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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..."

For more Lovecraft & Mythos-inspired Cosmic Horror:-[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Damn, we putting .webm at the end instead of .jpg these days?

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

webm is google, and we all know google owns us all

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

Funny thing, unless they updated it in the last few months Google Voice can't handle Google's own image format.

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

I'm glad someone got that 😅🙇🏽‍♂️✊🏼