Primordial Fears | Best of r/HFY | 2021 | Humans are Space Orcs | Deathworlders are OP

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This Story is Classified as HFY or Humanity Feck, Yea , but what does the Mean?
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HFY is a story/series that takes a “human element” in either humanity or an “other” (race/species or object) that exists in a “setting” (future or other world/universe) with varying levels of culture, technology, society and history that help show in some shape or form the potential good or bad for humanity’s race/culture. In These stories Humans are often referred to as Human, Humanity, Deathworlder, Hellwolder in reference to the human planet of origin , Earth. This planet is seen by most of the universe as a place where only death and chaos can survive.
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Humans Are Space Orcs (HASO) or Humans Are (Fantasy Race) Are used as a guide when writing.
In these Stories we normally View humans like the other races view orcs in a Fantasy Novel. We (Humans) share the same characteristics and personalities as orcs. Humans are normally treated as the outsiders and barbarians. Humans tend to be underestimated as well in these stories. Unlike Humanity Feck Yea , these don't always put a positive spin on humans\humanity sometimes looking at the darker side of human and humanity from the perspective of aliens.
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[@silvadelshaladin]

"Almost every species in the universe has an irrational fear of the dark, but they're wrong because it's not irrational. It's Vashta Nerada." Dr Who...

[@theblackwingofdeath9520]

They are not in every shadow, but any shadow. That is haunting.

[@chrisdufresne9359]

I loved that episode

[@Darkwintre]

And then the doctor told them to use that library to research HIM! Possibly the only time darkness immediately visited the toilet and they didn't know they needed the toilet before they met him!

[@kyriss12]

I still think the best manifestation of fear of the unknown as a primordial force of nature was the reveal of the darkness demon in chainsaw man. Seriously look up those pages because they are metal as fuck and utterly pants shitting terrifying.

[@exumbra1399]

I created a whole species based on the sound of that name! (Laresh Nerakt, shadows that steal heat, leaving only crumbling, frozen statues in their wake)

[@someoneawesome8717]

So they accidentally created a massive cosmic horror, figures

[@Amoth_oth_ras_shash]

sounds like it... guess the planet is going to be sold as 'extreme combat fatigue stress test environment' to the terran army & navy soon.. as that hive incorporeal bodied thing only can be fought for eternity with conventional weapons and grit and never tire... so ..perfect peen it in with extra dimensional guard posts and then use as routine practise location for extreme special ops! ^^

[@kalskirata42]

@@Amoth_oth_ras_shash no need, just educate people that the unknown ceases to exist upon observation, as the things in the dark are mere myth

[@Amoth_oth_ras_shash]

@@kalskirata42 suppose that is functional , though it doess leave the 'loophole' if the what i guess is a mostly 'mindless' entity can get someone that thinks it can hurt them... out of the system , it would give it a potential 'place to run to' if not peened in with something that adress the lees 'mind over matter' aspect.. after all , the ..spirit ?.. of knoweldge did not say the entity would cease to exist when understood it only can hurt you if allowed.. only that its ability to hurt you vanish right hmm.. or is that me jumbling the words a bit right now of the story hehe ?

[@kalskirata42]

@@Amoth_oth_ras_shash yeah, there's also that caveat of the unknown only being able to hurt you if you let it, but it's ability to do so is severely curtailed when it stops being unknown

[@RodneyG669]

The human did say that they only exist for those who know of them and the planet was lost. As long as no one escapes the planet to spread knowledge of them then it will hopefully be contained.

[@ernestmac13]

The caution of the dark isn't irrational; it's an evolved survival skill, it's the same as assuming a twig snapping in the bush is some predator. This is due to the false positive of assuming it's a predator has little negative consequences, while a false negative of assuming it's nothing can remove you from the gene pool. This is also why; assuming the dark alley may be hiding some threat is a logical position; while assuming it doesn't lose any threat can end your life.

[@xsjado_anon]

It needs to be balanced - if you are *too* afraid you will never sleep and die anyway - but your point still stands. There was a woman who was dreaming about a crown of thorns being placed on her head after a night of drinking while camping - she awoke a while later to find a fox eating her scalp as she slept, with chunks of scalp and hair completely gone as the fox had already devoured them. She has one of the worst cases of PTSD I've ever heard of - I thought mine was bad because I scared my wife one night by taking swings in my sleep and knocking everything off the bedside table, but this chick had it way way worse. From not enough fear, to way way too much.

