#existential tw

[imaveryevilenby]

I wanna talk about just how alone in the universe an object could possibly be

There are these areas of the universe rightly known as voids

These are defined as spaces between large scale structures in the universe that contain little to no galaxies. Now, though these voids typically have some matter in them, to an outside observer, they look completely or nearly empty.

Voids are typically 30 to 300 million lightyears in diameter, however the ones that aren't are the most interesting and are sometimes called supervoids.

Here's a map of some galactic voids. Every dot on that map isn't a star by the way, it's a fucking galaxy. That's how unfathomably massive these supervoids are

Empty voids so large, our entire planet, our entire solar system, is like a speck of dust in comparison

One of the biggest of these, the Boötes Void, is about 330 million lightyears across, or what is approximately 0.27% of the observable universe. It's colloquially known as the Great Nothing and contains only about 60 galaxies in a space that normally would have over 2,000

According to astronomer Greg Aldering "If the milky way had been in the center of the Boötes void, we wouldn't have known about other galaxies until the 1960s"

Here's an artist's rendition of what it looks like

It's just... nothingness.

Empty space

To put it in a bit more perspective, a lightyear is 9.46 trillion kilometers or 5.88 trillion miles. This void is 330 million lightyears in diameter. I can't even imagine just how large this empty spot in space is, and that's fucking awesome

So yeah space is big and empty but there's bigger and emptier things in that emptiness

#post #existential tw #space #ask to tag #astronomy #voids #supervoids

[firstofficerkittycat]

granted you wouldn't have to keep enduring past the extinction of humanity / heat death of the universe, would you choose immortality?

being a mayfly is a beautiful gift why would i trade it away for a billion times the horrors that i have now. also humanity never dies they make themselves into cybermen again and again and again until the sky cracks in two and they get pulled out the edge of existence where nothing lives and shoved back into 2007 where they kill their predecessors with lazers and saws until they blink out like lights bc that was an unholdable paradox and then its their younger selves turn to do it again and it just repeats over and over in an incessant sceaming loop with the same force that ignited the big bang no thank u i wanna be food for a tree

#great distraction thank u #asks #delusional fuel #apocalypse tw #existential tw #it is a doctor who joke but yk

[stillflight]

#creative #slowly phasing in poetry with the ultimate goal of adding ''writeblr'' to the chimera that is my main blog #death tw #existential tw #?? is that even a thing #swift's serious room

[withoutatrace-pkmn]

✂ - a vivid memory

[Of all the disturbing things they’d seen in this crater, the sight of their own face reflected a million times over was perhaps the most disturbing.

This room was a strange one, massive and lined wall to wall with the crystals that grew everywhere in this wretched pit. It was brightly lit, but Trace couldn’t see from where, or what. It seemed like the only object in this room was a … machine? Some small structure in the room’s centre, stark and ominous against its iridescent surroundings.

Trace approached cautiously, curiosity overriding fear. The machine seemed inert, or biding its time.

Shaking hands overlaid the cold surface of the machine, then Trace pulled themselves over, peering into its centre. They squinted, examining the machination. Was that a spark?

Suddenly a rumbling, rushing sound filled Trace’s ears. They barely registered the machine coming to life, rising around them, before that tiny spark of life flashed into something brighter-

Filling their vision-

Filling their mind-

And then they saw-

everythingandeverythingthesuncollapsedtheearthcrumbledtoashthestarsbledanddiedtheuniversedecayedtobonebeforetheireyestheysawthelightfadefrombehindtheeyesoftheirbrothertheirparentstheirschoolmatestheysaweverythingendagainandagainineverywayforeverandeverandever-

The light faded, and the machine returned to slumber. And Trace found themselves surrounded by faces that were not their own.]

#pkmn irl #pokeblogging #pokemon irl #existentialism tw #existential tw

[metanarrates]

since you asked for metanarrative questions: what medium (book, comic, tv show, movie, theater, video game, or any i missed) do you think would be the most bearable / workable to be a self-aware character in? and which would be the worst?

took a couple days to answer this because I've been busy and wanted to give the question a good amount of thought, but I think that a lot of it depends LARGELY on how closely a meta-aware character would still have to stick to their script. would you be able to just freely move within the world as you chose? or would you be stuck having to spout the exact same lines and same actions, fully knowing that you're a character in a work of fiction, but unable to alter your situation at all? or somewhere on that sliding scale?

put more simply, knowing you're a fictional character would suck ass regardless, but if you had a high degree of agency within your medium, at least you'd be able to figure out something to make your existence more pleasant. conversely, I think any medium, no matter how light the genre you were placed in within the medium, could be hellish if you were completely denied autonomy outside of your preset "script."

