#heck the whole “ritual of big stone monolith dance” didnt even make me question the “race” of who was dancing: i chalked it up to. get this
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In honour of H.P. Lovecraft’s birthday
I would just like to remind everyone that on this day, 128 years ago, Sarah Susan Philips Lovecraft gave birth to what would become one of the greatest pissboys in all of western literature. Not only would this child grow into a massive antisemite, racist, xenophobe and class elitist, but he would also manage to weasel his way into the english literary canon with an oeuvre of almost pure purple prose, peppered with aforementioned shitty opinions. This shitty son of Providence, Rhode Island would later be hailed for his innovative approach to horror by utilizing the fear of the unknown, something he had in heaps, and it really is a tragedy that, apart from ethnic and racial minorities, he was not more acquainted with the sensation of a fist in his face or a good kick in the knees. So this 20th of August, let us remember the start of a rightfully sad life of one of the scummiest pricks to ever hold a pen, and be thankful that literally everything he ever did was done better by someone else after him.
#when i first read lovecraft i didnt even THINK it was racism#call it Internalized Racism but “african tribesmen worship albino bignose monkeys that are Eldritch As Fuck Bro” didnt even SOUND weird#heck the whole “ritual of big stone monolith dance” didnt even make me question the “race” of who was dancing: i chalked it up to. get this#O R I E N T A L I S M#way too easy looking at white explorers thinking dark-skinned people dancing near a pyre is a Ritual Of Special Summon Big Fuckoff Dæmonshit#and being like “fucking old-age racism. here in italy at least we replaced all of it with memes ffs”#so yeah lovecraft is a pissbaby and his most important bonus to anything is the abyssalcraft mod (THE DEV BLADE IS HEROBRINE'S SWORD#ITS AN ITALIAN THING DONT ASK)#educate yourselves#and dont be cringe
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