fandom has taught me not to make my villain a skinny conventionally attractive white man because no matter how horrible I write them, some degenerate is gonna do mental gymnastics to excuse their shitty behavior and ship them with my heroine despite an appalling lack of romantic chemistry
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people claiming that “fandom will ship anything” as though skinny cis white boys don’t get fawned over even if they’re serial killers
people dunking on kylo ren
kylo ren fans who are desperately upset by people dunking on kylo ren
you think that will save you? hirsch created a one-eyed triangle demon who tried to murder children and look what fucking happened
the closest things on earth we have to old eldritch abomination gods are the sun, the ocean and nuclear radiation
the sun:
unfathomably ancient, here before all of us and will outlive us all by billions of years
its light is so strong that prolonged exposure can burn or blind you even from millions of miles away
also
emits invisible rays of energy that can pass through your skin like
it’s nothing and lead to the growth of tumors which cause a wasting
disease that consumes your healthy cells until you die
once worshipped as a god by various religions and cults who made sacrifices to appease it
will eventually expand as it burns out and dies and consume us in a desperate attempt to extend its lifespan
‘screams’ as a warning before emitting solar flares
the ocean:
an
enormous, singular mass that’s constantly heaving and
tossing its bulk against the land we build our homes on and gradually
‘eating away’ at it
also extremely old and likely to outlast any of our lifespans
countless people, ships and even entire landmasses have vanished into its depths, never to be seen or heard from again
so vast and dangerous that it’s still mostly uncharted, and less is known about its deepest areas to us than our solar system
full
of teeth and tentacles and enormous storms and even more unknown
terrors none have ever returned from to tell the tale of that can and
will consume you without thought or reason
also worshipped as a god in the past and often characterized in myths and legends as an vengeful, merciless entity
those who sail on it tend to be deeply
superstitious and respect its power with a reverence bordering on awe
a single strike from the superstorms it brews on a regular basis can devastate vast areas of civilization
will eventually rise and consume us
nuclear radiation:
can rip straight through your body
with zero resistance, causing long-term and irreparable damage, and cannot be completely blocked out, only ‘shielded’ by thick barriers of lead
and concrete
radioactive waste is so toxic that it’s buried deep
underground and/or entombed within a ‘sarcophagus’ of multiple layers of shielding to prevent it from escaping and infecting the ground we grow
and raise our food on, the water we drink and the air we breathe
areas
where it has escaped or been set loose and leaked into its surroundings are evacuated and
abandoned for hundreds of miles, and anything that survives within them
is shunned as a carrier of the infection and contained in ‘exclusion
zones’
volatile and unpredictable, many accidents that have occurred while
handling it are a result of a combination of our lack of knowledge about its abilities
and hubris
i wonder if the sun and ocean would resent radiation since radiation is a man made eldrich horror
You wouldn’t think that flamingoes are extremophiles just from looking at them. It’s like somebody tried to build the vertebrate equivalent of that fungus that lives inside nuclear reactors, and ended up with a gangly pink dinosaur with a spoon for a face.
For everyone in the comments asking how flamingos are extremophiles:
Flamingos can survive in low oxygen, high altitude, high temperatures, low temperatures, high alkaline, they can and will drink boiling water and they can be completely frozen at night and still get up the next morning
