Exploring the Cthulhu Mythos: Creature Roundup

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[@riftdancer1349]

H.P. Lovecraft Would have made one hell of a Dungeon Master.

[@miroslavzima8856]

Those sessions would be hellish and the participants would be haunted by nightmares (and probably some of them would expire during it).

[@ThatOneTechnocrat]

Heck no it's a good comment but that would be hell

[@chatch621]

Totally agree

[@docwatson2429]

Fuck ya he would

[@Silverwind87]

"Nat 20!" "You kill one Shoggoth out of 1000." "Are you fucking kidding me?!" "My campaign revolves around dread. And racism, but mostly dread."

[@soupy4099]

The fact the anyone wanting to time travel could be met with an umpteenth level of hell hound that can enter our physical space through any physical angle is the most horrifying thing i can imagine. 10/10

[@silent_stalker3687]

Soupy Traps self in sphere of concrete ‘that that you fuckers’ Wacks wall of sphere Sphere cracks Doggos come pouring through

[@ShadowedZen]

@@silent_stalker3687 i believe there was a tail of someone hunted by the hounds who made a spherical home with only him his servant and his bride.... the resulting love triangle made enough of an angle

[@LynetteTheMadScientist]

Me: I've successfully created a time-machine! Hurray! Hellhound: STOP! YOU'VE VIOLATED THE LAW

[@lonestarwolfentertainment7184]

That’s a pretty good deterrent against messing with time.

[@dshim4731]

color out of space was first lovecraft work i read. it's so good.

[@pious83]

One of my favourites also.

[@Snazzy12341]

the color out of space sounds like gamma radiation

[@Brakvash]

I'm a sucker for epic panoramas so I'd say "The Mound" is my personal favorite.

[@Walamonga1313]

Daniel S It wasn't the first I read but it's certainly my favourite.

[@jerichojones3595]

Guys, pretty sure the recently released movie "annihilation" is based upon the colour out of space. It's a good watch, I'd say.

[@thomasdelgado9401]

I like how the universe is vast and infinite, and mankind is tiny and insignificant in the Lovecraft novels But all the aliens and their mothers decide to hang out at planet Earth

[@josephstalin9939]

most don't, these are just all the ones who do, that is the essence of lovecraft, bigger than us puny humans can handle.

[@lilahdog568]

Earth is only one of many places they're in

[@ryanlow6114]

Actually, the only reason it seems like so many of them reside on Earth is becuase it's the only habitable planet in lightyears. Basically any other rock with an atmosphere would probably house a shitstorm of creatures as well.

[@PJSAS1]

Ryan Low so basically its kind of like a gas station with a great store and aircon in the middle of the desert

[@PJSAS1]

Frank Berst the true break dealer

[@comradecthulhu6052]

Wow, HP Lovecraft made corners scary.

[@kronoscamron7412]

they were creepy from the beginning, we just didn't notice.

[@sriramramesh5318]

you try to travel through time?

[@menace8077]

Kronos camron Is your profile picture a kaleesh?

[@1-JBL]

The Hounds of Tindalos are Frank Belknap Long's invention, not Lovecraft's.

[@maximutatro3176]

Don’t fuck with time

[@elektrofox2746]

:( It makes me really sad when you do these roundups and then say there is only so much in the mythos. I want to know more about all of these guys, and you are probably the only person who covers them like this.

[@SamShadow93]

All of the stories in the Cthulhu Mythos are free to read at hplovecraft.com : ]

[@elektrofox2746]

SloughMusic I'm aware. I have read most of them. But I like the lore and I like other people's interpretations. Plus, I can't read and do other stuff.

[@Balty_Burnip]

Elektro Fox Lovecraft purposefully left large sections of his works ambiguous so the reader could expand the mythos himself and make the story their own, depending on their own personal fears.

[@elektrofox2746]

Alex Hill​​ "...and other people's interpretations..." pretty clearly implies that I knew that already, thanks.

