Eh. 99.9% of racists are absolute dumbasses. Lovecraft was an extremely creative piece of shit.
Man its satisfying just to think about Cthulu stuff from time to time.
I mean, Cthulhu is just a giant with dragon wings and an octopus for a face. He's not that hugely inconcievable. It's like asking how did people come up with unicorns. Some dude just said "What if horses had horns?" That's how creativity happens.
Now Yog-Sothoth is where it's at.
I think it lends itself to using your own mind to fill in the blanks which is fun to me.
Color out of Space as an example is about a colour you have never seen before. And you can't handle it.
Could Yog-Sothoth beat Cthulhu?I mean, Cthulhu is just a giant with dragon wings and an octopus for a face. He's not that hugely inconcievable. It's like asking how did people come up with unicorns. Some dude just said "What if horses had horns?" That's how creativity happens.
Now Yog-Sothoth is where it's at.
Mushrooms?How did Miyamoto come up with Mario anyway? Dude must have been on something.
Colour out of Space is more of an example of how Lovecraft didn't understand a goddamn thing about science and really didn't grasp how the electromagnetic spectrum worked.
But then again we are talking about a man who, in his own words, "lacked the constitution for math."
Have you seen Yog Sothoth or whatever?How did Miyamoto come up with Mario anyway? A plumber who runs around bonking mushrooms on the head with his pet dinosaur? Dude must have been on something.
I never understand why people ask stuff like this. The guy wrote horror stories. He came up with some weird stuff sure, but would you really be completely incapable of describing a bizarre monster if writing were the main thing you had going on?
Yes.
This post summarizes Lovecraft far better than I couldThe simple answer is that Lovecraft was irrationally terrified of everything, up to and including:
*Black people
*The Irish
*Italians
*Fish
*Lobsters
*Antarctica
*Refrigeration
*Pluto
*Ultraviolet Radiation
*Entomology
*Egyptology
*Geometric Principles
... and more!
A lot of this was the result of Lovecraft actually being relatively uneducated but having a sort of lay interest in a lot of topics that were, at his time, on the frontier of science and engineering. Except in his day you couldn't just start a TV channel and rant about how 5G is giving everyone coronavirus, you had to write in to periodicals about how the newly-discovered planet is full of space monsters that have replaced your neighbor and are in league with the people of New Hampshire to breed a new race of plantoid-human hybrids.
I don't think The Colour Out of Space was intended as a serious scientific paper.
The thing from the image a few posts above?
It's a squid with mouths on it.
In most cases, Lovecraft avoided describing his creatures in depth. That's why he constantly repeats the same vague terms and describes things often as unfathomable or cyclopean.
Most of the lore, as well, came after his death -- Other writers took what very little was set up in his cycles and created a larger mythos -- primarily August Derleth.
"Daemoniac"
I remember seeing that famous "pale blue dot" photo of Earth and instantly feeling like I was in a Lovecraft story. That feeling of realizing that on a cosmic scale the whole of Humanity amounts to nothing is really intense and dreadful. Was for me at least.Comes from the fear of the unknown and the unknowable. Fear of an uncaring universe and the fact that our existence is incredibly unimportant in the grand scheme of things. We are an infinitesimal speck in a mind-numbingly vast universe.
so all of that.. but what if monsters?
That's an upside-down beholder
I hadn't heard of it before, no. I just Googled it. Not sure what I'm meant to do with this information.
Edit: LOL, this description from a Lovecraft wiki is pretty hilarious: "Yog-Sothoth is a cosmic entity and Outer God. Born of the Nameless Mist, he is the progenitor of Cthulhu, Hastur the Unspeakable and the ancestor of the Voormi. He is also the father of Wilbur Whateley."
How did Wilbur get caught up in all that?