do you think this is what lovecraft meant whenever he described something as being beyond description
“It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train—a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.”
— H. P. Lovecraft,
At the Mountains of Madness
This.. actually makes a fine reference to what a lovecraftian eldritch abomination SHOULD BE. not just.. tentacles and darkness. Perpetually changing, not cemented in form, with an otherworldly feel to it. Completely unrecognizable by most human descriptions, and only able to be viable perceived by those fine enough to be an adept wordsmith.
I think that this is very nearly an ideal representation of a lovecraftian eldritch horror, because the video that we see is (I’m fairly certain) footage that has been fed through Google deep dream.
The reason the frog looks so weird is because the program is trying to look at the frog, figure out what it is, and then overlay other images of the same thing.
The the thing about lovecraftian horrors issn’t just that they look conventionally weird or gross or scary. Instead, they are things that are so utterly alien that the human mind cannot properly comprehend what it is looking at. They defy description because they defy understanding.
And here we have a video of a computer, a simple silicon substitute for the human mind, struggling to understand what it is looking at, in much the same way that you would be hard pressed to understand a shoggoth.
before you succumb to election night disease please keep in mind also that a lot of seats in this country are literally in permafailure 4th dimensional spiral gerrymander hellholes in which it is IMPOSSIBLE for the Republican to lose. no matter how hard you vote. they set these up so you wouldn’t get a meaningful opposition vote in there. these will probably be reported early because they’ll be giant landslides. please understand that this country is a hellworld for voting, before you put yourself in a coma over the early race results.
In Georgia, officials did not supply power cords for their voting machines at a polling site in a mostly African-American neighborhood.
The batteries died and people waited for hours.
This is voter suppression y’all.
According to the NAACP, some precincts have extended their voting hours after winning a lawsuit. If you or someone you know wanted to but wasn’t able to vote but lives in these areas, please check out their Twitter! If you have access to the polls, you have another chance!
Just so we’re clear: People Magazine’s sadly predictable celebration of white American mediocrity aside, we all know that Idris Elba is, unequivocally, without any dispute, the sexiest man alive, right? Like, I don’t even mean this as an issue of personal preference. I am literally just making a statement of objective fact based on scientific evidence which suggests more people would hypnotically follow a pan flute-playing Idris Elba out of a village never to be seen again than any other male celebrity.
The number of lesbian and ace bloggers backing me up in the tags is proof that my science is both sound and accurate:
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