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"cosmic horror... is a subgenre of horror fiction and weird fiction that emphasizes the horror of the unknowable and incomprehensible more than gore or other elements of shock... themes of cosmic dread, forbidden and dangerous knowledge, madness, non-human influences on humanity, religion and superstition, fate and inevitability, and the risks associated with scientific discoveries... the sense that ordinary life is a thin shell over a reality that is so alien and abstract in comparison that merely contemplating it would damage the sanity of the ordinary person, insignificance and powerlessness at the cosmic scale..."
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Could have been air whistling through furnace ducts. I've heard sounds like that which were only audible from one exact point in a room.
It's a fake story
🤫 Shhh! Don't spoil the fun.
That's what I'm saying, let it be unrealistic (I discuss this more.in another comment)
I know, it's in cosmic horror, but it's like figuring out an explanation for technobabble on Star Trek.
Yeah but we are on a cosmic horror comm.
So it's much more reasonable in this context to playfully brainstorm some eldritch mechanism by which the telescope is peering beyond the veil, and the "screaming stars" are not classical celestial objects in any way.
Or I guess just vent noise, that's great cosmic horror 🙄