Wouldn't Lovecraftian stories be starrier if people literally couldn't see the monsters, until they did something .... noticeable, understandable, human.
Like murder.
>>43647970
I think so. Specially as a counter to bad behavior.
Uh, yes? That's kind of the point. Lovecraftian horror is someone realizing that the universe is actually way more fucked up than they would even dare fathom. And now that the veil has been lifted, they can't just close it again.
Lovecraftian horror isn't actually about monsters being so terrifying that they make you lose your mind. It's about the fact that you suddenly realize that those monsters even exist, and that implies everything you know and take for granted in life is actually nothing but a comforting lie you've been living. It's about realizing some horrible truth, and then knowing you can't actually do anything about it, but now you can't ignore it either.
>>43647970
Read the dunwich horror you shit
>>43648019
I could be clearer.
There would be cases where one character could see them, ... exisiting, but nobody else notices.
>>43648036
Or From Beyond.
>>43647970
Anyone have the pictures of these but with comedic verbage?
>>43648050
This is still exactly what Lovecraftian Horror is about. Some poor fucker realizing that the world is actually fundamentally terrifying.
Have you actually ever read any Lovecraft's works? 90% of the time, it's a single random fucker being ruined by gaining a terrifying insight about the world.
>>43648093
The OP picture is not included, but here's some.
Random idiot asshole monsters are totally underrated.
>>43647970
Have you actually read Lovecraft? Most stories don't have an actual monster. They have signs of its passing, stories about it, mad criminals raving about it, ancient texts describing its essence, or corpses with inexplicable wounds.
There are actually featured creatures, but those are more often than not low level beasties like Deep Ones, Shan, Shoggoth constructs, Yithians, the occasional Star Vampire or Hound of Tindalos. The old gods and their powerful servants are beyond our scale. If it has a name, chances are you'll never see it. And if you do your mind will break. Nyarlathotep being the exception.
But that is not the scary part. The scary part is conflicting information with radically threatening implications. This can be as simple as a failure of reality, causality, or gravity. I had a character go mad over a song stuck in his head.
People confuse the literature about the Mythos with the Mythos a lot. There are no lists of creatures or ordering of old gods in the Mythos. That is all meta information, used by people who wish to recreate it.
As a character or reader your experience is
>Something is wrong
>It is dangerous
>It is so dangerous that it cannot be ignored or escaped from
>It has corrupted people or me in a gruesome way
>This has led to tragedy
>And now all that's left is a Hail Mary to just stave it off
>>43648093
I've only got a few, but I'll post what I've got.
>>43648136
>>43648272
Thank you
>>43648231
The danger aspect is overplayed a lot. Certainly, in Lovecraft's stories, people die, but the actual horror in his writing isn't that they die. It's the world being fundamentally different from what we could ever fathom, and how our safe, simple, comforting existence is a lie we perpetuate to protect our fragile minds from the reality. Hell, Lovecraft himself didn't even always go for the whole universe being fucked, sometimes it was more personal. Like with The Rats in the Walls.
The man was fascinated with existential dread and the unknown, not necessarily with cosmic horror about vast and unfathomable things that will spell our demise. This was just a device.
>>43648329
>The scary part is conflicting information with radically threatening implications.
>It has corrupted me in a gruesome way
We could have a thread just about those spooky images, right? It's sorta /tg/.
Is there a site that has them all?
>>43648528
http://donkenn.tumblr.com/
>>43648528
They're from /co/, so I very much doubt there's a comprehensive archive.
>>43648557
>Omigod love yer bag!
>Love it!
>>43648584
http://johnkenn.blog(a common name of dog referring to a pattern on their coat).com/
>>43647970
>did something noticeable, understandable, human.
>yfw the King in Yellow casually strolls into a convenience store to buy a pack of Bud Lite
>>43648630
This one is BEGGING for a caption.
>>43648663
>>43648678
>there is no need to be upset
>>43648678
>Hey kid ever heard Alice in Chains?
>>43648823
>this is bait
>>43648678
>are you frustrated?
asshole monsters is the best
like not even spooky.
Just kids getting real tired of their shit.
>>43648136
>That 4th picture
That's why I keep my curtains closed at night and my door locked.
>>43649275
>alright just carefully cut it and then we'll squash it
>oh shit man it's stuck on the blade
>it's crawling up the thread
>shit shit shit!
>>43649213
>Why do you never call?
>>43649213
>put me down, you know I don't like this
>but-
>Phyllis...
>>43648663
"Sir, have you decided how you're voting this election?"
>>43648557
>Seriously: look at how flexible we are.
>You have to try these Hot Yoga classes.
