There is nothing frightening or scary or interesting about the writings of HP Lovecraft and all of his monsters are more silly then anything else.
For example Cathulu.
Cathulu is literally only a kaiju.
It literally is a humanoid, meaning it can be played in rubber costume on power rangers.
It is a big kaiju like Godzila.
It lives in the ocean like Godzila.
It has some aura that makes humans go mad like some power ranger monsters.
That thing belongs on power rangers.
Cathulu literally gets stopped when they ram a ship into it.
So much for cosmic anything.
Lets see
Cathulu
>needs to sleep = limited
>needs to eat = limited
>Has a physical body that can be harmed by humans like a kaiju/Godzilla = limited
>Has a body that is limited in space (can not decide to simply take up 100% of the universe or be everywhere at the same time)
>Has a body that can be harmed by humans = limited
>Has a body that was literally killed or stopped by ramming a ship into it = limited
If your idea of the cosmic is literally a human in rubber costume only the size of a standard kaiju it is not very alien.
Also not creative.
I presume this was more interesting in the 1800s when people did not have any imagination. However for a generation who grew up on power rangers it is literally another kaiju with nothing interesting about it.
Cthulhu is a minor god, basically a reject one at that.
>is a minor god
A minor god that literally gets killed by a ship ramming into it.
>is a minor god
What you classify as a god is pathetic.
>is a minor god
Still uncreative and limited.
I imagine a minor entity (why be so human to call it a god) as not possessing a physical body only a presence.
A presence who can animate and move things to communicate and do things in a limited fashion according to its power level. Basically the exorcist only more not being affected by christian shit and manipulating everything from human to object.
And the exorcist was more spooky then anything HP lovecraft with means that lovecraft literally lost to medieval religious beliefs.
>Cthulhu is a minor god,
How about a entity that is not a humanoid?
How about giving it a body made out of 3 pointy legs and 9 heads who all scream?
It is literally humanoid.
Even worse than that, OP, did you know that Lovecraft was a RACIST? Let me say it again, a RAYCIST. How could anyone love a RAAAAAYYYYCIST? Heck, he could almost be qualified as a NAHTZEE!
>RACIST
No one cares everyone is racist.
>could anyone love a RAAAAAYYYYCIST?
Literally his racism is the only interesting thing about his entire life or work.
the unability to understand sarcasm is a sign of autism, did you know that?
Your reddit posting is not welcome here.
Cthulhu doesn't get killed by anything. The one thing even people who never read Lovecraft know is that is not dead which can eternal lie and with strange eons even death may die. The entire history of our species is a moment of slumber to this guy.
>know is that is not dead
Over Advertised crap.
>Cthulhu doesn't get killed by anything
Yet boat rammed into it stopped it really good.
>The entire history of our species is a moment of slumber to this guy.
This means nothing.
>The entire history of our species is a moment of slumber to this guy.
Yet boat rammed into it stopped it really good.
It is a limited kaiju who has narcolepsy, nothing more.
Wow, I was preparing to argue with something semantically smart even though it was going to be incorrect. All I can say to your post is you're a dummy.
>The entire history of our species is a moment of slumber to this guy.
Call of Cthulhu written in 1928.
Cthulhu gets stopped by humans driving a boat into it (dead?)
in 1945 (17 years later) humans perform the first atomic bomb test.
Humans
>Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds
>The entire history of our species is a moment of slumber to this guy.
Now imagine what another 300 years can bring. Cthulhu is a stupid limited kaiju who has narcolepsy, nothing more.
His narcolepsy is a defect and humans progressing while that kaiju sleeps is a defect.
>The entire history of our species is a moment of slumber to this guy.
You know a lot of species can say that, only a lot of them are now on the engendered species list. See how this works out?
He's not a species. Our species won't even be a memory. Just a piece of grit in the mattress. Our nuclear detonations are shifts in the surface composition of the grit.
>He's not a species.
And?
> Our nuclear detonations are
Literally a steam boat ramming him killed Cathulu. You can cope that it is not really dead and other bullshit however a nuke will do far more damage then a boat ramming it.
Yea I know in 1928 before godzila movies and power rangers the idea of gigantic monster from the see was like super new for old people back in the day however after power rangers I doubt anyone sees anything magical in it.
All these bold words how its cosmic and a god only are laughable when you name all of its limitations.
>(dead?)
For frick's sake, man: pay attention.
>That is not dead which can eternal lie
>And with strange aeons, even death may die
>For frick's sake, man: pay attention.
>>That is not dead which can eternal lie
>>And with strange aeons, even death may die
You keep repeating this meaningless phrase like its unquestionable. Yet the actual action speak differently.
>For frick's sake, man: pay attention.
>>That is not dead which can eternal lie
>>And with strange aeons, even death may die
A line spoken by AN INSANE GUY. Truly the pinnacle of reliability.
>killed
So you didn't even read the story. Cthulhu instantly regenerates and just decides to go back to sleep. You don't go chase around a fly that manages to escape your house, neither does Cthulhu see reason to chase the boat anymore.
