Halloween Special: H. P. Lovecraft
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- Опубліковано 30 жов 2018
- HAPPY HALLOWEEN IT'S TIME TO GET SPOOKY WITH HISTORY'S MOST PROBLEMATIC HORROR WRITER LET'S GOOOOO
While there's something to be said for separating the art from the artist, I think there's a lot of merit in CONTEXTUALIZING the art WITH the artist. Did Lovecraft write some pretty incredible horror? Sure! Was he also a raging xenophobe? Absolutely! Are his perspectives on life connected with the stories he felt compelled to tell? Duh! If you look at Lovecraft's writing through the lens of his life, clear patterns emerge that allow us to pin down what exactly he built his horror cosmology out of. It's an invaluable analytical tool that allows us to take apart his writings by getting inside his head. So before you yell at me for Not Separating The Artist From The Art, know that it was completely intentional and I'm not sorry.
3:20 - THE CALL OF CTHULHU
8:40 - COOL AIR
10:36 - THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE
14:38 - THE DUNWICH HORROR
19:32 - THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH
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Hey gang! Can't help but notice the comment section is a little bit on fire. That's all good with me, but one recurring complaint I've noticed has started to get under my skin - namely that my explanation of non-euclidean geometry was insufficient, or even - dare I say - inaccurate. Now this is a fair complaint, because after a lifetime of experience finding that people's eyes glaze over when I talk math at them, I concluded that interrupting a half-hour horror video with a long-winded explanation of a mathematical concept wouldn't go over too well. I put it in layman's terms and used a simple example to illustrate the point. However, since some of the more mathematically-inclined of you took offense, I now present in full a short (but comprehensive) explanation of what exactly non-euclidean geometry is.
First, we axiomatically establish euclidean geometry. Euclidean geometry has five axioms:
1. We can draw a straight line between any two points.
2. We can infinitely extend a finite straight line.
3. We can draw a circle with any center and radius.
4. All right angles are equal to one another.
5. If two lines intersect with a third line, and the sum of the inner angles of those intersections is less than 180º, then those two lines must intersect if extended far enough.
Axiom #5 is known as the PARALLEL POSTULATE. It has many equivalent statements, including the Triangle Postulate ("the sum of the angles in every triangle is 180º") and Playfair's Axiom ("given a line and a point not on that line, there exists ONE line parallel to the given line that intersects the given point").
Euclidean geometry is, broadly, how geometry works on a flat plane.
However, there are geometries where the parallel postulate DOES NOT hold. These geometries are called "non-euclidean geometries". There are, in fact, an infinite number of these geometries, and because the only defining characteristic is "the parallel postulate does not hold", they can be all kinds of crazy shapes. (As you can see, my explanation of "this is just how geometry works on a curved surface" is quite reductive, but at the same time serves to get the general impression across without going into too much detail.)
An example of a non-euclidean geometry is "Elliptic geometry", geometry on n-dimensional ellipses, which includes "Spherical geometry" as a subset. Spherical geometry is, predictably enough, how geometry works on the two-dimensional surface of a three-dimensional sphere.
In spherical geometry, "points" are defined the same as in euclidean geometry, but "line" is redefined to be "the shortest distance between two points over the surface of the sphere", since there is no such thing as a "straight line" on a curved surface. All "lines" in spherical geometry are segments of "great circles" (which is defined as the set of points that exist at the intersection between the sphere and a plane passing through the center of that sphere).
The axiom that separates spherical geometry from euclidean geometry and replaces the parallel postulate is "5. There are NO parallel lines". In spherical geometry, every line is a segment of a great circle, and any two great circles intersect at exactly two points. If two lines intersect when extended, they cannot be parallel, and thus there are no parallel lines in spherical geometry.
Since the Parallel Postulate is equivalent to Playfair's Axiom, the fact that no parallel lines exist in spherical geometry negates Playfair's Axiom, which thus negates the Parallel Postulate and defines spherical geometry as a non-euclidean geometry. Also, since the Triangle Postulate is another equivalent property to the Parallel Postulate, it is thus negated in spherical geometry. Hence, my use in-video of an example of a triangle drawn on the surface of a sphere whose inner angles sum greater than 180º.
Hope that cleared things up (and helped explain why I didn't want to say "see, non-euclidean geometry is just a geometry where Euclid's Parallel Postulate doesn't hold - hold on, let me get the chalkboard to explain what THAT is-" in the video)
Peace!
-R ✌️
*brain drips out of both ears* Right
Man, and I thought Tolkien's fanboys were toxic after you called him a hack in your Poetic Edda video. Keep up the good work, and thanks for the little math lesson! 😊
Oh she big smart.
Okay, for me, that was just trying to invoke Nyarlathotep, but there's probably some math athletes out there for wich it made perfect sense.
Ignore the bigots and keep up the good work ! You're the boss, Red !
Bigots for everything else you just said, actually. Like, buzzwords ? Seriously ?
can we just appreciate the name 'lovecraft'? imagine if his last name had been johnson. 'Johnsonian' just dosnt sound as mythical as 'Lovecraftian'.
it would if his name has been johnson or smith for the most part. this is how it works with all names. but it does sound a tad more colorful
@@jerkchickenblogWell enough other people are also named Johnson that the association wouldn’t really hold I don’t think. You’re right about how subjects give their names their vibe and not the other way around, but there are dozens of recognizable Johnson’s, thousands of more mundane Johnson’s, and only one incredibly recognizable Lovecraft.
Or Gaylord that gets me every time.
I think he once wrote a parody of a love story.
@@Asahamanaah yes, the gaylordian mythos
i remember reading Colour Out Of Space when i was twelve or so, and my immediate reaction being "Ah, beige."
Have you never seen sand as a kid?!
Why is this funny, I just imagine a bored looking 12 year old reading 'unseen color' saying "beige" then going back to reading
I didn’t read it until college, and there’s an actual color we can see but doesn’t actually exist on the spectrum: magenta! It’s just the color our brains link between red and violet, but it doesn’t exist and that fact still gives me a headache
Beige
The unholy color
Such a horror... b e i g e
"Colors that man can't comprehend and are dangerous to and warp the biology of flora and fauna" is actually a reasonable description of gamma radiation, and radioactive meteorites are real so Color Out Of Space is technically the most scientifically realistic Lovecraft story
Omg this!!! When she explained that book, the first thing that came to mind is radiation
@@KalafinaBTSLovecraft wrote the Color Out of Space in reaction to the Radium Girls incident, or at least that’s what I heard
So would the actual color just be Chernikov Radiation?
@@WolfAmaril it would be an angelic blue in the worst case scenario, like the first hour after the Chernobyl disaster. So alluring to look at, and yet so devastatingly deadly to even observe.
@@LordDaret that is a pretty accurate description of Chernikov Radiation
When an archeologist says something was for “ritual purposes,” they mean “we have no idea what this thing is.” When they say something was for “fertility ritual purposes,” they mean “using the term ‘ancient dildo’ in academic papers is heavily frowned upon.”
This made me laugh more then it should have
Also "field release" means you dropped the little bastard, "impromptu dissection" means you just squashed it.
@@arandomkobold8403 well, that's not exactly an archeology thing. ...I hope. 🤔😅
@@annakilifa331 not with that attitude
I support making the term "ancient dildo" acceptable in academic papers!
Tbh, although this was very unintentional, The Color Out of Space always read like radiation poisoning.
Right? I mean radiation as a concept was still being explored at the time, so it’d make sense that Howie here would try and make a poorly researched horror story based on it.
