mr-quinlan:

but im already crazy so what would happen if i looked upon an eldritch horror

okay so i have a kind of headcanon about this sort of thing: since the concept of the eldritch horror like we tend to think of it was basically devised by Lovecraft and his buddies, who were 99% heterosexual cisgender white dudes with deeply ingrained sexist and racist viewpoints, and HPL in particular suffered from existential dread over humanity not being the center of the universe, fear of sea creatures, and a deep-seated terror over the possibility that there was anything other than milk-white Anglo blood in his ancestry…

…maybe the mind-blowingly horrifying things that these entities reveal or embody are actually things that a lot of us would be okay with. Like, Lovecraft would have considered a polyamorous relationship involving people of diverse ethnic backgrounds and gender identities to be unspeakably disgusting, especially if the people in that relationship enjoyed sushi. By his standards, most of us on Tumblr are already completely warped and corrupted.