[@Balty_Burnip]

You just said that you wanted to know more, and obviously know that others have filled in the blanks for themselves. I was just trying to persuade you to fill in the blanks that you still have questions for yourself.

[@EastsideShowSCP]

I think you should explore more of this as I find it quite intriguing. I do SCP readings and lore myself and find that both the Cthulu Mythos and the SCP fiction share many common grounds, especially with the Sarkic Cults.

[@TheExploringSeries]

Funny you should say that. I love the SCP universe and Sarkicism is my favorite thing in it.

[@EastsideShowSCP]

I tried to cover all I could and did a Sarkicism Lore series like what you do with your own series. I find the Sarkic Cults very much inspired by Lovecraft, and they are one of my favorite groups of interest and I seek to read more about them sometime.

[@corporeal5980]

O look one of my favorite channels

[@josephstalin6549]

No. Absolutely not. That's your job.

[@jesseroach7978]

Eastside Show SCP Hello from a subscriber!

[@diamondmetal3062]

I agree, the Colour is one of the best Lovecraftian beasts. It’s a sentient goddamn _colour!_ What would it’s thoughts be like? Does it need food? Can we interact with it? How does it even live? _Does_ it even live?

[@lilahdog568]

It's a parasite that sucks the environment dry

[@Stormkrow280]

Apparently the color is actually magenta

[@astrallimits9832]

"The most merciful thing in the world is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents"

[@wasteoftime5848]

Did HP Lovecraft intentionally create a "shared Universe" for all his works?

[@TheExploringSeries]

That was the idea, yes.

[@zaberfang]

Yes. He encouraged his friends to add more to the lore. Just for intellectual fun. XD

[@carldavidson9691]

He had a friendship with Robert E Howard. the man who wrote the Conan stories. Howard would often employ the cthulu mythos in his stories. Best known example being "the elephant in the tower".

[@waaagh3203]

Oh yeah! He definitely did! I mean, besides all the other stuff, you can just look at stories like "Dagon", which is also one of the triad pantheon of the deep one, which was explored in his other story "The Shadow over Innsmouth", which itself mentions Cthulhu as one of the other two in the triad. The third being Mother Hydra. Personally, I love the Lovercraftian mythos!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@lordinquisitor6233]

waste of time I heard that he allowed people to add to it as they wished

[@skyherz5401]

Just realised that annihilation is really heavily based off of colour out of space

[@90RavenBlack]

That's the great thing about Lovecraft's Mythos, the aliens really are alien. Another great video. Keep them coming. :)

[@kellywilson-lawson1857]

I always saw HP lovecraft's stories as science-fantasy stories rather then just Sci-Fi or fantasy stories

[@lilahdog568]

Some are science fantasy but most are science fiction mixed with horror. The little green men in lovecraftian world aren't little, aren't men and aren't friendly

[@ryanlow6114]

+lilahdog 568 At least they're green.

[@daniilangelov3061]

The Hounds must deeply hate The Flash then

[@joshuafogg6600]

Daniil Angelov Especially because for once there is a quarry that they can't catch.

[@americansamuraistudios5077]

Good reference

[@andrewbrooks7122]

Dr who?

[@jimhawkins144]

I love this Cthulhu videos thanks for uploading this videos

[@kufujitsu]

I like Lovecraft's best works, but lets not forget a couple of underrated writers who are comparatively forgotten. Lovecraft loved the works of Arthur Machen, & after reading many of Machen's stories I can see why - like Lovecraft, he relied on an accumulation of detail to create suspense & atmosphere - some of his best stories are : "The White People", "The Novel of the Black Seal", "The Great God Pan", & many others of high quality. Another writer who indulged in similar themes was Clark Ashton Smith, one of those writers who were allowed to borrow from Lovecraft's Mythos theme, & created many colorful & inventive stories of horror & dark fantasy. Two of my favorites who deserve to be put on the same shelf as Lovecraft.

[@lonestarwolfentertainment7184]

If the giant worms caused the 1906 San Francisco earthquake then does that mean the Flying Polyps caused the 1925 Tri-State Tornado?

