Morgan Gilbertson

University account. English major at SDSU. Third/going on fourth year student. My current dream is to intern as an editor with a publishing company.

[Morgan Gilbertson @MorganGilberts4]

Final tweet of the semester: It's unfortunate that we are no longer able to meet, as the conversations in our classes have been quite entertaining. I'm unironically hopeful that I will have more twitter classes.
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[Morgan Gilbertson @MorganGilberts4]

The Marrow Thieves was a pretty depressing way to end the semester, ngl. It's not the end of studying literature though. Why didn't Wab tell anyone that she knew the traitors?
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[Morgan Gilbertson @MorganGilberts4]

@folk_Iore I can't believe I was too afraid to watch these kinds of videos. Slenderman isn't even that scary to me.

[Morgan Gilbertson @MorganGilberts4]

*is

[Morgan Gilbertson @MorganGilberts4]

Anyway, since we are talking about Slenderman this week, I thought I'd talk about the other creepypasta, since this was a huge reminder that I had a pseudo "creepypasta" phase.
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[Morgan Gilbertson @MorganGilberts4]

Unrelated, but I also read the entire story of Jeff the Killer. I hated it.
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[Morgan Gilbertson @MorganGilberts4]

I joined a writing and fandom site, and that was my main exposure to Slenderman and his Creepypasta pals.
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[Morgan Gilbertson @MorganGilberts4]

"Slenderman" became a part of an underground Internet culture in the late 2000s-early 2010s, joining the ranks of other Creepypasta folklore figures such as Jeff the Killer and Eyeless Jack.
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[Morgan Gilbertson @MorganGilberts4]

@Ceceli55352627 Yeah. I noticed the same kind of thing in the babysitter stories: that the babysitters must have felt like they were being watched, and the babies weren't being watched.

[Morgan Gilbertson @MorganGilberts4]

@Noone40118083 These kinds of stories put quite a scare into me!

[Morgan Gilbertson @MorganGilberts4]

@Ceceli55352627 I remember hearing about that as I kid! It's funny that you only hear these kinds of stories as a kid. The documentary also says that this was connected "La Llorana"

[Morgan Gilbertson @MorganGilberts4]

edit: "are" should be "is"

[Morgan Gilbertson @MorganGilberts4]

One urban legend I'm familiar with are on Facebook: "[insert name] will give you good fortune, but only if you type "[insert name and more]"
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[Morgan Gilbertson @MorganGilberts4]

Also, never really talked about urban legends with my friends or family explicitly. It happens in ways we aren't aware. Though talks off a "bogeyman" popped along the way when we were young.
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[Morgan Gilbertson @MorganGilberts4]

Man, people will believe anything😆😂. Just goes to show how we are. "Brunvand used his collection of legends... to make two points: first, that legends and folklore do not occur exclusively in so-called primitive or traditional societies [...]"
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[Morgan Gilbertson @MorganGilberts4]

Reading "Marrow Thieves" couldn't be more timely. "“Anyway, in this story was all these people trapped inside their own town because the plague attacks them and they are put into quarantine” #sdsuYA

[Morgan Gilbertson @MorganGilberts4]

@ProfAngelMatos That's a fun idea!

[Morgan Gilbertson @MorganGilberts4]

Ronald Clark O'Bryan did his son dirty 😒
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[Morgan Gilbertson @MorganGilberts4]

I've realized that When The Moon Was Ours is themed around the idea of how we go through transformations in our lives, just like moon phases until we find ourselves completely, "In being lost, they became so many different people..." That's pretty clever.😀
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[Morgan Gilbertson @MorganGilberts4]

@AsiaFuller9 Tbh, I thought there was going to be something morbid about Johnny Appleseed.