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I see people reference it all the time on the internet but I've never read any of Lovecraft's work nor do I know anybody in RL that references it. What sort of literary level is this? Twilight? Star Wars? Dune? Hamlet? What is the primary demographic of fans? Why does the Cthulhu appeal to people? Is it pronounced "Ka-thool-who" (That's how I pronounce it in my head)? I would do the research myself but I have a full time job shitposting.
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 14:26 |
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Nobody cares about cthuhlu anymore. That's, like, 2010 poo poo right there.
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 14:28 |
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The internet takes stuff runs it into the ground and ruins it. Thats pretty much it.
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 14:28 |
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his head is an octopus and octopi are the most badass of sea creatures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvvjcQIJnLg
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 14:32 |
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quote:...those first men formed the cult around tall idols which the Great Ones shewed them; idols brought in dim eras from dark stars. That cult would never die till the stars came right again, and the secret priests would take great Cthulhu from His tomb to revive His subjects and resume His rule of earth. The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom.
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 14:35 |
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H.P. Lovecraft was a racist who got his inspiration for monsters by looking at pictures of weird fish, and only got popular because of fan-fiction.
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 14:39 |
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real answer: Sub-par pulp writer in the first half of the 20th century. The stories are rambling messes, the characters are unrelateable and the author's classist/racist world-view soaks every page. BUT despite all that, Lovecraft manages to capture and riff on one of the great universal fears: that mankind is ultimately insignificant in the cosmos, that there is no exceptionalism to our lives, and that if there are, in fact, god like creatures out there they would not give a single poo poo about us and would massacre us all without even thinking once about it. Lovecraft can be fun to read, but the interesting stuff is buried beneath tiresome pulp conventions so you definitely have to be in the mood for it. I'm not sure why Internet culture has latched on to it so much. Maybe because the above interesting stuff speaks to the dark side inherent in an atheistic world view? Also, spoiler: The heroes escape Cthulhu by driving a boat through his head.
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 15:32 |
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Heath posted:octopi lol
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 15:38 |
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Mad Rancher posted:H.P. Lovecraft was a racist who got his inspiration for monsters by looking at pictures of weird fish, and only got popular because of fan-fiction. At least Lovecraft put more thought into the backgrounds for his monsters than Stephen King where every monster is just some variant on "Physical manifestation of a deep-rooted fear in the human psyche" which gives them all the depth of an enemy in a videogame
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 15:53 |
Yaldabaoth posted:At least Lovecraft put more thought into the backgrounds for his monsters than Stephen King where every monster is just some variant on "Physical manifestation of a deep-rooted fear in the human psyche" which gives them all the depth of an enemy in a videogame Look at this nerd who demands freaking backstories for horror monsters.
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 15:57 |
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if it wasnt for lovecraft and at the mountains of madness we prob wouldnt have that whole ancient astronaut pseudoscience poo poo like that show ancient aliens
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 16:03 |
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Effectronica posted:Look at this nerd who demands freaking backstories for horror monsters. Backgrounds make monsters more interesting than just "Random videogame enemy to avoid". I'm not asking for something super detailed, I just want a decent foundation to work off of
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 16:09 |
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Cthuhlu is a pulp creation that distracts us from more relevant and valid objects of cultural worship, like Iron Man or Jedis.
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 17:37 |
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I read The Case of Charles Dexter Ward yesterday. Way better than Cthulhu. Still has some weird racism in it. "....the wife of a very repulsive cast of countenance, probably due to a mixture of negro blood." Way to go, HP!
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 17:44 |
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Nameless_Steve fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Oct 19, 2014 |
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Inevitable posted:real answer: Sub-par pulp writer in the first half of the 20th century. The stories are rambling messes, the characters are unrelateable and the author's classist/racist world-view soaks every page. BUT despite all that, Lovecraft manages to capture and riff on one of the great universal fears: that mankind is ultimately insignificant in the cosmos, that there is no exceptionalism to our lives, and that if there are, in fact, god like creatures out there they would not give a single poo poo about us and would massacre us all without even thinking once about it.
