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Fungi from Yuggoth

Always love the fungi aspect of Mi-go so for this one I added three alternatives inspired by mushroom species like inky caps and black morel

#migo #mi-go #cthulhu mythos #cthulhu #call of cthulhu #horror #concept art #creature design #monster art #monsters #whispers in the dark

The Whisperer in Darkness is really funny to me because it is possibly the clearest example out of what Lovecraft works I've read where he started with a cool sci-fi concept and then had to desperately scramble to justify why it was actually horror and not just Cool Sci-Fi.

The whole story is about the interactions between the narrator (Albert Wilmarth) and this guy living out in the middle of the woods named Henry Akeley. I'm not going to get into the full back and forth, but the important thing here is that Henry Akeley ends up in contact with the Mi-Go, a species of flying lobster-like aliens that only hang out on Earth to get some specific type of ore. The Mi-Go keep almost entirely to themselves, don't interfere with human society, don't hurt the environment, etc., which we know through a combination of outside evidence and because the Mi-Go end up directly telling Akeley/Wilmarth all of it.

The Mi-Go apparently also have some sort of technology that will allow them to take the brain from a person, plop it in a metal cylinder with some limited sensory capacity, and then travel with it around space. This allows the brain inside to get to experience planets they never would have been able to travel with otherwise. This is the horror. Lovecraft frames the very idea of being put into one of these brain-jars as a terrible, horrible thing that no one should ever consent to. And consent is the key thing right there: the Mi-Go insist that they only put brains in jars after the brain-haver consents to it. Now, our narrator Albert Wilmarth insists that isn't true and that the Mi-Go were totally going to put him in a brain-jar without his consent, but frankly, we don't know that for sure and Wilmarth isn't a 100% trustworthy narrator.

I'm all for brain-jars that let me travel the far reaches of space! I'm sure we could get into some body horror about living your existence in a jar, but I don't think brain-jars being available as an option is itself horrifying. They sound pretty neat. Why was Lovecraft so scared of the idea of leaving his body behind to go see new and wondrous things? Probably because he didn't even want to travel the world in his own body, much less using a cool brain-jar thing. Dude was a boring homebody and seems to have been irrationally freaked out by anyone who wasn't a boring homebody. Let people get to experience space by being put into brain-jars if they want to, jeez.

#h p lovecraft #lovecraft #cthulhu mythos #the whisperer in darkness #mi-go

GASP @apaganmongrel bought this for me as a gift about a month and a half ago and he's finally here! He is stunning! Thank you!!!! 🖤

#the mi-go scarab glows in the dark too #i now own a concerning number of Nyarla things #i mean #concerning to a reasonable person #but not to me #nyarlathotep #nephren-ka #the crawling chaos #lovecraft mythos #lovecraft #call of cthulhu #cthulhu mythos #mi-go

Finished my mi-go. Pencil crayon and acrylic ink.

#migo #lovecraft #fungi from yuggoth #funghi from yuggoth #mi-go #cthulhu mythos

MI-GO

by Nottsuo

#tentacles #fhtagn #nottsuo #mi-go #lovecraft #cthulhu #creature #monster #horror #creepy #concept art #winged #fhtagnnn

Mi-Go

Artfight attack

Character belongs to @goldenocie

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#Mi-Go #Mi-Go Starbound #starbound smp #starbound mi go #mi go #starbound #artfight art #artfight attack #artfight

Given how much overlap there is between the Hatsune Miku fandom and the cosmic horror fandom, it's a bit surprising that, at the time of this posting, the number of legit Google search results for "hatsune mi-go" stands at zero.