100% Blind Reaction To The King in Yellow. It Ruined My Mind.
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- I, lord nuxalore am consuming lore like nikocado avocado consumes chicken and now that i've covered all the lovecraft stories, all his eldrich enities in previous lore dives, and How Powerful The Lovecraftian Gods are time for the highly requested hastur tale of a true eldritch horror... go watch THIS STORY WILL RUIN YOUR MIND (The King in Yellow) by Tale Foundry: • THIS STORY WILL RUIN Y...
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The King in Yellow has already pissed yourself
JoJo: "W-What?!" *Piss starts to drip down pant leg* "Impossible!!!"
@@netapel2625 that's definitely an old Joseph scene
@@josiahws5 Or electric stand
Lovecraft was a part of a circle of authors who shared their works and fictional worlds with each other (literally known as the Lovecraft Circle). That’s why so much of the Cthulhu Mythos is written by other people.
Including Conan the barbarian!
@@RyuKaguyawait really!? that’s cool
I'm surprised nobody told Nux that a lot pf these weren't written by Lovecraft
@@chasethemaster3440 Yeah, Robert E. Howard (author of Conan) and Lovecraft were pen-pals. A collection of their letters was even published under the title A Means to Freedom.
Famously, the Conan writer was a close friend of Lovecraft. Lovecraft also routinely wrote his friends into his stories as heroes.
Nux tomorrow: "I am doing a 100% DEEP dive into the Lore... of Fefe and it will be glorious."
Truly, one of the most eldritch of beings to be explored.
Just don't ask about the moon.
"Song of nux's soul, his voice is dead, Die thou, unsung as tears unshed.
Shall dry and die...
On FeFe's bed",
In lost Carcossa
Who's Fefe?
And he’ll do a “deep dive” IN fefe if you know what I mean
I highly recommend Tale Foundry's other video on the king in yellow, where they dissect and give their interpretation of what the king in yellow is.
I totally agree!
truuuuuuu
Hastur
And then there's a game where you can marry the King in Yellow. I am not kidding.
Name of the game, please?
And it’s a damn good game lol.
@@GreebleClownsucker for love: first date
@@GreebleClown Sucker for love : first date. Anime visual novel
I mean, in Sucker for Love, you can marry EVERYONE of these existential universe demons
It's crazy how a god of shepherds got mentioned once by H.P.Lovecraft and changed forever into cthulhus' step brother.
August Derleth has a lot to answer for.
Tbf ‘God of Shepherds’ goes hard as a Lovecraft thing.
if you wanna a really king of yellow but slightly different but a real effect is a game called signalis you have to consumed it by any means either play it or watch the flood of reviews and documents there is one by bricky i have an agenda to spread the holy word of the greatness of this game . plz Nux PLZ
2:14 Hastur, The King in Yellow and Nyarlathotep, The Crawling Chaos - are different entities.
Hastur is the Lovecraftian version of the King in Yellow, which is Robert Chambers' creation, even before HP which is wild. Robert Chambers' works are insanely good.
@howardhavardramberg7160 I read the King In Yellow a few years ago. It was VERY interesting, even if a lot of the later stories aren't even really horror. It was written in 1895 but it takes place in a speculative future of the 1920s.
Bruh,
Nyarlathotep is the Pharoah in Red
Literally a different color and a different title. How do you confuse them?
(It’s obscure, and usually he’s a big crawling chaotic tentacle thing, but there are passages saying he a appeared as a pharaoh)
@smileywarhead5178 it's literally not confusing them, it's not knowing the mythos to a degree that allows you to distinguish them.
