#HP lovecraft

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[dsamuelsonart]

"... blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests."

Small Lovecraft inspired acrylic painting from 2023. 6 x 8" on paper.

[velvetvexations]

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

[kaptainandy]

herbert west playing yugioh if you even care 🙄

[where-your-eyes-dont-go]

It feels odd that while Lovecraft's racism is often the first thing the mind jumps to when discussing him, the same isn't really true for other prominent pulp authors. Especially considering Edgar Rice Burroughs whole oeuvre is a celebration of white supremacy and eugenics. Tarzan boasts that he's a "killer of beasts and many black men." Utopias that have bred out crime through execution or sterilization of criminals' families are a repeated staple of his fiction. It wasn't just his fiction either; the man wrote a newspaper column calling for the killing of "moral imbeciles" and their families [source].

Its not like they were writing in wildly different times; the first Tarzan book came out only seven years before Lovecraft's Dagon. And they both were incredibly influential and celebrated figures in specific genre niches that still command wide attention. But while his racism isn't unknown, it doesn't seem to be attached to Burrough's public character in the same way it is for Lovecraft. Why doesn't he have multiple generations of pulp fans coming to terms with how the author they idolize is awful? Are there just not enough people reading A Princess of Mars these days?

[attckher]

it came from the stars

[mintbees]

Getting really into lovecraft lately

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: Omens

Arkasha Stevenson: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the first omen Stevenson: it's about a plot to breed the antichrist King: wait this sounds familiar Stevenson: yeah it's based on The Omen King: no that's not it

King: wait! i've got it! King: this is totally ripping off Good Omens! King: it's the same set up! Lovecraft: you're right! even the name is similar! Barker: wow, i hope someone gets fired for THAT blunder

King: neil! Neil! did you know that the omen is ripping off your book? Neil Gaiman: steve, good omens is a parody of the omen King: King: what Gaiman: i mean, even the name is similar Gaiman: that should have been a clue

Gaiman: you must understand, steve, that once the omen was the biggest thing in horror Gaiman: we believed its grip on man's imagination would last the ages! But alas... it is forgotten! Gaiman: forgotten like the fading filaments of a dream in the morning light! King: oh ok

Gaiman: now, like the great ozymandias,king of kings, memory of the omen has scattered to the howling winds of the glittering desert of oblivion Gaiman: and like prometheus the titan of old my torment knows no bounds Koontz: neil! did you know the first omen ripped off your book?

Gaiman: no young dean for you see the omen actually predates good omens Koontz: huh? but it just came out! Gaiman: no see the original omen came our before the good omens book Koontz: original omen? book? Koontz: i don't understand

Mary Shelley: sup fuckers Shelley: so neil i hear they ripped off your book Gaiman: no i Shelley: i'd be real pissed if someone ripped off my book Gaiman: they didn't Shelley: i'd give em one of these [pantomimes shivving]

Gaiman: please! no one ripped off good omens Barker: oh they definitely ripped off good omens Poe: seems pretty obvious, yeah Gaiman: edgar! he's just stirring up shit! Gaiman: you know that! Gaiman: why are you believing him now? Poe: no he's right, it's an open and shut case

Neil Gaiman: it's not a rip off! good omens was literally an omen parody! Gaiman: if you won't believe me, ask terry! Terry Pratchett: hey is anyone hungry? i could really go for some soup right now

[witchcraftandgeekness]

Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5

[noonesrnd]

🧪🧠💊🫀

[lobotr-on]

paging Dr West!!!!!!!!!!! watched reanimator again last night, i freaking love this wee guy

[rancidooze]

[opalwisteria]

Blasphemy? Before what? God?

I will not be shackled by the failures of YOUR god.

The only blasphemy is to wallow in insignificance.

[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

[kasketkat]

One of the employees at the gym I go to thought, for a split second, my Cthulhu pin was a Lovecraftian Squidward.

We had a good laugh, then an idea popped into my tiny ass brain

[oleworm]

My pet peeve with HP Lovecraft memes is how it always comes down to the same punchline, "Oh he was so racist and scared of everything." It's boring. His work is still popular because he wrote about themes that resonate with so many people to this day, most of whom are not White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. Anxiety about new technologies, about new scientific discoveries, about rapid societal change, about suffering from chronic illness and becoming reliant on treatment to survive, the fear of becoming like your ancestors, or that there might be something inherently wrong with you, dealing with institutionalisation and social exclusion, the sense of being increasingly alienated from people around you, being aware of a terrible danger that others don't seem to acknowledge, etc.

If people read him just to gawk at an old timey racist, then cowboy novels would still be popular.