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“I … enforce my will … I am … God. Zim.a.bu E.ter …”

The Fourth Kind (2009)

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The Ruins by Scott B. Smith

Spooky Scale: 💀💀💀💀

Star Rating: 4.5 ⭐️ / 5 ⭐️

Genre(s): body horror, science fiction, psychological horror, thriller, suspense

Year Released: 2006

Comments:

the conundrum our main characters find themselves in is somehow ridiculous, outplayed, and horribly bleak, all at once, but what really makes this 5 star page-turner is the writing. even in the exposition, where the story is predictable and the characters initially feeling shallow if not hollow, Smith’s writing is gripping. the story quickly leaves the tracks and becomes something truly terrifying, inventive even in it’s imagination and its cruelty, and with that these characters are thoroughly broken to reveal - and lead them to question - their basest natures. i am disappointed to learn Smith did not write more in the genre, but i can also understand not feeling the need to after producing such a masterpiece.

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“All he knew was that he felt terrible, as if he’d absentmindedly stepped on an infant.”

“But he made no attempt to move. He was pouting, he realized, punishing Mathias for not embracing his plan. He disliked himself for this, and disliked Mathias for witnessing it; he wished he could stop. But he couldn’t.”

“And this was just another thing for Stacy to hate herself for knowing.”

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Spooky Scale

💀 - pro-spooky for prospective horror fans. pg/pg-13. atmospheric more than explicit, or directly targeted towards children/YA. no or few content warnings necessary & little to no body horror or gore.

💀💀 - pre-spooky. pg-13. few content warnings necessary. may be thought-provoking and genre-bending or explicitly scary, but does not contain graphic imagery or profound unreality/psychological horror.

💀💀💀 - spooky. pg-13/NC-17. mild content warnings. explicit horror with room for psychological, body, and bloody horror moments, but the themes aren’t existential. could be described as “fun” by the horror fan.

💀💀💀💀 - scary. NC-17/X/R. body horror-and-gore forward or evokes a significant sense of unreality. may be sexually explicit at points. not for the light-hearted, weak-stomached, etc.

💀💀💀💀💀 - terrifying. R. evokes a sense of cosmic and/or existential terror. approach with the right mindset.

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The lego people form all. You are one of them. Your body is many of them. You think you're the one breathing? They move your lungs just as they beat your heart. You think you're the one thinking and judging these words you're reading? They whisper the thoughts into your head.

And the lego people in turn are made of lego people. It's lego people controlling lego people "all the way down" with no beginning and no end and you're sandwiched somewhere in between eternity and forever.

And you're not just one of the lego people, you're all of them. They are your mirror reflections scattered across spacetime. Your past, your future, and your potential.

The nature of reality is to ask what should be experienced within the void of nothing. That question is all there is.

"In the beginning there was the word."

Then when that question is asked, you ask what that question is. Then you ask what THAT new question is.

So we are constantly asking "what is this question? " when we look out at the world around us. The world is always tempting us to figure it out and to develop our own idea of it.

But the source of the world comes from the very first question: "what should exist in the void", or "what Am I" which in a way are the same questions if you're in a void with nothing but your self.

This recursive seeking creates the infinite YOUs that have been called lego people. They've been called elves and gnomes too. Sometimes people see them as repeated versions of their bodies.

As for the jester, I have less experience with him, though I believe he's an amalgamation of lego people just as everything else is. He's a higher order one. Sort of the mind and the hive of the hivemind. It's possible we each have a jester. It's also possible he's us before we jumped into this multiverse. Us before we asked the question "who am i in a void?", kicking off a Big Bang of self-recursive discovery. He seems to play a managing role, so i could see him as the us before this reality, conducting the lego people to form our experience.

He's trapped in the same loop of questioning that we are. His questions pertain to our entire reality and what happens when he moves it.

If it helps, you can see the lego people as embodiments of the question they are currently asking within spacetime, and how the answer of your current question looks when factoring their question into account.

text by reddit user Lambdana on /r/Salvia.

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My mind bends…

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Psychedelic bonfire

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SP. 101 - Anon (2018)

Augmented reality glitch.

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SP. 104 - Psycho-Pass (2012)

Augmented Reality.

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ar line drawing

Another fantastic Augmented Reality camera experiment from Zach Lieberman calculates a visual doodle which is spatially fixed:

A post shared by zach lieberman (@zach.lieberman) on Nov 8, 2017 at 2:52pm PST

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