yes, yes. the agony star. we’ve all seen it
Anon learns about astronomy
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SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
tetris11@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Yeah god people, read a book
Enkrod@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
If you look at Polaris
still the Pole Star leers down from the same place in the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey. Sometimes, when it is cloudy, I can sleep.
you might see The Colour Out of Space,
The colour, […] was almost impossible to describe; and it was only by analogy that they called it colour at all.
and hear The Music of Erich Zann.
Louder and louder, wilder and wilder, mounted the shrieking and whining of that desperate viol. The player was dripping with an uncanny perspiration and twisted like a monkey, always looking frantically at the curtained window. In his frenzied strains I could almost see shadowy satyrs and Bacchanals dancing and whirling insanely through seething abysses of clouds and smoke and lightning. And then I thought I heard a shriller, steadier note that was not from the viol; a calm, deliberate, purposeful, mocking note from far away in the west.
redhorsejacket@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Heh, glad someone else immediately thought, “Well, that’s Lovecraftian”. Also, man, I should dust off my collection of his fiction. Abominable human being, but his writing sure is evocative, if a touch on the purple side.
Enkrod@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Yeah, no bad writer, great writing. I never realized how immensely quotable and eloquent short excerpts of his works are, until I looked up those specific quotes.
If the sculptured maps and pictures in that pre-human city had told truly, these cryptic violet mountains could not be much less than 300 miles away; yet none the less sharply did their dim elfin essence jut above that remote and snowy rim, like the serrated edge of a monstrous alien planet about to rise into unaccustomed heavens. Their height, then, must have been tremendous beyond all known comparison—carrying them up into tenuous atmospheric strata peopled by such gaseous wraiths as rash flyers have barely lived to whisper of after unexplainable falls. Looking at them, I thought nervously of certain sculptured hints of what the great bygone river had washed down into the city from their accursed slopes—and wondered how much sense and how much folly had lain in the fears of those Old Ones who carved them so reticently.
The language is just… sublime, his vocabulary is such a vast vessel that I - as a non-native speaker - am happy enough to understand when read but will likely never be able to command myself.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Varesti@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Unique_Emerald_Sol_I@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Take your upvote and get out
Fmstrat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How did this not come to mind instantly for me. Nice.
Etterra@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
blackberry28@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They don’t like you watching them
naught101@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hypothesis: tree full of fruit bats
wieson@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Not pictures: lil bro under his covers pranking his brother by screaming faintly
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
mom was trying to keep it quiet but dad was giving it to her HARD.
FavouriteShapes@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Many such cases.
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is not the kind of shit I should be reading at 4am
affenlehrer@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Why does a telescope magnify sound? Or is a psychological type of cosmic horror where the sparkle patterns of the stars hypnotize you?
paraproto@szmer.info 3 weeks ago
It is a shittext. But yes, the implication is of psychological nature.
SavinDWhales@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Perhaps he was looking at a porn star?
Lumidaub@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Hello, yes, I don’t need this in my life. Thank you.
TootSweet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
cannedtuna@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Except that you know… the earth is spinning and all that and the stars don’t stay in one spot. You know, ignoring that bit.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
It’s Polaris. Polaris is screaming at us (to
takeplay Control).Jolteon@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
A lot of modern telescopes can easily track a target.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
My dad had a super fancy one when I was a kid, came with a CD that had all the co-ordinates plugged in.
You tell it the date, time and your coordinates and it’ll show you a list of cool shit you can see. Choose one and it just finds it for you.
Deme@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Unless they’re looking through the telescope at the same time of the night when he found the star. Previous night was a wider survey and the kid just wrote down when the star in question passed the field of view. How long there is time to hear the screamibg just depends on the magnification/fov.
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think its saying he stayed in one spot and never moved?
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 weeks ago
Which means the horrors were already on Earth!
ddplf@szmer.info 3 weeks ago
Explain constellations
Glytch@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Constellations are collections of stars that stay in the same place relative to each other, but they all move across the night sky as the Earth spins. We also see them at different angles depending on what time of year it is.