The thing that holds me back as an artist is my stubborn refusal to properly use references to plot lines out. I feel like a cheater, a fraud, any time I do that. I have this wrong thought that if I'm not a human copying machine, perfectly drawing anything from memory and without sketching it out, that I should just kill myself.
This isn't to say that self harm makes you a bad person, just that it was a factor in these instances. Really what was the final straw was that these people were disingenuous to an unacceptable degree.
Fantasy
They entered the house of horrors, not sure what they would face. The last team stopped responding after making contact inside. It looked like a butchers shop. There was blood on the floor, enough to reach past the soles of their boots. This wasn't possible. No person could do this, and there were no explosions, this didn't make sense. Limbs and pieces were scattered, nobody was intact. Just when they were reporting on what they were seeing, a loud clicking noise was heard. It sounded like a latch snapping open. It was followed by more rapid, successive clicks, like a fishing reel. It was then that the door they entered through locked shut, automatically. They desperately and fearfully tried to radio out, but all they got was static. They were afraid, they didn't want to die like their comrades had, ripped apart in some unknown room. They were frozen, waiting for the attack to come. That's when they realized the clicking had stopped. It was quiet. When the thing came, it came fast, and it came hard. It was small. As big as a medium dog. It attacks the legs first. It uses its own body as a ram. And once in the midst, it turns, and twists, like a blender, and it shreds. Their guns can't help them. Their armor can't help them. Their training definitely can't help them, they were never trained for this, they don't even know what it is. Their final moments will be loud.
DISCLAIMER: I don't actually masturbate to these thoughts, they really are intrusive and don't turn me on
The Trench