Lovecrafty
Lovecrafty
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20057251
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20023406
Lovecraft was a xenophobic sack of trash and he shouldn't be adored by the cosmic horror crowd
Still an extremely influential writer, you can't talk about cosmic horror without at least mentioning him.
Certainly, and I love the greater Cthulhu corpus, but his work is extremely problematic.
Separate the art from the artist. Many people who are shitbags produce good art and I can still enjoy the art without endorsing them. He was and is (and perhaps always will be) the GOAT in cosmic horror.
Except that his art also contains racist bullshit
The idiom "separate the art from the artist" actually means the opposite to that. It means that it doesn't matter what the artist intended, if it caused offense then it is still offensive. Rather than, it doesn't matter how much offensive stuff put into the art if I don't find it offensive then it's fine.
Pffft, I know you are but what am I?
Oi, we’re not pallid!
I am, I'd argue I wasn't "fishlike".