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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 For more Lovecraft & Mythos-inspired Cosmic Horror:[email protected] [/c/[email protected]]

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!

[email protected]

    • gytrash@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      7·
      4 months 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.

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        32·
        4 months 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.

            • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
              1·
              4 months 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.

              • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
                1·
                4 months 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.

        • threelonmusketeersEnglish
          5·
          4 months 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 [email protected], you might want to make one final post there directing any lemmy.world users to the new [email protected].

          • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            1·
            4 months 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.