are somewhat pleasantly surprised
I still cant get over the fact that the ending of the first book is literally "cannibal gays" and there are also evil gays in the sequel too... Jennifer Coolidge was trying to warn us all 😔
I hate hate hate this writer and his works. I read chuck palahniuk and it pained me to see books like haunted and choke next to this guys just edgy gore. Sure chuck palahniuk gets lowkey kinda weird in his works but it’s never for no reason it always means something unlike this guy. 😭
HAUNTED WAS ACTUALLY SO GOOD it was my intro to splatterpunk so now i see "best splatter book!!" and im like oh? and then its baby muncher vol. 32 and its this shit for 65 pages
Can you imagine an alternate story where all the splatter stuff happens and the characters are convinced its Harold doing all of it, including Vera, but the reader never actually gets confirmation on that. And after Daniel is killed, Vera goes to confront the killer only to find it was Sister Doomus who, in this story, was portrayed as a kind and gentle nun who even treated Harold kindly. And right before she kills Vera, Harold runs in and saves her. It would have been a message about not letting your birth define you and not judging by appearances or solely on how people present themselves. But instead we got this.
I actually read Aron's Playground after seeing your video on it, well the first coupla minutes of it (i finished the video after finishing the book) because my curiosity got the best of me as usual, and man my introduction to Splatterpunk was nothing enjoyable. That dude sucks as a writer, even more so as a horror writer. It's all just senseless shock value for the sake of it, like he has some kind of checklist. Poop ? check. Child abuse ? check. And so on and so forth. I really don't get how he's getting any recognition, the only thing that's scary about his writing is how shit it is. And for that, i gotta respect your patience for reading through all that garbage, i'm sorry you gotta suffer for us. Awesome video as always Morpho, hope you're doing well too
I don't get how there are a thons of people on Amazon eating it up. I checked some of the reviews, and I get it defrent people, defrent teasts, and likeings, but I don't get how.
One of the things I do not understand about Harold is how Vera let him get to that point. For such a loving mother with OCD, she sure apparently did jack to stop her oh so precious baby who she's willing to protect even if it means hiding corpses and risking herself from eating things that would probably make him sick and or kill him. SPEAKING OF, how did Harold NOT die of sickness or such?
Lord, the homophobia and misogyny was clearer than ever here! And I wouldn't be surprised if Daniel really was Aron's self insert 😒 Also, we love your vids and your commentary, and we absolutely slurped down coffee and breakfast while listening to this. I could tell how done you were at this point, but me and my headmates still enjoyed this a lot! So don't be too hard on yourself, and three cheers to the end of Aron for you! -Jared
i'm not sure if it's the end of aron but it sure is the end of the slob for all of us lol i also hope everything's going great for you and your headmates 💞
When you say headmates, I'm assuming you mean like another word for alters, right? Sorry, I've just never heard that term before and wanted to make sure I'm interpreting it correctly.
The way everything just comes out of nowhere just for shock value is actually hilarious. I just imagine Aaron shuffling papers with ideas for vile and gross stuff he gets during the day and writes a scene out of it.
going crazy that Vera gets punished at the end?! I can get her actions are literally stupid as hell when it comes to her own crazy slob jr, but why does the knife come down on her at the end?! why does slob jr get the "revenge" at the end? it's driving me actually mental
I swear, he writes books the way Rob Zombie writes movies; everybody important is unredeemably evil or unpleasant to a degree that would be comical if it wasn't so immature.
Alright morpho. I was truly dreading the day you were going to cover this book. I can only say that the new dune movie is great and will help clear your mind of Aron's writing. I have no idea who was requesting this book. After The Slob, I feel like no woman especially an incredibly traumatized woman would EVER keep a baby from that encounter.
So, I write fantasy short stories as hobby and as a way to have a back log of NPCs with a little bit of backstory for my D&D sessions. As a man, I’ve always tried to take painstaking measures to insure I write feminine NPCs with care and to the best of my ability, empathy toward their plight as people. I’ve always told myself, just write human characters that happen to be women. Give them goals and aspirations, flaws and positive personality traits, give them skills and weaknesses, then pull traits I’ve seen the women of my life exhibit. That’s basically it, right, ladies? I genuinely worry that I don’t know how to write women but then I hear and read works like Beauregard’s and I start to wonder how some men can even say they write female characters with a straight face. I always want to improve and Beauregard seems like a massive, repeated case of “Don’t Do This” when it comes to writing. Morpho, would you ever been willing to make a videos on good principles of writing? I’d love to hear your perspective on things like “Ways men can write better female characters” or “How extreme horror should work”.
@@mainmorpho I try and I think I can safely say that’s more than Aron does. Excited for that video, especially hearing it’s getting that extra special low-and-slow Morpho cooking.
That was a very well written comment lol. What would you recommend for someone who wants to get into D&D and has no clue where to start? Like what books to get, cards, etc.Thanks (:
@@Toeslurper584 Well, choosing which edition is best for you is the first place to start. (We’re currently in the middle of transitioning to One D&D, stay way for now. It’s still being tested.) 5th edition is what I recommend for new players. It’s been used for years now and is roleplay heavy and narrative heavy without too much math and doesn’t over-rely on the shiny math rocks (Dice). I recommend that you pick up the Player’s Handbook. First and foremost. It’s the most common resource players and DMs reference for play. Inside you’ll find everything you need to know about how character creation and typical sessions work. My best advice, take the time to write a short backstory for your characters. It helps good DMs draw you into the campaign or adventure by writing things into the world specifically for your character. The party are the stars of the show, help us give you the opportunity to be one. You’ll find all the stuff about player classes, fantasy races, backgrounds, all that good stuff. Once you decide your character, you find a reliable Dungeon Master, as well as groups of players, and discuss which setting or adventure book you would like to run. As for cards, it really depends on which classes you gravitate towards. Most of the cards for players are class mechanics like magical spells or fighter techniques for quick reference so you don’t have to keep opening the book up every few minutes. Check out r/DnD, those folks can point you to a boat load of learning material and are undoubtedly better teachers than I. And remember, it will seem overwhelming at first. It’s a lot. We’re all nerds and math geeks and actor people. We’re the definition of *Extra* sometimes. Just take it slow and don’t be afraid to ask questions. Take your time. But, above all, I’m really happy you’ve taken an interest in D&D. The community will be happy to have you. I hope you stick around and find a table you’ll call home. The stories I’ve told with players over the years have stuck with me and it’s the one hobby I always happily comeback to. If you have anymore questions, I’ll find a way to leave contact info that isn’t super public and I’ll help as best I can.
if you want to read fucked up books that might actually mean something, i recommend octavia butler. she has a lot of the same disturbing things happening, but it’s not horribly written and she is an acclaimed author. in case you wanted to cleanse your palette with a good writer! it’s scary in an existential way.