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 17:59 |
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Yaldabaoth posted:Backgrounds make monsters more interesting than just "Random videogame enemy to avoid". I'm not asking for something super detailed, I just want a decent foundation to work off of oh so you are the type of person they are making dracula origins for
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 18:34 |
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"poo poo, WHY does the creature live in the black lagoon" - something awful poster yaldabaoth
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 18:40 |
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what did randall flag do when he was a babey???
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 18:41 |
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"where did he get those wonderful toys" - joker, in batman "gently caress yeah that is a statement i can get behind" - yaldabaoth watching batman
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 18:42 |
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gently caress y'all for not liking Howard His writing is inconsistent but the ideas he explored have had massive influence and some of his stories are great.
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 18:44 |
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i like the Mi-go the Mi-go are legit
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 18:47 |
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Alas Boobylon posted:i like the Mi-go the Mi-go are legit yeah whisperer in the darkness is a real good story the colour out of space is probably lovecraft's best that is really creepy there are also authors nowadays who write in the same vein as lovecraft but with good prose and characters and they wouldn't be what they are without the gentlemen from providence
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 18:50 |
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ariel is a reverse cthulhu with like the woman part on top and the fishy bits on the bottom
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 18:52 |
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What if Cthulhu's face tentacles were actually dongs? Makes you think.
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 19:18 |
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Unbelievably Fat Man posted:What if Cthulhu's face tentacles were actually dongs? Makes you think. Japanese Cthuhlu.
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 19:54 |
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Agag posted:Japanese Cthuhlu.
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 20:13 |
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Cthuhlu is for Lovecraft newbies. Real aficionados appreciate friend of the family-man the cat.
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 20:20 |
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egon_beeblebrox posted:I read The Case of Charles Dexter Ward yesterday. Way better than Cthulhu. Still has some weird racism in it. VVV This is also true.
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 20:28 |
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i think mindflayers are cooler than cthulhu sorry but its true
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 20:28 |
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Iggy Koopa posted:i think mindflayers are cooler than cthulhu sorry but its true drizzt dorden couldn't kill cthulhu but he killed a load of mind flayers so sorry, no
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 20:33 |
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quote:And it was then that Nyarlathotep came out of Egypt. Who he was, none could tell, but he was of the old native blood and looked like a Pharaoh. The fellahin knelt when they saw him, yet could not say why. He said he had risen up out of the blackness of twenty-seven centuries, and that he had heard messages from places not on this planet. Into the lands of civilisation came Nyarlathotep, swarthy, slender, and sinister, always buying strange instruments of glass and metal and combining them into instruments yet stranger. He spoke much of the sciences of electricity and psychology and gave exhibitions of power which sent his spectators away speechless, yet which swelled his fame to exceeding magnitude. Men advised one another to see Nyarlathotep, and shuddered.
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 20:34 |
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Nobody is questioning whether or not Lovecraft was a loving goon (he was) but I seriously can't believe that people don't acknowledge the profound influence his relatively small body of work has had.
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 20:35 |
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Race Hate Kramer posted:Nobody is questioning whether or not Lovecraft was a loving goon (he was) but I seriously can't believe that people don't acknowledge the profound influence his relatively small body of work has had.
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 20:37 |
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of lovecrafts circle, ron e howard was the best
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 20:38 |
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appropriatemetaphor posted:drizzt dorden couldn't kill cthulhu but he killed a load of mind flayers so sorry, no fag
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 20:41 |
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NorgLyle posted:Lovecraft's hilariously over the top racism is arguably the second best thing about his stories. I was reading one of his more obscure works and the shocking revelation at the end was the main character finding an old locket with a picture of a black woman in it and going insane and I had to put the book down because I was laughing so hard. Come for the monsters, stay to see some prissy 19th century sperg freaking out because there are Hungarians. Yeah, that story was hilariously bad. NorgLyle posted:The Ultimate Face of Evil: A well-educated black man of regal bearing that people listen to. Can't you feel the horror? There's an Obama joke there, but who cares.
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 20:41 |
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didn't he say how to pronounce Cthulhu correctly in one of his stories and it involves a bunch of fart noises?
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 20:42 |
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a double fag on you
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 21:02 |
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Stick Figure Mafia posted:didn't he say how to pronounce Cthulhu correctly in one of his stories and it involves a bunch of fart noises? The proper pronunciation is you make a noise like clearing your throat on the "Cth" and a whistling reedy scream on the "ulhu"
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 21:03 |