My experience with Analog Horror/ARGs and why you should check them out
Marble Hornets: the classic, and a big favorite of mine for obvious reasons. I cannot stress enough how good and spooky that series is, and the ToTheArk videos gave me nightmares, love it! <3
If you're into Slenderman stories, you should definitely check it out. The acting is very well done and the story is awesome overall :)
The Sun Vanished: the ARG that started my interest for ARGs, and especially enigmas/internet puzzles. Unfortunately I was not smart enough to figure the stuff out by myself, so I just watched explanations on it. Highly recommended if you like post-apocalyptic settings and subtle horror.
The Mandela Catalogue: possibly the series that brought back my interest for these things. I have only watched the first two seasons of it, as I sadly lost interest after a while, but from what I have watched, I would recommend it to those of you who like horror with religious themes (which is a big thing for me) and most importantly, trust issues. Do keep in mind this series deals with more serious and dark topics, though you have probably heard it already.
Local58: the analog horror of all analog horrors, Local58 barged in before TMC took the spotlight. There is so much going on and all of it is very interesting and scary. America's pride leads to its doom, the moon can control electronic devices, and weird creatures spread through the world. If you like stories that leave you not understanding what the hell just happened but loving it anyway, you will love Local58.
Rocket Archives: A single-video series that has unfortunately been taken down for reasons I am not certain of. But if you're curious what it was about, the video presented a reality where us humans were forced to leave Earth with how hot it was getting, and moved to contained bubbles in space. Suddenly, uh oh! The sun's getting closer! Outer Wilds moment! Everything is melting! Humans are gone and the sun is... alive???
Analog Archives: made by the creator of Rocket Archives, has also been taken down but can still be found re-uploaded. The series is slightly similar to Local58, as in it also focuses on broadcast hijacking used for ending off humans. The series also includes a few religious topics that can get very dark. I love it. "Nature Show" makes me tear up with fear every time.
Gemini Home Entertainment: ALL-TIME FAVORITE MOMENT!!! I don't think I need to explain why I love this one so much. GHE leaves a lot to your imagination/speculation, while also twisting your head directly into the direction of the threat and forcing you to look at it while you squirm in fear. GHE is subtle in the most obvious way, obvious in the most subtle way, and most importantly, IT'S COSMIC HORROR, BABY!!! THERE IS A PLANET IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM THAT GOT HERE UNINVITED AND NOW IT WANTS TO EAT US!!! UGHHHH I can't put in words why I think it's so good, it just is. Watch it. The Gardeners are cute, I swear. There's even a plush of them.
Monument Mythos: something something alternate realities, something something time loops. I have not watched all of it, barely even half, but I deemed it a little bit too confusing for my brain. BUT! If you're into things that boogle your mind, you might really like this series! I mean, world monuments are alive, what could be scarier?
Vita Carnis: EW. (affectionate)
But, seriously, if you like gross, you are certainly going to like this series. It's meat, and it's alive. Although, I did stop watching it because it got a tad too graphic and violent for my taste, but if that doesn't bother you, then I recommend it a lot! The editing is soooo good, and some of the creatures are very likable and cute ^v^ (the others are gross and I do not want them near me I do not WANT FUCK OFF)
Don't Look at the Moon: Minecraft spooky. Do I need to say more?
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you guys loved my part 1 and 2 of Badly Explained Good Omens so i'm just going to keep doing it. fight me. (disclaimer: this series will be written when i'm either sleep deprived, caffeine overloaded, or drunk. feel free to speculate which one it is this time)
right so Season 1 of Good Omens is basically, these two man-shaped creatures who definitely don't want to lick each other's faces get together in a park full of spies & snitches so they can talk without raising suspicion (foolproof plan, obviously). it's basically a romeo and juliet thing, except romeo is an angelic bookseller hoarder and juilet is a snake demon who will make u re-evaluate your sexual orientation. and possibly give you gender envy. your average stuff, right.
