Category: “Hmmm…”

Time travel stories often focus on the need to avoid changing history if you traveled into the past, but if you went further back than just a few thousand years ago, you couldn’t avoid it. The moment you arrived you’d be breathing out bacteria and viruses which didn’t belong in that era and to which nothing at the time had any natural resistance. Just by doing that, you’d probably trigger ecological changes which would have discernible effects on all of subsequent history. ~ Infidel753

Wrong answers only, please.

I admit my ignorance…

The Sun is probably the closest thing we’ll ever have to a true Eldritch Abomination. Hear me out here:

• • Older than recorded history; was here longer than any of us and will be here long after we leave. Has a finite beginning and end but is still incomprehensibly ancient
  • Burns itself into your vision instantly and can blind you if you look for too long
  • Further prolonged exposure can cause cancerous growths
  • Non-humanoid shape floating through space; colossal flaming tentacles angrily lash out on occasion
  • Sort of just appeared one day and is now surrounded by the corpses of its stillborn children
  • People used to sacrifice other people to appease it
  • Pretty sure it screams at us sometimes

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I’d be all over that.