So The Mask's excerpt from the King In Yellow play is a reference to the 'Masque of the Red Death' by Edgar Allen Poe, wherein a stranger wearing a strange red mask attends a masquerade ball being held by a gathering of pompous nobles amidst a virulent plague called the Red Death. The host, offended by the color of the mask and how it makes them and the other nobles uncomfortable considering the events surrounding the festivities, demands that the strager remove their mask and reveal themselves. The stranger reveals that they aren't wearing a mask, much to their horror, and come the morning all the nobles are dead. The implication is that the Stranger is actually the specter of Death Itself, able to appear to the nobles as they are all already infected by the Red Death and thus doomed to a horrible painful death that no one will know about until someone visits the manor and knocks down the locked doors the nobles had used to try and shut out the outside world and the plight of their fellow man, only to find their diseased corpses. However, another interpretation is that the stranger is someone with the Red Death who managed to slip in to the masquerade ball, and their face was so horrible that everyone thought it was just a mask, and they do not realize this until they have locked themselves in with the man and mingled with him, infecting all of them and consigning themselves to a horrible fate.
The horror of the Masque of the Red Death, and by extension the short excerpt from the King In Yellow, is encountering something that wears the shape of a person, like Death or the thing that is called the King In Yellow, only to discover that it is in fact something much more horrible and inevitable, and that it may very well be something you have brought upon yourself through your own actions.
With the King In Yellow, there is an underlying theme, not of the inherent power of words and language, but the perception of madness from the person afflicted. Take a moment to ponder whether any of the characters in this story are reliable narrators, and whether or not things have played out as they, and by extension the author and Tale Foundry, has described.
In 'The Repairer of Reputations', the main character suffers from a delusional madness, and at the end he suffers a moment of clarity, wailing about how the crown of the King In Yellow has passed to his cousin. As we do not have the full context of the play of the King In Yellow, we are left to ponder if this moment of clarity is a realization that the curse of the King In Yellow has actually passed to someone else, or that they have reenacted something from the play and believe now the crown has passed either to their living or dead relative.
The Mask tells two stories. The excerpt tells part of the story of the play, with the aforementioned reference to the Masque of the Red Death implying that the stranger is some foreboding presence akin to Death Itself, while the short story tells of a man who has hidden away his true self to conform to the expectations of others, and he now believes he is truly living the lie, but in doing so he winds up getting everything he's ever wanted. While on the surface there's a heartwarming tale of self-sacrifice and perseverance being karmincally rewarded with true love and prosperity, even amidst tragedy, there is something that the audience must remember; the main character of The Mask has been lying since the beginning, and the excerpt from the play specifically addresses the perception of falsehoods versus reality through the masks. So, when they talk about how the love of their life miraculously survived a fatal accident after her husband killed himself in grief and left everything to the main character, we are left to ask the question: Did that actually happen? Perhaps, and maybe the tale is tragic but wholesome, but perhaps the husband didn't kill himself and it was all a conspiracy between two lovers to steal his fortune. Or, perhaps none of this happened, and the man wearing the mask has become so deluded he thinks he's gotten everything he ever wanted, when the reality of the matter could be far more bleak and grim.
In The Court of the Dragon, the main character goes to seek comfort in a familiar church after reading the play of the King In Yellow has shaken his faith, but as the pastor delivers a sermon about how nothing can harm the soul, he finds no comfort in the words, and is instead brought to revulsion by the hateful countenance of the organist, and believes the organist is out to get him and equating the organist with Death Itself. In the end, he is dragged away by the organist and finds himself in Carcosa, being comforted by the King In Yellow. Taken at face value, this is a strange case of the man being whisked away to another world by something he was initially afraid of and finding comfort in a strange alien being, but there's an issue. Why would the organist be the thing that drags him to Carcosa, and why would the man find peace in the King In Yellow that had previously shaken his faith? Well, we now tread down the matter of open interpretation of metaphor and symbolism, but let us assume that the organist represents something; something so traumatic that the man cannot find peace in his faith in God, as the organist's presence undermines that faith and makes it feel empty and disgusting, and it is only when the organist catches up to them and drags them to Carcosa that he meets the King In Yellow and finds peace. My interpretation there is that the organist represents a guilt or trauma that runs so deep that the man cannot believe it has not damaged his soul and his standing with God, and it is only through being dragged kicking and screaming to admit what has happened that he finds Carcosa and the King In Yellow, and through him finds peace.
