All Tomorrows: the future of humanity?

What will humanity become, millions of years in the future?
This video is an abridged retelling of All Tomorrows, a story written and illustrated by C. M. Kosemen. Here's an interview with Kosemen on the Alt Shift X Podcast: • ASX Podcast: All Tomor...
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0:00 Humans
4:20 New humans
17:06 Post-humans
28:59 Empires
37:36 All Tomorrows

[@cmkosemen]

Thank you so much for giving my work the best YT treatment possible! This is a much better narrative artefact than my original pdf e-book... I'm so happy! :)

[@AltShiftX]

Thank you for your fascinating work! Everyone go check out Kosemen's KZbin channel and website cmkosemen.com/ Here's an interview with Kosemen on the Alt Shift X Podcast! kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWKnhpiDl8qmg5o And here's another Kosemen story read by Alt Shift X! kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYXOdHqJfJh_a5Y

[@elcapitainadel972]

Hats down you have a very big imagination to make such work

[@teamupleft7097]

Can anybody recommend good yt videos about Snaiad?

[@merrittanimation7721]

Your art is an inspiration.

[@TheRunningLeopard]

It's so crazy to see you in the comment section, your work has been very inspiration to me and inspired me to go after an art degree.

[@Jaylegoman]

Doofenshmirtz: “If I had a nickel for every time the descendants of mankind were used for genetic experimentation and as bioengineered slaves by a powerful, speciest race, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice, right?”

[@jonathantaman7566]

What was the first?

[@kanna-san.]

@@jonathantaman7566 Man After Man

[@bustprime]

@@kanna-san. Thanks.

[@jonathantaman7566]

@@kanna-san. thanks man, just looked into it. It’s pretty great

[@kuelapfortress1687]

What about the Anunnaki legends. They weren't humans, but humanlike, I think it counts.

[@uBreeze]

Imagine just vibing and then obscenely technologically advanced god-like creatures turned you into a fuckin’ wall.

[@senakuma9985]

I would be dead silent

[@jonathansolero7]

for 40M years

[@someoneiswatching3395]

Omni man would do that

[@kipwhitaker1744]

Or a God damn worm

[@jesseware4682]

Bruh

[@selamatpagi6329]

I just love it when the Qu said "I'll steal All of your Tomorrows" then completely tomorrow'd all of the humanity.

[@RocketShipRansacker]

My favourite part was when the Qu proclaimed ''it's All Tomorrow time'' then went along and All Tomorrow'd humanity. Truly one of the moments of all time

[@ulises4808]

Yeah you gotta love it when the Star people go "I sure hope we don't get twisted into beastly abominations by eldritch gods" and then the tomorrowers are right behind him.

[@thegreat_boi7777]

the Qu tommorrowd all over the colonials, it was horrible.

[@Onigirli]

Ugh

[@xeno9671]

Guh

[@asriusdoesart]

Evolutionary Horror will always be a genre that chills me to my core

[@Spaceman972]

Do you have any other recommendations similar to this?

[@user-ll3qb8dv6u]

​@@Spaceman972 Snaiads by C.M. Kösemen (the author of All Tomorrows) is definitely worth checking out. The creatures are so weirdly designed and I love its world-building. Kösemen is the current master of evolutionary horror and speculative evolution and it makes me sad people usually only know his All Tomorrows book- which is of course great but his other works deserve attention as well

[@ppsaha1994]

@@Spaceman972 not exactly horror but speculative fiction, Children of Time series from Adrian Tchaikovsky. Genetically modified Spiders evolve in one of the human colonies and meet future humans. There's also Axiom series from Tim Pratt, A crew of humans, posthumans and octopus like aliens working against an ancient unimaginably advanced civilization.

[@big_neek]

ok

[@tyronevaldez-kruger5313]

The Holocaust and the Great Purge belong in this genre as well. The cross-over between reality and imagination chills almost to death

[@jaygonzales6069]

“They ruled over the human worlds for 40 million years, then fucked off”. Best thing I’ve heard all day

[@KimberlySmith14]

haha! Totally!

[@bluehairedemon]

This entire video is writen so well, so much one liners and insights

[@senakuma9985]

Me like hmm oh yeah I remember something like that in humanities stupid past

[@SwordKing-he9gt]

Also, Qu be Amon clones.

[@MagnumLoadedTractor]

So million years of evolution before and after the qu no one had a TV except the tool breeders

[@notso8605]

Qu 1: "yo watch this" *turns a human to a creature made to suffer* Qu 1: "lmao" Qu 2: "lmao"

[@Kosmid]

I should NOT be laughing at this... That's us!!😭

[@Rare_Spore_Fan]

lmao

[@frog-gr5mi]

lmao

[@escobarfedmedrugs3281]

lmao

[@shoelicker]

lmao

[@ktvia]

pterosapians are kind of beautiful yet tragic to me. to be so smart, so free from oppressive social classes and yet trapped by your own body to only live for 23 or so years is tragic but insanely interesting

[@jasper_the_ghost]

Well, they still live full fulfilling lives. If there were a species that lived to 500 years old, they would probably look at us and think, “wow, it must be so sad to only live to a hundred or so.”

[@invit6441]

the pterosapians girl in the picture gave me mixed feeling. Her life was short and that would be her last time visting such place but she seem happy and living in the moment. Girlie deserved a happy life

[@THEDOCTERO]

@@invit6441I loved seeing that picture, it made them seem very human and it made me love their species even more

[@40watt53]

It's the same for us. There's so much greatness in the world but we only have 80 years to experience it.

[@Bokumanashi]

Yea their story alone should have been the end goal for the galaxy in my own opinion. Tru freedom and appreciation of life

[@TRUTHANDCONSEQUENCESWILLNEVER]

To me this work is a celebration of humanity's capacity to survive. I find it inspirational in a sea of a lot of anti-human fiction we see today.

