"Skinned State"
https://rentry.org/skinnedstate
A 2023 story based on art by Dumbie which was itself based on art by someone called "ScrubbDubb", if that name means anything to anyone. People in the original thread didn't like him, but I've never heard of him.
>guy is some big speedrunner for Mario 64
>he starts having a reoccurring nightmare about the game in which he's in a small enclosed bedroom where Princess Peach screams at him
>he takes melatonin because he read that it'd help him have nicer dreams
>he has an initially nice dream where he's on a sailboat and discovers a shipwreck
>a skinned corpse emerges from the shipwreck and the guy finds himself back in the Mario 64 bedroom
>the skinned corpse is dressed like Princess Peach and says some ominous stuff about how her beauty sleep was interrupted so she'll take the guy's dreams
>the guy goes 4 days without sleeping and "cannot commit to work or hygiene" (accurate depiction of a speedrunner)
>he's afraid to sleep because he gets sleep paralysis with the skinned corpse
This story is OKAY, but it's another example of an idea that would've been better without the Mario stuff. You could remove everything about Mario 64 from this story and keep the "evil skinned corpse dreams" part and it wouldn't really change the substance. I like the ending line where the guys says he's afraid to die because "what if she's there for me when I go?", but the sleep paralysis stuff itself is too trendy and overdone. I also have to dock the story some points for being based on some gay Dumbie thing and for being shilled by some guy in its thread with one of those 2023core "stop being so pessimistic we still have exetravaganza and mega genesys challenge" posts.
LOSS.WAD >= Mario Paint Time Capsule > S4LH > BOMBER > Tim > Fools Demise > PokeParamon.com > Skinned State > Weird 3DS Mario Mod >= WONDER FIGHT COLOR >= Genesys >= Toon 204 > UGnGP > Shinto > UUTP