So even though Lovecraft was a hack do you think he would be

>lovecraft was a hack
nice meme

>>145584136
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>>145584014
I don't understand what you mean by this?

>>145584014
Nyaruko is a qt

>>145584014
Considering he was a titanic racist, probably. And he should be, it's an abomination.

>>145584136
He was. Only ledditers think otherwise.

>>145584875
>Considering he was a titanic racist, probably.
you make it sound bad, somehow

>>145584014
>So even though Lovecraft was a hack do you think he would be embarrassed by this?
He wasn't even famous until after his death. You can't be a hack if you didn't get to enjoy fame in your lifetime.

>>145585244
How in blazes was he a hack?

He probably wouldn't honestly care. Maybe even be flattered. He wasn't as racist as people pretend.

>>145585448
>>145585458
Pretty sure he meant that since he was racist he would be embarrassed by what Japanese people did to his creation. He never implied anything else.

>>145585448
Nah, retards like you are the subhumans

>>145585738
He was the turn-of-the-century equivalent of a light novel writer. Then one of his autistic fans continued to write stories in his universe.

Now I want to see Nyaruko fucked by niggers

>>145588878
Stop wanting that

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It was a mistake, anime.

>>145588878
She would be doing the fucking.

>>145589039
But Al is a grimoire

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>Lovecraft
>hack
Don't let /tg/ hear you say that.

But yeah, I think the guy would have been really salty about Japs ruining his worldbuilding. He was a notorious racist for most of his life, not to mention an anti-fun advocate.

>>145588730
No, modern light novels are the turn-of-the-millennium Japanese equivalent of pulp.

>>145584014
I'm embarrassed by this.

>>145590017
To clarify on this, I'm saying that he is now notorious for having been a racist for most of his life, not that he was notorious in his time nor even that he was excessively racist for his time.

>>145590017
>not to mention an anti-fun advocate.
As expected of a hardcore Anglophile.

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>>145585448
>/a/
>understanding anything about race realism

>>145588730
>implying the format matters more than the content

pleb

Kuuko makes this shitty show worth it.

>>145590794
What's race realism?

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>>145584014
>When, long ago, the gods created Earth
>In Jove's fair image Man was shaped at birth.
>The beasts for lesser parts were next designed;
>Yet were they too remote from humankind.
>To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man,
>Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
>A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
>Filled it with vice, and called the thing a Nigger.

what did he mean by this?

>>145584875
You can go back to tumblr now.

>>145584014
yeah that show is garbage beyond salvation

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>>145584014
I want to hunt this Great One, if you comprehend my meaning

>>145590017
People will call him a hack to be contrarian. You can have your gripes with him, but he was far from a hack.

>>145584014
Could not give a fuck as long as it paid better than the magazines that published him. Derleth might kill over it, though.

>>145585448
this

>>145592612
He was trying to preserve white society because he knew the danger nigs presented.

>>145584014
He'd surely be rolling in his grave. Even more if he saw the kind of people that masturbates to this.

>>145598533
Little did he know that his works would only be an inspiration to those destined to eternally be virgins.

>>145584014

I heard he liked parody, but as a man out of time he might not comprehend the cultures behind this one.

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>fags more concerned with memecraft and his shitty literature than cute girls
Talk about good authors atleast, not edgy meme shit that no one reads unironically

>>145600600
I'm pretty sure turn-of-the-century Japan would be pretty weirded out by 21st century Japan too.

I miss Miyu...

>>145600922
You should fuck off back to /b/ 2.0, you'd be right at home with all those buzzwords.

Miyu Matsuki ;_;
Why did you have to remind me?

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>>145584014
He would've been more scared of it than anything.

>>145584014
It might replace his nightmares with something more pleasant. Im sure he had a sense of humor, just ask his cat.

>>145584014
He'd be embarrassed by the emancipation of black people so he'd be easy to impress ironically

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I-I want to hold hands with an eldritch abomination!

>>145592612
Absolutely based

>>145604823
What buzzwords?

He's not a racist, at least not strawman redneck racist.

Some anon in a thread a while ago posted a bunch of excerpts from a book that compiles his letters, I'm trying to find that thread but he's 'racist' if you think 'wildly differing races shouldn't mix together' somehow counts as racist.

That's what he thinks, didn't really hate any other races other than jews and niggers, and you can't blame him much since apparently he thinks those two races have been forced to coexist around him.

He'd probably be jealous that he didn't think of it first

Hasuta best girl(male)

>>145585244
ledditers don't like him because he was waycis

>>145592612
Holy fuck; that sounds exactly like a /pol/ shitpost

>>145614988
Welcome to history.
Yesterday's normal is today's outdated.

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>>145606431
>Terrible Frenchman

>>145590246
Britbongs having worst taste in everything as usual.

>>145584875
Everyone was a racist back then.

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>>145584136
>>lovecraft was a hack
>nice meme

I finished reading At the Mountains of Madness a week or two ago.

It was pretty terrible desu, the atmosphere of horror was non existent and I'm vulnerable and emotionally open for it. Lovecraft is desperately trying to make you feel like his characters are in grim danger but fails miserably until the very end when they actually met a shoggoth.

