#At the Mountains of Madness

[ghostsandgod]

[caleod]

24-10-24 "Expedition"

[nitewrighter]

Reading part 2 of Gou Tanabe's adaptation of At The Mountains of madness and I forgot how utterly tickling the fact that the narrator is a geologist and just going "What the fuck.... what the fuuuuuuck" throughout the whole thing is.

"I know, scientifically, that rocks are old as balls. I am mentally prepared for our antarctic expedition."

*sees structures that are definitely structures and not just rocks but also absolutely geologically pre-dating us coming down from the fucking trees*

"Mom, pick me up, I'm scared."

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

Jay Gordon

[rupertbbare]

Old One-At the Mountains of Madness by BiBao DaDao

[psygull-arts]

"Radiates, vegetables, monstrosities, star spawn -- whatever they had been, they were men!"

[spacenoirdetective]

At the Mountains of Madness art by Marc Simonetti

[salmonpiffy]

Cover art and character size comparison for my TFP AU

[fipindustries]

It's genuenly fascinating how Lovecraft, known xenophobe in it's truest sense, created this race of grotesque utterly inhuman alien creatures and the goes on at length describing with genuine respect and admiration how advanced and complex and admirable their culture and civilization was.

like, we are talking about these guys

and lovecraft is like "ah yes, their goberment was complex a probably socialistic...there was extensive commerece, the culture was mainly urban, in furnishing their homes they kept everything at the center of huge rooms leaving wall spaces for decorative treatments, lighting was probably accomplished by a device electro-chemical in nature"

is so strange how comfortable he is humanizing these creatures, treating them like any other culture worth of consideration. i really didnt expect this coming from this dude

[magic5ball]

Something I Will Never Get Over

H.P. Lovecraft: Here is my fantasy race that is objectively superior to humans. In addition to external threats, they fell because overtime they relied more and more on slave labor to perform the most basic functions of society, so that when the slaves inevitably rebelled, society collapsed with them. Constant wars against rival superpowers gradually weakened their empire, even when they objectively 'won' wars, and climate change reduced their once fertile fields to barren wastelands over time. If such a technologically advanced species that had dominated the world for millions of years could fall, what does that say about the American and European empires of today?

J.K. Rowling: Here is my fantasy race that is objectively superior to muggles. Sometimes they are threatened by a dark wizard who is objectively evil, but good will always rise to defeat it. My fantasy 'race 's society has internal problems like slavery, but so long as a nice guy becomes the most powerful wizard in the land all will be well! Those silly societal problems can easily be handled and surely won't have consequences down the line!

I don't know what shocks me more: That a guy who openly admitted to being a fan of Hitler somehow had a better understanding of how empires rise and fall than J.K. Rowling, or that both came to the conclusion that 'slavery is good sometimes'.

[yoursweethome]

Interior art for a spanish version of H.P. Lovecraft´s "At the Mountains of Madness"  by Sebastián Cabrol, 2018.

[peregrinethegryphon]

I can’t believe we live in a world where Ridley Scott’s Prometheus exists but Guillermo Del Toro’s At the Mountains of Madness doesn’t this is truly the bad place

[fhtagn-and-tentacles]

AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

by Brom

[diggerofbricks]

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[ignusmagus]

I don’t know what it is about the “dogs/animals are unsettled” trope in cosmic horror stuff (or just horror in general) but man it never gets old for me. All the parts of At The Mountains of Madness when the dogs are tweaking about the elder things just puts a smile on my face. “Yes good boys, bark at the ancient evil, you tell em!” I also like the idea of animals just having a better vibe detector than humans, not burdened by logic or a thirst for knowledge, just a simple, “oh, bad for my survival, gonna bark at it, fuck that.”

[andreabonazzi]

It is still cold out there.