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chaiaurchaandni · 10 months
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life is so complicated when u want to read something with an extremely specific vibe but can't find anything and don't have the time/skills/energy to write it yourself
like I'm so desperate to read something about people being stuck underwater/on the ocean floor for a concerning period of time and slowly losing their minds in the cold dark empty sea and battling with the fear of being completely horribly alone under the surface versus the possibility of supernatural forces existing alongside them + bonus points if there are survivors who return but when they come back they are unrecognizable and their loved ones can tell that there is something profoundly wrong or innately different (think underwater (2020) / our wives under the sea (julia armfield) / the creepy atmosphere in the cloverfield paradox (2018) where it feels like the vessel has a life of its own)
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infernal-lamb · 3 months
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Searching your eyes for the saint is an act of futility
something that's just been on my mind recently!
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furiosophie · 7 months
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just thinking about how luke was only ever really taught to wield the force as a weapon, but never how to put up barriers in his mind, just wondering, really, what happens to you when you touch the fabric of the universe but don't know how to wash it off your hands again, if sometimes being one with every living thing feels like you are disintegrating, fraying at the seams
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failed-inspection · 5 months
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Something I wish was talked about or explored more is the fact that Spearmaster appears to get affected when receiving a broadcast signal, as they get stunned and convulse for the entire duration of a broadcast, alongside the fact that you do not need the mark of communication to understand broadcast dialogue (I know this was probably done for the sake of gameplay purposes, but it doesn't make the implications any less intriguing!!)
How much do you think they would have understood? Imagine being a little animal on a mission, created to deliver something you do not fully understand by beings beyond anything you can comprehend, and as you walk across the abandoned landscape, you cross paths with a strange, plantlike structure.
The world around you comes to a halt, you fall to the ground, squeezing your eyes shut as the words from those higher beings pierce directly into your skull, for a moment, you can understand everything they're saying.
Their panic. The gravity of this dire situation you've been sent to help. Everything.
And then suddenly, their voices are hushed, you can open your eyes again, and time continues on as normal.
You still have a message to deliver, little beast.
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ganondoodle · 22 days
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Since you said it's ok to send you random ask, i've always found your "monsters" design to be really really gorgeous, and I wanted to know : in any form of media you've interacted with, what's PEAK monster design for you ?
i have been thinking about this ask alot bc ... i dont ... know? theres a problem with what counts as a monster really too, most are either some sort of anthro/furry or the horror gore type of monster that instills you more with disgust than awe
i guess theres some i really like but idk if thats what id call 'peak' (though its rarely JUST the design but their vibe and stuff too);
(its a lot of zelda.. sorry)
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Eldra, Farodra and Naydra (engl Dinraal, Farosh(?)) though Eldra is def my fav one of them, i like how they are a little more less typical dragon- with the fur around the neck the floppy ears and kinda goofy face yet manage to be the most ethereal, awe inspiring creature i have ever seen in a game with how they act and are presented as (in BOTW!!! do not mention anythign sonau/zonai with stupid magic pebbles to me about them i will manifest worms into your tea)
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Leunen (Lynels) (botw) -i could not find a better picture wtf, fav are white and silver ones) FINE they had some pretty neat new horn designs in totk- idk i just like them alot, rather simple if you think about it, horse lion plus horns- but its so well put together it just kinda scratches my brain in a good way (also how intelligent they clearly are, like the way they fight and act and also even their death animation is so??? huh?? you are just gonna treat them like any other mindless monste- *remmbers they treat ganondorf even even worse all things considered* .. nevermind you're good)
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'Beast' Ganondorf (twilight princess) its my favorite beast ganon design (even if it technically is just kinda a man boar .. again) though if ww gan had a non puppet beast form that one would most definitely be my fav lol (i will not get over the fact that some descriptions call this a hideous beast EXCUSE ME???? WHERE???) (honorable mention here, darkbest ganon from botw, pig on fire but it looks cool as fuck)
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Nimbusgarde (ww) .. (engl .. darknuts?) do i need to say anything? (i could throw alot of ww design here) not sure if it counts as monster but they are not human so ????
