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killer crane
Dec 30, 2006

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2019

Well, I hadn't had a dream in months, but last night I had a nightmare about sleepers. I'm halfway through, I'm hoping the brutality and general discomfort keeps up.

I appreciate the take on cosmic horror and insanity. I'm used to other cosmic horror cribbing so much from cults in Lovecraft stories, where the adherents are just simply bad people. Having their cultish behavior come from the horror removing a portion or two of their humanity is refreshing.

So, in pop media criticism, there's this idea that zombies are emblematic of fear of right/conservative politics, vampires are the fear of left/liberal. If I were a smarter person I could write about this story, the alt-right, and trumps cult of personality... but I'm only good for half baked ideas. What I'm trying to say is I get the same discomfort reading this book as I do talking to my maga in-laws.

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killer crane
Dec 30, 2006

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2019

so why do the cosmic horrors all hangout together? are they a package deal, or just enjoy each other's company for eons?

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