Someone is creating a horrifying sci-fi world in Reddit comments

[LiberalArkie]

A lot of weird things happen on Reddit, so it normally wouldn't be all that interesting to hear that someone is posting strange comments. But listen, someone is posting some really strange comments.

A user named _9MOTHER9HORSE9EYES9 joined the site yesterday and started discussing the historical context brought up by various posts. It just so happens that the context they're providing describes some eerie alternate world:

The Soviets designated large portions of the Ukraine countryside as "harvest populations." Basically, their food and water supplies were dosed with LSD until they had achieved what the Soviets called "integration". This meant that the local populations had independently invented flesh interfaces. The Soviet army would then quarantine the area and try to remove the flesh interfaces for their own use. This was usually without success and with great loss of life.

Over the course of 13 comments yesterday, _9MOTHER9HORSE9EYES9 continues to build out a seriously creepy sci-fi universe with comments suggesting that they — or all of us — actually live there. There's heavy discussion of LSD and what sound like fleshy portals that slice people and objects in half and grant entry to some unknown universe where time moves slower. It all sounds pretty horrifying.

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http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/23/11494742/horrifying-alternate-reality-reddit-comments-creating-sci-fi-world


NOTE: Sounds good.

[Takket]

1. someone on the internet is posting paranoid nonsense???????

Get outta town! Definitely newsworthy.

[LiberalArkie]

2. There are a lot of really good writers on Reddit. I love reading some of the original stories.

Every once in a while someone starts a storyline by just pasting comments n unrelated places and the reader has to find them. Most people just post in the writersPrompts area. But sometimes it starts in other places.

[malokvale77]

11. I was sent (by PM) the start of a potentially really good novel...

by a once great DUer. Then they went off the deep end.

I was really looking forward to the finished book. C'est la vie.

[whistler162]

17. First time for everything.

[KatyMan]

3. That was great!

I hope that person keeps it up! It's riveting.

[LiberalArkie]

4. Still at it 1 minute a go.. better bookmark it

https://www.reddit.com/user/_9MOTHER9HORSE9EYES9/comments/

[KatyMan]

5. Thanks!

Thanks

[Fumesucker]

6. A Reddit post has turned into movie deal before

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome,_Sweet_Rome

"Rome, Sweet Rome" is an alternative history and military science fiction short story by American freelance writer and military historian James Erwin that was originally posted online on Reddit under his handle Prufrock451 on August 21, 2011.[1] It describes what might happen if a United States Marine Corps expeditionary unit were somehow transported back to the time of the Roman Empire under Augustus Caesar.[2][3][4][4][5][6] The first couple of installments were published on Reddit, corresponding to the first eight days of the Marines' arrival. The full story is not publicly available because the rights were bought by Warner Bros., which announced the production of its movie adaptation

[LiberalArkie]

8. I started following psycho_alpaca. He is really good and throws a lot of loops to you.

https://www.reddit.com/r/psycho_alpaca

[rug]

7. DU has Oscar.

[LiberalArkie]

9. What is a link to it?

[rug]

10. I inherited a mixed animal from Uncle living in woods

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=624815

A-Schwarzenegger is a genius.

[LiberalArkie]

13. And now we know who started Reddit!!!!

[LiberalArkie]

15. It got so long it had to be locked.

Moderator DU Moderator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-22-04 11:14 PM
Response to Original message
347. I'm going to lock this for now
It's gotten so large that people on dial-up are having problems.


and high praise from Will Pitt


WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-19-04 04:42 PM
Response to Reply #211
216. BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I just died laughing. Bury me. I'm dead.

[rug]

16. It was an interactive DU milestone.

[awoke_in_2003]

19. That was one of the best of classic DU...

it is even better than "don't tutch the butt"

[Dr. Strange]

12. I think _9MOTHER9HORSE9EYES9 is due beer and travel money and many experiences.

[LiberalArkie]

14. So does A-Schwarzenegger

[awoke_in_2003]

18. I miss RandomThoughts...

that one was out there, man

[Dr. Strange]

20. That he was.