#Lovecraft Mythos

[samglyph]

Silly little post card idea that I’ve had for a while that I think im finally gonna make for cons this year. Any mythos locations you’d really like to see?

[witchmarsh]

We are always saying that.

🧙 Wishlist on Steam now 🧙

[lovelaceace]

Remake of The King's Dancers

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The Dunwich Horror by Sereno Arts

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Some of my lovecraftian god ginjika designs with a sprinkle of rendering practice

HP Wokecraft where I turn Lovecraft's characters into faggy people of color to make him roll in his grave /j

Anywhoziez.. Who's your favorite outer god here :3

[flamdoodles]

Iä, the King in Yellow comes!

Dedicated to @late-to-the-magnus-archives @sepiabandensis and @sparklyandheroic, for writing my favorite fanfiction of all times and helping me be freely creative again. I can never thank you enough <3

[transman-badass]

LOCK THE LAST DOOR

A Pharaoh Syndicate Investigations Short Story

Spring 1930 It's Arkham. Another abandoned house on the edge of town isn't worth paying attention to. Private detective Lazarus Core wouldn't bother with the place himself, but he's tracking down a runaway, and the trail has led him to this place. But something's wrong with this house. That's clear even before he’s caught sneaking around by his rival. Harlan Thompson is the most dangerous man in the city, leader of the local crime organization called the Pharaoh Syndicate. He knows things. Impossible, sinister things, things no human should know. And he's willing to use this information against his enemies. Harlan shows Lazarus what appears to be a failed ritual and demands Lazarus figure out what happened. Lazarus can't refuse; Harlan’s got his gun. But as music floats through the rooms, and the infestation becomes clear, Lazarus gets the sinking feeling there's more to all of this than he originally expected... A Pharaoh Syndicate Investigations short story. Set in the Cthulhu Mythos, this series focuses on the adventures of Lazarus Core and Carmine Mason as they fight back against the criminal organization controlling Arkham, and face down all the horrific cosmic nightmares that await.. NOTE: This story contains minor mentions of period typical misgendering and sexism.

I should've waited until tomorrow like I planned but I'm impatient.

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[soliusss]

uhhhhhhh she unknown on my dream quest until I kadath or whatever the fuck I painted this in one sitting late last night

[millenianthemums]

Felt like drawing my puppet King in Yellow design and then spent way too long on this. i wanna learn how to do more polished and atmospheric pieces

[coffeexmythos]

You can look at the Yellow Sign and not see it.

You can see the Yellow Sign and not know it.

To see is to understand. To understand is to see.

You can read the Play and find it as scary as any good horror story. You can read but not understand. Not on a conscious level, at least. And that's fine, for Hastur is a patient tyrant. He can wait. Because to see is to understand that he was there all along. And to understand is to see him where he has been this whole time.

[samglyph]

Just about done with my Mythos Postcard set! Still tweaking here and there, but I really like how the colors look all together. These’ll be available at cons this year :)

[blacknedsoul-blog]

I think the Deans are fucking Lovecraftian gods

If you're a regular reader of my nonsense, you may have noticed that on more than one occasion I've referred to the Deans as "Nyarlathotep Tumblrsexymen": no, I didn't have a stroke on the keyboard, this is a reference to an entity that appears in the stories of Howard Phillip Lovecraft. A writer who is widely known because there were even people who thought that the Necronomicon, a fictional text part of his work, actually existed (and because he was such a recalcitrant racist that it has become a meme about how extremely racist he was).

And since I'm still going through my pile of papers on Gothic fiction, let me take a moment to talk about Lovecraft's work, why I have reason to believe that the Deans have something in common with these creatures, and what that might mean for the development of Nevermore.

A Little About Lovecraft's Gods

To understand a little bit about the kind of creatures we are talking about, I have to stop at a brief (seriously brief) description of cosmic horror: This is a type of horror that takes elements from the scientific publications of the time (which makes it close to science fiction) to give it verisimilitude, it has at its core a deep nihilism, the breaking of scientific canons, the fragility of the human mind and societies contrasted with the vastness of the universe, an enormous fear of "the unknown" for the white man (fed by his racist paranoia), and seasoned with tentacles and creatures that remind us of sea creatures, because Lovecraft had an enormous fear of the sea.

The gods in these stories represent, on a symbolic level, the vastness of the universe, the terror of the unknown, and the fragility of the human mind: they are entities older than time itself, contact with them tends to shatter the mind, and humanity must be very, very grateful that most of them are locked away or incapacitated in some way. Also, the way to access them is through very specific rituals that have been lost over time, so thankfully they're not very easy to contact either.

