#guess it tracks that lovecraft had sympathy for the elder things

[revretch]

You know, shoggoths are canonly beings bred to be slaves, who became intelligent and rebelled against the Elder Things that treated them like animals. Even when they were made aware that the shoggoths now had independent minds, the Elder Things continued to force them to labor under them. The shoggoths exterminated the Elder Things after they failed to gain their freedom.

And yet I have never once seen them portrayed sympathetically. They're even one of the few Cthulhu Mythos beings canonly capable of taking on a completely human appearance, if their alien features were an issue. They're even intimated to be the ancestors of all life on Earth.

Also, they canonly fought Cthulhu himself, and all his children.

We could have a little more appreciation for them than depicting them as disgusting mindless cannon fodder, is all I'm saying.

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