~~Netflix's~~ HBO's Chernobyl is by people who realized this and kinda conveyed the message.
Edit: I get the networks wrong because I pirate stuff
That show is so hard to watch from the standpoint of someone who understands what every exposure is doing to people and the awful deaths that are inevitable. Watching the firefighter pick-up a piece of the reactor was horrifying in a way so little horror is.
They conveyed it really well, I had an almost constant heavy feeling while watching—like a permanent underwater scene.
It’s the greaat sound design in the show. Things like the geiger counter clicking furiously as the flashlights go out. It makes for great drama.
The scene in episode 1 where they looked into the exposed reactor core was amazing
You mean HBO's Chernobyl?
The moment they look over the railing into the very mouth of God itself gives me chills. The sound of the nuclear fire blasting and spewing out all the smoke and radiation.
You got me, I've never watched it
oddly enough, Lovecraft's Colour out of Space kinda mirrors the effects of radiation sickness (with "kinda" doing some very heavy lifting there)
Disappears after some time: ✅ Mutates people and plants: ✅ Makes an entire area unlivable: ✅
Has a strange colour: ✅
It still trips me out that visible light, infrared, microwave radiation, radio waves, x-rays, ultraviolet, and even laser beams are all just photons.
Particle radiation is a whole other can of worms. It boggles the mind.
You just summarized the short "Colour out of space" by HPL
Apart from “being summoned” yeah. No desire or consciousness just a thing that modifies everything around it by nature. It doesn’t care that it drives animals insane or turns them into monsters, because it’s probably not aware of what an animal is to begin with.
Also kinda coincidental that Color Out of Space makes plants bigger. Before we had better gene editing methods, scientists used radiation to trigger mutations plants attempting to find some mutations that, among other things, made the fruit bigger lol
Sounds similar to the film adaptation of the Annihilation novel.
Which was very likely inspired by scientific accounts of the physical effects of radiation that Lovecraft had read.
thought they could use it? Tell that to the halfnium rods I pulled out of your god.
god is into some real freaky shit. anyone tell him that we make silicone glow in the dark dildos?
It also glows a pretty blue color to attract new victims.
Literal? Which book is it from?
If you want to be semantic Lovecraftian isn't a term that means "things from Lovecraft's books" it's a term referring to a style or tone.
Needs more tentacles.
Cthulhu enters the chat
A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.