there is a great and terrible irony in the fate of lovecraft's works; the horror of the intangible ruined by overexposure. I could not think of a more cruel fate for an author, and in a cruel and unusual way it is fitting
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these images invoke disgust in me, by proxy. I am disgusted by the men that like them. Seeing these images, my mind is fluttered with images of weak men attempting humor by holistic self-humiliation. the "strange" and the "wierd" - it's funny, right?pic.twitter.com/kgz83FD1aR
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Weak attempts at magic: Invoking a name, trying to provoke a reaction. But only a linguistic slight-of-hand, a palor trick. mimicry of wit. because they are desperate to have fun, to be fun, to be the funny, wierd guy.
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it is sad and frustrating only because it is FITTING. Cthulu is a diety of excess, and his worshippers, in the text and now also his supposedly ironic outside, worship him because they are desperate to feel JOY, at any cost.
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The manics, the gluttons, the low self-control electronic dopamine addicts. the desperate broken men, who smile devouring grins; their mouths agape, revealing their innermost desire: Consume! Fill me! Eat until I Eat again!
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"[At the proper time,] the secret priests would take great Cthulhu from his tomb to revive His subjects and resume his rule of earth [...] Then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones"
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"Free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. "
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"Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom."
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