so gender envy boy (Crowley) goes, hey, my lot made me uber the devil's son to an american diplomat the other night, and the angel (Aziraphale) goes, if you're going to destroy the world via evil baby style, can you lot at least not make it into some cheesy american movie. at least make it something actually cool. anyway so they're chatting about the end of the world, as you do, and Crowley goes y'know, Hell is gonna fuck the whole world up and Azi goes Nah, we beat your dumbarses before, we will again, and Crowley goes ANYWAY if everyone gets slaughtered, guess what? no more food, no more music. your life is gonna be boring af
so they go on a little date and Crowley keeps winding him up about how boring shit's gonna be when all the humans have been murdered in the ethereal/occult purge, and Aziraphale finally goes Yeah OK, but you realise I can't do shit about it right? like it's God's will and Crowley goes Nah nah nah, look. Look. Right. so I gotta look after this devil child for a few years and use my sexy nanny vibes to make sure he's evil. why don't YOU also infiltrate this devil child's household and teach him not to kill snails? it'll be like cosmic balance. yin/yang. the kid will be a normal little shit like most preteen boys, rather than starting apocalypses little shit.
Aziraphale is so captivated by his slutty charm and sparkling eyes that he agrees.
so they stalk the kid, dress up like old welsh gardeners and dominatrix nanny to teach him to love slugs and crush his foes under his boot. surprisingly, the kid is relatively normal. although he hates dinosaurs, so that's obviously concerning. Crowley suggests cold blooded murder of the child but Aziraphale's like Nah why don't i cosplay Fell the Marvellous again at his birthday party and Crowley goes why the fuck do I love this loser
anyway so as it turns out, the nuns that Crowley uber'd this baby to 11 years ago ended up with the wrong parents. The best friends husbands roadtrip to go fuck up the nuns, but actually Crowley's maggot colleague (no thats not an insult) burned the nunnery down and it's now a paintball arena, where currently a bunch of repressed office workers are shooting each other. there's a noteworthy bit where the husbands get hit with a paintball, Crowley becomes a naga (except reverse the top and bottom bits. Yeah it's terrifying) just to make a dude shit himself, then Aziraphale puppy dog eyes Crowley to get the stain off his coat because it ruins his vibes and that's not kool.
Crowley tries to make out with Aziraphale against the wall but then forgets the kissing part, then he bippity-boppity-boos a surviving ex-nun so they can interrogate her. the whole trip is pretty useless and it ends up becoming just them two flirt-fighting for a day. Oh also Crowley runs over a witch, but it's fine because she's an American
As it turns out, the witch left a book behind in Crowley's car and Aziraphale yoinks it like the book kleptomaniac he is, then binges it like your new favourite 150k fanfic
Crowley literally climbs the walls in boredom (unfortunately got cut, but still happened in my mind). They eventually meet up in Secret Rendezvous Spot #3 where they have a lover's quarrel and Crowley slut walks off
Next thing ya know, there's a witchfinder (yea don't worry too much about him) at Aziraphale's door and he tries to exorcise him via a prophecy book, a cute little retro desk bell and a fuckin lighter. Anyway.
So Aziraphale was trying to talk to God before the nutbag showed up via a magic angel circle that does a little star trek hologram. He ends up talking to God's secretary (not the fun kind) and he's like, Yeah no God's having PTO rn. Also you're being drafted into war 'cause shit's about to go down and Aziraphale's like Ahhh ok cool neat. let me just like, do a bit of tidying up first, oh and I have to pick up the dry cleaning, um then I need to make dinner, so anyway i'll be there soon. totally. yup. so excited to go fight hot sexy with pretty yellow eyes- bad, evil demons.
Aziraphale accidently cha cha slides into the circle and his body crumbles (same) and he pops into Heaven without a body. He gets yelled at by Anderson for not having a body or that sword he gave the humans 6000 years ago, and honestly I can't help but think it's Heaven's fault for not stock taking enough
Aziraphale's like Haha yeah Anderson I'm not fighting no war, I have a hot sexy yellow-eyed pretty beautiful smart funny demon to ki- uuuh, I mean, I'm a pacifist now, BYE and he yeets himself back to the mortal plane via a floaty picture of Earth
He finds Crowley going on a bender and doodling A+C=<3 on the pub table. Aziraphale's like Right Crowley get your shit together, we got an Apocalypse to stop in Tadfield
Crowley ends up getting trapped in London via a giant doom circle of fire that he designed, but he's like Ah nah fuck it, my Bentley can take it and it DOES. I mean it does explode, but only after it gets him to Tadfield. What a stellar car. 10/10
The husbands try to murder the child with a fireworks gun, that fails, then they watch the child encourage his friends to insult three cosmic beings to death. Yah it actually works, too.
The child then insults Lucifer into the void, and that's it, ba ba boom, apocalypse averted. The husbands do what they do best; get crunk.
