>they defeat Cthulhu by driving a boat into his headare you fucking kidding me?
>>24795626I thought it was that Norwegian who did that, who then died.
>>24795626>groggily sit up half-awake>fly bumps into you>"whatever I'm going back to sleep">this counts as being defeated
>>24795701This. He didn't get defeated he just didn't give a shit.
>>24795701>fly bumps into youCan the meme that Cthulhu is some omnipotent God die already? He's nothing in the original writings, he's not even a Great One. He's a God of the Earth who's explicitly considered the bitches of the Gods of the Outer Hells. Like he gets bitched by aliens in lore, who are nothing themselves.
>>24795701they find R'lyeh, open its non-euclidean gate, Cthulhu stomps out after them, then they get in a steam ship and run over his fucking head as he swims after themthen cthulhu retreats back into his lair and R'lyeh sinks beneath the waves for another thousand years or whatever. it's the widest disconnect between canon and fandom I've ever seen>YOU GO MAD THE MOMENT YOU SEE HIMpeople in lovecraft's stories "go mad" whenever they burn breakfast
>>24795782Human beings are still flies to him you dumbass nigger. Just because there's more powerful things doesn't affect the power gap between him and a person.
>>24795861have you actually read the literature?
>>24795901I only read Lovecraft I'm not reading the Derleth fan fiction
>>24795932The Call of Cthulhu was written by Lovecraft. That's the one where they ram a boat into Cthulhu's head.
>>24795626>The Call of...I would say whoever this HP Lovedudes guy is, he owes royalties to F. Gardner
>>24795980Retard kill yourself
>>24795994I won't kill myself until I witness true horror, such as a weird creature or a document describing an alien
>>24795626None of you retards comment again until you've just reread thishttps://archive.org/details/CallOfCthulhu/mode/2up
>>24795861Dumb fucking nigger the gap is not so big that humans cannot just defeat him. Holy fucking shit you are retarded.
>>24796055When did I say that faggotniggerbitch? If 1000 flies got together with some tanks and jets they could take me out, too
>>24796059he gets taken out by two guys with a boat. the story actually explicitly states that a 1910s steam yacht at full speed will outrun Cthulhu in the water.
>>24796063Reddit
>>24796067no you haven't, LOL!
>>24796073Should I get drunk and go to mcdonalds using my ex wife's bank card
>>24796077I really need an answer to this question. Bro, someone please
>>24796104Yeah do it
>>24796115Thank you, bro.
>>24796036Reread it. Lovecraft is an excellent writer but also if you claim Cthulhu was half asleep or whatever in this story you have to be out of your mind. He was 100% fully awake, lmfao.
>>24796115I'm drunk at McDonald's rn. This is good. Thank you
>>24796505Fuck nvm I feel like shit rn and miss my ex wife I hope she calls me all angry like "why the fuck are you buying alcohol and Mcdonalds on my card? why the fuck do you still have my card?" so I can ask her to come home
>>24795782Miyazaki understood this when he made his Cthulhu stand-in be a little pushover bitch.
>>24795861This. Those other guys replying to you are retarded plotfags.
>>24795626how do you do it.
>>24795701>>groggily sit up half-awake>>fly bumps into you>>"whatever I'm going back to sleep">>this counts as being defeatedRemember that the Old Ones exist in all times simultaneously. Him being in stasis for a billion years is neither a long time nor a short time. HPL hinted at this by naming his cat Niggerman. Blacks, like the Old Ones, have no future time orientation. They live solely in the present. Cthulhu getting smacked by a boat and waiting another aeon to revive means nothing since **he's already experiencing the future right now**. Similarly a black who shoots at a cop isn't concerned with punishment since it's **literally a different Negro who will face punishment**. Tyrone an hour from now means nothing to Current Tyrone, who is angry and wants to bust a cap in some pig's ass.
>>24795782>Like he gets bitched by aliens in lore, who are nothing themselves.Which book(s) is this lore in again?
>>24796942He's probably talking about the Elder Things (not to be confused with the Great Old Ones, or the Great Ones)
Exceptional thread. Niggerman be praised.
>>24795626Did Tolkien copy that for silmarilion.
>>24795626You must be an inbred Estonian trans pedophile who won't learn English because learning everything outside the scatosemantic Estonian is below her (previously him).The ramming of Cthulhu serves the purpose of showing that Cthulhu is indestructible. He rammed the boat. Cthulhu's head exploded. And reformed itself again.Here's even the excerpt for you.Now go and jizz on trees and within squirrels and gulls. They may turn Russian if they aren't anointed and filled with Estonian sperm.
