Cosmic Horror

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A community to discuss Cosmic Horror in it's many forms; books, films, comics, art, TV, music, RPGs, video games etc.

"cosmic horror... is a subgenre of horror fiction and weird fiction that emphasizes the horror of the unknowable and incomprehensible more than gore or other elements of shock... themes of cosmic dread, forbidden and dangerous knowledge, madness, non-human influences on humanity, religion and superstition, fate and inevitability, and the risks associated with scientific discoveries... the sense that ordinary life is a thin shell over a reality that is so alien and abstract in comparison that merely contemplating it would damage the sanity of the ordinary person, insignificance and powerlessness at the cosmic scale..."

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Can you hear it? (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's a fake story

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

🤫 Shhh! Don't spoil the fun.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

That's what I'm saying, let it be unrealistic (I discuss this more.in another comment)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I know, it's in cosmic horror, but it's like figuring out an explanation for technobabble on Star Trek.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah but we are on a cosmic horror comm.

So it's much more reasonable in this context to playfully brainstorm some eldritch mechanism by which the telescope is peering beyond the veil, and the "screaming stars" are not classical celestial objects in any way.

Or I guess just vent noise, that's great cosmic horror 🙄