I admit, I scare easily. I don’t like watching horror movies, don’t like the sight of blood or death unless it’s in an animated format (and even then I get kind of icky when it comes to stuff like Higurashi) and got nightmares over Mars Attack after watching it as a child. Yes, Mars Attack. That movie where Martians had those bigass brain heads that exploded and wielded guns that could fucking turn you into a skeleton. That movie that was supposed to be a satire. That movie that was made by Tim Burton. I also fear for my future, since I’m a pathetic and worthless sack of flesh who has no talents whatsoever. But nothing, and I repeat, NOTHING has scarred me for life like Brian Martin’s Redwall series.
No, it’s not the blatant racism depicted in the stereotyping of vermin as irredeemably evil, nor is it the black-and-white uncompromising attitude that brainwashes children into believing that there are only two paths in life. It’s not the horrifying wars that shouldn’t be taking place in a children’s novel series, nor is it the terrifying fact that all the characters are FUCKING RODENTS AND THE LIKE WHO CAN TALK. No, it’s none of that. What the Redwall series has done to me is something much, MUCH more terrifying.
Brian Martin’s Redwall has given me a fear of having my throat slit from behind.
I don’t know why I have that fear, nor do I even remember if such a scene ever existed in the Redwall novels. Yet, whenever I have time to think to myself, I think about some vagrant slitting my throat with a sharp knife, carving out my Adam’s apple and watching myself bleed to death, and when that happens, I immediately blame Redwall. And that episode of CSI (Two and a Half Deaths) didn’t really help, either, what with that guy bleeding to death after cutting himself while shaving. On a side note, I also hate shaving, and will only do so when the annoyance of having a stubble beats out my love of living.
All I know is that I cannot, for the fear of my life, expose my neck in public or private. My neck is constantly hunched in order to prevent whatever fiends might be after my life. Which is ironic, really. If people want me dead, they could simply shoot or stab me upfront, or simply push me out of a window. But I’m not scared of that. Let them do that.
Just don’t let them get to my neck.
