/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15943715]

>fish people
I CANT UNDERSTAAAAAAAAND I MUUST SUICIDE AHHHHHH

[Anonymous No.15943738]

He dislikes niggas so I think I should like his work.

[Anonymous No.15943754]

>>15943738
Niggerman......... cat...

[Anonymous No.15943861]

>>15943715
>MUH NON-EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY
God this dude was a fucking retard.

[Anonymous No.15943873]

the fish people were a metaphor for miscegenation. if he saw the modern day united states he'd shit his pants and start crying

[Anonymous No.15943970]

>>15943873
Welp i didnt know that

[Anonymous No.15943993]

>>15943873
Sounds fitting for him

[Anonymous No.15944021]

I hate the fucking bourgeois upper middle class hipsters in Providence that suck this guys dick like there's no tomorrow. He was working class poor and died in destitution, and these people have the gall to pretend like they understand him or his struggles in the slightest. Fuck white liberals and fuck Lovecraft pseudofans.

[Anonymous No.15944558]

>>15943715
do we need to have a thread on this guy every single day?

[Anonymous No.15944567]

>>15944021
Kek there are hipster scum who like HP just because he's a local? Figured he'd have been canceled by them long ago.

[Anonymous No.15944591]

>>15943873

[Anonymous No.15944644]

>>15944591
lovecraft's social commentary is more literary than his tales of space squid monsters.

[Anonymous No.15945661]

dont fall for the memes. if youre interested in sci-fi or horror, hp lovercraft was oone of the most creative (probably because he had a schizo connection with the transcendent which explains the non euclidian geometry and focus on dream worlds)

shadow over innsmouth and the tentacle stuff is memed a lot but his best works are shadow over time, whisperer in the darkness and the dream cycle stories. read fungi from yuggoth if you doubt his literary abilites

[Anonymous No.15945674]

>>15943715
The fish people are an allegory for social degeneration, miscegenation being a part of it. People joke today about white trash, the only difference here is that HPL didn't see anything funny about it and therefore wrote horror instead of jokes

[Anonymous No.15945724]

>>15943754
You mean Person of Colorman?

[Anonymous No.15945742]

>>15945674
That's because it's not funny. Enjoy your nigger planet.

[Anonymous No.15945760]

>>15945742
I agree that it's not funny but it's a common joke. A typical punchline is to imply that people in Alabama have sex with their family.

[Anonymous No.15945773]

>>15945760
I'm from the south (not Alabama though) so I'm well aware. It's become common today among younger whites to call other white people "white" as an insult, even. Amazing times.

[Anonymous No.15945782]

>>15943873
he'd probably be amused at how popular he became

[Anonymous No.15945875]

>>15944567
Yeah I was under the impression that Lovecraft was "problematic" now. Like he's in the space where progressives have to condemn him without mercy, but at the same time he's been so influential on stuff they like that they can't fully get rid of him.

[Anonymous No.15945898]

>>15943873
Dude nearly had a heart attack when he discovered his Welsh ancestry.

[Anonymous No.15945920]

>>15945898
exaggeration

[Anonymous No.15945928]

Lovecraft, utterly dreadful writer desu. Purple prose to the point of vomit.

[Anonymous No.15945932]

>>15945920
A bit, but it really did bother him. I wish I had the letter he wrote on the matter.

[Anonymous No.15945936]

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[Anonymous No.15945949]

>>15945932
I don't think he cared that much, one of his favorite writers was Welsh (Arthur Machen)

[Anonymous No.15947203]

>>15943715
People are constantly shitposting about niggers and women and you don't understand why a guy made a short story about fish people for a laff?