That is not what a shoggoth looks like

Who said it's a shoggoth 😅

Nobody but why reference that tale if it’s not?

Blind pale penguins appear in the story too

Sure but who remembers that unless you just read the story?

Also that looks pale and penguiny but not blind.

There are three things I remember about the mountains of madness.

The first half puts me to sleep

Lovecraft hates penguins

and he's terrified of trains for some reason

Sorry but I do :)

It has holes where the eyes should be

So it does. I should have zoomed in and enhanced. I withdraw my previous statement.

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A fleshed out full deck using this theme would be amazing.

Got one more card to finish and the going on kickstarter 😇

Good for you! Amazing artwork and universal appeal (cards).

Thank you 😊

Those poor giant penguins.

They always seem to come up in my conversations about it.

In fairness, Lovecraft was terrified of about 99% of everything

He's gotta tell u something is scary otherwise how would u know to be scared? Nah on the real I love mountains of madness

Damn dawg…that’s eldritch, grotesque AND cyclopean all at the same time.

Well done.

> Lovecraft hates penguins

The funny thing is, so did Herman Melville:

> Let us first glance low down to the lowermost shelf of all, which is the widest, too, and but a little space from high-water mark. What outlandish beings are these? Erect as men, but hardly as symmetrical, they stand all round the rock like sculptured caryatides, supporting the next range of eaves above. Their bodies are grotesquely misshapen, their bills short, their feet seemingly legless; while the members at their sides are neither fin, wing, nor arm. And truly neither fish, flesh, nor fowl is the penguin; as an edible, pertaining neither to Carnival nor Lent; without exception the most ambiguous and least lovely creature yet discovered by man. Though dabbling in all three elements, and indeed possessing some rudimental claims to all, the penguin is at home in none. On land it stumps; afloat it sculls; in the air it flops. As if ashamed of her failure, Nature keeps this ungainly child hidden away at the ends of the earth, in the Straits of Magellan, and on the abased sea-story of Rodondo.

from his The Encantadas (bunch of short stories/sketches about the Galapagos: pretty easy reading for Melville... also, easily found online for free as it's public domain).

Trains come in a variety of colors, so yeah.

Being confused by which catholic holiday allows you to eat an animal you've just discovered is peak European energy.

Will the commercial version have the watermark?

Nope

Only thing it's missing is the dreaded Necronomicon, written by the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred...... Well that and 40 pages devoted to New England architecture.

Specially about foreigner people

John Mayberry has a cool crossover with that story in his Joe Ledger series.

I didn't know beforehand, and it was a fun coincidence.

Novel is "Kill Switch" 🐧

My best friend is really into playing cards. I was thinking about trying to get him a deck of cards as a gift, with some kind of really cool art that you wouldn't normally see on cards. The thing is, I want to have like hundreds of dicks, kind of hidden in plain sight in the art. I would hope that he wouldn't notice, then one day he would notice all the dicks. But I have no art skills whatsoever, and wouldn't know how to arrange something like this.

King penguin 69? Nice

It's their food!

It’s been a while since I read the book. I thought the penguins were either Shoggoths or Elder Things.

THE PENGUIN!

Fucking fantastic

Penglings

That's a lot of disdain for Tuxedo Birds

Love his works but find it funny that everyone who is not a north west European protestant is a idiotic degenerate cultist. I don't think Slavs like me were even considered white by Americans at the time he was writing.

GoFundMe link plz. I'm onboard