LOVECRAFT:
Say, hypothetically, the Lovecraftian universe is our universe... In terms of the great old ones and the outer gods, which is most terrifying for you/humanity?
(I've post this question on /x/ too to see the difference in replies, should be an interesting read)
>>7483395
Humans.
Great Old Ones and the Outer Gods aren't evil in essence, just utterly alien. They could be compared to our predators like tigers and lions, who treat humans either as pests or meat.
Humans, on the other hand. The whole history of mankind is a testament to their terror, and when you think humans can't get any worse, they surprise you.
>>7483425
This post is SO FUCKING BAD
>>7483425
oh pls
>>7483395
Azathoth, because he will wake and the dream will end.
The existence of any one of them implies the existence of all, picking and choosing doesn't really make sense. Even if they all ignore us we'll just die out pointlessly eventually anyway, it's the nature of the very universe that is scary.
Definitely Dagon. Dagon resides on earth and is capable of transforming humans into fishpeople who eventually go and live with the damned thing in the unfathomable depths of the ocean. Jesus christ just imagine that.
>>7483685
I was in your mom's pussy last night, I don't have to
>>7483685
>>capable of transforming humans into fishpeople
Allah and God bless that cool guy!
So great that time of bald tailless monkeys would gone soon!
>>7483688
sav af
I don't know SHIT about the mythos someone post an infographic or a hasty tier list of the main gods
>>7483719
desu you're better off avoiding that shit like the fucking plague
lovecraft is one of those "nerd hobbies" where 99% of people into it are fucking retards who don't get why the original actual nerds liked it and are just carrying it on because it's Part Of The Culture, and they confuse all the obvious salient aspects of the uppermost superficial layer for the real meat of it
the fact that cthulhu is probably the one you know, while he's actually very minor and his story is one of the most boring and least representative of what makes lovecraft actually literarariarily interesting, is a good tip-off
ignore the mythos, read the stories and see if you enjoy cosmic horror as a vibe, read the later dream sequence stuff to see if you like that, and piece together the stupid fucking pantheon on your own as you go along if you're so inclined
>>7483730
This to be candid famalam
The "mythos" isn't what makes Lovecraft good, it's the stories themselves. Ignore the wannabe patrician nerds who think a literary equivalent to the fucking Marvel movies is a good thing (as if someone as genre-centric as Lovecraft good even be a patrician choice anyway).
My favorite stories of his are Color out of Space and Dunwich Horror.
>>7483685
Dagon is not capable of turning people into fish.
Only the deep one can do that and it's only by having sex with women and turning their children into hybrids.
Hint: The Dagon in Dagon is a different Dagon from the Esoteric Order of Dagon in The Shadow over Innsmouth
