>Yeah so this indescribable horror God is a vigintillion years old and is all powerful and beyond space and time and everyone around it vomited as soon as they saw it because it was so indescribably horrendous >but also here's what it probably looked like, it had a million eyes and a million tentacles>but don't worry because some ordinary joes' accidently bumped into it with their boat and said some alakazam chants written down by sheik djibouti and now its gone from this planet forever until the next storyIf this guy was writing in the 21st century everyone would just call him an autist. Why are the Eldritch horrors weak as shit? Humans always win out against these timeless all powerful beings.
>>24923775you are brown.
Dagon had a guy bumping into it in a boat and he literally kills himself in the end because he was driven t madness.
>manchild-core
>>24923775Being indescribably horrendous while having some vaguely describable features works pretty well. As does the sense of relative powerlessness and mystery when a thing you don't comprehend is warded off by something you don't understand for a period of time you can't predict. It was a good story.
These stealth flattery threads that also double as a writing exercise are so lame. If you want to talk Lovecraft then just say so.
Suspend your disbelief.
>>24923824Insecure, frightened people can't even
>>24923789Yes, people lack imagination and/or mental capacity to understand what he means by indescribable. It's not that the writer or the unreliable/autistic narrator can't describe it because they have limited dictionary (hurr scary spaghetti monster) and then some nerd comes and describes it accurately (le non euclidian hentai character). It's more like this stuff is impossible to describe by words and even our perception of it is very limited. Like imagine half physical half spectral things or 4d objects or things whose boundaries are not clear, so that we need to project it as something vaguelly familiar yet unsettling. Tentacles, eyes etc are just metaphors basically.It's like the color out of space is not just PURPLE like people think after watching Richard Stanley's awesome movie adaptation. The mutation and insanity is property of "the color", which is really a metaphor since we can't tell really what it is.