Heaven & Hell kidnap the husbands and tries to give them their Worst Employee of the Century rewards, but the husbands survive it via clever trickery and Being A Little Shit, and they ride off into the sunset and confess their love at the Ritz via affectionate insults
the end
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God Is a Creepy-Ass Meta Mfer:
A Good Omens Essay
This essay features fan theory and speculation. DO NOT TAG NEIL GAIMAN IN ANY POST THAT INCLUDES OR REFERENCES THIS ONE.
The rest of this depends on accepting the premise that God's Plan is not always inscrutable in hindsight, i.e., that parts of that Plan can be discerned or identified as such once they have happened, even if the next moves of the Plan and its ultimate Purpose remain ineffable.
If you are willing to accept that premise, then I suggest we can conclude with reasonable certainty that Thesis Statement 1: Aziraphale's act of giving Adam the First Man the flaming sword is part of God's Plan, and so was Eve and Adam eating the Fruit.
The argument for the latter has been in circulation making even the beardiest of old Christian men scratch their heads for centuries, and in Good Omens, Crowley is the first being ever to make it:
The presence of the Tree in the Garden placed by an omnipotent being with literally infinite orchard space and security technology is a clear indication that God intends humans to interact with the Tree and sets humans up in a divine entrapment operation, giving God the opportunity to curse humanity and evict them from the Garden.
Diversion onto Thesis Statement 2 bc the Essayist Got Distracted: This establishes both the Bible and Good Omens as works of literature in the cosmic horror genre (not that Good Omens doesn't do plenty of its own work in so establishing itself).
In both these stories God is a being beyond humanity's understanding, functionally omniscient and omnipotent, who first creates and then interferes with humanity for unknown reasons and who does not necessarily have humanity's best interests in mind at any point. His/er reasoning and objectives for humanity are opaque, and S/he manipulates circumstances to create excuses to do humanity as a species and sometimes specific humans harm.
If you're not already familiar, go read all the shit God curses humans with when Eve and Adam snack on the Tree's Fruit. It's frighteningly cruel, if not outright psychopathic. So is God's behavior the Book of Job, His demand that Abraham sacrifice Isaac, Mosaic Law, and the sacrifice of His/er Son. Human lives are no more significant to God than the lives of ants are to humans. This whole history of Earth? It may not even be about us. Our entire species' history may just be part of the backdrop to something else, like two angels falling in love and reuniting Heaven and Hell, or like raccoons. It could all be about the raccoons. Who knows! All of this is absolutely 100% pure undiluted cosmic horror.
Right, okay, so back to Thesis 1: In Good Omens, Aziraphale's gift to the first man of the flaming sword is an objective God wants. Here's my chain of reasoning:
The Eating of the Fruit and God's punishment were both objectives of God. See above.
2. Once those objectives had been accomplished, humankind would not have survived outside the Garden of Eden without the sword. They literally would not exist at all.
Adam the First has to kill the lion, either to keep it from killing him and Eve or to keep him and Eve from starving. No flaming sword = no humanity.
3. We know "no humanity" is not God's Plan, because--
--God says her Plan is Armageddon and the Second Coming in 6,000 years. So humanity needs to exist for either of those to occur (or for there to be any reason for adventures about averting them to occur). And God does a whole Crucifixion and Resurrection of His/er Son. So God wants humanity around and is even prepared to welcome them back into His/er grace, providing they meet certain conditions.
4. We know God is not displeased about Aziraphale's gift of the sword to humans because God asks Aziraphale about the sword, and Aziraphale lies and says he's lost it, and God, who is omniscient and therefore knows this to be a lie and knows exactly where the sword is, lets the entire thing pass unremarked. (More on this anon.)
5. It is not a reach too far to suspect this of God. She tells us Herself that she is a trickster and that we can't trust her not to deceive us:
She also tells us
i. The universe is a game she is playing for her own amusement:
🎵cosmic horror alerrrrrrrrrt!🎵🎶
ii. No one, including angels and demons, has been told the real rules of this game:
"FOR EVERYONE ELSE." Not just humans.
That's why Crowley and Aziraphale each have to wonder if they've done the right or the wrong thing: nobody's told them what the rules are. Aziraphale even thinks that Crowley's temptation of Eve is "all part of the Plan," i.e, that Crowley did the right thing by doing the wrong one. They have no way to tell, and it may be both right and wrong at the same time. (Wrestling with impossible moral conundra raised by a brief look into a story happening on a much greater level than your own? You could be suffering from our old pal Thesis 2: Good Omens is cosmic horror!)