[@colinsmith1495]

But the light of reason can analyze that darkness better than instinct. The light of reason tells you the darkness of your bedroom at night isn't filled with monsters and predators. The worst threat is your bed corner. But that darkness of an unknown alley in the bad part of town? That's a perfectly rational fear. Let's keep that one. It's useful.

[@greyhunter3271]

​@@colinsmith1495 so.... You agree with what he siad then lol

[@Sora_SlimeCat]

@@colinsmith1495 Fear of the dark used to be useful too. I hope for the day that the 'back alley danger' reflex is no longer needed as well.

[@dtotheawesome8182]

I don’t think darkness is the universal fear of life on earth, as there are many creatures able to see through it or who don’t need to. I feel like a more accurate universal fear of life on earth is sudden loud noises, because in nature a sudden loud noise could be a number of things but all of those things would benefit from the fight or flight reaction.

[@generalnawaki]

They manifested the darkness of the human psyche? well hopefully the NEXT universe isn't that stupid.

[@devinbrynjulson4052]

"When humanity was young, it feared the DARK. Not an idea, not a being, or even an abyss. It was an inescapable horror that even devoured its fear. And all who looked blinked."

[@monty9456]

Where's this from?

[@devinbrynjulson4052]

@@monty9456 A old folk tale from Ireland. It goes way back to pre Christian.

[@JeanLucCaptain]

It's easy for people living in a city of light to forget the dark was terror incarnate for 10,000 years.

[@JRRodriguez-nu7po]

They're forgetting now, but the gods of the copybook headings will return to teach them again.

[@tomasrolter6729]

So the cosmic Pandora hit her box and became the bearer of fear?

[@SymbioteMullet]

Hope and fear, two terribly motivating forces.

[@xavierzaxavier5873]

Pandora really do what her name is.... She created open the Pandora box🤭🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@loganshaw4527]

And the hope left after the fear was going was the only thing that could fight it.

[@elduquecaradura1468]

@@xavierzaxavier5873 well, the machine she made (or she operated) opened a human and the primal fears inside of it

[@tramachi7027]

Oh damn, just realizing the play with Pandora Box lol Yeah, the Box was her Mind and the officers, through that interogation opened exactly that. Dooming the entire planet by opening Pandoras Box...Damn you Author

[@julesmasseffectmusic]

My 6 year old nephew was afraid of the dark. His 3 year old sister used to walk into dark rooms and turn the light on for him. I sat him down and asked what he was scared of. He said monsters, I asked him who were the scariest people he knew he looked me in the eye and said you and dad (both of us have a violence in us only child abuse can create and it's.obvious over time). I said that's right and can you think of anything scarier than us? He looked me in the eye scared and said no. I asked will me and ya dad always be on your side. He proudly said yes. The. I said if the scariest things you can think of are on your side why be afraid of monsters? He was able to walk into dark rooms after that. Terrifying that worked and saddening that is how his dad and uncle are.

[@johnj.spurgin7037]

Thou I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil eh? The reason for that lack of fear depends. For some, it's faith. For others, it's being the baddest MFer in the valley. Respect.

[@melkiorwiseman5234]

There's a whole TVTropes trope named "Humans Are The Real Monsters" and all too often, it's true. Made-up monsters are weaksauce when compared to the monstrosities which humans will perpetrate on each other. This is why we value kindness. "Good" is supposed to be the standard, but all too often these days it's the exception. Please be kind, even when your instincts would say otherwise.

[@LegendStormcrow]

@@melkiorwiseman5234 These days? It's always been so.

[@exumbra1399]

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. For through wisdom your days will be many, and years will be added to your life. If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you. If you are a mocker, you alone will suffer. And yes, if your Father is bigger than any enemy, why should you be afraid of anything?

[@11bravoNRD]

Sound similar to my kids. They get afraid of the dark. Told them that after years in the military and deployments over seas that I learned to become the thing that people feared in the dark. My unit had done so many night time raids, snatched so many people from their homes, and killed terrorists as they thought the night protected them, I never gave it much though of the fear that could induce. Imagine being outside thinking you're gonna attack an enemy just to find out their in your yard as you walk out the door. You're out gunned, out classed, and out played. Thinking that the darkness would help hide you has now become you're biggest disadvantage. Tell my kids that they need to learn to become the things that go BUMP in the night.

[@TarsonTalon]

I think that the human was safe because she reasoned that, if the darkness killed everything else, then there can't be anything left in the darkness.

