Can we talk about how the Cthulhu mythos has been dumbed down over the years? People say the RPG setting is "more faithful" to lovecraft's original writings but it's just as responsible for spreading misconceptions about his stories. Like people get Azathoth confused with MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI solely because of the RPG. The King in Yellow is also just another great old one even though the story he was originally in had way more ambiguity. Weird tales no longer feels truly "weird"
>>24936776Weird tales in Lovecrafts day was pulp magazines, as in shitty and mass produced originals by nobodys. What is the modern equivalent? And I mean a medium where the author gets at least gets the credit. Monetary reimbursment isn't important.
>>24938137It WAS creepy pasta (especially SCP) but not so anymore. Well, SCP is still sort of like this, but the writing clique has become completely solidified, and you will get no opportunity to contribute unless you meet the active community’s standards of “good” writing. Admittedly the quality of contributions in terms of basic writing and composition have improved, but subject matter originality and deviation from the norm has suffered.
>>24936776Weird tales got systematized and that makes them not weird. Unfathomable horror gets a dice roll stat and is no longer unfathomable. You can have pulpy fun battling cults and ghouls or the Mi-Go, but anyone trying for horror is better off homebrewing beasts and conspiracies. >>24938137People used to post fanfic (back when this didn’t mean porn) online and in small magazines up to the 00s at least. Finding some Geocities type website with someone’s fiction for a Cthulhu mystery was fun. Usually the same circles that did RPG scenarios. I remember an ezine for the game Kult called The Abyss which had a blend of fiction and story ideas. Did you know people used to be creative on the internet and make their own shit instead of reposting videos and pictures? Crazy.
>>24938137as much as I hate to say it, something like r/nosleep or other writing subreddits.
>>24936776>Can we talk about how the Cthulhu mythos has been dumbed down over the years?I think we need to address how fucking dumb it was to begin with before we can make an accurate assessment of how much it's been dumbed down.
Weird fiction was really only a genre specific to the '20s-'40s, before the advent of hard sci-fi.
>>24936776Grow the FUCK up manchild
>>24938137W*rhammer novels
