It existed far before humanity, was summon by humans who thought they could use it and controll it. Its mind and body altering. invisible and (somewhat) impossible to grasp fully.

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    Radiation is too broad of a term, it’s more than something that kills you.

    Basking in the sun doesn’t sound too related to cosmic horror. Or seeing.

    And we also know how to manipulate radiation. Its called a stove. Or a heater. Or a light bulb.

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    It’s reminiscent of Lovecraftian monsters but it isn’t “literally” one. That word is so fucking overused.

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    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

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      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.

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          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.

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      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.

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    You just summarized the short “Colour out of space” by HPL

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      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

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      Which was very likely inspired by scientific accounts of the physical effects of radiation that Lovecraft had read.

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    oddly enough, Lovecraft’s Colour out of Space kinda mirrors the effects of radiation sickness (with “kinda” doing some very heavy lifting there)

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    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.

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      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.