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What should we rename Lovecraftian Horror

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  • PhillisherePhillishere Registered User regular
    Vann Diras wrote: »
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    They should do an Authority film.

    But like, not have it be connected to the film version of Annihilation, considering how much that deviated from the book.

    It’s honestly pretty astonishing they managed to turn annihilation into a movie. A full two thirds of that trilogy feels like it’s just one character silently thinking to themselves “did they lie to me? I think they did. But maybe not? Oh well no way of knowing who cares”

    A lot of what I attributed to the author's writing style (the distant tone; the weirdly emotionless descriptions of everything including her husband) I realized, after reading more of his work, were deliberate stylistic choices.

  • JragghenJragghen Registered User regular
    i think about hp lovecraft's cat a lot
    Given we've posted different ones like 4 times now, anyone who hasn't checked out the whole tweet chain of that "midnight society" thing should. The poster is still going and has been going at it for months.

    It starts here



    Personal favorite:

  • AistanAistan Tiny Bat Registered User regular
    the grandness of the cosmos is no longer frightening but an understood fact taught to me in elementary school
    After having read all of them... maybe they should have stopped while they were ahead.

  • StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    i can't even describe the name of the genre to you, it's too horrible, it's really bad
    There are some very clever tweets in that thread and also a fair amount of chaff

  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    the real cosmic horror is capitalism
    Straightzi wrote: »
    There are some very clever tweets in that thread and also a fair amount of chaff

    I mean, isn't that how most writing ends up being?

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Jragghen wrote: »
    Given we've posted different ones like 4 times now, anyone who hasn't checked out the whole tweet chain of that "midnight society" thing should. The poster is still going and has been going at it for months.

    It starts here



    Personal favorite:

    Let’s be honest here.

    King would wanna hear about the Ghost what likes to Fuck.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • see317see317 Registered User regular
    Jragghen wrote: »
    Given we've posted different ones like 4 times now, anyone who hasn't checked out the whole tweet chain of that "midnight society" thing should. The poster is still going and has been going at it for months.

    It starts here



    Personal favorite:

    Let’s be honest here.

    King would wanna hear about the Ghost what likes to Fuck.

    Yeah, I was thinking that if you were to divide horror authors into who is going to be down for some ghost fucking and those who are strictly anti-ghost fucking, King is going to land firmly on the pro side.

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    see317 wrote: »
    Jragghen wrote: »
    Given we've posted different ones like 4 times now, anyone who hasn't checked out the whole tweet chain of that "midnight society" thing should. The poster is still going and has been going at it for months.

    It starts here



    Personal favorite:

    Let’s be honest here.

    King would wanna hear about the Ghost what likes to Fuck.

    Yeah, I was thinking that if you were to divide horror authors into who is going to be down for some ghost fucking and those who are strictly anti-ghost fucking, King is going to land firmly on the pro side.

    Like, a critical plot point in the Dark Tower series is a ghost what really wanted to fuck.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    look at that big squid boy
    Show me a man too good to fuck a ghost and I'll show you a man who lies to himself a lot.

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    Show me a man too good to fuck a ghost and I'll show you a man who lies to himself a lot.

    Whatever you say, Dan Akroyd.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    i can't even describe the name of the genre to you, it's too horrible, it's really bad

  • WotanAnubisWotanAnubis Registered User regular
    the real cosmic horror is capitalism
    I like The Music of Erich Zann

    that was a good lovecraft

    I generally prefer Lovecraft's shorter stories over his longer ones. The longer his stories gets, the more stuffed full of exposition they get, the more racism you have to wade through, and the more obvious it becomes what's going on and you're just waiting for the protagonist to catch up.

    Except for The Unnamable. That one was such a cop-out.

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