[@jasper_the_ghost]

I think we as humans just focus on negatives a lot. We see war and crime and insane injustices and think that’s all humans are. We forget that humans also have an infinite capacity for compassion, love, creation, and unity. Stories like these are important to remind us that we aren’t one sided creatures.

[@mobo8933]

I think this is extremely disrespectful to humanity and it just makes me hate possible alien life even more. The stars are our birthright. Humans on top

[@kirar5522]

​@@mobo8933gravital detected

[@wolfetteplays8894]

@@kirar5522agreed

[@JunkstHat3605]

@@kirar5522OMG ITS A GRAVITAL!!! RUNNNNNNNNN

[@hans10yearsago6]

Is this what wolves feel when they see a chihuahua or pug?

[@ObamaSphere]

It's the other way around I think

[@TasosJoker]

Is this what you feel when you see a chimpanzee or a gorilla?

[@sovietnationalism5240]

@Mikołaj Dujka some where lmfao, not to mention dogs were mixed with wolves too and that would make it that some wolves were changed by humans fucking dumbass

[@DoctorPhileasFragg]

@@johnmcswag5980 Just like there are still monkeys, there are still wolves. I don't think it's an equivalent comparison.

[@TheAzozoi]

@Mikołaj Dujka Dogs were changed from wolves, they can breed and have viable and fertile offspring mking them the same specie.

[@Methus3lah]

This is some “I have no mouth and I must scream” sort of shit

[@MigWith]

U just described the whole feel of this thing

[@marcusht7352]

That was legit my first impression of this

[@miquelescribanoivars5049]

Mantelopes "All I can do is scream".

[@ellasedits_]

literally my first thought when he got to the part about punishing those that resisted

[@Violet-rv1fv]

@@ellasedits_ the colonialls

[@standard-carrier-wo-chan]

The Colonials/Modular People story is especially heartwarming. They went from utter nothing into a thriving civilization. It must've been so easy and so simple to just give up and let go, but they didn't.

[@tacotony3274]

They may look far from us, but the human spirit persevered

[@CndCooch3]

Seriously the goats, they fucked up the Qu twice, and still prevailed

[@tintedplot96]

Ironic how despite the horrific artwork and presentation, there is a beautiful and motivation message behind it

[@angeltheprocrastinator8014]

i love it how it makes you uncomfortable but the overall message is inspiring

[@deviatedseptum748]

*My ass would've stayed in the primordial soup if I knew there was gonna be days like this*

[@omorieyes2308]

Gianni reference

[@oofy_emma1072]

-The colonials

[@miquelescribanoivars5049]

@@oofy_emma1072 - Reject Humanity. - Return to Primordial Soup.

[@whiteking8428]

I would've stayed is the sack if I knew there was gonna be days like this

[@creature-pf4tp]

*P R I M O R D I A L S O U P*

[@xxx_jumperxking2k22amazing2]

imagine trying to defend yourself from a big tentacle space monster and it turns you into a fuckin wall of flesh for millions of years💀

[@sockstealer1417]

Colonial Moment

[@veisencrickle3937]

Bruh momento

[@jonathanjonnylightning718]

Somebody was on acid and Spice k2 a lot of the stuff to make this whole story.

[@bryeim267]

Kitty?

[@leticiam895]

fucking terrifying

[@i.7525]

The Colonials and then the Modular People really struck a chord with me when i read All Tomorrows. Even though they didn't survive in the end, there's something really beautiful about the way they managed to create a utopian society from their horrible starting point.

[@NicholasHEADSHOT]

They truly embody the "Indomitable Human Spirit against the cold indifference of the universe".

[@bl00dth1rsty9]

They found something that seemed impossible. A working form of communism.

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

I like the flat people. Flounder humans kinda based ngl

[@Itsokaytoleaveyourdoginahotcar]

@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 their descendants are dicks though, but I agree the flat people are great.

[@doctorgibberish]

Oh my god. I legitimately forgot I’m listening to alt shift x video half way through and started wondering what kind of audiobook is this. You’re the best.

[@Sasu123456789x1]

I thought the same thing 😅

[@tereziamarkova2822]

My favourite part is how the Qu engineered these posthuman monstrosities to be either nonsapient, or sapient and suffering eternally, and in a few million years so many of them were like "WELL GUESS WHO'S BACK MOTHERFUCKERS".

[@wilmagregg3131]

yeah thats the problem the Qu never expected they never though another species COULD be as great as them and master intergalactic travel but when some did what do you know all the neighbouring galaxies had a common enemy they all hated more then any other what better way to create a galactic federation

[@Odrikah]

"Forcefully evolve me ONCE, shame on you. Force evolve me TWICE?? Shame on me. FORCE EVOLVE ME TWENTY TIMES, NOW I'M MAD

[@LaughingJokerProd]

At the weekly "Fuck the Qu" meetings, every race races their hands in the unaminious motto of "Fuck the Qu"

[@ThatCreeNative1]

Fuck the Qu. All my homies love The Reapers.

[@blingerstinger]

@@ThatCreeNative1 The Reapers are actually pretty fair. Let life take its course, reset it, and watch it go again anew. Because eventually, one single species would come out on top and enslave/destroy the rest of the known universe. The Reapers are benign gods in the grand scheme of things; something none of the ME species could understand (obviously, no one would just sit and let aliens exterminate them). At least the Reapers never had any hatred or need to be superior; they WERE superior and never wanted anything during the quiet eons, dudes just hibernated until it was time.

[@arivertoeveryone]

the term "what the actual fuck" was invented to describe this piece of fiction

[@revolvency]

What the fuck isn't enough

[@allantidgwell5624]

You've clearly never viewed the art of H.R. Geiger

[@vaultguy4540]

@@allantidgwell5624 just looked at it that's milk toast compared to this In fact it's not even bad

[@revolvency]

@@allantidgwell5624 to be honest, Geiger art had more sense than this

[@HopeIsntDead]

@@vaultguy4540 Milquetoast*

[@goooooooose.]