So Aziraphale's Promethean gift to humanity was one of God's objectives, just as cursing humans and yeeting them out of the Garden with the knowledge of Good and Evil and maybe a couple apple seeds in hand was His/er objective.
BONUS! Thesis 3: So why does God bring up Aziraphale's misappropriation of the sword at all? To show us, the audience, that Aziraphale lied to Her and that his gifting of the sword to Adam is part of Her Plan.
Remember from her whole deal with the Tree: God likes to set up situations so that She can react to them. Here she lampshades her awareness of what Aziraphale has done, listens to him lie to Her about it, and then very pointedly does nothing in response to that. She wants everyone watching--i.e., Aziraphale and us--to note that she has noticed the transfer of the sword and is not displeased by it and has noticed the lie and is not going to do anything about that either.
Remember as well, God is the one controlling the narrative we see in S1 of Good Omens. She introduces and concludes the story, and she narrates the scenes of the baby-swap. She's in control of which scenes we see and the order in which we see them. Since she is the one who asked Aziraphale the question about the sword, she's also responsible for this scene's existence.
So why do I think this scene is meant for us and not Aziraphale? Two reasons. Firstly, the conversation with God doesn't do Aziraphale any good. He worries about eventually getting in trouble about the sword until 2019, around 6,000 years later.
God is both omniscient and omnipotent, so it's not possible that She failed to communicate to Aziraphale in such a way that would ease his anxiety. Therefore the conversation was not for his benefit. Again, she's omniscient, so it wasn't for Her benefit either. That leaves the only other party to this conversation: us. The audience.
The next obvious question is, Why does God want us to know that Aziraphale's gift of the flaming sword was both of his free will and part of Her Plan?
I don't know. But I think it may become important, and here is where we delve into hypothesis territory: I think Good Omens is going metafictional. I mean this in a Doki Doki Literature Club, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch way: God, the character in Good Omens, is telling us, the audience, a story.
This metafictional aspect has been with us the whole time---more precisely since 01:13 of S1E1, when God switches from third-person to first-person and addresses us the viewers directly:
And there are several more metafictional; notes in S1 and S2 that I've found so far:
Season 1
That giant eyeball up there floating in space with a bunch of arcane shit around it is a reference to the opening credits sequence of The Twilight Zone, a metafictional show in which an omniscient narrator introduces and concludes each story by addressing the audience directly.
S1E1 27:20
Season 2
1. Maggie and Nina are fictional characters, but the characters share their names with actors Maggie Service and Nina Sosanya.
2. The final credits sequence, with the split screen showing Crowley on one side and Aziraphale on the other, references David Tennant and Michael Sheen's previous/simultaneous lockdown tv series project, Staged! which is intensely metafictional and in which Tennant and Sheen play characters based on themselves and with their names.
3. Sloppy plot synopsis or something more sinister?
4. An interviewer points out that Good Omens references Doctor Who as an extant concern in-universe, which obviously stars David Tennant in the past and currently.
If you find more, please drop them in the comments!
We the audience, are meant to understand ourselves and our reality as being indirectly involved in this story. And God wants us to know 1) that Aziraphale lied to Her about giving away the sword, knowing it was futile, and 2) that his gift of the flaming sword was part of Her Plan. The former is a major character note, and probably a foreshadowing one; but I have no guesses about God's purpose in showing us that the gift of the flaming sword was also to Plan except that whatever it is will probably make me dislike Her approach to parenting even more than I already do.
What I do love about this though is that it suggests that Crowley and Aziraphale both did the right thing by doing the wrong one, i.e. achieved a kind of Schroedinger's obedience, which is nice and disturbing and surprise! pretty cosmic horror. More sweetly, though, it suggests that the two foundational gifts to humanity from the divine were motivated by Crowley's low-effort mischief and Aziraphale's kindheartedness, which is lovely to think about.
DO NOT TAG NEIL GAIMAN IN ANY POST THAT INCLUDES OR REFERENCES THIS ESSAY.
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anyway, fontaine world quests spoilers, but since Elynas is now my favorite sweet child, here is a little summary\speculations in case ppl mb did not catch some details from the quests and about abyss lore:
Elynas is the monster from the Abyss, some kind of dragon or a serpent. He is gigantic and Elynas island basically formed around him.