The last story, The Yellow Sign, talks about how the main character refuses to read the King In Yellow for fear of what it could do to him, and he is haunted by the specter of a corpse-like man that, as the man's wife introduces him to the Yellow Sign and they learn of the King In Yellow, burst into their lives after years of tormenting the man and ruining his creative spirit, condemning the man to an asylum as his wife is taken away from him, and the authorities are left discussing how the corpse had been dead for years.
If you've read this far, you might have already pieced together what I'm about to say, but here's my interpretation.
The main character across all these stories is actually the same person, and we are hearing a distorted retelling of the events of their life, either as told by them or reimagined by various storytellers. The man in question is a deranged murderer that has lost his wife after his crimes were discovered and he's been dragged away to an insane asylum. The organist and the corpse-like man is the specter of the man he murdered, haunting him, and throughout each story he has told lies to either paint himself as a tragic victim or hide from his own guilt. What the original story actually was is impossible to say, but Carcosa, the Yellow Sign, and the King In Yellow, as in both the play and the entity itself, are all a metaphor for this unnamed madman trying to contend with his perception of God, religion, and the state of his own soul. My reading is that in the end, whatever this man did, in the end he managed to find his faith in God and found peace with himself, believing he was forgiven for the things he had done, even if it's all a delusion and he's still locked in asylum somewhere instead of finding himself beside his God in the Kingdom of Heaven; the King In Yellow in Carcosa
In that vein, the King In Yellow is a metaphor for the peculiar state of madness, and the author likens religion in all its forms to be a peculiar form of madness that can drive people insane or compel them to commit terrible acts, but can also grant them peace of mind and fulfillment, and ultimately the supposed delusion of religion may indeed be true if there is indeed a King In Yellow out there somewhere, but all the same it will often seem as nothing more than fanciful literature or the deranged ramblings of fanatical madmen to those that do not already believe in it.
Of course, that's just my take on it as someone who's just read the cliff notes of the King In Yellow, so I'm probably putting way too much stock in this.
Just in case Nux sees this
I'd like to offer an interpretation on Carcosa with the themes in the video:
Carcosa could represent the idea of being creatively lost. A place where the light you need to see loses more and more of itself to lengthening shadows and you're powerless to stop it. A place of weird things you could never understand and when you try and put your soul out there, your very voice, the truest expression of you, nothing around is even capable of understanding. So it dies
This... this explains a lot.
Their other video called “Who is the king in yellow” goes a lot more into the weeds on what the King really is, and clears up a lot of the existential questions.
The King in Yellow theme, and Carcosa, is about... Unravelling (There is that power in words)
The play unravels you. Your grip on self, your grip on relationships, your grip on belief. The whole world, as the play spreads.
Carcosa is where the unravelled husks go, to fade into oblivion. In short its the dark fall into Dementia. And how it ruins lives. The horror is how that dementia is a force applied, a tool, of a dark, living god.
The movie Annihilation, I believe, taps strongly into the King in Yellow. Same flavor of eldritch horror.
Neat
Nux, you will LOVE Tale Foundry's stuff, it's all BRILLIANT deep-dives into stories and such.
sometimes you surprise me with all that intelligence behind your facade of memes
He truly is a philosophical enigma 😂
can't break a mind if it's already broken *points to own head
McGuckett energy
👉🙂
I guess that is where the idea for The Hanged Kings Tragedy SCP
Indeed.
Along with all Alagadda, the Ambassador and the regents, especially the yellow lord.
701, one of my favorites
Wich scp os that one?
Malevolent has me thinking only about John and Yellow. John W and my poor eldritch being Yellow. I need a Yellow redemption arc.
unironically the poem has been stuck in my mind since learning it. Enjoy the curse of it randomly popping into your head.