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the pathless bosses- (here in order, Cernos, the Godslayer, and Kumo) all of them are rad as hell (except for the final version of the godslayer ... liek im sorry but it looks to boring compared to any other one lol) again not just the design but man do i love them
since i dont know what would count as a monster or no i could just list my fav characters here bfmjbfmjsbmj like radahn (elden ring) is just kinda a zombie, aurelion sol (league of legends) is a space dragon, the forest god in princess mononoke, Narisha (skyward sword- sky whale)- i could go on but this post is long already (honorable mention to Omus in nausicäa, weird bugs but also something divine, though it is much more how they are treated and the vibe etc)
in all honesty though i cant think of one that i would describe as perfect, what i want of a monster design is to be ... cool but also a little weird, big hulking monsters that have something off about them and something that makes them 'other', but also not, as much as i like bloodborne, just bloody gory messes of rotting flesh, AND not just as a monster to kill, i just crave a game or otherwiese piece of media where the cool monsters arent just there for you to kill- the perfect one i guess would be something kinda big scary weird and off but while non verbal clearly not a mindless beast?
and here is the thing; my own characters do not furfill that, my designs are really rather conservative, much to my dismay, anthro of a mix of animals, maybe an extra arm thrown in- Eadrya, one of my favorites, is really just a blueish furry (yes they have fur) and their demon form is a mix of seals and catfish with some extra arms, too many teeth and a mouth that goas wayy to far (if they want) - Shargon is a feather dude with extra arms and his demon form is really just a chinese type dragon crossed with a bird, throw some darts at the color wheel, done
together with my problem of my monster characters losing their 'otherness' vibe within the story rather fast bc the majority of my characters are non human and speak and you see them in all sorts of emotions and parts of life- they lose that divine, unknown vibe and i HATE that that happens, i want them more akin to the forest god in mononoke but thats not possible unless i start from scratch
and i really dont mean to make myself look bad to sound self depre- ... however you spell that; i really am rather dissatisfied with my own designs but mostly just roll with what i got bc i never seem to be able to actually achieve what i want
even my redesigns often really make things LESS interesting (unless maybe the og was just ... human, but they are blue eyed with golden hair and white so that makes them divine you seE-), the skyward sword dragons as i redesigned them made them much more classical dragon, in part intentional bc i was drawing a connection of them becoming the botw dragons at some point, but by all means the canon design is much more weird and unusual than what i did with them, you could apply the same to even demise, his canon design might seem a little uninspired but really what did i do? inject him with some classic satan spice like that makes it in any way less stereotypical evil demon ??? lol
im sorry this post devolved into whatever this is but i really am trying to answer sincerely, i am confused about it myself, what counts as a monster, what doesnt, there must be more that i really loved but why cant i think of them, why do i design characters like this when i really want something much more different, i dont know, i feel like my brain is in a cage, why do i keep making things less interesting in an effort to make it interesting, am i falling into the corporate trap of cool sells who am i what am i doing
(theres a zelda artist with a style so strikingly genuis in shape, color and just .. DESIGN that i want to chew my nails off bc i cannot design like them, their designs and redesigns are so different yet sensical and so full of crisp shapes i have never seen before it drives me nuts and i would want to give them a shoutout but i think they dont like me so aaaaarhekjbfhgdknbgdfklbg)
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i have never felt this uniquely insane about a character <3 i cant get a read on him
#what is his DEAL#im usually really good at pegging a character's intentions / general vibe#BUT IM GETTING SO MANY MIXED SIGNALS THAT I JUST DONT KNOW#his off the charts rizz is fucking up my geiger counter#is he evil? is he a victim? a pawn/minion? does he have good intentions? neutral ones? bad ones?#I CANT TELL#welcome home#wally darling#i mean im team 'wally is a victim just trying to help / protect his friends (maybe the 'viewer')'#and home is maybe the main villian but also not bc the villain is the abstract force of cosmic horror manifesting as the chasm under home#and it has simply infected home or possessed it#and welcome home's whole deal is cosmic horror from a puppet's perspective#and they all need to stick together like glue to get through the Ordeals and Situations#and wally's just trying to keep his friends safe and the neighborhood together and fix home#BUT if it turns out wally is straight up evil then. yknow. i support his wrongs <3#he could do literally anything and id be twirling my hair cheering and clapping#i love his big hair and gay little outfit#ever since i watched night minds video he hasnt left my brain. i think he's eating it#like i want him dead. i want him to be happy. i want to beat his little body against a wall until his stuffing comes out. i want to hug him#he is everything to me. he activates my maiming instincts but also my cherish instincts#i want him to get all the hugs from his friends#god i cant wait for this whole enchilada to kick off its gonna be a DOOZY#i trust clown's brilliant mind no matter which way they take this#absolutely fascinating stuff. i already know im in this for the long haul
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maevesweirdart · 5 months
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ok so i just finished reading this gay furry visual novel called Adastra, and i have to say.