He existed in "cosmic cold", i.e. Abyss, until "Mother" summoned him and his "siblings". We know from the logs of fontaine fleet which was following "great beast Elynas" that he appeared during the cataclysm 500 years ago. As we know, Rhinedottir was known to open portals to Abyss that let abyss monsters in, so logically, Elynas was one of these, and "Mother" is most likely Rhinedottir and siblings are other monsters summoned.
Like other Rhine's creation, Durin, Elynas was actually very good natured and didn't wish to harm anyone, but apparently his abyssal origin made him see the world differently and the actions he thought were harmless, were in fact destructive to this world. Spoilers for "Book of Esoteric knowledge", in the domain at the end of this quest we learn that Melusines see places corrupted by abyss not as ruined, but as a beautiful garden and abyssal rifthounds as friendly puppies. And in fact, after we fight rifthound here, it also turns into a friendly dog, hinting that ALL abyss monsters are well-natured, but there is some kind of warp going on that shifts their perspective\actions when they enter Teyvat into being destructive, while they see it completely differently.
after some time, Elynas realized that he was in fact, damaging the world around him, which saddened him greatly and he intentionally sought death to stop suffering of others. He was killed most likely by the fontaine fleet that followed him which i mentioned before, but its not stated directly. He died, but his consciousness still lingered and he is basically aware of his body and whats going on around.
After his death, he didn't rot, but calcified, and apparently many factions, including abyss order, Narzissenkreuz Institute and "spirit of primordial waters" (oceanid? hydro dragon?) explored his body and were collecting his blood and flesh, for which he was glad bc he felt lonely and liked to have company. Especially he liked Narzissenkreuz's Jakob, bc he felt the presence of same cold cosmic power (i.e. abyss) in him and so thought that consuming his flesh will be good for him. Jakob as we know, turned into "Inquitous Baptist" after this, but Narzissenkreuz drama is a different story. But we can at least intuit that one way of turning into abyss lectors\heralds\etc is consuming abyss monsters flesh\blood, btw hey Childe, can we have a word of how you got your foul legacy form? did u eat that whale, Childe???
At some point, there was a battle between former friends from Narzissenkreuz Institute inside of Elynas (mentioned before as Narzissenkreuz drama), which led to huge explosion. As result of this, wounds inside of Elynas were opened by explosions, and Melusines were created from them. Elynas was delighted, thought of them as his children and shaped them into what he thought was a beautiful form. They could hear him telepathically at first and he used this to guide and teach them, but with time, most of them lost this ability. The only one who can still hear him, Mamere, is able to do so because she paints with his blood (she doesn't know its his blood ofc), and so has prolonged contact with him. He still loves them and cares for them deeply.
Jakob tried to restart Elynas' heart with unknown goal, but Elynas didn't want to come back to life, stating that doing so would mean he will keep harming the world, which he doesn't want to. He appeared to traveler in the spirit form in a shape of Melusine bc he thinks they are cute:3 He dreams of being able to exist in the world without damaging it and to show traveler his true form eventually
i did not yet find all 13 pages for "Book of Esoteric Knowledge" quest, so here is probs more info to follow, but I think this is overall what we know of Elynas for now
oh, another thing is that every Melusine was born with a "token", which they don't know what it is, but highly treasure. Elynas doesn't mention them. This token can power a mechanical dog tho and dog calls it "power source". Elynas does mention many "mechanical animals" in the battle that resulted in explosion, so mb these power sources from exploded mechanisms interacting with abyss flesh were the triggers for creation of Melusines? Open question for now, hope to have these Eldritch NFTs explained later
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Okay, so, THE cutscene is officially here and released. The Witness' origin story, why it does what it does, its relation to the Traveler, the Light, the Darkness, etc. Spoilers ahead.
