#sweet man made horrors beyond my comprehension

[paintsplantspaws]

Modern AU:

The Assasins creed men are playing truth or dare. At Midnight.

Connor: Malik truth or dare?

Mailk: truth

Conner: Do you like movies?

Malik: NO

Mailk: Desmond Truth or dare?

Desmond: (thinking what’s the worst that could happen?)

Desmond: Dare

Mailk: * grins evilly* I dare you go to Walmart and buy the Barbie movie. You need to go to a li e with a lady. Right as she scans it you need to burst into the Barbie theme song and I need to film it.

-15 min later -

A poor innocent Walmart cashier: Did you find everything ok?

The register: Boop!

Desmond: * screaming at the top of his lungs in a girly voice*

IM A BARBIE GIRL IN A BARBIE WORLD

LIFE IS PLASTIC, ITS FANTASTIC

YOU CAN BRUSH MY HAIR,UNDRESS ME ANYWHERE

IMAGINATION YOUR CREATION!

Walmart cashier: * is already questioning if he’s on drugs*

Jacob: *wheezeing* louder for the people in the back!!

Desmond: COME ON, BARBIE LETS GO PARTY

Mailk: *is simply smiling* ok that’s enough Desmond I’m sure that your questioning your life as much as the cashier is questioning your sanity.

Cashier: is horrified beyond comprehension.

Desmond: ok can I get my clothes back to? Wearing pink dress and a massive pink bow on my head is killing me.

Jacob: I want a picture with you first!

Desmond: fine

STEAL THE LOOK:

Barbie! Desmond:

[gachagon]

ITS A PERSON? OH MY GOD WTF SALEM?? YOU TURNED A PERSON INTO A FUCKING GRIMM??? AND MADE IT YOUR DOG???

[wyrtig]

[franpun]

I love him OUUUUGHHHHJJ HE IS SO CUUUUUTE.

onippeP onippeP onippeP onippeP ekaF frtxjpi hcbattz hdihjps

[thatguywhodoesstuff]

My Honest Reaction to the new Murder Drones Teaser:

In all seriousness, I cannot wait for the 29th. Things are going to get gruesome, none of us in the fandom are going to be okay, and it’s not even the season finale.

[talefoundryshow]

Happy fanart friday! That... is... Don't you just love the... uh...

(A wonderful community gem, that's what it is)

[trashiemaxxie]

Thank you Master!!! I am disposable!! 🐾🎀🧸

[okayigetitifuckedup]

Yall, quit telling me about shit that freaks me out. The lab-grown human brain cells that thought they were butterflies were way too much and now I'm having intense mental anguish. Now I've found something worse and I feel the need to consume copious amounts of alcohol

[lotus-duckies]

there's something so endearing yet so horrific about the turtles exploring the tcri building

They desparately want to know, to understand where they came from and why they are Like That

but then they look and it's like being in the Backrooms

There's nothing here, there's no life even in the cracks of the walls, you're Nowhere, and the evidence of anything being there becomes strange, distorted. You can't read this writing, these pictures are foreign and indistinct.

You don't even know if you can find the way out, because it doesn't end

[spartanlocke]

Unfortunately I do not have my asks open but I do want to add: I closed them because it seemed people just disagreeing with me over fandom things couldn't do so without being aggressive. It's ok to disagree with me, to dislike me or even think I'm a complete idiot who has no idea what I'm talking about, but if you can't do those things without harassment, then I'm not even going to allow you the catharsis of sending a hateful ask. And to be honest, I've long suspected tumblr's cyber-bullying problem - which has only gotten worse over the years - is largely due in part to tumblr staff barely (if not at all) regulating their website. And seeing how twitter's own problems have also worsened since Elon Musk decided the only ban-worthy offense is calling someone cis, I believe my suspicion is confirmed. (Not even joking, I used to see people suspended in a day for harassment. Now I report literal death threats and suicide bait and don't even get a response from twitter staff.) It's not that people don't want to socialize or talk about their favorite things - they do! It's that bullies on social media have become so drunk off the concept of anonymity that they think they can do whatever they want - harassing, stalking, threatening and doxxing - without consequence. To the point where even if you don't do anything necessarily wrong, they will make up something for them to get angry at and attack you over it. And DMs and inboxes are one of the most direct ways to do that! I think the sad truth is that social media has become so dangerous that while people do want to interact with their fandoms and communities, sticking to closed circles and Discord servers is simply the better way to stay safe now.

You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that's happened gradually, and which I've seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.

By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.

I'm not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it's due to the homogenization of social media sites? There's a lot more of this divide between "content creator" and "consumer" instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. "Asks" aren't really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an "ask" on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?

