Longbox of the Damned is a daily series throughout October where the ghoul Moarte talks about horror comics!
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HP Lovecraft, poster boy for why math education is important.
HP Lovecraft, he expressed his own sorrow privately in a letter to a woman he was writing to before cancer took him. He never was public about opening his mind up before he died. So with no intent of publicly denouncing his racism and amending his stories there was no real repentance. Or even attempting to do those things.
Yes you could make the argument that not everything had to be public in those days or even now, but his legacy is being a horrid racist because we only have his public works to go from. With that being the case when you write such things and you have a change of heart, it is your duty to make sure it is public.
Monsters are real but not the monsters you may think.
If Moarte has been telling us stories mortals shouldn’t comprehend then does that mean Barbie is a cosmic god?
"giant monster penguins that will peck our souls out" is an ABSOLUTELY MAGICAL SENTENCE.
After hearing about Linkara's videos on Uzumaki being blocked and ShoPro sending a copyright strike with an imminent lawsuit coming, I'll bet this video will be blocked by YouTube copyright bots on behalf of the Japanese company Kadokawa, because the YouTube copyright system is designed to be abused by guys like Warner Bros, BBC, Fox, ShoPro, and any other copyright troll working in the entertainment industry.
Wow Linkara's a great storyteller. Just with himself and a fire effect he can create amazing origins for Moarte. Wish he could be given a huge budget to work with on projects someday
yooo linkara, are you ever going to make a video about your comic book collection?
The stuff Danforth says actually references other lovecraftian stories, like "color out of space" and "Yog shogoth"
I would pay good money to see someone draw a Lovecraftian mutated penguins. Someone making penguins genuinely spooky is a challenge I'd love to see.
GIANT PENGUINS!!!
throws up hands dagnabbit, you waited ten years to tell us your roommate was tryi g to make us demons?!?
🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
Wait don’t you know someone who CLAIMS to be Lovecraft?😂
Giant penguins you say? Happy feet is GOD🤣
Friendly note:- "The Great Old Ones" here are actually Elder Things
Yup, wouldn't be Lovecraft without someone going mad from the realization (hey, a TVTrope!), or giant tentacled blobs. Good for him renouncing his racism before dying. Maybe that's why modern hate groups didn't steal his iconography or terminology.
And I like how this video's theory of Moarte's origin tied in to Lovecraft's ideas and themes.
At the Mountains of Madness is probably my favourite Lovecraft story. It has this feeling of exploration and adventure but with a dark and forbidding shade to it.
God, I love this show.
To be completely honest, and spikes of me seeing glimpses of your computer in front of you, I enjoy, the segments, that explains Moarte.
To have a story that has penguins, that seems like something out of, JoJo's bizarre Adventure.
I just have a question, is linkara talking to his menagerie to tell the stories? Or is he talking to himself?
Quite an intriguing origin for Moate with how the demon wanted to bring stories to make people more like them.
Please make a complication of Amazon Attack
I've enjoyed all of the Moarte origin stories, but I liked this one the best so far!
Spooky.
Reminds me that DC and WB have plans to adapt Batman: The Doom that Came To Gotham, a Batman Elseworlds miniseries (because it's either that or Superman for Elseworlds adaptations these days)
To be fair these poor penguins have already been battling off against King Bowser and now they're facing up against the old gods this is not a good day for the penguin Kingdom! King Nico B never to the chance!
Wonderful Demon of the Stories story. Very well told! Thanks!
Oh gawds I love the Demon of Stories concept lol I WANNA BECOME A DEMON!
i actually made a point of reading the original Mountains of Madness story from a Lovecraft collection i own at the start of this month, followed by The Shadow Out of Time and, in the time since up to now, the original literary version of Sweeney Todd (it's actually titled The String of Pearls if anyone's interested in reading it for themselves). it's part of an October tradition that i'm trying to set up for myself of dedicatedly reading horror stuff around this time of year 😉 i like it for the worldbuilding, but it didn't dethrone The Whisperer in Darkness as my favorite Lovecraft story
hey, that's an idea! i wonder if there are any comic adaptations of Whisperer in Darkness ?
I am so glad to hear someone else mentioning Lovecraft's change of views and regret for his racism. Way to many people still act like that was all he ever was and never changed. It's a shame he died when he did. I would have loved to hear what stories would have come from HPL with a newer view on tolerance and acceptance.
What ever happened to that Lovecraft guy? Didn't he get elected mayor of some town in Ohio?
Why am I imagining Demon of Stories Moarte being friends with TTS Magnus?
Great job Linkara I love your original story "Stories of Demons" so inspiring love it! You Rock as always!
OK, this is the best origin thus far. And considering how wonky the multiverse gets around Linkara, the monsters that constantly menace him, it would make a lot of sense if this was the true origin.
Fun fact: Guillermo del Toro has wanted for a long time to do his adaptation of this story.
You may remember del Toro as he also directed The Shape of Water.
I said this last year, but I'll say it again her, we need more manga with an art style like this.
It has a classic feel to it that is good for adapting classic stories like this. And manga/anime disparately needs to find new influence outside of its own sphere.
From what I understand, "repent" is maybe a little strong. He was starting to realize that maybe he was being an idiot. "At the Mountains of Madness" shows him heading in the direction of repentance, but not IMHO quite there yet.
So Moarte is trying to turn us into powerful Demons. Cool.
But wait, if he can only come out when the barriers between realms are at their weakest(ie during either Halloween or October itself) then what about all his other appearances outside that month, like his Summer Marvel Zombie Reviews? Was that just a year for some kind of rare planetary alignment or something that weakened the barriers so he could come out?
Nitpick on the adaptation, but the star-headed aliens are Elder Things. Great Old Ones are the "gods" like Cthulhu. Not to be confused with the full actual Elder Gods, like Bast, or the Outer Gods, like Azathoth.
Hey, I've played Disgaea. Penguins can be terrifying, dood!
Honestly, part of me is kind of surprised it took us this long to get a Moarte origin that didn't start out focused on a single human becoming something else.
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Morgan Freeman: Now we see the Penguin walking through the darkness cave as they trie not to annoy their Lovecraftian overlords.
I really like this moarte story
and it is in fact, giant penguins…
I am not joking, my children
There’s a mistranslation in this manga that doesn’t surprise me. Lovecraft used different synonyms of “old” for different creatures. In the book, the star-headed creatures are called Elder Things while other larger beings like Yog Sothoth are referred to as Great Old Ones.
Lovecraft love magic
1:49 HEY don't sell penguins short! Have you SEEN the insides of their mouths