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darkenedtones:

oH GOD YOU GUYS IMAGINE AN EMPEROR WITH STARMAP

A peaceful night, beneath a bed of stars. You can see dawn over the edge of the horizon but the stars don’t dim. The whole sky moving and splitting up into multiple heads and the last thing you see being a gaping maw opening out of what seems like Space itself

Oh I love this

When the stars became eyes, the void consumed us whole

OOO THAT’S SOME QUALITY HORROR FUCKSHIT

Molly shrank away from the blazing yellow of his eyes. The bells around his neck jingled as he moved closer. “No,” she cried once more. “I don’t believe you. You’re not real.”

And she stepped backward off the stairstep—into space…

Illustration by Rod Ruth for The Patchwork Monkey (Baleful Beasts and Eerie Creatures, 1976).

…was that an abrupt change into cosmic horror? Cause out of context I’m getting flashbacks to Erich Zann.

Source: talesfromweirdland

New Lovecraft pastiche idea

People write self inserts of younger versions of themselves, with all the negative personality traits they look back on in shame leading to their emotional or mental downfall in the story.

This was inspired by Robert Silverberg’s “Diana of the Hundred Breasts”, which is unusual in that no one really seems to go permanently insane, I expect its more like a “we will never speak of this again.” Also somewhat inspired by the few objectivists who insist Einstein’s Theory of Relativity can’t be true.

Sadly I don’t think I can pull this off, as my old negative traits were more around lack of self-control and not as good a work ethic (people seem to think it was pretty good, but if it wasn’t schoolwork I often whined about it.) . That has potential for a horror story but not a Lovecraft one…maybe a fairy tale.

A really creepy idea

Now, in horror we often have a person praying loudly, especially

Now what if the something makes their own exclamations in response?

It could be somewhat cute dark humor, if the entity is non-hostile and just copying or following some blue and orange morality about proper etiquette

Or mockingly horrible.

“…bless me, protect me from evil, and bring me to everlasting life!”

strange inhuan voice: “Iä! Shub-Niggurath! The Goat with a Thousand Young!

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Reminder of Lovcraft’s position on souls in one of his collaborative works

They exist, but they aren’t unique. There are more lifeform than there are souls so they gotta share them. Meaning your soul may be co-owned by Cthulhu.

(This also brings up the possibility of Nylarothotep being a self-aware soul. He is said to be the soul of multiple gods)

While he’s not necessarily consistent between stories on metaphysics, since he wasn’t trying to be, I find this interesting considering how cosmic horror

Nowadays in cosmic horror it seems souls either don’t exist, or exist in the narrative only.

But Lovecraft had narrative reasons to include reincarnation so that the horrors of the past can be made visible to characters.