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paranoid randroid posted:lovecraft was scared of wizrds Lovecraft was a wizard. A grand one.
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BottledBodhisvata posted:Read Perdido Street Station or the Scar, is what I'm saying. I never read the one about trains that's supposed to be a Socialist allegory.
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colonel_korn posted:You should, Iron Council is great. Parts of it are like Mieville doing Blood Meridian and the book in general is full of bizarro poo poo. As I've become more Socialist in my time, I probably would like it more than I did in high school, I'll give it a go.
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Dude wrote about cats jumping to the moon and killing moon toads.
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katlington posted:Dude wrote about cats jumping to the moon and killing moon toads. Rumor has it that it sounded something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYKPdNvH800
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I like how Carter feeds the kitten a saucer of rich cream and then the cat is pretty cool in the rest of the story.
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colonel_korn posted:You should, Iron Council is great. Parts of it are like Mieville doing Blood Meridian and the book in general is full of bizarro poo poo. Iron Council is the worst of the lot, because in the others, Mieville is subtle about his political leanings. Iron Council is basically the fantasy Communist Manifesto
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ElGroucho posted:Iron Council is basically the fantasy Communist Manifesto im sold
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Other cats are like "oh you know whatshisname, youre cool with us then" and let you into their secret cat under E: underworld* SMILLENNIALSMILLEN fucked around with this message at 03:58 on Dec 24, 2014 |
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No honestly I'm pretty far left but Iron Council is just a bit of a turd of a book. He still puts out good poo poo though, Kraken was fun "urban fantasy" and Embassytown loving owns, it's basically a huge exercise in post-colonialism, cultural imperialism and linguistics disguised as a sci-fi novel
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I think Iron Council is the best one because instead of the characters and stories from the first 2 books just petering out with virtually no resolution like PSS or the Scar, IC has an ending and I think the politics of the book enrich the story by supplying a realistic motivation to unrealistic characters. Did lovecraft have characters that were Van Helsing style good guy wizards and stuff or is literally everyone in his books a scared racist detective?
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Scared racist antiquarian
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Bust Rodd posted:Did lovecraft have characters that were Van Helsing style good guy wizards and stuff or is literally everyone in his books a scared racist detective? There's one story I can think of off the top of my head where the good guys go and arm up with occult tomes and the usual horseshit to fight the bad evil dude, but I don't remember if they beat it or not. I think it was in The Dunwich Horror, but might be wrong.
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finished the color out of space yesterday, it was nice but once again a story that is nothing but exposition. A theme I've noticed which exists in Loveraft's writing is this sort of isolationism where almost everyone turns a blind eye towards the people facing the unimaginable horror du jour (usually except for one character who is also scared out of his wits and doesn't really do a lot to help the situation) and these are usually the Caucasian neighbors themselves not some minorities who aren't trustworthy in the first place, like Nahum (a jewish name if I ever heard one, by the way) and his family all slowly whither as the alien horror slowly sucks the life out of everything in their farm and not a single person, including Ammi, thinks to offer them a place to stay at, no, Nahum tells Ammi "my wife went crazy and I'm obviously a little unhinged myself so I locked her in the attic instead of sending her to the asylum or a hospital" and Ammi is all "mmm, good idea, your farmhouse is real freaky though so I'm not gonna visit you until your entire family is space dust! cheers!", like in Lovecraft's world there are simply no good samaritans and everyone is just a bystander who won't lift a finger. Dude was really insecure. emanresu tnuocca fucked around with this message at 15:56 on Dec 24, 2014 |
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Oberleutnant posted:There's one story I can think of off the top of my head where the good guys go and arm up with occult tomes and the usual horseshit to fight the bad evil dude, but I don't remember if they beat it or not. Yup. And of course there's the one guy who sees the monster from afar and, in the process of fainting, is able to provide the disjointed description that goes on for ten minutes.
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One of my favourite ones (and i'm damned if I can remember the title) was the one where the dudes find a murky stain on the floor of their basement, so obviously they dig that poo poo up and when they break through they find a fleshly lump which they eventually figure out is like the thigh muscle of a gigantic loving monster that's right under their feet, so they pour a bunch of acid down the hole, seal it up and then gently caress off. That's the entire story basically.
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Oberleutnant posted:One of my favourite ones (and i'm damned if I can remember the title) was the one where the dudes find a murky stain on the floor of their basement, so obviously they dig that poo poo up and when they break through they find a fleshly lump which they eventually figure out is like the thigh muscle of a gigantic loving monster that's right under their feet, so they pour a bunch of acid down the hole, seal it up and then gently caress off. That's the entire story basically. The Shunned House. It was an elbow.