>How about an entiny that is not a humanoid?
Most Lovecraft's monsters are not humanoid. Not one of the actual gods is humanoid. Cthulhu is just a priest and a leader of his species.
>Cthulhu instantly regenerates and just decides to go back to sleep
The copium is hard.
>Most Lovecraft's monsters are not humanoid.
Yet Cathulu is humanoid.
>Cthulhu is
Cathulu is humanoid.
NTA but green squid guy is literally the runt of the litter and there is very few lovecraft even wrote about him but since you sre so hellbent on deboonking or whatever you wanna do with cthulhu let's go over it.
>can be killed by a boat
Isn't killed only hindered, the narrator even stated how it foamed and shaped itself back together
>has no aura like influence because he has a body
Wrong, he manipulates people with nightmares to spread his influence, making people go insane most of the time. There is also his spawns which are quite dangerous and seemingly can lead cults. Then there is the crazy fricking cultists that will kill you for the lolz.
You focus so much on the kaiju aspect that the nuances got lost, sure he is a giant beast somewhere. But worse is that psychic influence and the crazy fricking cults worshipping him around the globe.
>Muh cults.
The FBI and ATF can deal with that in seconds.
Your move.
>Oh no a bunch of normal humans will start shit.... and they are insane
FBI and ATF.
What sort of bait is this
Literally your cosmic horror is nothing more then normal humans with no powers or tech. This is pathetic.
>The FBI and ATF can deal with that in seconds.
Muh glowies. If there is culty frickers those guys are in as well.
Check out Michael Aquino for some RL horror.
Also at least to me the horror of cults comes more from the fact that if they snatch you nobody will find you, nobody will send out the three letter agencies for a single guy.
But if you are too badass fir those stories go back to watchibg the mighty morphing power rangers
>the horror of cults comes more from the fact that if they snatch you nobody will find you, nobody will send out the three letter agencies for a single guy.
Are you sure this is cosmic horror?
>the horror of cults comes more from the fact that if they snatch you nobody will find you, nobody will send out the three letter agencies for a single guy.
Anon everyone has tracking devices on them all the time; they are named cell phones.
And cult is only a word the FBI uses to smear people it killed.
>Anon everyone has tracking devices on them all the time; they are named cell phones.
Aaah, that's why nobody ever goes missing or gets abducted!
>why nobody ever goes missing or gets abducted!
Most of these criminals get cough in a short time (they can not unkill the killed person).
Everything else is only the FBI killing people it does not like and pushing it under "missing person"
>the cops magically find every missing person
>there are no backwater countries with corrupt cops, the US is the whole world
Yeah yeah
>>the cops magically find every missing person
you have zero reading comprehension.
>corrupt local cops an magically erase cell network tower information stored in undisclosed locations by mega corporations
This is the fantsyland you live in.
>phones are character bound like in WoW and you can't have them taken from your inventory
You play too many video games
are character bound like in WoW and you can't have them taken from your inventory
Yea good luck with that without getting cough on CCTV or creating a scene and other people seeing this.
Also remember to not have any cell phone on you this includes your personal ones.
Oh and be sure to disable the GPS tracking of your car since this is also relevant and you have no idea how to do this. Welcome to 2023.
The people who are in a position to do this kidnapping and get away with is is so small that it can be considered to not exist.
Everything else is the gov killing people it does not like.
>Also remember to not have any cell phone on you this includes your personal ones.
>aaaah I don't have my phone on my for the abduction I AM GOIBG INSAAANE
do zoomers really?
>Yea good luck with that without getting cough on CCTV or creating a scene and other people seeing this.
Where do you live, china? Where I am from the streets are empty at night, as are most country roads. Rarely any cctv
>Oh and be sure to disable the GPS tracking of your car since this is also relevant and you have no idea how to do this. Welcome to 2023.
Old cars don't exist it seems. And you are sure you can't just remove the gps tracker from your car?
>The people who are in a position to do this kidnapping and get away with is is so small that it can be considered to not exist.
Source?
>Everything else is the gov killing people it does not like.
Who says the gubmit doesn't do it for cthulhu? Also source
>Where do you live
Anywhere with people and houses.
> Where I am from the streets are empty at night
Did your neighbors install cameras?
>. And you are sure you can't just remove the gps tracker from your car?
This bricks the engine in news cars.
>Source?
Simple deduction or ask any police officer.
99% it is someone she did know IRl (family, boyfriend etc).
>So sir she vanished on October 5 around 17:00 where where you between 16:00 and 06:00 on October 5?
And boom no alibi and a suspect.
This is how traditional police work looks like before the mass surveillance era.
>country roads.
So the guy you kidnap needs to be on a country road for no reason.
You magically need to manage to get him there with no messages send to him digitally or no other person in his life seeing you talk to him and not get on CCTV while interacting with him before in a restaurant or town.
