I love contemplating how actually scary this is. Nothing in horror movies affects me anymore but I get the most wonderful chills from the idea of these beautiful, haunting, mindless things just hovering in this murky water like a minefield for anyone foolish enough to go swimming or unlucky enough to fall in. How it’s still not as bad as being a fish small enough for them to paralyze and consume. How they regularly paralyze and consume fish but evolved before anything like a fish ever existed. A fish is such a complex creature that can see and think and navigate and be afraid but sometimes it touches these brainless, boneless, ghostly things that were just already there, millions of years sooner, and it dies and it never understands why that is. The thing that killed it and ate it doesn’t know either, it doesn’t know anything. It doesn’t have enough of a brain to even realize it has killed and eaten something. Some of its cells simply fired little harpoons into the cells of the other thing, and squirted deadly chemicals into them, and hauled up the paralyzed body to digest it. It’s a spider’s web without a spider but it still fills things with venom and eats them. :)
Hey now, Jellyfish may not be smart, but they’re not entirely mindless. People say that they don’t have brains, but that’s because they’re ALL brain. they are just floating nervous systems, covered in microscopic eyeballs that let them see in every direction.
as I type this, I realize that that makes them sound so much more horrifying.
Thank you for adding to the horror
Been thinking about this post. Jellyfish see and know without thinking. They’re barely autonomous, largely depending on the current. They are mostly water – moreso than most (all?) other living things. Most sea jellies are as simple as an animal can get before it might have to be classified as a fungus. But they persist. They live in a world that has seen countless other more specialized, more complex, and more ecologically diverse life rise and fall. But they persist.
There are sea jellies that are genetically less related to each other than, say, humans are to insects or cephalopods (or even some sea jellies). Animals whose most recent common ancestor may have been the first animal. But morphologically, they’re nigh indistinguishable. Brutal, deadly, hungry, knowing but unthinking life, perfected eons ago.
tumblr is the root of half the internets trends and memes
the curse of being on this website is knowing that shit like cottagecore and dark academia and the obsession with mushrooms and whatnot started on this godforsaken platform and not tiktok
the mushroom thing started with a fucking shitpost where it ends with “you cannot kill me in a way that matters” “im not fucking scared of you!”
“op what does this mean” “decay is an extant form of life”
so was no one was gonna tell me that the painting saturn devouring his son was found painted directly onto the walls of the artist’s home after he died and that it may not even be depicting the greek legend, that’s just the most common interpretation??????
hello????
Not only was it painted on the wall of his house, it was painted on the wall of his dinning room.
Like imagine you go over to your boy’s house for dinner and that’s across from you while you eat. Like would you say something or just
This is the painting is question by Francisco Goya. Not only was this painting found, but a series of 13 other disturbing pieces of art called his “Black Paintings”. At this point in Goya’s life he had lost his hearing (well most of it) and had moved into a villa where he became a recluse. This was directly after the Napoleonic wars. These paintings were never meant to be found. They were never commissioned and he solely made these for himself.
This is where they think each of those paintings was placed in the house.
