Month: September 2013

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I like how the creators of Night Vale detest Lovecraft for the eldritch themes and racist elements and how the fandoms most worshiped Cecil is a stereotypical Aryan guy culturally appropriating south eastern elements and being a tentacled god with cosmic powers. Like that’s pretty much the embodiment of what Joseph Fink dislikes???

“Joseph: This is going to put off some of our fans, but I actually hate Lovecraft, both personally and for his writing.  I don’t think anyone can deny that he was a shitty person.  His whole “cosmic horror” thing mainly came out of his intense racism.  And I think that, on a prose level, he was also a deeply shitty writer.  I mean his stuff is almost unreadable for me.” 

"Night Vale is often called Lovecraftian, but we never consciously chose to make it that way. I just think Lovecraft, awful writer that he was, has had such an impact on modern horror and science fiction that it’s impossible to work in that field without using some of the ideas he generated.  Which kind of annoys me, but I respect the old racist bastard all the same.”

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