Cosmic Horror

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"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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It Hides in the Light. (sh.itjust.works)

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The Thing (1982). Art by xxlunawarriorxx : https://www.tumblr.com/xxlunawarriorxx

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[–] NJSpradlin@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I mean, I was going for your cells being replaced one by one until you become the Thing. But, positing that you’re still you, but not you. Just like you are a Ship of Theseus even now, you aren’t the same You that you were or will be later.

Its a stretch, but is an interesting thought at least.

Edit: the interesting thing here is the Thing acted and behaved like the person, having absorbed who they were, fully capable of being them. They were the person, the person was still there, but they were more too.