Similarities with the Deans

Let's start with the most obvious: the Deans, like the Lovecraftian gods, seem to operate in their own plane of existence, beyond what humans understand as "life" and "death": Nevermore is a kind of limbo, but we know, thanks to the Raven, that these guys came from another place and had enough power to kick the crap out of psychopomps without any problem.

However, just like Lovecraft's gods, these enormous powers don't make them able to do whatever they want; as I said, these entities are usually locked up or incapacitated in some way and can only have contact with humans under certain circumstances (like being summoned in rituals), and getting out of their prisons usually requires vague events like astral alignments that are completely out of their control.

The Deans, like Lovecraft's gods, seem to be subject to rules that are above them, and while they can bend them a bit to achieve their goals, it's not like they can do much about it.

Another thing they have in common with Lovecraft's gods is the ability to create servants that function as extensions of them to fulfill their designs. There are many creatures that follow this line in the stories that speak of The Myths, but the best known are the Shoggoth that appear in the novel At the Mountains of Madness: artificial beings created by the Old Ones to rule the Earth, described as amphibious, amorphous masses similar to amoebas.

Although the Deans prefer their minions in the form of animated dolls. I suspect this decision is based on the story The Sandman by E.T.A. Hoffman. I have no proof, but no doubt.

Now for the joke that brings this essay to life: the creature in Lovecraft's universe that most resembles the Deans is a being called Nyarlathotep. This creature belongs to the category of "Other Gods" (not the old ones like Cthulhu) and gets very nice nicknames like "Crawling Chaos".

Nyarlathotep is a being who enjoys causing chaos, death and madness wherever they go. They can communicate with humans, which they use to psychologically torture them and make them lose their minds. Something they seem to enjoy quite a bit. In the same way that the Deans view this sadistic battle royale, they have set up a fun game.

Then there is the ability to manipulate and alter the human mind, which is called into question in stories like Nyarlathotep and The Rats in the Walls (where it is apparently Nyarlathotep who messes with the protagonist's mind so that he tries to kill his friend).

This is something we've seen manifest in Nevermore in two different ways: the ability to trigger or unlock memories.

And the ability to change them. While we can't know if what was shown to Annabel is 100% real, we do know that showing her the end of her life caused a permanent change in the way she retrieves her memories: from the end backwards. If this memory is somehow altered, we also know that the Deans are capable of photoshopping people's memories.

Finally, Nyarlathotep has the ability to shape-shift, which allows them to appear as humanoids in several stories, such as The Oniric Quest of the Unknown Kadath or Dreams in the Witch's House. His human form is considered "unnatural", "strange" and "disturbing" by those who see it (remember that Lovecraft was extremely racist, so he always presents himself as a black man). As a pharaoh in the Randolph Carter cycle and as a charcoal humanoid figure in the second story cited).

Here, the human form of whatever the Deans are is also quite atypical: not only are they ridiculously tall (7 feet), they have heterochromia with a white-colored eye (which I would venture to say may be a reference to the cataract eye mentioned in the story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe), and their synchronized movements are amusing on paper, but possibly strange to look at for the characters.

Otherwise, there are two other entities in Lovecraft's universe whose descriptions can be loosely associated with the Deans: Yogg-Sothoth and Azathoth. Both are beings of dual nature.

The former is an entity associated with omniscience and appears in stories such as The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward and The Dunwich Horror. and is described as "the key and the door".

Azathoth represents omnipotence, is the center of the universe, and is described as "the beginning and the end" or "the alpha and the omega.

Implications for the comic

The fact that the Deans have elements in common with Nyarlathotep brings up an interesting point: although Nyarlathotep has far greater freedom than other beings, they is a servant of Azathoth. In other words, them powers are subservient to a more powerful being whose plans they must follow. They may amuse themselves in the process, but they is still essentially a butler.

On the other hand, the Azathoth connection might be vague, since this creature is a lobotomized god, so he can't do much. But if the reference is to Yogg-Sothoth, it gets a little more interesting, because that entity is the one who is supposed to release the original gods when the time is right.

And I don't know about you, but these references have me wondering if the Deans are working for something much more messed up than they are, or if they're using the souls of the students to bring back something much more sinister.

[lovelaceace]

Masquarade!

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[flamiart]

"Bubbled Up", promo art for part 22 of Surrogate: The Director's Cut - The Podfic

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The Black Sphinx - Avatar of Nyarlathotep by TrxPicsTrx