Cthulhu
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Cthulhu is too mainstream.
I prefer Shuma Gorath.
Deal with it.
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I prefer Shuma Gorath.
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I don't get it. Nyarlathotep is typically portrayed either as a Nikola Tesla style figure, an Egyptian pharaoh, or a vaguely humanoid twisting mass of flesh and tentacles the likes of which our minds have difficulty even comprehending.Kopikatsu said:
I like the Tesla one myself. This wandering 'showman' who's displays of alien power leae the audience amazed yet strangely unsettled, feeling like they'd just witnessed something that should not have ever been:
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"I had never heard the name NYARLATHOTEP before, but seemed to understand the allusion. Nyarlathotep was a kind of itinerant showman or lecturer who held forth in public halls and aroused widespread fear and discussion with his exhibitions. These exhibitions consisted of two parts ? first, a horrible ? possibly prophetic ? cinema reel; and later some extraordinary experiments with scientific and electrical apparatus. As I received the letter, I seemed to recall that Nyarlathotep was already in Providence.... I seemed to remember that persons had whispered to me in awe of his horrors, and warned me not to go near him. But Loveman's dream letter decided me.... As I left the house I saw throngs of men plodding through the night, all whispering affrightedly and bound in one direction. I fell in with them, afraid yet eager to see and hear the great, the obscure, the unutterable Nyarlathotep"
I don't really understand where you post came from, but I'm assuming it had to do with my posting a picture of an anime girl?The Madman said:
If so, the picture I posted is Nyarlathotep as it appears in Haiyore! Nyaruko-san. She's not Nyarlathotep as it appears in Lovecraft's work because she explains that her kin was a friend of Lovecraft and he was Lovecraft's inspiration.
Basically, I was making a joke.
So she's an anime character that says her name is Nyarlathotep because she once knew a guy who inspired Lovecraft to make the character Nyarlathotep?Kopikatsu said:
... okay. I guess. The reference just went straight over my head obviously.
It says a lot when we're talking about Lovecraftian horror, something intentionally meant to be vague and obtuse, and it's anime that's got me all confused.Kopikatsu said:
Frankly I always figured Lovecraft would be big in Japan what with the tentacles and all. But then I guess the imminent insanity and gruesome violent demise can be a bit of a turn-off, nevermind the existential questioning.
Insanity, gore, and tentacles? Japanese people love those things! Just look at Elfen Lied or Saya no Uta [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saya_no_Uta]. Especially that second one.The Madman said:
(How did a lovecraftian horror thread turn into an anime thing?)
I'll take your word for it, rather not click any link that pops up when the words insanity, gore and tentacles are mentioned if that's alright. I'm quirky that way, even if it is wikipedia.Kopikatsu said:
And it turned into an anime thing when you posted a picture of a little girl named Nyarlathotep and confused me. Doesn't really matter, Cthulhu topics pop up all the time and usually vanish just as quickly anyway unless someone pops in to do the "Grr I hate Lovecraft" thing and a bunch of people take the bait.
Hmm...what's there to say about Cthulhu? Can you help me out, Nox Arcana?
Well said, Nox Arcana. Thanks.
Though that does leave me feeling a bit worried. Guess I'll have to turn to the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society to cheer me up.
Yes, nothing says joy in the face of the doom filled doominess promised by the Great Old Ones like singing Death to the World. Care to sing along?
Well said, Nox Arcana. Thanks.
Though that does leave me feeling a bit worried. Guess I'll have to turn to the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society to cheer me up.
Yes, nothing says joy in the face of the doom filled doominess promised by the Great Old Ones like singing Death to the World. Care to sing along?
Death to the world! Cthulhu's come:
Let Earth abhor this thing.
Let every mind prepare for doom,
As anguish and woe he'll bring.
Up from the sea, R'lyeh did rise:
The cultists awestruck dumb.
With ancient rites so wretched and perverse,
Cthulhu's time has come.
Death to the world! Cthulhu reigns.
The Great Old Ones Destroy
With wrath and doom, so cruel and foul,
Replete with obscene joy.
He rules the Earth with dreadful might,
And through our ghastly dreams
His twisting turning tentacles
Elicit from us maddened screams.
Cthulhu's time has come.
Let Earth abhor this thing.
Let every mind prepare for doom,
As anguish and woe he'll bring.
Up from the sea, R'lyeh did rise:
The cultists awestruck dumb.
With ancient rites so wretched and perverse,
Cthulhu's time has come.
Death to the world! Cthulhu reigns.
The Great Old Ones Destroy
With wrath and doom, so cruel and foul,
Replete with obscene joy.
He rules the Earth with dreadful might,
And through our ghastly dreams
His twisting turning tentacles
Elicit from us maddened screams.
Cthulhu's time has come.
Cthulhu's great and all, but I have to love those flying polyps. Nothing says antediluvian horror like the giant gravity-defying precursors to intestinal tumours.
Failing that, being plucked from a gigantic mountainous effigy of Nyarlathotep's face and carried through the air while being ceaselessly tickled has to rank pretty high for me (I may be getting events the wrong way round. It might be that the Nightgaunts are flying towards the effigy rather than away. Must reread that one).
Failing that, being plucked from a gigantic mountainous effigy of Nyarlathotep's face and carried through the air while being ceaselessly tickled has to rank pretty high for me (I may be getting events the wrong way round. It might be that the Nightgaunts are flying towards the effigy rather than away. Must reread that one).