#hpl shitposting

[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?

[who-canceled-roger-rabbit]

Nobody:

Transphobes on the internet describing encounters with trans people going about their lives:

[mrsdaqota]

OHHH some random content for Penumbra! Oi oi daaamn...

[aeternal-nightmare]

Have you ever thought why in "The Dreams in the Witch House” there was a strange clicking while Nyarlathotep was walking??

I and @aromatenmalen have an answer!

Yesss this is a COLLAB

Sketch, line - me

Clean line, coloring - aromatenmalen

Background and post-editing - me

Also we shared some small stuff in this work too but it all will take too long to describe lol

[maljaws]

The desire to see your semi-evil blorbo and just

[shoggothing]

actually sounds like an autistic thing

[sleepyminty]

I feel like in the world of HP lovecraft, amongst the big names like cthulhu, azathoth, yog-sothoth and the infamous nyarlathotep.No one even mention Nodens-the Lord of the great abyss. Cuz that dude sole purpose is to piss off Nyarlathotep. He’s a good elder god for this sole reason (even in ancient britain he depicted as a healing god).

Let me explain

As an Elder God. Nodens' behavior is generally quite kind towards humans, but he only acts this way when he is at odds with Nyarlathotep. Of course, because Dream World is a battlefield and Nyarlathotep and Nodens' war is a proxy war. That's when Nyarlathotep tried every way to stop the travelers from searching for the Kadath desert, Nodens was willing to find every way to protect them, that's how he indirectly angered Nyarlathotep without directly confronting him. Nodens' servants are the Nightgaunts. According to some sources in the Canon, Nodens enjoys hunting animals in places like the Underworld, his targets include Shantak, Hunting Horror and moon beasts.

•Proxy war

When humanity began to spread and explore every corner of the Earth. The Great Ones eventually sought new settlements in Dreamland, including the fortress of Kadath. Nodens himself has quite good relationships with the Grand Masters, and he sometimes monitors Kadath's surroundings to prevent humans from threatening them. Nyarlathotep himself is the same, but Nyarlathotep's main job in Dreamland is to enforce the will of the blind fool and the other supreme foreign gods of the center. Filled with vulgar complaints, with the demon king's will, Nyarlathotep wished for the gods of earth to be protected from human encroachment.

In general, the goals of Nyarlathotep and Nodens are the same. But that didn't mean Nodens had to be friendly with the foreign gods, so he continuously committed acts of sabotage against Nyarlathotep at DreamWorld. And Nyarlathotep felt uncomfortable with Nodens, which was quoted by Randolph Carter when he spoke to Nyarlathotep at Kadath. Nodens is considered a counterpart to Nyarlathotep in Lovecraft's works, but he is not friendly towards humans, he only saves them and is kind to them when he wants to oppose Nyarlathotep, inciting the wrath of Nyarlathotep. those who are considered God... an Outer God.

Basically chaotic good vs chaotic evil

[stardusteyes]

Time Eats All in a nutshell

Pickman: I can excuse murder, but I draw the line at psychological torture!

Thurber, who is bleeding out on the basement floor due to having just been stabbed by Carter multiple times: ..You can excuse MURDER?!

[nemeyuko]

I got inspired by @boommstickbvtcher and made a short story version of his post.

[zombinafonfrankenstein]

Idea isn't mine, but I put HPL there. Failed anatomy for you.

No, HPL, not all the problems are the same as the bullies from your school, some of them will not just go away if you pretend to be cold and stoic.

[unlovelyfrankenstein]

H.P. Lovecraft dances the Charleston in Charleston, S.C., 1926.

[thebeardedladyofthelake]

Lovecraft protagonists will spend 3/4 of the story casually going over how they got bored of average New England life and started robbing graves for fun and some people stared at me and I thought they looked fishy and had five rows of teeth and ate live frogs from my pond but my friend, Dean of the Department of Eugenics at Miskatonic University, went to Africa once and said that's normal there. Sometimes I shoot them because they smell bad and they don't die but as a man of Science I don't believe in shit like werewolves and there's definitely a rational explanation for this. Something came out of the sea in my dreams and there was weird music, so now I'm actually getting the heebie jeebies. Maybe I was wrong about werewolves.

But here's the Big Reveal. The Real Scary Part: They were fish people all along. And the sound wasn't werewolves. I found out there's this instrument called a Theremin that makes sound without touching it, which is creepy and unnatural. Apparently some Russian guy invented it but I'm pretty sure the Primitive Russians could never invent something so otherworldly so I have come to terms with the existence of aliens and the absence of a loving god.

[who-canceled-roger-rabbit]

Queerness is less like Dracula, where the monsters turn you into one of them, and more like The Shadow Over Innsmouth, where you realize you were one of them all along

[notshounenprot]

this mtf looks like randolph carter and no, i will not elaborate

[aeternal-nightmare]

You know what I've actually been thinking about drawing something new with RANDOLPH CARTER for a while but somehow because it's been 2 years I CAN'T fucking draw him MY brain can't figure out how he should look with my current artstyle and skill. This is so STUPID randy I promise to draw you and make it my sexiest artwork ever

[maljaws]

Your demi-god has actual powers, mine gets bit by a dog and fucking dies