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sictransitgloriamvndi · 3 days

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“That is not dead Which can eternal lie, Yet with strange aeons Even death may die.” - H.P. Lovecraft

#h.p. lovecraft #american authors #horror stories #weird tales #science fiction #the call of cthulhu

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prokopetz · 8 months

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#media #cartoons #animation #literature #copyright #public domain #disney #mickey mouse #steamboat willie #a a milne #winnie the pooh #tigger #h p lovecraft #the call of cthulhu #cthulhu

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funeral · 7 months

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulu

#h.p. lovecraft #the call of cthulhu #quotes #p

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bancaishi · 6 months

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he said, ‘it is new, indeed, for i made it last night in a dream of strange cities; and dreams are older than brooding tyre, or contemplative sphinx, or garden-girdled babylon.’

illustration for "the call of cthulhu" by h.p. lovecraft

#art #cthulhu #the call of cthulhu #hp lovecraft #the text is bits and pieces of the cthulhu prayer #written in the script unlikely-emu9529 on reddit made for the abyssal language in dnd #henry anthony wilcox is number one on my red flag kinlist #id in alt text

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cmdonovann · 3 months

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more gutenberg project books! i made a little letter quarto of hp lovecraft for my brother, and somehow managed to spell "cthulhu" wrong on both the title page AND the page headers. alas, i didn't notice the error until it had already been gifted.

#bookbinding #public domain #h p lovecraft #the call of cthulhu

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pintsofguinnesmakeyoustrong · 8 months

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not to excuse the brainwashing or mutiny or anything but i think a good chunk of ken's behaviour can be attributed to having never fucking seen a horse before. all the animals in barbieland are plastic, and even then, theres no horses apart from their toys. can you imagine? id shit myself. mans wouldve gone mad from the revelation. it was probably the ken equivalent of call of cthulhu for him. kenthulu if you will.

#barbie #barbie movie #barbie 2013 #ken barbie #ryan gosling #ryan gosling ken #call of cthulhu #the call of cthulhu #cthulhu #horses #greta gerwig

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lafayettenossie · 26 days

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#RP #The Call of Cthulhu #VTM #WOD #V20 #V5 #Nosferatu Detective #NOLA #Trail of Cthulhu #Muse: Jacques Francis Lafayette #Muse: Francis Louis Lafayette #Comission portrait

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holybagelsstuff · 2 months

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Plot twist: Herbert West heard the call of Cthulhu.

#h.p. lovecraft #reanimator #herbert west #the call of cthulhu #cthulhu

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slorestgreen · 6 months

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The end of every HP Lovecraft story is some academic dude being like

"Wow that was some fucked up shit, huh. I almost died back there. Man, that was fucked. Anyways, take it easy."

#hp lovecraft #the color out of space #the call of cthulhu #dreams in the witch house #pickman's model #am I missing any more #prob

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oceanlifeenthusiast · 22 days

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"The 'Mighty' Cthulhu"

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brokehorrorfan · 1 year

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Quantum Mechanix will summon two Cthulhu plush toys in July. The Qreatures plush (left) is 10" tall and costs $30, while the Zippermouth plush (right) is 9.5" tall and costs $35.

#cthulhu #cthulhu mythos #hp lovecraft #h.p. lovecraft #h. p. lovecraft #h p lovecraft #call of cthulhu #the call of cthulhu #quantum mechanix #toy #gift #elder gods #weird tales #great old ones #at the mountains of madness

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metalloverr · 3 months

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Today Cliff Burton could have turned 62.💔

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LEGEND😭

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roachleakage · 10 months

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On the subject of Lovecraftian "madness" and ableism

A lot of Lovecraft's fans and defenders like to say some shit along this line: "Lovecraftian madness isn't mental illness! It's when you see something your brain wasn't wired to understand/when aliens start influencing your mind/(insert circumstance here)!"

This is an incredibly funny thing for me to see, because what all these folks are forgetting is that in The Call of Cthulhu, the story that introduced everyone to the trope of "seeing weird alien visions and losing your mind about it", Lovecraft never referred to this phenomenon as madness. He uses the word in the story, certainly, but not in this context - it appears as a sort of synonym for 'nonsense', just like in the title and story of At the Mountains of Madness.

So what does he call it? Well...

The cuttings largely alluded to outré mental illnesses and outbreaks of group folly or mania in the spring of 1925.

On March 23d, the manuscript continued, Wilcox failed to appear; and inquiries at his quarters revealed that he had been stricken with an obscure sort of fever… …His temperature, oddly enough, was not greatly above normal; but his whole condition was otherwise such as to suggest true fever rather than mental disorder.

The press cuttings, as I have intimated, touched on cases of panic, mania, and eccentricity during the given period.

New York policemen are mobbed by hysterical Levantines on the night of March 22–23.

So we have a bevy of terms here, most of which suggest (or deliberately avoid suggesting, in the second example) some kind of mental dysfunction. Most importantly for this post, Lovecraft specifically, explicitly, used the term "mental illness". This isn't a case of modern readers misinterpreting archaic language. He was fully capable of writing "mental illness" when that was what he meant, and he did so.

So was this ableist? I mean, yeah. Lovecraft refers to the effects of Cthulhu's psychic broadcast as "mental illness", "mania", and "hysteria". None of those are really appropriate terms to be slinging around outside their proper context (though in the case of "hysteria", the proper context is "never", given its misogynist origin).

However, I do believe I should speak in defense of Lovecraft here. Not because he didn't do anything wrong, but because this was one of those moments when he was, in fact, being a product of his time. The 1920s were, to put it mildly, not great for the mentally ill. The entire field of mental health was still in its infancy, and even the cutting-edge knowledge coming from there was inaccurate, deeply harmful, and marginalizing. Which isn't to say that it's fine that he did this, but you can at least skip adding it to your list of Reasons Lovecraft Was A Giant Piece Of Shit And I Hate His Guts.

Besides, using period-typical language isn't even close to the most ableist thing Lovecraft did in this story. No, the real kicker is when he declared that one of the demographics most vulnerable to Cthulhu's psychic outburst was patients in asylums:

And so numerous are the recorded troubles in insane asylums, that only a miracle can have stopped the medical fraternity from noting strange parallelisms and drawing mystified conclusions.

I mean sure, Lovecraft considered himself part of a demographic that would have been affected - seemingly the only people to get through this event unscathed were total normies - but given that he also singled out Jews, colonized Indians, and folks living in Haiti and Africa, I have to say damn it, dude.

Anyway, yes. Lovecraft was being ableist when he wrote this shit, and I'd appreciate if more people just put on their big boy pants and made the effort to account for that in their derivative works instead of trying to dance around the issue by claiming it never happened.

#lovecraft #h.p. lovecraft #ableism #cosmic horror #gothic horror #the call of cthulhu

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xenosagaepisodeone · 8 months

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#the call of cthulhu #gou tanabe #manga #I dont believe I ever posted these? just my rant

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night-wanderer-art · 8 months

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‘Ecstasy and Freedom’

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trash-seagull · 8 months

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if I ever happened to be in the presence of Cthulhu I would very politely ask if I could have a small piece of one of its tentacles to try. I wonder if it would taste more like fried octopus or fried squid?

#cthulhu #hp lovecraft #lovecraft #the call of cthulhu #lovecraftian #lovecraftian horror #horror #marine life #marine animals #sea food #octopus #squid sisters #shower thoughts #food for thought

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