Who is Lovecraft? I heard this name a thousand times, who the fuck is Lovecraft.
H.P. Lovecraft is an American author. He's famous for : 1) being racist (even by his era standards, through some people say that rather than being racist, he was "just" afraid of everything and extremely anxious), 2) his purple prose that makes reading him a challenge, 3) and also, he was kind of an author, and he wrote a few stories in which humanity is ultimately insignificant, so insignificant that even trying to understand the truth of the universe is enough to make us insane, to a point that ignorance is a bliss. A "lovecraftian horror" is basically something so horrible and repulsive that you cannot grasp its true form, and trying to will make you so violently insane that you won't even be able to describe what you saw.
H.P. Lovecraft is an American author. He's famous for : ...
You're very much painting him in a negative modern light. To be a little more fair to Lovecraft, he's famous for his brand of horror, for creating Chthulu (which would be adapted into the D&D "mind flayer), he's also the original creator of "Arkham Asylum", which would later be borrowed by Batman. He was pretty much unknown in his lifetime and his work didn't become popular until after his death, but it influenced a number of more successful authors like Stephen King, Guillermo del Toro, and Neil Gaiman.
Who wasn't racist before the Millenium? You think Civil War and World War II was spontaneous? That was one of the other causes. Of course any popular name that set record and was not Luther King will be described as "racist" at any point in their lifetime.
Never read the novels, only watched the films. Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem was influeced by him (and Allan Poe, but that's a different topic).
Who wasn't racist before the Millenium? You think Civil War and World War II was spontaneous? That was one of the other causes. Of course any popular name that set record and was not Luther King will be described as "racist" at any point in their lifetime.
Never read the novels, only watched the films. Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem was influeced by him (and Allan Poe, but that's a different topic).
His cat was named Niggarman. He even wrote a story about it!
Who wasn't racist before the Millenium? You think Civil War and World War II was spontaneous? That was one of the other causes. Of course any popular name that set record and was not Luther King will be described as "racist" at any point in their lifetime.
Never read the novels, only watched the films. Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem was influeced by him (and Allan Poe, but that's a different topic).
To be exact, he was afraid of everything that wasn't almost literally people from a specific place in England. Or academics.
He was afraid of jews, he was afraid of new technology, he was afraid of new discoveries, he was afraid of scientific jargon, he was afraid of religion, he was afraid (and despised) small townfolk near the sea (and the Irish if memory serves, horror combo when a person was both). He was afraid of black people, he was afraid of mexican people, he was afraid of almost everything and everyone. Ironically enough, he married a Jewish lady.
I would call him an extreme xenophobe of the fear variety rather than racist. Racist tend to hate specific races or features. He feared races of all types, cultures other than high class academics (or what he perceived as academics) and new discoveries.
In short, he was a troubled man that created interesting settings and stories that were fueled by his unstable mind, allowing us to peek into the mind of madness, if just a little bit. He is what he is. Simply a scared man with more creativity than his mind could handle and that drove him to the edge of sanity. To him, only his dreams gave a path to safety, he even wrote notes and stories about that.
There, a proper, if not as concise, explanation of who and what he was.
You're very much painting him in a negative modern light.
I feel like I have to, because in my experience, if you don't introduce Lovecraft by warning people about the racism in his book, then some Karen will do. So I think it's better if I do it in my own terms. Good call for Cthulhu, though, I got so focused on trying to resume his entire stuff at once that I forgot the most famous of them. Colours From The Sky is my favourite anyway.
Racial stéréotype always existed, but they were rarely the reason people try to kill a person.
Futhermore, racist stéréotype change with the time, for example skin color wasn't a factor until the slave trad of the colony time, before it was aboot the culture, like how iduring the hight of the roman empire an Nubian/Ethiopian that live in urban city, like Napata or Aksum would be consider to be more civilize then a German who live in a village in the middle of a glade.
An explanation of author Howard Phillips Lovecraft and discussion of his extreme racism/fear of the unknown in the comments of an image of Hololive Vtubers drinking the McDonalds Grimace shake.
Now that’s something you don’t see everyday.
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(Also as a a side note if anyones wondering about Lovecrafts cat mentioned earlier, it was named [REDACTED] Man (just Google the name of his cat and delete your search history after which you should always be doing) and he even included his cat in his book The rats in the walls (although in some versions the names been censored and replaced with a less racist name).
It’s pretty heartwarming how he immortalized his pet cat inside his story… If it weren’t for the fact they were named [REDACTED] man.
It was from this. It's even in the comment thread in the post you just linked.
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psychedelic rabbit said:
An explanation of author Howard Phillips Lovecraft and discussion of his extreme racism/fear of the unknown in the comments of an image of Hololive Vtubers drinking the McDonalds Grimace shake.
Now that’s something you don’t see everyday.
Never underestimate the power of internet that can turns an off-handed remark into a full-blown debate about something that sometimes not related to the actual topic at hand.
