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[–] BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 165 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

"I'm going to teach your women to read, and encourage your children to go into a different profession than their fathers'!"

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 73 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Make women show their ankles in public next

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Lewd.
Where?
Which evil specifically & where can I find it??

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Noses don't have ankles, stupid.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 weeks ago

Depends on the religion, I guess.

[–] Lena@lemm.ee 12 points 2 weeks ago

This could be an anime

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago

Those are, on average, still consisted extreme political beliefs, so a war is inevitable - choose your side.

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[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 122 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Cthulhu for president 2024. Why settle for a lesser evil?

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 46 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Cthulhu is the CEO of, and the entire board of an international company that was originally started by selling second hand pencils, and is now in control of 2/3 of the worlds food supply, ceiling fans, caste iron cookware, navel ship contracts, fire alarm and led light bulb multinational alliances, crawfish bait stores, mesh trucker hats, smart TVs...

It's far above anything as simple as one countries president.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 44 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

While the "caste iron cookware" sounds fascinating, I'm mostly interested in these "navel ships"

Please don't edit your comment, the mental images I'm getting from it are fantastic

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Attempting to fathom the terrors of the Old Ones only leads to maidness

[–] SpiderShoeCult@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

*attempts to fathom terrors* *suddenly gets urge to put on a maid outfit and dust the place* You're not wrong...

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m mostly interested in these “navel ships”

You ever heard of "belly-button shots"? Well a navel ship is what you get if you float a tiny boat on one.

[–] Maestro@fedia.io 11 points 2 weeks ago

Tiny? Do you have any idea how large the Great Old One's navel is? You can float a destroyer in it...

[–] BatrickPateman@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Navel ships makes for the real cosmic horror here.

Lovecraftian horror is just realizing the earth is floating in a sea of dark matter that splooshed into the elder god's belly button.

[–] Meron35@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

What, haven't you seen fandoms shipping the bellybuttons of two characters together

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

These naval ships rely on the motion of the ocean to get where they wanna go

[–] cakey@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 weeks ago

Call of cthulhu - Nanowar Of Steel

It just sounds like what you wrotr

It’s far above anything as simple as one countries president.

How about every country's president/prime minister/king/etc?

[–] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 30 points 2 weeks ago

"

  • I'll drive all humanity insane!
  • How does the insanity manifest?
  • They'll carve strange sculptures, chant and dance around them, and maybe make orgies."
[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 75 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

“ancient evils” are usually things like blasphemy, insubordination or having intrinsic self-worth.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Ancient evils are actually pretty moderate. Anyone down to open The Gate? Yog'Sothoth seems chill and would love the internet.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yog’Sothoth stared into 4chan, and 4chan stared back. And Yog'Sothoth noped right on outta there.

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[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yog'Sothoth does his dark bidding on the internet.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

There's no better place for it. Imagine still needing to supply robes and flesh-bound books.

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 46 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I could see it either way. The competing visions for ancient evil: Murdering children for asking questions, or the existence of unmarried women.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yes, just like human countries - on average about that, but also produced on massive country/continent/empire scales.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 43 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Missed the follow-up post to this from tumblr

[–] slingstone@lemmy.world 30 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

So moderate that I pledge my loyalty to it & move in its domain, defend it from objectively evil human empires, find inner peace & purpose.

[–] itsnotits@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] technohacker@programming.dev 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Klear@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Snot, though...

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Thx (edited it), I just increasingly miss the ' shit when it's autocorrected.

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[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Happy Cakeday! 🍰🎂

[–] forrgott@lemm.ee 21 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I think ancient evil very much does exist. But it's the same as modern evil. I figure it must exist, and it's the presence of this evil that has caused such a fucked up society to emerge.

In other words, this is not the golden age of mankind; quite the opposite I'm afraid... 😝

[–] muzzle@lemm.ee 35 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It's almost like modern United States were built on an ancient Indian burial ground...

[–] forrgott@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oof.

And from the ashes of Roman imperialism, no less. And, by the way, that is the only thing imperialism brings - ashes...

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Some of the ruins are pretty neat too. But back then their architecture had style. The ruins of todays concrete and steal cubes are going to be lame.

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[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Literally. The Mayflower settlers moved into a town that had recently been wiped out by disease. People were still mourning in nearby communities when they just walzed in.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I think that's likely to happen. Once the Internet and digital media is gone the information age will become an information dark age to historians.

Depending on what happens it's entirely possible for future cultures to actively avoid another industrial revolution like ours was.

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[–] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

They were just born in the wrong time!

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Ancient evil awakens,

tries to invent the extended car warranty,

Doesn't understand why people aren't fleeing in terror.

[–] durfenstein@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Qual coming at Frieren like...

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