Theirs a song on Spotify called Yellow King by the Hangman’s Hymnal. It’s a good listen
I was just thinking a couple of days ago "Nux should do more Tale Foundry reactions"
The Yellow Sign has already touched the doorknob !
Words can be powerful. Especially when written to make you invested in what's being said. I believe one of the best things to live in this world, is discovering stories. Both old and new, the books, music, and video, to the truth and fiction. There's so much to see and hear that can change you, and that will stay with you till your dying day. And I think that's truly amazing.
I love that you are reacting to Tale Foundry! Love them! Leaving this at the start of the video. Hope you enjoyed it!
Hey Nux, I love your videos. Though at the end of the tale foundry video it wasn't Patreon, it was the Nebula Streaming service.
Love your philosophy videos and can't wait to see what you pick up that others missed.
The HBO show True Detective mentions king in yellow and carcosa in first season. I went down a deep rabbit hole after realizing that. It was not worth it. It'll haunt you.
Yo Nux, since you are reacting to this guy, I would reccommend u watch his video on "the ocean at the end of the lane" its pretty good and it even got a theatrical production.
7:07 it at it's most powerful in your childhoods cause it's the first things you ever see. How else did I decide to make my brand new profile picture based off of Sonic and Mater Chief as a combined character? Exactly. Mega Collection Plus made made me feel a way that I miss dearly. I guess I've always love things that are bigger than me, but that's not the case anymore. Comprehending how it's all made is the first step in losing those cool childhood emotions.
5:17 I remember watching a video where Destiny was debating Sneako and Destiny said "Doing something just someone told you not to just makes you a sheep of the other herd"
Nux is reacting to my fav channels recently
I'd highly recommend the Exploring Series SCP video about the Hanged King, in relation to the King in Yellow.
Yea the hanged king is basically the scp version of the king in yellow. And one hanged king related scp is literally carcosa/ the means of traveling to carcosa.
Tale foundry did an amazing video on "Watership Down", I definitely recommend.
All of tale foundries videos are bangers
Have you seen the yellow sign ?
Você viu o sinal amarelo?
黄色い看板を見たことがありますか?
Hast du das gelbe Zeichen gesehen?
Videsne flavum signum?
Apakah kamu pernah melihat tanda kuning?
The King in Yellow is by Robert W. Chambers tho, not Lovecraft.
Yeeees I’ve been waiting for this!
What if: What if human imagination wasn't always just that but the memory/energy of beings and happenings that have long since passed simply passing through the Aether? If Memories are factual Energy then they end up going somewhere when their container finally ceases to contain.
My favorite tale involving The King in Yellow is about Old Man Henderson, a man who battles the cult of The King in Yellow and ultimately the Elder God itself because Henderson thinks they stole his lawn gnomes and he wants them back.
Nux should definetly dive deep into the alternate Lovecraft lore - THE Smoochable One. Peak fiction right there
The king in Yellow is one of the inspirations to one of the coolest Daedric Princes Hermaeus Mora, Keeper of deeper knowledge.
I mean if you want to connect it to the imperium of man, the Emperor uses a lot of gold in his motifs, and gold is a type of yellow hue; ergo The Man-Emperor of Man is The King in Yellow
Funnily enough, the King In Yellow has also been adapted into 40K directly by name. Though it's not anything related to the original or Lovecraft interpretations.
@@bilbobagend8155It turned out to be an important Custodes, didn’t it?
@@fosterbennington6405 Literally Constantin Valdor himself.
i think the theme of TKIY is how there are some forces in universe that can be powerful and not with a physical appearance
I recommend after watching this Tale foundry video to watch another one by him explaining who Hastur is.
so as i hear this lore dive. i get the feeling. the the movie Heavy Metal was inspired by this story because both basically preview several short stories only vaguely connected by one entity and nothing else other then madness or chaos.
