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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ค. 2024
- In this short video essay, I will go over a couple of ideas and concepts that might not broaden not only your enjoyment of cosmic horror but of works of fiction as a whole. I hope you’ll enjoy it!
This is the video I used for the stroll around the English village. Please check it out: • A Surreal Morning Walk...
Lofi songs used were taken from this video: • you put your pen down ...
Seclusion - Isaak Wolf, Nycto
Curious Query - Nycto, Isaak Wolf
Other songs:
Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower - Bloodborne OST
Mudrock’s theme - Arknights OST - เกม
Starts showing Armored Core footage, and starts playing Twilight of Wolumunde's theme. You sir is a cultured one!
I didn't realize it was radiation and it was honestly terrifying.
The most amazing thing about cosmic horror is that it not only frightens, but immerses you in a state of awe. It is not surprising that many inventions of Europeans inspired religious and reverent horror in the indigenous people of the Americas and Africa.
From awe and fear to religious veneration and cargo cult is just one small step.
Combine in half life fits pretty well to this. It is an empire you can't even comprihend and fight against. everything they doing can be just another day for them meanwhile it is doomsday for you.
Exactly! What's so terrifying about it (it thinks of itself as a single entity) is that it isn't evil per se, it's just so massive it doesn't see a human life as being worth more than that of a microbe. Sure, it's a living h*ll from the point of view of a human or alien in it, but do you treat your individual cells any better?
Regarding the heroes vs villains thing you mentioned at the end of the video - a very interesting detail IMHO is that in the absolute majority of heroic action stories the villain is not just a losing party, the villain is _alone_ and is _being ganged up on_ .
Just going to shout out "The King in Yellow".
Yeah big shout out to my main man
#Casildas Song
Your videos are a delight to watch. Good editing, great narration, a soothing voice, and interesting topics. Keep up the good work!
Another kinda Cosmic Horror theme can sometimes be fond in the SCP Universe atleast in a few instances
The portrayal of radioactive fallout as an eldritch entity is done very well in HBO's Chernobyl, and this is even after knowing that it is radiation. Go check it out.
I would propose an alternative. I would propose separating Cosmic horror and Eldritch horror.
They both have the theme of the unknowable in common, but there are a few major distinctions.
Eldritch horror centers around the occult. Ancient beings, monsters whose mere comprehension drives people insane, cults comprised of these mad people, you know the deal. But it's not necessarily grand in scale.
Cosmic horror, on the other hand, centers around events and things that are too big to understand, and far outside your control, yet nontheless are threatening to everything you know.
The work can be both of these things, like Lovecraft's works, Darkest Dungeon or Sunless Sea/Skies (Fallen London) universe, or it can be only one of them.
As an example, Bloodborne is Eldritch alright, but not Cosmic. The unknowable creatures are all small in scale and abilities and have a very understandable motivation (to procreate).
For a pure Cosmic horror, your example with radiation is rather brilliant. Another one would be a scientific conception of false vacuum decay (a way of pure nothingness that may or may not spread from a random point in the universe with the speed of light until it engulfs all) or the whole cosmological constant deal (not even going into that or my comment would be thrice as long).
Saya no Uta was my catalyst that feed my interest on the Cosmic Horror genre and I thank that I've discovered Junji Ito and Lovecraft from it.
Your video essays are always delightful to listen to, especially with the touch of sarcasm and humor in them. Keep up the great work! P.S. Enjoy the dewdrops -A Navia Main
Not to um actually you, but I'm going to um actually you. I don't think the coral people are ex-humans. Simply because Ayre never mentions being an ex-human. It would be weird for her to not tell you that after telling you that she's a coral person.
But yeah, great video. For a 10 minute story, the radiation thing was really clever. Especially since it all clicks in to place at the end.
Yeah, what Coral represents is spelled out pretty clearly by the game and it's a bit odd Haedal seems to have missed it. AC6 keeps using the same word over and over for it: "potential." Limitless potential for creation, destruction and evolution. It can be an energy resource powering civilization to new bounds of prosperity, ammo fueling the fire of endless wars or the next step in humanity's evolution. Coral is vaguely described not to inspire horror but because Coral is whatever you want it to be.
Coral is a kind-of mediocre cosmic horror considering it's completely at humanity's mercy to use, destroy or unite with. The closest thing to a cosmic-scale threat it presents is "Coral Collapse," which the game barely describes. The real cosmic horror of AC6 is humanity-which, through sheer power of macro-scale industry, shrinks down a planet into a single theater of war over just one resource.
And like you were saying, Ayre was "born of the Coral tide," she's not a disembodied human mind and there's very little to suggest that can even happen. Haedal seems to think that's what is happening during Alea Iacta Est, and I think that's a critical misread.
@@NathanIsYappin I would disagree, coral is absolutely depicted(/described) in a way that is suposed to inspire horror. But this horror does not come from the coral itself being scary.
Instead the Horror comes from Handler Walters, the research institutes, thumb Dolmayan's and O'Keeffe's view on coral. As the player spends time with them, their view on coral starts to rub off on the player. They fear a corral collapse/ release because it would give the coral consciousness and freedom (mutation), taking away humans control over the Coral and lead to an unknown future that they do not understand.
which is pretty much on point for the Lovecraftian horror, with the fear of the unknown and the grand scale of cosmic entities beyond our ability to comprehend, that drive humans which perceive them insane just by existing.
Another example of non-traditional cosmic horror is the Rememberance of Earth's Past Trilogy (The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, Death's End) by Cixin Liu. It's a hard sci-fi story about first-contact and two of its main themes are the incomprehensibility of alien life and alien life we can communicate with so far outclassing us technologically that we don't even stand a chance and it milks them for every terrifying drop it can squeeze out. One of the most terrifying pieces of media I've ever consumed, it genuinely messed me up for like a month after I finished it and has made me very afraid of the possibility of alien life. The whole story plays out like a cosmic horror story with humanity not even being underdogs simply because what we're up against is so far beyond us they can stop us from being able to develop the means to fight back. I don't know if this comment made any sense, but read the books, they're terrifying and spectacular and I highly HIGHLY recommend them.
The short story you told resembles a lot something Junji ito would write
I liked your story
Imagine The Antithesis of All Creation 🕳️
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