[@infamousempire8302]

You should make a video about Cthylla (Cthulhu's duatgher), i mean there's not much written about her but there's enough information (and she's important enough to the story) that there needs to be a cthylla episode.

[@vegetarianzombie82]

So the movie Annihilation is a modern retelling of The Color Out of Space.

[@jasoninthehood9726]

No, there is a straight up adaptation released Jan 20 2020 starring Nicolas Cage. It’s okay but not great.

[@triv1]

I was thinking that properties of the shimmer in Annihilation sounded awfully close The Colour Out of Space!

[@GnosticAtheist]

I liked "color out of space" with Nicolas Cage. It was a pretty faithful adaption, although modernized. And with a black man in a leading role just to anger Lovecrafts spirit ;D

[@dcut75]

More like a rip-off

[@doom7ish]

one rule for not messing with time is that you might be eaten Alive by some interdimensional hounds.

[@gothicphoenix3246]

all i get from this is that i get a free companion

[@kryoruleroftheninthcircleo4151]

I have created seven Lovecraftian beings to add, mostly by name though. One is the name of a being in the creepypasta “Ashen.” The names are: 1. Throgvogoth, the Dweller in the Boiling Pit of Vinnithoth 2. Mrillixx, the Crab Subjugate 3. Xrixxithoth, the Thing of Ash 4. Glorr, the Haunter of Dreams 5. Bozghroth, the Skeletal God 6. Kn’ill, the Ruler of Mars 7. Vozgothoth, The Abhorrent One

[@Zaberk]

I love these videos. Sad to see it come to an end.

[@DarthCuddlefluff]

OMG the guy's face at 00:20 "Welp, had a good run."

[@akillen77]

loving your videos very well done summaries.

[@xenomorph2376]

Well great now i have to live with the knowledge that at any moment some hell beast could jump out of any fucking angle in my house and kill me

[@Dr_Bille]

Don't worry. It's fiction

[@xenomorph2376]

i know i was just making a joke

[@Rodan727]

Heh heh i know but really i don't want to encounter that alien predator in an ally

[@Rodan727]

Hey um do you know what the song is in the great old ones video?

[@kellywilson-lawson1857]

Did you go back in time and change anything? If you didn't then you're fine but if you did then you're fucked

[@sodagirl1092]

The most unspeakable creature in the mythos is Lovecraft's cat. Speaking it's name alone is dangerous.

[@sawysauce1256]

Lol when you were talkin about the Migos monster i was waiting for you to be like “but perhaps most anomalously is their ability to spit Fire Bars at an alarming rate”

[@lonestarwolfentertainment7184]

I wonder what ole Lovecraft would’ve thought of the Moon Landing if he lived long enough to see it and maybe what kind of cosmic horror/weird fantasy stories he would’ve wrote based on it

[@yogsothoth7594]

Wait where does it say the colour out of space is sentient?

[@GeoffNelson]

Love this series, thank you!

[@DanielQualls-7777]

I didnt know the Migos were aliens, thats pretty cool, I wonder what their rap style sounds like in their own language.

[@ghostiegoober108]

Will you do a part two on the round ups one day

[@TheExploringSeries]

Probably not. We're going to be wrapping up the Cthulhu Mythos soon.

[@thecommonman1999]

+ManggMangg will you do another series similar to this one?

[@streampunksheep]

Colour Out of Space is probably my favorite. Sadly it won't be adapted on film.

[@paulcoy9060]

It was! "Colour From The Dark", Spanish film 2008, the American release was in 2010. Not bad, as I remember.

[@LynetteTheMadScientist]

"The Curse"

[@the_mighty_bearcat]

It has been loosely adapted to the screen in The Color from the Dark (2008), The Curse (1987), and Creepshow (1987) in the segment The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill, written by and starring Stephen King. Most people either don’t know or acknowledge that most of King’s works were adaptations of Lovecraft stories, or at the very least, were structured within the Lovecraftian subgenre.

[@jasoninthehood9726]

It just released two weeks ago starring Nic Cage. It’s alright. Decent enough adaption but not great.

