Cosmic Terror

no it doesn't

>>19283073
Yoko taro?

>>19283073
>jupiter's eye can open

>>19283057
ITT: Shitty horror tropes because OP wants to be an edgelord.

There was a ufo around fireworks this fourth of july, my family said it was drone but it spinned

It. Spinned.

>>19283207
You're right, threads about Tulpas, calling everything Skinwalkers, Alien desert selfie memes and Gnosticism play-acting are what this board truly needs.

>>19283178
Nope, Junji Ito.

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>>19283057
the ultimate cosmic terror is Jehovah tbqh

>>19283207
>>19283233
you two should kiss and make beautiful bullshit together

Bump because of the pictures.
Also, yeah, "cosmic horror" exists, not in the form of deformed godlike aliens.

>>19283060
Is that a male or female?

>>19283057
Yep, I remember the first time I read Lovecraft too.

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>>19283057
Not in the depths of space, its worse anon, they're in the depths of your soul.

>>19285244
if we assume the largest planet in the foreground is around earth-sized, imagine how many planets you'd have to destroy to make that spacecraft, you probably have to regularly consume planets to provide it with raw materials for maintenance and subsistence (of population). Imagine the fuel requirement too.

>>19283057

Too bad space doesn't even exist faggot

>>19287117
This

>>19287117
Truth

>>19283057
Maybe but it's all really far away.space is fucking massive

>>19283178
How is that in any way related to Yoko Taro

The movie Event Hrizon was great. We need more movies on this topic. I think it's the only one out there

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This thread reminds me why I don't browse x

It's just a bunch of 13 year olds posting pictures they found on reddit

>>19287176

Nigga that ain't space
That's the courage the cowardly dog house

>>19283246
Did you know Yeshua was never resurrected but rather Thomas his twin came to the eleven remaining apostles as the Jesus who says he is God and Lord and rose from the dead? Read the Greek interlinear the translators lied
Thomas was probably mkultrad pretty bad read Egyptian book of the dead its all about how they did back then too

>>19287176
I'm not even sure where to start pointing out everything that is wrong with this post and it's author.

>>19287176
Im 34 and I have never used reddit. Once

>>19283975
I like the boat for reference

>>19283090
>I'm ready to settle down with a nice boy now.

>>19287190
Tumblr is just as bad

>>19287206
I never used Tumblr. I never had a Facebook account

>>19287206
Only the culture, still a fine search engine for images using their tagging system.

>>19287095
Underrated as fuck movie

The Emperor protects.

>>19283057
Nothing that resembles us in any way possible and can be killed by usual means isnt at all as scary to me as for example intelligent beings based on plutonium who can incarnate you just by looking at you.
In wast space, surely there are many life forms which we wouldnt even call a life because their basic chemical structure is totally different from ours.

We know total shit.. maybe inside the outer lyer of sun there are fucking fire people who are highly intelligent but can never leave the temperature scale of Sun. Maybe they even try to communicate but their "intelligence" is so alien to as that we see it solar flares, white noise and what not.

>>19287095
>you will never explore ancient underwater civilizations
>you will never have an Atlantean GF

why live

>>19283200
good idea for a short cosmic horror story anon

Let us consider a few things -
1. There exists star systems beyond count
2. Most start systems have planets
3. Of those planets, a proportion have conditions conducible to life
4. "Life" does not need to follow the concepts that we have strictly defined it (water, temperatures between 260 and 330K, as will be made clear when we find life on Titan)
Conclusion - the Universe is teeming with sentient beings who's structures, life cycle, biology, and psychology are so different to life on Earth that it would cause pant shitting terror to anyone on Earth to come across save those who's minds are so warped to accept it.

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>>19289208

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BY THE EMPEROR, THIS THREAD LOOKS LIKE IT NEEDS SOME XENO PURGING

>>19283242
That's not Junji Ito, cunt

>>19290541
So you're saying Hellstar Remina was not by Junji Ito? Then who was it by?

>>19283084
>PARTY HARD

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>>19287113
>>19285244
That'd be cool as fuck.
Nonetheless, I may be some internet autist, and not a physicist or mechanical engineer, but from my laymans perspective; that thing would be so big it'd collapse under its own weight.
>pic marginally thread related.

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> finds a thread only posting about lovecraftian cosmic horror
I mean I'm trying to write cosmic horror myself, but this thread is pretty sad.

>>19289964
You're missing another Nyarlathotep.

tfw the universe is infinite that its entirely possible that an alien being / race with average size of a gas giant planet is lurking somewhere in deep space

>>19292552
seriously, lovecraft is garbage
>oh man the monster was like so scary it cant even be described it gave me a mean startle tentacles tentacles tentacles

>>19292583
Pissed me off when I was reading him when I was younger, mostly because he would take two fucking pages to describe what the monster of the day was and I actually found myself flipping past it because I literally couldn't care less.

Fucking garbage basically, yeah.