This is deeply terrifying, yet so interesting to me. I feel like there's an alternate world where this has actually happened somehow.

[@yaaqub_yasharal]

I see, we have to re-look our understanding when it comes to folklore and true history, i so happened to be Christian growing up but then learned it’s lies and it’s truths, we must know what the truth is to God, why then Noah was perfect in his GENEarations? Noah walked with God, could this be WHY the flood happened? Gene tinkering….? And so I’m not really exited that people are curious about something that will bring man to another extinction.. so called gods that give us knowledge and understanding, but never lead to peace or true life.

[@chimpazoo1143]

If the universe is infinite, then it definitely happened

[@meax3685]

if you feel like it is the truth, it probably is.

[@pro-socialsociopath769]

Alternate world? It just simply hasn't happened yet. We haven't even finished page 1 of the story by colonizing Mars

[@meax3685]

intuition

[@DrDeadlifts]

I don't think I've ever heard a more terrifying body horror story. This is fantastic.

[@bigshot103]

But it is also an inspiring tale of humanity rising up against all odds not just horror. And speculative evolution

[@mrblackandwhite5104]

Good to know, out of all of this, the Qu eventually got fucking mirked

[@andrestangue8596]

The first time I saw the video I thought it was the channel's decision to not describe the battle between the United Galaxies and the Qu, so I went on and read the book to see if there were more details, but the book describes it in the same way. I am still curious about this epic battle.

[@sillylittlemonkey7130]

Fuck the Qu, all my asteromorphs hate the Qu

[@wilmagregg3131]

@@andrestangue8596 my best guess is the qu lost due to shear numbers they had been a stagnant galactic nomad species for billions of years meaning there population was also probablt stagnant so all the galaxies they tormented when given acces to one another with galactic travel would have enough numbers to surrond the qu in every dierection and they could no longer run as there enemies had intergaltic travel just as fast as theres

[@starman825]

@@andrestangue8596 all my boos say fuck the old the old gods

[@joshuagraham2843]

it took humanity for 150 million of years evolve and take revenge on qu

[@qasrd11sa]

>shows up >destroys your civilisation >turns your species into genetic abominations >leaves

[@raulgobato417]

560 million years after that > revenge time bois

[@user-fp4nu3qw2z]

Gigachads.

[@miquelescribanoivars5049]

> Refuses to elaborate further.

[@danidevito2397]

to be honest, I'd do the same if I was some Godlike entity

[@Aden_III]

@@danidevito2397 stop trolling

[@NotSoGenesiz]

it’s oddly beautiful how, even with all of the scaring contortions left upon humans, they still remained… human. their drive, ambition, hatred, love, and creativity still persisted for millions, maybe even billions of years until their extinction. that’s so indescribably amazing

[@tiky9833]

imagine being so mad at your opps you turn them into unimaginable pyramids of conscious human flesh

[@weirwadefolk9088]

Better then biting the curb I guess

[@tiky9833]

@@weirwadefolk9088 That is NOT better than biting the curb😭

[@Aquanetta25]

​@@tiky9833 eventually the qu got jumped by multiple galaxies (including the human race) and they died leaving the qu race gone for good

[@vleuname]

@@Aquanetta25oh thats beautiful

[@tephlin1405]

Pick: - return to _monkie_ 🐒 - evolve to *b a l l* ⚫

[@user-wv7os1li4i]

monke please

[@dogge4649]

Monke

[@agussuseno344]

Monke

[@cibelebrazil]

Me=🔺

[@iR-80]

i am no borb

[@jazzbefos9303]

Her friend: "I bet he just wants sex." Me: "I'm really impressed with those post-humans being able to welcome in the Saurosapients, despite the lack of familiarity."

[@kyvilfongkot6372]

Saurosapien rocks

[@kanna-san.]

This is why I'm single

[@kyvilfongkot6372]

@@kanna-san. then date a modular

[@absolutcabbagery3661]

I mean at that point the similarity between the post-humans is like the similarity between all mammals. Common ancestors become sorta arbitrary after tens of millions of years and a freak bout of extreme genetic engineering

[@Mountainlion118]

@Lex Bright Raven we should prepare too in case we have something like the qu in our universe😨

[@legendarylukas8368]

This is just basically what Humanity did to dogs, isn't it?

[@ttterg6152]

No

[@cmbaz1140]

Kinda

[@identityjunk]

Basically

[@GhoostTheManic-wf4it]

I love the 3 replies here, like in different spectrums on agreement lmfao

[@cloudyAstros]

@@GhoostTheManic-wf4it😂😂😂fr

[@ilikecheese321]

even though this is terrifying, it's also kinda comforting knowing that it's never truly over. change will always happen

[@crazyfordaftpunk]

Exactly what I thought. I like this side of speculative evolution. Even though it's full of misery and is surely terrifying, in the end it gives us hope, telling us nothing is over yet and your willpower can overcome what you are struggling against. All Tomorrows and Altered States are my favourite examples of this.

[@gamignmaster6977]

"The males were mindless little monkey imp creatures, who blindly served their queen." I see the average twitch user has lived on.

[@ironsnowflake1076]

stop. it. :D

[@Randomperson-kr4nn]

smooth

[@motifity3416]

The species' males have a scientific name, the Twicholin Simpanicum.

[@italsoisntgabriel1042]

@@ironsnowflake1076 why should they stop telling the truth?

[@whysoserious6385]

(Improvised) A bizarre living decoration, 2 meter tall lump of flesh with cones. Not far from the reality🤣😂💀

[@DeezNuts-bg2qp]

"The Gravitals didnt _hate_ other species; they just didn't see them as people" Aw shit, here we go again.

[@omegalul8466]

Lol, they even have the same excuse.

[@nathancaldwell5443]

So, they're colonists.