all that said, assuming the same degree of autonomy across every single potential option, i would DEFINITELY pick cartoons as the most bearable place to be a self-aware character. it's already somewhat established in cartoons that characters can screw around with the fourth wall - bugs bunny does this frequently, for instance. there's a lot of fun and silly shit you could do in that medium, and since cartoons are frequently light in tone, you wouldn't be in too much danger of being stuck in a horror story. would probably still suck, obv, but you could at least have a little fun with it!

i may be a bit biased because i'm a huge fan of deltarune's implicit Existential Torment, but i do think it would suck the most to be in a video game and fully aware of that. of course, a character in any medium or genre is very much at the mercy of the author and audience, but in a video game, you as a character would very frequently be at the mercy of a player. it's a much more direct form of power over you, and if you're an NPC who the player has the power to kill, that's real freaky. even if they can't hurt you, the effects of a player on the world of a video game are almost always REALLY huge, since video games are an interactive medium. it would be a little scary, I think, seeing the player character go around and do shit in the world you live in! i could handle the audience of a theatre or a movie or comic just fine, but gamers? nah. don't wanna be in a world where those are around.

#asks and answers #existential tw #all this is really dependent on genre also. again any genre could be hellish with no autonomy #but at LEAST you're probably not getting murdered in a romcom

[therainbowrollsystem]

My theory on exclusionists.

It's no secret that humans are hardwired to be the most adaptable species. We are the ultimate survivor species. Sometimes, survival means fighting others who are trying to survive off of your belongings. Dividing others started in caveman times to make sure that other cavemen didn't steal your coconuts or something, but eventually, as human history progressed, we started dividing people that didn't need to be divided. This led to things like the civil rights battles, which were massive fights for a specific (yet broad) identity to exist. So here is my theory: exclusionists have two reasons: the human hardwiring to divide, as well as the generational impact of the civil rights battles. They want that struggle to mean something, and anyone who doesnt fit the description of what they fought for to a tee is "discrediting it". They want the fight against division to mean something so much that they become the dividers themselves.

People will remember who divided them, however they forget that not all of that type of people were the ones who did it. Even though humans are the dominant species and the best at adaptability and surviving, that premise is inherently flawed. It's that will to survive that let us get here and thrive, but now it's that same manipulated will to survive that's making us fight each other out of existence.

tl;dr: As we evolved, the need to survive evolved with us, and warped itself into exclusionism as we stopped needing to fight for our lives and started needing to fight for ourselves.

This goes for all exclusionism, not just anti-endos.

-Medic (💉)

#existential tw #philosophical #endo system #endo safe #radinclus #rad inclus #mogai safe #pro mogai #pro mspec

[angstxietyy]

REBLOGS >>>>>

Gore tw, death tw, depression tw, existential tw

#{neo types} #{my art} #gore tw #death tw #depression tw #i dunno just major tws in this #decided to repost the whole thing i fucked it up #animation #furry #fursona #flipaclip #backstory #yea anyways i added tws now #reblogs appreciated ig #existential tw

[collectalong]

❛ i am very small and i have no money, so you can imagine the kind of stress that i’m under. ❜ / pomni @ rag. AGAIN. the plum boy

INCORRECT QUOTES

"well—y'know, uh—look on the bright side! at least we don't need money here! aheh? i mean, sure, making ends meet is part of what gives us purpose, but, uh—in here, we can just work to... yeah, keep us stable! you know?"

she gestures vaguely with her polygonal ragdoll arms, trying her best to keep smiling. "huhah, uh, no worrying about starving to death, or—paying off loans when you're living in the digital world... heh. eh?"

@plumuses

#ic.ragatha: don't worry new stuff! #☆ summon the huntsman! ( answered asks ) #existential tw #☾ plumuses / pomni ☽ to be hopeless or not to be

[iclimbtreestofeelalive]

#shitpost #this one was a community effort everyone say thank you to nearsighted #existential tw

[mpathicoracle]

infodumping about the life of the universe

TWs TO BE AWARE OF:

existential about human life/life in general

birth metaphor

life expiration/dying mention

space

never ending universe

brief mention of multiverse theory

anyway here-

so a while ago i found this video on youtube called "Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time" by melodysheep (look it up, i won't link it for others' safeties) and it is by far the most pleasing, soothing thing to watch. it's nearly 30 minutes long and the timeline counter speeds up every 5 seconds. the art/videography is amazingly put together with the information given, with direct quotes (LITERALLY) from multiple different scientists and whatnot, and the music just adds to it. but it has me obsessed and i love it~