it didn’t have the devastating emotional effect that i’ve heard it tends to have on many other readers, but then again i’m pretty sure that’s just because i’m attracted to large buff sword-wielding women and not large buff wolf boys.
and then i realized
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thinking about this. thinking
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shoezuki · 3 months
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ok brief and extremely vague fic ideas so that i have em compiled somewhere
random things:
gepard discovering the truth of cocolia through a mission from bronya to 'deal with' a group of 'rebels' who are trying to reveal the truth. sampo is there
while gepard is chasing sampo he makes contact with the fragmentum and it causes him to lose his memory and become distrustful and paranoid of everyone but sampo. sampo suffers
gepard and sampo visiting mikinaak the turtle planet (mini fic)
gepard wants to see the planet sampo comes from, sampo refuses to even talk bout it (mini fic)
someone hurts gepard, sampo reacts in a totally sane way and breaks their knees or something
Divinity AU
gepard shouldnt be surprised that sampo is being more annoying with the stellaron gone and the underworld opened up again, but the fact sampo keeps showing up every day without pause is concerning
nat's perspective of sampo and her suspicions of him
someone hurts gepard, and sampo reacts in a totally sane way (eldritch edition)
comparison between when Aha would poke at and be chased by Lan, vs. how sampo is chased by gepard (sampo wants to be caught in only one of those scenarios)
qlipoth sends sampo a message mid-chase. the weight of qlipoth's words affect him harshly and cause him to collapse. gepard worries
silvermane guards gossiping about sampo, how there's something wrong with him. gepard interjects and tells them off
a conversation between qlipoth and Aha, millions of years before, from qlipoth's perspective
sampo fucks up and does something he can't correct in his current state. all he can do is wipe the memories of the people on jarilo. Fuli yells at him for messing with memories so much
gepard keeps finding weird, impossible things in his office
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blinkpen · 7 months
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Oh I JUST saw the nervousel art, you fr nailed the unsettling horror vibe in that sequence! I would also love to know what exactly makes them so malicious if its not a huge spoiler 👁👁👁👁
Basically, if Relic and/or Necrin itself are who you go to when you have somehow convinced yourself making a faustian bargain with an ancient, sun-sized reality warping abomination swimming between the atoms of reality that is sometimes referred to as "The Fluorescent Necrophage" is going to end well for you,
then Nervousel is who Necrin deploys like a mindbending, legbreaking bloodhound to corner one individual at a time and make it so that "Join Us" or "Suffer" are the Only options until further notice
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daz4i · 6 months
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in regards to this poll. i had another thought
let me clarify, since people seemed to latch onto cthulhu-like mythos and tentacles and big monsters in the tags of my previous poll. when i say cosmic horror, i mean the whole idea that there is a being we as humans can't even comprehend, that can harm us on a large scale and probably not even care about it
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cringefail-clown · 2 months
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i often forget i follow dakidavekat on twt, so when im scrolling its always a suprise when i get hit in the eyeballs with some of the most disturbing and/or gross shit imaginable. keeps me on my toes
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oh-hell-help-me · 10 months
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Day 19: Hungry
-please stop-
Super Dimentio cackles in delight as Mario tumbles from a swinging hand, feeling a crunch that has a trembling part of it finally still.
-don’t-
A finger twitches, but it doesn't prevent Paper Mario from getting a missile to the face, or Bowser tanking a headbutt as Peach dashes between its legs in hopes of attacking it from behind-
-you're... hurting them. stop-
Paper Peach is desperately keeping her ground as her parasol blocked projectiles, only to be sent careening back by Paper Bowser and Mario, who has been bodyslammed by a sliding shoe-
-stopsTOPITSTOPIT-
The entity cranes its head unnaturally as its eyes follow Peach, whose attacks simply bounce off.
"Useless."
It raises its hand-
And spasms.
It’s fighting with itself.
Mario would have thought it was just readying another attack, but-
The things arms seemed to wind themselves around the neck- squeezing as the rest of the body jerked in disjointed effort.
-STOPITSTOPITIWILLNOTLETYOU-
His head feels like it's splitting open- no one is shouting but the words are loud enough to feel them crashing into his skull.
"ha."
He looks up (when did he fall to his knees?) and sees the thing's face stretch into a crazed grin.
"hahaHAHAHA!" He hates how the laugh echoes in this place- how it sounds like Luigi but just. Not. "YOU REALLY THINK IT WOULD BE THAT EASY, LITTLE 'HERO'?" It wrenches its arms apart, making a crackling sound that sends Mario's stomach lurching.