Anyone know who does the illustrations for these books? They’re the only thing that makes the terrible writing bearable. Very unique style to them, I can’t help but love how everything looks so… slimy but in a good way?
I think Aron does it himself, in all Honestly if he actually put good effort into his craft and not used it to make this shit like this he could have been a great Illustrator or a graphic Novelist.
I've written slob-centric erotica for pay before. There's no way these books weren't written for extremely disturbed people to get off to. The "appeal" of slob stuff is that the filth is inescapable. By virtue of being an immovable object, it is an unstoppable force. No cleansing influence can penetrate it, and thus it penetrates everything around it. So the insane nonsense of Vera somehow being able to still have children, and somehow having a carbon copy of the Slob, and her psyche being twisted to protect what she once hated, and what indeed hated her, isn't just anatomical ignorance - it's a conscious device on the author's part. It's predictable in its broad strokes if not its hideous details because you know what's coming if you hear the dog whistles. Which makes it all the more loathsome. He may call it horror, but I've seen these exact same narrative beats in porn. Even if he didn't intend this, the sheer shallowness and mean-spiritedness of the story makes it extremely difficult to read any other way.
I think a lot of authors use splatterpunk as a poor attempt to shield their blatant fetish writing. I have nothing against fetish writing, I have nothing against good splatterpunk, but I don’t think these people understand they can simply write porn if they want to write porn, and it would probably lead to both the author and the readers being much happier in the end. But instead, authors like this dipshit have to pretend they are doing something revolutionary with their writing. I bet Beauregard is sitting there really thinking of himself as a modern De Sade. But he’s not. He’s just a bad author.
Do I condone the kind of porn this would be if he admitted it was porn? No. Do I think he would be traumatizing a lot less people if he admitted it was porn? Yeah.
I want you to review Yellow by Beauregard. That was a fever dream lmao For some reason I keep coming back to that dude’s stories 😅 Edit: Vera was really deranged in this sequel. Doing the most illogical mental gymnastics to justify Harold’s behavior lmao
When you mentioned that part where Harold was killing Daniel, and he was just shitting everywhere. I'm sorry but I couldn't help to burst out laughing thinking what the hell was in the author's mind when he wrote this part. Like at this point, in contrast to the clusterfuck of the whole situation, the image of the 'son of the slob' trying to suffocate a guy in a wheelchair with a trash bag while nonchalantly shitting in the process, is just so morbidly bizarre it becomes hilarious
im writing a book and super self-conscious that my writing is dookie water but when i remember aron beauregard i think i feel a little more confident. also your criticism of the characters and writing lets me know what to avoid, i really appreciate your vids
I appreciate your willingness do dive in and read these awful gross books and make fun videos about them. Your channel is criminally underrated and I always get a kick out of your book reviews (though admittedly I tend to not want to eat for awhile after watching). edit: actually, this channel might be great for people who are trying to diet. Plus the videos are funny so you get a laugh out of it too.
Your videos have really made me see Beauregards books in a new light. I was genuinely a little hesitant to dip my feet into splatterpunk books (as what I heard was very iffy) but by watching your videos covering these books I really see how so stupid these books can be and how it’s honestly a whole bunch of shock rather than plot
You gotta love how some evil rich people were introduced right at the end of the first but are never mentioned ever again in this sequel (which honestly was a pretty interesting twist but ultimately led to nowhere) I as a horror buff do enjoy some stories from Aron Beauregard but so far a large amount of his stories just made me feel like I wasted my time, I have been getting these books through a subscription through Audible but honestly the next time I get a monthly credit I'm just gonna get a really good HP Lovecraft story or something, I'm not trying to disregard Beauregard's stories (hey that rhymes) I just want a well written horror story I'm okay with the gore but a totally badly written story can break it for me. Also I loved your "Playground" video and saw your first "Slob" video and it was also awesome!!! Keep it up!!!
I feel like the “slob” series is just a somehow, crazier version of the Mask series. Someone stubbed a toe in the future and gunked up what could’ve been passable written pieces. There’s many pieces of media that have grotesque scenery and descriptions of violence of all kinds, but it’s the subtext, what’s beneath the skin if you will, that so many people seek out. The context of the characters, which are basically nonexistent other than names and “quirky facts that affect minimal portions of the story for a equally quirky one-liner,” the worldbuilding, actually I think that’s where some potential is, but my god it’s just a napkin in a level 4 hurricane hitting Florida. Love ur vids fren, don’t forget to take breaks from the readings!
This “author” reminds me of an episode of South Park where the kids wrote the worst most gross book they could think of and blamed it on Butters when the dumb story got found.
I still don’t understand why the husband is a Vietnam vet. Like did Vera marry an 80 yr old dude? Why is Aron still stuck mentally in the 70s?? It’d make more sense if he was a Gulf War or Afghanistan vet
By the time you got to talking about the slurs, I had legitimately forgotten who tf Dutch Jones was and felt like I had slipped into a parallel timeline. There are so many characters in this book and none of them matter.
Maybe I'm a specific type or weird, but splatter-punk books never "scare" me. They disturb, I guess? But more because I'm wondering wtf is wrong with the author. The reason true crime is popular is that it's real life. Book like this are so far away from that, the disturbing nature some humans have, that it would almost be comedic. There is absolutely a place for books like this, were all here because stuff like this gives us morbid interest. But it's hard to draw the line between storytelling and t0rtur3-p02n here
There are certain types of people in this world who, upon hearing that disgust is one of the 4 states of fear, think an entire horror piece can be supported by gross-out scenes alone and no other other types of scares. Most of these people, unfortunately, become splatterpunk authors.
