When I was in highschool band, we performed a piece by a composer named Percy Granger. He was so racist against Italians that he refused to use standard musical notation. But it was all stuff like "Fasterer" or "louderly".
Also, we have old black and white nudes of the guy. Man was innovating posting hog, during breaks from hating Italians.
No, there is a subtlety to the man's work. He knew only fear and hate as a young man and he was able to capture that. I will never properly know the level of fear and hate he felt you know? So it is an intresting perspective. Like all people full of fear and hate he had unfortunately views. It is a shame we never really got to see his output after the woke mind virus got him and he turned into a possibly trans comunist
One that really resonated with me at the time was The Dunwich Horror, the discomfort Wilbur feels in his own body felt a lot like the gender dysphoria I experience myself.
Despite how awful a lot of the content was I still think of Newgrounds and flash animation fondly. It was at least a time when people were creating things. Some of those flash games were pretty innovative.
Maybe that was just the internet in general back then, when everything wasn't just 3 websites
There's a certain charm to those animations that had, like, sprites of Sonic fighting Mega Man with nu-metal playing in the background. They were obviously made by really young people, and from the perspective of ”anyone can create media” that was cool.
I always had…reservations about Lovecraft even as a kid, but I loved the Colour Out of Space. First real experience with abstract horror, and I still fuck with the idea of something so anathema to normal existence that the color of it and the light it gives off is malevolent by itself.
But ofc I started with Call of Cthulhu and right away they’re talking about the black cults of the depraved squid god deep in darkest africa and even as a kid I’m like