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Feb 2020

Only real life and when it comes from actual slaughter or injury. Something like a hereditary illness or genetics doesn't really scare me, just makes me sad but curious how nature can be weird. Fake gore is gross but i'm like, it ain't real and i'm amazed at the art behind horror. Some people really do a ton of research to make it look convincing and you can't deny art no matter how disturbing it is.

I have next to no limit on illustrated gore, though movie gore is a tad bit harder for me to stomach, but I have PTSD. Human gore is harder for me to handle than animal or monster gore. There is a considerable amount of gore in my comic, though I'd like to think it is "tastefully" done. That is to say, it isn't gore for the sake of shock value, rather for realism.

For instance, the chapter I'm working on now features a horrendous and violent cult leader getting deeply wounded in the stomach, and then crawling away with frantically with blood trailing before being decapitated. The character was not a good guy, and he is getting what he deserves. And while there is some blood spurts and flesh wounds, it isn't like their are entrails dragging behind the guy or his eyeballs are being plucked out. That kind of excessive gore is completely unnecessary in most circumstances.

I think part of the reason I can handle the imagery is I am just used to seeing real life skinned animals and organs. I used to do taxidermy relatively often. And I also occasionally kill my own meat. I know how to clean a carcass for consumption, so it's fair to say I've seen a good amount of blood and organs. To top that, I have some carnivorous pets who eat meat and organs. For instance, my pickier snakes may need to have their food "brained" before they will accept it. Nothing I particularly enjoy but it is just the realities of life.

I'm generally okay with blood, but anything with innards squicks me out pretty instantly lol. Even goofy stuff like Surgeon Simulator can be too much for me.

That said, there can be exceptions? Like, I don't like getting blood drawn at the doctor. Sometimes I'm okay with gore if it's done in a tasteful and/or cartoonish way. I guess the context matters.

as long as it helps the story I'm alright with it ,i wtched the saw movies , and living on a farm i have seen animals get slaughtered

I’m pretty ok with anything. Gore for the sake of gore is usually where I tap out but more cause I’m bored then discussed.

I admit the context changes if I’m watching something while I’m eating however. Then I have a much harder time wanting to deal with gore as some of it can make my stomach turn if I’m watching meat paddies being made while I’m trying to have my cake.

Body horror isn’t a problem for me nor blood and guts- Animated or live action. Id have to say the bigger thing that can freak me out is when pimples start getting popped and finger nails start getting pulled- tho I’m sure that wont count as gore for most people

I'm exactly the opposite. I can handle any amount of gore if it's drawn or animated, and I generally like gory media. Live action and in-person I'm a lot more likely to need to look away or even feel sickened. It's mostly the act of inflicting wounds/someone being injured that makes me cringe with live-action stuff. Irl I can't even watch other people chop vegetables because I keep expecting them to hack off a finger lol! Ah, and I can't watch my blood being drawn. Not gore, but still freaks me out a bit.

I'm pretty similar in that some gore makes me peevish while others I embrace with open arms. Gore in a medical sense, like in real life surgeries and in medical dramas, doesn't really affect me for the most part. I mean, I've watched full surgeries before (I even had a really bad nose bleed that made my bathroom look like a crime scene but I just laughed it off). Cartoon gore doesn't bother me either until it gets super detailed or excessive. Gory horror movies make my skin crawl. I think what bothers me the most is a constant focus on the gore at hand, like the camera not panning away. Blood on the walls, floor and ceiling, I'm kosher. Undivided focus on someone getting their heel cut through, I'm not longer kosher.

Oh and video game gore is like a walk in the park; it can be gross but I can usually handle it.

I'm the opposite of that. I always watch the nurse stick the need in my arm when my blood is drawn. It helps with the pain and it's also kind of satisfying.

I feel like I can handle any gore, but I just get kinda irked when it's over-the-top. Thinking of you, Final Destination and Saw film franchises.

Princess Mononoke was fine for me because I hadn't seen anything like it in animation before and it sort of blew me away because it had done something I hadn't seen before. But then I watched Elfen Lied. :joy:

Hmm. I can calmly eating dinner while watching the Walking Dead (dropped the series long ago). But don't particularly like to watch torture gore like saw.