You should react to the Hanged King SCP lore. It's basically the King in Yellow but as an SCP and it is my absolute favorite.
Edit to add my recommendation for the video by "The Exploring Series" on TH-cam that compiles the most relevant Hanged King stories and tales together in a great way.
It's almost as if the King in Yellow has... some sort of ability that makes you go crazy just from looking at him...
Tale foundry got me to pick up the book. It really is a strange and haunting set of stories. You should check out the second video they did on the King in Yellow.
I adore this story, and it’s told so beautifully by this creator. Definitely an excellent tale of mankind’s futility.
The King in Yellow predates Lovecraft. It got rolled into the mythos later.
The sequel to this video discussing the original story 'An Inhabitant of Carcosa' is great. It's called Who is the King in Yellow, and as its title describes, it goes deeper into Carcosa and the King himself.
I love your analysis Nux
been waiting for this video!
Whenever I hear “the king in yellow” I always think of the female demanding princess attitude goddess complexed version from sucker for love called Estir
27:07 this reminds me of Mandella Catalogue
Ok. Now its time for Nux to watch Tale Foundry's second video on this subject: "Who is the King in Yellow?"
There’s a being in the scp universe very similar and likely highly inspired by The King in Yellow. The being is called The Hanged King and it manifests though a play called The hanged kings tragity (scp-701). You’ll also want to look at the city of Alagadda (scp-2264) over which The Hanged King its ambassador and four lords; the white lord, the yellow lord, the red lord, and the black lord. The ambassador is described as being incredibly powerful and the hanged king himself has only been witnessed by one person that has survived to tell the tale, that person describes the Hanged King as “a god-shaped hole in reality”
Tale Foundry is a good channel for lore philosophy, perspectives, and writing. Highly recommend this channel for Nux
I had this vision of you in a Meat Canyon animation just trying to survive and you were full meta and nothing could stop your power as (a) god of cancelled.
That is so para social. I was just trying to sleep.
I 1st learned about the _The King in Yellow_ from _MLP abridges,_ then _SCP._
Honestly, I recommend both to Nux.
The city of Alagadda and everything related to it is a fascinating facet of the SCP universes, especially as to how it relates to some early SCP (Please don't do the infographic animation rewrite videos, they just change/remove so much).
And just the concept that, of the eldritch beings trying to collect payment from Twi, without her knowing about her other persona's deal with them.
Thrakazod!
I Wished you would cover some hotline miami lore, I think you'll like it
He has a video that specifically focus on carcosa, I definitely recommend you take a look
Along the shore the cloud waves break, the twin suns sink behind the lake, the shadows lengthen in Carcosa.
I'm pretty sure he has a video about Lovecraft, but I don't remember for sure, but even if he doesn't he does have a video about kaiju/giant monsters in fiction that is very interesting that I wholly recommend.
I highly recommend checking out 'SmoughTown' deep dive lore.
I think you'll like his Bloodborne lore on all the Great Ones & Lords of the fallen lore on the Putrid Mother.
Boss you gotta do the Angelarium video by tale foundry sometime. One of my personal favorites of his channel
Take Foundry has another video about the nature of the King in Yellow, would recommend
I only have one request and it’s for Nux to check out Sock Sensei’s “Making Sense of Evangelion”
I love this channel. they do some great dives into a lot of great writing. my favorites are some of their Junji Ito videos. also Sandman, Bloodborne and Clive Barker also get some great stuff. hyped for the Bloodborne video!! one of my favorite games of all time. also, still strongly recommend checking out Destiny lore from "My Name Is Byf" because it is extensive and fascinating.
I have always thought of Carcosa as being the place where stories go when they have been completely forgotten and no one remembers them, as if when I soul disappears and no one remembers them then they too are trapped forever in the land of Carcosa if all logs of a thought or written word are completely lost which I feel like is why its *our* fault that things vanish.
A lot of lovecraft lore is actually from people building on his work since he never copyrighted it. its been a open resource since near its beginning.