@@patrickcross1571 But yeah lets not forget what Lovecraft actually wrote this story like.
That's what I thought it was too after a bit of thinking. It could also be read as Mercury poisoning, since the substance of mercury is rather toxic and does indeed cause madness and even death if taken in the proper doses(the mad hatter was based off this since olden day hat makers would use mercury in the process which would drive the hatters insane).
The kids suffer death with the eldest one going insane before they go, and the wife just goes insane before succumbing.
And now I kind of want to create something in like a low magic rp setting that’s color out of space inspired but with a better grasp on actual real
World physics chemistry and biology.
The liquid could be a kind of radioactive liquid mercury alloy and once it fell into a well that would be mercury alloy and radiation water table contamination. And the strange color could be a combination of the color of the item itself and the wavelength of radioactive glow it emits maybe it’s a magenta object emitting a yellow green light or even more unnaturally a yellow green substance with a radioactive magenta glow creating a visual of something simultaneously two opposite complimentary colors that can’t mix into one singular color. The reason for choosing magenta on this is because magenta is the mind point on the gap in the visible light spectrum you get when combining near infrared red with near ultraviolet violet making it a color that Literially does not exist in the spectrum but simultaneously would lie in ultraviolet or in infrared but also exists from a certain perspective behind and equal to yellow green. Making the light magenta would really drive home the idea of unnatural light.
So if you want a color out of space like object description with a less outlandish foundation here’s my go at one:
The impossibly smooth and shiny, yellow green rock bubbled like an animals stomach packed with blood and being boiled from the inside bulging in places. With each second it seemed to shrink ever so slightly, As if evaporating away like a chunk of dry ice but evaporating and melting from the inside evidenced by the occasional bubble of escaping gas rising to the semisolid metallic exterior to pop and the metal surface to heal
Itself back into that smooth shiny shell.
When cut it acted like a putty that the deeper down it was cut the less putty and more liquid it became. Almost like a sick bastardization of a lava cake. As it slowly boiled away and the occasional bubble rose through the semisolid skin and popped like a bubble yellow green vapor escaped that seemed to emit an unearthly magenta glow creating for instances this unknowable combination of yellowish green vapor and reddish violet light. A sickly impossible green magenta flash that never lingered long enough to truly be comprehended as a proper color that ever existed, one that never could exist and yet it did.
The object would basically be some kind or radioactive mercury alloy that fell to earth around the turn of the 20th century. Before we really knew and understood radiation was a bad thing. My vision for hat it is to ruin the mystery I don’t know some piece of an alien space probe similar in nature to our voyager probe maybe like some alien version of a nuclear radioactive mercury like alloy battery?
Nothing malevolent just you know the result if one day In the far far future long after the sun as became a stellar corpse voyager ends up just crashing in some redneck alien’s flower garden.
@@brandonporter8509 I've actually been working on something like this for some time now.
I just realized the color he's describing is just magenta
This needs more likes. I would not have thought of that but yeah, it works.
My favorite color is magenta.
Magenta doesn't exist and that's a fact.
@@camilaferrabonel4622 How do you explain magenta pencil crayons, ignoramus?
magenta doesn't exist
nice try liberal
I love how the mug on the AC obsessed doctors desk says the “worlds alivest doctor”
Ahhhhahaha I didn't notice!
See also the "world's sanest professor" mug at 3:35 and elsewhere! 😆 The Muñoz one got by me despite multiple re-viewings, though, so thanks for spotlighting that!
10:19 if anyone was wondering
"Too delicate of a constitution for math" is HILARIOUS when you remember Red has a math degree.
Its even funnier for anyone who knows how the base and field axioms work and thus know when one is broken with a projection, conversion and transition of field based representation when it comes to cross field or outright multidisciplinary problems, giving us the truth that Red herself has a constitution far weaker than Lovecrafts for math despite her degree and his complete lack of advanced professional education on the topic.
Or to make it simpler, a to b and parallel c to d dont cease being parallel just because you placed them on a sphere. If they would, you would have to do irl playthroughs of hyperbolica or manifold daily.
Someone in another comment pointed out that studying in non-air conditioned homes could be really dusty and hot and generally bad for people with weak lungs.
@@TerryBradstreet and yet, as is self-evident through his work, Lovecraft *hated* AC!
@@redpup112 it didn’t even exist when he was a kid; he encountered it as an adult. And if he couldn’t stand its noise and noxious smells and leaking as an adult, he surely wouldn’t want to put up with it as a child
Thurston was a master of non-euclidean geometry, so sharing a name with this character is also funny.
One of my friends explained Lovecraft to me as:
“Earthbound but if it was made by an LSD abuser who went scuba diving one day”
WHY IS THAT ACCURATE XD
I really can't argue against this...
This is surprisingly true...
id say subnautica
Now i need to go diving after taking an acid tab
Also don't forget the racism
Is no one gonna talk about two people brought MAGIC and the third dude was like “Hey, here’s a GUN!”
"Behold, the most powerful spell of all!"
@@natmorse-noland9133 kaboom
My favorite Lovecraft character based on that along.
*Bald Eagle screeches in the distance*
@@Phantom-qr1ug Thanks for illustrating my thoughts. It's ju so 'Murica.
Entire city: *brings relics and literal spells to counter the horror*
Morgan: “If it eats another shed, we’ll pump it with lead. If it even breathes, we’ll shatter it’s knees”
"Professor Morgan, please detail us why did you decide to bring a gun to our bout with the chtonic entity"
"But of course my esteemed colleagues, as you can see on this graph, there is this function of y=x that has a linear increase, whereas on the X axis you can find the amount of "shagging around" while on the Y axis there is the correspective amount of "encountering results", and given the linear increase it's obvious that the more you fuck around, the more you find out, and that eldritch being has fucked around quite a lot over yonder and is in dire need to find out"
"Marvelous, professor, reminds me of the fourth principle of Enthropy, Stay Strapped or Get Hyperdimensionally Clapped"
"Truly great words of wisdom"
Morgan decided to approach an eldritch horror like the Scout in TF2
"Think fast, chucklenuts!"
"Grass grows, birds fly, and brotha? I hurt people."
*"Yo what's up?"*
@@DonPatrono now that is good
That's the definition of american
@@scumbaggaming9418 Or Engineer, "I solve practical problems. F'rinstance, how am I gonna stop some big mean mother hubbard from tearing me a structurally non-Euclidean new behind? The answer... use a gun. And if that don't work... use more gun."
The Call of Cthulhu: the journal of a man reading the journal of a man listening to the story of a man who had weird nightmare
Yeah, gotta say the multiple onion-layers of re-tellers, expositors and writers of letters, journals etc often make it pretty hard for me to keep track of who's who not just in Lovecraft but also in Victorian Gothic as well...! 😅
It's a weird literary device, & I don't quite understand why they did it. Trying to make the horrific more tolerable by adding emotional distance...? 🤷🏻♀️ Attempting to add some kind of suspense via nested narrators...? Gaining freedom to kill off more key characters by allowing them to exposit in writing after their death...??