>You'll be sore, but feel so good.
>>43649154
>Was THIS your card?
That's a rubber spider.
>Oh damn wrong pocket. Lemmie try again.
>>43648646
>Bud Lite
True horror
>>43648231
I really would like to read more Lovecraft.
Too bad that I've read everything already.
Fuck.
>>43653158
>would like to read more Lovecraft.
> read everything already.
>starrier if people literally couldn't see the monsters
Totally, dude. And there's a really cool game to play it all, it's called Trail of Cthulhu. So edgy!
>>43653289
Sorry, what?
>>43649175
>ahh... /tg/, so easy to troll
>>43647970
>starrier
>Mispelling is strangely relevant.
>>43648646
>MMW I have no mask
>>43648651
>hey kid, I'm a computer.
>Stop all the downloadin'!
>>43649213
>telekinetically moving his glasses away from his face
It's so petty, I love it.
>>43654094
10/10
>>43647970
There's a manga with a concept similar to this. At a young age, people get an injection that awakens parts of the brain that let them perceive the monsters that inhabit the world. One story in it is about a girl who didn't get it, and isn't aware that her pet cat is an eldritch monster.
I don't know the name I'm afraid.
>>43648107
I think he means the creatures being literally invisible until they kill something. Like there are just shoggoths wandering around all the time but we can't see them until they murder some point bastard.
>>43648646
>"What'll it be, pal?"
>"THE SOUL OF YOUR FIRSTBORN, THE FLESH FLAYED FROM THE BONES OF YOUR PARENTS, YOUR HEART UPON A TENDRIL SPIKE and a bud lite, please"
>>43648832
>daily life with a monster husband
>>43654359
>"Sure thing. That'll be about tree fiddy"
>"NOW I SHALL CON- Wait a minute"
>It was then that I gazed upon this cashier with more than a mere passing glance, discovering that it was not some average shmuck but it was in fact a 500 foot tall creature from the paleolithic era
>>43649213
>that time of month again?
>>43654434
>"WHO'S CARRIE?"
>"She's my cousin"
>"WHY WERE YOU TALKING TO HER AT 2 IN THE MORNING"
>"She just needed my help with s-"
>"RICHARD, I AM 8 BILLION YEARS OLD, I WASN'T HATCHED YESTERDAY"
>"Marthy'glop'on'yi'fnar, you're overreacting."
>>43654325
Kuro.
I had a link to it, but I just checked, and the site seems to have deleted it.
>>43654463
kek
>>43654426
all the LeL
>>43648678
> CAAAAAARRRRRRLLLLLLL!
>>43648019
In other words...it's Lovecraftian if you'rered-pilled?
I have this idea for a novel, of extremely poor people dealing with odd lovecraftian occurrences.
The reveal is that it was allreal world corporations.
>>43648063
Or Haunter of the Dark
>>43654612
NIBIRU IS COMING
>>43654659
So Unknown Armies?
Well, it's cults, but some of them are corporate cults.
>>43654731
No. I wanted the lovecraftian occurrences to be completely mundane when viewed through the lens of corporation, but seem offputting when read through the perspective of an extremely rural person.
Like the novel could start of with a suicide, and people leaving the town. It's then revealed that a bank was just foreclosing on their homes.
>>43654612
It's lovecraftian in that there is an incorrect idea flowing through the Internet which is making people throw their lives away and commit suicide by cop and whining about how women have it easy
>the fuck is minecraft
love that one lol
>>43654356
Again that's literally what Lovecraft is. There's scary shit all over the place and sometimes in plain sight, but no one notices. Lovecraft isn't all fishmen and Cthulhu you know.
>>43654756
So a bit like a cheap bait and switch. If that was one element of a larger narrative that reveals important information in the story a la Fight Club's Tyler Durden reveal, then it would totally work. Otherwise I think it would feel a bit Shamalama-ding-dong-scrooby-doo shit.
Also for that to work you'd have to be really in the know about time period and culture. Lots of farmer types are actually somewhat in the know about Corp. shit since they have to deal with them regularly. The characters would have to be pretty far in the boonies or touched in the head to be seriously confused about the meddling of big business.
>>43648646
https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Night_Shift
Did someone say Night Shift?
>>43655029
whoof, didn't expect to see that again, even if only as a reference.
>>43649175
Yo anon, I think this is bait.
>>43654770
>an incorrect idea
>about how women have it easy
I've bad new for you anon, roll for SAN..
>>43649275
>Undertale Genocide Run
>>43654770
In the works of Lovecraft and the people inspired by him, the idea is correct.
Also you're getting your shit mixed up anyway.