"they don't want their idea to die with them" say that to lovecraft himself xD
The King in Yellow is what inspired Lovecraft to write his stories
I wrote a story to myself to tell me to keep writing. In which I meet the king in yellow and he refers to a mask I was wearing as as my face and my face as the mask I wear beneath my face.
LETS GO, MORE TALE FOUNDERY
Best guess, the King in Yellow was one of the first instances of a person writing about the concept of a cognitohazard.
And in these stories, the idea of the King in Yellow is itself the cognitohazard.
Ideas are alive. Here in a real sense. The king in yellow could be trying to be brought to life by influencing the minds of people (like Cthulhu).
Nux, I think you'd _love_ "House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski. It's a book about the memoirs of a blind man that's writing about a legendary documentary that doesn't exist. The documentary is centered around a house that is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
I read it back in 2005, about a year before I graduated from high school. It's an absolutely insane book and the author has gone on record as saying that a good half of the entire project was dedicated to fucking with the reader xD
If you haven't played myhouse.wad it's inspired by the book.
the king in yellow is the "PLOT ARMOR" of a story
The play unleashes madness in however form it is perceived
ok I haven't finished the video yet but here's what I know of the king in yellow. He's an actual entity in the mythos but his existence is so corrupting that even a story about him corrupts the readers eventually making them part of him and his artifacts, robe and mask (the last one isn't a metaphor) are also part of him, every time someone becomes an extension of him they also end up creating an artifact.
“Art can really change you”
Reminds me of Tom from Parks and Rec staring at abstract art for 5 hours.
You should look into lord of the mysteries its a good lovecraftian novel
I dreamed last night that I watched this video already, but I can’t have seen it yet, because it’s only been 3 hours since it was posted.
Nux can you do Baldermorts Thunder Warriors they are Proto space marines it is super good
Tale Foundry is a great channel
Alright Nux, I have another TH-camr for ya.
Sandy of Cthulhu
Now Sandy Peterson is considered one of the most prolific experts on the Cthulhu Mythos. By profession he is a game designer and developer. He is the creator of the Call of Cthulhu TTRPG (1st edition), Sandy also worked on Doom, Doom 2, Quake, and Age of Empires 2 and 3.
His shorts discuss various gods in the Mythos as well as the various eldritch horrors like the Ghouls, Tcho-Tcho, Deep Ones, Shoggoths and the like.
Seriously, his take on Shub-Niggurath makes her way more terrifying.
_An author places some of themselves in a book._
_But the reader withdraws something of their own perception as well._
_I wondered what I might see in the book._
_A child believes a lie because they know no better._
_A grown adult sees the lie because it fails to line up with experience._
_In this way, a child's story could be so many different experiences._
_With enough subtext, a thing made for a child becomes an entirely different world to an adult._
_A shame you didn't finish reading._
_Oh! uhh, A bird in the hoof is always looks twice before crossing the street!_
_Quite._
_I'll be borrowing Spike for a better re-education about how he should handle locks he can't access without force._
_Keep an open mind Twilight._
_There's no telling when subtext will defeat the facade of a thing._
Lovecraft talks about The King In Yellow in his essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature" and it's clearly an influence, particularly in the "forbidden books" aspect of Lovecraft's writing. The book is worth a read, just the first three parts though, the rest of it has nothing to do with Robert W. Chambers original King in Yellow.
Not just that but he actually used the city of Carcosa and the god Hastur, both from Robert W. Chambers' writing, in his own stories. Carcosa in turn was borrowed by Chambers from Ambrose Bierce for "The King In Yellow".
Would anyone else love to see Nux play Sucker For Love or a video on it after he learns all this Lovecraft lore? lol I feel his reaction would be great
sucker for love is the best lovecraft game ever
The guy that didn't read the book was changed, he promised that he will never read it. So by doing that the story effected him and got in.
