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"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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i see myself in the mouse, and it gives me a kind of cosmic wonder. there’s a certain comfort to be found in realizing that we’re all just scurrying around and scratching at the walls of a world we’ll never fully understand, being struck down by forces we’ll never fully control.
my brain trends towards “you’re gonna ruin it!” type anxieties. it really calms me down to remember that when you zoom out far enough, there’s nothing there to ruin.