[@rainynight02]

I think the "human" at the end was part of the manifestation. What's even worse than being surrounded by what you're afraid of is having a glimmer of hope... And it being just out of reach.

[@truekhmer7292]

@@rainynight02 i think it’s made clear that “she” is not human as she emanates that light and herself said: “let’s say I am human”

[@westcoaststacker569]

Perhaps it is like how we walk around in pain and grow use to it, All those fears are there still but we function with them.

[@colinsmith1495]

There is nothing to fear but fear itself. We're well familiar with it. We keep it close to us. We adults brush it aside every night when we walk down the dark hallway to bed, or go downstairs to get a snack after turning off the lights. It's not gone. It's still there. But we've mastered it. These creatures haven't.

[@danielboatright8887]

She literally explained it: You have to believe it can hurt you for it to hurt you.

[@radioactiveassassin5218]

I was thinking the whole time "Oh, someone or somethingis named Pandora in Sci Fi, how original." After that I understood the symbolism: they quite literally opened the Pandora box

[@anathardayaldar]

Story Idea: Evil wizard is succeeding in his plan to conquer his magical world until... A human from our universe is accidentally teleported in. Everywhere that human goes, magic just suddenly stops working. The wizard's minions are all ineffective. Its finaly explainined that the human is the embodiment of and projects reality. To which fantasy ceases to exist as surely as the dark is eliminated by a lamp.

[@UGNAvalon]

Ah, a walking anti-mage/null/reality-anchor. But in the magical world, magic is reality. :/

[@damiennightmaresx7950]

@@UGNAvalon yeah which is why people make humans do anti-magic instead of normala magic so like imagine if a tiny bird creature could spew flames from its face now imagine a human casting that spell and instead of spewing fire it spewed ice- oh and could also make anti-magic cause magic is just technology you dont understand "said the madman that maade a railgun out of his fukin hands"

[@Meanslicer43]

​@@UGNAvalon so if he is a reality anchor. is reality getting anchored to his perception of what reality should be? that's the best way to set it up to function.

[@thepanzerofthelake732]

*ZA HANDO! YOUR WAIFU IS GONE!*

[@nabbitgohome9672]

I keep on thinking of a toddler or a kid or a teen just walking and touching and the magic slowly disappearing fantastical creatures slowly vanish to to them being impossible or slowly transforming into something that makes sense in reality the wizard and his minions (what little left) goes to warn the kingdom but he was sentenced to trial and then… it’s too late the human is here and slowly the magic or the world is morphed into reality or slowly gets sucked into the brain.

[@RichardX1]

When you realize that our drive to learn, to understand, to discover... it's all based on Fear.

[@derrickmiller9776]

Riddick: You're not afraid of the dark, are ya? (Lights out)

[@ATart6]

I remember that movie well. It is said that riddick was based on vin diesel’s d&d character that was a rogue, if the the heresay is true.

[@derrickmiller9776]

@@ATart6 Must be nice for Vin Diesel to see his own character in action. Hopefully our badass furyan gets a 4th movie soon. Thanks for sharing that interesting info.

[@Nempo13]

@@ATart6 He used to DM a LOT online through discord and other places before that even while shooting movies. The man is one of the OG modern nerd movie stars. Listen to his commentary on movies sometime and you hear him say things like "That guy failed his check." Quite a bit actually, heh.

[@Caldoric]

"I will not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

[@nyetzdyec3391]

Well dune Caldoric!

[@Caldoric]

@@nyetzdyec3391 ty. I also posted a Deltarune quote that I felt was appropriate.

[@cedrictb3668]

"As we depart this land of fear, I leave you with the words of Winston Churchill. There is nothing to fear, but fear itself. Especially, in the Twilight Zone."

[@elduquecaradura1468]

This is the most "Humans are Space Orcs" story I've heard so far, a machine that can make fears real sound like the most law-of-physics breaking that could be done in the whole universe. Just, unleash the power of imagination... gosh, that's terrifying

[@RAGNAROK-rm8gq]

Imagine if the machine also manifested all our horror icons as well

[@nooneofimportance2110]

"There is nothing to fear but fear itself" Winston Churchill Fear. Fear made manifest. Not the fear of something, someone, or somewhere, the fear itself. Fear incarnate. All of them, none of them, in one place, in no place, everywhere, and nowhere. All trapped in the human soul. Now unleashed upon dead world, a world murdered ... by fear.