>>19292583
t. Someone who has never opened a Lovecraft book

>>19292583

>monster terrible beyond description
>well it has a lot of tentacles though

I never understood this. It seems to ruin the point.

>>19292615
i've read plenty of his work. you're welcome to describe his work in a way that makes you feel better about reading it though.

>>19292597
just return to your gay twilight vampires

>>19292636
>wah stop making fun of my favorite shitty horror writer

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>>19292640
>>too dumb for Lovecraft?
read this

>>19292662
>p-please st-stop making f-fun of him. he r-r-really is a good w-writer!

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>>19292636
> "go back to your gay twilight vampires"
Man, just because a good portion of an author's works had elements that annoyed me doesn't mean that I hate all of his works.

Cats of Ulthar is probably the only one I think is pretty good. Other than that, he is the guy who started the "brain in the jar" trope, so I have to give him credit there.

Other than that, nah. There's only a few short stories from him that I appreciate in any way.

>>19292583
Nigga that's the whole point, this is why lovecraft was such a good author. He gave you just enough, just a little itty bit to get the concept of what it was but then he left it to the reader to put the full picture together. Case in point get like 10 different people to describe what one of his monsters looks like, I will be you theynwill be different. The beauty of that is the creature is adaptable to what ever the reader associates with fear and what they think scary is, so it's timeless.

Also to say he is garbage is objectively false. The guy can be thanked for like 80% of sci-fi horror and a large part of fantasy horror, his works are referenced and or used as insperation ks almost every outlet of the Mentioned fantasy types.

You don't have to like the guy that's cool if your not into him, but to say he is a crappy writer is wrong.

>>19292700
Fuck I think I had a stroke while I wrote this, my phones auto correct went fuck wit crazy

>>19292700
>not describing things is good writing
>no bad writer has ever been massively famous or completely changed their genre

>>19292700
> dubs for such a shitty comment
itt: people argue and defend lovecraft displaying bad methods of writing because his monsters are half-decent in some way.

>>19292675
>>IQ below 70
yes you are probably too retarded.

>>19292706
>>19292730
Say what you want man, but for his time he was amazing.

>>19292739
> for his time
I'm not giving passes for a guy that was good for his time. Yeah, sure, it was pretty good at the time, but that doesn't mean that he's exempt from criticism lol.

>>19292747
I agree with that, everyone is open to be criticized, but to just flat out say he is a garbage writer is factually wrong considering how popular and influential he was/has been/is. That would be like saying Gary gygax was not influential in making role playing games because his first iteration of DnD was bad.

>>19292773
no one is claiming he wasn't influential. we're arguing that there's not a direct correlation between being a good writer and being an influential writer because he was one but not the other (he was not a good writer)

>>19292737
i wish you could see how ironic your posts are coming from a lovecraft fan, but you probably prefer real life to be like the books you read: mostly fluff and missing information that you have to fill in with your own imagination

>>19292773
>>19292785 communicates this point much better than I ever will. Sure he's famous, but at the same time, there's plenty of famous works done by other authors that most people will agree aren't good.

Christ bro.

>>19292159
>collapse under its own weight in space

lol

>>19292797
you too are missing the point. Lovecraft isn't about silly tentacle monsters. It's about humanitys relationship with the outside, the unknown and non-human. And Lovecraft shows in his stories how bad and pathetic humanity is in this regard : all they have is superstition and and helpless religion to deal with a mechanistic and completly uncaring universe.

>>19292902
>this has never been done by a good writer in a way that's actually stimulating to read

if you guys want to argue about how your specific subjective taste in books implies you have a larger penis than some other random anonymous faggot on an imageboard, take it to /lit/, you'll fit right in. nobody cares if you do / don't like lovecraft / other authors. nobody knows who you are, nobody gives a shit what you think about anything, contribute to the thread or fuck off.

>>19289395
a high probability for the conditions necessary to sustain life != a high probability that life has taken advantage of those conditions, and even if that were high it wouldn't imply intelligence is common.

cockroaches and protists are better at surviving than humans. we're not sure that intelligence is inevitable. at all. (but it might be)

>>19287171
hmm. there's been a few decent eldritch horror movies made, but i can't think of much that's also in space. i'd like to think we can do better than Event Horizon but maybe not.

the first 2/3 of Sunshine is fucking amazing but then they turned it into a retarded slasher movie just in time to ruin the ending.

too bad 90% of space horror is just some kind of ripoff of Alien. not that Alien was bad, but it'd be nice to see more subtle weirdness in space.

>>19292995
>implying i give a shit if you give a shit about my opinions on lovecraft
you fuck off then faggot, this is officially a lovecraft debate thread now

>>19292915
Confirmed for having never read Lovecraft's work

>>19293019
>confirmed illiterate faggot

>>19286576
this might be the closest to how an HP Lovecraft monster would actually look. I hate the bs Cthulu designs by people who just think it's a giant squid. It's meant to look almost incomprehensible and this does a good job

>>19286583
I bet you haven't. So many people claim they have but couldn't get through 5 pages if their lives depended on it. I can tell a phony.