The thing has its hands loom over him, now, and while it felt like another blow might end his game-
The hand snaps backward, fingers twisting behind the 'wrist' as the thing wails-
He can't help but feel hope.
"Lu-" He coughs and ignores the iron-tasting wetness clogging his mouth. "Luigi?"
It's not paying any attention to him, or anyone for that matter as the spasming sends it crashing to knees-
"no-NO-!"
The voice sounds nothing like Luigi, but also not like the thing.
"YOu- YOU- ArE NOT The SHowRunNer here-!"
"ShUt... UP!" The thing(?) screams- and shoves a gloved hand deep in its mouth.
It's disgusting to watch, especially as fluids start seeping out-
There's a squelch-
And there a jester is, wrapped in a darkening hand- frozen in shock. as the 'thing' seems to catch its breath.
Mario tries again. "Weegie?"
It's a split second, but he still feels unimaginable relief to see it- no, Luigi, it's Luigi- glance over to him with a tired but warm look.
And then his brother looks back at his hand-
And Mario tries to not feel fear when he sees that familiar face contort into something- dark.
He's never seen Luigi angry, nevermind whatever it is that he sees aimed at Dimentio (and it has to be him, especially as the jester seems to try to squirm out of its Luigi's grasp).
In his peripherals, he sees everyone else in their own state of anticipation, maybe hints of trepidation, and he couldn't blame them-
He wasn't expecting that expression to smooth out.
He definitely didn't expect Luigi's arm to condense with shadows and-
They spread down to his hands, bubbling around the wrist, up the hand-
And then Dimentio is screaming.
"nonoNONONONO- THIS IS NOT- NOT LIKE THIS-"
Mario isn't sure what to feel when he sees the figure get enveloped by those shadows-
The screaming cuts out.
He... feels horror. He hates that it's caused by Luigi. He feels like he's been dunked in an ice bath and left to dry in a freezer. Was that Luigi?
And did it matter, when he sees that towering figure tremble and shrink?
Did it matter when that figure starts to look less like that 'thing' and more like Luigi?
Did it matter when Luigi, and it is Luigi, he could hear his voice, see his face even if a bit lacking in color...
He doesn't hesitate to run towards him when he looks ready to keel over, doesn't flinch when he catches him and leads him down to the ground and into his arms-
He decides that it doesn't matter, when he hears his baby brother cry.
It doesn't even matter that he can feel Bowser approach in heavy steps, plopping down near them only to scoop them both in a hug.
It doesn't matter to him, not when the other half of his world seems to be breaking just the same as ever.
He just isn't sure what the others are feeling.
The sudden silence rings loudly in here.
Bowser would never say that he was scared.
With Luigi, he could say -with surety- that the Green Bean could never manage to scare him at all.
Strangely, even with the things that play out in front of him, he doesn't feel scared either. Not with the protective rage (something almost unrecognizable on that face) aimed at what used to be a threat.
He doesn’t give a damn that Luigi isn’t… the same, or that he’s technically hugging the red menace as well.
Luigi's fine- they're fine.
Everything's fine.
He-
He feels the way the brothers shift closer, yes, but also feels a colder hand reach above his upper plastron, patting around for something-
Oh.
He does his best to curl inwards, letting his muzzle nuzzle into Luigi's green-capped hair(?) and the searching hand does its best to curl around his head in a familiar hug.
...What does he feel then?
It's... something warm, maybe even hot, sitting in the bottom of his stomach. It flares up when Luigi calms down enough to pet his mane, nails scritching satisfyingly yet sending shivers down his spine.
He is... also tense? Bowser isn't nervous, or waiting for something, per say, but the world also feels strangely intense. He can feel his heart beating faster than usual, even though everything is done, and-
He stills, and is very grateful that neither human notices.
He'll deal with those feelings later.
Bowser is quick to stand up, lugging the two brothers up with him (he is smug to hear two startled yelps from that) and stomps over to the group of Paper versions and Peach.
He tries to not feel hungry.
The conversation with the Paper versions is... enlightening for Peach. And maybe them too, considering the thoughtful looks towards the unlikely pair huddled together with Mario.
For one, they are incredibly sure that -whatever Dimentio did- he hadn't bothered to keep tabs on their Luigi. If he wasn't this careless -or reckless- enough with the merge into 'Super Dimentio', there might have been a good chance of none of them surviving this.
Another is that Paper Bowser seems... stumped, realizing that his other version has fallen in love with someone who isn't Peach.
