Tell us more about your fantasy monsters on Oak Island.....they look cartoon to me. Rick and Morty-ish
Read about them yourself. Lovecraft's works are in the public domain now, IIRC. They're technically free. (However, anyone going through the trouble of producing them - either on paper or electronically - are going to want a bit of money for their time. So while not exactly free, they are pretty inexpensive.)
Lovecraft was one of the more imaginative and talented horror writers of the 20th century. The genius of his work was that he got down into the tropes of fiction with regards to antagonists (man against man, man against nature, man against the unknown), and then he combined them. While his stories meandered a bit over the decades, the underlying antagonists were the Old Ones, a group of superdimensional beings that will eventually destroy the universe. People sometimes help them for a variety of reasons (man against man), but they don't need that help. The fact that their mission is inevitable is driven home repeatedly, and while the protagonist may win the battle (often at the cost of their own sanity), the results of the war cannot be changed. The nature/unknown issue comes into play due to the nature of the Old Ones themselves: they are not evil and do not hate humanity, but they exist to destroy all and must eventually succeed. There is no malice involved on their part, as they are simply doing what they were meant to do. It's hinted (but not explained) that even they don't know why this is, and they likely do not care that they don't know. Their rationale cannot be comprehended by humans and, in fact, generally drives humans insane when they attempt to understand it.
Good fiction and well worth reading, if you're not put off by slightly stilted language, unabashed anglophilia, and not a little bit of racism. Lovecraft was a product of his time.
Anyone else get a call from one of the show's guests telling them to remove their work online?
Not me. If I don't recognize the number, it goes to voice mail. If they want to contact me via the internet, I'm pretty easy to find. Of course, I'm posting under my real name and most here don't, which makes me wonder how they're getting the numbers of people who post anonymously in the first place, unless those people had already contacted them and directed them to their online works...
Or not. I don't really have an opinion. They didn't talk to me. Of course, I didn't talk to them either.
No?.... So then does that mean that they are targeting the people that are finding out more than they are? Or that they are trying to make a push to remove parts of the mystery to wipe them out using their media as a basis for their professional opinions?
And here's where I step off from this conversation. It's getting a bit too hard to wrap my mind around and I don't want to have dreams about underwater cities where the geometry is all wrong. That path leads to madness, as does being overly concerned with hooked X's and the guy promoting them.
Cthulhu fhtagn, Eldo.