[@OnyxIdol]

The color out of space is my favorite Lovecraft story.

[@zomb317]

The colors of space one sounds like that one movie called "Annihilation."

[@hawkticus_history_corner]

Lovecraft's Color Out of Space is an extremely accurate depiction of radiation poisoning. Its weird how close he got, like Jules Verne and Submarines.

[@MrWillysad]

What's the difference between angled time and curved time?

[@TheExploringSeries]

I'm not really sure I can answer that. I think it's up to your imagination.

[@BetaCentauri13]

Maybe curved time is a sort where you can only witness one outcome to any given event, whereas in angled time all possibilities occur simultaneously? Like, for us, timelines "curve" away from each other, whereas in angled time they intersect and overlap in a lattice. That might also explain why the Hounds of Tindalos are also able to jump so naturally from one time to another.

[@joshuafogg6600]

Jack Crooker I like this description.

[@playlistman3530]

Angles are the opposite of curves, so maybe it could be opposite to our realm

[@maxbrandt6]

He really did come up with some truly unique and horrifying aliens, no doubt about it!

[@TheWormlord]

In reference to the things that come out of corners if you fuck with time, what if you're in a completely spherical room?

[@rathandevlish2787]

keep up the great content

[@mattps.3040]

I like that hound design it's nice the first pic of it I mean

[@darbycrash5320]

Thank You for your great work from Italy

[@EnvisionerWill]

It just popped into my head that the Mi-Go could be effectively just insectile creatures, and that their fungoid appearance might actually be a sort of symbiotic mold colony that grows on and in their bodies, contributing in some way to their overall health and perahps even networking into their intelligence somehow. Such a crossbreeding of plant and animal would certainly have horrified Lovecraft, who wasn't even comfortable with having people of Anglo-Saxon stock making babies with Eastern Europeans and the like. Cyborgs and symbiotes would have been a whole other level of what-is-this-I-can't-even for him.

[@infamousempire8302]

An outer god that I find interesting is the darkness, not because of the character himself (since there's not much known about him) but because he is the parent of several important deities such as shub- niggurath and yig.

[@johnmckenna5782]

The Mi-Go in H.P. Lovecraft actually come from another dimension.

[@multimapping8303]

Thanks to the Cthulhu Mythos, not only creepy things are creepy, but also normal and happy things become creepy.

[@chatch621]

Azathoth is the scariest thing ever. Hell, everything fears it in the Lovecraftian universe and rightly so. Existence just gets erased, regardless of what or who. Gives me goosebumps just thinking about it 😱

[@chatch621]

What if it's awakening as we speak? 😱

[@werewolfgod216]

also did you catch that element 115 is the colour from space that's awesome keep that info coming your unraveling a lot for me

[@jackoblllllllll]

Love. Your. Mythos. Videos!

[@spiritfired]

Sometimes I put on your videos, turn on autoplay, and listen to them to sleep :)

[@ayounglivelysoulinanoldtir3512]

heavens!, thats like being hypnotized to beleive in all this stuff! one of these days, youll wake up thinking its all real!. youll be terrified of going to the seaside, in case cthulhu pops up on the horizon, & youll start sleeping with a crash helmet on, so that aliens cant pull your brain out & put it in a tin!

[@EnvisionerWill]

At the time Lovecraft was writing, the word "polyp" probably exclusively referred to the tiny undersea animals which produce coral reefs. It's a lot more disturbing if we pretend the description originates in our time, and refers to cancerous growths within the human body, making the flying polyp a truly repulsive thing to behold, even if you don't share HPL's aversion to sea life. How fortunate that they're usually invisible.

[@frogwithafez3977]

Angular time at least from my perspective is based off of intensity. Time is more intensive close to a black hole. Theoretically would angular time be a dimension in which time is increasingly more intense, least intense at the start of the universe and getting more the farther away from that it is?

