#Cthulhu Mythos

[honestscribe]

My mood today is Nyarlathotep.

[mariemorewski]

yog whateley

[transman-badass]

I don't know if this will help anyone, but. If your preferred form of distraction is horror, and you can't use itch.io or afford the price, DM me and I'll send you a free copy of my Cthulhu Mythos story, The Darkness in Old Bellblack.

Please reblog, and more than anything, please, take care of yourselves.

[velvetvexations]

Lovecraft wrote down all the ideas that came to him to do something with later and there are some real bangers in there

[petermorwood]

More correctly, an illustration by Greg Staples for "The Fire of Asshurbanipal" by Robert E. Howard.

Don't forget the writer, O Best Beloved, without whom there'd be no story to illustrate.

Here's the original version, with art by J. Allen St. John, in Weird Tales magazine of December 1936.

It holds the coveted and, not coincidentally, best-paid position of illustrated cover story - although this did Howard very little good since he'd shot himself dead six months earlier.

If you have the Comic Book Reader app, you can download and read a facsimile of the entire mag from here.

The Fire of Asshurbanipal by Greg Staples

[mai-col]

Mystic, Seeker, Survivor

Hmmmm, another species of brainworms (apart from the Malevolent ones, but can you see a pattern ?) have been hard at work, recently, so have some random drawings of the Arkham Horror Girlies (Core Set Edition).

[gilf-ahab]

"you should be at the club" i do NOT belong at the club i’ll be in there telling everyone about the king of carcosa

[doomreturn]

[saspitite]

ive been thinking about this question for a while so i wanted to make a poll and see other people’s opinions:

reblog for himb

do it for he ^

[andreabonazzi]

South Pacific X. A cold winter sea.

(No AI involved: just digital montage and animation with a couple of my sculptures)

[shapter-draws]

Not fresh enough?

[bethanythebogwitch]

One thing I see a lot in cosmic horror stories is the idea that the great old ones or whatever view humans as like ants. The metaphor being that most people don't even think about ants unless the ants start doing something like getting into their house (which would be like people doing rituals to summon the great old ones) and think nothing of killing them. Occasionally you get the kid who likes burning ants with a magnifying glass, which would be Nyarlathotep.

However, using the same metaphor, we have people who are fascinated by ants, who study them for a living and for fun, and who work to conserve ants and keep them alive. If the metaphor holds, we should see great old ones who are interested in humans but aren't hostile.

What I'm saying is that I want a story where humanity discovers an eldritch abomination that proceeds to start doing a study on our habits and biology and appealing to the other great old ones to set up a nature preserve for our conservation.

[the-random-hamlet]

Not Mine. Thought to Share.

[thebeardedladyofthelake]

Tbh my personal interpretation of the Cthulhu Mythos is as much comedy as it is cosmic horror. The horrors of existence persist but much of the "terrors too awful to perceive" are more a case of closed minded and racist unreliable narrators than anything. Do you really trust the judgement of someone who thinks penguins are grotesque and unnatural? I wouldn't. Knowledge given directly from Nyarlathotep or Yog-Sothoth? Yeah. Nyarlathotep is an extraterrestrial conman who is essentially doing the equivalent of magic tricks to confuse puppies then taking credit for human inventions retroactively ancient aliens style. Nyarlathotep is a weeaboo for Ancient Egypt. Yog-Sothoth is high off its incomprehensible ass all the time. A shoggoth is an outdoor cat. A ghoul is an off leash dog. Richard Upton Pickman is a furry. It is more cosmically silly than anything else, you understand?

[thenoeyebunnynobunsusmaingallery]

[luciiferous]

hastur is the anthropologist between the two brothers