today is like the wildest day. ryan reynolds is pikachu. toy story 4 trailer released. stan lee died. 16 year-old andrew feldman is appearing on broadway in dear evan hansen, which won best musical. what the fuck is happening guys what timeline are we in.
when i was a kid, i thought shonen heroes kind of overdid the “friendship is important” thing, but now that i’ve
grown up i find myself tearing up and my heart grows three sizes
sometimes when my friends call me by pet names or just do
the smallest stuff
for me like printing things and like… I’m sorry I doubted you naruto you were right all along my friends ARE my heart
Basically what I’m saying is “thing that moves like a distorted gif, but in meatspace” works much better than “thing with tons of tentacles” as a visual representation of cosmic horror, IMHO.
Nowadays, sure, but human depictions of cosmic ineffability are always informed by time and place. In the early days of deep-sea exploration, “thing with tons of tentacles” was the very pinnacle of “holy shit what is that”; it’s just that the symbol has aged in a way that the substance has not.
CEPHALOPODS IN 1918: horrors from the unknowable depths of blackness only made only the more horrific by animate motions suggesting a flicker of intelligence within their shapeless, fleshy coils
CEPHALOPODS IN 2018: squashy frends 🐙😍
The Uncanny Valley migrates …
1918
:
CEPHALOPODS
2018
:
CEPHALOPODS
Now someone run that last gif through Google deepdream…