For those who don't like the poor quality of the image, as well as the blind:
A Twitter post:
@sarah_michelson 2023-01-02
cosmic horror protagonists are WEAK my dog experiences at least 3 Horrors Beyond His Comprehension PER DAY (ex. a thunderstorm, seeing a car) and he's Literally Fine
That post was reposted on tumblr, and people reblogged with the following additions:
@lekosis
Jan 11
The dog has one of the Great Old Ones reassuring him with pats and treats tho. If the King in Yellow had played with u and fed u for ur entire life and let you sleep in his berth of unspeakable blackness at night, and then hugged you reassuringly when Cthulhu rose from the depths, you might be able to handle it better too
@talestobetold
Feb 28
oh that's a prompt
@roach-works
Mar 5
those fish guys at innsmoth were domesticated
Maybe I'm just more cynical than I thought, but isn't that kind of the biggest draw of religion, organized or cultish? Finding an unfathomable sugar daddy to help make some sense of and/or comfort us through inexplicable realities beyond our ken? Like Entropy, What Happens When We Die, and Why Are Other People Like That.
Damn, why ARE other people like that?
Except they also invent a whole new set of unimaginable horrors for you to be terrified of and then comfort you from those too. Angels? Samsara? Apocalypse? Fucking Naglfar?!?
I'll take just thinking about it on sleepless nights and loving the people close to me and making the best of the time I have while I'm here. Fuck religion.
What’s cynical about that? Dumb people still feel fear?