It seems like the author has put themselves in the position that most of these “shock” writers end up in. They get to a point where with each book they release they have to push the boundaries further and further until eventually, it’s so out of touch with reality that it's not even shocking anymore. It's just dumb. It's the Dragon Ball Z effect. Each new villain needs to be even more powerful than the last until eventually, Goku is fighting gods that can travel through time and space lol I can think of one good thing about the slob and it's that it was the first video I watched of yours 💚
who in the right mind is imagining a 7 YEAR OLD doing all of THIS????? like neither of the books are good but at least the first one didn't include a child assaulting someone??
i think it has more to do with who Aaron surrounds himself with, or at least how interprets the people he is closest to. If all the women in his life are the same dull personalities, he infers that women ALL act like that. Personally, I want to write a story, and when I need to see how not to venture into storytelling I look at EX Horror. Sloppy writing, terrible characters, useless decision making, and EDGY G0Re! I avoid those things like the plague. My older sister, mother, cousins, and aunts all are proud women, but they each have unique personalities, quirks, and morals. I look at them on how to approach writing women in stories, not making them idiots, or anime characters that all want to screw the same dude. That kind of mindset is how writers like Stephen King can write women characters despite not being one and vice versa. EX Horror fans kind of have this mind set of, "MAKE IT NASTY AND FUCKED UP AND WE WILL BUY IT." Kinda sad.
I definitely got lost when the story derailed a few times by going into the church and then the backstory of a working girl who just gets eaten and thats it, like is it some kinda of requirement to include that stuff in or something? Also what kind of genetics does the slob have to where the kid is literally a copy and paste of him instead of a mix of said slob and Vera, I feel like that would be pretty compelling if that was the case like a symbolism of a chance for him to be good. Hell, it can also mentally fuck up Vera cause of certain parts if him that reminder her of the slob himself. Then also the seeing his father in his mind is something else, like... what? He never assumed Daniel was his dad once and was just not a good looker? Idk, Aron Baeuregard must've not thought too much ahead of the book and was probably just coming up with stuff as he went and it really shows. Book bad.
You put yourself through so much reading this schlock just so others don't have to :'''y Granted I just rewatched the video for The Slob before this one, so maybe that kinda negates me not having gone in depth myself :v Really though, you're doing us a great service and I truly appreciate it. Also censoring "human munching" for cannibalism got me pretty good :'y
Thank you for this video. I also have a problem where I really want to finish the stories I start, but I already felt disgusting reading the Slob, I didnt want to go through the same thing while I also was wondering how would this story conclude in the sequel. You saved me my sanity.
*Insert that scene in Shrek 3* Me getting Aron Beauregard to sign a contract to join my publishing company (It's actually a contract to never write again):
At the very possible cost of your sanity I need you to keep making these videos of these horribly disgusting books. Your editing and scripts are hilarious
I can’t help but feel like the author is just writting down his awful fetishes. Like… the “kids eating human waste” thing, it already happened in the Playground, and here again… It’s just disgusting
Because I'm weird I'm going to try and salvage this concept. Twenty years after the end of the last book we see Vera's life has gone to shit. Her husband relapsed into alcoholism and drank himself to death, she can't keep a well paying job, and all she has left is her mentally disabled son Harold. Vera's tried her best to raise her son to not be like his father, but when people in town start going missing and Harold keeps disappearing for hours on end she starts to fear the worst. It's revealed that Harold was found by the same crime lord from the last book who roped him into doing the same work his father did by promising to end their money trouble. Once he saw how afraid his mother was he tried to back out until Crime Guy threatened to have her killed if he stopped packing meat for them. In the end Harold kills Crime Guy to protect Vera by tackling him sending them both falling into the same meat grinder that killed his father.
I've read some of ABs work myself but I'd love more of these videos! Doesn't even have to be AB but I'd love to see you do one on "The summer I died" or "Full Brutal" both of which I found actually fairly compelling and had less of the immature stuff that AB includes.
I mean his hatred to woman's free thinking was already present in playground, but the slob series really allowed this dude to show just how much he hates women who don't keep sweet and obey.
Extreme horror/splatterpunk genre actually produce something well-written challenge.
Sometimes you can find a gem, but most of the time, it's just the most shalow disgusting nothingness.
At least there's always American Psycho
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I still cant help laughing at how absurdly coincidental these storylines are "and then an evil nun, and then a crime boss, and the cops bust in!" It sounds like a 13 year old edge lord
Aron Beauregard has never grown out of his edgelord phase. In an interview he sayd that his first "horror" story was when he was a teen, and it was abut a boy asking his crush out, she rejected him, then killed her, raped her corpes, and the corpse got preagnent.
Aron did not grow as a writer.
@@Alexandraadftxr7052 I usually don’t say this because I’m staunchly anti-censorship but… this guy belongs on a list.
i an convinced he is a 13yo edgelord like i could make a whole video about how cringy he is in his author's notes bc oh boy
Oh God.@@mainmorpho
@@mainmorphoplease, make this video, we need this cringe
The name “sister doomus” must’ve made Beauregard feel like a genius
big brain moment for him for sure
Here's a better idea.
Sister Dulcis.
A Latin word meaning "sweet," "pleasant," "charming," "delightful," and "kind" in Latin.
With it being her surname, it would have served as irony for how horrible of a person she actually is.
It didn't even take that much thinking for me to come up with that idea.
Can you explain this to me? :(
@@Kimura1313 OP is being sarcastic with regard to the author of the book giving the evil nun a surname based on the English word "doom."
This choice of the author is clearly not very creative and, quite literally, spells out what kind of character she is before her actions would reveal such.
I offered a hypothetical suggestion on how to go about her name in a more creative way.
@@eliesh3833 thank you ❤️
okay the whole "ashes being mistaken for powdered cookies" thing is genuinely so funny 😭
I'm still scratching my head over that bit!
Unfortunately the part that made me lose it was the "Reach for the lord" bit- I think this story has made me go insane- please help.
eric cartman type shit
Guess I'm going to wait 25 more minutes before eating dinner
don't be a coward. eat your dinner while listening 😈
me rn sadly but i read the book already so i'm numb lol
@@mainmorphoI did it... Did my suffering please you?
@Cynikel yes very much
As someone who’s fasting, this video helped as it made me stopped being hungry lol
I know not everything is for everyone, but this feels like it's for no one.
You're right
It can't be for adults because any mature individual would drop it or not ever buy it
No, it is for some people…
If it were literally any competent writer (aka not Aron) the story of a woman who gives birth to her abuser’s baby but tries to love him and raise him to be better, only for him to grow more and more similar to his father every day which causes HER to go on her own downward spiral would be a very interesting story. Like I like the detail that due to her trauma, her house ended up a hoarder’s house just like she feared. And that’s literally the extent of it. That it COULD have been good.
