dogs and cosmic horror

2 months ago by Emotional_Series7814 to c/NiceMemes

For those who don't like the poor quality of the image, as well as the blind:

A Twitter post:

@sarah_michelson 2023-01-02

cosmic horror protagonists are WEAK my dog experiences at least 3 Horrors Beyond His Comprehension PER DAY (ex. a thunderstorm, seeing a car) and he's Literally Fine

That post was reposted on tumblr, and people reblogged with the following additions:

@lekosis
Jan 11

The dog has one of the Great Old Ones reassuring him with pats and treats tho. If the King in Yellow had played with u and fed u for ur entire life and let you sleep in his berth of unspeakable blackness at night, and then hugged you reassuringly when Cthulhu rose from the depths, you might be able to handle it better too
@talestobetold
Feb 28
oh that's a prompt
@roach-works
Mar 5
those fish guys at innsmoth were domesticated

faeb 32 points 2 months ago

Maybe I'm just more cynical than I thought, but isn't that kind of the biggest draw of religion, organized or cultish? Finding an unfathomable sugar daddy to help make some sense of and/or comfort us through inexplicable realities beyond our ken? Like Entropy, What Happens When We Die, and Why Are Other People Like That.

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HasturInYellow 3 points 2 months ago

Damn, why ARE other people like that?

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applebusch 1 point 2 months ago
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Leviathan 1 point 2 months ago

Except they also invent a whole new set of unimaginable horrors for you to be terrified of and then comfort you from those too. Angels? Samsara? Apocalypse? Fucking Naglfar?!?

I'll take just thinking about it on sleepless nights and loving the people close to me and making the best of the time I have while I'm here. Fuck religion.

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Psionicsickness 1 point 2 months ago

What’s cynical about that? Dumb people still feel fear?

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kernelle 28 points 2 months ago

Elevators must be a real trip, door closes, door opens to a new place

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Confused_Emus 25 points 2 months ago

I recently moved into a new apartment building with the first elevators my dogs had ever been in. Could definitely tell they were confused, but they learned to just roll with it. They still don’t quite understand why we can’t get out of the weird moving box when someone else rides with us who lives on a lower floor, though.

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testaccount789 3 points 2 months ago

If you once ride in an elevator with glass doors, does the dog understand that's all those other ones do as well?

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kernelle 4 points 2 months ago

I don't think dogs care that much on how it works. Some dogs, like humans, really don't like the movement or tiny rooms. I've seen dogs tremble and lie flat as long as its moving. Mine does not give a shit

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WhatThaFudge 5 points 2 months ago path: 0 25125307, hotness: undefined, score: 5, children: 0
TAG 2 points 2 months ago

I want to read a Lovecraft story in which a cultist awakens the slumbering gods to ask for head pats, then begs the gods to unlock the portal to the land of countless trees because the cultist really needs to poop.

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DagwoodIII -8 points 2 months ago

We take 99% of what we see and do on faith. We all fly, but how many people can actually pilot an airplane, much less build one. Same with medicines we take,

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TheMightyCat 17 points 2 months ago

I assume most people that fly and aren't pilots or build aircraft know that it flies using the wings and engine. That they don't engineering or aerodynamics doesn't mean people find it an incomprehensible horror when a metal box suddenly takes flight.

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searabbit -2 points 2 months ago

I think you're giving a lot of people too much credit. And children.

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DagwoodIII -7 points 2 months ago

Horror? No.

Incomprehensible? Yes.

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Psionicsickness 4 points 2 months ago

Incomprehensible? No.

You can teach a 6 year old the basics of flight with a paper airplane.

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ripcord 1 point 2 months ago

Dumb take

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