Slumbering Deep Within the Cosmos

Elder gods and other beings. Text from @QuietPineTrees on twitter. Original image sources included.

[creaturesofnight]

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

[cthulhu]

Actually I’m socially isolating at home in r'lyeh and you should too

[pukicho]

If Cthulhu is supposed to be so incomprehensible, why do some people draw him as a lil bitch with a tentacle beard and a big ass forehead ??? I can comprehend that, and its stupid

[queeryutbrb]

how would we go about drawing a truely horrible, incomprehensible ancient sea monster-demon-god?

[pukicho]

It’s fucking easy you just

[pukicho]

[nathanandersonart]

The King in Yellow. 

[yugotrash]

In honour of H.P. Lovecraft’s birthday

I would just like to remind everyone that on this day, 128 years ago, Sarah Susan Philips Lovecraft gave birth to what would become one of the greatest pissboys in all of western literature. Not only would this child grow into a massive antisemite, racist, xenophobe and class elitist, but he would also manage to weasel his way into the english literary canon with an oeuvre of almost pure purple prose, peppered with aforementioned shitty opinions. This shitty son of Providence, Rhode Island would later be hailed for his innovative approach to horror by utilizing the fear of the unknown, something he had in heaps, and it really is a tragedy that, apart from ethnic and racial minorities, he was not more acquainted with the sensation of a fist in his face or a good kick in the knees. So this 20th of August, let us remember the start of a rightfully sad life of one of the scummiest pricks to ever hold a pen, and be thankful that literally everything he ever did was done better by someone else after him.

[zandraart]

the eye of the universe opened…. #EHTBlackHole

[probablybadrpgideas]

Banish Shub-niggurath by convincing her that humanity is a terrible influence on her thousand young. 

[probablybadrpgideas]

The ritual to summon Gurathnaka is just a bunch of reassurances that while it might not be as popular as Cthuhlu or Nyarlathotep or all those other “cool” great old ones, the cultists still think it’s neat and want to invite it to their birthday party.

[probablybadrpgideas]

Save time creating enemies for your eldritch horror game and simply say everything is a indescribable mass. 

[eldergodstxt]

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[kristina100000]

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[theweirdwideweb]

[darthsquidious]

Does Cthulu count as “something old”?

Asking for a friend.

[argumate]

please do not raise old gods, new gods, borrowed gods, or blue gods

[seananmcguire]

It’s your wedding day honey you raise whatever the hell you want.

[littlewitchlingrowan]

🎵🎶It’s my wedding and I’ll summon if I want to, summon if I want to🎶🎵

[glumshoe]

I like to imagine it would upset H.P. Lovecraft very much to hear people casually say something like, “Hmm, Yog-Sothoth? Sounds hot. Sounds fuckable.”

[property-is-theft-deactivated20]

On one hand yes

On the other who cares what would’ve upset Lovecraft? He kinda sucked

[glumshoe]

I mean… that’s the point. It delights to imagine Lovecraft being scandalized at the idea of the descendants of people he hated and feared getting their hands on his mythos and using them for their own purposes.

Including Yog-Sothoth pinup body pillows. Do those exist? They should.

[hungrytundras]

Today’s eldrich horror of the day is

You

[thewolfprospers]

[nostrem]

i love lovecraftian horror, but not lovecraft the author. aside from being a massive racist, literally everyone who handles his mythos in games and stories have done so far better than he ever could, and his mediocre writings and stories were given far more credit simply from from piggy backing on his ideas, when really the only thing he shouldve been praised for was laying down the bare-bones minimum concept for everyone else to work with who did it 100x better. its a pretty funny phenomenon. anyway im glad hes dead

[askmerriauthor]

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What is your favorite (or a few of your favorite) piece(s) you've done?

I’m really proud of my cosmic horror deities, The Dim Ones and the Bright Ones.

[valtsv]

this year, don’t be afraid to be yourself. grow fangs!!! unfurl your wings!!!! vaporize unsuspecting mortal souls with your eldritch presence!!!!! stand on the rooftop and shriek at the heavens until god himself comes down to tell you to stop!!!!!!!!!!!