Unfortunately it’s written by Aron Beauregard so any modicum of genius is purely accidental. Bro is literally just throwing every gross idea he can think of into the same pot of shit and he does not care if it makes sense so long as it grosses people out. Half the time it makes no sense (seriously why do we have to have that whole backstory with the boyfriend having HIV and the druglord, you could’ve just kept it at “prostitute breaks back into hotel room to steal back her meth”), and the other half it’s not even original (oh no, catholic school, *insert obvious joke here*). And it still sounds so fucking boring!
Thank you for your sacrifice, and my condolences to your mental wellbeing.
Lana winters from AHS asylum
The writer from The Boys comic could copy this story and make it better.
I guess the weirdest thing to me is how many horror book fans like this series. The worst thing about it isn't the disturbing aspect, but how poorly it's written and presented. Like... prayising Aron Beauregard for making it is pointless because literally anyone could do that. Beauregard simply lacked the thing in your head that makes you want to stop.
I used to think anime fans were stupid for watching basically the same crappy Isekai show over and over with no variation, but here are splatterpunk fans gushing over which guy can writer more ridiculous description of baby gore
So many Ex-horror novels are just like this. Riding on the 'shocking' (boring, unintentionally hilarious, tryhard) content to make up for the amateur writing. This is literally edgy attention seeking teenager tier shit authored and published by people old enough to be grandparents.
This series is touted as the best of extreme horror… which does not bode well for the genre lol
I feel you, people think it's commendable to be able to write EDGY stories, even without any nuance. Isekai is a good example, they all usually have some kinda Harem that gets molded into it, kinda ruining it. Pure Virgin Day Dreaming. Like, why not have a gay person be thrust into an Isekai, or how about a serial killer, what about a Kaiju, maybe even a world where souls of people who die in our world have a 30% chance of entering another persons body killing that person, or fuck it, why not have a person accidentally cause an incursion being summoned so both our world and theirs go to war. Lazy writing, no thinking outside the box besides "Lol, dude with generic haircut is so overpowered every woman wants to bang him." SO SAD.
Love the berserk pfp, for some reason I thought it was the bloodborne thingy for a second tho.
@@elbottio Thanks. And the reason is that Bloodborne hunter rune is heavily inspired by the brand of sacrifice
I couldn't help but feel like a lot of this book was simply tied into ableism.
it definitely is
It certainly does ring of mixing the mentally disabled and the mentally disturbed for no reason.
@@starnathanstar Out of all the things that happened in this book and the prequel you draw the line at a slur 😭
@@user-cupidscorner I DIDN'T MEAN IT LIKE THAT 😭
@@user-cupidscornerbruh
I imagine the author typing "sister Doomus" for the first time, then sitting back in his chair with his arms crossed and nodding
My favorite part was when Harold said “it’s harolding time” then he harolded everywhere.
😂😂😂😂😂
From what I know about Splatter Punk, it's supposed to use gore as a way to push your point across to the reader. The gore is supposed to *mean* something. With Aron though, it truly feels like he only chose Splatter Punk so he can be shocking and nothing else. Bro is singlehandedly trying to ruin an entire genre because he can't be a mature writer
From my understanding, Splatter Punk also tries to cover more politically charged issues in society, which is what makes it different from extreme horror. To me the Slob and this book, were not splatter punk, but just extreme horror
@@serenafraticelli1030 but is it even horror tho? like yeah it's gross and obviously most people wouldn't like to be in whatever situation is depicted in there but it's trying so hard to be edgy but at the same time nonsensical that it's not even really scary anymore
heavy agree with you there. there's plenty of horror books that are gory and extreme but still manage to be interesting. tender is the flesh by agustina bazterrica is a great example of this with the books commentaries on animal welfare
@@MR-qi5lc I think it would depend on who you asked honestly. I can see not calling it horror for the reasons you listed, but I can also see why some people would consider it horror. I personally didn't view it as a horror novel myself, but it is viewed as an extreme horror by the community, which is why I used the wording I did. I think the author said somewhere that he considers his writing to be splatterpunk though, when I disagree with that.
I have an idea for a splatterpunk novel called “Forevermore” about a woman who discovers a means for immortality and that a bunch of rich tech CEOs killed 10 people to ensure no one knew about it so only they could have it, and when she broke the news they hated it so much they force fed her the immortality potion and locked her in a cinderblock coffin and buried her alive. Then a hundred years later she finally gets out with her bare hands, and finds a horrible future in which they’ve taken over and made the world in their image, so she goes on a revenge killing spree where she finds ways to kill them and picks them off one by one.
One Idea I have for a story element is that one of the CEOs is a sex pest who is so horrified by female sexuality that whenever he has consensual sex with a woman he stabs her in the middle of it just to make sure she doesn’t enjoy it, but also insists on having every female staff member walk around butt naked 24/7 or be shot. This is because of a phenomenon I noticed where men will be obsessed with sexualized images of women but will be disgusted when women deliberately act sexually.
It would also have a working class of shapeshifters who are physically controlled by their boss and sometimes by customers, and that’s a whole thing.
But the main plot and the splatter part would be the main character powering her immortal body into terrible situations as it gets more and more torment that she always survives and comes out of more scarred and deformed until the final fight where due to a firebombing she ends up an eldritch being basically and traps the main guy behind it all in the bomb pit with her and they become hopelessly entangled in their flesh and she assimilates his body and snuff out his mind, and only then does she give up and go back to sleep, buried again and just staying there.
What if son of the slob was yaoi
Oh wait i forgot that the slob had that whole weird homophobic subplot at the end💀
listen i actually think the slob should've been a yuri between vera and sandra but beauregard can't handle complex female characters 🙄
@@mainmorpho that is so true
@@mainmorpho you would really like Girl Flesh if you want a story about girls falling in love in a shitty and horrific situation
@serenafraticelli1030 may leitz's book right? i really loved fluids so i'm gonna get to that sometime too
@@mainmorpho yes!