It's like Frankenstein's :Sad life(Monster) story in whining life story (Frankenstein's) in depressing life story(Robert Walton) in a letter sent to some dude's sister(Robert's sister) all written by another person who had a sad life (Mary Shelley)
@@anna_in_aotearoa3166while I’m definitely not a fan of it I can kind of understand it to a point. With it you can do multiple layers of people discovering some new horror and dropping subtle or outright hints to the plot to create a lot of slow or very sudden reveals. It’s pretty fucking stupid but for Lovecrafts style of horror it becomes less horrifically boring and convoluted and more of a barely passable writing device
@@cal_warddon’t forget the part where the monster is describing another random family describing their soap opera like life which to Frankenstein who is describing it to Robert and you get the idea
@@salem-01 That makes it makes at least a little bit of sense; thank you! I can kind of get my head around using that type of narration-nesting as a way of layering suspense (even if, like you, I'm definitely not a fan 😆)
the secret to immortality? Air Conditioning
No, that's just to reduce the rate of decay.
And/or fish breeding
Yep, makes sense
What about fish over ice, get immortality and reduction of decay in one go!
Can confirm. My house has AC and I have never died
The twist in Shadow Over Innsmouth reads differently once you find that H. P. Lovecraft came up with the story after finding out his great-grandmother was Welsh.
Guess he wanted to show he would obviously never give into that ancestry, so that’s why Mr 1/16 fish boy becomes a fish person fanatic despite hating them all. Makes no sense to me, but I guess ya can’t expect much from a (to put it as light as a feather) paranoid person.
Beautiful.
Wait, wait...WELSH = "actually descended from immortal (and immoral) FISH people?
(looks down at self)
Huh, no wonder I've always kinda liked seafood and island music...
Could've been worse
He could've written the monster people as weresheep
I nearly burst out laughing when I read this. Thank you
I’m indigenous and I had no idea I was so villainous! I guess it’s time to enter my villain era.
The only thing worse than an filthy Irishman 😱
Entering my villainous era. We can be partners in villainy-
A good old bastardization arc
yo can I join y'all
@@Akrafena of course
Despite Lovecraft's many, many, many flaws as a person, he did at least give us a story where a generational death curse turns out to be both a hoax and entirely true in the most hilariously petty way ever: In "The Alchemist", the immortal who "cursed" the family to have all their descendants die at the age of 32 is literally doing all the leg-work himself and just straight-up murdering them whenever the one of them hits the right age. No magic is involved in their deaths aside from their murderer's immortality, he's just THAT stubborn.
Not to mention his name was Charles Sorcérer
Yep...Chuck Wizard
"I cast [punch]!"
@@ecurps1that must state: I. CAST. FIST!
Damn.
I guess if you're immortal, your time is less valuable.
Just pointing this out because I find it funny: Cthulhu is the grandchild of Yog-Sothoth. So Wilbur Whately & The Dunwich Horror are Cthulhu's uncles.
That would be an awkward family reunion.
@@themystic115demon6 you’d have all these big ass world devouring monsters and then a goat dude shows up with a gun
@@sebastianlepper1431 he has the best world devouring weapon of all: a glock
"Wilbur Whately and the Dunwich Horror" also sounds like a band name
@@themystic115demon6 Ok, Red needs to draw this lol
"He lacked the constitution for math" So an English major?
Bruh. That cut surprisingly deep.
Worse.
An Arts major
That hurt 😔
This feels like an attack-
Fully admitted.
I think a cool twist ending to "Cool Air" could be that the doctor's dying note reveals that the narrator died from his heart attack, but has been kept alive thanks to the air conditioner. However, because there wasn't enough power for two people, the doctor decided to allow himself to finally die so that the narrator can keep on living.
Write it.
Have faith in yourself as a writer, swap some names and a couple extra details, and write it yourself. Boom. I know I’d buy a copy.
Passing of the torch of ephemeral immortality off to an unwilling recipient who will know the only thing keeping him alive is an old archaic rattling piece of machinery, that of which even the idea he fears? I'm surprised I can't think of a single thing that even tangentially, being that it's actually a pretty fascinating concept to explore. Not saying it hasn't been done, I just haven't thought of any
nice idea but then the protagonist would have to have moved in with the doctor
its not like the ac of the doctor cools other apartments
@@HECKproductions Well yeah, that was my idea all along: after having his heart attack, the narrator moves in with the doctor so said doctor can properly tend to him.
Interviewer: “So, Mr Lovecraft, everyone’s dying to know. How do you write such effective horror stories?”
HP: “Well, what can I say? I just wrote based on what scared me.”
Interviewer: “Ah, I see, so you wrote based on yours fears of existentialism and cosmic nightmares?”
HP: “Yes, among other things…”
*sips tea while glaring at an AC vent*
Underrated comment
*Also staring at minorities with sheer horror*
@@springfaux6991also stares at the ocean with sheer horror
To be fair, ACs are pretty creepy when you think about it.
*stares at interviewer until he can assess their race*
Why does HP Lovecraft look like Zuckerberg
You mean "why does H.P. lovecraft look like a robot"
Damnit, those nuts in Dunwich are at it again.
"The case of mark Zuckerberg"
You mean "why is HP lovecraft a Lizard person" ?
@@Vajrapani108 missed opportunity for “The Mark of Zuckerburg”
So Color Out of Space is basically just “what if magenta was sentient and wanted you dead?”
This is amazing and it’s needs more attention
It could also have been chartreuse or beige
@@moistnugget4147 the holy trinity of technically non-existent colors go on a murder spree
magentient
@@geekgirl_luv4262 as I was so properly corrected in this comment section there is an entire spectrum of non-single wavelength colors, including magenta, pink, brown, beige (and any other color that cannot be reproduced with a single wavelength)... To be fair the rarity is the actual spectral colors which exist in the infinite space between 400 and 790 THz...
3:17 Horrible Phobias Lovecraft
8:44 Hippopotamus Lovecraft
9:40 Hates Progress Lovecraft
Ha
Hot Pockets Lovecraft. Hewlett Packard Lovecraft. Hoi Polloi Lovecraft. Let's keep the jokes going!
@@Swordhand1 Harry Potter Lovecraft Health Points Lovecraft Hovercraft Powerlift Lovecraft Hovecraft Povecraft Lovecraft
Hot Potatoes Lovecraft, House (of) Pancakes Lovecraft, Howdy Pardner Lovecraft
@@hexiguex6968 Hairy Palms Lovecraft
Hellish Planets Lovecraft
Humiliatingly Poor Lovecraft
Hit Points Lovecraft
Hopelessly Prude Lovecraft
A common theme that Lovecraft had in his writing was that evil fate and sin - in the form of madness, bodily pollution, & mutation - was inheritable and passed down through the bloodline. You see it in texts like "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" and "The Rats in the Walls" - past decadence or excess inevitably leaking down the ages to infect and change the living heir, who becomes just as foul and misbegotten as their ancestors. It's basically Lovecraft admitting through his writing that he lived his whole life in constant fear that he would fall to madness & hysteric fits as his mother had. This also explains his racism - once you assume that the past misdeeds of a person's family shape the person themselves, it is logical to assume that people who are poorer or otherwise don't quite fit in with "high society" must come from bad bloodlines where their ancestors were wicked and deplorable, and that such people, too, will do evil and wrong, because it is in their genetic makeup to act that way. It's actually something that still happens today, with ideas like Prosperity Gospel, and it was how Nazism justified itself. All were "logical/rational" conclusions, but based on a faulty assumption: that the capacity to do good and evil is genetically hardwired.
The ideology of Nazism is focused more on ethnic groups as whole than certain bloodlines, but yeah its still pretty damn similar.
I can only pity Lovecraft. That man was fucked.
Unless you had high psychopathic tendencies.
Critical Race Theory does this too.
@@IceQueen975 It quite literally does not
I assume someone's mentioned this joke: "Lovecraft was afraid of his shadow because it was black."
Hahaha, I laughed harder at this than I should have. :D
Ha then he fainted
Catherine Preimesberger lmao XDDD.
