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naraburns  nihil supernum  1yr ago (text post)   2921 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for February 24, 2023

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What are y'all mfers reading nowadays? I'm on Tales of the Ketty Jay and I fucking love it. It's a fun romp with a freebooting airship captain in a fantasy world making moves and fuckin' bitches.

I'm sure everyone else is reading things much more erudite...

I'm been slowly working through HP Lovecraft's complete works. I uh... gotta be honest. I'm starting to see the claims that Lovecraft was abnormally racist even for his time. His description of an African boxer in Reanimator as a grotesque apelike creature, before the reanimator serum makes him even more monstrous is pretty brutal. Although the black cat named "Nigger Man" in The Rats in the Walls is kind of funny.

But I guess I never really felt strongly about whether Lovecraft was or was not racist. I more got up in arms about the over reactions about what to do about "it". But that's a discussion for another thread.

Lovecraft is an unabashed white supremacist, which has no bearing on my opinion that "The Rats in the Walls" is one of the best horror stories I've ever read.

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