[@zshivkonezshivkov380]

@@nathancaldwell5443 Hey, don't bring the colonials into this.

[@krzysiek8776]

Racism.

[@SU1_cidalDadbro]

It took me a second to get it but holy shit...

[@rockstar-made]

Even when rewatching 40 minutes felt like nothing, not only is the story and artwork stunning but your editing and narration elevate it to the next level

[@Miguel_Perales.]

This makes even the concept of human extinction look like a more favorable option

[@antonintresl1761]

Qu 1: "These humans fought bravely and persistently, facing us with all they had, we should respect that." Qu 2: "W A L L P E O P L E." Qu 1: "Fair enough."

[@epictrollmemeface3946]

P O O P W A L L P E O P L E

[@ArbiterofTruth]

I do not think they knew honor or mercy. They sounded cruel and unfeeling. Seeking amusement in suffering.

[@MilkIsTheOne]

@@ArbiterofTruth They treat Humans like animals.

[@anwpecirotan]

@@MilkIsTheOne just like human to creature that less significant than us, Qu is really higher being that concept of human morality is irrelevant to them

[@Aliandrin]

Qu #1 is the type of species that doesn't survive when faced with a species composed of guy #2 who will be merciless no matter what. There probably were a Qu subspecies of #1-like guys, and they didn't make it.

[@gbeach85]

I use to fear death. Now I fear being made into a sentient flesh quilt.

[@calebnorris6960]

Un ironically my greatest fear is that life extending tech will get so advanced in my lifetime that I will live forever. Thank god the rich are going to hoard all that tech for themselves and that I'm going to die of a heart attack at 50.

[@gramioerie_xi133]

@@calebnorris6960 The idea that rich people would have an incentive to make themselves and ONLY themselves immortal is asinine.

[@calebnorris6960]

@@gramioerie_xi133 What ? Peasants in America barely get medical care. The world is overpopulated and tards only continue to reproduce to create more wage slaves. Of course they would try and hoard it to themselves. At least at first.

[@ryanwilhelm45]

@@calebnorris6960 I feel the same way lol - I never feel bad about smoking, and I will never have kids as a result of tech. The stuff we are doing with ai and brain interfaces is so incredibly scary. I dont want to live in a world where someone else or a machine has the keys to my mind.

[@nobodyburgen4594]

Caleb Norris Did you just unironically use the word "peasent" in the twenty-first century?

[@ahmadscientist6623]

seeing this two years ago i can confirm it gave me a new perspective of life

[@hanstar782]

Loll, sameee with me when i saw it 2 years ago

[@Dumbunny420]

This has raddled me like nothing else has. The concept, the existential dread it radiates, the potential thought of being turned into something like that, the thought that this could be where humanity goes. I have so much to say and not a single word to describe it. I feel like this has started a whole new fixation, I’m about to go buy this book and read it, then reread it, and then 20 more times cuz wowie

[@suhail8258]

Really well said

[@meax3685]

tragic beauty

[@mk8841]

I feel the same way! It rattled me, even made me feel like saying "those aren't human!". But I got to a point where I realized, that YES, they are. They look different but they all had cultures, life, love, philosophy, etc. So they are, and have the core of what makes humanity, human. I think I really started feeling bittersweet around 22:13 where we learned about the bird-people and their culture (at risk of repeating myself: it was *just* so *Human* ).

[@niallwatson6851]

Really looking forward to the Buzzfeed quiz "Which Post-Human Monstrosity Are You?"

[@venmis137]

Tbh probably Gravital. I have a tendency to get drawn into grand narratives & I'm a bit too enthusiastic about the prospect of transhumanism (although I am skeptical as to whether many of the innovations posited by transhumanists are possible).

[@marioxzzz]

Hedonist sounds like the most fun. Asteromorphs seems to be the most op tho

[@discountpotato5680]

I wish i was an asteromorph, just farting and thinking all day long, god what a life

[@belisarius6949]

Im a Killer Folk uwu rawr

[@iwiffitthitotonacc4673]

@Miles Nice LARPing, nerd.

[@legobro5771]

This would be a cool book to just have fuckin chilling in a bookcase. "What's that, that's a weird cover man." "You don't wanna know, dude."

[@potatoboooi5168]

Yeah I wish it was a physical book

[@mr_JackSchwarze]

@@potatoboooi5168 oh my friend you know they have a few copies still on this earth

[@Tegrius88]

@SorryPalButI'llHaveToDiddlyDarnSnapUrNeck the video is a retelling of an online book

[@saable8860]

I want it really really bad to just leave out places

[@legobro5771]

@@saable8860 Like accidentally leaving your Necrominicon at Walmart lol

[@VeelaMalfoy]

This has stuck with me for such a long time, and I often think about it on a near daily basis. So thanks for... that

[@charlescastle4533]

Other people's sci-fi: 👽👨‍🚀🚀 My sci-fi:

[@HQMan2008]

"They move by farting with their highly evolved sphincters" is a phrase I thought I'd never hear in my entire life!

[@joe77andino]

😂

[@michaelwerkov3438]

i mean... its kinda brilliant for an animal in space though

[@happyslapsgiving5421]

Ok, now that they have propulsion in outer space covered, how do they deal with... everything else?

[@james1311na]

@@happyslapsgiving5421 ok

[@dylanbee8350]

This reminds me of South Park

[@Junin9738]

i just imagine symbiote school like "Yo, your host looks rad" "Yeah, yours too, wanna trade?" "Hell yeah!"

[@ID_e_OFFC]

Modular school: "hey wanna trade eyes" "Sure bro"

[@shapejustanormaltriangle7659]

It be like, "Yeah I found my host face facing the ground. However he visited the Colonials, so it's pretty cool"

[@stupidityincarnate9863]

Bug Facers schoo lunchl be like; Hey, Samson, is that a fucking Symbiote parasite? Man, I've been wanting to try one of those for a while!" "As I wish I got the chance to try one of those tarantulas from earth. You've been holding out on me. Wanna trade? "Yes!"