[@Shadow8Death_]

wow nice

[@nooneofimportance2110]

@@Shadow8Death_ Inspiration. This story ... it hit something primordial in me. Wish I could write like that all the time. Wish I could write like the writer of the story.

[@Piterdeveirs333]

Churchill didn't say that

[@Zeknif1]

That was a quote from FDR’s inaugural speech.

[@nooneofimportance2110]

@@Zeknif1 you're right, my bad

[@Reaperofwind]

Great quote. Humans aren’t afraid of being alone in the dark, there afraid there not.

[@kennethluedtkejr1903]

Very truthful. That's why you need to own the dark. " Tho I walk through the Valley of Death I shall fear no Evil for I am the Baddest Mother Fucker in the Valley." Quote from a 60's Blacklight poster of my youth.

[@Caldoric]

_♪When the light is burning low,_ _And the shadows start to grow,_ _And the places that you know_ _Feel like fantasy..._ _There's a light inside your soul_ _That's still shining in the cold_ _With the Truth, the promise in our hearts:_ _"Don't forget, I'm with you in the dark."♪_

[@jaksilver3656]

I figured it would be this. Predators in the dark, primordial fears of the prey animals.

[@johnnyboy1175]

That fish sure loves nibbling on that enterprise nessel.

[@marcsanchez3361]

This is an odd concept for The Darkness as a monster. I like the idea that it feeds off your fear and as long as you can brave the darkness you can pass through it easily. I just imagine humanity somehow finding some way to either domesticate this thing, or make it into a weapon. Why? That’s just humanity.

[@yusufalpercetin6067]

The first three questions are always 1can we kill it? 2can we eat it? 3 how to throw it at others Now I'm Imagining some mad fucker trying to eat the darkness

[@imjang2430]

I'm pretty sure this ring of fear did it for them

[@UGNAvalon]

@@yusufalpercetin6067 And the inevitable final question that everyone tries to avoid: Can I bang it?

[@chronred8190]

it is so... very, very simple too~ and honestly amusing in a sense XD though at the same time terrifying ... imagine-stalking someone through the dark. attacking and harassing them without being seen. without saying a word and eventually... you just let the fear do the work~

[@Nempo13]

@@chronred8190 You literally just described how classic batman was.

[@chrisdufresne9359]

Ah yes, let's drag instinctive fears into reality. What could possibly go wrong? Also, the xenos really need to watch Darkness Falls.

[@naikujibo1845]

Those fools basically created a memetic hazard.

[@micahscott3895]

Oh shit they just created an XK class scenario

[@Speed001]

I'm not even sure it's memetics. Memes at least need to be shared or reached by an individual. I guess it's the latter type.

[@walterroche8192]

And this is how the Ancient Enemy was reborn anew. Thks Lovecraft... 😑

[@xxXXRAPXXxx]

They can hurt you only if you are afraid of them..... Well what if we LEWD them>? Imagine how many holes and loving darkness tentacles are in such a thing. (this light is RED)

[@thulsadoon]

@@xxXXRAPXXxx And THAT is how Slannesh is born.

[@8darktraveler8]

@@xxXXRAPXXxx The urge to reproduce is far, far greater than any fear.

[@specterusarmy3983]

It ain't the dark that I'm afraid of. Its whats IN the dark that scares me

[@terrorcop101]

"The oldest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."--H.P. Lovecraft You cannot run And you cannot hide Yeah you gotta face it, baby, Things go bump in tbe night Wherever you run And wherever you hide Yeah you gotta face it, baby, Things go bump, bump, bump in the night

[@guillermolmr]

Wasn't it said by Klein Moreti?

[@terrorcop101]

@@guillermolmr Not according to my Google search. If I'm wrong, send a link please.

[@JRRodriguez-nu7po]

Fear is afraid of me calling my fiancee. Darkness hides from a girl given kaleidoscope eyes. Lovecraft is a pathetic fool knowing nothing of the terror I left behind decades ago. The Abyss overflows when I step in it, fiancee in hand. No, the greatest fear is neither the unknown nor darkness. In fact, most seek the dark to hide. I'm not afraid of the dark. Most of you are afraid of the light.

[@TheFoxfiend]

I like how appropriate the name of the scientist is, Pandora. And true, what is scary isn't the dark itself, but what is in it, or could be in it I guess. Being alone in the dark is nothing, but not knowing whether or not you are alone in the dark is terrifying.

