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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.

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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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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 44 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (3 children)

~~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

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 31 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

They conveyed it really well, I had an almost constant heavy feeling while watching—like a permanent underwater scene.

[–] teft@piefed.world 12 points 22 hours ago

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.

[–] DivineDev@piefed.social 11 points 23 hours ago

The scene in episode 1 where they looked into the exposed reactor core was amazing

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 11 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

You got me, I've never watched it

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.

[–] jcr@jlai.lu 21 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

You just summarized the short "Colour out of space" by HPL

[–] AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] scytale@lemmy.zip 1 points 17 hours ago

Sounds similar to the film adaptation of the Annihilation novel.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

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

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

thought they could use it? Tell that to the halfnium rods I pulled out of your god.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

god is into some real freaky shit. anyone tell him that we make silicone glow in the dark dildos?

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

It also glows a pretty blue color to attract new victims.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

It's reminiscent of Lovecraftian monsters but it isn't "literally" one. That word is so fucking overused.

[–] whatsisface@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Literal? Which book is it from?

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 3 points 5 hours ago

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.

[–] cosmictrickster@lemmy.world 0 points 10 hours ago

Needs more tentacles.

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