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Colonel Cancer posted:Shub gamerword lol
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Colonel Cancer posted:Shub gamerword Lmao Azathot
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Apr 2, 2023 06:56
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Nooner posted:No one gives a gently caress about the dagon after St. Geoge slayed it
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Apr 2, 2023 09:25
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Colonel Cancer posted:I blame toxoplasmosis for at least 5% of his writing Lovecraft's "Cats and Dogs" is some of his most disturbing writing. Now there's some non-euclidean poo poo man was not meant to understand.
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Apr 2, 2023 11:58
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Smugworth posted:Wait was Lovecraft racist This is the new “John Lennon beat his wife  ”
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Apr 2, 2023 13:40
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I too really venerate a sad racist alcoholic that wrote a lot of purple prose 100 years ago and would probably be posting on 4chan were he alive today.
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Apr 2, 2023 14:29
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Look I'm not defending the guy all I'm saying is maybe the cat yknow... named himself
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Apr 2, 2023 14:52
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It must mean something else in cat
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Apr 2, 2023 15:03
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DrSunshine posted:Everyone owes it to themselves to watch Annihilation and report back. Done. Can't believe they killed off johnny cage so early
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Apr 2, 2023 19:04
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql3WA2712H8
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Apr 2, 2023 19:12
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i'm reading through the complete lovecraft collection rn, read most of it before but not all in one go. to be charitable, some of the stories are negatively affected by needing to be published in magazine-friendly chunks; to be less charitable, sometimes he's not a good writer and you wish someone else could have a go at the basics of the story because his ideas and visions are what are compelling. and they can be really good and worth the occasional slog and 'ok howard, sure...'
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Apr 2, 2023 19:15
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Y’all need to watch the 1986 film From Beyond if you haven’t. Great goopy practical special effects from the same people who did Re-Animator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOWnHiMn0wU
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Apr 2, 2023 19:18
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I was always of the opinion old Howard was a terrific worldcrafter but only so-so at writing a good story. His insistence on things being indescribable and obvious even for the time racism don't help.
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Apr 2, 2023 19:20
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step 1 in creating an extremely tense story: tell the entire thing in a letter from the protagonist after he has escaped the harrowing danger
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Apr 2, 2023 19:21
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Mozi posted:i'm reading through the complete lovecraft collection rn, read most of it before but not all in one go. to be charitable, some of the stories are negatively affected by needing to be published in magazine-friendly chunks; to be less charitable, sometimes he's not a good writer and you wish someone else could have a go at the basics of the story because his ideas and visions are what are compelling. and they can be really good and worth the occasional slog and 'ok howard, sure...'
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Apr 2, 2023 19:22
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Mozi posted:step 1 in creating an extremely tense story: tell the entire thing in a letter from the protagonist after he has escaped the harrowing danger Yeah, Dracula isn't that great a novel either.
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Apr 2, 2023 19:22
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he hates sailors too
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 Pretty cool book I read about a year ago, very lovecraftian and does that thing I love where it explores the history of a place as it gains some spooky happenings. Would recommend for those who've already read all the good Lovecraft stories
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Mozi posted:i'm reading through the complete lovecraft collection rn, read most of it before but not all in one go. to be charitable, some of the stories are negatively affected by needing to be published in magazine-friendly chunks; to be less charitable, sometimes he's not a good writer and you wish someone else could have a go at the basics of the story because his ideas and visions are what are compelling. and they can be really good and worth the occasional slog and 'ok howard, sure...' there are also more than a few of "AND HE WAS DEAD ALL ALOOOOOONNNNNG!!! *GASP*!" or empty caskets, graves, etc. Like kinda cheesy campfire stories. that, was just like... really? Compared to Mountains of Madness, and some of his others. i can't remember the titles of any others off-hand, but you know what i'm sayin
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Apr 5, 2023 02:30
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my favorite thing about lovecraft are that with his stories, some guy investigates spooky happenings in a small town of insular folk and discovers a weird mystery and follows the clues and goes “this all means something but what” and the big reveal, the payoff of the story is: they’re all fish people a giant squid appears madness reigns everyone dies the end it’s not scooby doo happy ending, it’s not final girl survives danger with moral implications, it’s not an action adventure group of friends survival story, there are no good or bad guys, it’s “inbred british people discover fishmonsters and go insane everyone’s dies for no reason giant squid explosion the end” it’s “inbred british people inherit an old house hey what’s this triangle symbol all over why is this house so oppressive feeling are people stalking us from the woods we should never have come here and can never escape hey what’s that triangle glowing light oh my god what are those tentacles everything is a tentacle tentacles tentacle death explosion” the fact it’s not even written that well adds to the unintentional charm
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Sex Farm posted:Done. Can't believe they killed off johnny cage so early 
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Apr 5, 2023 03:04
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The comic Fall of Cthulhu was entertaining.
