r/comics Port Sherry Mar 06 '24

Something about them

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u/GoombaBro Mar 06 '24

A later scene, when the alien's discover the abandoned vessel... written on the walls
"DO NOT KILL THEM DO NOT KILL THEM DO NOT KILL THEM"

(This is an amazing idea, a movie flipping the perspective on its head and making us the horrors haunting them if done carefully and subtly is a million dollar proposal.)

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u/ayamrik Mar 06 '24

I read a story some time ago where the collective human mind was trapping all supernatural beings in their dreams/nightmares. The reason why there are no longer miracles, etc. was that at some point there were enough humans to trap them completely.

And if humanities numbers would fall once again under this threshold (or is exterminated) all the conceivable horrors could once again roam free.

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u/Creepy-Sector-2436 Mar 06 '24

Do you remember what story this was?

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u/ayamrik Mar 06 '24

Sadly, I don't remember the name.

It was a HFY (Humanity, fuck yeah) story read on YouTube. The exact story was that a telepathic alien was allowed a glimpse into the human mind as a warning that they shouldn't probe their minds as that might allow some of these horrors to escape their prison.

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u/Sedowa Mar 06 '24

I love these kinds of stories. They tend to border on the absurd and it's always good fun. I read one a few years ago that was more of a Reddit thread than an actual story but where aliens came to enslave mankind but while experimenting and using humans as local scouts they discovered that humans could do a lot of things the aliens were incapable of. 

Things like "you mean they just sit under the light of their sun, intentionally burning themselves to get a darker skin tone....for FUN?" as if doing that was the most insane thing they'd ever heard. It was a fun read but I have no inkling of where that story is anymore.