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   @kakafarm Fear of the unknown is the very mother of bigotry. And that is the rootstock of Lovercraft's own work.
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     @kakafarm You cant have good lovecraftian fiction without bigotry.
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     kakafarm (kakafarm@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 22:41:44 JST kakafarm

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     @Neo_Dolus I beg to differ.
     
     Have you read any Thomas Ligotti? I would advise against it as I see it as a infohazard, sublimely beautiful infohazard, but it is an example of non-bigoted Lovecraftian horror.
     
     Oh, and many of Lovecraft's own works are not fundamentally bigoted, some definitely are, but many aren't:
     
     From Beyond has no bigotry, just the truth about Man's place in the cosmos. https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/fb.aspx
     
     The short Memory is in the far far future where superbeings (might they be the machine descendants of Man?) are trying to recall the name of those beings who've built these ancient ruins (it rhymes with a local river "Than"). No bigotry. https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/m.aspx
     
     If anything, The Cats of Ulthar is anti-bigotry. https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cu.aspx
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     kakafarm (kakafarm@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 22:41:45 JST kakafarm
     @Neo_Dolus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLL037UiQhk