It's genuenly fascinating how Lovecraft, known xenophobe in it's truest sense, created this race of grotesque utterly inhuman alien creatures and the goes on at length describing with genuine respect and admiration how advanced and complex and admirable their culture and civilization was.
like, we are talking about these guys
and lovecraft is like "ah yes, their goberment was complex a probably socialistic...there was extensive commerece, the culture was mainly urban, in furnishing their homes they kept everything at the center of huge rooms leaving wall spaces for decorative treatments, lighting was probably accomplished by a device electro-chemical in nature"
is so strange how comfortable he is humanizing these creatures, treating them like any other culture worth of consideration. i really didnt expect this coming from this dude
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Exactly! What made him interesting was him being a menace not a simp.
Re: this ask
Correct! I also think the book characterization of him keeping a white knuckle grip on his emotions, while also being sooo volatile and conceited is just a way more unique character type. He’s also genuinely so cruel. I was shrieking when he sincerely threatens to skin Alina alive! Or when he kills a bunch of people at the orphanage because he was getting back at her for Baghra’s death? Iconic, legendary, we love to see it!
There’s five million “gruff simp who yells too much” type love interests, look at every single Beaty and the Beast retelling ever. It’s boring.
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Six Sentence Sunday (with a new look)
Hello all! Hey look at that, a new banner. Must mean a new project. XD (Don't worry, I'm not abandoning Baz and poor voiceless Simon, I'm just getting into CORB!)
Thank you @artsyunderstudy, @alleycat0306, @youarenevertooold, @you-remind-me-of-the-babe, @cutestkilla, @shrekgogurt, @aroace-genderfluid-sheep, and @rimeswithpurple for the tags - I look forward to seeing what you're all up to!
This week's clip is context free, to keep the mystery alive for the @carryon-reverse-bang project I'm working on with a friend of mine. I'm really excited about it, though, and I will tell you that it skirts the line between full AU and canon divergence.
I've decided to flip things about this week, so since all of my snippets thus far have been angsty Baz POV, I'm offering up a little light Simon POV. Enjoy!
Near jump out of my skin when my mobile rings. It’s Penny. Hell’s bells, I was supposed to call her.
“You didn’t call me,” she says as a greeting. “You were supposed to call me from the train station.”
Crowley, she sounds like her mum. “I know, I’m sorry,” I say, mostly to get it out of the way. “But the train was late and there was this bloke in a three piece waiting to drive me.”
“So you’re there? What’s it like?”
(I signed an NDA before I came here, but she'll push it to the limit, which she knows way better than me, as she went over the contract before she let me so much as touch a pen.) (She’s studying to be a solicitor and wants to take on magickal law. That’s either brilliant or scary. Both, probably.)
“It’s… um. Dark.”
(NDA's are for normals and people who don't have a Penelope in their back pocket.)
Tags and hello's below the cut!
Thank you for the tags over the past couple weeks @prettygoododds, @angelsfalling16, @fatalfangirl, @nightimedreamersworld, @ic3-que3n!
Tagging @erzbethluna, @ileadacharmedlife, @hushed-chorus, @aristocratic-otter, @whatevertheweather, @brilla-brilla-estrellita, @thewholelemon, @katmiscellanious, @raenestee, @bubble-gumhead, @bookish-bogwitch, @anxious-m3ss, @palimpsessed, @alexalexinii, @facewithoutheart, @imagineacoolusername, @messofthejess and... okay, who's left? LOL If you want tags in the future, you can either tag me or drop me a line. (If you don't want tags, LMK too!)
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