I know that the Unveiling lore book has been a source of speculation and a bit of mystery for quite some time, but I'd very much like to engage with it in the context of the new cutscene. Namely that, if we take Unveiling as a story that the Witness told us, the story was predicated on capital B bullshit. Unveiling suggests that there is a specific cosmic struggle that has been going on between the Gardener and the Winnower since time immemorial, but according to the cutscene, that is blatantly false. The Witness invented the very concept of the Winnower as an opposite to the Traveler/Gardener's "unfettered chaos." I want to make clear that my reading of the cutscene does not hold that the Veil and the Winnower are the same thing. Instead, the Witness is attempting to be the Winnower. The race that would become the Witness "merged themselves into the salvation that they craved." They sought a Winnower, and thus became so. All of its preaching about the necessity of its Final Shape have been the megalomaniacal musings of a race that was hurt when they attempted to kill god and take its place. The Witness has been lying and manipulating its way across the universe in pursuit of its god, destroying race after race in the name of nihilism. There is not and never has been any kind of universal truth in the Witness's words. Instead we can see it for what it is, a conman peddling death as salvation.
Honestly, given this knowledge of the Witness? I can't wait to commit a one-shot genocide when we kill it. Gestalt consciousness head ass
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Have you ever been at Arkham? Some say, witches still live there, and ancient cults offer blasphemous sacrifices to nameless gods. There, near the eerie endless river, placed one of the most dobious educational institutions ever.
Miskatonic university is famous all over the world with its science, history and anthropology classes. As prestigious as Harvard, it is attractive point for talented and noble young people, whose minds passionately desire knowledge, sometimes even that which can be called «forbidden». In the poorly lit halls you may find groups of students, and you’d be stunned by the topics of their discussions, as well as their voices whispering terrifying things about the nature of things around them;
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It took a lot of efforts to bring it there, but in the laboratory building there was a fragment of a meteorite that fell on a farmer's garden a couple of days ago. Dr. Crawford Tillingast with his students were astounded by the peculiar spectrum of this rock. Instantly attracting the attention of the entire Physics Department, it was determined that one couldn’t be classified as anything than you can find on the Earth or the familiar cosmic spaces.
The sensational discovery resumed the debates between scientists and conspiracy theorists, frightened by extraterrestrial intervention. It was worth completing the final analyzes on the remains of the stone before it mysteriously evaporated, when newspapers were full of headlines about the next space aliens. For Danny it was such an entertainment to periodically intervene in debates between Dr. Wilmarth and Charles Fort, as well as he couldn’t stand pseudoscience speculation. Dan was a “tough guy”, but the university committee didn’t appreciate his fiery speeches towards his opponents, especially when sometimes they were a high-ranked men. It’s no wonder that such eccentric young lad was dr. Crawford’s protégé, and only this fact prevented Dan from being expelled from the university for his boldness. Whatever, his bad reputation originates from the rare mix of golden brain and disgusting impudence.
The second thing which Dan hates more than brainless sectarians, pseudoscientists, and hillbillies with the stories about flying monsters near the Vermont, was a guy from anthropology department. He saw Watson in person only few time, but it was enough to mark him as a total cretin.
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Being the son of German immigrants, Watson had a strongly visible accent, and definitely could be described as a spoiled noble child. He was never popular among classmates, and his sudden mental breakdown could remain unnoticed, if his symptoms wasn’t so familiar to Arkham Asylum’s doctors.
“….The patient has fragmented visions about different time periods and places, some of them aren’t located nor on the Earth, nor on the other noted planets. From the seizure to seizure, he always claims about his contact with alien race from the “far away in space and time”. The patient called it as “The Great Race of Yith”, or the “masters”, as he always refers to them. The aliens ran the program of mind transfer, or more particularly, the research area between neurology and wireless technologies. According to the statements from patient’s fits, the aliens collected the information from the different intellectual creatures around the space and time. They used something resembled to classical writing the data, which was obviously very fragile and short-lived option. Trying to avoid the loss of the data they started to search for another source which could contain the data for a long. As it was said, the Yithians was very familiar to the mind transfer, and conversion their writings to electromagnetic code of the brain was an idea how to send the message for distant miles and times, without someone else's interruption. Subsequently, theaim was to converted the knowledge they collected to one informantional carrier…”—the doctor reported.
As suddenly as he fainted, Watson came back to his normal mental state, as if nothing happened, he denied everything he said before. But something really changed, as well as he recalled something time to time. It was a big deal to go back to the university, especially with the fact that he suffers from permanent headaches, but he did a really good job at his new anthropology studies. After all, beside university doors he still being extremely attracted to art galleries, especially he enjoyed the works of one infamous artist from Boston, so Watson spent tons of money to redeem all the Richard U. Pickman’s art.