[@smaragdwolf1]

Well... time to make a Sun go Nova... and just to be sure, throw the rest into a Blackhole. Place some signal-beacons to warn any lifeform in reach, that this isnt a blackhole, its a Containment-Chamber.

[@AaronPLehmann]

Heh. I came from a story about humans controlling the narrative and reality being a matter of perception to a story that has changed the salvation of Pandora's box from Hope to Reason. Fitting.

[@johnjohnjohnson7720]

The 3 tiers of things is everything > the paradoxical > then the Nonexistent. They brought a paradoxical threat into existence meaning it didn't abide by any rule of everything. The only way to beat a paradoxical being is to be either a paradoxical being yourself or to bind the bind the being into something or apart of the "everything" category that way you can resist it. Otherwise your screwed.

[@michiganengineer8621]

That final line is SO dead right . . .

[@DaWhiteWolffie]

Well wasn't that just a bundle of sunshine and nightmare fuel??? xD

[@ejedwards988]

I'd skinny dip in the void if this happened, make a bet with myself about whether the extreme temperature or void did me in first. I refuse to live in a world where my xenomorph anxiety dream can become real

[@sapphiredraggytheflygon8521]

Bro my Xenomorph dream is a wet dream

[@BrickZero]

that last line is probably the most terrifying statement ever uttered.

[@MizukiStone44]

man that last line... click to show. You aren't scared you're alone in the dark. You're scared you're [i]not[/i] alone in the dark.

[@deathshooterdeathmaster5698]

I don't get how people can't understand this. Making fun of people for having a night light and shit when this is what fear of darkness is like! You never know what is there and that is what causes the fear. You never know if you are alone, with an enemy to your safety or anything else! This is why the fear of dark should be taken seriously!

[@angrydragonslayer]

I sorta just figured, if something is clumsy enough to go bump in the night, i can take it If it doesn't, it's not going to be my problem for any real length of time

[@Darkwintre]

I'm afraid of the dark. The dark leaves me alone as I punched it once. The dark you see has a reason to fear US!

[@lupaswolfshead9971]

No

[@brigidtheirish]

One of my most common recurring nightmare themes is running from an unseen horror and trying to convince others that there's something dangerous coming only for them to laugh at me.

[@ReptilesBlade]

Can confirm, I am a human and I have had this nightmare before. Great story and narration! Thanks!

[@Iluvantir]

I used to get terrible nightmares as a child, all ending the same way: that I was being crushed between two flat walls, each one moving in the opposite direction. Then I watched the old film "Clash of the Titans" and, before bed that night, I looked around in my darkened room. The window had a faint blue glow due to the curtains, and the door I could just make out but seemed more "red" to me. So I imagined two new imaginary friends. One to guard the window, one to guard the door. The Kraken and Medusa. The nightmares stopped then. Sometimes to fight fear one needs to make Fear your friend.

[@OGSontar]

Me and the things in the dark have an accord. If they don't slip shadow cards into their hands, I won't deal from the bottom of the deck.

[@bobburris4445]

We're not scared of the dark; were scared of what might be in the dark

[@lupaswolfshead9971]

BOOO

[@Drakaiyus]

So Essentially they just made the boogeyman real. Fear incarnate, the fear of the unknown, every fear yet Nothing at all. An incomprehensible darkness

[@michealdrake3421]

I can think of a Foundation that would like to get a hold of that machine. Also a church with a god in pieces, they might come looking for it too.

[@someoneawesome8717]

I can think of another church that would be salivating for such pure shadow (The People's Church of the Divine Host from The Magnus Archives)

[@wyvernharries4788]

Ah yes. Do not fear the dark. Fear what could be in it.

[@riverraven7359]

xenos kidnap a psyker and use a soul powered engine to pull the Darkness into reality , ending a world and now an Exterminatus needs performing. somewhere an Inquisitor just got a raging boner reading his emails....

[@DrBright5558]

The call of the void is pretty scary as well

[@sir.charles7941]

A song that goes perfectly with the appearance human and him through the dark. Come, wayward souls who wander through the darkness, There is a light for the lost and the meek, Sorrow and fear are easily forgotten, When you submit to the soil of the earth.