[@fizzystewz1503]

killer folk school: killer folk teacher: ok class, let's learn how to use a gun- killer folk 1: *suddenly shoots a random prey outside the window* killer folk 2: bro, how did you do that? killer folk 1: I already know how to use a gun, ok? so may I leave class? killer folk teacher: of course you can! :D

[@majordonut4022]

Pterodactyl peoples class would be like Teacher: Hey kids I’m gonna teach you about death and how we are all going to inevitably die

[@pantsuck11]

“Love today and seize all tomorrows”❤

[@user-hq1gl6ch5o]

I watched this before I went to sleep once and I couldn't sleep.

[@liberpolo5540]

I’m watching this in bed 😬

[@connorbruh1907]

*earthquake* snake people: ayo this shit go kinda hard tho!!!

[@XrisXo]

Hahah damn reptilians

[@bananabreadguy7960]

more like God-like sounds of the world.

[@justiniscracked4977]

This shyt hits different

[@hunterv9983]

*earthquake hits* Snake People: THIS SHIT GOT BARS, BRUH!!!

[@screamindog8772]

14 year old snake people: Billie earthquake understands me

[@blacksuppository]

"hey Qu can we exist as flesh squares with sentience?" "to suffer for eternity and wish for death?" "yes" >actually becomes the modular people

[@samuraiboi2735]

Meh i want them to modify me into a roblox character Okay thats a bad idea by the way

[@hockeymaskbob2942]

40 million years is a long ass time, I don't see how any of these different species could remember anything of "normal" humanity.

[@gamemeister27]

@@hockeymaskbob2942 Nothing sapient has had a chance to live that long yet, so until we make it that far, we won't know.

[@hockeymaskbob2942]

@@gamemeister27 I'll set a reminder on my phone and let you know in 400 million years

[@gamemeister27]

@@hockeymaskbob2942 it's a deal.

[@trifurobert1349]

Dude , this is perfection , if only all books got videos like this , perfect summary

[@starswapofficial]

Dont let elon musk see this video

[@Neotrunks1]

"They communicated by defecating on each other" Seems like Twitter has survived well past human civilization.

[@jieeyoo]

"Twitter All Form Explained"

[@lauvetteette8920]

Lmao

[@EG-cs3wv]

Wooow excellent

[@JohnDoe-kv4ef]

Imagine a more intelligent alien species observes how we communicate with the internet by sending and receiving data and thinking that's equivalent to shitting on each other

[@OPTIMUMELITE]

Shit posting. >_>

[@bruhbruh1070]

Qu be like: “they’re resisting what do we do?” “Hmmm t e t r i s”

[@JauneKR]

I love but hate this comment so much

[@DEV-rw7eu]

Hmmm yes human floor is made out human gloor

[@aturefrati7407]

LMAO best comment from this comment section

[@bigmanimation]

The human filter...

[@samuraiboi2735]

@@DEV-rw7eu ahh finally we could name them the colonisers

[@fullmetalfroge]

this has to be one of the most batshit crazy, yet intimate and philosophical examples of horror and worldbuilding ive read so far. well done!

[@Embraceshroomjack]

I’ve watched this video about 100 times and I still get shocked by some of this

[@nine-toedsloth7168]

"The Star People lived in harmony... Then everything changed when the Qu attacked."

[@darkunor6687]

and there was no chosen one to save them

[@scottythefunk4174]

Then HE MAN CAME AND DESTROYED THE UNIVERSE LIKE A BLACK HOLE BECOMING SENTIENT TO EAT THE ENTIRE GALAXY!!!!!

[@kyvilfongkot6372]

@@scottythefunk4174 he was then turn in a flesh bricks and skeletor use as the toilet

[@lolmonkey69]

avatar the last airbender renfrence

[@rowanbun3162]

Then they took the Endurance to Pandora to find the Avatar (but a Xenomorph got him D:=)

[@spacex6997]

Qu: Makes a brick human Gravitals: Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power.

[@miquelescribanoivars5049]

Qu: I destroyed and subjugated the Star People in 10,000 years! Gravitals: 10,000 years?! Those are rookie numbers! Watch this!!

[@ProtomanButCallMeBlues]

Gravitals: WHAT WILL YOU HAVE IN 50,000 YEARS? Bug Facers: YOU.......

[@mahri9022]

@@ProtomanButCallMeBlues THINK BUG FACE THINK

[@vincegalila7211]

The Qu Admittedly were probably just going through the Motions at the time. They'd done this a lot

[@amexicanfox4384]

Qu: *killed and modified humans for their selfish desires* Gravitals: Write that down, write that down!

[@esmeesmeralda701]

It’s been 2 years since this video. My life has changed completely since for the better. I return today for the fantastic listen. 2 years ago I was going thru the gigs and this was such a nice escape . And then the additional media that all the fans made, the silly media, the beautiful 3D rendered stuff? It was all so inspiring . How this KZbin video read brought so much joy and whimsy+ creativity out of so many of us. Lovely. Divine. Wholesome. I hope we are all having a lovely time.

[@usedtissuepaper42]

24:03 guy on the right really said “Nah, I’d win”

[@loadingscreen3233]

i love how the narrator is usually serious and monotone when talking, but at some points they're just like "then the Qu fucked off to look for their next victims", and it hits you so hard.

