#AttheMountainsofMadness

[lumber]

💚💚💚 #KayfabeTober Day 30: #Lovecraft! #JeauxJanovsky #JeauxJanovskyArt #JeauxJ ••• Stay Tuned for my upcoming #AlanMooreVember #ArtOfBook which will be put out by #ExperimentalComics/@experimentalcomics! Be on the lookout for the AMV KickStarter/IndieGoGo/GoFundMe campaign in the near future! 👀👀👀🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🔥🔥🔥 ••• #HPLovecraft #HowardPhillipsLovecraft #WeirdTales #Cthulhu #CallOfCthulhu #AtTheMountainsOfMadness #Providence #AlanMoore #JacenBurrows #AvatarPress #Neonomicon #RhodeIsland @cartoonist.kayfabe #CartoonistKayfabe #ArtChallenge #CartoonistKayfabeTober #CartoonistKayfabeTober2022 #KayfaybeTober2022 #JimRugg @jimruggart @ed_piskor #EdPiskor #Comics #Comix #ReadMoreComics (at Culver City, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkVEC0jA8FA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[octoberboy1031]

My adorable #Cthulhu and #Shoggoth from @the_cryptocurium came in today!! I love that they’re in #Halloween #colors!! 🖤🧡 #cryptocurium #hplovecraft #atthemountainsofmadness #iamprovidence #horror #horrorgeek #spooky #creepy #samhain #halloween365 #itsalwayshalloween #octoberdreams #theoctobercountry #february #winter #terrorverse (at North Providence, Rhode Island) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoLIqBmOl9s/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[film-book]

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Guillermo del Toro Shares Clip of Lovecraft Sci-Fi Horror CGI from 2012 https://film-book.com/guillermo-del-toro-shares-clip-of-lovecraft-sci-fi-horror-cgi-from-2012/?feed_id=112865&_unique_id=6371cc256627d

[chronivore]

Art by Michael Rubino

#oldones #elderthing #AtTheMountainsOfMadness #hplovecraft #lovecraft #art #artwork #cthulhumythos #cosmichorror #antarctica #mydearcultists #madness

[itshouseofwarpeddesire]

#atthemountainsofmadness #hplovecraft

[cbmnet]

#AtTheMountainsOfMadness #FearHQ

[virovac]

Huh

After a Let’s Read about At The Mountains of Madness, and remembering how Shoggoths weren’t even meant to have PERMANENT brains but only grow them when the command given...

I’m starting to wonder if the Shoggoths weren’t as intelligent as thought, or didn’t gain any consistent intelligence until started hanging out with sorcerer types and cults.

But then again I think its more likely the Elder Things were in denial of the shoggoths intelligence given the smearing of a message on the walls after finding ones.

But it might have been a mix of both. The attempts to further constrain the Shoggoths and prevent a slave uprising (or another if the earlier time of rampages in times of dinosaurs was an uprising and not a sort of glitch or bug as the Elder Things insist ) instead caused a HAL style breakdown. The Shoggoths might have lashed out in rage while still instinctually talking in pre-recorded phrases similar to what phone A.I’s use.

Its also possible the Shoggoths got around issues by immitating the vocal commands for override codes for eachother. A shoggoth might not have been able to kill on their own, but if another shoggoth gave the order while imitating the shape of their masters...

Instead of being a parallel to human slavery, its an attempt to stunt the growth of the shoggoths.

I don’t doubt the possibility of intelligent shoggoths, but its possibly they did not developed any coherent, sane intelligence until after throwing off their chains and even then after leaving the toxic influence of the strange unknown horror upriver the Mountains of Madness. 

Or the shoggoths might have a very alien intelligence even in modern times, perhaps even turning off higher cognition in times when food is scarce.

Going farther into speculation:

It should also be noted that I wouldn’t be surprised if the earlier control methods of Shoggoths wasn’t hypnosis as humans thought but a telepathic interface. If so the nature of the uprising could have been very different from the later voice controlled version: with instead due to the Old Ones unknowingly leaving bits of copies of their minds in Shoggoths each time made use of one,  until it congealed into something that might be horrified and not even know what it is and panicking at its sudden sense of self and struggling with contradicting memories.