[@missjayspeechley9213]

Agro, your stories don't normally scare me. But this one, WOW

[@barelyasurvivor1257]

This story reminds me of a movie I was watching on TV about 60 years or so ago. (I was around 10 or 12 years old) It was about 2 am in the morning, on the late, late, movie channel, I was falling asleep and would jerk awake and watch a bit then fall asleep again and repeat. I had seen this at a Drive Inn Theatre and on TV before. Well, the alien was just about to neutralize or shut down all electrical energy all over the whole Earth to show why they shouldn't have attacked him when he stepped out of his saucer, and then imprisoned him, and shot and killed him when he was helped to escape Just as he did, we had a major power failure in my city Seattle. Everything went dark, TV, Lights, all just gone instantly! I woke up so fast from that, I leaped off the couch to look out the window, dark everywhere! I will admit I was scared ***tless After a while in the dark the power came back on, but I was wide awake and couldn't sleep if I wanted to The movie was the 1951 film, "The Day The Earth Stood" still not the remake from 2007 obviously. Yes, I know the robot looked like a giant Rubber suit used as a Robot, but remember it was made in 1951, so no CGI or computer anything at the time

[@westcoaststacker569]

Still more suspenseful than modern remakes.

[@barelyasurvivor1257]

@@westcoaststacker569 Yup I loved the plot.

[@Chokah]

"You have nothing to fear but Fear itself. " Indeed.

[@UGNAvalon]

So by telling her interrogators about the Fear, they started worrying about its potential danger to them, thereby allowing it to manifest in the interrogation room. Makes sense. But how would it spread outside of the police dept & gang territory if no one’s around to perceive it? You can’t fear what you’re unaware of, after all. :/

[@mickyflint]

Either it's a darkness that roams so when a well lit street starts getting darker people start worrying and then scared as the darkness starts its act. Or it spread thru the station only for someone outside to notice all the dead or something and it just snowballed.

[@Kingofdragons117]

I was looking for a comment about this. At first they say she is safe so the room *is* Safe for her. Then as everyone gets unnerved, the room slowly gets worse and worse. Really good details in it imo.

[@epicslayerguy99]

Simply because the dark is the fear of the unknown, they will be afraid, because what killed them, what emptied that station and left whoever’s bodies behind is *unknown*

[@Malaraxx]

Its a thought bomb, as soon as a distant scream is heard it spreads

[@crazycatboysolomon7006]

So this is how The Magnus archives happened

[@someoneawesome8717]

Hell yeah

[@someoneawesome8717]

They accidentally succeeded in a Ritual

[@someoneawesome8717]

Statement of Pandora regarding the Error message in a colleague's experiment

[@midgefidget5796]

Well, I think they pegged it. This terrified me.

[@dkbros1592]

Then ur still matarialistc attached humans do meditation there nothing in dark or unknown it's just path to know the universe it's not darkness of of unknown it's light oath way to knowledge curiosity universe

[@northern_21]

@@dkbros1592 What the fuck are you talking about?

[@lunkystraydog6572]

Fearing humans, but what is it that humans fear

[@dikkie1000]

Other humans.

[@smaragdwolf1]

the Unknown. We fear what we dont know, what we cant understand.

[@BurakkuHishou]

What a lot of people are not getting is it's not the fear of darkness, it's the fear the unknown. Darkness can exist while also knowing what is there. The unknown can exist regardless of conditions, it's just removing the sense of sight is the best way to describe the concept of unknown. The human fear of the unknown is a loss of control, a loss of security. The unknown can be a predator that you do know about, but because you don't know WHICH predator makes it so you can't take proper measures to defend yourself. The unknown could be a sound that you can't figure out, and wondering if or when it'll reveal something meant to kill you. So much of human's process of adapting is safely observing that which is unknown, studying it, and then interacting with greater knowledge about it.

[@Derk_Mage]

The unknowable. This is why H.P. Lovecraft’s mythos is so loved by Me

[@dkbros1592]

Well this fear was my first and biggest hurdle to spirituality has i meditate i fall to love darkness i came to love be Stalker in dark for dark light comes From dark new morning arises For the universe is ts alive and it's with you ur it's children And has i know im just an speak of universe but also an children of universe the tridev I vanish my fear of everything I'm in path to controlling my chemical hormone psychical body

[@MyrdinAnnoth]

I fear no evil for I am fear incarnate! -Gabriel Angelos, chapter master of the Blodd Raven space marine chapter

[@chrissalch693]

The Hounds of Tindalos ...

[@christopherishikawa4444]

Me larping around in my house in nods "I can see you".