morpho’s videos are like a friend explaining their hyperfixation /pos
except the hyperfixation is always batshit
so true
you telling me hyperfixations usually ARENT batshit…? well damn guess I got screwed over-
@@x_oda no no they definitely are 🖤✨
I think a legitimately more compelling story would be a story where Vera divorces Daniel after a period of time when we find out she was pregnant and theres an unclear idea of what happened to her baby in the first book. She doesnt talk about it, shes afriad to address it, and shes afraid of being intimate. So she turns to religion to cope and refuses to have an abortion. the timeline of the pregnancy is weird and there could be complications with the pregnancy and from the stress but Daniel relapses in his alcohol addiction and doesnt question it. Daniel loses his empathy and compassion, and the therapy session with the cannibal joke confirms it for Vera. She leaves him and Daniel surrenders his custody of Harold. The audience doesn't know if the child is Daniel's or the Slob's, and Vera navigates her postpartum period alone and recovering from her experiences, freshly divorced. She meets Tina at her work, who needs a place to stay after finding out her partner traded himself for enough money and meth for her to start over because he finds out about his diagnosis from sharing needles and when she tested negative he had a realization that he wanted to give her a better life. Tina is an addict herself and wants to quit, but recovery is hard alone. Vera realizes she wants to "fix people" to distract herself and convinces Tina to move in with her under the guise of her being her nanny and Vera decides to make Tina her "i can fix them" project. Tina and Vera have a codependent relationship with a psychosexual edge to it, calling back to fatal attraction. Tina has issues caring for Harold since he has developmental issues and Vera tries to work with her so she can keep her motel job, but ultimately Vera ends up quitting her job and Tina becomes a plug to make ends meet. Vera ends up trying some uppers to help herself out of her postpartum depression and develops an addiction of her own and creates another toxic dependency on Tina. The uppers then cause her to experience PTSD related hallucinations, feel paranoid, and ultimately begin to disassociate from reality. She sees her child as the slob and as Daniel, fixating on similarities that may not be there and the horror comes from that spiral of addiction and detachment from reality.
and just like that a better plot
@@DDXXCC5 thanks c:
That sounds genuinely great
Bro that would be so good
Man, he should have called it "The Slobquel"
The child abuse and cannibalism in this feels so random and out of nowhere, like it's just there to be there, like the writer is using a disturbing check list to make the story. I wouldn't even say this has a plot. It has massive stuff just happens vibes. Honestly this feels like such a slog of nothing, punctuated with lazy shock every other page. For sure the worst sounding book you have taken on.
I feel like it was to reach a page count and shock value. I would have found the story more compelling if the abuse at the Church School wasn't there. I feel like focusing more on his home life or Vera and her husband would have added a lot more to the story.
There’s no way there are people who actually like these books. I just can’t believe it. Even if you ignore the content the writing just doesn’t seem that good 😭 like the random extreme child abuse and the overly complicated backstory for some girl who breaks into the motel room? Hello??
I seen some of his fans hating on poeple who criticise his books.
Luckly his fans are not cult like, and he is not so full of his writing, himself and ego like Mat Shaw is to send hate mobs after critics.
Not the book version of "Pooh this is not honey, you're eating my father's ashes!"
That's why I'm pro choice.
yeet them babies
YEET DA CHILD@@mainmorpho
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cringe
@@based980fr. joking about throwing children is cringe
sometimes cremated grandparents taste like powdered cookies.
Wow Beauregard really just picks a new group to be super bigoted to every book. First gay people and now disabled people. It’s like he thinks bigotry, violence and poop are central to a compelling horror.
Can't wait for antisemitism and racism next! I bet his new book will be about a Jewish woman being a bloodsucking banshee and the victims are men with blonde hair and blue eyes. And there'll be a plot twist with incest. Why not. His works already hit all the heinous points.
Girl, that's the point of the book. It's ain't just "horror"!! It's splatterpunk!!! If you're so sensitive please don't read it jeez
@@habitrabbit2473 from my comment a more discerning reader could understand that I don’t think splatterpunk is good horror.
@@Dodoorknob obviously its not good horror and its not trying to be. Again, if u dont like it, dont read it. It's that easy🤷 it's trash and it will always be trash so dont complain
@@habitrabbit2473 “it’s obviously terrible! So don’t complain!” is not a very good defense of the genre
I mean, this could have been like, a fun revenge thing? Like, the son of the slob goes out hunting for people like his father and what comes of that but
Nah, gotta do whatever this is, I guess?
11:57 Her boss should've hired a literal crime scene cleaner instead of a traumatized woman 😭😭 GODDD aaron is so incompetent when it comes to any type of writing
Read the book, it’s explained clearly multiple times he’s cheap and a POS. Don’t call it “incompetent writing” just because you have poor literacy comprehension.
Imagine the 3rd book is Harold being a functioning member of society despite looking like Sloth from the Goonies.
He's got a regular office job with a wife and white picket fence. It's just a 50s sitcom with a REALLY ugly protagonist. Bonus points for him still acting weird as shit and everyone around him just going "oh you" and laughing while Harold is literally eating a roach with his bare hands.
@@spongecakes1986 “haha, classic Harold!” *harold proceeds to swallow a whole mouse*
@@cuberfan08*cheesy sitcom laugh track*
i actually really liked vera's character in the original so reading the sequel was like getting slapped in the face 20 times before getting your head dunked in a vat of acid
the most infuriating thing about it is how the plot actively bends reality and common sense in order to railroad its plot to its conclusion.
it's so disappointing because she was actually such a strong character but then got absolutely screwed over in this one like i would understand the argument "trauma changes people" but her inner monologues were so shallow, her motives were selfish at times too. vera just played the role of a mop in the book. beauregard loves abused becomes abuser trope but is so bad at delivering it lol
@@mainmorphoI think beauregards greatest strength is setting up things. he sets up ineresting big characters with big personalities. they are fun to read but he fails miserably at payoff. it stagnates to a point where its just gross thing 1 gross thing 2 gross thing 3 to the worst possible ending.
@@mainmorpho also that detective character is one of the most obnoxious characters in fiction oh my god
his books always sound so interesting and then you read them and blaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh
@@mainmorpho i think the only time one of his endings truly paid off was weirdly enough his worst book, wedding day massacre. its corny in the best way. the book is a complete unpleasant slog up to that point because beauregard hasn't nailed his schtick of having the most over the top characters to ever over the top so when the ending hits you are somewhat pleasantly surprised
I still cant get over the fact that the ending of the first book is literally "cannibal gays" and there are also evil gays in the sequel too... Jennifer Coolidge was trying to warn us all 😔
"cannibal gays" is what you could describe Kesha's song "Cannibal" as.
“BABE, NEW MORPHO JUST DROPPED!” I yell into my very empty apartment while my wife is at work.
Intrusive question, but are you a WLW couple?
buttery oversized eyeballs
Underrated line right there
Your voice is so comforting while you read this sick shit 😭💯
thank you 😭
I hate hate hate this writer and his works. I read chuck palahniuk and it pained me to see books like haunted and choke next to this guys just edgy gore. Sure chuck palahniuk gets lowkey kinda weird in his works but it’s never for no reason it always means something unlike this guy. 😭
HAUNTED MENTION LETSS GOOOOOO-
It's a pleasent surprise to see it mentioned here! :D
@@bebebonb0n I love mentioning it when I can! It’s a great book imo got me back into reading after a long time of not having the motivation
HAUNTED WAS ACTUALLY SO GOOD it was my intro to splatterpunk so now i see "best splatter book!!" and im like oh? and then its baby muncher vol. 32 and its this shit for 65 pages
I, for one, love performative edginess written with the lyricism of a phishing email.
