• Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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    1 day ago

    It’s a direct reference to At The Mountains of Madness. The penguins make exactly that call in the book and are friendly with the Ancient Ones, and really only present in the story while the humans are in the domain of the Ancient Ones.

    Although the choice of showing Cthulhu in the final panel rather than one of the Ancient Ones is inaccurate. Perhaps it’s meant to be a sculpture, since in Call of Cthulhu it was made clear that Cthulhu was specifically the shaman of the ancient ones, meant to wake them when the time is right

    Anyways I’d highly recommend reading the stories since they’re quite a unique style and dripping with a mounting, growing intensity. You can even listen on LibriVox. Call of Cthulhu is about an hour long and At The Mountains of Madness is about 4.5 hours long, so one decent car trip’s worth of audiobook basically

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      10 hours ago

      Man I used to think Lovecraftian lore was so cool until I found out that it’s all an allegory advocating for white supremacy.

      Wish I never knew tbh

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      18 hours ago

      I think probably it’s easier to ask it to draw Cthulhu than the weird flying starfish tentacle monsters