The best Lovecraft creatures are the Mi-Go, because they're six-foot tall Crab-shrimp-dragonfly-mushrooms that want to extract your brain and put it in a jar solely so they can take it on an interstellar voyage and show you cool stuff
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Seems like it would be possible to convince them to whip up a body for me once they are able to. I could chill with being a brain in a jar til then, especially if I can experience everything still
I know, right? Lovecraft is going "think how awful it would be to be a brain in a jar" and I'm like "that sounds fucking awesome" and idk maybe the horror for him is if he was just a brain in a jar nobody would know he was white
Bro wrote a horror story about ACs because he thought the idea of trying to control the climate inside your home was an affront to God akin to denying the Almighty your immortal soul
"Hey man"
"Whu-How? Wha-"
"lookit that"
"What-oh christ"
"Thats fucked up right?"
"Lord in heaven help me god"
"Now see this?"
"What? oh no!"
"Aint that some bullshit?"
"ARRGGH MY MIND MY MIIIIIND"
"You seem like a stand up dude, great vibes, now back to 1850 with you bud, later"
"AARRRGHHGGHGKDHGF"
getting infodumped about the cosmos by a space crab when your brain in a jar desperately wants to itch something that isn’t there anymore and you have no means of sating it
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you.
One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal… Even in death I serve the Omnissiah.
And I've always loved that they just migrate and take over new bodies in time. 'Oop, asteroid's coming! C'mon, let's flit to a new race somewhere and trade bodies with them!' Horrifying, really.
Ohh right! It's been a while. Although about a year ago I stumbled upon a Manga artist who had done Lovecraft adaptions. He did Shadow Out of Time. It was awesome! Tanabe Gou was the artists' name.
LoL. Imagine a chaotic good (and very polite) Mi-Go:
"Um, pardon me sir: but err, would you like a once (literally) in a lifetime opportunity to see the wonders of the universe? Really?? SPLENDID! Now, hold still...this might pinch a little..."
I think this would fix me. Separate me from this mortal coil and show me things I never thought I’d see. Don’t even have to put me back in my body fuck this thing
I’m a big fan of the Great Race of Yith, who use their position outside of time to do Anthropology (or the extradimensional alien equivalent thereof). The Shadow Out of Time is also just a great story.
I do like how Lovecraft created intelligent creatures that blurred the lines of animal/plant/fungi. I take it he was inspired by some of the bizarre ancient fossils being discovered around his time. The Mi-Go, Great Race, and Elder Things were his most inspired and weren't even truly hostile.
How about those hirsute fleshy beasts who wave their greasy appendages rhythmically as they jabber in their staccato alien tongue and build great brick ovens in the slums of Red Hook.
"Actually, [the Mi-Go] have never knowingly harmed men, but have often been cruelly wronged and spied upon by our species. There is a whole secret cult of evil men (a man of your mystical erudition will understand me when I link them with Hastur and the Yellow Sign)...
devoted to the purpose of tracking them down and injuring them on behalf of monstrous powers from other dimensions. It is against these aggressors—not against normal humanity—that the drastic precautions of the Outer Ones are directed."
They're just little guys!!!
Sorry i misread your skeet. I dont remember off the top of my head what story theyre from but i believe the monster is called a dhole. I got it from the Call of Cthulhu TTRPG
Goddamn horrifying. The idea that someone would gleefully allow two completely inhuman things to rip the brain clean out of their skull to stick it in a jar, gruesome and painful as that would be - to be forever unable to touch, taste, smell...
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Sweet!
"No, bad, it is very bad. It means you're no longer white!"
"Whu-How? Wha-"
"lookit that"
"What-oh christ"
"Thats fucked up right?"
"Lord in heaven help me god"
"Now see this?"
"What? oh no!"
"Aint that some bullshit?"
"ARRGGH MY MIND MY MIIIIIND"
"You seem like a stand up dude, great vibes, now back to 1850 with you bud, later"
"AARRRGHHGGHGKDHGF"
"It's horrible actually. Can I please go home to my family?"
"Haha! No, they're long dead. hey, lemme show you the giant eye that boils your blood next"
Evil.
"Um, pardon me sir: but err, would you like a once (literally) in a lifetime opportunity to see the wonders of the universe? Really?? SPLENDID! Now, hold still...this might pinch a little..."
Mi-Gos: Don't worry. I've worked out a method
Oh wait, that's just Italians.
I like the christmas dunwich horror best.
The, um, sibling, was beardless, insofar as description went.
And see space?
Love that Lovecraft🫶
They're just little guys!!!
Thank you. I'll be enjoying it over the weekend
He would've been the most easily cyberbullied racist.