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Tracklist:
Rush • Secret • Magic • Kismet • Kathy Left 4 Kathmandu • Mystery • Circuit Board • The Internet Is Like Eating Plastic • Arrival to the Garden of Cosmic Speculation (Intermission) • Asha's Kiss • Time Flies • Love Overgrown • Endless Summer • New Drugs • Let Your Breath Become a Flower (Guided Meditation)
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As an SFX artist; what can you tell me about clowns? Why do you think they’ve become an icon of fear?
Coulrophobia!
Another long ramble ahead, consider yourself warned:
So I'm sure there's an actual psychological explanation for what makes clowns creepy, but I don't know it so this is just me speculating a bit.
A lot of intense personal fears are developed during childhood - you get attacked by bees, you develop a fear of bees; you nearly drown as a kid, you develop a fear of drowning. It's a learned fear response, meant to keep you from experiencing similar threats again, but it's strongest when we're children since they have fewer experiences to compare it to. I.e. a lifelong gardener with plenty of harmless experiences with bees is not going to develop a phobia from one bee sting, but a 6-year-old girl who has no other experiences with bees is likely to become afraid.
We can apply this same logic to clowns: they're something that is usually introduced to young children, since they're meant as children's entertainment, so a bad experience is more likely to leave you with lingering anxiety or reservations surrounding clowns.
I also think this is a bit of a positive feedback loop when it comes to clowns being seen as an icon of fear. One filmmaker chooses to make a clown-based horror film, a kid watches it too young and develops a lingering fear, kid grows up to write their own book or produce their own movie, it continues the cycle. Fear of sharks spiked tremendously after Jaws permeated homes, and It did the same for clowns.
I think this is true for any fear, really - it's not that clowns or sharks are innately more scary than another thing, but those particular works are so well-presented that they instill a fear in the audience. I could write a movie about... idk, a box of tissues, and if it's profoundly scary enough then it doesn't matter whether the tissues themselves are scary. It's all in how they're presented. And sure, filmmakers and authors will generally stick to something that has a bit more history, with the potential to hurt, since that gives a jump-start on the fear response, but I'd argue at the core of it that it doesn't matter.
I think the reason they've become an icon of fear rather than just something that's scary is because of the real-world connection, too. It's kind of a chicken-and-egg situation, but take something like John Wayne Gacy or the 2016 clown sightings across the continental US - whether these are inspired by creepy clowns in media, or whether the media is inspired by the real-world events, having something be real makes it scarier.
I talked before about how horror trends mimic the societal fears of their time period, and this is more of the same. If you watch a movie, and there is even the slightest inkling of belief that this could happen to you - that you'd spot a real creepy clown in the bushes on your way home from work - it makes that thing more scary. I mean, compare something like The Mist or Annihilation to something like Arachnophobia or Hush: they're completely different genres, yes, and the individual creatures in The Mist and Annihilation are definitely scary, but there's something extremely visceral about the latter movies because you could walk into a house infested with venomous spiders, you could look through the window one night and see a masked burglar aiming to break in, while you're much less likely to actually encounter mutated cosmic beings like that. Clowns are scary because they are something you could feasibly run into, without too many mental gymnastics to get there.
TL;DR: Clowns are scary because of childhood fear associations, a history of violence in real-world events, and the fact that they are mundane enough that the brain may misattribute fiction and reality.
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The Cosmic Speculation garden in Scotland.
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The Sun Goddess of Lemuria
The Sun Goddess (Boa in Werer, Ra in Atratra, Aditeyia in Chola Tamil, among others) is a rather important figure in the indigenous religions of Lemuria. While her worship prior to Austronesian arrival is unclear, sun symbols are engraved in building bases and she is a character in the epic The Drama of the Moon. Likewise, some speculate that some buildings were oriented along equinoxes and sunrises, though without the wooden components this is hard to say.
With the arrival of Austronesian peoples and their influences on Lemuria, the Sun Goddess quickly became a patron deity of both the Western Arrokath Empire and Eastern Betsana Empire. This is quite remarkable given that most Austronesian solar deities are masculine and some of her mythology mirrors that of Zanahary in Madagascar (and isolated highland communities do worship male sun deities), implying that she was indeed worshipped in pre-Austronesian times.
With the arrival of the Chola Dynasty and Buddhism, attempts were made at stamping her cult, but they failed, and instead she was syncretised with the divine modern Aditi, no longer just the modern of the sun but the sun herself. Likewise, Portuguese Catholicism found it much easier to syncretise her with the Virgin Mary and the woman cloaked in the sun in Revelation; Lemurian Christian beliefs even say that the world was dark before the birth of Virgin Mary, and that the Garden of Eden was once the sun.