And because he thought it was Nyarlathotep watching him through a dark humanoid figure on the ground
LOL :D
It’s weird, H.P. Lovecraft feels like a fictional character from Edgar Allen poe
Agreed, we are now am Fictional characters in an Edger Alan Poe Poem/Short Story
Curses, they have discovered the terrible truth. Now we have to kill them.
Seems like his style:
A paranoid thirty-something-year-old man so afraid of progress and other people that he imagines enemies and Eldritch Horrors after seeing something as benal as an Air Conditioner.
I know what you mean.
And so the A/C kept on clanking, clanking at my chamber door. The doctor's stank when too close was irritating ever more. That is why I H.P. Lovecraft
Brought down the ax upon the dark skinned doctor with a final laugh.
The color out of space is actually one of my favorites, if shift just one element...replace "color" with "radiation." Then literally everything makes more sense, and even becomes a cautionary tale about how radiation is indiscriminate, and the dangers of nuclear waste...and how often times, goverments don't take proper caution around toxic waste, as they are literally going to turn the area into a water resivoir.
A modern folktale for the wrong reason
@@runman624 couldn't have explained it better
Dude that would SO work. It's a horrifying _environmental_ cautionary tale just waiting to happen!
Now we just need to figure out an actually _plausible_ reason why the family wouldn't JUST! FLIPPIN'! MOVE! and we're all set.
@@robinchesterfield42 Very simple. They can't afford to. Their harvest was ruined by the radiation, meaning they don't have the money. You'd be suprised how many people are hin horrible, even lethal living conditions in the real world, and are unable to move because they have literally no where else to go.
@@robinchesterfield42 broke.
Selling a farm that isn't growing good food gets hard
For whatever reason, red talking about Lovecrafts racism is hilarious to me. Not because racism is funny hut because she makes it out to be as stupid as it is
"And then what did he find behind the door?..... A CUBAN! MOO HAH HAH HAH HAAAAAAAAAA"
Honestly, if you're open minded and have enough constitution to handle reading texts that do discrimination based on race, then you'll most likely experience his works as that kinda funny
I know everyone complains about his racism, and, im not denying that he was a racist, but i think people make it out to be a lot worse than it actually is.
Its a lot closer to Red's interpretation of 'oh, look, a black man!' than literally shitting on racial minorities. It doesnt actually make it hard to enjoy or read his stories.
@@nemtudom5074I think it "helps" that he didn’t hate minorities so much as he was genuinely terrified of them. It’s not much better, but it’s KINDA better.
@@shadowldrago Understanding the situation usually makes it better
Ironic, since thats exactly why he was so much like that
@@nemtudom5074 Uh...I'm not saying his works have a 'kill all the Not White People!!!' vibe, because they don't, but he was so wildly racist even other racists in 1920's WASP society kept telling him to tone it down. I don't think any modern day person who's heard racial slurs thrown around on the internet will be shocked by his writing, but 'people make it out to be a lot worse than it actually is' is a massive misrepresentation. It's _very_ bad, and his personal writings are significantly _worse._
@@shadowldragoThe fact that his racism was rooted in being absolutely petrified of minorities rather than just thinking he was better than them doesn’t make his racism morally any better, but it does make it a LOT funnier
I can just imagine a posh math teacher chastising a student now:
“By god, your level of understanding for non-euclidean geometry is downright Lovecraftian!”
I had to read that twice. I thought you said "I can just imagine a plush math teacher"...
Now why does it sounds like my Lovecraftian Lover Maths teacher when i seriouly fubbed my Maths test
Ngl, as someone who will prolly end up as a math professor, I'd totally say that. I definitely think it from time to time
God should be capitalized as a proper noun?
@@JaelinBezel perhaps this hypothetical posh math teacher isn't a part of a monotheistic religion but kept on to the cultural usage of "by god" or "oh my god" as an exclamation? Of not then yes, it probably should be. Luckily this hypothetical teacher isn't an English major
Every picture of Lovecraft makes it look like he's holding a frog in his mouth
You’re right lol wtf
Oh my gosh you’re right😂😂
Tom Holland is secretly HP Lovecraft.
Lmfao, I'm dead 😂
Maybe his teeth probably just sucked
The best way I have heard Lovecraft described was from Mr. Welch's Call of Cthulhu Mad Musing:
"The man was clinically phobic, and I don't mean violent hatred but more curling up in the fetal position and sucking his thumb. The man didn't have Issues, he had Volumes."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
"But this is Lovecraft cryptic, so it doesn't take a genius together ..."
This hits the nail on the head. HP tried to do twists in several of his stories, but they are always so clearly foreshadowed that it's not a reveal at all.
Also I really appreciate how matter of factly Red always is in her summaries. To many channels talking about literature try to be epic and appropriately weighty in their presentations or when reading quotes, but it's so often way too thick. I call it audible syndrome and several audio book speakers do this as well. Might be just a personal thing, but I like neutral readings a lot more.
Not neutral, overly sarcastic
She's a channel for people who don't like books, reading, or literature. Non-wordsmiths. Yes, I get it
@@darrylatkins5049 I love books, reading and literature, but I like sarcasm and making fun of classics too.
@@darrylatkins5049 considering that she'd got a whole series with more than 50 episodes on just tropes in writing, i'd disagree
I no longer search for documentaries on UA-cam and will search for lectures instead. I don't want dramatic music and a deep voiced narrator acting like they can make a tiger or a volcano seem any cooler than it actually is. Just tell us about it. The world is full of interesting things. Just tell us about them and let us have the emotional reactions. I also appreciate the vocal styles of traditional TV newscasters. No matter what horrible things they are talking about, the most they emote is to be somewhat grim. It's not their job to get outraged at the world. That's the audience's job. Their job (when done right) is to convey the information.
I love that "JUST MOVE AWAY" comment, since of course the story was written by a dude for whom moving to a new place would be about as scary as having his life drained by an alien lifeform.
yup. Most people would've packed up and left, even facing hardship and poverty. Once the wife starts mutating.
Wish I could afford to pack up and move at the drop of a hat
Not gonna lie, I probably would of stayed until the last minute. Just like the reader, I wanna see what happens at the end.
@sluttyMapleSyrup Same 😆
@@c.o7993 Homeless vs Dead/Mutated. *shrugs* It's debatable which is worse I suppose.
He bumped into a... BLACK GUY... *dramatic music and a gasp*
I laughed a bit too hard
It's honestly funny just how weirdly racist he is...
Alright? Hopefully people aren’t like that right?
The black guy who was strongly implied to be a cultist who killed the professor with a poisoned needle. He did NOT literally die because he was in proximity of a black person.
@@Bronasaxon I guess the point is that every single villian in Lovecraft's stories is someone non-English. The more non-English you are the more suspicious you are. However, Lovecraft wasn't a Nazi or even a Dixieland kind of white supremacist, he was really an "English supremacist". I think it is quite important to note that his wife was Jewish, I think he was really very literally xenophobic - afraid of the unknown, not really racist in any other way. I find his racism almost funny - I had a chuckle when I read a story of his where there are three ne'er-do-wells (who end up very badly,basiscally in some sort of soul jars) who are Irish, Polish and Czech - I'm Czech. Obviously he describes how uneducated and primitive these three guys are and how questionable their morals are. Still, I don't think Lovecraft's stories aged badly - the racism is so over-the-top and yet so "innocent" that it doesn't really feel insulting at all, at times it even feels like a parody of racism. And it is not like it is the central part of his stories, the evil tribes from Oceania, black voodoo cultists, degenerate immigrants (white, by modern US standards anyway ... but for Lovecraft even Germans are not really "white" - Prussians perhaps, Bavarians definitely not :-) ) are just a backdrop and could be replaced by anyone else. The stories revolve about unknown and unfathomable evils from the vastness of the universe, not really about racism even though racism definitely is present in most stories.