[@redrhino3041]

Bloodbourne got a lot of inspiration from the mythos

[@zedkiller112]

So with the hound thing make sure if you make a time machine do it in a round room

[@aminamirkhani6377]

Hounds of Tindalos were in the season 3 of The Legion And colors out of space was the story of the movie Annihilation Check them out

[@AnimeShinigami13]

i think the Migo Brain cylinders are the inspiration for the robo brains in Fallout.

[@asaenvolk]

Ever notice that Dune worms share characteristics of Chthonians and (more specifically) Bholes?

[@paulcoy9060]

Dholes.

[@NopeNope724]

Why does every single Mythos creature eventually moves to earth? You'd think being godlike creatures they could pick out another planet that is less crowded. And why earth out of the billions of other planets?

[@TheExploringSeries]

Who says they're only on Earth?

[@jakemayorquin5460]

Who says every single one is on earth? These are just the few we know, while there could be an infinite amount of others on every world in the universe. These are just the ones we can possibly comprehend, or are just the ones that want to be seen

[@bengraves9416]

TheExploringSeries You make a valid point. But honestly I feel HP's Earth-centricity cancels out his overarching themes. I mean Cthulu is on earth! Why would an incomprehensible mega being need to sleep, let alone in a sunken city on Earth? It is hard to say, humans are tiny and insignificant... When all your stories revolve around crazy important deities/creatures either directly or indirectly interacting with insignificant humans on an insignificant speck in a vast expanse. Thoughts?

[@TheExploringSeries]

The argument is that, Lovecraft, writing about Humans interacting with these alien beings, won't have much knowledge of these beings or their interactions with other sentient beings in the vastness of space. Again it comes down to your interpretation and feelings about the Mythos, but I prefer to imagine that an alien version of Lovecraft millions of light years away wrote about his species interacting with the great old ones.

[@bengraves9416]

TheExploringSeries​ Fair enough good sir. I appreciate the well thought out response and love your videos. :)

[@bb-ce7qf]

Do you plan on making a video about cats in the mythos? They have always intrigued me .they seem to be one of the few forces of good and have strange power's over dark things. I know they are not crazy monstrous beings but I think they warrant a video.

[@jackiesantos2121]

There's a lot of terrifying alien creatures from HP Lovecraft

[@rynegreen7902]

I want to write my own story in the Lovecraft universe. Can I create my own monster and just reference to the mythos?

[@lonestarwolfentertainment7184]

Ryne Green go right ahead, Lovecraft himself encouraged people to write their own stories and Lore, hell he even purposefully left many parts of his mythos blank so his fans and fellow writers could fill them in with their own ideas

[@ShadowedZen]

Yes its all mostly public domain... its due to this we see the rise in popularity of things like SCP which finds much of its works inspired (or in some cases copying) Lovecraft. Write what you want do as you please, pick up the role play game CoC and have people live your fevered dreams

[@thecanadianmystic]

i have been listing to a few of these vids and interesting.

[@guyunderatree8193]

Was the movie Annihilation based off the color out of space? Just hearing the summary of that story was enough to think that the movie was at least inspired by it in some way.

[@ryanparker1183]

sooooo is the colour from out of space the same as the shimmer from "Annihilation"

[@projectmungo]

That was exactly my thougth. It fits so well that im sure the authors were inspired by it.

[@jyancey100]

I feel like the entity in the movie Annihilation either ripped off the color out of space or is connected to it somehow.. they’re quite similar.

[@yourunwantedstepdad4688]

I love your vids man

[@kiraazun]

I think all the different creatures are one of my favorite parts of the mythos

[@chengzhenlee1763]

I wonder why all the monsters or creatures have similar characteristics and physical traits. Like sharp appendages, tentacles etc. I hope there was a cute fluffy smiley blob that looks friendly and nice but actually does horrific things.

[@kryoruleroftheninthcircleo4151]

I consider the Lovecraftian creatures to be the ultimates in terms of power in fiction.

[@johnmckenna5782]

The Mi-Go originate from a dimension outside of our space-time continuum.

[@nicholassudov2299]

The Hounds of Tyndalos would very frustrated in the round houses of the Hobbits :-) Yes, to me the Color looks like the most mysterious - god? or contaminating and consuming life-form?

