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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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[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Am I being trolled right now?

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

lol, nah, I’m just saying there is more information available than what we can process with our eyes in the world around us….

[–] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Sure! Totally agree. But if you take a human, naked in a vacuum. They don't have the equipment to do any of that lol.