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7559036 No.7559036 [Reply] [Original]

>Lovecraftian

>> No.7559066

Make a point or fuck off.

>> No.7559079

>>7559066
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>> No.7559082

>>7559036
F....K.....In...The Coffee

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>>7559082

>> No.7559162

>>7559066
>Make a point

Such a non-euclidean thing to say

Are you an Eldritch creature? Clearly a Lovecraftian reference there.

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>>7559066
Not (OP) but will make a point regardless

>it's so creepy and there are scary images of octopuses, it's so Lovecraftian

This frustrates fans of of H.P. Lovecraft as it overlooks the tone and themes of his work in favour of glorifying the pulpy, less significant ideas, such as vague descriptions of giant space monsters.

>> No.7559795

>>7559681
Squidverse combat is the default Lovecraftian theme in mass media

Ligotti is virtually unknown.

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>kafkaesque
>shakespearean
>freudian

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>Borgesian

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>>7559036
>Pynchonesque

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>>7559036
>Jungian

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>Marxist
>Foucaultian
>Lacanian
>Chompkin
>Nabokovian
>Joycean
>Homeric
>Dostoevskian
>Aquanian
>Platonic
>Wallacian

>> No.7560022

>>7559804
Except all three of these actually have distinct and useful meanings
>Freudian psychology
>Shakespearean tragedy
>Kafkaesque atmosphere

>> No.7560056

>>7559872
>Aquinian
The term is 'Thomist' you dilettante

>> No.7561544

>>7559681
So you have no problem with the term "Lovecraftian", you have a problem with people using the incorrect term to describe something.

>> No.7562643

>>7561544
It doesn't really bother me as I've only read a few of his stories and never really got too excited about them, have a friend who is driven mad by people falsely using "Lovecraftian" though yes.