I did not get why he actually tried to make Elders "evil" because they are clearly not. If anything, they are just a race of some creatures that created humanity and had some wars against other races from outer space. Wow such horror.

His repetitive necronomicon gimmick is pretty annoying as well.

Terror by Dan Simmons was way more horrific.

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>>145584014
He would have liked it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYJGt67Mwmo

>>145615843
The forerunner halo novels are actually really fantastic cosmic horror, especially in terms of how the genre shifts from the start of the first book to the third book and stuff just spirals further and further out of control

>>145585448
>deleted

Why? He doesn't even spell right.

>>145594858

Re-read your favorite work of his and count the amount of times he writes something along the lines of "words cannot describe". He uses this cop out quite a lot.

>>145584014
>So even though Lovecraft was a hack
so this is what libtards teach you in school nowadays?

>>145615843
>I did not get why he actually tried to make Elders "evil"

He didn't, you moron. There's pretty much an entire passage where the narrator describes them as being very human and relateable in nature. The only villains in the book are the Shoggoths.

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>>145590017
>he's a hack writer because he was racist prude

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the biggest problem with this show is that she never takes the giant egyptian pharaoh nigger form that he uses at Kadath
just thinking about the potential applications makes me drool

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>>145621796
>the biggest problem with this show is that she never takes the giant egyptian pharaoh nigger form that he uses at Kadath
They sort of showed it.

>>145622366
>a tall, slim figure with the young face of an antique Pharaoh, gay with prismatic robes and crowned with a golden pshent that glowed with inherent light. Close up to Carter strode that regal figure; whose proud carriage and swart features had in them the fascination of a dark god or fallen archangel, and around whose eyes there lurked the languid sparkle of capricious humour.
That is most certainly not the thing in your picture.

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>>145620848
>He didn't, you moron. There's pretty much an entire passage where the narrator describes them as being very human and relateable in nature. The only villains in the book are the Shoggoths.

Except he did and described the place they lived as INCREDIBLY EVIL SUPER GRIM DARK HORRIFIC DEATHLY DANGEROUS CAUSING INSANITY AND FEAR IS UNBEARABLE THERE.

Like always, I mean. Also citations from muh necronomicon about EVIL ELDERS.

Only in the end he concluded that awakened Elders were lost in space/time and got killed by Shoggoths and overall they dindunothing wrong after killing the first expedition group and their dogs.

It's pretty bad fiction like the rest of Lovecraft.

>>145623561
>INCREDIBLY EVIL SUPER GRIM DARK HORRIFIC DEATHLY DANGEROUS CAUSING INSANITY AND FEAR IS UNBEARABLE THERE.
It wasnt because of any conscious effort on their part, the place is just so vast and unknowable that of course mere mortals cant stand to look on it

>>145623561
It's a juxtaposition of late Victorian attitudes with the indifferent nature of the cosmos. This coming to terms with the plurality of sentient life and the bending of social perceptions is a common strain, the very fact that he's prejudiced and
verbose with his descriptions is because the narrator is trespassing the boundary of his society's deeply engrained understanding. It makes a lot less sense 90 years later because you've been on the internet all your life, human brains are incredibly desensitized and a whole range of socially subversive ideologies have actually become the norm in a pluralistic society. Lovecraft only makes sense to those people who are sensitive and isolated enough to immerse themselves in the MC's zeitgeist... sure you might not like it, but calling it bad just shows a lack of understanding.

>>145592529
Racism with a suit on

>>145623561
You mean, some of them when their civilization gradually disintegrated and became a crude mockery of it's prior glory and sophistication?

And even then some of them were definitely worse.

The ones at the camp are sort of implied to be as taken by surprise by how bad it got too, although that might be the narrator supposing how they might feel or from a detached perspective, how an intelligent person (with or without multiple limbs) might react towards the evidence of apparent decline and supplanting by Shoggoths.

What happened was basically "Planet of the Shoggoths" They started out really dumb, but eventually got smart enough to rebel and eat the vast majority of the Elder Things.

And while it has it's flaws, just the central conceit of two guys exploring the vast ruins of a staggeringly superior and ancient civilization is cool. Some people in later fiction responded to the horror part. Others in Sci-Fi however, responded to this part: having the heroes stumble around like awed savages in the ruins, and sort of puzzle out what happened, and variously cope with it. (Like a brutish savage figuring out how to launch a space shuttle)

That, and the whole "lets have the audience and/or narrator root around inside the head of the Alien/puzzle out it's thinking, alien as it is".

Even if the Elder Things that dissect everyone and make coats out of the tents and leave were cold and callous, it's something recognizable. The narrator recognizes them as being fellow intelligent beings. In a way, you could describe it as clinical. A lot of scientists and doctors are clinical. Herbert West is clinical. (Not even a bad thing as such in the story. Just his obsession with zombies)

Lovecraft probably didn't think too badly of guys like that. They were intellectual too. His tastes ran to literature and architecture, of course.