(She tries not to acknowledge the warning look Paper Mario shoots him with.)
Their last revelation is that whatever Dimentio did to summon the Chaos Heart this time hasn't ripped a hole in their reality.
It has also not really left.
Peeking back at the trio, coming closer due to Bowser, she is still off-put by the shock of white hair next to Mario's brown.
Never mind the lingering (but thankfully fading) pulses of emptiness that surround Luigi.
She's... not sure how to feel about Dimentio's... death? Is he even alive still, or was that truly...?
Regardless, they needed to go back. If not because of how unsure she is of this place's stability-
A stomach growls, and the only reason she knows it's from Luigi is becuase he shrinks into himself with a whine of embarrassment.
She tries really hard to not be incredulous, considering he just ate-
She is sure no one here has eaten since this morning...
How long have they been here?
She claps her hands together, startling everyone with the broken silence.
"Let's go home!"
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fellhellion · 9 months
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Something something the spot’s goofy antics distract from how dangerous his own entitlement and resentment is
#I don’t want to be that guy but I feel a little bit like spot gets sanded down a tad into just the fact he’s funny#and he IS funny I get it. but what makes him scary is the power to lash out with his entitlement and resentment towards miles#it’s you did this TO ME (miles didn’t#he was busy getting pummeled by kingpin and then venom shocking him back and the building was being EVACUATED it’s literally no one’s fault#but spot’s that he was there AND miles didn’t even know he was there when the collider exploded)#so I’m owed the role that you made me into <- miles literally didn’t do this#I’m OWED being your nemesis because I created you <- when all of itsv is about its miles own choices that make him heroic and not the bite#spot can’t even take ownership of his own actions. he’s like oh IM not robbing you that’s the bank. well buddy I don’t see you robbing the#bank I see you harassing some guy owning a corner store#like I get it. ur a cosmic horror and it sucks capitalism is pushing u down and u can’t get a job but like OWN UP TO WHAT THE HELL YOU DO#LMAO#and even miles trying to genuinely reach out and say look I’m sorry I made u feel bad (even though this isn’t an owed apology) and spot#STILL is hellbent on breaking miles back for an imagined slight#I AM GOING TO KILL YOUR LITERAL FATHER BECAUSE I BLAME YOU FOR SOMETHING YOU DIDNT DO#like god lmao. he’s a fun silly villain but there’s legitimate anger and spite and RESENTMENT motivating him purely to try hurt miles back a#as* badly as he imagines miles hurt him. when it’s like dude. own tf up to who’s responsible here#I’m not angry at the spot btw I actually think he’s a fun villain but I think recognising that resentment is what makes him effective as a#*​frightening* villain and one that poses legitimate danger#tunes talks spiderverse#apologies xinakwans ik u said you didn’t want to read any spot posts hopefully this snags on ur filtered content block shdjfjfk
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furiosophie · 1 year
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okay i put this in the reblogs of the "personal nightmare-tester hob gadling" post before but i just thought about it again so
imagine dream after being cut off from ppls dreams for over a century coming back and struggling to figure out what's "trendy" rn, like what do ppl wanna dream about these days? what are they afraid off?
and literally the only person he knows who could reliably tell him that bc he's lived among humans for six centuries and has the context for what the fuck is going on with them is, you guessed it, hob gadling
so dream just shows up at random asking him the wildest questions like "hob gadling what is cbat and why are humans having sex dreams about it" and hob is just standing there like pls it is fucking eight am i didn't even have coffee yet
like hob just graduates from personal nightmare-tester to personal dream-trend researcher, and it's just an endless string of "no dream i will not teach your nightmares how to floss that's not even a thing anymore" and "what do you mean can you confirm if this nightmare Iooks like slenderman pls it's two am" or "no dream i do not know why everyone is horny for that four foot tall zombie woman-- wait hold on why are you getting big oh-- oh yeah okay alright i get it"
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I don't care how many times I rewatch The Immunity Syndrome, I am never not going to feel a little bit insane when McCoy thinks that Kirk is apologising to Spock because he didn't pick him for the suicide mission... like babygirl what is wrong with you????
Who the hell apologises to the guy they didn't pick to get killed?
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nitewrighter · 9 months
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Now I'm thinking about 'more mature themed' dark rides and I'm now thinking it would be so cool if Annihilation/The Southern Reach trilogy was a dark ride--especially a boat-based one with both indoor and outdoor scenes.
And the outdoor features could have glowy bioluminescence at night!!!!
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