Tbh I’d present this book as an example to why the U.S. should reinstate Roe V. Wade
Can you imagine an alternate story where all the splatter stuff happens and the characters are convinced its Harold doing all of it, including Vera, but the reader never actually gets confirmation on that. And after Daniel is killed, Vera goes to confront the killer only to find it was Sister Doomus who, in this story, was portrayed as a kind and gentle nun who even treated Harold kindly. And right before she kills Vera, Harold runs in and saves her.
It would have been a message about not letting your birth define you and not judging by appearances or solely on how people present themselves.
But instead we got this.
I actually read Aron's Playground after seeing your video on it, well the first coupla minutes of it (i finished the video after finishing the book) because my curiosity got the best of me as usual, and man my introduction to Splatterpunk was nothing enjoyable. That dude sucks as a writer, even more so as a horror writer. It's all just senseless shock value for the sake of it, like he has some kind of checklist. Poop ? check. Child abuse ? check. And so on and so forth. I really don't get how he's getting any recognition, the only thing that's scary about his writing is how shit it is.
And for that, i gotta respect your patience for reading through all that garbage, i'm sorry you gotta suffer for us. Awesome video as always Morpho, hope you're doing well too
Right??? It’s like he thinks he’s the next Marquis de Sade.
He's genuinely a vile person
I don't get how there are a thons of people on Amazon eating it up.
I checked some of the reviews, and I get it defrent people, defrent teasts, and likeings, but I don't get how.
One of the things I do not understand about Harold is how Vera let him get to that point.
For such a loving mother with OCD, she sure apparently did jack to stop her oh so precious baby who she's willing to protect even if it means hiding corpses and risking herself from eating things that would probably make him sick and or kill him.
SPEAKING OF, how did Harold NOT die of sickness or such?
Lord, the homophobia and misogyny was clearer than ever here! And I wouldn't be surprised if Daniel really was Aron's self insert 😒 Also, we love your vids and your commentary, and we absolutely slurped down coffee and breakfast while listening to this. I could tell how done you were at this point, but me and my headmates still enjoyed this a lot! So don't be too hard on yourself, and three cheers to the end of Aron for you!
-Jared
i'm not sure if it's the end of aron but it sure is the end of the slob for all of us lol i also hope everything's going great for you and your headmates 💞
@@mainmorpho Thank you! It's been real shit, but your commentaries made us laugh as always.
When you say headmates, I'm assuming you mean like another word for alters, right? Sorry, I've just never heard that term before and wanted to make sure I'm interpreting it correctly.
The way everything just comes out of nowhere just for shock value is actually hilarious. I just imagine Aaron shuffling papers with ideas for vile and gross stuff he gets during the day and writes a scene out of it.
Have a feeling Beauregard would get blacklisted if he tried to get a movie deal
I hate when characters need to be dumb just so the plot continues
one singular redeeming quality of this story is Harold revenge killing his abusers, that was metal as fuck
going crazy that Vera gets punished at the end?! I can get her actions are literally stupid as hell when it comes to her own crazy slob jr, but why does the knife come down on her at the end?! why does slob jr get the "revenge" at the end? it's driving me actually mental
It speaks volumes that it's called "The son of the slob" as if it was child's play!
makes me think more of Son of the Mask
The real villain is that Bissell vacuum.
Can we all agree to send Daniel into orbit
YES PLEASE
I swear, he writes books the way Rob Zombie writes movies; everybody important is unredeemably evil or unpleasant to a degree that would be comical if it wasn't so immature.
I have the same non-quitting compulsion!
it's a pain 🥲
What's this mans weird obsession with CSA? Someone needs to check his hard drive...
Splatterpunk is like the grindcore of books
I just binged the playground, Slob, and currently watching this, I'm not sleeping
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Same. And there's two more horror videos on my queue. It's dark out. I only have myself to blame.
Imagine if someone rewrote all of Arons' books but made them actually good just to spite him. I'd probably pay to see that.
Alright morpho. I was truly dreading the day you were going to cover this book. I can only say that the new dune movie is great and will help clear your mind of Aron's writing. I have no idea who was requesting this book. After The Slob, I feel like no woman especially an incredibly traumatized woman would EVER keep a baby from that encounter.
i'm gonna see dune 2 soon i'm excited 🤩
I’m sorry but the moment where the kid ate grandma’s ashes had me rolling,that sounds like a sh😂tpost
So, I write fantasy short stories as hobby and as a way to have a back log of NPCs with a little bit of backstory for my D&D sessions.
As a man, I’ve always tried to take painstaking measures to insure I write feminine NPCs with care and to the best of my ability, empathy toward their plight as people.
I’ve always told myself, just write human characters that happen to be women. Give them goals and aspirations, flaws and positive personality traits, give them skills and weaknesses, then pull traits I’ve seen the women of my life exhibit.
That’s basically it, right, ladies?
I genuinely worry that I don’t know how to write women but then I hear and read works like Beauregard’s and I start to wonder how some men can even say they write female characters with a straight face.
I always want to improve and Beauregard seems like a massive, repeated case of “Don’t Do This” when it comes to writing.
Morpho, would you ever been willing to make a videos on good principles of writing?
I’d love to hear your perspective on things like “Ways men can write better female characters” or “How extreme horror should work”.
i am working on a video like that but i want it to be intellectually satisfying so it's gonna take a long time lol
also i'm sure you write women better than aron 💀
@@mainmorpho I try and I think I can safely say that’s more than Aron does.
Excited for that video, especially hearing it’s getting that extra special low-and-slow Morpho cooking.
That was a very well written comment lol. What would you recommend for someone who wants to get into D&D and has no clue where to start? Like what books to get, cards, etc.Thanks (:
@@Toeslurper584 Well, choosing which edition is best for you is the first place to start. (We’re currently in the middle of transitioning to One D&D, stay way for now. It’s still being tested.)
5th edition is what I recommend for new players. It’s been used for years now and is roleplay heavy and narrative heavy without too much math and doesn’t over-rely on the shiny math rocks (Dice).
I recommend that you pick up the Player’s Handbook. First and foremost.
