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"You've reached Jack. Please just text me, I really hate phone calls."

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[ungovern]

Define Eldritch. Is it the tentacles that freak humans out? I guess they're weird, but insanity inducing?

Do you have any of the racist old asshole's books?

[stations]

I think the dictionary definition is 'weird and sinister', but it's generally associated with things old, horrifying, and beyond the scope of human comprehension. The tentacles don't help, but that's kind of a side problem.

I've got a copy of The Shadow over Innsmouth. It's not his best, but it gives you a general idea.

[ungovern]

So, cephalopods and space? Is it the vacuum, the larger distances, or the endlessness?

[ i'm not going to try understanding the beef with cephalopods. prehensile limbs would be so useful but i guess mankind's allergic to utility. ]

I'll take it.

[stations]

I'm not sure I'm the best representation to speak for all of humanity about things that we're supposed to find weird, but if I had to guess, it's the vast endlessness and the incomprehensible scope of time? And the unknown. Humanity has a pretty good imagination. If you leave them a vacancy, they tend to fill it in with the worst, most horrifying possibilities they're capable of conceiving of.

[ungovern]

[ such... little weirdos. ]

That explains a lot about the excellent story-telling, but persistent crippling anxiety.

[stations]

I think you pretty much just summed up my entire personality in a single sentence. Neat.