Face Your Fears

A few weeks ago, when I was searching for new masks on eBay to cover on this blog. One of those masks that popped up was this guy right here, and immediately I was in love. Unlike any other mask I've seen, even the ones I haven't subjected you to yet, nothing caught my attention quite like this one. See, I'm a lady of particular tastes and interests. I love weird animals and creatures; stuff like anglerfish, dragons, dinosaurs. I just love shit like that. So this design? It appealed to everything I love instantaneously, and, unlike all the others on this blog, it didn't make me want to immediately recoil in disgust and then giggle in delight. No. Only solid delightful giggling went on with this bad boy. Everything about this works. Rubber mask from the 80s/90s? Check. Wicked ass design of some deep sea fish or lizard beast mixed with a dinosaur? Check. Great color scheme and detailing? Check. He hit every single one the marks, and I loved him all the more for it...

Alright, we need to have a talk. For the last few years I've seen a trend cropping up where you can find, generally in more jokey type stores like Spencers Gifts, a horse mask. You all know the one I'm talking about. I'm talking about that brown one that everyone seems to have, that brown one that seemingly came into existence one day and nobody is sure where it hailed from originally. The one that kind of, honestly, looks like Bojack. Yeah. THAT horse mask. I used to see it ages ago on image boards, but only in the past 5 years or so have I seen it begin to pop up anywhere you look, especially around Halloween time. Enter a Spirit Store or anywhere else one tends to buy costumes in public these days and I guarantee that you'll find it. People love this stupid mask, and I guess it's because it's in our human nature to anthropomorphize things, especially animals. I'm a furry. I'm not going to deny it. I understand it. So, as with anything popular...

Since the dawn of time, we've loved mashing things up. Whether it's foods that don't belong together, like pineapple on pizza, or music genres like rap with classical, we love the concept of mashups. So, with that in mind, it only makes sense to finally begin mashing up classic horror concepts. This isn't a new thing, exactly, as it's been done for ages. Horror-comedies have been a genre since both have been invented, really, but not until this mask have I seen someone mashup two horror icons. Get ready, we're about to do the monster mashup. Werewolves and Vampires have always been separate, two distinct horror characters that each have their own set of rules and unique personality traits, and often times clash when brought together. Hell, for a long time the internet was obsessed with who was better, Pirates or Ninjas, but come 2010 that devolved into Vampires or Werewolves, mostly thanks to the unreadable text I refuse to acknowledge as literature called Tw...