After consecutive unrelated conversations about Twin Peaks and 1408, I am now SEVERELY back into cosmic horror... and even more into the idea of entities that literally hurt to think about but are not actually _unkind_.

I still really, really, really wanna see a remake of/reply to Stephen King's 1408 where Mike just throws up his hands and asks the evil hotel room, "Listen, what is your problem?!? You're obviously sapient. Did someone hurt you? Can I HELP, maybe? Why are you so mad at ME?"

Nobody* ever asks that when faced with a cosmic "horror." Nobody even entertains the possibility that something can break reality can also be reasoned with, or have positive emotions. I wanna play with that trope so bad right now. Basically just... what if you had the "biology" and "nutritional needs" of a damn Tindalos hound but were otherwise... not so bad?

I miss Serenissima. She was somewhere between a highly contagious neuroleptic fractal and "MIKE"/"the arm" from Twin Peaks as a floating blue bunnygirl. And, I mean, she wasn't NOT nice. Things just got weird around her. Appliance hums just started sounding a little more like strings of digits. People just started doing weird ritualistic gestures with their hands. Your glass of water just kinda retroactively always had those Vantablack tadpoles in it. The face on the $5 bill was ALWAYS a blue rabbit lady with op-art tattoos all over her face. The sun always screamed.

But not, you know, in a mean way.

*At least, hardly anybody in the mainstream. Furries do it all the damn time. Lapiniousmalice over on FA actually has a pretty good, almost Fellini-esque ongoing comic about it. And I've seen so many other "cosmic horror who just wants to have a good time and indulge their weird kink" characters, from chatty demon clowns to friendly gaping voidmaws**. I love this fandom sometimes.

**you know, like shadow, umbra, penumbra, and sugarfoot, the four finest little monsters i have ever had the privilege of knowing <3 granted their kinks seem to be "getting free food" "scritchies" and "making more cats"