[@zeemouu]

yup same thing at 26:46

[@MoodAlshamsi]

"Got their shit together"

[@abiolafolaranmi7771]

I thought he said “flocked off”

[@N.G.G.U]

abiola folaranmi me to cuz he was so serious didn't think he'll swear

[@zacharydeguzman7377]

Had to check the captions to make sure I heard right

[@kurtaustria8868]

"like creatures that existed only to play the tune of one particular pop song" never gonna-

[@kyvilfongkot6372]

What a nightmate

[@infinitethenextkazekage392]

Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie And hurt you

[@SnowBoy1008]

Holy Fuck Imagine being an Extremely Intelligent Species of Subhuman quintillions of years in the future and being rickrolled

[@littlevoidboi2111]

Imagine being brutally genetically manipulated purely to rickroll people

[@noahbutno505]

I read this just as it played

[@dantevitale5714]

Imagine being a subject and you've been modified and remodeled and recoded so many times an you're in so much pain and all you can do is scream but all that comes out of your shattered, mangled throat is Lou Bega's "Mambo Number 5"

[@Onigirli]

Let me out, let me out, this is not a dance

[@johnreydelatorre3450]

What the fuck. Now I want a live action or animated version of the book

[@anotherone6713]

Modular people be like: “bro pass me an arm.” “Sure bro gimme a minute can’t find my 6th eye.”

[@nihiladest3492]

lmao

[@yharondg7513]

Talk about lending a hand

[@anotherone6713]

@@yharondg7513 my god, you genius.

[@PriaGuy]

@@anotherone6713 Didn't see that coming, didn't ya?

[@DemoniChaos666]

@@PriaGuy of course not, he's still looking for the eye

[@ervandrafadhlil403]

Those colonial who are made to only suffer but actually evolve into modular people are the true MVP's

[@miquelescribanoivars5049]

Gravitals: Oops! I stepped on some flesh bags again!!

[@SnozBerryQueen]

....yeah they're fucked. The thought of their existence made my skin crawl..it was such an intense and disgusting visual. Those poor things.

[@spacklekabb5075]

Damn champions is what they are. "I have no mouth, and I must Scream... So I'll grow a few hundred on the other side of the planet."

[@crabman8264]

at least they evolved

[@ClarkyWarky]

We are the colonials.

[@ggeeznuts]

i don't know what I just watched but i need more of where this came from

[@FearStolen]

I can’t lie , this is actually really dope , I’ve been seeing this recommended to me for so long and I finally listened. This man is so talented to come up with this 💓

[@HenriqueRLima-vz7ny]

Fun fact: "Qu" is pronounced just like "cu", which, in Portuguese, means "asshole".

[@banh8488]

"Cu" also means penis in vietnamese

[@naiber538]

Cul is ass in french language

[@awfulweek]

Então mano, to la mo focado na história ai do nada bate a 5° série e começo a rir

[@aisha5156]

@@banh8488 Another word for ‘penis’ being ‘dick’. They knew what they were doing.

[@HenriqueRLima-vz7ny]

@@awfulweek heuehsusheuhahe

[@felwinterslie8223]

Bro the gravitals really went like "hey, you know what happened to us millions of years ago? Wanna do it again?"

[@vorpalweapon4814]

History is always doomed to repeat itself if you never learn from it

[@dreadblock7592]

@@vorpalweapon4814 or just dont care

[@quirinoguy8665]

@@vorpalweapon4814 Learning history is to learn that nobody will learn from history.

[@icetheirken]

I know! I kept thinking they were a lot like the Qu.

[@fizzydrinkwoozy]

Dawg. I watched this shit this morning, and I was tired as hell. I had to go back and watch it again in the afternoon to make sure I wasn’t tripping or something..

[@obsessivefanboy]

I remember reading this story in the PDF I downloaded from like a discord server and being totally intrigued. The video is an even cooler way to experience it. Thank you

[@salem3641]

do you still have the pdf?

[@LiveLifeBeHappy100]

Bonecrusher 1: *SHITS* Bonecrusher 2: _“you got a point there…”_

[@squid_cake]

"Love em or hate em, they do be spitting facts"

[@thingy373]

*explosive diarrhea* "Dude, that's offensive"

[@Yolo53769]

@@squid_cake "They do be shittin facts"

[@wierd_person2438]

*shits agreeingly*

[@theblueone3660]

*shits* translation: Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter thought to account for approximately 85% of the matter in the universe and about 27% of its total mass-energy density or about 2.241×10−27 kg/m3. Its presence is implied in a variety of astrophysical observations, including gravitational effects that cannot be explained by accepted theories of gravity unless more matter is present than can be seen. For this reason, most experts think that dark matter is abundant in the universe and that it has had a strong influence on its structure and evolution. Dark matter is called dark because it does not appear to interact with the electromagnetic field, which means it does not absorb, reflect or emit electromagnetic radiation, and is therefore difficult to detect.

[@geraltoofrivia7915]

This video is responsible for single-handedly creating a fandom for all tomorrows

[@baz9913]

ikr

[@wungadunga5099]

I didn't knew there was a fandom for this lol Time to join

[@baz9913]

@@wungadunga5099 welcome to the club , soon people will roleplay as snake people , The Qu , Martians , Mantelopes and many more

[@fizzyegg]

tfw you were the only person on earth who knew about it before this video

[@baz9913]

@@fizzyegg lets hope that people dont make r34 , cringe rp and fanfic of the Pterosapiens and Killer Folk

[@divinity898]

The symbiotes be looksmaxxing fr

[@Zenith9485]

Qu: We will kill you all Symbiote:🤫🧏

[@0therun1t21]

I just got my housemate hooked on this story with your video, I needed my phone back so he's gonna listen on the tv. Thank you so much for posting this!

[@attackonponyproductions4927]

Quite literally, I've never been more terrified of aliens than hearing about the Qu. What the actual fuck...

[@nerdst13]

The Qu make xenomorphs, predators, or whatever else horror movie aliens look like a joke

[@gaymermoment]

Hey, nice civilization you got there, would be a shame if someone were to invade it and split you species in multiple different ones, each designed either to suffer, be enjoyement, or be slaves, while you either lose you consciesness and have relatively normal lives with relatively small amounts of suffering, or keep it and suffer incredibly

[@drendraleigh4722]

@@gaymermoment except the civilization part, that sounds a lot like dog breeding

[@gaymermoment]

@@drendraleigh4722 yea

[@TWolf-gt6if]

I'd take xenomorphs any day over Qu

[@DinsRune]

First half: "Man, this is a huge bummer." Second half: "Man, the universe is a wonderful place."