Otherwise, I'm pretty okay with blood and guts. Just sometimes going "oooffff" or some other expression.

I don't like gore for the sake of gore, like some over the top slasher films but I'm ok with it most of the time. At most I'm like "Well that was uncomfortable."

I also love Princess Mononoke :heart_eyes:

A story can be as gory as it needs. Eye gouging, fingore, disembowelment, it doesn't bother me so long as it is in proper context. If a movie holds back no punches in how viscerally terrible war is, sure.

But if it's gore and violence for the sake of gore and violence, count me out. The visual never bothers me but the context definitely can.

Any gore is fine for me, but what makes it unsettling is the interaction with the gore.

If a frame is shot really well in a scene i could get squeamish, or if the characters mess with it i'll think "no please... don't."
But when it comes to a scene showing a guy dead or still illustrations of gore it's fine, nothing's happening.

the thing that always gets me is when people shave in movies
and when there's "Clone Gore"(which is when a character is falling apart, skin peeling, teeth poppin')
if it's a thing that could happen to me, no bueno.

Pretty high Limit really, I can handle mostly everything except for stuff like teeth, I relate too much to that. Just I cant anything mouth related, lips, teeth or anything else other wise. Strangely I had much higher tolerance to Gorey stuff as a kid never even flinching nor had this limit, only now I have the limit.

I have a relatively high tolerance. I don't enjoy horror movies or games, but the amount of gore usually isn't the "nope" factor, but more so the suspense and thriller elements lol. In anime I don't think I've seen anything too extreme, certainly not enough so to make me uncomfortable. Similarly the instances where I've come face to face with blood irl haven't been very often or copious, but were okay.

The one time that I was made super uncomfortable/nauseous at something gore-adjacent was this one documentary we watched in a class in university about this woman who had plastic surgery performed on every part of her face (and maybe body?) all in one sitting, but requested to be left conscious during the procedure so she could talk at the camera while being operated on. It was some commentary about how people should be satisfied with who they are and not be so eager and casual about using surgery to change parts of their appearance... but omg, something about all of those incisions being made and skin being pulled back and replaced on someone conscious like that made my stomach roll...

Me, I draw the line at organs, period. I just don't like seeing them, even when they're clean and neatly packaged at the store (bleck). I remember that B99 episode where they faked Pimento's death and used baked beans to represent his splattered brains (XD)...even that was pushing it for me, when I didn't know it was coming.

The only place I can stand organs is (oddly specifically) anatomical drawings, like for educational purposes. I guess maybe there's a feeling of detachment, seeing as (a) they're not really photorealistic, and (b) you don't have a sense of them 'belonging' to anyone. I dunno.

When it comes to blood, though...make it rain; I don't really care. ^^ It's the other aspects of violence (the screams, the fact that a character you care about is in danger) that make me upset; blood alone doesn't really do anything to me. Like if two competent characters (or characters I'm otherwise not worried about) are having a bloody battle to the death in a manga or something, I could read that for days. It's exciting~

For that reason, I always want to have blood or a blood analog in my more violent stories. In fact, I'm working on rewriting a story with a dead protagonist, and the fact that he probably won't be able to bleed is kinda making me sad...

Almooooost always, gore is ok with me. I mean, it still grosses me out, but usually in the good ways. Of like "wow, that's visceral and makes my stomach do flips, i wonder how they drew this/created this?"

Context does matter though.
I can't keep watching/reading if someone gets gored while in a sexual situation. Sex mixing with violence is never fun to read at all.

Oof, yeah, no, I couldn't watch that at all. Just imagining that is squicking me out. XD

I get the feeling that anything by David Cronenberg or The Thing would get a nope nope ..... from you.

Because of work I've been exposed to a lot of blood and injuries to animals. I've cleaned and dressed wounds, taken stitches out, been there with them when their owners couldn't face being there if they had to be euthanized so that they had someone they knew with them when they passed. I can deal with just about anything in the moment since I have to, but I don't actively seek out anything gorey. I had to stop reading "Made in Abyss" because of where the story was going, so that's probably my limit I would think when it comes to art. For live action/documentaries, anything with 'soft kills' or torture bother me a lot and I either won't watch them or stop watching when it gets to that point.