Cosmic Horror - lemm.ee
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A community to discuss Cosmic Horror in it’s many forms; books, films, comics, art, TV, music, RPGs, video games etc. “cosmic horror… is a subgenre of horror fiction and weird fiction that emphasizes the horror of the unknowable and incomprehensible more than gore or other elements of shock… themes of cosmic dread, forbidden and dangerous knowledge, madness, non-human influences on humanity, religion and superstition, fate and inevitability, and the risks associated with scientific discoveries… the sense that ordinary life is a thin shell over a reality that is so alien and abstract in comparison that merely contemplating it would damage the sanity of the ordinary person, insignificance and powerlessness at the cosmic scale…” - Wikipedia

Hi

Here’s a new community to discuss Cosmic Horror in it’s many forms; books, films, comics, art, TV, music, RPGs, video games etc.

Hope some of you check it out, participate in, and enjoy it!

!cosmichorror@lemm.ee

        • Harvey656@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Sounds cool! Might make an account on it if I find alot of cool communities I like.

          Would be good to be in a neutral space, things can get heated sometimes over here.

          Thanks for the informative reply!

          • Alice@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Here’s all of our communities. Red dots signify they are political, red question marks indicate possibly being political based on users posts. Or your determination.

            Hope that helps and we’d love to have u !

    • gytrash@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Yes, I’m a member there. It was during a discussion with the creator of that group that we decided to start this one, as he wants to keep it more Lovecraft mythos orientated without the more general cosmic horror.

      • CanadaPlusEnglish
        32·
        1 year ago

        Ah! In that case, subbing now.

        And unsubbing from Lovecraft, honestly, because Lemmy’s not big enough to divide the topic up like that.

          • CanadaPlusEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I’m afraid I would spread myself thin. Two dead communities is the worst outcome.

            • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              What do you mean spread yourself? If a community doesn’t have activity, there’s nothing to see from it. If you’re subscribed, it’s just more stuff on your feed.

              • CanadaPlusEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                I comment and post as well. A lot. (Hey, you’re here too, don’t judge!)

                Obviously I’m not a community on my own, but for something niche by Lemmy standards every bit of activity helps.

                I wish there was no move happening at all, but if OP is telling the truth it has been decreed from up high.

        • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, there’s an issue with how communities are federated. If the host instance goes down, there’s nothing which reflects when viewing the community from a remote instance. Local users can continue posting, blissfully unaware that their posts aren’t being federated.

          If you can still see your local lemmy.world version of !CosmicHorror@kbin.social, you might want to make one final post there directing any lemmy.world users to the new !cosmichorror@lemm.ee.

          • CanadaPlusEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            It was being developed in PHP in 2023, so it’s not really a surprise it failed, in hindsight.

            If you’re OOTL that’s a dead programming language more common in the Y2K era, and one that’s not remembered fondly at all.