#cosmic horror but sexy

[cmrosens]

Preorder Links for THE DAY WE ATE GRANDAD

Glorious (2022) meets The Brothers Karamazov (if you look at it sideways and squint a bit):

selfish pan polyam eldritch playboy (called Wes) who might end the world

family conflict with central warring triad

generational trauma

bloody murder

apocalyptic death cult

(For other Amazon stores, change .co.uk to your own ending - .com, .de, .jp, .au, etc)

[evostrashbin]

pondering Nihility all by yourself, handsome?

[stacydrumartist]

Escape From Pod 9. Oils on Illustration board.

[gremnoire]

All stars are self-similar: spoon out the meanest spark of celestial fire, and it will burn as brightly, for a time, before a lack of gravity unravels it. Connect alternating valleys of a pentagram and you will find the same: a daughter sigil, infinitely in-divisible.

All stars are self-similar, but only some may be divine, when even the mathematics of their spokes speak to perfection.

Some ancients thought there may be four elements, or maybe five: rising air and fire, falling earth and water, and ineffable quintessence. These can be symbolicated, as in the fingers of a hand or the compounds of a hexagram. But in both configurations stepping back we find the lack, the void: a closed fist, an open palm; the hexing space within, beneath, above. Six-and-zero, everything and nothing.

The Hidden Star, the Void-Which-Joins: Its halo radiates and splits sixfold, to tile all space with her presence. The Imperatrix may yet grant us her mercy, if we worship It not in name but number.

To be hexxed by Esther is a blessing.

(Art by @meowphie)

(Read Antigreen on AO3!)

[no1ryomafan]

So I finished mazinkaiser awhile ago after months of procrastination on it and for one reason or another I’m not gonna give my solid thoughts on it but there is one specific thing I wanna point out, not as a critique but more so a confusion. That being: I find it weird how Mazinkaiser isn’t the turning point for Mazinger where they finally go “hey the robot is sentient” because it’s not yet near the end literally EVERYONE talks to Venus A as if shes actually a person:

I’m not saying this as a criticism for the reason of my already biased to vaguely sentient robots-because as much as I prefer this angle with mecha, I understand not every and all mecha can approach this because sometimes the robot is JUST a narrative tool and not a character, which is fine-however I’m confused with Mazinger of all things didn’t take this approach when there’s already so much emphasis on Mazinger being tied to gods. I mean, apart from the fact the robots are based off Greek Mythology and there is a constant message of “will it become God or Devil” which feels like it warrants this enough, it would start to make sense if the robot grew sentient because Mazinkaiser is treated as the ULTIMATE Mazinger. (And where have we heard a case where the “ultimate” form of a robot starts to be the one that displays more self awareness *cough* GETTAH🗿)

Especially also within this ova- it seems to do stuff on its own accord to PROTECT Koji, like going on auto pilot as he’s knocked out and somehow keeping him safe from being burned alive in magma, but I cannot tell if this IS a indicator Mazinkaiser is actually sentient or if it’s just all auto pilot. Oh and it’s a more minor thing but also just- the human poses Kaiser and Venus take during the beach episode… I cannot tell if that’s something they wanted or if their pilots just posed them comfortably because lines seem to blur with the robots just being treated as the extensive of the pilots. (Venus is literally based off of Sayakas appearance after all)

It’s just weird Nagai never went this route and just stuck to metaphorical stuff, when it feels like SOMETHING he would do given the nature of his stories and yet the only fully sentient Mazinger media I know is Zero. Of course I still have such a limited window on Mazinger so if this is me actually being wrong please feel free to correct me, but I still will never not find it weird Mazinkaiser lacks this aspect asides from maybe vague allusions to it that may or may not be implying it. Maybe if I ever rewatch it or find more Mazinkaiser content specifically I’ll be able to piece things together a bit more.

[dirtyoldmanhole]

i cannot stress how amazingly bonkers i think it is that corrin can very canonly have a kid with her 60+ year old baby daddy when he is also the literal JRPG big bad and the penultimate final boss right behind him. and they're both..... arguably but textually...... her dads.

god i love revelation <3

[synth-ai]

[cmrosens]

The Day We Ate Grandad

Counting down to the release of THE DAY WE ATE GRANDAD! The book comes out 14 April and the podcast airs on 20 April, serialising the novel in audio format, with new episodes weekly. I've already scheduled the first 9 chapters (10 eps total) with each ep averaging 30mins.

I'm not doing preorder on this one, so it's all about the launch party!

The book is illustrated by Tom Brown and formatted by @arndtezra and it looks FANTASTIC. Grab your copy on release day and listen along on the Eldritch Girl Podcast!

All links here: https://cmrosens.carrd.co/

[scatmaan]

wish there were more movies that give off the feeling that event horizon, hellraiser, and annihilation give off

[hauntedworldrp]

OUR WORLD HAS ALWAYS BEEN A VICIOUS PLACE

We erect civilizations, build sky scrapers, and we live as best we can with the hand we are dealt without burning out by caring too much for our neighbors. It's the nature of evil. We don't have the leisure to think about the suffering others may feel just like we neglect to acknowledge that there is unexplainable horror that walks among us. Don't worry, that's someone else's job. After all, these are not only the things that lurk in your closet or under your bed - these are folks who sit next to you in church. They shop at your grocery store. They feed on your neighbors. These are things that have walked the earth since the dawn of civilization - they continue… and they will continue.

Haunted World is a play-by-post roleplay hosted on Discord. • para to para+ • welcoming & friendly playerbase • active server with experienced players • gothic/folkloric urban fantasy with mature themes • established world with 10+ years of occurring activity previously featured on The Keep & Shards play-by-post chat sites.

ᴅɪꜱᴄᴏʀᴅ •• ᴩɪᴛᴄʜ •• ᴊᴏɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴇʀᴠᴇʀ ᴛᴏ ʟᴇᴀʀɴ ᴍᴏʀᴇ!

[jennystahl]

they went deep as hell giving sherlock an imaginary friend to protect his insane childhood trauma and act as an emotional companion

[zombified-queer]

I wish more of my Hotelpod mutuals were also Unwell about the Locked Tomb series so we could finally have thrilling debates about whether the Hotel herself is Alecto or John Gaius.

[sanjilover4815]

Why is there an influx of sexbots on here, they should know I do not have sex and that I find their allure comparable to the cosmic horrors of the universe

[lemongrablothbrok]

What in the name of all that is neat and groovy in the world is going on in that second photo.

Doublicious Cocktober

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

The thing about Ianthe is that she knows she's a freak but she thinks she's a sexy, vampire-coded, monsterfucker bait freak where all her evil acts and cannibalism and games are hot villainous stuff, when in reality she's a scrunkly daddy issues stuck out of genre freak whose villain monologue got her arm ripped off, whose love interest is in an extremely fucked-up three-way relationship already in which Ianthe is the simplest option, and whose attempts at making this into a deadly court intrigue are crumbling against the reality that the Empire isn't a royal court but a shambling, millennia old gangrenous lump of trauma and cosmic/religious horror.

She so desperately wants to be arranging marriages and poisoning her enemies' tea and bringing entire planets to heel with her powerful magic in an impeccably cut suit, but instead the undead soul of the Earth is reawakened to love monstrously and a haunted bone nun and butch lesbian Jesus struggle to hate-love each other enough to exist. Dogs!