#''oh a construction crew wouldnt stop building a house because a colony of ants asked them to stop''

[rxttenfish]

honestly every insect or especially ANT metaphor when it comes to unknowable cosmic entities and humanity turns absurdly funny the second you know anything about insects.

like ah yes. pitiful meaningless humans in the face of cosmic terror. who nonetheless are the reason everything is the way that it is to eldritch entities and the reason to which they owe their existence, who nonetheless are some of the most irrationally feared animals to exist in contrast to their actual physical abilities, who have shaped the course of history and who will shape it evermore. animals which very suggestions to their form sends eldritch deities into a panic and utmost horror, despite how common it is, how widespread, how beloved the design is by creation.

and to add in the ant metaphor like these people have NEVER stepped in an anthill. like ants arent some of the most feared animals by every other animal in the world, like dedicated ant-eaters arent actually rather rare, like plants, even greater deciders of the shape of this world, havent befriended and built great homes for ants for the purpose of deterring every other animal which might bother them.

you know.

those insects. those ants. meaningless. helpless. worthless.

#all the care guide says is 'biomass' #yes this is why i have such a hate love relationship with cosmic horror #fucking. the other day i saw a comparison of like #''oh a construction crew wouldnt stop building a house because a colony of ants asked them to stop'' #and im just #sir you have a very limited experience of ants #because that has absolutely happened #hell this isnt even getting into shit like bullet ants im just thinking about the common species you find #a fire ant would humble a god #likewise: termites. who do not cut nearly as terrifying a profile and yet nonetheless your monuments mean nothing to