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Maybe Lovecraft wasn't as talented as people think? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I can't help but think of this from the wizard's point of view as a 4chan green text.

be me, an edgy young wizard. Want to pick a really cool wizard name and come up with "Charles LeSorcier."

mfw the older wizards all make fun of my name.

get in an argument with a local noble and lose my temper. claim I put a curse on his whole family line that they will each die when they are 30.

remember I haven't learned how to do it. go home and try to figure out how to cast a blood line curse. it's too complicated, I can't figure it out. Can't ask the other wizards now because they already heard about the curse and they'd just make fun of me more.

make a secret lab in the noble's basement and spend the next 10 years stuck there trying to figure it out. still fail. time's up, he turned 30. if the noble doesn't die they'll all know I lied. finally give up and just sneak into his house and murder him. make it look like an accident.

mfw the other wizards fall for it. they all think I'm alright now. maybe they will forget about the bloodline thing by the time the noble's kid is 30.

the bloodline thing is all they want to talk about. 18 years later I have to murder the next one. the other wizards are super hyped I pulled it off, want to be my friend now. none of them know how to cast a bloodline curse either.

mfw I'm stuck for the next few centuries hiding in a noble's basement and murdering them every couple decades to cover my lie.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

holy shit that is perfect lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Sounds like he was trying to pay homage to Edgar Allen Poe

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Also see the YouTube channel: wizard with a gun (they do have a video regarding it, but that's not what most of their videos are about)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Photo at the bottom reminds me of this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Also this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 7 months ago

Simple is not bad, also a pretty good twist for the time he was writing.

Yes, I know he was a very racist dude.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I forgot about Gus Johnson, what ever happened with that guy?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The gist is that his pregnant girlfriend was having severe abdominal pains and Gus brushed it off and wouldn't take her to an ER. She miscarried and he got canceled. This happened back in like 2021.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Huh, damn. I totally missed on all of that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yup, and people acted like he was a domestic abuser for it and his career got tanked. I've been watching his stuff from the beginning, he never deserved the level of hate he got.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I mean he lied about couples therapy immediately after to try and show he was trying to be better before actually trying to be better.

Honestly I think it was 2 shitty young people exploding their very legitimate issues for a wide public and like most situations people immediately sided with the female for myriads of societal reasons.
Then both tried to control the conversation and Gus with less support looks much worse but I think it's fine if people have decided they like either of them less for the situation. Having personal opinions on people based on your observations of them is how humans roll and fine. Though getting involved in other people's personal matters that have no outcome change from the audience getting involved is silly and unnecessary.

But I went from watching him since he started to stopping just cause I couldn't stop looking past the skit and seeing my opinions on the person.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Where do people even keep up with this shit?

I just watch the content 99.999% of the time. Not that I won’t boycott shit I disagree with, but I definitely do not have the time or desire to seek out every wrongdoing of every entity I interact with. I’d rather just kill myself.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's what the wizard is called but it isn't his name, in the same way that "President" isn't President Biden's name.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

You mean his driver’s license didn’t change to “Joe Biden President,” and that’s not why he’s Mr. President ?!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Okay but At The Mountains of Madness, The Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath, The King In Yellow, Color Out of Space, that one with the witch and the human-faced rat, all quite good.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The witch and the rat is "Dreams in the witch house", iirc. It was adapted into an episode of Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, worth checking out

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Thank you, I have his collection. I think its been like 10 years since I have read any of those. I should go back.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

The Dunwich Horror is my favorite one.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I agree with most of that however The King in Yellow was made when he was around 5 years old. People sort of put it into the Lovecraft universe because of the themes but nope has 0 connection at least in its inception. The whole Lovecraft universe is sort of a hog podge of other's authors work as well who sort of expanded and formalized parts of it. Its honestly very cool what a group of authors can do when IPs and such aren't hoarded in a huge vault being left untouched until its economically advantageous to use.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I didnt want to mention August Derleth, and all those crazy chains of letters involved in the origin of the Lovecraftian Mythos. The King In Yellow is in the Dreamquest of Unknown Kaddath, if only briefly.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

The whole Lovecraft universe is sort of a hog podge of other's authors work as well who sort of expanded and formalized parts of it.

It is a shame that the other authors are overlooked because it was an awesome collaboration.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What, that’s not how manifestation works?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The wizard went out there and became a self made Lovecraftian curse. He manifested the changes he wanted in the world.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Starting with the man in the mirror!

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