"I like how the story says bumped by "an aquatic looking n***o."
When you read At The Mountains of Madness you realize just how much Lovecraft feared penguins
The Penguins of Madagascar would give him a stroke
Everything I learn about this guy just keeps topping itself in incredulousness and hilarity.
Apparently he was also afraid of old books lol
YES OMG!!! Finally someone else brought this up! I had to put the book down and laugh hysterically for a good twenty minutes when the protagonist nearly pissed himself over a penguin waddling out of the darkness. In a story filled with truly scary and ominous horrors, a *penguin* of all things (granted, a very large penguin) terrifying the narrator is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read.
And it’s not just the giant penguins he’s scared of. Earlier in the story he finds regular penguins horrifying and creepy. Which is Lovecraft’s fatal flaw in writing- he assumes that things he finds creepy are inherently creepy to everyone, and therefore doesn’t explain WHY they’re creepy.
“Exit, pursued by Cthulhu” may just be the greatest Shakespeare reference I’ve ever heard
H.p Lovecraft won't sleep because he only sees black
*Damn.*
That's not true.
He often experienced terrifying nightmares that made him afraid of the dark. He believed he was continuously attacked by “Night Gaunts”, faceless devil-like creatures who entered his room at night and terrorized him in his dreams.
He later used these creatures in some of his stories.
Cortés the hamster Ya boi has a lot of issues
@@SurprisinglyDynamicAnimeSideC F
@@cortesthehamster6899 fam it's a joke
"Hates Progress Lovecraft" lmao that was gold
Tshirt logo???
Hippo Potamus Lovecraft
@@WraythSkitzofrenik You flatter me
High Potato Lovecraft
"Horrible Phobias Lovecraft" did it for me
In all fairness, Cool Air sounds more like a Junji Ito type story
So, also in the comments is the idea that the story would work better if there was a final twist of the narrator being dead, and the Ac now keeping the narrator alive instead of the doctor. That to me is very, very Junji Ito.
@@taviebrown2271 and Junji Ito stories do kinda have a lovecraft feel to them
I’m about 80% sure that Junji Ito has said somewhere at some point that Lovecraftian horror was an inspiration for him. I can’t remember where I read or hear that, but Junji Ito’s reoccurring themes of mind-bending horrors that are beyond human comprehension (particularly in Spiral/Uzumaki and Hellstar Remina, imo) certainly seems Lovecraft-inspired.
"This is my AC! It was made for me!"
Imagine being so anxious that you create a new fear.
The Color Out of Space has a film adaptation that is completely black and white and thus devoid of color. Except the meteor, which is magenta because magenta is not on the color spectrum.
@khandwa style the WHAT
@@literallyglados I agree. The WHAT
@khandwa style i honestly think nick cage is a perfect choice for this story
@khandwa style we're gonna steal mysterious colors unlike any seen on earth
It has a 6.2/10 on IMDb and has a budget of 12 million dollars and didn't even make 1 million at the box office, big oof
I can't get over him having "too delicate a constitution for math"
O
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@@Ramsey276one itym Mt
Hey, it's a big fat mood, especially for someone in remedial algebra who flunked their last chemistry exam 💀
Imagine applying that logic to games like D&D. "Ah yes, your Intelligence is 20, but your Constitution is only a 6, so you can't figure out how math works."
Idk. I'm a writer and philosopher and I can't stand math and am not very good at it
I can only presume lovecraft would be scared of salsa
-mildly foreign
-wet
-red like blood with weird chunks in it
-horrors too spicy for delicate New England palette to comprehend (even the mild flavor)
Really tho salsa srsly
He’d make a story based on it 100%
Petition to resurrect Lovecraft and have him play Subnautica, a game practically built on eldritch horrors.
(Edit: punctuation, because yes.)
Also make him watch "Shape of Water"
"MAKE HIM PLAY FALLEN LONDON"
Just the concept of Aquaman would make him shortcircuit.
@@misteraskman3668which is funny because there is a verison of aquaman that is related to the lovecraftain mythos that being the kryptonian epic version
Imagine him listening to The Magnus Archives. Lovecraftian horror AND gay people. Literally the stuff of nightmares for him
I wonder what Lovecraft would have made of imaginary numbers.
As a complete tonal U-turn from this, I recall reading somewhere that imaginary numbers are what inspired Lewis Carrol to write Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
@@Cyfrik yes, also stuff like limits and infinite sums, to him it was nothing but useless junk that had no real purpose
Aleph nule omega will blow up his mind
Become seized by confused panic and existential terror, then go on to write a story about an inbred rural cult somehow using imaginary numbers to open the gateway to the unknowable realm where the Old Ones lie entombed, only to be thwarted at the last moment by scholarly upper-middle-class New Englanders. Obviously.
What would Lovecraft have made of imaginary numbers?
Nothing. Upon hearing of them, Lovecraft would have fainted.
Weak constitution, you know.
"OH GOD ITS DARK WHAT COSMOLOGICAL HORROR IS THIS?!" "You blinked, Lovecraft."
"WHAT MIGHT THIS DARKNESS BE CAPABLE OF"
@@Dustifer “It dies real fast Howard. That’s what it’s capable of.”
@@matthewgallaway3675 "oh don't bother trying to explain it to him that Lovecraft is a fool who's scared of everything" pulls out hand mirror "here Howard look at this" "gah what manner of ungodly abomination is this?!" "See what I mean?"
Actually Lovecraft never closed his eyes because all he would see would be black
‘BUT WHAT OF THE LONG DARKNESS?!’
‘You took a nap, you moron’
I feel like Red strikes a good ballance between calling out Lovecraft's bigotry, making fun of the stuff that's silly in his stories, acknowledging the unique strengths of his creative work and even having some sympathy for this man's awful life.
I cannot overstate how much I appreciate a nuanced perspective like that.
I don’t know why, but H. P. Lovecraft with googly eyes is probably the most bizarrely hilarious thing I’ve ever seen. 11:03
Anything is instantly funny if you put googly eyes on it
“Half-Human, Half-Octopus, Half-Dragon.”
“This is what happens when you lack the constitution for math.”
No, no. You don’t understand. It has three halves because it is non-Euclidean!
Half man, half bear and half pig.
@@bonogiamboni4830 I see you are also a man of culture.
@@bonogiamboni4830 Does it also bear the ability to levitate?
@@toprak3479 sure, why not.
"One trips on a corner and clips through the map"
There has never been a better sentence to describe a man being swallowed by the one thing he is supposed to stand on
*Wait that actually happens*
@@babiiesketches5257 I just checked my copy of Call of Cthulu and yeah kinda, the prose is a lot less comical but that is basically what happens.
Can you quote?
@@mr.potato2223 "Parker slipped as the other three were plunging frenziedly over endless vistas of green-crusted rock to the boat, and Johansen swears he was swallowed up by an angle of masonry which shouldn't have been there; an angle which was acute, but behaved as if it were obtuse." quoted directly from Call of Cthulu.
@@GodOfOrphans thank you
Me, watching the Call of Cthulhu summary: "Wait, that's where it ends? What about Cthulhu? What about the cult? Hey Lovecraft, you left a dangling plotline, take it back!" 😅
I wonder if "The Call of Cthulhu", "The Dunwich Horror" and "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" could be combined to make a full-length movie?
