https://charminglyantiquated.t...t/751380083129925632 <- seems appropriate for here.
I am going to go and sleep soon, truly, but wanted to ramble a little about how human-bug interactions make for fine cosmic horror if parsed in human equivalents...today I saw a bumblebee looking exhausted and cold on the pavement and knelt down to offer her my hand for a ride, picked her up and tried to get her to go onto what I thought were fine-looking campanulas. Bee was unimpressed. I continued on my way until I found some rowan blossom, and lifted the tired bee up, who clambered over at once...I mean, imagine you're sitting near-exhausted and shivering on some kerb and a pointing arrow that looks like it might be associated with a fast food joint manifests next to you, and following it you're suddenly warm and moving at a speed that'd be your best run until you're suddenly at a closed deli. Bemused, you stand there and after some time you're spirited to a chippy two streets away and walk in to find you've been ordered as many chips as you can carry. This never happens again, but you know an intelligence beyond your comprehension noticed you - that that's
possible - and this time it brought you to food.
I mean, there's something there. Something about the awe of scale, I think. Very much overtired-rambling, but still.
edit: On the general theme of terrible things under the ground/fairly raw cosmic horror, anyone here watched
The Borderlands? Got it recently and even if I'm disappointed by the ending being only fine and fitting to its buildup as opposed to great (
Fake Documentary Q's channel has spoilt me -
Film Inferno tackles roughly the same concept with awful elegance), it's really solid in terms of found footage storytelling. The characters are all distinctly flawed, but not to the extent you just want them to get et at once, and the combination of things left unresolved/buildup of dread is enough for the film to scrape itself a little hole at the back of one's head for hours after. Plus! Careful and sparing use of gore and horror props realistic enough not to throw the more anatomically aware viewer out of the story, that always wins points from me.
...anyway, I'm still fairly snowed under at work, but let me - or each other - know if you'd like me to move along and I'll dig the time out wth a shovel.
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