And then you need to get a car who has no tracking or listening devices, get the guy on that country road remove all the tracking from him...
You realize the people with the know how to do this or not frick up (remember to remove the smart watches!) is close to zero. Yes? Or they are working for the FBI.
>Did your neighbors install cameras?
No
>This bricks the engine in news cars
Maybe, it doesn't refute the old car tho
>Simple deduction or ask any police officer.
99% it is someone she did know IRl (family, boyfriend etc).
According to the US Department of Justice’s National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, there are 22,740 missing people in the United States. Now imagine shitholes like mexico.
We are drifting away from the main point with your dishonest argumentation here, if there was a cult like in innsmouth they would most likely just abduct your ass because the whole town is a cult. That's the horror of that. I mean you can feel safe with your smart watches, new cars and power rangers, just don't gl abroad or too deep into detroid
How does one pronounce "Cthulhu"?
>How does one pronounce "Cthulhu"?
The same way you try to pronounce the name of that guy from Romania only you fail every time, however he does not mind.
>How does one pronounce "Cthulhu"?
Oh no it has a name that can be 99% pronounced by Anglos. THE HORROR THE COSMIC HORROR.
LOL.
In reality a truly cosmic entity would not even give a shit to give his name to humans and humans would simply give it a designation like SCP-990.
If you really want your mind blown read some 80s SF. There are some aliens who have names and give them to humans only their names are not as silly as can be 99% pronounced by Anglos their names are literally like listening to orchestral music. Meaning that it is fricken impossible for a human to say that, meaning that humans simply call these aliens Frank or Bart and they do not mind since they understand that human voices are limited and can not replicate their names.
Once ageing we are talking about a godzila reject with a name that can be 99% pronounced by Anglos.
>How does one pronounce "Cthulhu"?
You realize that there are languages of humans who literally include clicking sounds in them? Cthulhu is literally nothing in comparison.
Some 80s SF titles you recommend with incompréhensible aliens?
Hard to say. I do not remember the name of that book series...
The aliens whose names are basically perfect music are simply SF aliens. Only a extrapolation of what other species can do with their vocal cords.
Black personman
Khlûl'-hloo
Khlûl′-hloo
That is as close as human speech allows.
Pic related, I have this shirt.
Godzilla is scarier than Cthulu because it actually happened.
Ok
For me, it's the shoggoth.
>Picture.
Nice. And what you have posted is above Lovecrafts crap.
Also a smile face ball. That thing can be the most frightening thing.
Imagine the monster communicates by telekinetically moving a slimy face ball and talking in a pitched child like voice.
>Oh this form is to make you feel happy
>You could not stand to see my real form
basically in the style of biblically accurate angels and "do not be afraid".
>Imagine the monster communicates by telekinetically moving a slimy face ball and talking in a pitched child like voice.
What you just described is called cringe lmao
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>Shub-Hang-All-Black folkrath
Was this name necessary?
for me cosmic horror is something like Solaris, if made with that tone in mind
For me it's the feeling I got at the end of Mountains of Madnes, the exploring of those ruins was so interesting and the elder thing that is most likely around was kind of concerning. Then in the end it kind of sank in that the elder things are kind of fricked and the lone one wanderibg the ruins will most likely find the grotesque mockery of it's civilization deep down before being eaten by a shoggoth. I honestly and unironically felt bad for the elder things.
How can a story written in 1926 rip off Godzilla?
You're either incredibly autistic or baiting.
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Lovecraft wasnt a good writer especially for the majority of his career but youre either legitimately moronic, trolling or both
The difference between godzilla and cthulhu is that one of them is a big apocalyptic harbinger and one is something understated and hidden, aka lovecrafts entire thing, stumbling onto hidden and forbidden truths that you now have to live with for the rest of your life while attempting to "return" to a normal life. The different kinds of aliens he portrays are just one aspect of the horror and he more often than not focuses on the cults/fricked up societies around these hidden horrors rather than how spooky the actual thing itself is. He also does a lot of understated body horror exactly in the vein of the original Alien
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>not sure if 12 or autist might delete later
Your tears are delicious.
Old Onion article:
>Writings of HP Lovecraft help America escape the horrors of the Great Depression .
I watched a few meat canyon videos and now i really want to get into something with a God like villain that can melt faces or blink people out of existence. Not looking for horror. I'm looking for dread.
The Bait in the Walls
The Color out of Bait
At the Mountains of Baitness
The Shadow over Baitsmouth
The Bait Quest of Unknown Kadath
I didn't really care for Lovecraft's writing but this guy is pretty good.
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The Call of Cthulhu is a good read..It feels a lot like Dracula or Sherlock Holmes and you really never even see Cthulhu.
I thought it was way worse than most other lovecraft stories. The disjointed chapters dont have the same story cohesion as colour out of space or mountains of madness or shadow over innsmouth.
Cthulhu gets defeated by a fricking ROWBOAT, not even a ship
The Bait of Iranon
The Bait on the Doorstep
The Strange Bait House in the Mist