was explaining to my mom on the phone the concept of a cosmic horror and she hit me with the one hit k.o. of “oh you mean like horton hears a who?”
Explain???
me: yeah so basically a cosmic horror is the fear of a godlike being or entity so much bigger than yourself and your perception of the universe that your brain cant possibly comprehend it, often leading to some sort of madness in the stories because of this “break” in your perception of reality because this entity is so incomprehensible to your limited worldview. the concept is credited to h.p. lovecraft because of stuff like cthulu but the guy was also a massive-
my mom, interjecting: ah, so like horton hears a who. i get it.
not to be overly serious (lol) but if you’re mad about these stupid new “"safe mode”“ changes on tumblr’s iOS app you need to be directing your energy towards apple because, realistically speaking, there is literally nothing tumblr staff can do about this lol. they’ve either gotta follow apple’s rules or get their app removed from the app store.
but also this is just part of a way bigger and longstanding issue with apple’s walled-garden approach to software where you can only get shit that meets their very specific standards and doesn’t compete with their own proprietary apps AND if users make an in-app transaction apple gets like, a 30% cut or something insane. this is why epic games had that whole thing where they took fortnite off the app store in protest (and which iirc is still part of a big pending legal case that’ll have some serious precedent based on its outcome…..?) so like. this is actually just one tiny battle being waged in a full-scale war of online content and access and censorship and yelling at a bunch of ragtag mobile devs on tumblr’s staff will fix exactly nothing, I promise. so go complain about it to apple!!!!
