..of setting up Deep Ones as rapists, out to steal our women and do horrible things to them. (For example, in the Cthulhutech RPG, there are literal ‘breeding camps’, which what even the hell.) There are a couple reasons why this is awful, even beyond the obvious.
1st: Because Lovecraft was a horrible bigot, the deep ones are stand ins for various minority groups. Making them monstrous rapists in modern day pastiches plays into this same vein of bigotry, with the implication of non-white men lusting after white women to carry them off. Which frankly is the kinda shit that needs to go away yesterday.
2nd: It ignores that the horror Lovecraft felt as a horrible bigot was that people were -willing- to hook up with Deep ones. The dude felt existential dread over the possibility of white people having consensual relationships with POC, as represented by fish-people from beneath the waves.
In summary, Lovecraft pastiches need more consensual loving human/fishperson romances.
I love you.
There’s a bad habit in Lovecraft pastiches…
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