Be hard to add continuity, the stories work better on their own, isolated series of several crazy events.
@@rowanbarnfather7776 Fair enough.
There is actually a movie from 2007 that is on UA-cam (called Cthulhu I think) that is kind of a mashup of Call Of Cthulhu and Shadow Over Innsmouth
@@charlottewesterhoff6433 Cool! Is it any good?
My man Elijah Wood produced a Color Out of Space movie with Nick Cage, and as far as I know he’s working on the Dunwich Horror. I recommend the Color Out of Space if you haven’t seen it, it was pretty damn good
Lovecraft's horror aesthetic reminds of when you close your eyes and you see a bunch of random patterns under your eyelids. A constantly shifting, random assortment of patterns not seen in the natural world. Lovecraft managed to turn that into something physical and dark. Super cool. Shame about the... everything-except-rich-white-people-phobia and rampant paranoia.
I recommend "The Magnus Archives" podcast. Super cool Lovecraftian horror without the racism and bad writing. Red also recommended them in her trope talk about horror, that is how I discovered them.
@@morantNO1 Same! What’s your favorite episode?
@@JonathanHarker7523 Spoiler warning for the show I guess. I am at episode 151 and my favourite was probably 142 - scrutiny, where the archivist is the horror of the day. Amazing concept.
While I also love the Magnus Archives, and think that racism is bad, I think we're judging lovecraft by the standards of a world where information is much more readily available and its easier to understand people from different backgrounds from yourself. Paranoia, xenophobia, and the fear of the unknowable are as intrinsic to the lovecraftian horror aethetic as the amorphous crawling horrors are.
@@morantNO1 You wish you could write as well as Lovecraft
"why can't you just Nuke Cthulhu?"
"Because it'll just reform and this time it'll be Radioactive"
That can't be good
Then call Godzilla.
Also because it was the 20's.
Replace Cthulhu with 682 and the statement still stands
Also he's a god and stuff so our plebian nukes would be like chucking a pebble at human.
"...and writes her off as pretty thoroughly dead" I think the implication here is that Ammi killed her, because at that point in the story the narrator goes on about how people can do terrible things out of necessity, that Ammi had a broken-off chair leg in his hands that he didn't remember picking up, and that he was certain there was nothing left alive in the attic after he left.
That's honestly pretty horrifying, as I'm guessing the implication is that he dissociated while killing her. Yikes.
I love how everyone has different reasons for researching Lovecraft. Some read the stories and wanted to know more, some like Lovecraft-inspired horror, some heard about his cat, some wanted to make fun of the guy. For me, I need Yog-Sothoth related knowledge to write a fanfic about murderous space pirates and their eldritch Norse friend.
Some heard about his cat. 😂😂😂 I forgot about his cat.
…Would these space pirates happen to be The Mechanisms?
@@arcainchaos and i said no, you know, like a liar.
There is one thing Lovecraft fears more than anything else:
Describing things.
The word "cyclopean" does appear an awful lot in Mountains of Madness.
I suppose he dislikes Tolkien
Yep, everything is just "unlike anything seen on earth" 😱☠️
And Brown people
I once partook in a drinking game wherein you took a shot everything he said queer to describe something.
_a mysterious colour, unlike any seen on earth-_
aka magenta
I just love the delivery here hahaha
My favorite quote
Since this is Lovecraft, it was probably black
@@cozycr8485 it’s magenta, with blobs and streaks of orange and pink.
In my opinion, the way the Color Out Of Space movie handled the story's adaptation was pretty good, namely by making the color in question visibly portrayed as bright Magenta Pink, a color that appears nowhere in the natural world.
I got curious so I looked up when Magenta was invented and Google said 1859
Lovecraft's frothing bigotry and agoraphobia becomes a lot more funny if you just think of him as Roaring 20's Sheldon Cooper
Loveecraft: I'm writing a story combining the unfathomable horrors of flying through a thunderstorm with the incalculable tedium of having to sit next to a stranger, white or not.
Lovecraft: B'Zinggoth
Not gonna lie, B’Zinggoth took me out at the knees😂
B'Zinggoth is what MeatCanyon draw as Sheldon Cooper.
My reaction: (hysterical laughter)
Because I’m mixed-race myself, I like referring to myself as a Lovecraftian horror.
I know the feeling
@@xzenitramx666 Hello, fellow Lovecraftian nightmare!
@@atoaster1209 both of us are the bad guys in HP lovecraft universe
underrated comment
At least you aren’t a white hillbilly.
They’re even worse villains.
One massive historical irony: Lovecraft loved Irish people, because he thought they were all descended from Celtic druids and so were all psychic. This was at a time when people were putting up signs saying "No blacks, no dogs, no Irish". Also, he loved Hispanic people. Two of his best bred heroes are Hispanics. He thought they were all descended from Aztecs so were in tune with the whole "dark alien gods" thing.
As an Irish person, i am incredibly flattered/confused/insulted
@@leooreillydoyle7990 As a Mexican person, I agree.
Huh... guess I'm Psychic then.
As someone who’s both Irish and Hispanic, I also feel flattered/insulted/confused
I guess that makes sense if Lovecraft cared more about breeding than race.
7:57 the fact that one guy clips through the map is arguably the best part of Call of Cthulhu
Despite his obviously problematic views (to put it lightly) I really love Lovecraft's stories. I first stumbled across Lovecraft years ago while playing Fallout 3, after exploring the Dunwich Building and immediately taking to the wiki to figure out what in the fresh hell was going on and finding that the location was a tribute to Lovecraftian horror. A few months later I bought a collection of his short stories.
Maybe the fact that I first discovered Lovecraft via a videogame set in a nuclear wasteland has coloured my view, but when I read The Color Out of Space I get a strong vibe of radioactive contamination from the descriptions of how the colour effects everything around it.
I didn't discover it that way and I thought of that too - that meteorite and area was giving me serious Elephant's Foot vibes.
Fun fact: in Fallout 4 there’s a quarry named Dunwich Borers, and as you go through it you start seeing hallucinations of a cult.
@@LordDeathwing17 and the Giant Statue that they were unearthing. Hell, there's a whole bunch of Lovecraftian undertones in Fallout.
I died every time Red cuts herself off when saying "unlike any seen on Earth."
8 times in total, in case anyone was wondering.
@@PaganBradTube Just enough for him to be on his ninth life... He's a cat person, I suppose.
@@SophieFox947 red isn't a dude
@@depressedgwyndolin I think he was referring to Paul
@@achmodinivswe9500 ok sorry enjoy your day friend
"magic not-being-invisible-anymore juice"
so... paint?
or Holy water
If I mix my water colors with holy water will I be able to paint holy paintings?
Eoin Campbell yes
@@pastorTracy911 Thank you Pastor, I will go on with this knowledge given to me by such a reliable source as yourself.
@@eoincampbell1584 No
I come back to this video every year. It's a tradition for me to hear Red dunk on Hopelessly Pennyless Lovecraft once per October
0:00 Intro
0:48 Lovecraft’s life
3:20 The Call of Cthulhu
8:41 Cool Air
10:37 The Color Out of Space
14:38 The Dunwich Horror
19:33 The Shadow Over Innsmouth
“He’s also super ugly...”
Continues to draw Wilbur grow up to look creepishly handsome
L?
That is just Red's great artwork.