[@obligatecarnivore6774]

You talked about the flying polyp without mentioning its partially incorporeal properties

[@lonestarwolfentertainment7184]

If I’m correct the Yithians are unable to mind swap into the bodies of the Mi-Go because of their physiology right? Or is it because of their technology?

[@josephstalin9939]

What about the crocodile head thing In the nameless city?

[@JupiterLicorice]

I have a hard time seeing anything Lovecraftian as horrific. It all resembles visions I've had while on shrooms combined with opiates. Weird tentical-y creatures, amalgams of earthly beasts, alien oddities with a million eyes, etc. and none of these trips are dark or terrifying. Quite the opposite! Shrooms is a beautiful and sacred experience with no horror to be had. All that said, I think Lovecraft's inspiration for these things came from the same part of the brain that is activated while on tryptamines (psilocybin is a tryptamine, so is DMT): the Fusiform Gyrus of the visual cortex. It's responsible for processing eyes and teeth, and its immediate peripheries are implicated in perceiving biological forms.

[@bourbon9986]

Lovecraft suffered from horrific night terrors which is probably what fueled his creativity when it came to cosmic horror. I believe similar hallucinogens are released into the brain during sleep from my understanding.

[@jasonsantos3037]

Yeah terrifying Monsters of HP Lovecraft universe that's why I love about that the unknown alien mindset of these entities unknown in the human mind

[@farkasmactavish]

Love how HP heard of the invisible light spectrum and thought was 1) in fact, visible 2) evil

[@olalustig5397]

5:03 The Shambler from the stars! It exist on youtube as audiobook,by horrorbabble

[@kingofmirrah]

Have the Hounds Of Tindalos ever hunted the Great Race of Yith? Since they kind of mess with time

[@onlyonewhyphy]

This is the first time I've realised... The movie Annihilation is obviously based around The Colour from Space. Similar look and effect

[@spatuloso]

these are awesome!

[@Blind-Eye_Pivot]

2:50 - Is the movie ANNIHILATION inspired by the Lovecraftian mythos!?

[@Godzillafan-tv1ks]

Most likely

[@lunaargent3159]

Can you explore the ghouls lovecraft next?

[@pbr-streetgang]

Thanks for the vid sir.

[@HiveTyrant25]

“Unique and horrifying.” Not in my personal opinion. I’m sure when they were created they were the talk of the town but now they just seem like Lovecraft drew pieces of paper out of a hat with random body parts written on them. Sprinkle in some weird time or mind bending abilities and add “horrifying” as a descriptive and badabing you got a genuine Lovecraft “thing.”

[@seabass09014]

Were polyps, hounds of tindalos, and cthonians ( i hope i spelled those right) made by H.P. Lovecraft or are they from other authors?

[@kellywilson-lawson1857]

So are these creatures killable?

[@maxbrandt6]

Some of them, others a merely slowed down if you fight them off.

[@kellywilson-lawson1857]

+Max Brandt I suspected that

[@WeirdTale]

Some of them, others are merely slowed down by weapons in the 1930's. Though, pistols, and small caliber rifles are completely useless. Shotguns, and light machine guns are the best way to go on personal weapons level, but even then you are going to need plenty of ammo, and make sure to have plenty of gasoline, axes, and grenades just to be safe.

[@miguelpereira9859]

The Mi-Go are pretty damn killable

[@JusticeforLiberty]

Yes, the saw clever and threaded cane are both good weapons to use. The hunters ax will give you some extra distance but it is slower.

[@kingthunderstar]

What about Shoggoths?

[@miguelpereira9859]

ThunderWolf IKR

[@Unleasheddragon]

Have you ever heard of Darkest Dungeon? It is really interesting and based on Lovecraftian lore

[@xxanalyticalsonxxgaming1197]

+ManggMangg Do you plan to do a video on the Xothic Legend Cycle e.g. South-ommog, Kassogtha, Idh-yaa, Nctosa and Nocathulu? and what do you plan to do after exploring Mid Earth?

