Being-reminded-that-organs-are-a-thing like, sensation wise? Diagrams of organs don't twig it but actual pictures do because it's a OH RIGHT THOSE THINGS ARE IN THERE. I am a meat sack I would prefer that my meats remain a hypothetical mash. This is in fact the origin of my pregnancy squick, because pregnancy is THERE'S A THING MOVING AROUND IN MY ORGANS. It's developed into its own squick but the two are still related.
I can cope with almost anything horrible in fiction, but graphic scat makes me physically retch. Other unsanitary things are not a problem if I know they're going to be in the story; I was grossed out a lot by a fic which had a stalker consuming the contents of his target's used condoms, but wouldn't have minded it so much if I'd known that was going to happen. (Not a thing that's very easy to warn for without spoiling, I must say.) I also have a serious phobia of slugs. Articles about how to get rid of them always feel the need to put closeup photos of them and it makes me nauseous for the rest of the day afterwards and quite often gives me nightmares >_< Disgusting things. Anyone know how to encourage the breeding of birds and animals which eat them?
I can write, draw, read and so on and so forth just fine about it but in real life? Being the recipient? NO. Being touched = People lamenting the fact that they don't have anyone to cuddle. All I can think of is, WHY? Why do you want that? R.E.V.O.L.T.I.N.G. All that sweat, trapped, breath, squishy-ness?! I threw up.
@AnneCliche That is a "thank you for your input" like, not an "I like that your squick made you physically ill" like, just for the record. I don't like being touched much, either, but it doesn't go anywhere near that level of discomfort for me.
Um, pregnancy is probably my biggest squick. Unwanted/unplanned ones, especially. Other things are like, large age gaps and wrist injuries.
I don't get squicked out by much of anything, but the one thing I can't stand is anything involving fungi growing out of a person/animal. Those mushrooms that infect insect brains, kill them, and then grow out of them? Hell no. I can usually handle it better if the thing is already dead when the mushrooms sprout, but anything involving mushrooms growing out of a living thing (especially as an "infection" in a cut or something) freaks me the fuck out and makes me tingly and icky and sick-feeling. Internal parasites are also a semi-squick thing for me, but mushrooms are the only thing thay can make me just say NOPE and leave.
I have a sort of epic Train Wreck syndrome where I can't help but be morbidly fascinated by terrible, gross shit, so not much squicks me. But there is one thing... ...dozen of tiny holes in a flesh-like surface. Like that fuckin' breast someone superimposed a seed pod on. Or a close up of a sponge. Just something about that specific texture/look makes me incredibly upset for awhile after I see it, ugh, I'm shuddering just thinking about it. Sometimes when I'm cooking something will start to look like a chunk of holes and it freaks me out. No idea why.
i don't know if you're into video games, but never play the game Last of Us. also probably don't even look up the game.