>>19283975
Cthulu is not a fucking squid. Do these people actually READ the fucking stories?

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Yo Doooooooood! I ain't never understood why folks thought Lovecraft was all that, I mean, tentacles and shit? He call it unspeakable and undescribable and unimagininated horrors, but he still writing about it so how undescripulated can it be? Mothafuckin' racist cats, witches, hoteps & shit, maaaaaaan if ya'll saw that shit today you'd roll up on it with your gat. Psshhhhhhhh! Maaaaaaan, Alien & Predator kick all their asses, fuck.... Jason & Freddy would too. Gay ass tentacles & shit.

all these different opinions are getting me horny

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>>19292840
nigga if its that much larger than an earth sized planet you can damn well fucking bet its gravitational force is a bit more than slightly measurable.
>>19293019
>>19293021
To be fair some of his early work you can find on internet archives read like a short story a highschooler pumped out for english class.
there is an enormous improvement with the release of his first "real" stories.

There is a heaven. There is a hell. I am god

>>19292676
He also started Ancient Aliens shit, at least in literary terms.

>>19283073
>cosmic succ

>>19285244
>"Hey mind if I park my ship here? No. Thanks guys maybe move your planet too"

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> We though we were safe on our sphere of blue, drifting in the void, but only now do we realize that the true evils of the cosmos don't slumber in their black courts, only now do we realize that the evils we had feared aren't dreaming in their tombs of rotting starlight, only now do we realize that the darkness isn'the being pushed back, and that it is still growing.
>Only now do we realize that the end has always been here, with us. The primordial evil has always been here, watching us, waiting...
>We just couldn't see it.

>>19287188

(Citation needed)

>>19292159
Yes, there is no known or foreseeable material that would support such a structure, not even a structure say, 1/5 its size. It would definitely collapse. I was just pointing out it's extreme size, it would take millions of years to construct such a thing. Imagine the historical and cultural developments that take place within it. Imagine a child learning of the past years, the mythology and history of just a tiny part of the huge structure. They're part of the same structure but for most they'd be completely alien to one-another.

>>19292583
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0URLGsf1e0
You're entitled to hold my opinions in contempt and I am entitled to do likewise to yours. Arguing over tastes is childish.

That said, legions of college professors, who are more credentialed and published than you or I, will affirm that his influence on the horror genre is substantial. So that's pretty much that.

>>19283057
>True horror exists in the depths of space far beyond the cradle of our humble gravity bound existence.

Only up until the point we start to roll out the appropriate weapons.

You think humanity hasnt stared down the systematic horror of nature before and simply asked itself what it needs to weaponize now?

Unless something comes upon us in the next few hundred years nothing will be any different than it has been.

We will meet it, we will figure out how to kill it, we will kill it.

Are space serpents real?

>>19293971
stealing this for a band name

>>19293520
I'm pretty sure that's all just directly quoting The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

>>19295923
Unless it pre-emptively decides to play nice. Then we can trade with it!

If Cthulhu comes up from the deep and hands out tourist brochures for his paradise under the waves, people will gladly pay to go to places they would abhor and reject in all other conditions.

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>>19295923
made me shed a tear anon ;_; if we die we die fighting

>>19286564
Ah yes, the elder race. Wonder what's happening in Antarctica?

>>19290953
you have some serious problems with reading comprehension

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>>19292583
well, every writer has his shtick tho

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>>19296875
I cant blame for being unable to read your post.
Its very hard to read the words of a tard

>>19292840
retard

>>19293412
His head is literally described as being "octopus-like"

>>19294584
nobody even questioned his influence

>>19296886
>I have problems reading a perfectly fine sentence with only 5 words
yes, I am the tard here

>>19296901 >>19283178

Yes you are.
Your words have no context
>Yoko taro?
Yoko Taro what?
You want to see his works or you think the picture in question is from Yoko Taro? be clear next time you autistic fag.

>>19296909
thats not even my post. You keep proving that you have no idea how a dialogue works. You completely miss the point and the context of this exchange. just stop posting

>>19283057

There's no reason to apply "terror" to such. That's a human concept.

I

is >>19290541
not your post as well? If you weren't the original guy why are you sperging about the whole fucking thing? They were talking about who made that story/picture. Maybe you need to learn how to read.

>>19296931
>>19296915

>>19287117
Stupid flatearther lmao

>>19293021
>confirmed uneducated faggot who doesn't know what word 'illiterate' means

>>19289395
>2017
>Believing NASA's bullshit

>>19292583
You're just mad because you're a nigger and he talked true shit about your shitskin family.

>>19293562
Me too sister, let's scissor

>>19287310
the only scary pic i've found on this thread so far, imagine being that astronaut, knowing that you're never going to reach the shuttle again, that's what i call scary

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>>19297161
DELETE THIS