Fargield posted:

much runes
such power

Schnedwob posted:

At every opportunity I like to remind people that H.P. Lovecraft had a cat named "friend of the family Man", and that this animal's name is easily a thousand times better than anything else the guy wrote

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A common dramatic device in Lovecraft's work is to associate virtue, intellect, elevated class position, civilization, and rationality with white Anglo-Saxon ethnicity, which he often posed in contrast to the corrupt, intellectually inferior, uncivilized and irrational, which he associated with people he characterized as being of lower class, impure racial "stock" and/or non European ethnicity and dark skin complexion who were often the villains in his writings.

Some of his most hostile racist views can be found in his poetry, particularly in "On the Creation of Niggers," and "New England Fallen" (both 1912). In "On the Creation of Niggers" in particular, Lovecraft takes this to an extreme, explicitly characterizing black people as sub-human:

“ When, long ago, the gods created Earth;
In Jove's fair image Man was shaped at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were designed;
Yet were too remote from humankind.
To fill the gap, and join the rest of Man,
Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
Filled it with vice, and called the thing a friend of the family. ”

Schnedwob posted:

At every opportunity I like to remind people that H.P. Lovecraft had a cat named "friend of the family Man", and that this animal's name is easily a thousand times better than anything else the guy wrote

Howard Phillips Lovecraft posted:

When, long ago, the gods created Earth;
In Jove's fair image Man was shaped at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were designed;
Yet were too remote from humankind.
To fill the gap, and join the rest of Man,
Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
Filled it with vice, and called the thing a .

Schnedwob posted:

George posted:

nerds are horrible racist monsters news at 10

Zoq-Fot-Pik posted:

Wormskull posted:

N-Word man makes an appearance in The Rats In The Walls (My personal favorite) and in one of the audiobooks it's replaced with the name Mr Black Man, lmao.

The Sharmat posted:

There are Lovecraft audiobooks?

I have to hear this.

Wormskull posted:

N-Word man makes an appearance in The Rats In The Walls (My personal favorite) and in one of the audiobooks it's replaced with the name Mr Black Man, lmao.

But Rocks Hurt Head posted:

have you seen the comic of this? it's cool.

Fargield posted:

much runes
such power

Real hurthling! posted:

the lp guy niggurath?

conceitedguy posted:

that guy's a lovely loser iirc

Kazvall posted:

my balls have ziggurat vertigo, oh mai

big duck equals goose posted:

I also was banned from pet island for saying this, so watch your rear end too

Zoq-Fot-Pik posted:

big duck equals goose posted:

I was banned from the LP forum for saying this and apparently he's pretty hot stuff down there so watch yer' rear end

Fargield posted:

much runes
such power

Ekster posted:

at least we will always have that dark souls LPer whose name i've inexplicably forgotten

is his probation down yet