The monsterfuckers would be all over this guy if this story came out today
Fan girls draw Wilbur too yaoi ish
@@marymccann3500 Some guy named Stanley Sargent wrote a story called The Black Brat of Dunwich in which WIlbur is portrayed as a hero.
The level of passive-aggressive scorn in this video is supernatural.
You heard passive-aggression? I dunno, passive-aggression seems more condescending than the tone Red’s using.
Lovecraft is just one of those authors that all literature students know are pretty trash (because you've had to extensively read him, along with a bunch of other, better stuff), but is very popular with the mainstream because people haven't actually read a word of Lovecraft, they just like Ctuluhu stuff. As my american literature teacher says: if you want to read a Lovecraft story, pick one that wasn't written by Lovecraft
@@jambondepays1969 Yeah, I'm not much of a fan of his works as I am of the works he inspired
@@jambondepays1969 Ok zoomer
NON LIKE ANY SEEN ON EARTH
Imagine old Howard's reaction to the new Little Mermaid. Non-white fish people is pretty much the worst thing he could ever imagine
Well the movie did flop.
I think a lot of new things would cause H.P. to have a massive heart attack
@@ForrestFox626or 7. Simultaiously
The Insmouth ending gets kins of weird when you're left wondering if grandma and great grandma don't know or don't care about the fact that their source of sacrifices and baby makers got bombed to hell because of Robert 😅
No, they said that there would be a punishment for him, but after his sentence is up he'll live like them.
Art teachers be like:
*MYSTERIOUS COLOURS UNLIKE ANY SEEN ON EARTH*
here were dragons apparently there’s (maybe just) one color/colour we can see it’s magenta
as an art student I want to say you're wrong... but also kind of not really.....
I’M BLUE ABUDE ABUDIE ABUDE ABUDIE!
“armitage has some latin spells,rice has a bug spray bottle full of not being invisible anymore juice and morgan just brought a really big gun”
there are three kinds of people
alice l tag yourself, i’m armitage
I’m probably a mix of armitage and morgan. mostly morgan
"not being invisible anymore juice" so THAT'S where that one weird powder comes from in "Dungeons of Dredmor". Huh! It does exactly that in the game, too--although the description is worded more like "makes things seen that should have remained unseen". So yeah, Lovecraftian vibe there too.
@@fantasticalfox Magic, science, and gun.
Cleric, wizard, fighter
I am 15 seconds into this video and I cannot over stress the amount of dread I felt the first time I saw Lovecraft’s face. There will NEVER be a lovecraftian concoction that’s more disturbing than that death glare
10:58 Now imagine someone telling Horrific Pigments Lovecraft that they were red-green colorblind. Better yet, imagine Lovecraft being told that HE was colorblind and seeing more of the visible spectrum than he can was utterly *normal*.
So what I got was that H.P. Love craft made a new genre of horror because he was constantly confused and xenophobic
I think the man was everything-phobic. It might be untrue but I heard he had panic attacks over how tall the buildings in New York were.
@@amandap7733 hey end of the day makes for some. Interesting reads with and without context
@@samfisher3575 Where the fuk did you ever hear that?
@@jasonfurumetarualkemisto5917 From Yog-sothoth. He sacrificed souls of men to obtain this sacred secret knowledge.
@@amandap7733 So like a less charming version of Bob from What About Bob.
Fears: *Rural Massachusetts*
Me: *lives in rural Massachusetts* That’s valid
Sam From the Shire lmao
All the farms are truly terrifying. One near me houses a peacock
Tasha Beck rural MA is a combination of every creepy forest in horror films, huge empty farms, and those cabins in the woods
Sam From the Shire all the reasons I don’t take night walks
Tasha Beck I live right outside the woods and my backyard has an old shed and a bunch of trees so if I need to go out their at night it’s just “I’m going to be murdered”
The mysterious colours story sounds like ✨radiation✨
How to frighten Lovecraft: sneeze.
How to frighten Lovecraft using language: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
Ah yes. That one Welsh location name that I've only ever heard David Tennant say end to end
Uh huh huh 😁
The locals just refer to it as Llanfair, the ludicrous name is for tourist purposes
Returning to this knowing that Mark Zuckerberg looks like Lovecraft makes everything so much more hilarious
People say Zucc is a lizard person, but I think he's actually a fish.
Aaron Wright Ok I knew he looked familiar, but I just couldn’t pin him down!
@@sprooch1043 theory: hippopotamus Lovecraft never died he just hibernated until he returned under the name mark Zuckerberg
@@0riginal_zer030 so Mark Zuckerberg is a fish person who worships Dagon
@@barisops1884 *now with three arms* no it was colour unlike any seen on earth
To give Lovecraft some slack, I also lack the constitution for math.
I mean, small chance you do have a lack of constitution for math, but most likely you just never had decent instruction on math. Which should be more common than it is, because the k-12 system is not designed to teach math (or any subject) and it is a miracle people somehow learn things during that period anyways.
Unless you mean you don’t enjoy math... Which is even more common, probably for the same reason. There is a rare set of people who enjoy math, even at the highest levels...
Damn those geometric whatchacallems...
@@Mathignihilcehk it's the sad reality we find ourselves in. Not necessarily one that can't be changed though.
That was his choice and a mistake
@@jon9828 "Not necessarily one that can't be changed though." I mean, I wouldn't mind trying to change it if it wasn't for the legal system and mankind's stubborn adherence to tradition. The entire educational system, from the ground up, is cripplingly flawed. The problem with improving it, is you are always going to drag those flaws with you unless you start from scratch. You'd have to convince families to donate children to this experiment and you'd still have the government breathing down your back telling you to stop innovating, because it doesn't fit their formulas.
For example, consider the grading system. Do you think it's a natural progression system designed to explore every subject systematically so that students learn everything they need to by the time they reach 12th grade? On some superficial level, it is supposed to look like that is how it is designed, but it isn't. It's designed to find the best students and isolate them from the rest of the waste so that they can be inducted into the federal government. That's not what it is used for, but that is how "grading" works. You know the word "grading" like when you talk about different rock grades. Well your government thinks your children are no different from rocks. The method was intended to be repurposed to make public education more affordable and universal, but I'd argue that failed on every level. A lack of creativity resulted in that method dominating the system, and then tradition locked it in.
It doesn't take a genius to come up with a superior system to "have children take progressively harder tests and ignore the results of the tests, while punishing those who score poorly but forcing them to continue anyways". It also doesn't take a genius to figure out that at all ages children develop differently. We learn to talk at different times, we learn to read at different rates, we get better at numerical manipulation and logic at different rates, we mature at different rates, etc. I know! Let's force everyone to do all of those activities at the same exact rate...
But, abolishing the grading system entirely is problematic because of tradition. Try telling the government your children are in school but not in a grade. They end up forcing you to adhere to the grading system by taking end of year tests and comparing them with schools which focus their student's effort on doing well on those tests, as opposed to the actual content of the tests.
I don't actually know what an ideal educational system would look like. But I know what it wouldn't contain. It wouldn't contain lectures where multiple students attend the same lecture at the same time. It wouldn't contain tests where moderate performance is considered passable. It wouldn't contain grades that span multiple subjects. And it probably wouldn't require students to sit still in desks despite the lack of ergonomics therein, nor would it label students, whose mental learning habits (which are common across humanity) aren't those favored by the school, as mentally ill.
I only now noticed that Wilbur’s silhouette on the hill doing the ritual shows the tendrils on his waist. Noice detail 👌
I really like H.P. Lovecraft's work. Yeah, personally the man didn't have issues (he had editions). But a lot of great artists did; Poe, Van Gogh, etc. However, Lovecraft's influence on modern horror, fantasy, and science fiction is huge. Through all of his faults, both personal and artistic he was still able to be a pioneer in speculative fiction. He has left a legacy that's going on a century now and I appreciate him for that.