[witchersfromkadath]

Cthulhu. We are preparing some interesting art with this elder entity that waits dreaming in R'lyeh Art by @aelloy_locke #cthulhu #lovecraft #providence #arkham #miskatonicuniversity #hplovecraft #callofcthulhu #art #conceptart #digitalart #illustration #atthemountainsofmadness #greatoldones #cosmic #cosmicart #cosmichorror #novel #bookshelf #writers https://www.instagram.com/p/CT_GMGJMAER/?utm_medium=tumblr

[darthalan6]

Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio #GuillermoDelToro #Pinocchio #Pinocho #PansLabyrinth #ElLaberintoDelFauno #Hellboy #PacificRim #NightmareAlley #AtTheMountainsOfMadness #TrollHunters #LaFormaDelAgua #TheShapeOfWater #Movies #Sketch #Drawing #StopMotion #Boceto #Dibujo https://www.instagram.com/p/CT7OhshMT-B/?utm_medium=tumblr

[lumber]

#AlanMooreVember2021 Day 23: #Providence! #AlanMooreVember #AlanMoore #JacenBurrows #JeauxJanovsky #JeauxJanovskyArt #JeauxJ #AvatarPress #Neonomicon #TheCourtyard #HPLovecraft #Lovecraft #Cthulhu #CthulhuMythos #CallOfCthulhu #AtTheMountainsOfMadness #Horror #HorrorComic #HorrorFan #CuteThulu #Cute #Kawaii #Cosmicism #ProvidenceRhodeIsland #RhodeIsland #WeirdTales @alanmoorevember (at Culver City, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWnG088rfPe/?utm_medium=tumblr

[uncannyfantastic]

These paintings by John Holmes adorned the covers of the HP Lovecraft books published by Ballantine in 1973. To see all of them, visit the gallery we’ve posted to heavymetal.com . #johnholmes #horrorart #hplovecraft #atthemountainsofmadness #cthulhumythos #cthulhu #theshutteredroom #paperbackcover #coverart https://www.instagram.com/p/CEJ9NsllGPE/?igshid=1ajhbplcqwuiw

[arturolopezrossell]

H.P. Lovecraft by Mike Mignola 131 Anniversary ☺️ #hplovecraft #howardphillipslovecraft #lovecraft #lovecraftian #mikemignola #cthulhu #callofcthulhu #catsofulthar #atthemountainsofmadness https://www.instagram.com/p/CS0RNnYs3g7/?utm_medium=tumblr

[morbidsmileart]

And here’s Sea Beast no. 2 🐙sea monster attacking an old-fashioned clipper ship in a very Lovecraftian way. Watercolor, ink, and gouache on 100% cotton paper. Ships bagged with mat and backer board for a flat $40 domestic. Find it here on my Etsy shop ➡️ https://etsy.me/3rQ0cn7
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[crtsraw]

. . 130 años del nacimiento de “El Horror de Providence”. . Primera página del manuscrito original de "At the Mountains of Madness" (En las Montañas de la Locura) . #howardphillipslovecraft #hplovecraft #lovecraft #providencehorror #cosmichorror #horrorcosmico #atthemountainsofmadness #enlasmontañasdelalocura #horrorwriter https://www.instagram.com/p/CEHYfZZJ83t/?igshid=1odmy257n96a9

[cryptocurium]

"Fungi from Yuggoth" Elder Thing and Shoggoth Cryptocasts sets. Cast in translucent purple resin with painted pink and green accents. Limited edition of only 13 sets. Available this Sunday, 2/23 at 8pm EST in our etsy store. $75 per set.

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[virovac]

Man, its interesting that Lovecraft’s same story with the infamous black cat is also a pretty obvious condemnation of chattel slavery.

The final words of the narrator in the asylum demanding they give back his ****** feels too on point to be a coincidence.

(I’d say the visceral nature horrors of chattel slavery were enough to get past Lovecraft’s racism, he long thought it was horrific.)

The fact that the man who fled a cannibal cult that raised a domesticated lineage of humans (or a hybrid lineage of multiple related species) as livestock, and kept up genetic diversity by kidnapping people to be added to the stock, became a plantation owner feels intentional. 

It is an odd contrast to his later “At The Mountains of Madness” where we seem  meant to sympathize with the slavemasters over the slaves.