It’s the most common resource players and DMs reference for play.
Inside you’ll find everything you need to know about how character creation and typical sessions work.
My best advice, take the time to write a short backstory for your characters. It helps good DMs draw you into the campaign or adventure by writing things into the world specifically for your character. The party are the stars of the show, help us give you the opportunity to be one.
You’ll find all the stuff about player classes, fantasy races, backgrounds, all that good stuff.
Once you decide your character, you find a reliable Dungeon Master, as well as groups of players, and discuss which setting or adventure book you would like to run.
As for cards, it really depends on which classes you gravitate towards.
Most of the cards for players are class mechanics like magical spells or fighter techniques for quick reference so you don’t have to keep opening the book up every few minutes.
Check out r/DnD, those folks can point you to a boat load of learning material and are undoubtedly better teachers than I.
And remember, it will seem overwhelming at first. It’s a lot. We’re all nerds and math geeks and actor people. We’re the definition of *Extra* sometimes. Just take it slow and don’t be afraid to ask questions. Take your time.
But, above all, I’m really happy you’ve taken an interest in D&D. The community will be happy to have you. I hope you stick around and find a table you’ll call home.
The stories I’ve told with players over the years have stuck with me and it’s the one hobby I always happily comeback to.
If you have anymore questions, I’ll find a way to leave contact info that isn’t super public and I’ll help as best I can.
if you want to read fucked up books that might actually mean something, i recommend octavia butler. she has a lot of the same disturbing things happening, but it’s not horribly written and she is an acclaimed author. in case you wanted to cleanse your palette with a good writer! it’s scary in an existential way.
Anyone know who does the illustrations for these books? They’re the only thing that makes the terrible writing bearable. Very unique style to them, I can’t help but love how everything looks so… slimy but in a good way?
I think Aron does it himself, in all Honestly if he actually put good effort into his craft and not used it to make this shit like this he could have been a great Illustrator or a graphic Novelist.
I've written slob-centric erotica for pay before. There's no way these books weren't written for extremely disturbed people to get off to.
The "appeal" of slob stuff is that the filth is inescapable. By virtue of being an immovable object, it is an unstoppable force. No cleansing influence can penetrate it, and thus it penetrates everything around it.
So the insane nonsense of Vera somehow being able to still have children, and somehow having a carbon copy of the Slob, and her psyche being twisted to protect what she once hated, and what indeed hated her, isn't just anatomical ignorance - it's a conscious device on the author's part. It's predictable in its broad strokes if not its hideous details because you know what's coming if you hear the dog whistles.
Which makes it all the more loathsome. He may call it horror, but I've seen these exact same narrative beats in porn. Even if he didn't intend this, the sheer shallowness and mean-spiritedness of the story makes it extremely difficult to read any other way.
I think a lot of authors use splatterpunk as a poor attempt to shield their blatant fetish writing. I have nothing against fetish writing, I have nothing against good splatterpunk, but I don’t think these people understand they can simply write porn if they want to write porn, and it would probably lead to both the author and the readers being much happier in the end. But instead, authors like this dipshit have to pretend they are doing something revolutionary with their writing. I bet Beauregard is sitting there really thinking of himself as a modern De Sade. But he’s not. He’s just a bad author.
Do I condone the kind of porn this would be if he admitted it was porn? No. Do I think he would be traumatizing a lot less people if he admitted it was porn? Yeah.
I want you to review Yellow by Beauregard. That was a fever dream lmao
For some reason I keep coming back to that dude’s stories 😅
Edit: Vera was really deranged in this sequel. Doing the most illogical mental gymnastics to justify Harold’s behavior lmao
When you mentioned that part where Harold was killing Daniel, and he was just shitting everywhere. I'm sorry but I couldn't help to burst out laughing thinking what the hell was in the author's mind when he wrote this part. Like at this point, in contrast to the clusterfuck of the whole situation, the image of the 'son of the slob' trying to suffocate a guy in a wheelchair with a trash bag while nonchalantly shitting in the process, is just so morbidly bizarre it becomes hilarious
im writing a book and super self-conscious that my writing is dookie water but when i remember aron beauregard i think i feel a little more confident. also your criticism of the characters and writing lets me know what to avoid, i really appreciate your vids
I appreciate your willingness do dive in and read these awful gross books and make fun videos about them. Your channel is criminally underrated and I always get a kick out of your book reviews (though admittedly I tend to not want to eat for awhile after watching).
edit: actually, this channel might be great for people who are trying to diet. Plus the videos are funny so you get a laugh out of it too.
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Average deviantart fanfic be like
Harold is a victim by Existing
Your videos have really made me see Beauregards books in a new light. I was genuinely a little hesitant to dip my feet into splatterpunk books (as what I heard was very iffy) but by watching your videos covering these books I really see how so stupid these books can be and how it’s honestly a whole bunch of shock rather than plot
You gotta love how some evil rich people were introduced right at the end of the first but are never mentioned ever again in this sequel (which honestly was a pretty interesting twist but ultimately led to nowhere)
I as a horror buff do enjoy some stories from Aron Beauregard but so far a large amount of his stories just made me feel like I wasted my time, I have been getting these books through a subscription through Audible but honestly the next time I get a monthly credit I'm just gonna get a really good HP Lovecraft story or something, I'm not trying to disregard Beauregard's stories (hey that rhymes) I just want a well written horror story I'm okay with the gore but a totally badly written story can break it for me.
Also I loved your "Playground" video and saw your first "Slob" video and it was also awesome!!! Keep it up!!!
I feel like the “slob” series is just a somehow, crazier version of the Mask series. Someone stubbed a toe in the future and gunked up what could’ve been passable written pieces.
There’s many pieces of media that have grotesque scenery and descriptions of violence of all kinds, but it’s the subtext, what’s beneath the skin if you will, that so many people seek out. The context of the characters, which are basically nonexistent other than names and “quirky facts that affect minimal portions of the story for a equally quirky one-liner,” the worldbuilding, actually I think that’s where some potential is, but my god it’s just a napkin in a level 4 hurricane hitting Florida.
Love ur vids fren, don’t forget to take breaks from the readings!
Can you please watch my size comparisons? It's ok if not. Have a good day!
Also, We Were Liars rubbed me the wrong way, just a possible idea of another sorry waste of ink and paper if you want to check it out in the future!
Im so happy I can't visualize things.
This “author” reminds me of an episode of South Park where the kids wrote the worst most gross book they could think of and blamed it on Butters when the dumb story got found.
