• DagwoodIII@piefed.social
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    18 days ago

    [rant]

    The Great Old Ones aren’t monsters with tentacles, horns, or fangs. They don’t have gaping maws or grasping claws.

    They are trans-dimensional beings. The horror of them is that their very existence is so far outside what the tiny human mind can comprehend that simply looking upon them drives men mad.

    • zikzak025@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      To be fair, Lovecraft would have been driven mad by the mere sight of a black man and white woman holding hands. It probably didn’t take a lot of imagining back then before arriving at “beyond comprehension”.

    • nocturne@slrpnk.netOP
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      18 days ago

      Cthulhu in this picture has no more tentacles, horns, or fangs than Lovecraft’s drawing of Cthulhu.