Comment on Release the kraken

Electric_Druid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It makes sense if you’ve read At The Mountains of Madness.

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  • Electric_Druid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Okay, I read it years ago and forgot that necessary, context so that one’s my bad. I still take issue with the AI art/media that is creeping into Lemmy.

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  • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sure but shoggoths have a lot more eyes.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They’re shapeshifters; this one just shifted into whatever the hell Cthulhu/Dagon is. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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    • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Just needs a disclaimer at the bottom extra dimensions not shown

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• Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s a direct reference to At The Mountains of Madness. The penguins make exactly that call in the book and are friendly with the Ancient Ones, and really only present in the story while the humans are in the domain of the Ancient Ones.

  Although the choice of showing Cthulhu in the final panel rather than one of the Ancient Ones is inaccurate. Perhaps it’s meant to be a sculpture, since in Call of Cthulhu it was made clear that Cthulhu was specifically the shaman of the ancient ones, meant to wake them when the time is right

  Anyways I’d highly recommend reading the stories since they’re quite a unique style and dripping with a mounting, growing intensity. You can even listen on LibriVox. Call of Cthulhu is about an hour long and At The Mountains of Madness is about 4.5 hours long, so one decent car trip’s worth of audiobook basically

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  • FourWaveforms@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think probably it’s easier to ask it to draw Cthulhu than the weird flying starfish tentacle monsters

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  • metaldream@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Man I used to think Lovecraftian lore was so cool until I found out that it’s all an allegory for virulent white supremacy.

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• FourWaveforms@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This thread has 798 upvotes at the moment so I guess you’ll just have to get used to it

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