Greetings my Lord Nux, The Yellow King and the vibe it gives off with all its anger and mystery reminds me, if only a little of the Pale King in Hollow Knight. I wish you well my Lord l, Fair Well
Auto correct put anger but i meant Grainger
Replace Anger with Grainger
To be honest: _The King in Yellow_ wasn't even originally part of the Cthulhu Mythos... Lovecraft just read Robert Chamber's story collection, felt inspired by it, and decided to include the entity as an oblique, off-the-cuff reference in his short story "The Whisperer in the Darkness (Written over the course of February-to-September 1930; eventually published in the August 1931 copy of _Weird Tales_ ).
Lovecraft basically fanboyed over it and wanted to include it in his stories. (To be fair, it IS a rather well-written story anthology!)
Like how he included not one, but TWO, references to Welsh author Arthur Machen's _The Great God Pan_ in his story, _The Dunwich Horror_ , which is an extremely similar plot to _The Great God Pan_ , to the extent that to those aware of the work, they feel that it, _The Dunwich Horror_ , is derivative!
Which Lovecraft himself rather humbly admitted.
And let's not get started on his obsession with Edgar Allen Poe, we'll be here for a month otherwise!
But where it _REALLY_ took off was when Lovecraft's literary circle associate, August Derleth, who following Lovecraft's death was one of, if not _THE_ , primary reason his stories were kept in circulation, decided to "expand upon" Lovecraft's lore (something he did even while Lovecraft was alive, and Lovecraft purportedly hated/ was VERY STRONGLY ANNOYED by, especially when Derleth tried to include themes of 'Good-vs-Evil' in the Mythos, which ran counter to Lovecraft's own belief that good and evil had no real presence or merit in the grand scheme of things; death came to all regardless of moral alignment) by making the King in Yellow/ Hastur the (Half-)Brother of Cthulhu. More or less stitching the King in Yellow into the Lovecraft Canon, without Lovecraft's express consent, nor the consent of the Estate of Robert W. Chambers, which caused some mild controversy...
14:10 - "SSSSSSSMOKIN!"
Nux needs to see the story of the hanged king
I was confused for a second there. There is a king in yellow in 40k lore too, and he is an interesting interesting duck
Nux needs to see the Ambassador of Alagadda, which was inspired by the King in Yellow and Lost Carcosa
If you get the chance you'd love an animation of 40k called The Last Church. It's your thing.
Eh, some entities appear when you solve a puzzle box, some when you read a cursed play. Spooky things are spooky.
22:26-22:40 The theme for the third story, I believe, is the information hazard of the Enlightening Movement. The anxiety of the end of Classicism, all they have known in history thus far. Finally being taken over by Modernism. A society that moved away from it's core being about theology. But now led by the aspirations of science and reasoning. The time gave a lot of people anxiety. The theme of a "second/different god" is them refering the scary new preposterous thing, "trying to take God's place," science and idiocycratic secular reasoning. This is why Lovecraft also had a "second foriegn god" theme. To match his other manifestations of his phobias of the unknown and different. The ocean, non-nuclidian geometry, and non-white people. They even fear that the winds of change is exciting to even them. But even more scary, what is so unfathomably big enough to usurp God himself? Asks the already god fearing people.
It's like memes and popular culture, they get everywhere like Star Wars or LoTR, even if you don't want to know you come to know
13:53 So is PB the King in Yellow?
I’m actually going to direct a short film after the summer based on the king in yellow. The story is entirely original written by me but keeps the key characteristics of the stories in the King in Yellow. Such as the book and King makes an appearance during a moment in the story. A descent into madness. I won’t elaborate on the specifics or the title because I don’t want anyone to steal it.
If you’re curious I have a short film on my channel that’s a adaptation of SCP-1504 or Joe Schmo which has a post credit scene at the end.
LOL for years my smooth brain ass didn't understand the horror of The King in Yellow till Tale Foundry laid it out for me.