human life, and life as we know it in general, including light, is only around for (I may have forgotten some zeros probably) 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% of the universe's lifespan!! by the time all life and light dies out and the black hole era begins, in relation to a human lifespan, our universe wouldve only just left the womb. the universe will be alive for 8 thousand trillion(x8) years...ish. by the time human life and light dies, tho, we would've absolutely found ways to travel to different universes physically by then, so I wouldn't be too concerned we'll always find ways to live on forever shdjgkgk we'd be hella advanced by then, likely jumping from one galaxy to another until we come upon a newer universe. theres even a theory that, with a sort of "atom crusher," we could potentially put together so much energy that we could, in theory, create new universes. hell, the only reason we knohell, by the time the last black hole expires, the universe is still expanding! it's always expanding and getting bigger, we just don't understand why yet and I doubt we'll find out in our lifetime(s), we'd prolly be long dead by the time the human race figures it out. well, technically we already know it's something we've labeled as "dark matter," but we dont know how it exists or how to even examine it properly, its literally just Void between matter and energy, and that is what keeps the universe pushing towards entropy, but by then it wont even matter cuz we'd be dead by then. by the time it hits 8 thousand trillion(x8) years, time doesn't even exist anymore cuz theres nothing to keep it going, truly

i just. its so incredible to think about, cuz barely by the time *im* dead (i am currently 24), we'd have barely stepped foot on mars and made a livable station there. none of us will be alive by the time we inhabit planets outside our own solar system. there's just something amazing about that absolutely terrifying thought and, while its probably concerning that i love it so much, its somehow fitting lmfao

#existential philosophy #existential tw #birth tw #birth metaphor tw #death tw #space tw #universe tw #multiverse theory #space #added tws just in case let me know if i missed any #scientific theory #astronomy #astronomical theories #timelapse of the universe #timelapse of the future #theory of entropy

[corvidshipping]

here’s a thought: when you die, instead of seeing a white light or something like that, you see the end credits of your life roll before your eyes, showing you the roles everyone played in your life, how people helped you and even the names of random strangers who helped you and affected your life. what song is playing over them?

(for bonus points: the credits get a cool animation of some kind, like some movies do before they show the regular roll. what does it look like?)

#paperheart.txt #existential tw #death tw #i really do not know how to trigger tag this #ask 2 tag #please #anyway i have three candidates: #mountains by prince; road to nowhere by talking heads; and we close our eyes by oingo boingo

[hamoodmood]

In another universe I was happy

#in another universe #in another life #girlblogging #girlblogger #spilled words #photography #a blog for the heartbroken #abandonment issues #depressing quotes #escapism #existentialism #romanticism #born to die #childhood trauma #just girly things #tw depressing stuff #tw depressing thoughts #unlovable #spilled ink #poem #picture #poetry #liminal spaces #sadcore #sadgirl #mentally drained #feelings

[incorrectbatfam]

Tim: The atoms that make up my body aren't mine, it's just my time to use them.

Damian: Father says it's my turn to use the carbon.

#source: tumblr #tim drake #red robin #damian wayne #robin #batman #incorrect batfamily quotes #batfamily #batfam #batbros #batboys #batkids #batsiblings #batman family #incorrect quotes #incorrect dc quotes #dc comics #tw existentialism

[noname-404s-blog]

#sorry for being depressing #sorry #i'm sorry #im sorry #i dont hate her #i dont hate him #im not strong enough #im not mentally stable #im not okay #im not sure #existential dread #existential crisis #i dont wanna #i dont want to be here #i dont want it #i dont want to be alone #i dont want this #tw depressing stuff #depressing shit #sadcore #apologies #apology #i love him #i still love her #i still love you #love #i still love him #love you guys #im still here #sadgirl

[trustymikh]

may I interest you in Emperor Sigma being a menace

#his second eye is the nebula itself #also this Siebren atm is being torn apart into billion pieces and reassembled on the iss he just hadn't realized it yet #tfw you temporarily die and meet an eldritchified version of yourself who tells you to eat shit and git gud #mik draws #sigma overwatch #siebren de kuiper #overwatch 2 #overwatch #fanart #tw eye contact #drawing #digital drawing #digital art #bouncing between existential dread and memes at the speed of a plinko ball

[the-magpie-archives]

As anyone who's ever listened to the magnus archives knows, the characters are viscerally and entirely captivating. This sounds like an exaggeration, but it's impossible to not fall in love with at least one of them.

I think this lies in the intense humanity of each of them. Their reactions are so real, their emotions so tangible. Hearing Martin sob when verbally attacked by Elias, Jon yelling in anger when he doesn't understand something, or Sasha whimpering her explanations during prentiss' attack; these are all such relatable reactions, and make the characters extraordinarily easy to sympathise with.

This also goes a long way in making the horror that much more powerful. It's a bitter reminder that horrible things happen to people exactly like you. It puts me in mind of the quote "The moment you die will feel exactly like this one."

Your life could be this awful; you've simply skirted around the terror.

#What is horror but a reflection of the possibilities of life? Is it a mercy to avoid them or does someone else simply suffer instead? #I try not to be existential about tma challege: impossible. #It's just such a beautiful and intricate storyline entirely based on humanity and a lack thereof it's just unparalleled!! #tma #the magnus archives #the magnus institute #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #sasha james #elias bouchard #tma meta #tw existentialism