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Oberleutnant posted:One of my favourite ones (and i'm damned if I can remember the title) was the one where the dudes find a murky stain on the floor of their basement, so obviously they dig that poo poo up and when they break through they find a fleshly lump which they eventually figure out is like the thigh muscle of a gigantic loving monster that's right under their feet, so they pour a bunch of acid down the hole, seal it up and then gently caress off. That's the entire story basically. The Monkey Man posted:The Shunned House. It was an elbow. Reminds me of a song in Hebrew: "The Man in the Wall" (rough translation) In the wall there stands a man/ Lonely lonely there he stands/ Who knows the man in the wall? The man has long stood in the wall/ He can never leave at all/ Who knows the man in the wall? The man is short the wall is long/ The man is weak the wall is strong/ Who knows the man in the wall? Silently the man does plead/ I really want to leave to leave/ Who knows the man in the wall? His silent voice you cannot hear/ Will I forever be left here? Who knows the man in the wall?
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The creature buried under the house is actually the corpse of a French immigrant wizard (a descendant of convicted 16th-century werewolf Jacques Roulet) whose spirit haunts the house and influences the residents. All the people who live in the house get sick and insane, and eventually die if they don't leave. The protag and his uncle investigate the house, and the uncle actually gets turned into a monster before dissolving into nothingness. Fortunately the protag is able to cleanse the horror and make the house safe to live in.
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 The most fearsome god!
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mysterious loyall Y posted:mods please rename me unspeakable congo secrets Mugticket posted:
lmao this sketch
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Just an elder god taking an elder dump
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Zombie Boat posted:Just an elder god taking an elder dump The most evil poo poo
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Mugticket posted:
photoshop him onto some steps in the rain with an empty cone and a pile of ice cream on the ground
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Zombie Boat posted:Just an elder god taking an elder dump
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A foul eldritch odor.
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Someone should rewrite passages of Lovecraft like he was an barely literate houso. Not me but..someone. Ok me! 'There was this fuckin lizard oval office and all the chinks were chinkin out over it then this loving black oval office was chanting all this weird poo poo and the loving whole city was all hosed up and i was trippin so hard I was scared off me nut'
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Happy Bear Suit posted:I bet the size of his poo is cyclopean and shape and geometry of it is non-Euclidean A squamous dooklear chaos
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Lovecraft is an average author op.
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The dark spawn came out of the fetid pool... it was so... inconceivable 
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Oberleutnant posted:There's one story I can think of off the top of my head where the good guys go and arm up with occult tomes and the usual horseshit to fight the bad evil dude, but I don't remember if they beat it or not. charles dexter ward, too
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End Of Worlds posted:charles dexter ward, too The doctor raises some historical wizard badass who seals Curwen's labyrinth and afterwards we hear that some townspeople also took some weapons and destroyed whatever they could, the doctor disposes curwen by reciting that incantation he doesn't actually get to do anything badass. Innsmouth also contains that bit where we're told that the federal government took some torpedoes to the reef and burned down half of innsmouth which is kind of similar.
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Funky See Funky Do posted:Someone should rewrite passages of Lovecraft like he was an barely literate houso. Not me but..someone. Ok me! There was an attempt
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Happy Bear Suit posted:I bet the size of his poo is cyclopean and shape and geometry of it is non-Euclidean The demons waste was of such magnitude, such ferocity, that the mind cannot comprehend the shear terror that it experiences. Lo, this dropling surely will be the end of all normalcy and good nature of the universe.
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Everything you can touch, on earth, all around you, is god. Please know.
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Sir John Feelgood posted:Everything you can touch, on earth, all around you, is god. Please know. Even weiners?
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serious norman posted:Even weiners?
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emanresu tnuocca posted:The doctor raises some historical wizard badass who seals Curwen's labyrinth and afterwards we hear that some townspeople also took some weapons and destroyed whatever they could, the doctor disposes curwen by reciting that incantation he doesn't actually get to do anything badass. turns out conventional weapons actually kick the poo poo out of eldritch horrors
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nomadologique posted:turns out conventional weapons actually kick the poo poo out of eldritch horrors Well, it's only the Deep Ones. They're just a bunch of subhuman fishmen (and it's unlikely they were rendered extinct by the attack either). Cthulu doesn't give a gently caress about nothin'. Nyarlathotep would convince you to use conventional weapons, then laugh at you when they fail.
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Hey, didn't someone write some sort of sequel where the Russians tried to weaponize a shoggoth or something? Fake edit: Found it..
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