something something specter something Lemmyverse hexbear-specter

  • HarryLime [any]
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    2 months ago

    Hexbear is sort of like a village of eldritch abomination worshippers in a Lovecraftian horror story - isolated, insular, entirely wrapped up in their own esoteric rituals and ideas and language, and immediately and collectively hostile to outsiders.

    The Shadow Over Hexxsmouth

    • EmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      It’s so funny when anyone complains about “echo chambers” when talking about internet communities dedicated to specific themes/topics. If I wanted a dipshit neoliberal yapping I would go back to reddit.

      • fox [comrade/them]
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        2 months ago

        If this were an echo chamber there'd be just one school of thought instead of like fifty. I think there's hoxhaists in here

        • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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          2 months ago

          Some of us have schools of thought so esoteric and irony pilled that we aren't even sure where the bit ends and our real beliefs begin

          • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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            2 months ago

            me being so contrarian and steeped in irony I end up reading theory for joke material making me indistinguishable from a Marxist shitposter on a Russian bean recipe website

            Why you gotta call people out like this? Why can't you just let us have our fun?

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      What a self-tell: "oh no they're acting too not normal in a way that seems exotic and frightening, and they stick up for themselves and don't permit easy colonization and assimilation into subordinate status into my culture. They must be EVIL, like in the old racist white man's treats!"

      lmayo us-foreign-policy

    • AndJusticeForAll [none/use name]
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      2 months ago

      Fitting that they view people with a different opinion the same way reactionary-era Lovecraft viewed tribal people.

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        2 months ago

        Or just like, Finnish people or something. Dude had an advanced degree in racism

      • corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]M
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        2 months ago

        I think Dunwich is more cottagecore but also havent gotten around to reading Innsmouth yet, just know the basic plot beats

      • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        qt 3.14 deep one gf

        If I remember right, the deep ones were all male who mated with human women. Those women are just like....Connecticut fishing town girls.

      • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]
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        2 months ago

        My favourite bit about Lovecraft was that he voted for Socialist Party, because he absolutely hated the poor and they promised to eliminate poverty.

        • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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          2 months ago

          My favorite is him finding out one of his relatives (his grandmother I think?) was Welsh and completely losing his shit over it, writing numerous letters to his relatives complaining about how they kept this betrayal a secret from him.

          If the internet had existed in 1921, Howard would be in the YouTube comment sections on videos with 50 views writing 12 paragraph rage essays over "wokeness" among today's cat owners.

      • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        I have never heard someone use such wonderful language to call my mom a race traitor and me an abomination. Also he couldn't function without an adult woman supervising him.

    • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      Synthesis. The student protestors are being funded by Dagon. Actually no, that seems like something somebody would say with no sense of humor about it.

      • HarryLime [any]
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        2 months ago

        That sounds like something Jordan Peterson would say tbh

    • Thallo [love/loves]
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      2 months ago

      We don't even isolate ourselves. Other instances preemptively defederate with us