I Roll To Seduce The Eldritch Horror

what if after job interview you catch a glimpse of the person’s notepad & see they wrote “things have learnt to walk that ought to crawl”

I don't like it when people compare Rowling to Lovecraft. I'm all for dunking on Lovecraft but like. The dude realized he fucked up in the end. Rowling has made it clear she'll fight using her billionaire franchise power to the death to be a shithead and oppress people who never did anything to her

i think what limits lovecraftian horror from reaching the heights cosmic horror as a genre can reach is the formers frequent reliance on religious human agents. it cuts away at the indifference and incomprehensibility and renders it a bit banal, because ultimately you create orginised actors with a plan and agents and so on. Uzumaki reaches a higher level than this formula by having the 'antagonist' be a principle, not even a concept but a fundamental 'ness' of existence, without any motivation at all. the spiral simply Is. you have human agents who in some way encounter the spiral and are agents, but they are simply manifestations of the 'corruption' of the spiral principle. it is fundamentally indifferent. it doesnt have a name or a personality. the spiral Is

incidentally, this is why The King in Yellow is the best thing he ever wrote

Not to nitpick, but this phrasing suggest HP wrote the King in Yellow, and he very much did not. Robert Chambers wrote it before, iirc, HP was even born. It's the best thing CHAMBERS ever wrote, but he didn't write any other horror, so

What do you mean Ambrose Bierce just fucking vanished

they sent his ass to Carcosa

Would love to read The Great Old One’s Dictionary.

The thing about Lovecraft's work is that he did write about some genuinely fucked up critters, but he doesn't seem to have had a clear picture of which ones those are. "Dog that inhabits right angles" and "sapient colour" are treated as exactly as mind-bending as, like, "guy who looks like a fish" and "big penguin".