[@llewelynshingler2173]

@@Bluecheese1400 Unnamed alien author: All things considered... I am after studying all your peoples have to offer that Yes, the Universe is, Truly a Wonderful Place... I wish you could have seen it.

[@jagadish8444]

I'm addicted to All Tommorows so much, I'm hearing this story everyday😅 hope there is an animated movie made on this😄

[@user-ll3qb8dv6u]

In an interview C.M. Kösemen (the author and illustrator of All Tomorrows) said that he was proposed by a studio to allow them to make a full movie of All Tomarrows but he had to refuse them because they wouldn't really allow Kösemen to control the whole process. Kösemen says he would want to be a part of a movie project where he has the all control, which is very understandable, and he also said even though it's unlikely, he would love Ghibli Studio to make an animated movie out of All Tomorrows.

[@whiteyeti809]

Time for my quarterly rewatch...

[@soggysocks9650]

This guys just got recommended to everyone and singlehandedly revived a 15 year old series

[@zoober3508]

litterally, i kept seeing this obscure shit get recommended and knew it was gonna be one of those

[@alterrastudios2387]

This is 15 years old???

[@adewilliam9047]

2006 was 15 years ago??????

[@cristiancam5251]

@@alterrastudios2387 the book

[@angelcarlos8041]

The fucking algorithm is busted man. But i like it anyway!

[@SeggyCute]

At first I was like, “Aw! I wanna see an earth-like Mars!” Then I saw the “Star People”, and was like, “Nope.”

[@Violet-rv1fv]

Lol star people is not even as bad as everything that comes after iit

[@miquelescribanoivars5049]

@@Violet-rv1fv Setting the mood for the upcoming Circus of Freaks.

[@Messy3264]

@@Violet-rv1fv they were still bad, they're like a "brace yourself" for the circus that came after

[@ianwilliams2632]

"The swimmers/tool-breeders domesticated and modified other sea creatures, and built entire cities powered by organic life" So... the Qu

[@p1nkishninja]

This has become one of my favorite sotries of all time. If you really think about each of these subspecies, this is truly some of the most nightmarish, lovecraftian horror. I love it, and despite that horror, it really ends on a beautiful thought.. humanity shining through the darkness.. really top tier stuff man

[@The42Horsepower]

I think one of the nicest touches is the "author" holding the skull upside-down. You can never get everything right, no matter how hard you try.

[@DesolateLavender]

I noticed that, and that they were just holding it weird. This makes more sense.

[@revimfadli4666]

Seems like a parody of how human paleontologists got some fossils wrong. In another book the author parodied the "skinny dinosaur" trope by applying it to present-day mammals, after all

[@raindrops5247]

@lil_atb at 37:39 !

[@The42Horsepower]

@lil_atb 39:06

[@sausigoflondor5146]

@@revimfadli4666 are there any drawings of that?

[@jl_woodworks]

"Human minds aren't sacred to evolution". That's beautifully scary.

[@nevermind6606]

how the hell did i see this comment exactly when he said it

[@gloom0259]

Evolution or perish, bABY

[@joachimvalencia7743]

very

[@argo9721]

@@nevermind6606 because you did

[@austinragusin5533]

I read this the second the narrator said this😂

[@littlered3632]

This has me captivated! What a wonderful treat to stumble upon

[@PhoenixSellen-jo2cm]

Wormy dudes chill asf tho

[@grimthecrustycrustacean4454]

Can't imagine becoming minecraft bricks just because some aliens named after a single letter wanted us to be less smart

[@joachimvalencia7743]

and instead now becoming living walking colonies

[@Nobddy]

it sucks, but whatcha gonna do?

[@nukeruranium9417]

@@Nobddy If you dont have genes, you can't get memed

[@DonRoyalX]

I don’t believe this will happen to us. My usual temperament of the future is of humanity being a grand contender of the stars, fuelling envy from other alien life, and watching this kind of stuff always humbles me to realise that we could very very easily be reduced to ash by entities infinitely better than us. But I still refuse to believe it, my hopes for humanity are naively high, I will die countless years before we could rule the galaxy (if it is to occur) so I feel better living my years dreaming of our far descendants as gods rather than slaves 😛

[@oldnotweak]

@@DonRoyalX maybe god isnt protecting people in their day to day, but it is protecting us from these things... so long as we stay in the garden :P

[@ValueNetwork]

Ruin haunters: “We are the true descendants of humanity, for we not only think and look alike, so are therefore more dominant than the other human races, we live in the ruins of the star people and thus have become their equal” Also the Ruin haunters: “LMAO who needs human bodies, lets just be robots”

[@Nobddy]

🤣

[@michaelarview]

Also humans now: skynet will be us

[@moreshige]

Sounds like Daleks

[@Iianator]

i mean when you can be turned into a freak by biological changing creatures, being a non pain feeling, not biological robot is the best thing, and you could make a database sky net hive minds, then after some billion years, you can wipe out whatever stars the qus are at and kill them

[@riteshyeddu9186]

@@Iianator yeah!

[@mistermossman6074]

Thank you for blessing me with this. This was the most amazing trup for my brain to imagine. I love thw idea of life but to an uncomfortable degree to where I love the flaws and the vulnerability of life and so I love the way this dude wrote it. So vulnerable and weak and easily manipulated and changed beyond recognition. Such a grotesque beauty that isnt easily captured correctly. This is just wonderful.

[@zhanderreydeoferio2298]

I remember watching this a year ago forcing me to watch some long video and this vid is what I'm stumbled upon, my life began to turn after finishing this, still gives me goosebumps today and still horrifies me

[@Colddirector]

This starts off horrifying and slowly becomes strangely beautiful, then sad. This is incredible.

