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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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Mistletoe Rule (lemmy.ca)
submitted 8 months ago by MattW03@lemmy.ca to c/cosmichorror@lemm.ee
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[–] KaRunChiy@fedia.io 9 points 8 months ago

The plot to consentacles

[–] einlander@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

All the mouths sir.

[–] ramsorge@discuss.online 7 points 8 months ago

It wasn’t sexual assault, there was mistletoe.

[–] cactus_head@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You know the least u could do is credit the artiest

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Original

https://www.deviantart.com/tohdraws/art/Mistletoe-773747830

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Wait, I remember this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8Vl0lHFkwo

[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago

Please take down these candid photos of my partner and I!

[–] henfredemars 1 points 8 months ago

The thing?

It’s beautiful just the way it is.