Much as many ruling deities, there are comparitively few myths about the Sun Goddess, being a distant cosmic deity compared to more approacheable deities. However, she is said to look after the people, and people from all walks of life pray to her as a first recourse. Besides her involvement in the Drama of the Moon, one myth says that she fashioned humans from clay and fire; the fire, the soul, goes to her upon death like a mother embracing a child, while the clay, the body, is claimed by the earth. This in many ways resembles the myth of Zanahary in Madagascar, and is probably the product of multiple exchangs between both islands.
She is said to be both mother and father of the gods, yet the Drama of the Moon calls her a daughter of the Old Moon. Though benevolent, she has many demons that stalk during the day, an explanation for sun stroke. One of the most feared is the Laranga, an elephant headed ogre woman with bleach white skin that devours those she encounters.
As mentioned before, some isolated communities do have male sun gods; it is unclear if this is the result of Austronesian beliefs or Indian beliefs. Most notable is Sarrash, the sun god of the Menuma people of the highlands, who takes Prince Kisotosy as his lover.
Surviving countless religious turnovers and forcing colonizing powers to bend to her will, the Lemurian Sun Goddess is no doubt a symbol of Lemurian pride and nationalism.
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The Best Wooden Jigsaw Puzzles for Adults: A Guide to Finding the Perfect Puzzle for You
Jigsaw puzzles are a fun and engaging way to pass the time, and wooden jigsaw puzzles offer a unique and satisfying experience for adult puzzle enthusiasts. Unlike traditional cardboard puzzles, wooden puzzles are known for their sturdy construction, beautiful designs, and the satisfying sound and feel of the pieces fitting together.
When it comes to choosing the perfect wooden jigsaw puzzle, there are a few things to consider. The first is the level of difficulty. Some wooden puzzles are designed for beginners, while others are intended for more experienced puzzle solvers. Consider your own skill level and choose a puzzle that will be challenging but not frustrating.
Another important factor to consider is the design of the puzzle. Wooden puzzles come in a wide variety of designs, from stunning landscapes and intricate patterns to reproductions of famous works of art. Choose a design that appeals to you and will be enjoyable to work on.
Size is also an important consideration. Wooden puzzles can range in size from small, portable puzzles to large, floor-sized puzzles. Consider the amount of space you have available and choose a size that will be comfortable to work on.
Finally, consider the quality of the puzzle. Look for puzzles made from high-quality wood and with precise cuts to ensure a smooth and satisfying puzzle experience. You can also look for brand reputation and customer reviews to ensure that you are getting a high-quality product.
With these things in mind, let's take a look at some of the best wooden jigsaw puzzles for adults currently on the market:
1. "The Garden of Earthly Delights" by Hieronymus Bosch - This stunning wooden puzzle is a reproduction of the famous painting by Hieronymus Bosch. With over 500 pieces, this puzzle will keep you engaged for hours and is sure to be a conversation starter when completed.
2. "Escape the City" by Dowdle Folk Art - This beautiful wooden puzzle depicts a peaceful countryside scene, complete with a winding river and a variety of wildlife. With 500 pieces, this puzzle is the perfect escape from the hustle and bustle of daily life.
3. "The Great Wave" by Hokusai - This wooden puzzle is a reproduction of the iconic Japanese woodblock print, "The Great Wave." With over 1000 pieces, this puzzle will be a challenge to even the most experienced puzzle solvers.
4. "The Garden of Cosmic Speculation" by Charles Jencks - This wooden puzzle is based on the garden designed by Charles Jencks and features an intricate and abstract design. With over 500 pieces, this puzzle is perfect for those who enjoy a challenge.
5. "The Secret Garden" by Kevin Walsh - This beautiful wooden puzzle depicts a serene garden scene complete with a variety of flowers and a pond. With only 300 pieces, this puzzle is perfect for beginners or those looking for a more relaxed puzzle experience.
In conclusion, wooden jigsaw puzzles offer a unique and satisfying experience for adult puzzle enthusiasts. When choosing the perfect puzzle, consider the level of difficulty, design, size, and quality. With so many beautiful and challenging options available, you're sure to find the perfect puzzle for you. Happy puzzling!
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The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
Dumfries, Scotland
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