[valky-uniguri]

Ah sweet, man(tis)-made horrors beyond my comprehension

[vlly-of-despair]

Ghosts in the Computer? It’s not what you think…

Ok I have very little to back up most of this BUT (spoilers for The Magnus Protocol so far)

I don’t think John/Martin/Jonah are stuck in the computer at all. I think they are stuck in the FEAR WORLD. Think about it, when John got sucked into the rift with Martin, he already became the Pupil and was bound immeasurably to all of the Fears, which mind you, are simply ONE being which can be extended to different ‘categories’. By the end of TMA, John wasn’t human at all. Martin even asks him,

“How much of you is even left now?”

“It’s still me, Martin. I’m still here.”

Yeah, John. Your consciousness and personality are still your own, but make no mistake my sweet man, you are full Eldritch horror now.

This could be the only conceivable way John could have survived being stabbed, then sacrilegiously torn throughout time and space. I mean, the spooky happenings and Avatars are described as this ‘Somewhere Else’ (🤨) bleeding into our world. But nobody has ever entered this other world, it’s beyond the human comprehension. Unless… perhaps you were to be the closest thing to a Fears’ grubby little Jesus and entwined further through tapes that stretched itself within this realm then ripped you through this passage…

Here is my current suggestion. Perhaps John is in the Fears layer in reality, the ‘Somewhere Else’ as I shall call it, by virtue of himself being in a sense, an extension of the Fears. As the Fears were categorized as different vital organs as a whole being, John may be an extension of this said being. The fears made manifest in a human-ish form; the fears brought in a sentient avatar. But make no mistake, John literally is fear now.

And perhaps this is what [ERROR] is as well, this mysterious creature ‘cloaked in whispers’ is John just… kind of body hopping into people (or even past Archivists which didn’t go as far along as he did in his lovely little Becoming) and trying to communicate with others who could understand him, maybe why he has recorders with him. These whispers are literally fear, he is wearing fear. He IS FEAR. And when he tries to speak, or speaks through another’s voice, he compels others to vomit up all their fear in incoherent ramblings because that is ALL THEY CAN SEE. The fear.

Fr3d1, or ‘Freddie’, on the other hand, is a device connected to the Somewhere Else long before John arrived there. My theory is that objects bound by Alchemy can act as conduits to the Somewhere Else and the Fears, such as the Fr3d1 program, and other cursed objects found throughout the series. And just as John could know into the truth of his world through the Eye, the land of the Fears can touch the minds of all worldly beings of this layer of reality, like a vast ocean… one in which John is fully submerged in.

The Magnus Institute program may have also been a program designed to seek out children who can nurture an ability to psychologically enter the Somewhere Else (as Hans Burger did in Ep 22 in his dream). Sam is being specifically targeted because HE can possibly have that capability to tap into that world and speak to John. It could also be an explanation for the act of ‘meditation’ causing reality jumps, specifically close to the Magnus Institute. Your consciousness briefly enters the Somewhere Else, and because this place resides in a world outside of the material world, you may fall back into reality misplaced. Slightly off center from your reality, and usually this journey is deadly…

Freddie, by its ability to touch the Somewhere Else, was a program designed with supernatural abilities to garner intell tied to this outer dimension. But now that John is in this dimension, he can manipulate the system to try to steer it in a direction which can ‘speak’ to the OIAR crew, try to explain his situation. You know, without the compelling, drowning, or scaring away the closest thing to allies he could have.

Now why are Martin and Jonah there? Well, for Martin, he was dragged with John and is only been able to stay alive this long because of him. He is an extension of John, and John is trying his darndest to keep him alive. The only problem is that Martin is mortal, or at least a hell of a lot more human than John. He probably can’t psychologically take the ‘I am living in fear’ quite literally, and this may be why all of the statements in Norris’s voice are about lost love, being lost in liminal spaces, or in hearing your beloved, only to be terrified by them as they are irrevocably warped into a horrific phantom of themselves. Perhaps that is all that Martin can see; that he is somewhere where he can’t escape, and John is terrifying. So very very terrifying, and wrong. He is incapable of comprehending anything else, he may even be in the Lonely state much like in MAG 170: Recollection. John can bare the weight of all of that perception, of fear, or knowing and seeing. He wished it could be horrible, but it feels ‘right’. Not for Martin though.

As for Jonah, my best approximation is that by virtue of being the previous Pupil and also being connected to the Eye so prolifically, even when dying, small remnants of him remained in the Somewhere Else as a figure of Fear much like John. However, he is much weaker on account of John both defeating him in their original universe and plain of existence, and the fact that ‘the Eye chose John’. Nevertheless, he’s still kicking around, his evil embers also fighting to communicate, albeit less so (his statements being infrequent). Perhaps the JMJ errors are the boys fighting for supremacy in the horrors mindscape. Jonah is losing, but he won’t go down and let John win without a fight.

Where does that leave us? Well, my guess is that our lovely Son of Fears needs to rise again, be called back to the material world through some sort of Alchemical ritual. Maybe by a dangerously curious guy whose life went downhill ever since he was rejected from the Magnus Institute for having a little too much empathy, but always knew his calling to tap into that power…

Hopefully he can unleash his judgement day, smite a few less than pleasurable Externals. And while he’s at it, return his boyfriend to the living world, and get rid of an annoying old man who just refuses to die.