[@henrywhite2228]

I’m not sure I would say the ending is sad. Sure, it’s melancholy, but all lives must end at some point, and the story of humanity in all tomorrows is the story of life as well. Through all their suffering in twisted humans maintained their drive to expand, connect, and understand. The life of every human told as one. And the fact that another alien race saw the value in that long after humanity was gone from relevance is the lesson. We may amount to dust in an unforeseen amount of time, but our story is still etched into the worlds we lived in.

[@aturefrati7407]

It’s so incredible I’m absolutely consumed. It’s absolutely beautiful, especially the ending sentence

[@BR-dy1ie]

Actually should humanity ever achieve space flight capable of reaching and terraforming other worlds and star systems then it’s incredibly likely that you wouldn’t see an extinction event for man until the heat death of the universe. For every planetwide massacre, every collapsing star, and so on youd have plenty of humans elsewhere that would be thriving. Think the Imperium of Man from Warhammer. It’s a bit like trying to exterminate every fly with a fly swatted or a flame thrower. Sure you’ll kill many. But you’ll never, ever kill them all.

[@fresherturtle1154]

Yeah

[@joshuagraham2843]

kinda like lovecraftian space horror

[@frxcisco]

I found this book a few years back and i like to read it every once in a while when I'm feeling too emotionally stable and happy

[@turgon327]

@Miles man I think you’re in the wrong place, I mean no disrespect but you aren’t gunna convert anyone in the KZbin comment section. Also I think you misunderstood that this was a joke and not a vulnerable person for you to convert.

[@Dwarfurious]

it has a physical copy i can buy ?

[@deepblume6611]

@@The.Nasty. no offense but you reek edgy😂 from your Profile pick and Name, you have self awareness

[@The.Nasty.]

@@deepblume6611 no offense but you need your “edge radar” tuned up buddy. I’m a 30 year old who works a pretty chill desk job, who gardens and paints in my free time... Probably the furthest thing from edgy. The name is my childhood nickname (that I did not choose and did not like) and the picture is because “Nasty” is slang for sex, I thought the curtains should match the drapes. Obnoxious? Maybe. Rude? Probably. Edgy? Nah man.

[@chandlermccoy1813]

@@The.Nasty. @miles is fine. They aren't hurting anybody. This is a comment section where people are free to say whatever and interact however they wish. Your hostility does far more harm than them preaching about their religion which they love so much. And saying "none care about your fictional nonesense" is hilariously ironic considering the mind fuck we all just listened to. 😂 Unless they are actively hurting people or spreading awful hatred and negativity like you just did, I strongly advise and implore you to just ignore it.

[@richardtorres312]

One of the few 40 min videos I didn’t minimize to scroll somewhere else and fully entrance myself in, wish there were more quality videos like this on the internet about more subjects

[@Zyzyx442]

Thanks for this, what a ride

[@lawrance3810]

Imagine just chilling on a planet living life and a god like being with such advanced technology that you can’t even begin to comprehend it turns you into a fucking fish

[@OljeiKhan]

And you eventually reject fish to become a fucking boat

[@OljeiKhan]

Wait those are not those guys , the finger fishers became the boats. The fish became tool breeders aka my house is alive my couch is alive everything is alive

[@kosherre6243]

@Underwater 69's or he'll like it

[@kosherre6243]

@Underwater 69's you kinkshaming rn bro? Sheeeshhh

[@PeaceOfMind8190]

Ask the Aborigines

[@EvaristoH]

"How the united galaxies reencountered and defeated the Qu" yo that sounds like the most fire plotline and you're just gonna leave it in a spoiler throwaway line

[@bateli9733]

I'm gonna buy the book just to read how they were defeated

[@danielruiz8259]

@@bateli9733 That's how the book put it, in only one throw away line

[@miquelescribanoivars5049]

In a QA video he did a while back, Kosemen mentioned he didn't really conceptualize the Qu or the Asteromorphs much. He said the Qu's acted more as a narrative plot device to cause the speciation of post-humans aberrations. I suspect it also may have something to do with their technollogy being so far beyond of us that it would be hard to describe, leaving vague explanations to keep the mysterious side of Cosmic Horror.

[@seankellygaller6902]

@@miquelescribanoivars5049 man Fuck the Qus...

[@joshualeahy2162]

@@seankellygaller6902 Ayo fuck the Qus..? 😳

[@santoshr2984]

I keep coming back to this ... its like going to your granny for a new story every night .. so you could fall asleep listening to those tales.. So good to be a child in your 50s :0) ..I always thought that time is gone forever. But i think technology is bringing it back.

[@AlexNice404]

Anyone else here at 2 AM randomly?

[@georgevlastaris2259]

imagine waking up being a minecraft block out of flesh just cause ur grandpa wanted to go full doom eternal on the aliens

[@Flemingmullholland]

😭

[@dukenukem3dgaming599]

going full doom eternal sounds like a good ending

[@douglasallar9176]

@@dukenukem3dgaming599 sounds better than being a living brick

[@ls200076]

@@dukenukem3dgaming599 Good ending for him, bad ending for the grandkid.

[@nicolaspinson8981]

Imagine being a god-like human minded machine, litteraly capable of bending gravity and then youre destroyed by fart-propelled gollums.

[@MKsaircall]

Hey! The Asteromorphs are badass

[@BlackOtaku22]

Well lets be fair fart propelled big brain people

[@Maxzes_]

Good.

[@yuzurubrijer4556]

Yeah I don't understand how could the Gravitals lose to those things

[@infinitywork1693]

@@yuzurubrijer4556 well the asteromorph are never changed by the qu so they have more time developing their technology whereas the ruin hunter has to evolve first before being able to become the gravital.

[@user-nt8dy4xw9r]

I have no idea how this video was recommended to me, but what a fascinating story and artwork! It’s been a long time since I felt this tremendous sense of wonder.