I still don’t understand why the husband is a Vietnam vet. Like did Vera marry an 80 yr old dude? Why is Aron still stuck mentally in the 70s?? It’d make more sense if he was a Gulf War or Afghanistan vet
it's like set in the 90s i think
its set in the 80s yea
By the time you got to talking about the slurs, I had legitimately forgotten who tf Dutch Jones was and felt like I had slipped into a parallel timeline. There are so many characters in this book and none of them matter.
Just as an off-note, you have a very nice accent! I like listening to your commentary since it helps me even watch this shit ಠ_ಠ
thank you so much 🥺💖
you’re welcome!
Maybe I'm a specific type or weird, but splatter-punk books never "scare" me. They disturb, I guess? But more because I'm wondering wtf is wrong with the author. The reason true crime is popular is that it's real life. Book like this are so far away from that, the disturbing nature some humans have, that it would almost be comedic. There is absolutely a place for books like this, were all here because stuff like this gives us morbid interest. But it's hard to draw the line between storytelling and t0rtur3-p02n here
There are certain types of people in this world who, upon hearing that disgust is one of the 4 states of fear, think an entire horror piece can be supported by gross-out scenes alone and no other other types of scares. Most of these people, unfortunately, become splatterpunk authors.
Not to mention all the trauma Vera went through. No way she would have kept that pregnancy.
It seems like the author has put themselves in the position that most of these “shock” writers end up in. They get to a point where with each book they release they have to push the boundaries further and further until eventually, it’s so out of touch with reality that it's not even shocking anymore. It's just dumb. It's the Dragon Ball Z effect. Each new villain needs to be even more powerful than the last until eventually, Goku is fighting gods that can travel through time and space lol
I can think of one good thing about the slob and it's that it was the first video I watched of yours 💚
💙 aron unites us in hate 💙
there’s a connection between aaron and urbanspook, i just know it
this book is basically just The Fly 2 but 1 slobillion times worse
Holy shit- I was writing a villain romance novel and the villian was named Morphos, I'm so sorry😭😭😭
Thank you for sacrificing your eyes and sanity to review this so we don’t have to suffer reading it.
Thank you, Morpho, for your mental sacrifice for our entertainment!
who in the right mind is imagining a 7 YEAR OLD doing all of THIS????? like neither of the books are good but at least the first one didn't include a child assaulting someone??
i think it has more to do with who Aaron surrounds himself with, or at least how interprets the people he is closest to. If all the women in his life are the same dull personalities, he infers that women ALL act like that. Personally, I want to write a story, and when I need to see how not to venture into storytelling I look at EX Horror. Sloppy writing, terrible characters, useless decision making, and EDGY G0Re! I avoid those things like the plague. My older sister, mother, cousins, and aunts all are proud women, but they each have unique personalities, quirks, and morals. I look at them on how to approach writing women in stories, not making them idiots, or anime characters that all want to screw the same dude. That kind of mindset is how writers like Stephen King can write women characters despite not being one and vice versa. EX Horror fans kind of have this mind set of, "MAKE IT NASTY AND FUCKED UP AND WE WILL BUY IT." Kinda sad.
I definitely got lost when the story derailed a few times by going into the church and then the backstory of a working girl who just gets eaten and thats it, like is it some kinda of requirement to include that stuff in or something?
Also what kind of genetics does the slob have to where the kid is literally a copy and paste of him instead of a mix of said slob and Vera, I feel like that would be pretty compelling if that was the case like a symbolism of a chance for him to be good. Hell, it can also mentally fuck up Vera cause of certain parts if him that reminder her of the slob himself.
Then also the seeing his father in his mind is something else, like... what? He never assumed Daniel was his dad once and was just not a good looker?
Idk, Aron Baeuregard must've not thought too much ahead of the book and was probably just coming up with stuff as he went and it really shows.
Book bad.
You’re very brave to read these stories…I am not even lying..I don’t think I could finish these.
We still smoking on bobby
You put yourself through so much reading this schlock just so others don't have to :'''y Granted I just rewatched the video for The Slob before this one, so maybe that kinda negates me not having gone in depth myself :v
Really though, you're doing us a great service and I truly appreciate it.
Also censoring "human munching" for cannibalism got me pretty good :'y
Thank you for this video. I also have a problem where I really want to finish the stories I start, but I already felt disgusting reading the Slob, I didnt want to go through the same thing while I also was wondering how would this story conclude in the sequel. You saved me my sanity.
I genuinely hope the author gets visited by the spirits of christmas like Scrooge and gets convinced to stop writing ever again
*Insert that scene in Shrek 3*
Me getting Aron Beauregard to sign a contract to join my publishing company (It's actually a contract to never write again):
I only meant to check out your Playground video and now we’re here. I miss not knowing about the 25 pound weight.
Seriously, someone check up on this man's wife.
At the very possible cost of your sanity I need you to keep making these videos of these horribly disgusting books. Your editing and scripts are hilarious
Aron Beauregard should be stripped of his writing privileges
I feels like this everyone in the books is so cruel
I can’t help but feel like the author is just writting down his awful fetishes. Like… the “kids eating human waste” thing, it already happened in the Playground, and here again… It’s just disgusting
Because I'm weird I'm going to try and salvage this concept.
Twenty years after the end of the last book we see Vera's life has gone to shit. Her husband relapsed into alcoholism and drank himself to death, she can't keep a well paying job, and all she has left is her mentally disabled son Harold. Vera's tried her best to raise her son to not be like his father, but when people in town start going missing and Harold keeps disappearing for hours on end she starts to fear the worst.
It's revealed that Harold was found by the same crime lord from the last book who roped him into doing the same work his father did by promising to end their money trouble. Once he saw how afraid his mother was he tried to back out until Crime Guy threatened to have her killed if he stopped packing meat for them.
In the end Harold kills Crime Guy to protect Vera by tackling him sending them both falling into the same meat grinder that killed his father.
I'd like to see you cover an extreme horror story that you actually think is good.
Reading a single research article on nature vs. nuture should've prevented this book from even being made.
its not even the gore its the stupidity for me
I've read some of ABs work myself but I'd love more of these videos!
Doesn't even have to be AB but I'd love to see you do one on "The summer I died" or "Full Brutal" both of which I found actually fairly compelling and had less of the immature stuff that AB includes.
I mean his hatred to woman's free thinking was already present in playground, but the slob series really allowed this dude to show just how much he hates women who don't keep sweet and obey.
Welp. my lunch just got delayed... time to lose my appetite!