by shrinky » Wed Oct 18, 2023 4:20 am
This gets a little dark, and the phrase 'cosmic horror' is new to me, but I'm more familiar with the concept of 'existential terror', which is definitely an element of my fantasy. The prospect of getting shrunk down to nothing is scary and exhilarating to the point of being erotic. I never quite take it that far, though, always opting to imagine the shrinking character passing into a new universe similar to our own, or even possibly being doomed to keep moving through universes in this same way. I love micro shrinking a lot, but I usually stop once the giant world becomes so unfamiliar as to be unrelatable. Interacting with familiar objects at different scales is something I love about the shrinking fantasy. As long a the giant world is somehow recognizable (for instance, a hair as thick and as tall as a giant skyscraper). Once you get down to atoms, it's hard to imagine our protagonist even being able to breath. ::sigh:: our fantasies require a lot of suspension of disbelieve.
This gets a little dark, and the phrase 'cosmic horror' is new to me, but I'm more familiar with the concept of 'existential terror', which is definitely an element of my fantasy. The prospect of getting shrunk down to nothing is scary and exhilarating to the point of being erotic. I never quite take it that far, though, always opting to imagine the shrinking character passing into a new universe similar to our own, or even possibly being doomed to keep moving through universes in this same way. I love micro shrinking a lot, but I usually stop once the giant world becomes so unfamiliar as to be unrelatable. Interacting with familiar objects at different scales is something I love about the shrinking fantasy. As long a the giant world is somehow recognizable (for instance, a hair as thick and as tall as a giant skyscraper). Once you get down to atoms, it's hard to imagine our protagonist even being able to breath. ::sigh:: our fantasies require a lot of suspension of disbelieve.