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Apr 5, 2023 03:18
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shoggoths are the coolest
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Apr 5, 2023 03:23
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I don't know if this is what you are looking for OP but I have a whole lot of ai generated lovecraftian type stuff but it's too much to even separate out the good ones. None of it is explicitly "lovecraftian" but it's very cosmic horror and lovecraft-inspired. If you feel like trawling through it I will organize them and post them as a bunch of imgur galleries, like this. Astromarines      This is ancient by AI image standards (about ~7-9 months old from an old version of SD, and Midjourney v3) but it's a series of 300+ images centered around the concept of militarized astronauts finding horrible eldritch things on the dark side of the moon. Sort of like Warhammer 40k but 35,000 years earlier , meets Lovecraft. The newer stuff is a lot cooler but I have to gather it all up first   e: These are all recent: A suburban neighborhood during an eldritch apocalypse (32 pictures, recent) Some big demons and stuff (12 pictures, ~January 2023) Ancient incomprehensible alien gods found buried on mars (12 pictures, January 2023) deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 03:49 on Apr 5, 2023 |
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Colonel Cancer posted:I too really venerate a sad racist alcoholic that wrote a lot of purple prose 100 years ago and would probably be posting on 4chan were he alive today. That's a really unfair characterization. Lovecraft was very much a teetotaler, even writing screeds on the corrupting effects of alcohol on young men that rival Victorian anti-masturbation pamphlets. Anyway, there's always plenty of bad Lovecraft shlock out there: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2689354/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_2 A little something for the kids: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4768656/?ref_=fn_al_tt_5
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blight rhino posted:there are also more than a few of "AND HE WAS DEAD ALL ALOOOOOONNNNNG!!! *GASP*!" yeah but Cool Air is a sweet story
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cult_hero posted:
For a long time, I knew there was something missing in my life, and now I know what that was.
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cult_hero posted:That's a really unfair characterization. Huh could have sworn that he died of like liver cirrhosis in his 30s. Must have been thinking of a different writer, woops!
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Serious post, but if your daughter is into Lovecraft she might also like Robert W. Chambers's The King in Yellow, which is an even earlier cosmic horror short story collection. Actually, Chambers's stories are kind of a continuation of some stories by Ambrose Bierce. I'd also recommend some of Lord Dunsany's stuff, of which Lovecraft himself was a huge fan. Dunsany is mostly more fantasy than horror, but The Gods of Pegana, as well as a lot of his short stories, are pretty obvious influences on Lovecraft, if a lot less horrifying.
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Apr 5, 2023 06:18
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 It’s been a while but I remember being entertained enough
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*the scooby gang capture and tie up what they think is a person in a ghost costume* Fred, in a happy voice: “Ok gang! Let’s see who this REALLY is under the mask!” Fred pulls the cloth off to reveal an eldritch horror and everyone’s eyes bleed, Daphne throws herself into the ocean, scooby and velma merge into a tentacled horror, the sky turns red, explosions, everyone dies, all of it is badly written also the author seems naively unaware of how incredibly racist he is :several generations of teenaged readers: “Wait, what???”
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It was old man Hazred all along! -and I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you pragmatic, reason minded and racially tolerant people!
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blight rhino posted:there are also more than a few of "AND HE WAS DEAD ALL ALOOOOOONNNNNG!!! *GASP*!" hm i haven't run into many of those yet, mostly it's just things where it's very obvious what's happening the entire time. like Charles Dexter Ward, pretty long and you can call exactly what's happening well in advance. but, it's still a cool/disturbing enough story with enough effective moments i liked it overall. but still, you just know there's a much better story hidden in there on the other hand, most people who try to write like lovecraft are just missing some critical element so it's harder than it looks i guess of course this story also features an unfortunately named cat, so
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cult_hero posted:That's a really unfair characterization. I dunno, this is pretty fuckin amazing:  
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Pb and Jellyfish posted:I dunno, this is pretty fuckin amazing: Oh hello 
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Apr 5, 2023 22:42
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Just finished re-reading Providence, that is really great stuff and a great take on the whole Lovecraftian et al mythos.
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Alan Moore really hit some deeply disturbing things there and I mean that in the best way.
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