[@TheExploringSeries]

I'm afraid that's a no on the Xothic Cycle. It's just too far removed from Lovecraft, which is what this focuses on. After Middle Earth, I might put it up to a vote, but I've got a lot of things in mind, such as Star Wars, Game of Thrones, Marvel or DC, or even real life mythologies like Roman or Greek.

[@Blake.Spider]

this is pretty cool, but what is the difference between curved and angled time?

[@kermunklin7704]

I always liked the Night Gaunts. Why did they tickle people?

[@josephstalin9939]

Am I the only one who found the lizard men from 'the walls of eryx' fascinating?

[@paulcoy9060]

I thought they were plant creatures?

[@alicev5496]

the lizardmen themselves didn't intrigue me too much on their own. I was much more intrigued by the ending that somehow humanity should leave other planets alone. Like maybe theres something making sure we don't get out...

[@FireKeepersDaddy]

Maybe a immortal hound gored the arabian who wrote the nercronomicon original but was invisible as our minds couldnt perceive what is outside our universal understanding

[@ronbonist]

All this makes earth and spesificly humans look as if the univerce is out to get it. What with all the monsters and gods. all on earth yet few if any native. why is that?

[@alexanderowens7265]

Ron Ben-Yehuda imagine a wasteland, devoid of all life, for miles arpund. Now, imagine an oasis capable of supporting life. Are you imagining it? Good, now replace the wasteland with space, and Earth the oasis. It is what they got for a good distance around with nothing else livable closer to their respective worlds.

[@TxRxAxP]

And imagine humans are the beetles and bugs outside the oasis crawling around.

[@jerichohill487]

You left out the scariest of all cosmic horrors, the dreaded Kardashian

[@thematthatter673]

I feel like the Cthonians are just what happens when Cthulhu gets really bored... If you know what I mean.

[@patrickstarshooter5221]

Hey guys, somebody please tell me - Where should i start reading HP lovecraft from? I got very interested when i started playing world of warcraft..now i want to explore this world. Just don't know where a newbie like me should begin...

[@TheExploringSeries]

I started with The Call of Cthulhu. Other great ones are Shadow Over Innsmouth and The Dunwich Horror. Takes a little getting used to if you haven't read any of his stuff before, but he was a brilliant author. The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft contains most of what you'd be interested in, and if you buy it through the link in the video description, it helps me out a little.

[@thatguywiththetripod8577]

What exactly is "Angle Time"?

[@Heb_N]

ThatGuyWithTheTripod we wouldn't be able to fully understand it since its existence is utterly foreign to us, but I think the best way to interpret is like this: think of time time as a circle. A circle is round because it curves, you would never think that a circle has vertices since its almost perfectly round, but if you manage to look close enough, you will see a shift in direction, a vertex, an "angle". and there... in that seemingly tiny window of time and space... is a whole other dimension, with who knows what's on the other side, watching... waiting... for the opportune moment to tear us all a new one.

[@thatguywiththetripod8577]

***** So it's like a circle made in Minecraft? It looks round from a distance, but up close you can see all of the blocks.

[@Heb_N]

ThatGuyWithTheTripod that's a good example, everything has an "angle" so to speak. Countless vessels, races, life forms, and sentient things could live within a vertex. it's the infinite, and the infinite is pretty scary if you really think about it. These stories may be science fantasy, but with the endless Universe around us growing immensely by the day, I definitely would not put it past us if we see a huge, incomprehensible "larger than Jupiter" clump of flesh mass hurdle toward a minute earth, or anything of the like

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Well you know the space time curve, well its nothing like that.

[@shinzantetsu]

Listening to thoth and the emerald Tablets, didnt he mention the many angled ones? That chase you until u curve space he said? Very fascinating that I connected this!

[@PhantasmostheData]

I just realised HP Lovecraft universe is a perfect hentai breeding ground.

[@fatalos6855]

NO

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DON'T

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STOP

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JUST STOP

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PLEASE