It was funny how even now, not much had changed;
Funny, terrifying, surreal,
It would be hard to sum it up in words,
Complex emotions we’d never expected to feel;
All the same, at some fundamental level we’d remained blissfully, wilfully unaware,
These final few months;
As the sky began to blot out,
The darkening, growing shadow falling across the upper atmosphere,
Finallyβ¦now, we could see something with our own eyes;
We all became believers;
That black shadow grew and grew, yet stillβ¦nothing;
Thereβ we saw it, grey surface breaching the upper layers,
A gasp,
Blue-green light of a second sun,
Final imageβ glinting off a thousand tiny rectangles held up to the β¦
πͺ
So beautiful! π
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Thanks! π
It wasn’t troubling, too? π
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I’m trained!!! Since I talk about ultracorps on my blog, I face terrifying things!!!! π
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π that makes sense! What’s ultracorps ?
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So, the Ultrabodies appeared in an article of mine months ago. I had photographed, during the lockdown, the appearance of strange presences in the city….
A blogger had replied with other photos and a challenge was born. Then other readers liked the game of photographs and…. it became endemic!
Now there are 71 dedicated articles with lots of photographs, written texts, even some videos. Obviously the war is to resist the invasion.
If you’d like to come check it out, you can access the translator in the footer. Only one article is also in English, in honor of an English reader who participated.
I’ll put you the link to that article, and after that, the link to the dedicated page, if you want. π
https://endorsum.wordpress.com/2021/09/06/ultrabodies-invasion-observatory-bulletin-n-9-2021/
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I feel like we’re still in the prologue and I’m excited to find out what’s going to happen
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Everybody’s dead πππ
And they didn’t even watch but filmed it on their phones πππ
Wish I could say there’s more but I really just had a vision that that’s what people would do in the apocalypseβ resort to habit.
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The very anticlimatic nature of the story reflects the despondency of witnessing that automatic reaction of people in emergency situations. The looming sense of dread hints at something chilling.
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It’s true, in the moment you just resort to built-in habits.
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Wow you’re right, people would film the end.
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Yes!! π
This was my protest against the behaviour. Envisioning it in its purest, most insane form. The story was written from the perspective of people taking a head-on hit from an extinction-level asteroid.
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I thought they were in space escaping something. Boy am I dumb. Do you have the stories in a certain category so I can go back and find them?
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Nah alternative interpretations are totally ok and welcomed! There was hopefully poetry in its ambiguity :). It really can’t have been at all obvious haha.
Yup! They are all categorised under ‘fiction’ π:
https://atornadoofchaos.wordpress.com/category/poem/fiction/
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π€£π€£π€£ how could I forget about Smartphone Man? What’s wrong with me
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Haha !! πβοΈ
Sorry I couldn’t keep up with your creative writing btw. I struggle to take on anything extended atm, and barely read any blogs in a week. Can only handle short standalone stuff!
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It’s alright, I totally get it. I think I lost some followers because of it lol. It’s hard to keep up. I really struggle and I often stay up late catching up and responding to people.
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Thanks :). Oh no π.
You should maybe follow less people lol. I think it’s easy to forget that no one minds or really notices if you don’t manage to read in a while. And sometimes you can only manage writing, others only reading.
Recently I’ve managed so little, damn ocd and housemate earthquakes.
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I also don’t follow anybody who writes more than like a page of text at a time haha. Short and impactful is good.
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For me it’s the ten posts a day people o have to unfollow
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