Agree! Lovecraft's favourite nested-narrators device can be a challenging read, as it's definitely not in literary fashion these days, but the books still have a pretty solid visceral effect... And I feel like the reason why the foreshadowing can seem a bit obvious is primarily because the mythos created by him & his fans has just so very thoroughly permeated our modern horror and fantasy genres?
It's a bit like Tolkien or Dunsany - the work can seem tropey, but that's largely because a lot of today's common tropes are based on borrowings from (or intentional challenges to) that original work.
"I got the Eye of Raznogshi'ni'yn!"
"I got a magical super-poison!"
"...I got a Glock."
Ah, good ol' Smith & Wesson
While just rewatching that scene I thought of a good quote for any story where guns and supernatural threats both exist.
"While it's frustratingly common for firearms to inconvenience them at best and hurt you instead of them at worst, so far it's never been the wrong choice to bring one along to double check. Especially if it's a high caliber."
And this, is a bucket
@@seamuswalker6879 dear god
@@justinnelson5960 there’s more
Lovecraft had lots of phobias that influenced his stories. You mentioned several, but there was one other that seemed to stand out for me:
Old buildings.
And by "old" I mean "more than 100 years old".
I don't know how he'd cope if visited the UK.
He goes to Europe and becomes a massive conspiracist. Huh, maybe he should had, being of old British (and Welsh?) stock.
Iapetus McCool that’s why no one took him seriously during his lifetime.
Rats in the Walls, anyone?
He wrote about an old England Priory actually. Exham Priory. And by old I mean built on an altar of Cybelle and Attis old.
Rats in the Walls. Scariest book her wrote.
I mean, he put an old house in his second-ever story "The Alcemist" so yeah
love how red's narration is just funny enough to not get scared to death by the stories yet the soundtracks retains some of the thriller feels
20:18 For a guy you probably correctly described as agoraphobic, Lovecraft went on a TON of road trips during an era when people were just starting to do that (he's known to have traveled as far south as New Orleans and up into Canada, so he was going pretty far out from RI). And just like the guy in this story he'd travel as cheaply as possible (cheap seats on red-eye-route buses, eating beans out of cans, sleeping at YMCAs) because he was very hilariously just as poor as the working-class and agrarian people he hated so much. You can do the same thing today with Greyhound and Flixbus! And I have!
I know I'm replying on a vid from a few years ago but I wanted to shed some light on the bit of the video that mentions that H. P. Lovecraft having "To delicate of a constitution for math". I asked a few college math professors I know and this is what they told me:
Back around 1890 ~ 1920 there were obviously no computers, as such all math was usually done in rooms with tons of chalkboard or in lecture rooms with stacks of paper. A lot of the time these rooms were windowless or just had very poor ventilation. This was also before air conditioners were really a thing - as mentioned in the video.
Because of all this the rooms were usually very hot and likely had tons of chalk dust in the air, especially if there was more than one person in the room. This would / could result in someone with a weak constitution passing out fairly regularly; this is likely what the comment about him being too delicate for math was based off.
This is very interesting.
My first thought was that he possibly had dyscalculia.
Huh, neat. Learn something new everyday.
You came here for logic, reason & method? C'mon...
Damn, I think I also would've had too weak a constitution for math. That sounds extremely not fun.
So back in the day... only those with the toughest lungs could be mathematicians. Cool
He would hate Marina from splatoon. A smart, black octopus lady. His nightmare.
Lol
At least those only occur in fiction.
is marina's name based off of mariana's trench? y'know,, that spooky place with a bunch of terrifying fish
actually it could just be from the word marine woops
@@aliendxde A marina is a harbor.
Current Lovecraftian nicknames (Approved):
- Horrible phobias Lovecraft (3:17)
- Hates progress Lovecraft (9:40)
- Hippopotamus Lovecraft (8:44)
Be sure to use these in your writing moving forward
Hard pass lovecraft
"Too delicate a constitution for math" why couldn't I use that as an excuse in high school?
I'm a history major and "the world must never know that 'for ritual purposes' is code for 'we have no idea what this is'" is one of the most hilariously and painfully accurate things I've heard in a while 🤣
Future archaeologists unearthing a Furby:
"So... ritual purposes I guess?"
_"Yeeeeeah..."_
@@Tekdruid Even better, long Furby
I mean, half the time it's gonna be accurate because everything we do is a ritual for something,
@@Tekdruid well to be fair
@@Tekdruid are you saying that furbys are for ritual purposes
The scariest part is how much Lovecraft looks like Zuckerberg...
What if Zuckerberg is secretly part Old One?
@@Allium95 *Gasp* He is a fish person!
The best thing is Lovecraft would HATE this comparison bc Zuckerberg is Jewish 😅
@@55alegria In a very small percentage. He hasn't undergone a full fishy transformation
@@Allium95 he already has the look though
That "JUST MOVE OUT!!" line on the Colour Out of Space segment actually raised an interesting question for me because I once had an idea for a Colour Out Of Space-inspired "Lovecraft Horror Farming Sim"- think Harvest Moon meets Frostpunk- and one hurdle I never really could cross was figuring out how to keep the player invested or what sort of "endgame" you're trying to survive to see beyond simply not dying.
well your crops are fucked, the great depression is right around the corner, and all your customers/workers are getting sick
perhaps the end game is getting the fuck out of dodge but you're too deep into an economic and emotional hole? and one ending of the game can be leaving early, and this is the only ending where your character is completely safe but they never get answers
@@Great-Runas ...that actually works.
Was originally considering a time-based deadline a la Frostpunk but it might make more sense if it's an income-based one where you're trying to save up enough money to buy passage out of town even *before* the meteor hits and makes it harder than the price tag made it seem.
Said golden ending would basically need to be either due to exploits or just never rolling up any particularly costly Events for enough days to cut into your funds, though I was considering the implications of your farmer starting with a family you're also trying to keep alive and buy passage for so the "easiest" ending is one where you only buy yourself a ticket and leave them to their doom (you monster).
It took me way too long to get the joke that "Horrible Phobias Lovecraft" is still shortened to HP Lovecraft.
When you were talking about the island casualties in "The Call of Cthulhu" and said that "one trips on a corner and clips through the map", I thought that was just total bullshit for a joke. Then I read the story, and I now wouldn't describe it any other way.
So wait that is actually what happened to that guy he fell through the floor
Yes, please tell how.
Dammit Bethesda
Ah yes, the Cthulhu skip.
They were running with wooden plates again.......
I just like to laugh at the fact that Lovecraft spent his life writing up horrors that would haunt anyone's nightmares if you think about them too much, but all it would take to elicit that same irrational fear and terror in Lovecraft is introduce him to a person of South East Asian heritage.
as a southeast asian, the idea of someone being terrified just by knowing me is amusing.
Me being from south asia like 😂😂😂
@@reine-du-ciel go my child, take pleasure in your power to strike fear in the hearts of conservative white dudes
@@reine-du-ciel "He is...Southern??? And Eastern??? And ASIAN??? What, and he eats fish too? Dont tell me he also eats ri- he does??? Not the rice. Anything but fish n rice. Oh god oh man"
@@reine-du-ciel you know that scene in spongebob with the two cops...? I emagine doing that with your picture
1:04 Red's expression at this part and knowing that she is a math major kills me every single time xD