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Cosmic Horror

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The Thing by Justin McElroy (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The Things by Peter Watts

[–] BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Damn, Watts is fantastic.

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Great story.

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Ugh more unrealistic body standards. Two eyes, a mouth and putting up with gravity are quite enough effort for my daily life.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

Justin McElroy from The Adventure Zone and My Brother, My Brother, and Me?

[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Looks more like The Thing + Parasyte. Actually I'd watch the hell out of that

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean Parasyte is definitely inspired by Carpenter's The Thing.

[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

True. Just thinking that usually the Thing tries to mimic what its copying, doesn't usually just have eyes on its hand for no reason.

[–] noname_yet2077@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Oh, that's the thing!

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

The artist is also on bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/thoughtographic.bsky.social

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago

If only someone didn't shoot the dude blatantly ignoring people and really wanted that dog did.