[trashshouldnt]

ah sweet man made horrors beyond my comprehension

[dragonanon]

The fact that we even HAVE to pay for water to begin with is absurd considering you literally need it to live! The ONLY reason we don’t have to pay to fucking breathe is because capitalism has yet to find a way to be able package it and sell it. But mark my words, as SOON as someone figures out how to, we’re all gonna be living in fucking Thineedville and having to buy air like this:

[wu-sisyphus-gang]

Penny: I have five billion nodes each with five synapses and they follow a beta binomial distribution.

Jaune: Aw sweet man made horrors beyond my comprehension.

[do-you-have-a-flag]

sorry to come back to this but this truly fascinates and concerns me for so many reasons

obligatory "Ah sweet. Man-made horrors beyond my comprehension." comment

so first of all: brain organoids. which are grown from human stem cells into just little brains with underdeveloped eyes, they have a lifespan of about 100 days because they are an organ without a system.

these brain organoids are something that have a lot of potential when it comes to studying any number of things. just off the top of my head i would think- the process of human development, disease studies, healing tissue development, foetal and premature development of consciousness, ect ect ect i'm not informed on this type of research so i will freely admit idk.

and they are using 16 at a time as processors with computer chips. okay sure, scifi aside, the structure of an organ being used for it's complexity compared to the limitations of material and efficiency in current technology makes sense. if it helps imagine if a branch or a kidney were hooked up to a computer chip and we found out that it worked as good or better than mechanical processors for a fraction of the energy use. i am also not informed on how most technology works, please keep in mind, but i am also not opposed to the idea of combining these types of technologies in theory. and the biggest downfall currently is short shelf-life of the organoids required.

but the thing is, i think, that this is specifically an early development of a brain, at what point is consciousness defined? there is no sensory system beyond the basic light perception of the eyes and the input to the brain but at what point is the responses automatic and at what point is it complex enough to be aware in some abstract way. this question is one that can be applied to any form of animal of course.... but i think also that it is strange that these organoids are being specifically developed from human stem cells and not any number of other animal as a brain is a brain and at the small scale they are growing these organoids most of the speculative benefits of human logic are irrelevant- they are operating at pre mature infant levels which could just as easily be achieved by any number of apes cells surely?

is there going to be a developmental cut off for these organoids? at what point of biological development is the ethical ick factor for consciousness? because of how stem cells are able to be harvested in a non destructive fashion things like lab grown meat make sense to me- those are consumed but can also offset the requirements for the meat industry- and if these organoids are also grown from stem cells that's great but at what point is making that many to be burnt through as processors a wasteful use when there are other possible avenues of study? the wide commercial release of such experimental tech seems a little risky considering how quickly new technologies are exploited- just look at bitcoin farms and ai scraping- for the sake of profit with no care for ethical implementation or construction or impact.

this is a weird post from me but sorry i just have some questions i want you the person reading this to think about with me, seperate to any deep reading of the science because i wanna focus on the personal reaction to the concepts, (feel free to read the science tho i encourage it) just something to chew on i'm not expecting any philosophically concrete answers:

would you use the brain organoid processor tech if you had the chance?

why?

Why is it important that these have to be grown from human stem cells

where is the line between organ and being/consciousness

let's contend: there is the world (physical) and there is the senses (contact with the physical) and there is the experience (interpretation)

is it the senses or the experience that makes a creature conscious? how complex do the senses need to be before the experience is positive or negative?

where is that experiencial definition? is it as simple as feels good feels bad?

is it the tendency to circulate repeatedly on the same neural pathway? how are those neurological reactions controlled? are they controlled?

how do you feel about scientific testing on humans?

how do you feel about scientific testing on animals?

how do you feel about scientific testing on plants?

how do you feel about scientific testing on fungi?

how do you feel about scientific testing on single celled organisms?

how do you feel about scientific testing on organs?

how do you feel about scientific testing on technology?

what do you consider the line to be for ethical research? is it funding? is it theory versus practice? is it use of information? is it method of data collection? is it intent? is it implementation? is it within a limitation of precedent? is it within a limitation of subject? are there areas you think should be left alone on principle? why?

what level of complexity is required for the question of consent of participant?

where should limitations be imposed on use? why would limitations be necessary? who has the right to information? who has the right to profit?

Who is profiting from these studies? where will this technology be used? who is competing with this technology? what other technologies might this impact? will other technologies using the same concept adhere to the same limitations/ethics?

do you think everyone using the brain organoid based processors for $500pcm are thinking about these questions? should they have to?

disclaimer: i am uneducated and uninformed in the fields of science and technology so this is one hundo percent a personal response to information i have very little context for. But i also think it's important to think actively about technology and avoid complacency about the way it impacts our lives so doing little thought exercises in response to articles like this is, I think, a good thing.