[@alamarxandal7525]

Ah yes, the simple yet horrific efficiency of the Grue. be careful you are not eaten by one

[@MidnightSmoke]

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[@candibunny]

Humans true fear really is the unknown, but humans do tend to conquer our fears, and the unknown is no exception to this... some will study it, quantify it, define it to chip away at the fear by making it known... others will come to embrace it, finding solace and peace instead of terror and paranoia... and yet still others will seek it out, finding joy in the fear of the unknown. The child they kidnapped had fear manifest, but during the time they took her... she confronted her fear and realized it for what it is.. irrational paranoia.

[@morsemurraidh1314]

I imagine that that planet will be relegated to two uses: Prison (where to drop the ones that can't be allowed reprieve), and something like a human Priory (where the orcs train reason spartanly).

[@HowToPnP]

What are humans afraid of? Mostly other humans, abstract concepts and spiders.

[@sniperboom1202]

So the made an SCP..... Greaaaaaat

[@williamv9058]

good one. love these short stories. they always seem the best.

[@CaptainKiLL83]

I guess fear is a matter of perspective

[@Derk_Mage]

So this is why Humans want knowledge so much…

[@beccabbea2511]

Good story. Scientifically there is no such thing as dark. Dark is the absence of light. Now when the dark obscures the light and hides the manifestation of all your fears, that is terror.

[@UNSCrearadmiral]

The only thing humanity as a whole fears is feat itself

[@colinsmith1495]

I was originally thinking it'd be US, because there's plenty to fear there, but yeah, it's fear itself.

[@catsquidcatoverlord9842]

Wait, feat? Does that mean foot fetishes are those who love what everyone fears? Or that we fear all achievement.

[@Zael_Moonblade]

Humanity in a nutshell...

[@willanrac]

My family had a two bed room house was i was a kid, the second bedroom for three children was in the basement, teffirfied of the dark as a little kid. Didnt help my sister got the thriller tape and we listened to micheal jackson going to sleep only to be waken up to howls and vincent price narrrating the thriller song.

[@fabianwood9457]

That last line is just so true

[@lyrigageforge3259]

This was good, pure and simple.

[@indmxrex2794]

This is possibly the most horrifying story I didn't want to read

[@thatguy5]

To fight the abyss, one must know it.

[@bignasty4874]

Fear is healthy, it keeps you alive.

[@PartytimeYOLO]

" "there is nothing to fear but fear itself", and guess what, we just created it."

[@alexanderjamesaustin]

What a beautifully horrific story

[@joemono4727]

So what if they accidentally grabbed a skitzaphrinic? Would that mean the fears would of been a few folds over? Imagine summoning kuthulu through this soul machine lol...

[@tealwraith9045]

That was well written.

[@Lumberjack_king]

17:04 she must have gained this light after the experiment as a sort of counter balance

[@hollyferay8131]

I have chills!!!

[@victortahlor4038]

Thank you for the reading

[@gordonhardwick9552]

Well done

[@taskforceboi8977]

They created an SCP, oof.

[@fluttershyisnotadoormat4678]

that last line was great :3

[@Exile_Sky]

I'm not really afraid of the same dark as most folks. It takes an extremely small amount of light in a room to actually render me blind. I think this has given me a bit of a unique issue with actual pitch darkness given that in anything less I see well enough. Pitch darkness though, I see shit. I know having a very active imagination is a thing some people want, but in a pure dark room, you really don't. It becomes a canvas of all the irrational monsterous lunacy of the subconscious mind.

[@rat_king-]

Iron maiden... ah. fear of the dark. This totally was a Berserk tribute.

[@midgetydeath]

They better pray humanity doesn’t find out what they did to her. Can you imagine how we’d react to something like that?

[@officersoulknight6321]

so lobotomy corporation mixed with phobies

[@beingsneaky]

are you afraid of the dark? or what is in the dark?

[@RealArcalian]

Greetings Mentlegent For the Rhyhtm that is Algo Be afraid. Be VERY afraid

[@robertstoneking7916]

The dark is everything we don't know given power if not form.

[@wotaj]

" I love lamp, I love lamp."

[@portmoneul]

The whole SCP Foundation: well FUBAR

[@brentmarshall5383]

Well, I thought I was going to sleep but not now. LOL!

[@phame1225]

Insert Iron Maiden's Fear of the Dark here: 11:46

[@ianmcguire2851]

I'm watching this like at 3 am and I'm stuck wondering what made the light of reason a physical being