#uncanny valley

[mars--is--heaven]

This Uncanny Horror Story is Genuinely Unsettling

“It seemed to me, as if I saw human faces around without any eyes—but with deep holes instead” (Hoffmann) | An exploration of the Uncanny, U

So I wrote an article about E.T.A. Hoffmann's The Sandman and how it evokes the uncanny and the uncanny valley before those terms came to be.

[halfchubbearcub]

Late at night when I look around the dark corners of my apartment I do envision a boogeyman but he is not a stranger with a knife. He is abstract. We all fear the abstract. The 'what is it and has it come to hurt me?'

My boogeyman has an open maw and long jagged teeth, a jaw that unlocks wide like a hinge and huge dead eyes with unseeing pupils. My boogeyman does not bite.

He stands where I can see him, barely disguised. He does not move when I am watching. Sometimes he still comes close.

The worst thing is not the attack but the anticipation.

I don't fear that I will be ravaged by a known beast but that something grotesque will stand just still enough for me to get used to it.

That someday, foolishly, ill touch it. That I will climb willingly into it's waiting mouth. That I won't care that it is closing.

I always long for violence because what you long for cannot hurt you and perhaps that is my greatest fear of all; that I will destroy myself when there were doors to lock and people to call. A knife to be swung, if I'm desperate.

Late at night when I look around the dark corners of my apartment

I hope to encounter a person.

[christy-banana-split-lady]

i am a slut for horror movies that do the "this is familiar but something is wrong" thing.

[viv-the-comet]

Lil Photobash art dump

of me and my friends OCs

This was my first time but I thought it was really fun and I'll probably do it again!!

For anyone who doesn't know what Photobashing is when you use separate features from different pictures and edit them together into a somewhat realistic face mine looks a little like something out of the uncanny valley (I tried my best to explain sorry if that makes no sense) and considering the lore behind these OCs I don't mind that aesthetic

[sweetsurrenderbyjohndenver]

I have such a bad fear of chimps they look so uncanny it makes me uncomfortable, like baby chimps are cute and all, but especially seeing 'domesticated' chimps make me feel so freaked out

[quiet-art-kid]

Beyond AI being bad, these posters were found at a local theater, just give me the creeps. I don't have a really strong sense of uncanny valley. I like dolls and clowns, animatronics and things like that, BUT AI images like this trigger the fuck out of me. WHY IS SHE LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT ??? WHAT EMOTION IS THAT???

[asaintbyanyothername]

me, realizing monogamy, virginity and birtherism are all just conservative approved and gov't sanctioned kinks:

[brokenglassb1tch]

coquette isn't coquette anymore and it's freaking me out