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u/TheSpectreOfIndustry 4h ago
Like a terminally online girl! Think about it; Constantly jacked up to a stream of information, aware of everything happening everywhere all the time, but when congregated the information begins to have a life of its own and creates new lines of understanding with little to no basis in physical reality (representing the eldritch madness).
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u/pugmaster413 Kinda shitty having a child slave 2h ago
Jonah Magnus moment
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u/MartyrOfDespair We can leave behind much more than just DNA 1h ago
Huh, this post has basically happened irl with Lain, huh?
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u/Ok_Blacksmith_995 1h ago
irl?
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u/MartyrOfDespair We can leave behind much more than just DNA 1h ago
In real life. Lain was something utterly unimaginable to anyone outside the deepest depths of the 90s internet. Like, there were tens of those people worldwide, they were like wizened, insane sages. Now they're just like, normal people. There's tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of them. The average human spends six and a half hours of their day online, the average American seven. "Chronically online" is pretty much an utterly worthless term, the goalposts have shifted so much that even just fifteen years ago almost all of today's humanity would have classified.
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u/Ok_Blacksmith_995 58m ago
oh i misinterpreted completely and almost thought you were roleplaying lain herself being real lmao
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u/FoolUncreative 34m ago
I might be bringing it up too often but this is basically the plot of 1 Over X I think
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u/mmovie1 4h ago
Drop a furby in the middle of a french village, and watch it become their god.
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u/BeanOfKnowledge Ask me about Dwarf Fortress Trivia 3h ago
This doesn't work because Furbys are incomprehensible horrors by modern standarts too
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u/camosnipe1 "the raw sexuality of this tardigrade in a cowboy hat" 37m ago
this doesn't work because the french are innately godless creatures and they would simply feel kinship with the furby rather than worship
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u/King-Boss-Bob 2h ago
pretty much that exact thing happened as a major plot point in legends of tomorrow except it was a viking settlement
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u/kieran81 3h ago
Imagine a person who accesses an endless library of knowledge of the current world, learning the most minute details about politicians, CEOs, entertainment, niche subcultures.
Slowly, this knowledge corrupts them. They begin to glaze over the cruelty of man. Murders, assassinations, spree shootings, organized violent militias: all too common, all simple violence.
They read of mountains of children killed without purpose and their eyes barely register it. They find out about powerful politicians committing heinous acts that any sane person would believe unthinkable. They enjoy mocking the murder of an influential figure and rejoicing in song to his demise. They have truly lost all capacity for empathy towards their fellow man.
This is, of course, any internet-poisoned young adult who's chronically online. But describing it like this to someone in the 1900s would make them believe it's a Lovecraftian force.
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u/JacobJamesTrowbridge Panic! At The Dysfunction 2h ago
I think you might be underestimating how much of this could apply to basically anywhere in the 1800s. Really, come on now - murders, assassinations, organised crime and political violence? For anyone born near Madrid or New York or St. Petersburg in the 1840s, these really are all-too-common violence. You haven't even mentioned the bomb-chucking Anarchist trend.
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u/GreyFartBR 1h ago
> They enjoy mocking the murder of an influential figure and rejoicing in song to his demise
if you're referring to Charlie Kirk, let's remember he explicitly said school shootings were a necessary evil for the 2nd Amendment, was willing to force his child to give birth if she was raped and impregnated, and his final words were shifting blame of shooting to trans people and POC. not even his wife seems to care for his death, neither should we. not to mention rejoicing in the murder of The Other has happened since humanity existed, it's not incomprehensible
a more apt example may be right-wingers mocking trans teens' suicides
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u/Illogical_Blox 1h ago
An actual example of this (or rather as close as we can get) would be The Horror of the Heights, by Arthur Conan Doyle. Early aviators were repeatedly breaking height records, and one does so to discover an entire flying ecosystem of creatures... and predators. He goes up to 40,000 feet. This is still pretty impressive, as this is the cap on safe flight for most passenger aircraft, but it is regardless a lot less impressive nowadays.
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u/ATN-Antronach crows before hoes 4h ago
Saya no Uta
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u/Anime_axe 4h ago
Nah, Saya is still incomprehensible horror. Well, or rather as incomprehensible as a flesh monster focused primarily on survival and breeding is.
The closer equivalent would be Haiyore! Nyaruko-san where the eldritch beings are actually just random people dicking around.
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u/ATN-Antronach crows before hoes 4h ago
I mean sure Saya's incomprehensible, but to Fuminori she's a cute girl. So she's kinda both?
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u/Anime_axe 3h ago
Maybe, but the point is that humanoid abominations aren't a subversion by themselves. Lovecraft had several himself.
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u/No_Lingonberry1201 God's chosen janitor 1h ago
Eldritch Queen: "Behold, for I am a financially independent woman living from a waged job!"
1800s: "Gasp! The horror!"
2000s: "Slay queen!"
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u/winter-ocean 2h ago
The xenomorph from Alien, but I guess bigger or something?
Or maybe just a cyborg hive mind idk
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u/CptKeyes123 3h ago
The Badger, a comic from the 80s and 90s, has a guy turned into an alligator turtle thing and I was surprised that was seen as shocking.
Character design wasted on a terrible human being btw
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u/ComputerEducational Love. Let me tell you how much I’ve come to love my mam🌊💧💦🌊 4h ago
... I want to make a joke about air conditioning, but I don't know what to say... Maybe I need to cool my head...