>>24797586nah, you read the story wrong and you failed to understand it. >people all over the world start dreaming about Cthulhu as he begins to awaken>random sailors unearth his tomb, awakening him>they hit him in the head with a boat while escaping>Cthulhu gives up the chase and returns to his lair, sealing himself back in>the dreams and the madness end at the date coinciding with Cthulhu getting hit in the head with a boathe got defeated and went back to bed. The stars WERE ripe for his arrival, but now he's sleeping again. Every time Cthulhu wakes up, you just need to hit him in the head with something.
>>24795626!HE WAS JUST A BABY!
>>24795980>Cthulhu'sWho is that? QRD?
>>24798121he's the squid from Squid Game
>>24796613Which Miyazaki and which Cthulhu stand in are you talking about
>>24797664>The stars WERE ripe for his arrivalYes. The book literally states they did what the cult couldn't and awakened Cthulhu. Cthulhu himself is not strong, like he's slower than a steamboat and can be beaten by a steamboat. Cthulhu fanboys are retarded power scalers who are incapable of reading.>>24796942The Space-Devils in The Mound. They are, however, as >>24797284 says probably the Elder Things.
Bros what's this weird fiction story I read a long time ago it wasn't Lovecraft but it was an old story and it was in the desert and some shit come out of the sand and that's all I remember except that I enjoyed it a lot. I think it was in southwest usa and had something to do with injuns.
>>24795626Did any of Lovecrafts work have subtext? Like what is the metaphore for waking a sleeping giant here?
>>24798810I don't come to this board often. is this what /lit/ trolling looks like?
>>24798810>Like what is the metaphore for waking a sleeping giant hereLovecraft's subtext is that the entire mythos is just repackaging encounters with demons and selling it off to an audience. He's not subtle about it, there are older books he wrote with the exact same set ups and punch lines, but instead of Cthulhu its Ba'al or Moloch.However, he will also move into esoteric musings about dreams which are imo his best work. Definitely worth reading it all though as he's a fantastic writer.
>>24798230Ebrietas of course
>>24798256The black mesa?The mound by Robert e Howard?
>>24798810Unreliable narrator + Christian End Times. People who assume the narrator is both sane and honest are missing the point. He tries to act all rational in the beginning but he can't keep it up. The story is a puzzle for the reader to solve where nothing is as it first seems.
>>24800763Yeah damn it was The Mound thank you
>>24801220>People who assume the narrator is both sane and honest are missing the point.The narrators are honest, anon. The whole point of his books is that they're recounting insane fantastical occurrences, which is a standard throughout the vast majority of his works, even outside the Lovecraftian horror (really just gothic horror).
Still feeling pissed off about the ending to Autopsy in Room Four.
>>24801239I first saw this story in a little experimental flash game called Silent Conversation, where you play as a little letter "i" wandering through the desert into the mound. it was wonderful, ill play it again tomorrowhttps://www.kongregate.com/games/GregoryWeir/silent-conversation?utm_source=chatgpt.com
>>24797586>The ramming of Cthulhu serves the purpose of showing that Cthulhu is indestructible. He rammed the boat. Cthulhu's head exploded. And reformed itself again.Yeah, and then he tucked tail and ran back to hide in is temple, moron. A single superior Aryan man sent the "Great Old One" running. Oh no, we'll have to remember to have one dude in a ship waiting for Cthulhu to emerge every million years, humanity is doomed!
Bros?
>>24801402I think Lovecraft has done several cases of unreliable narrator. Probably the simplest example is The Statement of Randolph Carter, where it should be easy to figure out why the narrator could potentially have a reason to lie and the narrator's portrayal of himself can also be compared to how he appears in other Lovecraft stories, most notably The Dream-Quest for Unknown Kadath.In case you think unreliable narration is code for "it was all just mundane" that isn't the way Lovecraft used the technique. Rather, the real solution to the plot turns out to be more disturbing than the surface reading. For example, I'm convinced that the description of the fantastic climax of The Strange High House in the Mist is a purposeful lie and instead a much worse supernatural event took place.
>>24795798>people in lovecraft's stories "go mad" whenever they burn breakfastYou'd go mad too if you were witnessing 99% white America be infiltrated by Bolsheviks destined to implement the Great Replacement in order to sow racial discord and distract people from their evil. HPL was trying to warn us. The Necronomicon of forbidden knowledge was a metaphor for his own writing of (((forbidden knowledge))).
>>24795798>it's the widest disconnect between canon and fandom I've ever seenMost Lovecraftian fans have not read anything Lovecraft wrote and get all their information about his works from other media which has nothing to do with anything he wrote and just makes shit up.
